KOSMOS Helper App

Franckh-Kosmos Verlags GmbH & Co. KG

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About this game

Do you have Ubongo, Tumult Royale, Imhotep, the nominee for “Spiel des Jahres” or the “Kennerspiel des Jahres” EXIT? You want to learn how to play it but don’t have the time or desire to deal with reading through all the instructions?

Well, how about simply having all the rules explained to you via narrated animations? Learn how to set up the game and get started without reading the rules booklet. Learn other KOSMOS games without reading the manuals.

Note: This app offers additional features for the well-known games from KOSMOS.The app is usually not compatible with Chromebooks.

Features:

*** Animated Tutorial ***
With audio narrations and 3D animations, this app explains all the rules for the games in an easy, linear manner that requires little reading - including the variations for all the possible numbers of players - so that you can start playing almost immediately!

*** Additional Functions ***
For the EXIT games, you will find a timer including an atmospheric sound track.
In Ubongo, an animated assistant helps you to find the solution to any of the tasks given in the basic game.
Tumult Royale includes a timer that allows you to replace the hourglass included in the game. You can also vary the time allotted for the tax collection phase.


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Ratings and reviews

The app opened with the tutorial for how to use the app then was just blank. No games, no catalog. Search feature did nothing. The app had a small red wi-fi symbol at the bottom of the page that was crossed out. Checked but nothing was wrong with my wi-fi on the device nor any permissions manager for the app. I just used my clock app stopwatch and a Spotify playlist for the game. The game was fun, though (even though they tried having us rip up pieces -- we made our own reusable pieces).

A nice idea, but poorly executed. The timer/music thing worked well, and added a level of suspense, however the introductory passage linked to our version of the game was incorrect (it was talking about an entirely different scenario and cast of characters to the ones featured in ours!). We were playing the "house of riddles" game, but the introduction was talking about a creepy castle encountered on holiday and the narration was pretty lacklustre even if the information had been correct.

We thought the game was very hard to follow and some of the accessories were difficult to work with (the cube and the skull/sliding number keys). The card system was unnecessarily confusing and time consuming and required you to place the cards back in order when you were just going to have to throw the game away after playing anyway. Other escape games I've played allow for me to give it to someone else, who can play the game after we do. Excessive waste in this game, for little reward.

What’s new

Added functionalities for upcoming game releases.