The Manhattan Project App Reviews

I was so excited to see this game make the digital leap to iOS. That excitement quickly left when I opened the app and saw the interface, the tiny console with text I had to zoom in to read, a rule book thats hard to navigate, no tutorial, no save mode... This feels like a beta at best. There is no comparison to other great board game translations in iOS. I would not recommend anyone purchasing this game until a major update. Very disappointed.

Totally unplayable on iPhone. He just took what was probably a decent iPad game interface and shrunk all of the images and text to an iPhone screen. Not worth downloading.

The board game is amazing! It is an instant classic strategy game. I was eagerly awaiting this app, but ended up a bit disappointed. If you know how to play the game, then the app is fun but lacking. If you dont know how to play already... Good luck taking it all in and making sense of it. The app is lacking the following; intelligent AI, open lobby multiplayer for anyone to join, general organization of board and pieces, game expansions, and general guide to what means what. To touch on the AI, I got this game to be a challenge. It is not. The AI has only one difficulty and they are dumb! That said this is an amazing board game so I am eagerly awaiting updates! This app has the ability to be awesome. I will re-rate if it gets updated. Bottom line: At this point just buy the board game, and play with some friends.

I am updating my stars to 2 as I emailed app support and they wont even respond I have the physical board game and we play all the time. I saw this and had to get this. Most of my issues have been already posted but here goes: 1. Very poor layout. Very clunky and very easy to accidentally perform wrong move. Other games have taken larger board games and made them very good with the Iphone ... check out Waterdeep 2. No safe feature - this is a no brainer for the offline game. i mean... did should we even have to tell you? 3. Not able to zoom in some areas ... the log file is good but so small there is no way to read it and useless. 4. The AI actions are so fast that in a game you have to stop what you are doing and look at each move ... again take a look at another good example: Talisman ... you can adjust the ai speed 5. Online game --- basically useless.. no public server ... again no brainer... I am also in the software support industry and if my customers tested this they would come back to me and say ok good but where is the final release? Obviously no OAT (operational acceptance testing) and was rushed to market I can only hope that they are reviewing these but I encourage everyone to still send their comments to app support

If youre familiar with the cardboard version by Minion Games youll have no problem picking this right up. Even if youre not familiar with the original, reading the provided rules, which are amply illustrated with examples, should be no problem for anyone who calls them self a gamer. The graphics are good and the music adds subtly to the atmosphere without being intrusive. Only thing that keeps it from 4 stars are the missing Nations and Second Stage expansions.

The app is a very faithful port of the board game and plays just fine. I enjoy the game and the AI is decent at the highest difficulty. There is one minor and one major issue. The minor issue is that dragging pieces from your spot near the board over to the main board can be a pain. I sometimes drop a piece along the way or dont drop it exactly in the necessary spot and have to go get it again. Slightly annoying but not a big deal. The major issue is dropped games. Ive had several offline games disappear if I dont play the entire game in one sitting. I tried an online game against bots - after leaving the game for a couple hours, I tried to rejoin my online game and it told me the game was full. This game works great if you can play it in one sitting, but if you have to leave it for more than a couple minutes, beware.