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Smash Up - The Card Game

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9+

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Games

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English

Unleash the carnage in Smash Up: The Digital Edition! In this shufflebuilding card game, you choose two faction decks—from Pirates and Ninjas to Robots and Zombies—to create a hybrid team that is a force to be reckoned with. Each faction offers unique mechanics, meaning no two games are ever the same. Your goal is to reach 15 points by stomping on bases and outplaying your opponents. With online cross-platform multiplayer, global leaderboards, and a comprehensive tutorial, the chaos of Smash Up is now available anywhere.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

81/100

Smash Up: The Digital Edition is a fantastic translation of the beloved 'shufflebuilding' tabletop game. As a fan of the physical card game, I was impressed by how well the faction mechanics were preserved. The core hook—smashing together two disparate factions like Ninja-Zombies or Pirate-Dinosaurs—is just as chaotic and fun on mobile as it is on the table. Each faction has distinct mechanics that require totally different strategies, making every 40-card deck feel unique.

Technically, the game offers a solid cross-platform multiplayer experience, allowing you to challenge friends regardless of their device. The inclusion of a tutorial system and 'step-through' modes is a great touch for newcomers who might be overwhelmed by the myriad card interactions. While the UI can occasionally feel a bit busy due to the complex nature of the board state, the ability to play a quick round against the AI or jump into a global leaderboard match makes this a great way to get your Smash Up fix on the go.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Mar 08 2024

Features

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Online Cross-Platform Multiplayer for 2 to 4 players

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Unique shufflebuilding: combine any two factions

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Full tutorial system and review modes

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Global leaderboards and achievements

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Based on the award-winning AEG card game

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Yes, the game supports single-player play against AI and can be played offline.

Ratings & Reviews

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Sun Oct 21 2018 outtersmashed

Ok so for starters easy isn’t as easy as you’d expect. I like that because you still need to think unlike most apps. Now the down side you’ve buy the base game but the computer still uses cards you don’t have accesses to. Took me by surprise but it wasn’t long till I paid the extra buck or two for the extra cards. Though I own this game and like to play with certain cards so when I went to look to that expansion I found you only have base and one expansion that it. They have a bunch of different. Expansion out there and only two on the app. I want more. It smash up has been playing catch up for to long and when they finally got an app they didn’t put all that were out at the time on the app doesn’t take long doesn’t cost much. So stop being cheap and update your app

Very fun game, but the UI is really bad
Sun Feb 08 2026 WHearth

Smash up is a fun card game that I enjoy a lot, so I thought I would pick up the digital version. However, space is used very poorly. In most digital card games, the cards are front and center and the game makes an effort to make it easy to see them. In this one it feels like they made the odd decision to hide them whenever possible even though there is a lot of empty space on the screen. IMO your hand should take up at least 1/3 of the bottom of the screen and should be easy to see, with the bases in the middle smaller but with it easy to zoom in on cards there if needed. Since that’s basically all the info needed in the game I’m not entirely sure why this is designed to hide all of that information. It somewhat feels like the designers have never played another digital card game before and weren’t sure how to layout the screen. Anyway, it’s a fun game but not really worth playing digitally on this UI

Seriously? This passes muster?
Thu Jul 19 2018 Bleu Whale

As an owner of a huge digital board game library, this is quite possibly the worst implementation I have seen. Unbelievable that this made it to market. NONE of the information is available to the user. Everything is at minimum a click away, but often further. Scroll through your cards, click to expand, etc. And heaven forbid that, while going through this series of exercises just to look at your hand, one card at a time, with delayed response in the app, you misclick something because then THAT WAS YOUR TURN. Sorry. Base information requires a long press on bases. And some of that "doesn't fit" in the area assigned for text, so you have to wait for a slow scroll to see what the base does. Card information requires scrolling through your hand and a long press on the card. Have a hand of seven cards? You'll have to scroll and click through each one to even see your hand. And next turn, you'll have to do it again because the tiny image available on your ipad doesn't offer much of a cue to remind you which card that is. Just a giant red "1," with a small, obscured graphic behind it, to be distinguished from the other giant red "1," with a small, obscured, different graphic behind it. If someone already knows the cards thoroughly and already knows how to play. And already likes the game. This might be an app they would want. For someone like me, who does not know the game, does not know the cards... this is like walking through a strange IKEA Marketplace with someone else's shopping list, and no signs on the walls. It just makes you angry.

FINALLY!!...but...
Sat Oct 28 2017 SpiderBrac

So excited for this to come to mobile, but it’s missing a key feature! Choosing who you play in multiplayer NEEDS to be there! We need to be able to create a private lobby for online play and invite our friends. Whether it be through unique codes specific to each lobby or being able to add friends on the game in order to invite them. Unfortunately, I’ll have to prevent my friends from downloading this game until that feature exists since it’s the one thing we were all the most excited about. Despite all that, the game plays well. Please make “private lobbies” available, I believe in all you AEG guys!

Professionally designed - AI cheats
Tue Sep 06 2022 zomquixote

Love Smash Up. It’s one of my favorite tabletop games. The app has nice presentation and works fine (for the most part). Not worth playing on higher difficulties because the AI very clearly cheats. I played a game against Princess’s where I destroyed Sleeping Beauty forcing her to be shuffled into the deck only for the AI to play her the very next turn. Card draws happen at the end of the turn, the AI player didn’t play anything to draw cards, simply mysteriously had a ‘one of’ card in hand that should have been in the deck. Played an entire game with Geeks/Mythic Horses where all my actions were top decked and then I played through minions, reshuffled the deck only to have all my actions top decked again. Having that happen once could be attributed to chance, twice in one game is infinitesimal. AI used Geeks to move one of my actions (Hissy Fit) from one base to another base then the game treated that card as though it belonged to the AI player, which isn’t how the Geeks card works. I thought maybe it was just programmed incorrectly but then I made the same play during a game and the card worked as intended. Then I started noticing how often card interactions working incorrectly almost always benefit the AI player. Programmers should legit be ashamed of themselves.

Promising but Riddled w Bugs
Wed Apr 18 2018 MattieA1

This app has the potential to better than the (analog) card game, because of the digital tallying of base points. However, the app freezes often — I’d estimate 20% of all my games played involve a freeze, sometimes recoverable with a quick restart, sometimes not. It reminds me of some of the Magic the Gathering apps, which were/are tremendously buggy. In the cases of both Smash Up and Magic, it’s odd that such established franchises would release half-baked products. 3-Star apps that could easily become 5-star, if developers got their acts together and fixed performance issues. Also, this game has just 8 factions, which is a small portion of those available, so I hope that in the future — after they fix their performance issues — they will introduce expansions.

Smashing Good Time
Sat Jan 12 2019 GiraffeofBetrayal

I enjoy the game quite a bit. With being able to play a bunch it helps work on strategies for real life, and finding good factions that fit together. I hope we get more expansions soon. With the limited amount, it can get old only having relatively few to choose from. I want to be able to try more combos, too. Also, the game does still glitch on occasion so you need to quit the game and start a new one in order for it to work again. That can be frustrating, especially when you just pulled off an epic move.

Good foundation, but could easily be better
Sat Sep 26 2020 clarkhunter001

This game captures alot of the key aspects of smash up. The game is very easy to learn. I've oy encountered a couple if bugs so far, but its been fine so far. Decks like 'killer plants' where you have to do alot f deck searching and reshuffling run so smooth in this app. It saves alot of time that would normally be lost in the normal rl game. My only real concern is the audio. I'm just going to be honest, its terrible. Half the sound effects sound like a radio bugging out. The music is very simple and gets really old really quick. Plus only 2 expansions are out rn. Making the game really dull compared to the rl one. Overall I think this a goodbase, but needs much improvement.

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