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Urban Cards – Strategy Game Review
Urban Cards is a Strategy/Card game from HUES GAMES UG haftungsbeschrankt, first launched in 16th April 2023.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 45+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Urban Cards Stand Out
Recommended for iPad 5 (2017), iPad Air 2, and everything newer
Urban Cards is a deck-building roguelike where earning money is the key to staying afloat in an unfair world. Build businesses, hire workaholic employees and thieves to steal from the competition. Create the perfect deck and work your way to the top!
This is a satire-themed game with 3+ factions and playstyles to choose from.
OPER: The realm of the millionaire CEO, the workaholic suit, and the dangerous smile of a lending shark. Bedazzled by generous bonuses, but be careful of its ferocious appetite for debt.
AKIBARA: The technology valley controlled by gamers, hackers, and neon lights. This is where bitcoin fortunes are made with other people's data, this is where big brother comes to watch.
GASTOWN: The poor and forgotten inhabitants are adept at sabotaging their opponent, stealing from their business while ruling the streets. This do-or-die faction doesn’t shy away from a healthy dose of physical violence to achieve its aims.
FEATURES
Build and customize your own deck by choosing from 180+ cards
Choose from three different factions and their unique starter decks: Oper, Akibara, Gastown
Carefully manage the different types of cards at your disposal: Business, Workers, Henchmen, Actions, and Objects
Accept the challenge and make your way through a procedurally generated campaign with 20+ Events and many hours of replayability
More than dozens of different enemies stand in your way of success: from mob bosses to otaku and money lenders. Get ready to defeat the biggest crook of them all: the Government!
Collect 30+ special items to aid you in your quest to make even more money!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Urban Cards is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd May 2023
Recent improvements include:
Adjusted UI elements to better fit smaller screens
Download & Availability
Urban Cards is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Fantastic game with relatively low publicity. Update with new contents and achievements and promotion may help.
We love this game but the condo king seems a little overpowered. Also a way to customize your deck to include/exclude certain cards would be nice.
Fantastic game. Has some quirks but is excellent.
Havent purchased the full game yet, but would like to see an option to have PvP. From what we can tell the full game just allows the option to use a wider variety of decks and maybe a new campaign? The adds dont bother us and since we havent completed the game with the all the decks from the first group we havent seen the need to purchase the others just yet. That being said, if there was a way we could take our deck and battle against a friend or another random person we would purchase the full game. Theres a lot of potential but its not perfect. 4/5.
We were playing a game had to close it to get back to work and when we opened it later it asked to confirm surrender. Not our intention. Also when we beat year one our piggy bank/lives say two but really its zero. Swiping through deck to trade cards is difficult. To slide left or right to see the whole deck we inadvertently select a card that we dont want to trade. Either have a safe zone where we can swipe or have make it smart to not select a card when we swipe but only when we press. Or have a check box we like the idea it is pretty fun but we are sad that our awesome deck that we had surrendered before we could finish playing. Seems like the trade thing just got fixed.
We think the game is pretty fun and interesting, we have a few suggestions for improvements though. 1: the 10$ price tag for the full game is pretty steep and theres no clarification of what buying the full means (we.e what changes and what am we unlocking by buying it) 2: the tutorial is lacking in several areas and it doesnt explain much about progression past the first few levels. Am we aiming for something or dying in year 3 and just repeating infinitely? 3: trading cards is a nightmare, you cant swipe through the deck without selecting half a dozen cards, then on the way back to deselect you are selecting another 4 cards. This is mitigated by the tiny scroll bar (Im on a 10.9 iPad Air and its still tough to not select cards while using the scroll wheel 4: in year 2 you start with 2 lives (even when you get bonus lives from year one) and they are bugged, if you die in year 2 you will just die. No second chances, do not pass go, do not collect 200$ All in all its a promising game if given some more work and hopefully reducing the price to something a little more standard for mobile games.
On iPhone causing different problems for continuing and pressing buttons. The button for going into phone tabs is right below the cards which is terribly unfun and probably intentional so very rude and not considerate.
Would love to have some small quirks fixed and Ian to function so we can open more towns. But we love it.
Could use some more polishing. The gameplay and content is fun and interactive, but seemingly-poorly optimized assets cause over-heating and freezes/crashes. Happens around twice a game or so. Will definitely come back to this game after a while.
The game seems fun but twice has crashed during the opponents turn of a match. Tbh is restarts the fight and is not good.
The game is very fun and really Challenge your strategy to win, however we got glitch out of the game. Overall the game is fun but hard to play when being glitch out of the game.
All the game looks like it could be potentially a great game. There are so many small bugs and annoyances. It is difficult to enjoy. Events need a major overhaul and the user experience has accidents regularly occur with the game. Buttons are broken cards and card dont make sense. Well its possible to have fun. It gets frustrating quickly.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.5
- Size: 993.55 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, JA, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: HUES GAMES UG haftungsbeschrankt
Last updated: 22nd May 2023 | Genre: Strategy, Card | Developer: HUES GAMES UG haftungsbeschrankt