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Build a base in space.

Ratings

Age

9+

Category

Board

Languages

English

Among The Stars is a thoughtfully designed mobile game that blends accessible mechanics with steadily increasing challenge. Players place and manipulate objects to influence in-game elements, solve levels, and progress through curated stages. The experience favors experimentation and polish, with simple controls and satisfying feedback.
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Ratings & Reviews
Great port of the board game!
Thu Nov 22 2018 NathanBeitler

This game is true to the board game it is based on, but adds nice graphical touches, effects, and sound to enhance this experience. I haven’t really noticed any bugs, but there is a minor problem when choosing to use more than one energy to power up a section you are adding to your space station. Normally your available power sources are highlighted, but when you are drawing more than one power from multiple available reactors, none are highlighted so it can be confusing as to what your choices actually are. Aside from this, I have not really experienced any bugs. I hope they offer new updates offering more of the content from the game expansions, soon.

Buggy, no one playing online
Sun Sep 09 2018 YelpUpdateCrashesYourPhone

This game is a great first implementation, but needs a good amount of polish. Unfortunately, no one actually plays online so expect that this will be mostly pass and play and playing with the AI. In any case, now I want to purchase the physical game! Bugs and lots of nice-to-haves listed below. - bug: The game got stuck during tutorial so I closed the app and you can’t “continue” the tutorial where you left off so I never got to finish my game - bug: AI got stuck “thinking” on first level so I have no choice but to abort and lose my progress - bug??: nowhere in the game can you see the “max” effects of cards even though they exist and apply to card abilities in the background. Please add the “max” text like they have in the physical card game Feedback: - drag and drop placement would be cool - get more people to buy so online is more popular - maybe make price free with free demo and IAP to purchase the whole game. This could help with feedback number two above. - enlarge cards in your hand. See hearthstone for a great “hand” implementation. Something like that would be nice. - swipe to change currently viewed player would be nice - show draft direction on main play screen with arrows between player icons indicating hand pass direction. Also visually represent - have a “view all cards” button on main menu so people can study the different cards in the game - expansions please!!

AAA title
Wed Jul 04 2018 Moomoo235678

Wow Cublo! This has to be one of the best board game adaptations I have seen.. And I have a played a lot of the other tripe out there. You didn't have to do so many of the cool things..but you brought the universe to life. Animated races, animated station building, animated space backgrounds, excellent tutorial, top quality soundtrack, a CAMPAIGN!!!!!.. This is obviously a labor of love with no corners cut. I hope you sell tons of copies. And I hope you continue to invest in adding the expansions and promos to the base digital port. Don't abandon it. We need local pass and play. Notifications for online games are not working.

One big issue.
Wed Nov 06 2019 Adrian-Atoro

This game actually won me over very quickly. The mechanics are relatively straightforward but the gameplay gets complex in an engaging and fun way. The reason I can’t give 5 stars is there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn off the animations. A significant portion of the game is me waiting for the app to begin auto-playing after my turn. I can skip it, but there’s a mandatory wait before that button appears. That and the building animations etc are unnecessary, at least for me. A game could easily take half as much time of this were optional. Am I missing something obvious? Hoping for a response. Overall definitely recommend the game!

Recommended
Sat Nov 10 2018 batmartin79

Among the Stars is one of my favorite drafting games, with placement and scoring rules that are well-balanced between complexity and simplicity. This app is quite a reasonable implementation of the game, and even gets around one of the main problems of this style of game, that it can be hard to keep track of what other players are doing, by showing you what the other players are doing by default, and letting you skip that if you choose. The graphics and music are both very good. Overall, I quite recommend this game!

Second Review
Sun Jun 03 2018 Triplzero

I originally rated this game as a 2 Stars because of some bugs when it was originally released, as well as some issues I had with the UI. However, the developers seemed to have listened to people’s complaints and they have since fixed the issues that caused me to give the rating that I had given it. I’ve changed my rating to 4 stars. It’s a quick, fun game and it works well. I think that if they come out with the expansions, this could turn into a five star game for me.

Good game but some problems
Wed Jun 20 2018 W4lt56

Love the game. I have both the cardboard and the app. I am running the app on the new iPad Pro 12.9. Everything works except the special powers of the races. Passive powers work fine but any power requiring interaction like trading cards or selecting specific cards have card selection overlaying the selection buttons making the ability impossible to use. So I just play the other races and everything is fine. Would go to five stars if this could be fixed.

Needs bug fixes, online play is poor
Sat Jun 16 2018 gt_peter

This is a great implementation! Game is fun and single player is solid (although the AI is bit weak). However, there a few wrinkles that need ironing out. Some of the alien race powers seem bugged (card trades don’t seem to work). Also multiplayer aborts a game if someone times out rather than adding an AI meaning any one player abandoning a game blows it up for everyone.

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