Lanterns: The Harvest Festival

Lanterns: The Harvest Festival

By Dire Wolf Digital

  • Category: Games
  • Release Date: 2016-10-31
  • Current Version: 2.1.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 311.12 MB
  • Developer: Dire Wolf Digital
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
Score: 4.5
4.59999
From 130 Ratings
$4.99 On itunes

Description

Lanterns: The Harvest Festival is a beautiful, thoughtful tile-placement game set in imperial China based upon the best-selling and award-winning board game. The app now includes the new expansion Lanterns: The Emperor's Gifts at no additional cost. In Lanterns, players take turns arranging colorful floating lanterns on a ceremonial lake. Completing sets of lanterns earns Honor, and at the end of the game the player with the most Honor wins. Vibrant visual effects, skilled AI, meditative environmental music and smooth touch play translate the delightful zen of Lanterns: The Harvest Festival to your phone or tablet. Praise for the board game: • SXSW Game of the Year Nominee • Geek & Sundry Top 5 Games of 2015 • Dice Tower Seal of Excellence • Board Game Geek's Most Anticipated 2015 • Mensa Select 2015 Winner • Best Family Game - Dog & Thimble 2015 • Best Game for New Gamers - Dog & Thimble 2015 "Lanterns is very beautiful and easy to get into, but has depth that can challenge even the most experienced players." - Geek & Sundry "I think a lot of people are going to be turned on to Lanterns, because you can play it casually, or you can play it very competitively. Both ways it's very enjoyable, and it's hard for a game to do that." - The Game Boy Geek "Lanterns offers tile-placement and set-collection with a twist, and that twist makes it more interactive than other tile placement games I’ve tried. ... I loved the simplicity and interactivity of the game, as well as the originality." - The Opinionated Gamers Lanterns: The Harvest Festival offers all of the fun and depth of the tabletop game, PLUS: • Online asynchronous matchmaking against old friends and new • Strategic solo play to hone your skills against AI players • Progressive Challenge system to guide you through gameplay • Intuitive tap-and-drag tile placement for fast and easy play For more information, please visit www.direwolfdigital.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter at /direwolfdigital

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Reviews

  • As good or better than the physical

    5
    By eric9876553
    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

  • Enjoy this game

    5
    By Steelcurtain23123
    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.

  • Beautiful

    5
    By Übernoodle
    A great translation. The audio, the visuals, the intuitive interface….I wish all tabletop games were done this well in digital.

  • All The Signs of a Classic

    5
    By Thomas the Convert
    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.

  • Last turn broken

    1
    By JennCali 2.0
    When you’ve set yourself up perfectly to make the game winning dedication on the last turn and the current version of the game is broken so you never get that last turn, it takes all the joy out. Fix the last turn already! Clearly it has been broken for 6+ months. It isn’t too much to ask to expect that the digital version follows the rules of the game.

  • Unplayable on iPhone 12; final round rules wrong

    2
    By Afitnerd
    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.

  • Update has killed friend multiplayer

    4
    By Berubemeister
    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.

  • Last round is glitched

    4
    By Bile puke
    Great game though the last round is glitched. After placing your last tile, you can’t do your final round.

  • Recent update

    2
    By Zombiliciouz
    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.

  • v2 is buggy, drop in quality from previous version

    1
    By sunk-boat
    The new 2.0 version has more bugs than the previous version. Users were forced to update to play online games. Exiting games were lost. There are serious game play issues as well, for example not being able to play the last dedication round. Minor bugs with things like the “back” button’s localization string being “button.back”. I’m not going to play again until at least the next update.

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