Shards of Infinity Reviews

Often locks up when AI is losing

BiblePilot

When the game doesn’t crash, it plays well. Normally I play at “Hard AI,” which usually wins. In cases when I’m winning, typically when the AI player has less than 10 lives, the game freezes. Closing and restarting the app does not fix this. Maybe it gets stuck in a loop, or it’s a sore loser. Whatever the case, freezing up when I’m winning is why I rated this game 3 stars. I’ve seen it lock up when Hard AI is winning, but that’s seldom. Also, there is a bug where you cannot undo a banish selection when the banish 2 card wraith is played. Tapping on a selected card should toggle the selection back to deselected. Otherwise, this is a faithful reproduction of the card game, and the graphics are beautiful.

App crashes all the time

John Galt $$$

When playing a local game, the app crashes every few rounds. For the price I paid, this game isn’t worth it unless this is fixed. I’ve emailed the developer and awaiting response.

Expansions?

BigTj68

It’s been a while and your game Race for Galaxy is completed. When will you add the expansions to the app?

Needs a slower speed for us noobs.

Mgddpub

Fantastic AI (Keldon’s from Race For The Galaxy - which is the best modern board game AI I’ve ever seen). I’m a noob though and the cards go by too fast to get a sense of the ai is doing. Seems really silly they would do a speed update and not add a slow speed because I’ve seen many other people complain in various forums about this and it’s not like it’s hard to do. It would also be nice if we could add an option to view the other players deck (at least a learning mode against the ai). Otherwise it’s too hard to see what the ai is doing and learn how to appropriately adjust strategy in response. The game is great for experts but unfriendly to noobs. Also game has frozen 3 times now during ai turn. It’s always during the best games too.

Awesome but limited

Dana&Riza

Love the game but was basically playing that same 3 or 4 games within a day due to lack of cards. Please add more

Glitch removing allies

Lumpdog IVXX

I am getting a glitch where when I play an ally, if I have enough Mastery for its effect, it moves off the left side of the screen with no effect, and I lose the card.

Really fun, nice app!

PeterAC

I didn’t know much about this game before buying; I just figured I’d try it because I loved the “Race for the Galaxy” app from the same developer. Pleased to say I’m really enjoying this so far.

Great game, seems to need more developer support

Ben Falkenstein

Between Shards, Hearthstone, and Gwent, Shards is by far the better choice from the App Store. I own a physical copy of Shards and both expansions, and it’s a really solid card drafting/ deck builder. But it’s app version is also great, where some games can be held back in digital form. For instance, Hearthstone could be a fun quick little game seeing as the mechanics of the game itself are really simple. But the gameplay is held back by how over produced the app is. I can’t just jump in for a quick game, or easily build my deck without seeing a few load screens or swiping some pages. It’s just feels really slow for such a simple little game that I just want to jump into. Gwent has the same issues. It’s way over produced. And you have to sign your life away to jump into a game. Shards as an app is so simple. You can either play 3 different AI difficulties, join someone else’s game, start your own game, or add irl friends and play them. And the best part is you can do all of these options at the same time. I have 4-7 games going at any given time. You can leave the game, go about your life, and come back to take your turn. You never feel too locked in. It does seem a little abandoned though. The expansion don’t seem to be coming to digital any time soon if ever, and there are a few bugs that will probably never get fixed. If the AI has a big turn, it’ll grind the app to a halt and crash until you cancel that game. Instead the AI should pace itself and try not to do too much at once. And I have a game that was forfeited by an opponent and the prompt for that game won’t go away.

Good UI, but freezes and impossible bot

Kmontzka

Nice graphics and UI, but for $7.99, I expected a bit better. Freezes on medium level every few games. It hasn’t been updated in over a year so probably won’t get fixed. Plus the medium level is a huge leap in difficulty over easy (as in un-winnable). I’ve played 50+ games on the app, and lost 10 in a row to the bot. Doesn’t seem very reasonable. But hey, that’s what one gets when playing a near perfect computer... So about $8 will get you some entertainment before probably deleting and looking elsewhere

Expansion?

fssuii

The promised expansion is the only thing lacking in this game. The game is put together beautifully and the play dynamic is incredible. Its to bad this game seems to have been abandoned by Temple Gates, otherwise it would have really taken off