XenoShyft App Reviews

Sorry, I try to give games the benefit of the doubt but this games balance is really poor. Single player games are difficult to the point of being cheap (enemy reveal abilities totally outclass your gear in terms of impact on a battle). And other supply cards are either bugged or just worthless (drop ship being one). It really feels like it needed more play testing. Ive taken this off my mini.

So first off I can see this game being a lot of fun but the game balance is way off. I started off on easy which gives your base 20 hp. You pick a specific group like "barracks" or "med bay" and these give you specific perks such as "reduce the cost of an item card by 1" or "add 2 militia troops at the start of the game". Once you pick then you are usually given 3 or 4 resource points more to spend on either buying more troops or spending on item cards. Usually you only have enough for 2 troops and an item card or 3 troops and no items. The first 3 rounds you only have access to the militia class troop and the ranger. The militia only has 1 hp and does 3 damage while the ranger has 3 hp and does 2 damage. Now you cant buy militia Im not sure why and rangers cost 2 resource points. Your pitted against enemies with 1-5 hp and that do 1-5 damage. Some of their abilities include things like "when you are defeated heal yourself by 1 and move to the end of the line" whereas when your troops are defeated they just go away. Another ability the enemy has is " move to the end of the line and grant -1 damage to every friendly in front of you". At some point youll get 2 of these guys buffing for -2 damage and being as your troops can only do 2-3 damage you barely scratch them while they destroy your troop. The next round you now have to spend all your resources to buy more troops and have none left over for items to buff you . Not to mention the enemies get stronger and tougher and have better abilities each round. Either give more resources so we can stand a chance or reduce the costs of things so we can afford them. Something needs to be fixed though with the balance and until then this is a 1 star sorry.

Games performance is abysmal on my iPad. The tutorial is a waste and the is not very balanced. All in all a bad purchase and waste of money.

Awkward control (sigh, 2 finger scrolling), awkward UI, (card tops overlay lanes, enlarge a card and lower right blocked by some solid line that appears-why!?-above the Done button) awkward solo play (I dont like to play online). People complain its unbalanced and I agree, solo play is too difficult but overall the way the game is set up and displayed, it just doesnt pop. It just doesnt look and play like a top notch game. Seems like its near completion but not quite there yet.

Ignore my last review I was ignorant. Realized the bug I was having was me not noticing the line around the activated expansions. So new review. Games a little easy. The board game seems to have more strict rules on some areas meaning I havent lost a solo game on normal yet (played 3) going to bump it up to hard next play. Would still like to see free play (99 lives) and hardcore (1 life) added. Keep up the good work guys.

This is a good game lets start off with that. I agree with balance issues. One hand you dont want a game that is always beatable, and on the other it would be nice to win once! I have played over a few dozen times but have yet to last past the 7the round more than once.... To be fair it may be better with more than one player. Pass and play would be ideal since I prefer not to roll the dice with whom I would get with the online game option mode. My score was going to be a 3 out of 5 stars but realized that even with the game being a little rough around the edges it does not take away from the game play once you understand it. So 4 it is. One important note is I tried to purchase the .99 expansion but apparently it failed as it never seemed to take..?

I have tried deleting and restarting the ipad as well. It simply will not download. I have tried on two different wifis as well.

I really like the original board game version. The app falls short in several areas. First and foremost is that your only options of playing are solo as just a single lane or online multi-player. There does not seem to be an option to play solo but as multiple lanes or a pass and play version. While playing there really needs to be a better way to allocate the abilities andor have a undo feature. Multiple times I use the ability while just trying to read a card. This was most frustrating while during the buy phase when I used a unit to reduce cost or use my class ability to reduce cost of an item. It would reduce the cost on an item that I could not afford, because I was just looking. Crashing, I lost several games when I looked away for a couple minutes and my iPad when to sleep. When I opened it, XenoShyft had lost connection and I had to restart from scratch. Never did I see a continue game option. Card errors. I have to read more carefully but I do not think it is playing the cards correctly. Some of the bring a soldier back from the discard pile to fight for the enemies it would have crazy health and attack. If I had buffed a card, I would not think that would come back. But all of my temp buffs would go with the card. However, I believe it would have even more HP and Attack than what I had buffed. Some of the later cards specifically say that the card moves to the enemy side with their items. But I never read about cards keeping their buffs. Or once a card hits the discard pile, it should not be attached to items or buffs.

Fix the ability to take cards from the discard pile!

Im glad this hame exists and Im very glad to see that the developers seem to be regularly updating it. That being said, there are some features missing. No local multiplayer; as of now you can only play solo (one lane) or multiplayer ONLINE. Online multiplayer is good and all, but this game is begging to just have a simple local co-op mode. Or just have solo play with 1-4 lanes. Either works. Im a huge fan of the board game, and this is a good port. Just needs that one addition.

If you enjoy solo play with 4 players, you will be disappointed like me, this game does not offer that option, which is a basic gameplay mode for any cooperative board game on iOS, hope they fix it in the future, until then 2 stars

A very fun twist on the deck building game type. The art is amazing well worth a try.

Outstanding app! Ive played the board game and fell in love with it. The art is amazing. Lots of fun!

I read some of the other reviews where people were complaining about not being able to pass wave 7. I thought, maybe they dont understand the mechanics or they didnt get it. I consider myself a very skilled gamer, and I cant get past wave 7 either, even on easy. Easy should be easy victory to help you learn the game and eventually take on the real challenges. It would be nice to win once in a while.

1 star reviewer turned Huge fan. These Devs really care about this game. They keep adding more great content. They fixed everything we requested in solo play. It is now possible to pass and play as well. Im hooked!

wonderful combination of card and tower defense, highly recommended ... plus it reminds me of the all time great Aliens movie!

I love the game but not 24 hours after finally picking it up and all the expansions all at once it goes way down in price!

i love deck builders on ipad i own them all. this game looks interesting and it has some good concepts that make it unique. the interface seems super polished at first but after playing the game for a couple hours i realize its pretty clunky. easy things like activating abilities and choosing targets takes 3 or 4 clicks when you could just drag the card onto the target like many other ipad card games. supposedly theres this elite demographic of gamers who love super hard games. for me i feel like if a game has modes from easy to hard then easy should at the very least feel achievable. i admit it might be because i dont know all the nuances and strategies of this game yet but after 4 solo play throughs i get one round into wave 2 and die always. its frustrating and its not clear what i am doing wrong strategy wise. so 2 stars may be a bit harsh but i feel its fair at this time. the interface while pretty is slow to use and it doesnt present information in a great way. i think it tries too hard to preserve the table top experience. the game is also unforgivably hard and maybe this could be solved by an advanced strategies tutorial.

This game is so good that its faults in terms of the interface are irrelevant. Once you get the hang of this its one of the most rewarding games youll have ever played.

Great game, great deck building / puzzle game, great challenge and neat art. I love "deck building games" and while this may not play exactly like Dominion or Ascension, it has it own style. Ive been very impressed with it so far, its been surprisingly difficult to play a "solo game" on easy mode. The enemy deck is just so tough regardless. It was great learning how the cards resolve and learning how each "division" deck played differently. I would be highly interested in seeing what the expansions add and to be honest this makes me want to buy the all the hard copy cards and play win my friends.