Race for the Galaxy
A strategic boardgame of galactic expansion. Develop and settle outer space!
Total ratings
4.11
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Excellent digital implementation of the board game
- Visually attractive and intuitive interface
- Great for asynchronous play with others
- Fun and engaging gameplay
- Support for expansions
Cons
- Crashes and glitches occurring frequently
- Issues with push notifications for multiplayer games
- Lack of updates and support from developers
- Problems with user interface on certain screen sizes
- AI gameplay not well balanced
Most mentioned
- Need for better updates and bug fixes
- Frequent crashes and glitches
- Issues with multiplayer features and notifications
- Desire for improved AI functionality
- Problems with UI on different screen resolutions
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3.40
All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-24 |  | | This is my favorite game on android. I play it asynchronously with a family member regularly. It would be 5 stars, but a recent android update broke push notifications, making it much harder to complete a game before the whole game times out, at least for me. I will raise this back to a 5 when notifications return. |
| 2024-09-20 |  | | Excellent app for the game with a couple bugs, but this has been in constant use for friendly multiplayer games for ages. Sometime in the last couple months push notifications for multiplayer have completely stopped, seemingly out of nowhere. I have scoured the app notification settings and reinstalled the app to no avail. Unfortunate because the game and app are otherwise both so good! |
| 2024-04-10 |  | | The app is fine, with occasional crashes. It's an excellent and visually attractive realization of the game. The problem is the game itself which is much too short, especially given the large number of cards and the complexity of their relationships. Generally the game is over before it even begins, a jarring and uncomfortable feeling. |
| 2023-11-08 |  | | Can we get an update?I love this App and game and play it wayyyy to much. However it's become so glitchy and now crashes all the time for me and my friends. I'm only writing a review to bring up this issue with the hope that they'll fix it. Don't change anything else, please just make it playable. TIP: when playing AI the app runs better when you go to Play Online and then check "Go Offline" |
| 2023-03-19 |  | | Everything related to gameplay is fine but... After playing for a couple of days i had an issue that the app crushed every time i launched one particular game. After trying to close and open the app and restarting my phone, i unistalled and reinstalled my app and... there was no option to log in back to my account. Everyone that i had ongoing games with is waiting for my turn. It makes no sense. |
| 2022-11-24 |  | | Edit: update fixed screen issues! I used to love the implementation of this game but the lack of updating for new phones makes it so that I can't start new online games of my own and I can't see everything on the cards when zooming in (I'm both cases, this is now cut off). The medium AI is also too easy while the hard one is too hard because it seems programmed to just give you worse cards. If this were updated to fix just even the screen cut off issue, I'd give it 5 stars. |
| 2022-11-10 |  | | So far it is a solid implementation, but it lacks some of the functionality of the desktop (Steam) version. Specifically, It does not highlight cards that require action from the player. For example, in the desktop version, when certain cards are eligible for being played, discarded, or various other actions, the desktop version will surround them with a glowing highlight. Without this, it is not always obvious which cards need action. This is confusing, especially for new players. |
| 2022-02-04 |  | | Great game but they haven't kept up on the updates leading to you not being able make a multiplayer game to play with strangers at least I can't. Also it doesn't fit my screen properly which is a lesser issue but nonetheless and I was told they we're going to release the other expansions but obviously that was a lie. |
| 2021-11-17 |  | | One of the best games, and an excellent digital implementation, but recent OS updates have broken card highlighting. This makes the game much less user-friendly. It first occurred on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2019) when it updated to Android 11, and now occurs on my Pixel 6 running Android 12. This app hasn't been updated in 3 years so I'm not expecting a fix, but maybe we'll get lucky? |
| 2021-09-24 |  | | The app works fine enough. Sadly, playing against the AI usually ends up being boring. On "medium"' the AI doesn't play well enough to really compete, and on "hard" it's so ruthless about playing the "consume for 2x points, produce" cycle that winning a game has nothing to do with skill, just the coin flip of whether you draw exactly the cards you need to do the cycle first. Ultimately, the base game just isn't very well balanced, but the expansions are too expensive to bother with. |
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