Knizia's Through the Desert

Great game, poopy app

Cool game, but for $3 I expected at least better graphics or more than one game mode.

Preserves board game feel very well. Exactly what I was hoping for.

Good implementation. A fix for the future should be coin and score. The actual score total gets partially to mostly covered up by the coin graphics.

Lots of bugs, usability errors and unstable behavior 8/5

It freezes can't complete one game without it frezzing

Great adaptation of a great boardgame.

Fantastic. All it needs is for the piece to be placed next to, not under, your finger.

Placing pieces with any accuracy is IMPOSSIBLE on a phone unless you zoom way in which is really clumsy! And 15+mins learning rules means no refund.

Would like network play. Even just head to head.

Great port of an awesome game! The only change I would like to see is easier to read text for VP. Otherwise it's great.

Great to have a Knizia game on Android, but marred by many small interface flaws. Placing pieces under your finger is hard, especially with no undo.

Great to see a boardgame app on Android. Would pay for ports of several more that are already available for idevices.

Great implementation of Knizia's boardgame.

Nice game! Graphics and sounds are top notch. Needs a couple small tweaks, but I'll email about those. Oh and bring more good boardgames to Android!

Nice adaption but how do you close the app?

It seems the developers meant to include that but never did. Too bad, the game would be perfect if it were there.

Everything is way too small, colors are rather blunt, text is much harder to read than anything else on the phone. Using drag and drop is a terrible idea, as you have to select one of five small close to each other camels and drag it to a target place hidden under your finger. When the AI plays, you have to watch lengthy animations, which is pretty boring for the initial placement. The in-game help uses about one fifth of the display size, i.,e., about 4% of its area. How can anybody do this??? On the left I can see "This app is compatible with your device", but obviously it was developed for much bigger screen than my 4.7 inch. I guess the game itself is very good, but the implementation is just garbage. Except for the colors, it's pretty, but the usability is zero.

I loved the free but short Labyrinth by Reiner Knizia, so I decided to give this one a try. It is a well-made game, but I did not enjoy this as much. For me, the problem is that it lacks a campaign mode.

Despite the tutorial and player selection describing online play, the menu option for online play is only in the iOS version of the app; that menu option has been removed from the Android version. Clearly the Android port is half-assed. Have also had issues with the display blacking out on the main menu. Feeling rather ripped off about the network play - I didn't discover that it's disabled on Android until I'd convinced a friend to buy it on iOS.

Cool game, but for $3 I expected at least better graphics or more than one game mode.

no luck, no whining. just pure strategy. only problem is that it doesn't enforce the “no leaders of same color in first round” rule, which really sucks. fix it and you can have your fifth star！

My wife and I are causal board gamers. I purchased this few weeks ago (the price is about 7% of the printed version) . It works perfectly on HP Touchpad with CM. AI is OK (not that hard) but you can play with up to 4 players, each sitting by one of the four corners (you don't have to pass around like a phone, or worry about rotating the screen). It's an area control game with some thinking and strategy. No luck involved. There is a tutorial that teaches you how to play. If you have a tablet, this is a must. I hope we see more board games like this on Play store.

Thanks for the 7 inch support. Perfect for a quick boardgame with friends. AI good too.

Great game

Wonderful implementation of a classic game, and stability problems seem to have been fixed. We need more boardgame ports like this!

simple, not really interesting.

Doesn't work on nexus 7 and I was too slow for a refund.

Awesome

Once it gets past the start menu screen it is fine but it generally takes about 5 start ups to get past it. This is on a galaxy s3

The board game is fantastic, and it could work as a phone game, but right now it doesn't. The camel should be above your finger when dragging, not underneath it. There should be an option to have faster animation, especially during the initial camel placement which is annoyingly sloooooooow now. Most of all, the AI should be a challenge. It isn't, in fact there is zero change of me ever not winning a game, and with no multiplayer, that leaves me no reason to play this. I feel that the main work has been done for this game but they didn't finish it yet (UI, AI).

I love it that Knizia games are finally coming to android! We need more of them! Some problems worth the UI for this one though. It's hard to see where you're placing the pieces, you have to tilt the phone so you can see under your finger. Also the android menu button doesn't bring up any extra options which is frustrating. Not even just "quit" or "mute".

Through the Desert is one of my favorite game sand I'm glad to see it here in an app! The graphics are nice and it's easy to play. Only missing undo and network play.

I own the board game version of this game app and it is my favorite family night game. The app is one hundred percent faithful to the board game. This game is seriously addicting and fun to play. Highly recommended!

Excellent! Multiple paths to victory, high replayability, smooth interface, & polished presentation make this a top-notch game. I can see where the playing surface would be too large for phones, but no problem on a tablet.

This is a very good strategy board game. Nice set of rules that makes you think very carefully before playing your pieces. The AI opponent seems pretty good. On a few occasions I noticed that the computer has played a piece just to block me. Especially good on the Galaxy Note since you can play the entire game zoomed out and still easily see the board and place your pieces.

Game is a lot of fun (ai is a spot too easy to beat, but human v human is great). But... Often crashes on me in the first screen, and about 30% of the time midgame. Seems to be getting worse over time. :(

Only needs an undo button.

Quick game. Easy to learn. Nice strategy