Very good interface and implementation of Rosenberg game – Le Havre (The Harbor) Review

Update: - Bug: MP still a little janky. I am able to connect to friend’s game but it does odd things, such as removing all AI despite starting a 5p game with 2 human players. - bug: Resetting round from help screen during sell building sub-action when repaying loan causes game crash/dead end loop: screen empties and prompts user to finish main action or choose a building to sell. - bug: odd issue with player names where if you change your name on keyboard overlay popup and hit return game boots you to iOS main screen and you must re-enter game, i think i worked around it by tapping outside keyboard area and somehow changed my default single player name this way. - AI is pretty good but understandably this game has so many choices that it cannot expect to match AlphaGo on its budget lol. It often makes poor choices, or status hints, particularly when a sacrifice move is more obvious, such as taking 2 iron to snag an ironship when shipping line is out next, or an important building even if it means getting hit with 1-2 loans. Instead it’s round 10 & telling you to buy a wood ship because you have wood, etc. original: I am kind of a hobby-boardgame app pariah and routinely go on rants about some of the problems I’ve noticed in the push for applifying brick and mortar catslogs. A lot of great boardgames have messy apps with dropped support and lost development, sitting around the online stores as abandonware. Some bg apps are crippled with stupid bugs, I even dropped this one a long time ago because I couldn’t get multiplayer to work, but have gotten over it. Another personal grievance is the practice of porting iOs apps to Steam barely altered in any noticeable way (terra mystica, small world, ticket to ride, most bg adaptations on steam actually). Anyway, I think this is a highly enjoyable and addicting way to learn and play Le Havre, and definitely worth the cash even if it’s only played solo and the MP is glitched. A small but very helpful feature improvement would be a way to see on bonus cards what the buildings rolling or final bonuses are or at least on a log page in its own screen , as I cannot see if my score is being counted correctly or really review where I (or the game) made mistakes. I don’t know if my storage card was counted and the total isn’t visible anywhere at game end. If this exists already I don’t know where to find it! Thanks for the fun.
Review by grimoire_games on Le Havre (The Harbor).