Tikal

In the original board game, the players were represented by blocks. But for some reason this app has replaced them with little buzzing trucks. I didn’t think that would bother me, but it does. Now it doesn’t seem like I’m hacking through a jungle. Instead I’m just driving a truck from place to place. The whole mood of the game is ruined.

I enjoy Tikal, one of my top 5 best ever games. This port scratches the itch and looks great doing it ;)

I handed my wife the iPod with the rules pulled up. A short while later, she beats me her first game! Very fun, easy to like, and great potential for depth. Only need a tutorial for 5 stars.

I was looking for a fun stategy game that is playable in small chunks of time. It needed to be a game where I could quickly figure out where I was and what I was planning, even if it had been a few days since I last played, and to not have any kind of time limits. I downloaded several games; Tikal is the one I keep playing. The game has enough variety and challenge to make it fun to play repeatedly. The app is visually appealing and it's AI and hints are great for helping beginning players learn the game easily and increase the level of challenge when ready. It can be difficult and sometimes frustrating to tap the tiny pieces, but at least the game confirms that it was your intended move before playing and the game has an undo feature. One thing that almost never works correctly is the screen rotation, which is very frustrating when I'm trying to play with my phone plugged in on my right side, which seems to happen often.

I'm new to this game and really like it. A quick tutorial would have helped me pick up this game faster. AI is pretty weak after playing a few times and I've never been able to get through more than a couple of moves with multiplayer. Needs update - 2 years and counting. Will likely buy the board game too to introduce to friends.

Having fun with this so far! Well worth the money. I have only played a few games thus far but as you can see from the title I am a bit worried the AI may be too easy. Other than that I would definitely recommend this. Hopefully the other games in the bundle(this is available in a bundle of 5 games, I believe) are just as as good.

When playing locally the app works great. But if your trying to play online then it's pretty bad. Don't get notifications it's your turn, if you take longer than 72 hours to take your turn then you have to quit the game and can't take your turn. If you have an invite it doesn't always show in the play section it just tries to create a new game with random people. Needs some work before it's a great app.

This is a beautiful translation of the board game. The interface is a little unintuitive at first but that quickly disappears once you've played a full game. The visuals are even better than the boxed game set components. The AI however is rather weak. Even the highest rated AI doesn't seem to make optimal moves that seem obvious, and the dumber AI levels make truly bad choices... Almost simulating human players that have given up on trying! But being able to play against other humans helps make up for this, you're not always stuck playing against easy targets.