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Carcassonne – Tiles & Tactics

The Official Board Game

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Games

Languages

English

Discover the digital adaptation of Carcassonne, the multi-award-winning modern classic board game! In Carcassonne, players build a medieval landscape one tile at a time. Each tile can feature a city, a road, a cloister, or a field. Players place their Meeples on these features to claim them as knights, robbers, monks, or farmers. As the map grows, so do the strategic opportunities to block opponents and steal points. With beautiful 3D graphics, multiple AI difficulty levels, and cross-platform multiplayer, it's the ultimate way to play Carcassonne on the go.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

93/100

Carcassonne: Tiles & Tactics is a perfect digital port of the legendary board game. For those who find the physical setup of Carcassonne a bit fiddly, this app is a revelation. It handles all the scoring—including the often-confusing farm mechanics—automatically, allowing you to focus purely on the strategy of tile placement.

The AI is robust, and the online community is still very active, making it easy to find a match. Visually, the 3D 'Tactics' view gives the board a beautiful tabletop feel, while the 2D view is perfect for strategic planning. It includes the most popular expansions, which add a lot of variety to the base game. Whether you're a veteran player or new to the world of Meeple-placement, this is the gold standard for board game adaptations on mobile.

Dinsun reviewed on: Wed Feb 25 2026

Features

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Official Carcassonne license with authentic rules

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Up to 6 player multiplayer (Local and Online)

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Challenging AI with different personalities

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3D graphics and top-down 2D view

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Includes The River and The Abbot expansions

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Cross-platform multiplayer support

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Automatic scoring and farm visualization

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Farmers are placed in fields and score points at the very end of the game based on the number of completed cities adjacent to their field. The app highlights these areas to help you keep track.

Ratings & Reviews

A flawed implementation
Sat Nov 27 2021 RobertBobbert the 9th

I've loved playing the previous version by another company, but when I bought this one, the irritations have only piled up. First, the flaws: "Errors" with our game occur regularly when my wife and I play a networked game, logging us out. Occasionally, when playing with the dragon, it will lock up, allowing no moves by the player (even when playing against the AI players). Annoyances include: I can't leave the game for more than a minute, or I have to select it from the list of in-progress games, instead of it just waiting there for me to bring up the app again. It goes through a whole animation, replaying the game in fast-forward, before I can make my move. When setting up a networked game, you have to specify a very long timeout period if you don't expect to play continuously, otherwise, the AI takes over for one of the players. Every time I complete something, _every_ one of my pieces (and goods collections) triggers the fanfair music--just one fanfair per tile placement would be more than sufficient. It's very difficult to tap on the dragon symbol when telling it where to move while zoomed out. Tapping on the tile itself should be sufficient to indicate where to move the dragon, and that irritation is compounded upon when there's only one direction you can move it in. I love playing this game with my wife over lunch breaks and any time we're not able to play a physical game together, but this implementation puts too many barriers to my enjoyment. This is a prettier version than the first iOS version, but playability needs to be the first priority.

Good improvements lately
Fri Mar 12 2021 hadfiiw

Finally downloaded this new version now that some of the “issues” earlier reviews had have been fixed (zoom and 2d mode). Overall my family feels this plays well and we have not gone back to the old version, except for the main reason we are giving it 4 stars and not 5.... My wife LOVED the solitaire mode of the old app which is missing in this new version. The only other issue is when we play as a family, the player color does not seem to stick. For example, I am always green, my wife is always yellow, and my son is always blue. If I start the game I am green but the two of them end up being some random color. If my wife starts the game she is always yellow but then my son and I end up being a random color. Not a huge deal but after playing the physical version that way for almost a decade it’s a little hard to remember that you were a different color. Other than that, we are really enjoying the game and think the app is worth the time and money.

New To Carcassonne and This is Perfect
Sat Jun 06 2020 Madgrudges

TL;DR - If you are new to Carcassonne and want to hone your skills or learn, this is a 5 star game, period. I’m in that boat, so my review as follows is from that POV: I’m new to the game (literally played the board game for the first time last night) and obviously seen the light! But I don’t know how often, especially in quarantine, I’m going to get games together, and I really want to increase my skill. As I was playing I could tell there were strategies to be had and plays to be made but I wasn’t skilled enough to see them yet. This app is perfect for that. Gameplay: The AI is fast, unsure the complaints from others (maybe with a lot of expansions? I don’t know). The gameplay is super intuitive. The animation is a nice touch, and the ability to visualize fields is a life saver. Also little things like squares that become forever unplayable being highlighted opened up my eyes to that as a tactic I had never considered. For all those that say this looks “cheap” you realize the game in real life is cardboard and block meeples right? This isn’t going to look like that, the material is different. I get that people love their original artwork and this community is up there with comic book and Star Wars fans when demanding things be a certain way - but just understand the translation of the board game to an app in looks just doesn’t work as a 1:1 mirror. So with that in mind, I think the developers made smart creative decisions, which they had to. As a new player, this rules, thanks for the great app.

Having fun! A bug to fix...
Sat Apr 04 2020 B0Bear

I’m new to Carcassonne and highly recommend learning the game. It took me a handful of games to get the basics and rules down, but once you do it really starts to take off. One game in particular ended up with a really cool combination of patterns and scoring opportunities. I immediately fell in love with the game once realizing it’s potential for interesting strategies and beautiful map design. I’m having a really fun time with this app so far. Online match making is quick and the gameplay experience has been smooth. The animation and sound effects make for a pleasant/relaxing experience. Playing and talking with others in the community has been enjoyable as well. One bug I noticed so far: I am pretty new to the game so taking a bit longer on time. One game I ran out of time and got booted from the game. I’m not sure if this is the intended result or if I should just not be able to put anymore tiles down. A separate time the game was over and the score was being tallied. I got a notification that I ran out of time and was booted again. While I was low on time in the game (less than a minute when the game ended) I don’t think the clock should keep running. In both instances I’m pretty sure I would have won, but the games no longer show up in my history. While not a huge deal, I thought it would be fun to try to get on the leaderboard someday. All in all a very enjoyable game at launch on iOS. I would love to see continued support to make it bug free and keep the community growing.

Terrible graphics, clunky gameplay
Wed Apr 29 2020 ~jenks~

My old iPad recently died and took the old version of Carcassonne (by the coding monkeys) with it. I could have cried. It was my favourite app of all time. In comparison this version looks cheap. The design and colours are unappealing. The tile design lacks the charm and interest of the old version and so is just less pleasant to play overall. The gameplay is clunky and further slowed by unnecessary and painfully slow zooms at each turn (seriously, just let me pick a size for the board and zoom in as needed to place game pieces...this is excruciating). It’s impossible to play at a brisk pace because the board is constantly zooming and moving unnecessarily, to the point that it gives you a headache. But then perversely you can’t zoom out far enough to see the whole board the larger it gets. The animations are distracting and again slow down gameplay. I haven’t yet tried to play online, as I can barely get through a standard game it’s so clunky...but from what I hear from friends it’s a disaster. I bought every single expansion on the the old app and loved what they added to the gameplay, but I won’t be spending another cent on this until things are significantly improved. In fact, I might even try to get my money back as this game is so frustrating as to be almost unplayable. Seriously, learn from the old app. It’s not about nostalgia, it’s about good design and better gameplay. It’s sad. I really, REALLY wanted to like this version...

Getting too harsh of reviews
Fri Apr 17 2020 GKATM

Lots of reviews are pretty harsh for a game that works pretty well, is a good adaptation, and looks decent. I’ve been playing single player and online with family and enjoyed both. Yes there is room for improvement but give them a chance to address the issues. Pros - good adaptation of actual game, intuitive interface, overall good art, AI keeps single player interesting, you can play with your friends online, you can set time limits such that playing with friends can essentially be turn based so games can go over many days, features like showing fields and tiles left is fun, seems only host of online game needs expansions for everyone to play expansion Cons - needs a recap feature because if you aren’t online at the end you can’t see how an online game ended, the chat in online play disappears every time you leave so you can’t have a dialogue, sometimes takes a moment to connect or disconnects but not terribly so, wish you could turn specific features in expansions on and off (e.g. use builder but not pig or just use tiles from expansions but not other mechanics), can only add friends to friends list if they are online. Overall I’ve enjoyed both the single and online play. Absolutely worth the cost if you enjoy the board game.

(Updated) Doesn’t deserve all the negative reviews
Sun Aug 01 2021 TheWholeEnchilada

Note: my original (5 star) review is below. Since then I have come to realize it does deserve the negative reviews. This app has always been clunky and awkward but I overlooked that because I really like Carc and enjoy playing with my friends. The last update though, really brought the app to a new low. We are constantly being signed out, sometimes one of us will be given an extra turn for no reason (no builder involved), tiles will be placed illegally, the game reloads halfway through your turn, your moves aren’t registered and when you return later you have to play them again. It’s a huge frustrating mess. Please clean this up so we can enjoy Carc without all the maddening obstacles to a great game. —————— I bought this game with some trepidation after seeing all the negative revues but I have had no problems with it at all. I feel like a lot of people were really attached to the original Carc app (which I never used) and so they are unfairly down on this one. The graphics are great. The game plays smoothly, the controls are easy to use, it has a lot of features that I really like like farm highlighting. The AIs are challenging at different levels. I haven’t had any trouble with online play or setting up a game against my wife. A lot of people have complained about the game just ending when the time you set at the beginning runs out. That sounds really annoying but I just always set it to the max (14 days or something) and it hasn’t been a problem. All in all I love Carcassonne as a board game and I really like how it was implemented here as an app.

Shiny but missing polish
Fri Apr 03 2020 Rockette3r

Carcassonne functions, but it missing some features that hold it back from being truly great. 1) There really isn’t a simple way to play with your friends. Currently without a turn based option/notification system you’d all have to be available at the same to play a game together. Which isn’t ideal since people are busy. 2) The interface isn’t as intuitive as it should be. I had to stumble around all sorts of menus to try and find out how to change my color. 3) When waiting for your turn, you can’t plan ahead, since the interface is showing the AI’s tile. I suppose that’s the way the rules are written, but it’s a shame that you sometimes think it’s your turn and you have a great tile, only for you to realize that it was just showing you the computers instead. Finishing with some positives: The game plays smoothly and the placement options for where to put a tile are made to be obvious which I appreciate. I like the graphics and the animations. Options for playing with and without farmers is appreciated as are the toggle switches for being able to glance and see how the fields are currently owned/shaped. Carcassonne is a great game with nice new look that is lacking some features that keep it from giving you more value for your purchase.

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