Elder Sign: Omens for iPhone Reviews

Screw this game

Ashley Craig

It's rigged. I have played the easy setting 5 times and died each Time. Don't wast you time like me.

Great alternative

Madamkuma

Great game and if you played the actual game. You'll actually know that you need to make use of everything that can help you get those trophies. Also the game is suppose to be hard.

Plays fairly quickly. A decent challenge.

Szienceman

I've never played the board game, but might pick it up now that I've played a few games. Played four games since downloading yesterday. Lost two, won two. One was the hardest one. Both wins were within a turn of losing. I'll likely buy the expansions if they go on sale. There is no credence to the rigged roll complaints at all. Most symbols have only a 1:6 chance of coming up on any glyph conjure (roll). If you need multiples of those glyphs, your unlikely to statistically get them unless you're using the abilities of the investigators to lock glyphs or re-roll a few times. Just read/watch the help menu. Attempt to play (and lose) a scenario and you'll have a pretty good sense of the strategy of the game. Not as tight as some other cooperative games I've played, but a decent level of challenge not regretting picking it up.

It's Okay, But Has Issues

Mr. Mortarius

For starters, I own and play the board game frequently and, unlike other games, namely Neuroshima Hex, this game is better on the table than a screen. The user interface is often confusing. Misclicks happen often with no way to undo them. There are too many cinematic transitions that arbitrarily lengthen game time. There's a transistion in between basically anything that could possibly happen and anything after that. It's borderline ridiculous. The game is slightly different as in the board game you don't auto lose when the doom track fills up. Also, I really do feel this is harder than the board game. I only lose on the table about 25% of the time over many playthroughs both solo and teaching new people. I've beaten this once. The discrepancy is too big for me to assume it's just bad luck. If you don't want the physical version (which isn't that expensive) and just need to play this, it's serviceable. But it's not for me.

Great game, even if it feels cheap

Kiroquetanomon

I love Elder Sign. The board game is excellent & I think the app is great, but my biggest problem lies with the fact that it often feels like this game cheats. Yes, poor choices often result in losses, and a good strategy will help, but I've managed to lose on "easy" cards despite having more than enough clue tokens & items to reasonably beat it. It feels like after a certain amount of successes, you will automatically fail on 1 or 2 adventures. On some of the harder cards, it feels like you need to sacrifice investigators & items before being able to pass it. The curator is arguably the most ridiculously adventure in the game. I've had to beat some cards with 4 Investigators, but that's the one card where I've had all 4, had a very well equipped Joe Diamond (with 5 clues aka 10 rerolls) and still lost! I don't know what kind of algorithm the game uses to determine successes & failures, but it feels as if FFG deliberately stacked the deck highly against the player. Considering that I have full control of my rolls in the Board game version & fail considerably less, it's hard not to feel like the game cheats. I still enjoy the app, but some days it feels like a trial in patience. It's why I typically end up playing the board game version instead. At least I can control my own dice roll. Either way, if you can get past the notion that the game cheats and are willing to deal with many losses before beating the harder AO's, this game is still a good way to kill some time, or play ES without having to set and clean up.

Good, but difficult

tonybluehose

A pretty good game, though the instructions take a bit to wade through...after giving it five or six games I got the hang of it. Would recommend to the board game crowd as a well as those who like strategy video games.

Decent

Clayton.ross

Neat concept and great design on the iOS. Felt like too much of a luck driven game.

Great game if you could win

UnAngelLily

The probability in this game is so rigged that it's not worth playing unless this is fixed. I've played the actual board game, which is fun, but because the digital game tends towards giving you low chances of getting even one thing you need for any given adventure it makes the game so frustrating. Don't buy unless the app is changed.

You will never win. Never.

Jomunjie

I've played and played and played again. I have never gotten even close to winning. It's impossible to win ever when you need ridiculous dice results, never get what you need, and advance the doom tokens by 2 for rah midnight strike on the clock. This game literally makes me insane!!! I like a challenge, but a win would be nice once in a while. Mechanics are great, love the simplicity of it, hate the fact that it's unimaginably impossible to win. I forgot to mention, it's impossible.

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