Reviews for Root Board Game

What a great implementation of Root! Easily a top 5 mobile game... and one of the most interesting board games. The Challenges are awesome. As Root learner, they helped me utilize different elements of the factions and prepared me to problem solve in a pinch during games. It's so nice to have the computer keep track of everything. Online games have been fun, challenging, and collegial. Great work, Dire Wolf. Between this and Everdell consider me a fan!

It has fatal bugs. If they fix them I will update this review, because the game itself is truly a masterpiece, the animation superb, the stylistic choices completely on point. You just can't finish a game. Of the 15 or so games I've started with friends thus far, maybe 9 or 10 have glitched out and refused to let us continue them. We will enter combat and two x's will appear on the dice (and some random number of characters will die on either side) and thats it, but the fighting never resolves.

I have bought all the expansions, yet I'm still greeted with ads or as Dire Wolf calls it 'news' every single time I open the app. There's no way to invite specific friends to a game in the game. There's no 'next game' button after you've taken a turn in one of your games. There's no skip button for animations so you're stuck watching 3 minutes of game when you just want to take 30 seconds to quickly take a turn.

Love the game but it has some discrepancies with the actual board game rules. For example, while playing as the Eyrie, I went into turmoil because I could not recruit (it was a bird card so I could have recruited at any roost) because I maxed out my number of wartiors, but when the AI plays the Eyrie, they can recruit as many as they want. It's annoying to see them recruit massive numbers of troops that in a real game they could not field!

Absolutely love this game. Bought the board game and am so happy that it exists in digital form. My only gripe is that the other AI turns (haven't played with other people) move WAY too fast, and I have no idea what's going on. It would be really nice to be able to enable confirmations for all of their actions so I can absorb what just happening before it runs off to do the next thing.

Exceptional game. Many ways to play and win and online multiplayer matches make it a real challenge. The purchase is surface value and any addition can be bought down the road after you familiarize your self with the base game package. Any negatives to say are minor. Chat features have been improved. Only gripe is when I enter a private party game and I'm still censored. Let me and my buddies trash talk eachother.

TL;DR: Great game, app has some bugs. Root is a fantastic game, and the digital implementation (when it works) is generally speaking great. When it works. However! It can be buggy sometimes. For a while I couldn't use the phone app *at all* for playing async games because the "Active games" tab was untappable. This seems to be less of an issue when the internet connection is more reliable, though - and it hasn't been as much of a problem lately.

This is a great game! They did a good job turning the aspects of the boardgame digital. You'll need to do the tutorial even if you know how to play to learn what the buttons are. They have single player challenges which i appreciate and are load of fun, as they push you to think strategically and out of the box. The AI is decent. The major issue I have with the app is that the game freezes if you lock the screen or swap to another app.

Great adaptation of a great game. Worth the money if you like Root. I have a few suggestions for how the app can be improved, though. 1) Have a setting so that the in-game board looks the same as the physical board. I know it can do this when you are zoomed all the way out, but I would like an option for this to be the case even when zoomed in. It makes it easier for me (coming from playing the physical game) to process what is happening. 2) I agree about wanting an easier way to see what is in the discard pile. Otherwise the game is great! Thanks!

I LOVE Root, but there are definitely a few things that could stand to be improved. Notably we need the Underworld expansion content, 6 players, Marauders eventually, basically all the stuff that the tabletop version has, because while I love Dire Wolf's adaptations, I play on Tabletop Simulator a lot because this version is missing so much stuff. I'm willing to pay $60 for all of the stuff, you can literally sell it as small dlcs and I'll definitely buy all the stuff on switch and steam.

This adaptation of the board game is very well executed. Art and animation are enthralling without being so much that the game would loose focus on what was important. The mechanics and navigation are quickly intuitive. For the most part, the automatic zooming in of the screen is exactly where you would want to be looking. When it is not, there is nothing locked in such a way that you can't reposition where the focus is placed. Very good choices here. Pass and play is also excellent

One of the best, most enjoyable, entertaining, and replayable strategy games out there. Anthropomorphized medieval woodland creatures at war over control of the forest---also one of the best settings for a game. Root digital does have a few bugs, but a lot was fixed in the most recent patch so they're now mostly with the Automated Factions, and thus, rather negligible. I highly recommend the physical boardgame as superior, but Root digital is well worth several hundred hours of your time.

A functional port of a great board game. This is exactly like the PC version, so the UI can be too small and sluggish. Like with the PC version, any art taken from the actual game is fantastic, but any art they had to make themselves is terribly phoned-in (such as the scoundrel's scorched earth, which literally looks like someone drew an anus on the board). Also good to note that any DLC you've purchase on PC stays with your account and can be played here.

Very sleek and smooth, amazing translation of the board game. One of the best iterations of a board game in digital form. I only have 2 quibbles with it. 1) please have an option to lock the zoom all the way out. Having to redo it every time I reopen the game is annoying, especially when stuff is going on that I'm missing because I'm dealing with the camera. 2) in the faction information panels, the digital implementation is fantastic but it would be nice to have the full boards as reference.

awesome little game. played the board game then got this since I wanted to play with others and I gotta say I enjoy the app version to. Async mode is a really good idea for those with a busy schedule and of course solo play is nice if you just wanna practice with AI. only thing I don't like is when you start up an active game (the one where you play a whole game right there and then) some people just leave immediately. I think if you leave to many active games you should be punished in some way.

fun game - I think the app system could be a bit better though. when I click on a turn notification, take me straight to the game. also perhaps let us access tutorials as we choose, instead of making us learn the cat first. but that's a small thing. Also the app's chat could probably use some censoring lol, and maybe do a rating system for online a lot of people quit mid game. would be cool too if people didn't need to buy separately on steam and the appstore.

Brilliant asymmetrical engine-builder. The blend of deckbuilding elements, bluffing, and personal objectives make each game play out differently. Each faction essentially plays as its own game with its own learning curve, and the real nuance is in the online mode. The AI, unfortunately, does not do it justice and are more suited for learning factions than anything. Expansions are EXTREMELY slow to release, but the art is great and there's tons of replayability and player interactivity here.

God bless I love this game. It took me awhile to learn. Frankly, I had to watch a tutorial on YouTube even the tutorial didn't seem efficient. Asymmetrical board games are weird. But it's well worth learning. It's so much fun, and it's so much more convenient when the computer takes care of all the tokens and card drawing and all that jazz so you don't have to. I will say tho, I may just buy the actual board game now because I actually love this game and it's expansions. Well worth the buy.

Currently there's a bug that makes playing against AI almost impossible. Seemingly at random the AI player will just freeze on their turn and do nothing. Saving and exiting the game and returning to it doesn't fix it so it basically just softlocks your current game. This happens in challenges and tutorials. If that bug gets fixed, remind me to update my review because otherwise it's a good game.

This is my favorite board game. The physical game and the app are both very well-thought out, just like the game itself. Tons of fun! If you like strategy, this game has something for every type of play style. I also appreciate how the app guides you through the rules as needed, has tons of built-in variations and challenges, and lets you save a game for later. You can even play online! I love this.