Lanterns: The Harvest Festival App Reviews

Lanterns is beautifully rendered and fun to play, with strategy to master. Two complaints: The game doesn't keep me logged in and sometimes says it can't log me in, there are some mechanics of the game that aren't fully explained, and badge notifications don't work.

Lanterns: The Harvest Festival is a perfect adaptation of the amazing board game!

Easy to learn, enjoyable to play, challenging but not frustrating. Love it!

Love the board game and love the app for it! Way to go RGS!

I’ve only played against the AI, but it wins half the time, which is amazing. Beautiful graphics, interesting gameplay, and mostly intuitive interface. All around great job!

Great game though the last round is glitched. After placing your last tile, you can’t do your final round.

I do like this app a lot as for the 4- Stars but the latest update has really hampered multiplayer game play over time. While we do play often in a normal 1-HR game it works fine but sometimes, we just want to play a free flow game when we have time. We’ve noticed with the update it just scrubs the game. We log in with the game gone... just frustrating when you had played the way for so long. A timer visible would at least give us some visual. Hope the multiplayer is fixed in the next update.

This is a good example of how an app can breathe new life into a great card game. The bookkeeping is all done for you, all the color and beauty remains. The two player game is the most strategic. It is really just an abstract card game, simple rules and a bit of a take that attitude.

A great translation. The audio, the visuals, the intuitive interface….I wish all tabletop games were done this well in digital.

I have really enjoyed this game and rated five stars, but I’ve only played it solo against the app. But I like it so much that I’m going to try to get the physical copy again even though I’ve traded away once before.

Great version of the original. I just wish you could toggle off the animations. also would be great to have one level more difficult AI, but all in all it’s great

This is a great game, and the app has been enjoyable for years; however the most recent update has problems that have not been addressed by the developer. The game doesn’t follow its rules with the last update. There is no final turn-in round, and players can use the Emperor’s lanterns twice in the same turn.

Update: still unplayable on iPhone 12 pro max and iPhone 12 pro after update. On both iPhone 12 pro max and iPhone 12 pro, the screen is all blown up and you can’t scroll around. Support responded once a month ago and then radio silence. Plays well on iPad. But, final round is broken as many others have reported. Very disappointing for a $5 app.