The Castles Of Burgundy

DIGIDICED

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About this game

The Loire Valley during the 15th Century. As influential princes, the players devote their efforts to careful trading and building in order to lead their estates to prominence. Two dice set out the action options, but the players always make the final choices. Whether trading or livestock farming, city building or scientific research, many different paths lead to the prosperity and prominence of the players! The many ways to gain victory points in this building game require careful thought round after round along with extensive planning ahead. Thanks to the different estates, the game remains challenging for the players for a long time, as no two games play out alike. The winner is the player with the most victory points at the end of the game.

Features
- The easy to follow tutorial guides you through the rules
- cross-platform play with all opponents
- ranked and casual games
- world ladder with GLICKO rating
- 3 AI opponents (easy, medium and hard)
- play offline alone or with your friends/spouse
- asynchronous game with notifications
- fast ranked games for live experience
- 10 new quality avatars for your DIGIDICED collection
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Russian and Italian

Ratings and reviews

The more I play this game, the more I think the level 2 bots are harder than the level 3s. The level 2 bots play to win. The level 3 bots play to make you lose and as soon as you figure that out, it's easy to manipulate it. They also focus waaaaay too much on boats and mines at the expense of other things. Actually saw one turn a 6 into a 5 (expending a worker) to take a mine because I had a five instead of taking the mine on the six. It's sad really. The game, otherwise, is beautifully done.

This app is just what I was looking for. I love the board game but don't get to play often enough. The presentation is great, I don't think the graphics are a distraction. I love that you can double tap any tile to find out what it does, this is a huge step up over flipping through the manual. I haven't tried online yet, but offline is great so far. Minus one star for being a battery hog. About 30% an hour on my new Pixel 2. Hopefully something they'll look into for the next update.

Castles of Burgundy is an excellent port of the tabletop. However, the replay value of the app is hindered by AI opponents with super human abilities and dice randomization that takes into account game status when playing. The AI opponent levels differ in terms of what they buy and not how they play. The dice randomizer will negatively affect you if you are in the lead. The randomizer also appears to look at your board when deciding its outcome. The dice randomizer needs to be 100% random.