Hive™ - board game for two

This app does not do this game any justice, desperately needs updating. Puzzle mode is faulty, and lacks a single player against A.I mode. Not everyone should have to buy the real version of HIVE just to experience it properly! Such a shame :(

Have the free app...not sure there are actually any in-app purchases. Opening the rules in multiplayer breaks the game. Have to restart to get it working again. Multiplayer chat essentially breaks the game. Hard to find anyone to play multiplayer with, probably because nobody wants to use a poorly executed app. Tested on galaxy s6

Lack of good multiplayer and an awkward control interface make this digital boardgame largely unplayable. The series of puzzles are quite nice, but there aren't enough of them to make up for the rest.

Great game, but the app is a little buggy. Still playable though. Zooming is a little glitchy and I was seeing tiles disappearing in puzzle mode. It can't seem to connect to the network. I thought there was a bug in level 2 of puzzle mode, but I was doing an invalid move. You cannot move your ant next to your queen because you've surrounded your queen and lost. The AI continues anyway and makes a seemingly illegal move.

Love the real tile game when I have an opponent. This is useless for playing on my own when I don't. Badly needs a proper 1 player version. The puzzles are too brief. Come on devs you can do much better.

This app is unfinished and is unlikely to ever be considering the last update is from January 2014. Multiplayer simply doesn't work. The options for more tiles don't work. The puzzle mode is an interesting way to introduce base mechanics but should just be a working tutorial and puzzle mode should introduce different strategies - which doesn't really matter considering nothing else works.

Guys I'm down with minimal viable product release, but a multiplayer game with no way to connect to opponent and no single player ai is not viable. Does look pretty.

This would be a great game to port but this interface sucks. I can't even start a multiplayer game with someone beside me. Puzzles are interesting but the controls suck for trying to move the board around. Makes for an overall disappointing experience.

I can concede that this is a game with some potential, as goods as the original board game. But since you have been working on multiplayer and single player mode for 18 months with no update, I can only assume you are no longer planning to introduce them. Were you were satisfied by your sales as a boardgame? Is that why? I would suggest you finish the app, or remove it

Working on improvements? I'm sure they're coming down the pipeline any second! A game without AI isn't much of a game. Might be fine if the rest of the game was polished but it's not. It's buggy and you can't even purchase the add-one.

There are more bugs in here than the bloody amazon rainforest. Vanishing tiles and impossible layouts in the 2 player mode. Zooming in the puzzles and no way to unselect a peice if its been picked up in error. Badly needs a complete overhaul to showcase a good game.

Needs work. I was actually surprised to find hive on the play store. The win screen always seems to say the wrong side one... Maybe I'm reading it wrong? No idea how to buy the additional pieces. Single payer ai badly needed.

Really bad. The tabletop game is so much fun, but this is the worst implementation possible. No single player, puzzle mode is a joke, multiplayer is terrible. Couldn't even move pieces once we started a game. Needs some major improvements.

Multiplayer doesn't work at all, menus often don't open, lags... Just generally an awful release. I hope it gets fixed at some point because I really do enjoy the irl game

The interface looks good, but it doesn't work well. The zoom controls are unreliable, it won't scroll while you're carrying a piece, and it often forces you to make a move you didn't want by dropping off your piece for you. Not to mention the fact that the puzzles are easy and there are only 10 of them, there is no AI, and the multiplayer has NEVER worked, what you have is a truly terrible app.

The game freezes when you try to play the multi player basic game, and a couple times pieces have jumped away from the hive, only to be found upon zooming out later. Has the potential but really missing core components

Clumsy interface, doesn't work well, doesn't have the pillbug, just all around awful. Has a very amateurish feel and is honestly an embarrassment considering online board game sites do a much better job implementing this game.

1) Needs AI for single player. 2) Too little puzzles I suggest at least 100 for to be worth while ( not 8 levels). 3) Glitchy when using zoom and moving pieces. 4) Multiplayer is a lie. It is never usable. I can never find anyone. 5) the biggest reason this app is garbage is because who ever responds to complaints said "coming soon. Stay tuned :)" almost two years ago and no updates have been introduced. Bad business to not listening to your customers. I would have paid 5 bucks for a working app.

I would like this game if there was an AI to play with! Instead I need another person or, lets face it, someone to download this app because the multiplayer lobby is always empty! (I own the game so the hot seat is useless.)

Can't buy in app purchases. I rate 5 stars If you fix

No cross device accounts, very hard to find someone to play with. Hotseat works OK but if the piece is put in the wrong place you can't correct it.

Plain and simple- my fiance and I each downloaded the game, had it open to play, and after each taking one turn, it wouldn't let us move any tiles. Tried to double tap, hold and drag... nothin! And I think it's silly you need to each have thr game open to play. You should be able to come back to it to play your turn at your leisure.

Needs an AI. Also puzzle 6 in puzzle mode has 2 solutions (move the queen twice and jump the grasshopper once) but the game only recognizes the other solution.

Very nice art and a great interface. Add a decent AI and the Pillbug and I would pay top dollar for this app. Until then, please add more puzzles and more challenging puzzles. I love the tabletop version of this and would love to have a challenging AI game in my pocket. I would play nothing else. Please turn this app into the game Hive deserves to be. I would like to purchase the ladybug and mosquito but there appears to be no way to allow me to upgrade.

Can't figure out how to unlock lady bug and mosquito though. I want all the pieces!

I was playing through puzzle mode, because no one plays it, and I can't get passed the 2nd puzzle. The only logical move I could make was putting an ant near the white bee and the grasshopper jumped under it. Is that legal!?

The puzzle mode glitches so I cant pass level two, I can't search for another player (even though he's right next to me trying as well) the server has been down, so multiplayer at all does not work. The only way this game works is if you play on one phone. I love this game, I wish this app worked.

Hive is a great board game and this is a great way to try the game. Unfortunately this app has some problems. There's very few and simple puzzles. No computer player and nobody plays the online multiplayer. The selection buttons for the additional pieces don't seem to work. I'd also like to have seen an option to toggle the move legality visualization. Overall a decent app but could use some improvements.

I love Hive to death. This app would be better with a single player AI and if some of the bugs were fixed (like pieces getting stuck in mid air). But the biggest problem with this app is that if you're about to win, but then your opponent kills themselves, it counts as a loss for you. That is a serious problem with the ranking system of the app and should be fixed immediately.

Few too many bugs. Pun very much intended.... But accurate. I found that on my tablet the game would be a bit unresponsive, and freeze when zooming or moving the board around.

It looks great, and I had such hopes, even for the puzzle pay instead of versus an AI. But there is a glitch in the second puzzle for me, and I can't get past it, so that is useless. I gave my seven year old nephew the actual game for his birthday a few weeks ago, and he loves it. I got this app, and tried to play a game with him, but it kept doing the tile way off in limbo, and we kept having to zoom out to see it sitting far off the field. Then it would not permit legal moves, and we finally gave up.

Pun intended or intended, I'm not sure. Seriously, I have the board game and I love it. This just has some dull puzzles, lots of bugs, a multiplayer mode with apparently 0 players. It needs remaking almost completely, starting with a compelling single player mode. Hive is on ios and board game arena on the web and both implementations are a hundred times better than this

...If Hive carbon is available with all the pieces including the pill bug and there is an online multiplayer mode against people accross the nation. Needs ranking system and a win/loss ratio stats. I own Hive carbon and have the pill bugs as well. Would absolutely love it if you guys could make this work. I'd encourage everyone I knew to play it. Please no adds though! I hope you guys can make it! Thanks!

I'd give five stars but there are bugs (of the software variety! ). The game freezes. The menu options are confusing. I look forward to improvements.

Needs work. Lack of AI opponent and tutorial is unacceptable for boardgame apps. Zooming in/out and moving pieces is buggy. I'll zoom out to get a better view of the whole board and won't be able to zoom back to normal. Pieces can also take several attempts to place. I'll drag it to a legal spot and it will slide back to its starting position.

The game freezes when you try to play the multi player basic game, and a couple times pieces have jumped away from the hive, only to be found upon zooming out later. Has the potential but really missing core components

Bit disappointed as this game doesn't have much of a single player mode (only 'puzzle' mode). Come on, sort it out!

The interface looks good, but it doesn't work well. The zoom controls are unreliable, it won't scroll while you're carrying a piece, and it often forces you to make a move you didn't want by dropping off your piece for you. Not to mention the fact that the puzzles are easy and there are only 10 of them, there is no AI, and the multiplayer has NEVER worked, what you have is a truly terrible app.

Multiplayer server constantly hang up and is broken crashing my phone puzzle mode is useless and requires you to play in a way totally divorced from how hive is played. A shame as i would gladly pay for a working version

It has so many bugs