The Manhattan Project App Reviews

The app has received a lot of love over past few updates and is looking very good in its current state. As a veteran player, my only complaint is that I wish that the hard AI was just a bit tougher to beat. Other than that, its a great implementation of one of my favorite board games.

Excuse me but is it a joke? I love the boardgame so much but this app is a pain to play with. I have never wanted to be refund so much.

Really like this game!

At least on the iPhone, the UI is terrible. (might be ok on iPad). More importantly, unfinished games arent saving (offline). Twice tried to come back to a game but could only start a new game.

If you already know how to play this game, youll like the app. If you dont know how, dont bother. Lack of tutorial makes this really tough to start (for me at least). Ai is NOT a great player. After playing once on tabletop, I came back to this app and creamed the AI ten times in a row. Some aspects like "moveability" of cards and workers is not great... Why let me move other players stuff around... Although more "real" this is just not helpful in the virtual world. Great game though, and I found it good for practice of the concepts, again AFTER I learned the game via cardboard.

Quite straightforward implementation of boardgame: - Very basic graphics (mostly scan original items). As result overall view is not so good. - no tutorial inside - AI only have one level and it is quite basic - only synchronous multipleer - cannot find even way to give players real names instead of p1,p2

Lets be honest - this is not an adaptation of the board game for your iPad. This is a scan of a board game on your iPad. While the actual board game might be good, this implementations feels more like a game concept rather than a final product. Make it fit on the screen, make the UI more intuitive. Actually, make a UI. Its really a pain to play at this moment. What it does do - it shows what the game looks like on a real table. Do you really want that? Most likely - no. We need a game that looks and plays good on iPad. There are many many games that prove it is possible and I hope that game designers will put some more effort into this product and actually make it both playable and enjoyable.

I was excited to see this finally hit the App Store! Love the art style, and the music is rather soothing. A bit of a learning curve, but very enjoyable. If you are in the market, I highly recommend picking it up. It is so choice.

Interface is clunky. If you dont know how to play - its nearly impossible to learn through the app. The rules are a simple PDF import - not searchable. There is no tutorial. So much potential... I know the kickstarter for this failed, and the lack of funds probably hindered the devs ability to devote dev time. But man - to charge $6.99 for what is, at best, an incomplete experience? Not good.

The game looks like fun. But the iPhone port is unusable. Every action requires tapping on buttons that are a quarter of an inch square and positioned right next to each other. The game space, while pretty, is a giant image that you have to pinch and zoom far, far in to do anything with. There are console messages scrolling by in the upper-left corner, in a font that is far too small to read. The cards and counters are illegible unless zoomed in, even though they’re in theory big enough for readable icons, because no one put in the effort to design versions that would work on a small screen. And there’s no tutorial, no help icons, not even an iOS version of the manual — just a PDF that you have to read in-app, in a buggy viewer that doesn’t even take up the full screen. Oh, and good luck consulting it once you start a game, because there’s no option to exit out to the main menu. This is am embarrassing port. Maybe they tested it on an iPad, but it’s clear that no one asked whether it works on an iPhone.

Im a huge fan of this game, but the port looks like a v1.0 prototype. The board slides around and makes things difficult to see. The buttons and text are impossible to read. Nothing snaps into view and you can manipulate objects you should not be able to manipulate.

The instructions are poor and the overall design isnt that great

This is a fantastic board game and a promising app, but its just too buggy to give it more than two stars. If the devs are listening, they need to clean up the interface, allow saving between sessions, and improve the AI. This could be a great game with a little more effort.

The ui needs some work but regardless playing is still fun and with only a bit of polishing thisll be a masterpiece. The only true downside is the need to add async multiplayer.

Needs a more streamlined interface that doesnt make you move cards around when youre trying to move the screen and pinch and zoom. No way to save games already in progress. Maybe a pop up menu to hide and view your and others boards. A counter for how many workers available It feels beta. Quite clunky while still enjoyable. Very hard to play on a small screen.

Love the game! Interface is fine ... Easy to learn if you watch You Tube Tutorial (do a search). What I dont like is no public lobby for Multiplayer! You have to know the "name" of the game you want to join :( We need better matchmaking for Multiplayer games please!

This game is a disaster from start to finish. To begin with, there is no tutorial. That is bad enough, but the rule book is incomprehensible (and I have a doctorate, so it isnt from a lack of reading ability). Once you start playing, you quickly come to realize that the game doesnt play anything like what the rule book describes. I was only able to put a worker in the university to get a scientist. Then all I could do was put another worker in the university or put one on the repair site. It then tells me to pick a building to repair, but will not allow me to do so. As best I can tell, you need a construction worker to mine yellowcake, and you need yellowcake to get a construction worker. Eventually, I just tried placing each of my types of workers on to each of the spaces on the board only to find that I cannot move anywhere, ever. I then sit back and watch the AI make all his moves, and Im back to being able to do nothing. Needless to say, Ive deleted the game and I hope to save you the $7 that I wasted on this beta-trash.

It is not a bad game once you figure it out. I had to read the rules several times to understand it. Once you get the rules it has potential. It is a typical worker placement game ie: Agricola, Le Havre, or Lords of Waterdeep. The interface needs polish. For example you should be able to touch the screen without building pieces shifting. A tutorial would really help new players.

I was very excited to find this game available as I own the physical board game and enjoy it quite a bit. It’s a worthy effort, and hopefully updates will only make this better. The interface is quite clunky, and even if you know how to play the game there are a few quirks to understand: the undo isn’t always available, the worker pieces often overlap each other without a clear indication of how many workers you have left, etc. The AI seems quite weak too as I was able to win 2 game very easily. And I haven’t tried the online option yet.

I love this board game, but the app is pretty bad. The worst part is not being able to save a game to return to later.