Caverna

Good news: The game is playable and the AI is strong. Bad news: The tutorial is a joke—it teaches you almost nothing. The user interface is poor; at least half of the game board is always blocked. Unfortunately, the developers made poor choices with the placement of the "actions" board, as it constantly covers a large part of the main game area. Why not place the actions board on the side or create a bottom bar instead? Yes, you can minimize it and view the actions as text, but that’s more suitable for advanced users who already know what each action tile does. Another issue is the tutorial, which only teaches around 33% of the game mechanics. For the rest, you have to watch a YouTube video or read the physical game manual. I also don’t understand why there’s no animation for the dwarves when they are on a higher level. There’s just an ugly number displayed on the dwarf disc. Conclusion: I like that I can play Caverna digitally against AI, but the lack of a proper tutorial and the poor interface make the game feel half-finished. I'm not sure it's worth the €19 price tag.

Echoing other reviews to reinforce the point: The user interface is terrible, and the tutorial is an uninformative mess, to the point where it actually references concepts and actions it has never actually shown you. It's worth remembering that nearly all Digidiced products are equally bad. I had to try this one because I love the board game Caverna, but no, they've ruined it, too. This studio is an absolute plague on the digitization of beloved board games.

Very solid adaptation -- they did a good job fitting a table hog of a game onto a laptop screen. The tutorial isn't great, but there is a video you can watch to learn the rules, then do only the UI tutorial so you know where everything is, and off you go. I just learned this here and I've held my own against medium AI twice, but haven't won yet. Can't speak to the hard AI yet, but the medium is decent enough to learn against. Thumbs up.

No one plays online.

Eine sehr schön umgesetzte PC-Variante des Brettspiels, die sehr einfach zu spielen ist, wenn man das Spiel bereits kennt. Computergegner, die auf der höchsten Stufe über 115 Punkte holen, sind nicht leicht und tatsächlich nicht immer zu besiegen. Der einzige negative Punkt ist die sich oft wiederholende Spielweise an manchen Stellen. Liegen z.B. in Runde 2 fünf Erz auf dem Anhäufungsfeld nimmt der PC es immer, selbst wenn es bessere Aktionen gäbe oder man noch keine Waffen schmieden kann. Und Spieler 1 spielt halt immer dieselben zwei ersten Züge, wenn man nicht selber Startspieler ist und es verhindert. Das Logierzimmer ist sicherlich ganz nett, aber da gibt es in Runde 1 bessere Optionen für Position 1, als das zu bauen. Die Ligenspiele habe ich bisher nicht ausprobiert, daher kann ich dazu nicht sagen. Auf jeden Fall klar Empfehlung für das Spiel.

very well representation of the boardgame, easy to find all the controls/menus, good music, good art.

本人确实是direwolf玩多了之后忘了电子化桌游有多么难做明白…… 但就是这个样子即使对于digidiced来说也是没法入口的水平……

Caverna in its table top form introduced me to the worker placement genre and in turn opened my mind to analog gaming. How ironic to now be playing it on my computer. If you are already a fan (as I was), you should really enjoy this version. It's a great way to keep the rules fresh in your mind and compete with CPU opponents. If you're new to Caverna, I'm not sure if I can recommend this digital iteration as it exists today. The tutorial could really use some improvement. If I had not played the game previously, I could see myself quitting out of frustration. Having said this, the devs seem committed to improving their product as time goes on, and you could watch a tutorial on YouTube if you're really committed. I have noticed that some of the things that others have complained about were fixed by the time I started playing. And honestly, that is my biggest complaint; I had no idea this game was out on Steam until today! It was purely my curiosity that compelled me to search for 'Caverna' here on Steam. Hopefully enough folks purchase the game so the devs can increase their marketing budget.