Food Fight iOS App Reviews

Not much depth here. You basically each play a card with a numerical value, then take turns playing cards with bonuses to try to bump your number higher than your opponents, occasionally sandbagging and holding some back with a eye towards autowinning an extra round after the other guy runs out of cards. Win enough rounds and thats game. The combos are nothing to get excited about, cards with small bonuses become cards with big bonuses in certain situations, basically. Drafting adds an ultrathin veneer of strategy thats otherwise missing from the game. And the whole dog mechanic is an awkward mess that helps kill whatever fun you might otherwise have had. It amazes me that it survived the development and playtesting of the original card game. It basically means that, even if you find another person to play with, you could instead end up playing all or most rounds of the game against an "AI" consisting of randomly generated numbers! Smooth interface and decent music and graphics (from an iPhoners perspective, anyway), are all that stop me from giving this game a lower rating. 2 stars still feels mighty generous, considering how ticked I am at Playdek for wasting time and resources on such a mediocre release. Even with Gokos incompetence effectively blackholing such heavies as Dominion, Thunderstone, and Race for the Galaxy, theres a whole slew of much worthier titles out there. Citadels and Gosu+Kamakor come to mind. Food Fight doesnt even rank in Boardgamegeeks top 3000 games. Ive picked up every Playdek release so far, and this is the only one I regret. Regret enough to delete, even. Nuff said.

the developers have started sending push notifications about sales, reminders to buy expansions, and I even got one from this game asking if Id played the campaign. This is a violation of the iOS developer agreement and a quick way to lose your player base as they turn off push notifications to avoid ads being pushed to all their iOS devices.

First and foremost, I saw another user talking about invasive notifications, I have yet to receive a single advertisement from the developers in the form of a notification. I also only play the campaign mode, so that could be why. Food Fight could be classified as a deck-building game like Ascension and Dominion, but if I said it plays the same as either of those I would be sorely mistaken. I bought this version before I purchased the physical card game. I figured it would be a good way to see if I liked the gameplay before dropping more money on the more expensive version. Needless to say I loved it so much J bought the card set and the expansion very soon after. One thing the game does very well is explaining the core rules. It did take me a few rounds to actually grasp them but I had a very good idea of what was going on in the first round. It just took some time to understand the dynamics of the cards and how they are best played together. I cant speak for the multiplayer setup as I havent used it yet, but Ive been playing the campaign off and on for about three months now and Im still not finished with it. Of course that is more based on luck of the draw with some rounds/bosses and time invested, but its one of the few IOS games I keep coming back to when I have 5 minutes or an hour to spare. I highly recommend this game. Allow yourself get past the learning curve and learn the card dynamics, and you will too.

Would be a great game, but I have a stuck game and support has been very slow to respond. Appears they dont care much for this game anymore.

It froze at the Vlad the Clampire stage. The game crashed, and upon reloading it freezes at 69%. Playdek, please resolve this issue and Ill change this to a 5 star review!

As with another reviewer, my campaign has frozen at the Vlad the Clampire stage, with loading stopping at 46%. If this evidently multiple-user problem is resolved in an update, then Ill redo my rating.

Not a complex game but very fun! Crazy art! Play in draft mode for more depth.

This game is impossibly difficult to understand. The laughably bad tutorial (with faux French accent making it even more confusing) and complex rule book are counterproductive in helping a new player learn this game. Both my wife and I cannot understand even a single step in actual gameplay. Luckily I only wasted 99 cents! Honestly one of the worst app purchases Ive ever made. Unless you have someone to explain this to you: beware!

I fell in love with this card game at a friends game night and this app is a perfect replacement when I cant get people together to play in real life. I only rated a 4 because its missing the "Snack Attack" expansion and online match making isnt the best. It will do until my next game night. = )

First of all... ADD STATS!!! Win/loss at least... Cripes. I dont follow some of this. Fighting a dog? When? Why? Whos turn is it? The onscreen indicators of game flow are lame. The LAYOUT needs to be changed. Looks nice. Horribly explained. Confusing layout. Saw the real game in a store. Might need to buy it so I can learn it properly because this digital version doesnt cut it.

I think you should add more cards so there are more cards to play with otherwise its good. :)

If boring, confusing, and shallow games are what you like then this is what youve been looking for.

Gameplay is decent, but the graphics are badly in need of an update to retina display. This is not just a snobby complaint about the quality of the graphics; the low res cards make it difficult to quickly survey your hand and understand what you are holding.

Can someone please update this game to work on newer devices?

This game is not compatible with the iPhone 6 Plus.

First, the failure to confirm before erasing a players campaign mode is just shameful. One slip of a finger (as I did) or curious friend poking around in your games and you could lose a lot of work! This needs to be fixed. Second, the tutorial fails to mention the dog, and the in-game rulebook (which you really shouldnt count on people reading...) doesnt do a great job of explaining when/why the dog appears. The tutorial is also weak in failing to explain that the unplated cards in your hand still are a part of the battle. This is amplified by the rather difficult-to-see (even on an iPad!) highlighting on currently usable cards. The red highlight is hard to see, and the light blue highlight that appears in campaign mode selection screens is almost impossible to see! On top of this, sometimes dragging cards into the play area is impossible (especially on the iPhone), so you cant even be sure if youre allowed to play a card or not. As a result of these drawbacks, having not played the physical card game, I almost gave up on Food Fight before getting into it (and I play a lot of games like this one!). Im glad I gave it another chance, but having just lost a campaign on one of my devices because of the oversight about starting a new campaign without confirmation, I might have to pause this game until theres an update!