Lost Cities

Lost Cities

BlueLine Games · 2018 · Casual, Strategy, Indie, Card Game, Board Game

PC
Mostly Negative39% · 31
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$9.99
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About Lost Cities

Officially licensed version of the award winning Lost Cities by Reiner Knizia.

In Lost Cities, you play the part of an adventurer searching for forgotten cities around the globe. Plan your expeditions wisely to outpace your rival's pursuits! Feeling confident? Place a wager on an expedition that you think you can master. After 3 rounds of adventuring, the player that had the most successful expeditions is the winner!

Features:
  • Play locally or online.
  • Play against the Computer - AI with four unique personas.
  • Includes "hot-seat"/"pass-n-play" mode for players with who want to share one mouse/keyboard or gamepad.
  • Switch seamlessly between playing with mouse/keyboard and gamepad.
  • Dozens of Steam Stats & Achievements.
  • Asynchronous play - you can play even when your opponent is offline.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Mar 10, 2025
This game is too buggy. Its a good way to learn the game but holds no value after you understand it. The cpu's are compete morons, there's no difficulty adjustments. They say that each cpu avatar has its own style of play which is nonesense. They all play stupid. They'll pick up discard cards that cant be played, they'll dump high value cards, they'll wager up and play little to nothing. I think my dog could play better than these cpu's. The scoring makes sense until you reach end game and they reverse the scores on you for whatever reason. Not only that, they record your scores from previous games so if you lost a round due to the buggy score system that reverses scores at the end, it mocks you later on showing you lost rounds when you really didnt. Also the game vs cpus feels like its designed to always let you win. I feel like ill get a majority of the 10's 9's 8's in each round. It doesnt feel good when the game hands you wins. This game needs drastic updates. I forgot what I paid for this but if it was anything over $2 its not worth it. Just learn and play the game on Board game arena online.
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Not recommended Apr 4, 2024
The game randomly switches scores when playing against the AI (the only way I play). So, I cannot play more that one round if I want to make sure the scoring does not get messed up. It appears the developers have no interest in fixing this. No fix = no recommendation.
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Not recommended Jul 19, 2026
While the game looks great and often plays fine, the scoring is sometimes completely wrong against the AI. It will sometimes switch your score with the AI score for some rounds. Not only that, but the AI is very VERY dumb. It NEVER SCORED POSITIVE POINTS against me in the first 10 games I played against it. This is mostly a complete waste of your time and money, so avoid this game. Take the $10 and put it toward purchasing the real game instead. This was published in 2018 and STILL has these issues after 8 years!! Blueline Games quite obviously doesn't care and will not be fixing it, so don't buy this game hoping for that. *EDIT* On my 11th play, the AI finally finished with above zero. One point to be exact. It's really really bad.
Not recommended Jan 7, 2026
Played this game a few times with my friend - we love the physical card game, but live far from each other. It worked just fine the first few times we played it, not too long after it came out. Now however? It's just broken. It does not work. I can't even get it to work single player anymore. The game itself is great, but this electronic adaptation just doesn't work.
Not recommended Mar 3, 2024
DO NOT BUY. The multiplayer is completely broken. Lobby causes crashes and if you're lucky enough and actually get in game despite error messages of blue line server trouble, you'll crash the moment you pass a turn. Tried on different PCs and even from a different account and on different network connection to eliminate that my connection/pc could be the problem. Same result. Literally unplayable, unless you want to enjoy 5% of the game by only playing against dim and dumb AI - that works. But the AI is really stupid and easy to beat (gave me an 8, which I needed to turn my triple wager 24567 column into profit)
Recommended Jul 2, 2023
Light and fluffy, more in line with a game like Uno or Mille borne. family friendly, a fun romp.

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