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.