Glass Road

Glass Road$1.99

Rated 3.06/5 (77) —  Free Android application by Smart and Smarty Kft.

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About Glass Road

Glass Road is the official tablet version of Uwe Rosenberg's Glass Road board game.

STORY: The Glass Road is a 150-mile long path through the Bavarian Forest near the border to the Czech Republic in Germany which was one of the biggest center of Glassworks and Brickworks in the 18th century and now you can become part of this world in this game.

== THE GAME ==
In Glass Road, you will produce glass and bricks and collect wood, clay and many other resources to build buildings and create your own landscape.
To accomplish this task, you will need the help of a variety of specialists. You have to choose 5 of them in every round but when choosing your specialists, try to anticipate which ones your opponents will choose to use your own more effectively. So carefully choose cards that you think no other player will choose to use them more effectively, but also choose some that you think will be played by other players to benefit from that as well.

== PEOPLE ==
What people said about the board game:

"This game is amazing! How much depth and how much consciousness there is, tide in such a small, tiny, fast, elegant game!" /Rahdo/

"Glass Road is a very deep and engaging euro that offers you a wealth of deep strategic and tactical choices and very little luck in a very short and elegant design. I would go as far as saying that there is no other game that I have played that achieves these levels of depth in that short of a playing time." /F. Liouville - BGG/

"I started to play more and more and I realized all the subversive strategies in this game!...
....In fact, from the Solo experience I really do enjoyed this game!" /Tox - Crits Happen/

"If you’re a fan of Uwe Rosenberg’s other titles, get this game. If you like having many – almost too many – strategic choices to make in each turn, get this game. If the production wheel concept intrigues you, get this game. In short, if you want a good, fun, medium-weight Euro-style game add Glass Road to your collection." /Walt Mueller - boardgamequest/

== FEATURES ==
- Optimized for tablets
- Single player mode
- 2 & 3-4 player mode
- Easy and Hard AI opponents
- Online 2 player mode
- Online public and private rooms
- Pass and Play mode
- Tutorial, rule book and cards & building reference
- Original board game graphics
- Detailed scoring at the end of the game
- German language support
- Optimization to phones

== UWE ROSENBERG ==
Uwe Rosenberg is an award-winning German game designer. He is well known for the development of innovative card game mechanisms. Another main point of his work is the research-intensive games, that have peculiar historical events as their theme. He is the designer of many successful games as:
Agricola -- La Havre -- Caverna -- Bohnanza -- Fields of Arlew

How to Download / Install

Download and install Glass Road version 2.0.0 on your Android device!
Downloaded 1,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.smartandsmarty.glassroad, download Glass Road.apk

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Game History & Updates

What's Changed
- Optimized layout for phones
- German language support
Price update  Price changed from $4.09 to $1.99.
Version update Glass Road was updated to version 2.0.0
More downloads  Glass Road reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
Price update  Price changed from $5.06 to $4.09.

What are users saying about Glass Road

X70%
by X####:

Nice game, but too many bugs. It is very frustrating when the game doesn't let you choose the cards you want and it give you only the options to cancel but you loose your resources. The scoring of the game look more likes a lotery. Sometimes it doesn't give you the points and I had one time a score of 44 when I only build 2 buildings. It would be a nice game when all the bugs has been fixed.

X70%
by X####:

Players must go through the tutorial before playing the game. Water Tower doesn't create lakes. Turns freeze after the fourth building phase. Rules are not accessible during game play. Leaving the app during a game and opening the app does not restore the existing game. I waited too long to play it, and now it's too late to get a refund. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME.

X70%
by X####:

Please please please add save feature. I love the game, but do not always have time to finish and need to save the game!

X70%
by X####:

The three upgrades to the board/end game scoring do not work. I have tried multiple times and score by hand at the end and the sand, brick and glass upgrades to the base never score. They actually cause them not to score at all. Please fix.

R70%
by R####:

I love Rosenberg's games, including Glass Road, but this is by far the worst implemented digital version of one of his games. It is laden with bugs. The game has been around for a while, and the developer has never taken the effort to improve the user experience. Very disappointing. I highly recommend the board game.

J70%
by J####:

I bought an expensive end game scoring building, had the resources for it to win me the game, and it just didn't score the building at all as if I hadn't bought it. What's the point of playing then? It's also got graphical bugs. Tutorial played things out of order from the help text. References are in German. Don't waste your money.

R70%
by R####:

Buggy, finished 1 out of 5 games without the app freezing. If it wasn't for that it would be a great game

R70%
by R####:

It hangs itself all the time, not totally busy enough that you think you can continue playing but you can't.

R70%
by R####:

Great game with great, responsive devs.

R70%
by R####:

It is fun to play but 90% , I can't finish up the game especially the games hang in certain item I purchased /tile and I can't use the ability which one of them is "" roofing company tiles "". If i use the ability the game will go to hang. it make the games no longer fun to be played ... If no all the tiles can be purchased to avoid the hang situation... Kindly fixed the bug

O70%
by O####:

I play this game in real life constantly, and I try to use this app as well, because the gameplay is amazing! But you need to fix the bugs with blue buildings - it makes the whole session glitch out and become unplayable if you try to use their effects! Also, without the ability to close the app and resume your session later, you have to play the game a half-hour at a time, which may prove difficult once you actually get to your metro stop or get a phone call or whatever.

R70%
by R####:

Can't finish a game. Even when not frozen, the AI takes an inordinately long time to make a move. Someone needs to learn to code.

R70%
by R####:

Lacks an undo for (dumb) new players (Go back and let me place those FOUR sand pits!! why would I pay a victory point for ZERO?). At the end of my first solo game it went to Finish as I was converting one last good which cost me another two points. Hitting Finish showed my score but wouldn't let me click to see score breakout. Finally, I couldn't click OK at the end screen which means the game wasn't even logged. Interesting, but could use some polish.

S70%
by S####:

The good news: no more 15 second delays between turns! The bad news: The game still bugs out 2/3 solo games, months after release. It's still not functional.

R70%
by R####:

Problems still exceed fixes

R70%
by R####:

Deadlock makes it unplayable. Also, there is no way to save the game in case of some unexpected event on my device.

R70%
by R####:

AI locks up at end of game. No animations to show Ai thinking progress like a progress bar.

R70%
by R####:

Very nice

R70%
by R####:

Good game but it would be nice at the end to see a breakdown of where every player's score was earned from, so you can see where you won or lost the game. Also, another person mentioned something about only being allowed to score 2 bonus buildings - is this true? I can't find this rule anywhere in the app, or anywhere in the rules pdf for the board game?

R70%
by R####:

I haven't experience any crashes but there are still issues that need to be fixed. Using processing buildings is an anytime action that you can use at anytime, unfortunately the game doesn't allow this because the game is always busy with the AI turn or waiting for you to play. I feel like a pause button would help to allow this. Also you really need the ability to look at boards at the end of the game and have a scoring breakdown. I had an issue with the game allowing me to play 3 bonus cards. 2 is max.

B70%
by B####:

A couple hiccups but it's just like the board game.

V70%
by V####:

So far, so good! Like others mentioned, a pause button would be very helpful. I've only experienced minor issues beyond that. It drains battery life terribly. And the online part wasn't working for me when I tried it and said to try again later, but I don't plan to play much online, so again, that is only minor. Can't wait to see what all the updates bring to make it even better!

D70%
by D####:

Portrait mode, Why?? Screen elements are extremely small and there does not appear to be a way to zoom. Am I missing something. I can't see any of the writing. I'm going to have to refund and wait and see if this game goes anywhere. I cannot recommend the game based on the unreadable, UN-ZOOMABLE interface.

S70%
by S####:

This is a great game but this app does it no justice. Terrible, slow interface, long wait for AI turns, increasing ai/animation speed does nothing, lots of dead space that could be better used ie the giant logo at the bottom. Why is it there? Make the wheels or card area bigger, it's hard to read buildings and cards and wheels. And why no landscape mode? Also games won't resume if you run the app in the background for awhile, have to restart. Hold out on buying until it's improved, wish I had waited.

K70%
by K####:

Freezes when you try and do things in the middle of a turn, like look at the board or use a building ability. As you can't recover a game, I haven't been able to complete a single game of this. On top of that there are bizarre 15-30 second delays for no reason at all in between actions. If i can't finish a singly game of this in solo, there is no point in trying multiplayer. The play experience on my Nexus was so dreadful it's unplayable. Right now this is a beta build.

Z70%
by Z####:

I realize the app is formatted for tablets, but I'm hoping for better formatting for phones and will eagerly wait for future updates. It runs alright, but there are some lock-ups due to un-intuitive UI mechanics. It took me a while to figure out that I had some resources to distribute before I could continue the game, but it presented itself like the game was frozen.

Z70%
by Z####:

This is one of my favorite board games. Plays well if you speed up the ai and animation. Only issue so far is that there should be five buildings of each type to choose from not four when playing the four player game.

Z70%
by Z####:

Good app although the UI could be a bit cleaner; over-swiping on the board screen caused a debug menu to appear. Having trouble connecting to play online. Needs ability to save or resume a game in solo. Hopefully we'll get an update soon. Keep up the good work

W70%
by W####:

This is my first experience with Glass Road and the app seems to be working well. I would like to see the details of the endgame scores, but have not found out how to do that. I like the adjustable AI speed that the game has. It has frozen up on me two times and I don't know what caused that. Overall I would recommend this app.

U70%
by U####:

Program consistently freezes during the final turn. Also, an intense battery drain. Sad

Z70%
by Z####:

It looks nice and it has the same intriguing gameplay that Glass Road has always struck me with. But the AI is poor and it takes too long. Plus it is too hard to work out the other player's strategies and react to them. Perhaps the multiplayer will be good once enough people have got it.

Q70%
by Q####:

Would like to see phone optimization

Z70%
by Z####:

Some things could be better, but this app allows you to play Glass Road, solo or multi player, wherever you are. That is great.

Z70%
by Z####:

Good job, I'm lovin' it.

G70%
by G####:

Klass road! :p

Z70%
by Z####:

Just wondering if there is ai support on android? One of my faves turned into a great app. Please continue to update.

G70%
by G####:

Garbage


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