Neuroshima Hex Reviews

They took an app that I played every single day (multiple times) and loved, and ‘improved’ it by making the art style worse (a subjective measure, for sure), removing a ton of features and factions that I previously paid for. They made the UI much more unintuitive and worst of all, the AI is now terrible and the gameplay is soooo much slower. In short, they completely ruined this game.

I don’t understand how they could remove the armies that I paid for and think it acceptable to drop them back over such an extended timeline.

I really had high hopes that this update was being done in good faith, but had initially caused them some trouble and so would take a while to catch up.

This was done cynically and without a care for the customer.

Basically functionality still broken:
- Vegas Agitator activates AFTER a battle triggers on full map
- if you move a tile before playing a tile, you can’t undo the move, because… reasons
-Armor doesn’t work against boosted ranger attacks
- AI is brain dead and throws away moves
- more then two player game “coming soon” for over a year now

But there’s an expansion they want you to pay for! Clearly “game support” is not Portal’s priority. They ruined this this IOS implementation

I would like to have NeoJungle and Dancer restored to this game. I purchased them years ago and it was stripped out when the developer re-made this game.

As for the remake. A near perfect game I played many times a day became a train wreck.

Interface is now dark and NOT like the screenshots on NeuroshimaHex Store. That is the old classic and beloved look and interface.

The buttons have shrunk and no longer have the “comic book” look and feel of the old ones. They are also too small on the IPad.

The colours and tiles look so bad and different from the game I love.

The positive reviews prior to 2021 show you the love this game had.

My son is a computer game developer and when he saw what these people to the game were did he couldn’t believe they could treat their fans this badly.

The fix? Restore the game to the 2021 interface. Introduce NEW armies. We will buy them.

As for this current iteration, save your money. Buy the board game instead.

Sure, transitions between groups owning a game can be rough. That’s no excuse after it’s been YEARS since the transition. Several things people paid for in the original have not been re-implemented with no refunds (which on it’s own opens them up to lawsuits if anyone felt it was actually worth the trouble). They have given up on adding any of the old features NeuroshimaHex used to have leaving it a shell of it’s former self. I don’t use this word lightly but what they did is literally illegal and would not hold up in court.

This used to be my favorite game and it was relatively easy to play. Now it takes more time and is less intuitive. There should be a way to roll back to previous versions.

I used to play this game about a dozen times a day. Now it’s only when I have absolutely nothing to do and I usually quit half way though the game because it’s so terrible.

Don’t purchase this until it becomes playable again.

I had everything for the previous version and was upset when the new version was released. It was said that as new armies came out, those who previously paid for them would receive them. This is not the case or restore purchases is not working..

Hard to play solo as the bot continuously draws advantageous tiles while human player only receives bonus tiles and no actual units. By the time you’re 3 turns in you are reduced and not much fun to play uncompetitive matches even against the bot

Factions that we paid for are still missing. Player 3 and 4 AI still missing.
AI is braindead for more complex factions.
It’s been years since the “update”.

Loved the game until it went AWOL I Want My Previous factions as well as the new factions were have now

Took a look today to see how far the game has developed since revamping graphics. Animated elements work, but sometimes distract from game play. Wondering if support for 3 or 4 players will ever return.

I've played over 100 matches of this game, and while I love the execution of the game, there are some serious gameplay mechanic issues that keep it from being 5 stars for me. The biggest issue is the seemingly random distribution of tiles for each player per game per turn. Some games your first 5 or 10 turns will be totally wasted because all you get are tiles for push, rotate, or start battle. While some games you get so many awesome tiles you can't help but win. This isn't to say it is cheating, the AI player suffers from the same luck factor, so some games are competitive, while some are just stupid. I don't know how this should be fixed since it is part of the core game mechanics in tile distribution. Maybe some way of selecting hand order, or tiles you want for a game, or maybe some smarts to never give you tips you can't use early on (though that doesn't seem quite right either). This game is so close to being awesome, but this has killed the replay ability for me. As often games are quite unbalanced in the favor of one player or the other.

The re-development is improving, but we could really use Neojungle, Sharrash, Doomsday, and other armies back. Partisans isn't much fun to play or play against. I'm okay with repurchasing everything, but really want more of the old armies and ability to play vs two AIs

I've been playing this game for years- really good on every strategy level, complexity of play and so on, but the graphics stink and sound FX are just the same for every army and every action... the files sound like they were cut and pasted from a free online sound bank.
The graphics are individually good, but are way too detailed for phone scale, and they don't play well with one another or the over laid buff symbols - makes for a murky playing field. It's so busy and overlaid sometimes it's difficult to see which way the units are facing. These two gripes have been bothering me since the beginning- was hoping the devs would've spent some effort improving this aspect of the game, as they added armies and tweaked the game play over the years

Glad to see with recent updates that Neuroshima hex works on my iPhone. While playing against AI is not as smoothe as it used to be, it is not so slow that it negatively impacts gameplay. Only problem is that not all the armies are back, but I’m glad to hear they’re coming. It’s also good to see that Portal is adding armies that weren’t even in the old app.

I hadn’t purchased a lot of content, and the game seems to work pretty much like the earlier version. Some of the UI is better, IMO. The bots’ IQ still seems good, too. Thanks!

Have loved this game since the original release. Would love it more if they would release more army packs. It’s been nine months since Mississippi was released. That’s a long time. At this rate, George RR Martin might finish the Winds of Winter before all the armies are available.

Awesome game. Have been playing for years. It’s a very clever game and you never play the same round twice.

The “restore purchases” does not seem to be working with the latest update. I would rather not have to pay for Mississippi again. I wish the updates were more frequent. No choice but to patiently wait for all the armies I paid for to return. 5 stars because I want to support this great game.

Dec. 26, 2022 Edit:
I broke down and paid for Mississippi again. Hope my extra money helps get the 3 and 4 player game options released soon.

New Armies Please!
**Please bring back, Neojungle & Doomsday Machine Next**
Wonderful At The Core… 5-Stars! However, they currently have a snails-pace update cycle that might should consider speeding up, with the least intention, or perhaps most importantly, in order to respect their fans whom purchased factions/ armies previously before the game was sold to the current company running it and have not made some of those factions armies with a promise hinging upon nebulous future re-release dates. For those that haven’t played this award winning board game turned iPhone strategy game before, do yourself a favor and give it a try. What we’d love to see as a loyal fanbase: - Reimplementation of the factions, I & many of us have already paid for- especially the plant one! There are so many great ones I miss so badly! - No extra button press when it is our turn. - More varied animations (everything is either a nudge or explosion). - Why not ad more, variable backgrounds? Wouldn’t it be pretty easy to hire an artist to just have some different background wallpapers that switch out? - These are just off the top of my head. I’m not trying to say I’m representing an all encompassing list of ideas from my fellow players. Bonus: What about even newer factions we haven’t seen before on iOS?! (Note on this- loved getting the “Beasts” army which we hadn’t seen before!