Mint Works

The tutorial is extremely poor and confusing for an otherwise simple game - going into a solo game vs. a bot after the tutorial I felt like I couldn't follow with the game at all, as everything happens just too fast. As other reviewers have pointed out, the game is also crawling with grammar, punctuation etc. errors. It is pretty bad that I had to resort to looking up the game's rulebook to learn how to play. Root is a far more complex board game and the digital version's tutorial is leagues ahead. Definitely don't buy full price.

The game is riddled with spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors. And solo mode is confusing and unfun I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this game

UPDATED COMMENT AFTER AN HOURS EXTRA PLAY AND A YEAR ON FROM ORIGINALLY PLAYING Still has extremely poor implementation. Continues to be simple language errors all over the place. I found the tutorial not very clear, especially for such a simple game. I have only played the solo mode so far and the displayed AI move is so fast I cant work out what is happening most of the time. It would be nice to play against an opponent who has the same rules as me but solo only allows games against opponents with special abilities. Implementation is much harder to follow than it needs to be. Layout of the screen is also in need of improvement. Couldn't recommend at its full cost before - or now at any cost. Its just poor.

I think the biggest issue with this one is that there's no AI that just plays the game against you using the standard rules - "AI" is used in the sense of the "AI" cards included with the non-digital version of the game that are included to make the game playable solo. So unless you find someone online to play against live (which isn't going to happen unless you and a friend pre-arrange it) you end up with the only option being to play against opponents with special rules specifically designed to make the game nearly impossible to win. Additionally the game just appears to be abandonware - it's been out for six years, and even the simplest of bugs haven't been addressed yet - there are still a ton of grammar errors, and there is a mint-logging bug that showed up nearly every game I tried where it doesn't display the number of mints you have correctly. On top of that most of the web links in the game that lead to instructions, etc, now lead to a dead web site.

Physical game is great, digital? Not so much. Suffers from the same issues other digital board games do, a game riddled with bugs and issues that could benefit from QoL updates that it will never get because development may or may not have been abandoned at "go". I couldn't get multiplayer to work, I don't know if the servers are down or if it was just me but it seems like I'm not the only one that had issues with it. But hey, single player against a character still works, so that's something?

Very very quick and simple game. For a quick game when time is short. The product page does nothing to promote this game. Youtube as always provided a few gameplays to see what this game is about. Once you have figured out the best strategy you can usually win more than lose.