Colonist.ioReviews of colonist.io

Not sure why there are so many bad reviews! We can literally play Catan online for free and the interface is great

Possibly the worst "balanced" dice algorithm in history. Also, in 1v1 there are very obvious scenarios that trigger based on players coming in with losing streak or generally being low skill to try to "balance" the game and force streaks. Don't bother.

The dumbest game in the whole world. The dice algorithm is so unbalanced and I can't believe the developers has made it in such way. I play 10 games in which I am in winning condition and the dumb algorithm makes me lose everytime. The game's UI is 1/10 as well. I advice everyone not to play this game. The creators of this games are the ****** people in the world.

The karma system keeps you losing, which is not fair.

The interface is great but here's the issue with playing this game online - when playing against humans, expect to move in 10 secs or be ready to be trolled. When playing against bots expect skewed dice rolls and rogue bot plays. I had a pretty great win rate 80%+ but of late the bot games are a joke. There were 2 games where one of the bots won with just 2 cities and 1 settlement - stolen road and stolen army in the last 2 moves. This is virtually IMPOSSIBLE in a real time setting and only possible mathematically. In another game I had all bots target me i:) Agreed, i had the upper hand but the game play was non-sensical - I had all cards taken away by knights or at random and when it was my turn - you guessed it 7s. As pointed out below you can guess the 7 tolls 90% of the time - either you have amassed more cards but bots have 4/5 cards (does not happen when bots have 7+ cards) or when you're just about to build something and 100% when you're just about to win.

I have played this game far too many times. It seems virtually impossible to beat players from US or Israel. I have lost too many times with far better starting postions. There is something very fishy about their algorithms....

Dice are far from random. For starters they make it nearly impossible for human to get brick. You're about to buy a city? 90% chance you'll roll a 7. You'll NEVER get a brick when you rob a bot. After a few games you can easily predict when it will roll a 7. Getting ahead? Here comes 7 after 7 after 7 until everyone catches up. I was aborting my games due to dice cheating than I was playing. I documented over 30 cheating chunks of code in the game. Their response? Banned me. No ethics with this questionable mob.

I’m going to keep posting bad reviews for this app and the developers until they stop targeting me. Worst game ever in terms of the dice rolls, letting people win who have no business winning and basically favouring one player over another