Bohnanza The Duel

[quote][b]Warning: Dead PVP Game[/b] This game has no meaningful single player content beyond botmatches, and no playable PvP servers. There is no functioning PvP population, it's a dead game, and cannot be played as intended.[/quote] Bohnanza The Duel is a digital version of the tabletop card game, Bohnanza, only with even less players than there are people in your house. Yes, even if you're the only person in your house. The idea of this card duelling game is that you are a bean farmer and you grow and harvest beans, and try to do this better than your opponent. There's a cartoony theme. When you consider people can play games like Hearthstone and MTG: Arena for free, it's no wonder nobody was interested in this. The focus of this game is pure PvP, there's no single player content (it's just a card duelling game after all). Maybe they could have added some kind of campaign or story challenge, but they didn't, expecting somehow that other gamers would be an okay substitute for content. And this "method" developers use to avoid creating game content almost always fails. Just like it did here. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirement…

Bohnanza The Duel is a digital adaptation that takes the quirky, negotiation-driven spirit of the original card game and reshapes it into a tighter, more methodical two-player experience. Developed and published by DIGIDICED, it focuses on strategic efficiency and planning rather than the freeform bargaining that defined its tabletop predecessor. The result is a game that feels more controlled and predictable, but still manages to retain a surprising amount of depth within its deceptively simple ruleset. At the center of the gameplay is the familiar loop of planting, managing, and harvesting beans to earn coins. Each player works with a limited number of fields, forcing constant decisions about which beans to grow and when to clear space for new ones. What makes this system interesting is the constraint imposed by the fixed hand order—cards must be played in the sequence they are drawn, which removes the usual freedom found in most card games. This single mechanic transforms the experience into something more strategic, requiring players to think several turns ahead and adapt to situations where the “best” option may not be immediately available. The duel format shifts the focus …

Bug on tutorial discarding a field, tutorial is sloppy with bad English.

Stays frozen after 1 minute. Rubbish.

The tutorial wasn't very helpful. Also, as others have said, the UI isn't great either, but I felt it really just took some getting used to. The game itself is actually very fun, so if you are willing to learn the rules on your own and don't mind getting the hang of the UI, then I think you'll want to check this out.

Worst UI I've ever experienced. I wrote a command line version of this game with a friend, and it is a much smoother user experience. This game makes no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense. I can never get the last hour of frustration back. I'd pay the developers $4 to not have to play this game.