Ark Nova App Reviews

Awesome game but every time I open the app to an async game already loaded it spins for thirty secs and then errors out. Repro: open async game, close app, open app, wait.

This is a solid adaptation of a fantastic board game. The UI makes it difficult to keep up with the overall game state given how much info is hidden behind tabs.

Looks gorgeous and the play is true to the actual board game. Love it!

Helps with all the set-up and tracking. Much more difficult to manage on the phone versus the tablet but still playable. The tutorial is 3 parts and when finished it is still confusing but trial and error (and some painful losses against the AI) is enough to get the hang of it and starting to understand the synergies. Will see how it is at online asynchronous play once I get better.

One of the best game implementations I’ve played on the IPAD can’t say about the phone tho.

Absolutely love the board game and was excited to see an app version available. I’m impressed with the UI, especially since there are so many pieces to fit on a small screen. I’d love to see the marine world expansion in the future since it has some great mechanics.

I’m using the app to learn the game instead of buying the physical board game. The tutorial was so painful that I skipped tutorials 2 and 3. Go watch Youtube instead. The game seems pretty good, but there are definitely times when the game won’t allow me to do something I’m almost certain is legal.

The game plays well and sound design is great. Feels reactive when pressing the buttons and very satisfying there are a few strange bug like behaviors, such as screens not appearing when they’re supposed to or they appear after you’ve pressed a different button. It’s also frustrating to have the overlays get in the way when you’re trying to look at what you have in your zoo already but overall it’s a really great implementation of the game.

I love the app and play a lot. Please bring in expansions and extra boards like the ones on Board Game Arena. One bug I’ve noticed is that when I am allowed to pay to play a sponsor card from my hand, as one of the bonuses for the conservation project, I am not specifically prompted to do that during the tea break and I never actually get to use that ability. Also there are times when I’m choosing a card and the board or the association area is covered up and you can’t hide the cards to check th

I wish you could get the expansion games

The game is great but the UI is real bad on an iPhone. There really isn't enough real estate on the phone to have all the info in front of you. You just hear a lot of noises and it's your turn. Then the screens cover each other so you can't see screens that pop up. I had a rewards screen blocked by the cards and nothing made it go away. PC version looks amazing. Would have bought it there. Maybe iPad will be better. Building placement is about aggravating enough to close the app. That needs an

This is a really nice implementation of the board game. I’m impressed how well it plays on my phone.

Great game! Need a quicker way to read/zoom on cards

Excellent game but there are still many bugs that need fixing. Come on devs give us an update with fixes!

The game has bugs including not keeping track of available places to build. It even let me build on top of other buildings. Other than those sort of things happening, the game is great. It’s just not playable.