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Forbidden Desert

Forbidden Desert is a thrilling cooperative adventure based on the best-selling board game.
Category Price Seller Device
Games $6.99 Button Mash Games Inc. iPad

"Forbidden Desert is definitely one of the best co-op board games in the App Store." - Touch Arcade

"Anyone looking for classic board game goodness should grab this." - iPadBoardGames.org

"Quite possibly my favorite digital board game interface ever." - Pocket Tactics

FIGHT TO SURVIVE
Your mission to recover a legendary flying machine has just been thrown into chaos. An unexpected sand storm has forced your helicopter to make a crash landing. Now, stranded in the vast desert and exposed to an unrelenting storm, your only hope for survival is to quickly excavate the ancient city, find the parts to the flying machine, and rebuild it to escape.

WIN OR LOSE, WORK TOGETHER
In order to survive your team must work as one. Forbidden Desert is a co-operative board game designed for 2–5 players. Share water and equipment and collaborate to plan the best strategy for victory.

OVERCOME THE ODDS
An unrelenting storm, disastrous sand dunes, and a blistering desert sun — Forbidden Desert is an incredibly challenging board game that will test the limits of your team's skill. Does your team of adventurers have what it takes or will you become another artifact of the Forbidden Desert?

Details:
∙ Play cooperatively with 2-5 players
∙ Play single-player by controlling multiple adventurers
∙ Learn the game with an in-depth Tutorial and Rulebook
∙ Enjoy beautiful artwork from the original game
∙ Collect Game Center Achievements
∙ Save games in progress and return to them later

Reviews

So good
Kevball82

One of the best board game apps


No online play
true dungeon fan

Disappointed that I can not play this online with friends


Forbidden Sky App?
Sting wray

Love these board games and I love that my wife and I can play them on the go. Please release the next game soon so we can continue to enjoy these games.


Best team game ever!
Teach@MPA

Love this game! Combined with airplay on a big screen - it rocks!


Love it!
HeyIt'sMeTonia

Great rendition of the game! I did initially think that I’d be able to play online with friends, but we solved that with a video conference. Just one person has to do all the driving, that’s all. Super fast response to the bug in v1.5, thanks!


Broken
jsjjsjdkcmc dkiejes

Tutorial doesn’t work - I slide the shovel to the right but nothing happens, I cannot advance or get the tutotiral to work. Can’t figure out how to play. Disappointed.


Back to perfection!
pbeasi

Ever since Carcassonne was downgraded and Pandemic was utterly trashed, I get nervous when I see my favorite board game apps getting updated. Luckily after a few small bugs in the latest updates the developers responded quickly and fixed the problems. So back to 5 stars! Hopefully we get Forbidden Sky someday as this series is currently among the best board game adaptations on iOS.


Makes you loose
kydx2666

I always loose! One star 4 U


Next game
justupdate

Have both this and island on my system. Can’t wait for forbidden sky to join the mobile set


Nice game, mine can't shuffle well
Chicago Karl

I bought the board game to play on our next game night and decided to get this app to play several games ahead of time. They have a nice tutorial video and good rules section. If you are new to the game I would review these and play on the easiest level (one below Novice) which is unique to this app with less bad cards and is almost a sure win. Remember there is an Undo button in case you click on the wrong button. I have been playing on the Novice level which was a 50/50 chance of winning or better until I hit all four of the Storm Beats Down (SBD) in six cards which was sure death in two straight games. In my next ten games I had all four SBD a few times in eight cards and nine cards. It can't seem to get a good shuffle lately. I just hope the game wii eventually get out of this cycle. Having my Water Bearer die three straight games of thirst almost had me delete this game. I really like this game and hope my experience isn't normal.


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