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

I just bought The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, and I downloaded the helper app to accompany the game. The tutorials are clear narrations of the rulebook along with animations. The game timers and soundtracks for specific missions are a nice feature. The only thing I would improve is to add a playback speed for the tutorials. A few tutorials could have been faster, like 1.25x or 1.5x the playback speed.

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.

The app worked fine. No complaints there. The Exit Forgotten Island board game, however, was frustrating and confusing. The word puzzle to get the star clue made me feel like I had dyslexia. The final puzzle that uses the box might have worked if the strange object was a solid piece of plastic, but as a flimsy piece of cardboard folded in half in the middle it was impossible to use as intended. I also find the need to cut up the rulebook and game pieces extremely wasteful. Not fun.

What’s new

- New features added for upcoming games.