Unreal Estate

[h1]Captivating, Easy-to-Learn 4-player Card Game[/h1] I like [i]Unreal Estate[/i]! It's sort of a cross between the classic card game [i]War[/i] and Texas Hold 'Em, except the "dealer" is the scrap pile. It's easier to learn than [i]Uno[/i] and fun to play in either single-player mode (against 1 to 3 AIs) or in multiplayer. Besides the fun art and music, I love this originates from an indie developer—two cool guys who coded it and made it available for all to enjoy. You gotta get this game! It's fun, inexpensive, and supports the little guys!

Nice little card game, very chill. Played against the AI a little and that was good but it was best with my IRL friends.

#1 The music is very annoying and there isn't an option that can toggle music off or down but leave sound effects in place. The only audio option is mute. #2 Many special buildings don't work correctly: -The troll bridge: only gives you the option to steal points from the player to your right. -Air Ship: does not work at all and is basically a dead card. -Witches hut: sometimes doesn't mean in scramble the cards -Snipers Tower: is not even in the game #3 Not sure if there isn't anyone queuing for multiplayer or multiplayer just doesn't work. Wait in the queue a few times and no one joins in any player level 2-4. I love playing the tabletop game with my kids at home but this is definitely not a good representation of it Requested refund.

Although the gameplay in the video looks cool, DO NOT BUY this game if you want to play it in multiplayer mode. The matchmaking won't find any matches. You can't even play it with your friends because there is no option to invite them. I requested an instant refund after 20 minutes of struggle.

This game is really fun! Easy to learn card game with adorable graphics on the cards. Definitely would recommend to anyone considering it.

The review for this game is being reversed from thumb down to thumb up. Why? The developers have made a courteous and equitable attempt to improve on the original issue of "missing a window-mode". [u]Although it still does not have a true window-mode, it is at least a "tab mode" (for a lack of a better term).[/u] **Originally the game was refunded; now the game has been repurchased.** ORGINAL REVIEW [spoiler] The game DOES NOT allow window-mode. It only plays in fullscreen. Some games are played as a side-novelty while doing something else on the computer. However, the developers --which made a fair game-- lacked vision on this (sometimes) key-factor for a slow-paced, boardgame. ```` ```` ```` ```` "You will pay the price for your lack of vision...." --Emperor Palpatine No, just a refund please.... [/spoiler] Thank you, Viedt.

I'm not especially impressed with either the game itself or the computer adaptation. The game requires a lot of memorization to play well, and the gameplay is too straightforward if you can memorize your opponents' cards. As for the adaptation, the interface is a bit of a mess. It's a little difficult to understand how turns work in a two-player game, for example ("Does my opponent get to take another turn before these cards are discarded?" should not be a difficult question to answer). Some of the graphics are blurry, too. I got this at half price. I don't dislike it enough to refund it, but I doubt I'll be playing it much.

Maybe there was something I was just missing, but I could not invite a friend to play the multiplayer with me, nor could I join his game. Is this a bug, or a missing feature? Why have multiplayer when you can't play with friends?

I'll admit that this is a simple and fun game that I enjoyed playing, but there are a couple of things that spoil it for me. First of all, the online play is either broken or forever vacant, and the acheivements seem to be stacked at polar opposite ends of the difficulty spectrum. You'll get half of them in five minutes then the other half ten hours later, if you are lucky. A couple of them are based on online play, but since you cannot play online you'll never get 100% completion on this game, which is quite frustrating. A quick patch and a few more trophies added will fix this game and then I can give it a thumb up, as it is, it's a real let down.

This game comes with a confusing instruction manual that I just couldn't make sense of. It explains that there are several different types of cards, and that you're supposed to put them in various places, and play them in various phases, and it goes on and on like this. It was incomprehensible. It was not a tutorial - it was just a wall of text. After the wall of text, it drops you into a tabletop with piles of cards all over the place and I frankly had no idea what I was supposed to do. I just gave up.