Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 03:01 pm
Destinies – Adventure Game Review
Destinies is a Adventure/Entertainment/Board game from Lucky Duck Games Sp. z o.o., first launched in 20th April 2021.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 33+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Destinies Stand Out
This application is a digital companion for the Destinies board game.
Destinies is a competitive, story-driven, board game of adventure and exploration. You require the Destinies board game to be able to use this app.
Launch the app, select the scenario you want to play, and be introduced to a story of dark fantasy and destinies waiting to be fulfilled. The app will guide you on how to set up your board game including your character skills, starting items, and the map tiles laid before you waiting to be explored.
The app will introduce story-driven dynamic events and help to guide you through the ever-changing game world. The app also remembers the choices you make so there will be real consequences that often change the state of the game world forever.
Each item in the game has a unique QR code that, using the game’s Scan&Play technology, can be scanned to determine how you interact with the world, other characters, and epic challenges. Which items you scan and when will greatly affect the outcome of various interactions.
Your player character card also comes with two QR codes that can be scanned, each one representing a different possible destiny to fulfill and thus win the game.
Each scenario should last 120-150 minutes, and players will be able to choose from standalone scenarios or scenarios linked as part of a campaign.
Once the app and a scenario are downloaded, the app doesn't require any internet connection during gameplay. The language can be selected within the app. The app saves your progress so you may resume a scenario later on.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Destinies is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th February 2025
Recent improvements include:
- bug fixes
Download & Availability
Destinies 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:
While the game itself is very fun and the app is very engaging, we cant overlook the fact that the app crashed for us around 5 times during our play of the first adventure. Due to saves only happening after each day instead of each turn that meant sometimes we had to replay turns and try to remember exactly what we had just done and where we had gone. Granted this was on an older iPad Pro. Still, the crashes detracted from an otherwise great experience.
We played with our bf and we had a great time! We thought everything was very well thought out. To preface, we are new in this kind of game play (both of us are beginners) it was easy to understand and very entertaining. It does leave no room for mistakes (scanning the wrong item, clicking the wrong button) but that didnt bother us because it was our mistake not the games fault. Be aware that you should block out 2-3 hours to play and play to finish as you never know what can happen with saves on game apps. Not just on this game but many others have issues with saves. Overall we had a great time and are excited to bring this out on our next game night.
We've only played through the first scenario, but we had a great time. Overall, the game is well put together and has a unique skill system which we liked. The app does a good job of keeping track of turns and when to refresh dice. It also tracks what progress has been made towards certain quests. Pros – Game is very enjoyable. – The game box has a place for everything and is exceptionally well designed. – The game components are beautiful and the story is well crafted. – All of the cons are minor in comparison to the enjoyment of playing. We would easily buy it again. Cons – we have a minor concern about a game being tied to an app since it becomes unplayable if the developer ever stops providing updates to the app. – App needs some minor tweaks to make the game more playable. Top among them is the need for an "Undo" button. We encountered many times where we clicked on the wrong choice, missed reading some text, or did something that would have been easily remedied by going back one screen. – It would be very helpful to manually save at any point rather than it saving at the week end only. – The app does a poor job of letting you know that everything is successfully saved and giving you a top level option to get back into a game you started. – If you stop part way through a game, you need to take pictures or write down all of the character statuses and board positions. It would be helpful if the app walked you through recording the state of the game when you want to pause and then walked you through setting it back up when you come back. – Four player game can only be played in teams. While this was still fun, it seems odd to limit the full competitive version to only three players. – It would be helpful to be able to toggle between the game mode and a map mode. This would let you review the map and it setup.
There should be more attention given to this app by the board game publisher. There needs to be an undo action option, and the promised ability to make your own scenarios is a flat-out lie. The fan-created stuff is comically bad and broken in places. It would also be great to see map and event locations shuffled to some degree, but we dont know if that will ever happen.
We just bought the board game and tried to install the app, but there we received this error: Essential files are missing. Enable the internet and restart the app we have tried on different devices and also checked different internet sources. So we guess its useless.
We like playing this game with the gf but we dont have a lot of time to play. Can a feature be added where when you end the game, the cards that were given to each player and amount of coins and exp chits recorded and provided for another session? Thank you.
Great game, fun needs an undo button, needs solo challenge to have a few more days to enjoy it, also it ask us after every game if in enjoyed it, which playing solo challenge can be annoying. But! Awesome concept, cool technology, great with multiple people.
The Doctor in the first storyline will freeze and cause the game to crash entirely. And lose memory. Unfortunately this happened repeatedly and cause our game to be set back then abit lost. Its fun but this bug is problematic. Hoping if its fixed to bump up our review.
So far, we have been playing Destinies with our parents, and they are enjoying the gameplay just as much as we are. From a gameplay standpoint, we give the game an 8/10 on BoardGame Greek. The reason for our three-star review is due to how the automatic saves happen. The saves happening only at the start of each day have bitten us twice now. Our phone either was acting strange while screen sharing to our parent's TV, which caused the game to close and then we had to restart at the start of day 5. This app would get an easy 5/5 from us if there were an automatic save after each person took their turn. This feature would eliminate the issue of a day being wholly reset due to an app issue or someone closing it. Another cool feature for phone users would be to make a wifi-shared lobby so everyone can use their device.
Its been over a month and we still cant play the Myth & Folklore expansion.
The app works great but there really needs to be a way to go back a step if you tap the wrong thing. Zero room for error.
We visited the smith when we meant to visit the Inn. No way to undo and go backhad to end our run. Otherwise lovely so far.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.7
- Size: 178.96 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Lucky Duck Games Sp. z o.o.
Last updated: 5th February 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Entertainment | Developer: Lucky Duck Games Sp. z o.o.