Last updated on June 4th, 2023 at 04:10 pm
Through the Ages
Through the Ages is one of the best $9.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Czech Games Edition s.r.o., Through the Ages is a Strategy game with a content rating of 12+.
It was released on 15th September 2017 with the latest update 9th May 2023
Whether you are a fan of Strategy, Board, games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
4,876 people have rated 2.18.704
You can download the game Through the Ages from APP STORE.
Description
The official adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil’s strategy classic, the second best board game ever according to the Board Game Geek website.
“If you are looking for a civ game, this is the game! This is one of the best games of all time.” – Tom Vasel, The Dice Tower
“Through the Ages is simply phenomenal.” – Drew Massey, Giant Fire Breathing Robot
This is your chance to make history. You begin with a small tribe. As you expand your farms and mines, you lay the groundwork for technological advancements, better governments, and grand wonders. Your military might supports your political skill as you guide your civilization to greatness.
OVERVIEW:
- One of the greatest board games of all time.
- Hundreds of cards to build a mighty civilization.
- Many paths to victory.
- Manage your resources carefully.
FEATURES:
- Learn the game rules with a funny and engaging tutorial.
- Compete with your friends online or on the same device.
- Defeat clever computer opponents of various skill levels.
- Play with the original board game rules or a streamlined digital version.
- Enjoy single-player Challenges requiring different strategies.
Czech Games Edition has produced over 20 board games and expansions, including many award-winning titles for enthusiastic players: Alchemists, Dungeon Lords and Tzolk’in to name just a few. We expanded into the realm of digital board games with Galaxy Trucker and now with this Through the Ages adaptation.
Updated on 9th May 2023
What’s new:
Graphic filters and their display on older phones are fixed.
Improved server communication (fewer inconsistency errors are expected).
Minor technical improvements and tweaks.
Through the Ages Reviews
EDIT: Podcasts work again after latest update. Most excellent. We used to be able to listen to podcasts while playing, but now this game kills all audio playing from other apps. And the rendering is now causing crashing. We can tell it speeds up frame rate during animations which looks pretty when it works, but if you play with the hard AI the CPU still kills the frame rate so it is kind of pointless. But as it is a turn based game, who cares about frame rate? Wish we could downgrade.
Best game ever developed. Been playing thousands of hours.
Nothing not to like about this one.
We have been playing and raving about this game to family and friends for a year, thus past week it kept crashing on our iPad even if we have the latest updates. Contacted customer support through the app and reached out to their Facebook but received no answer. Please help us play again!
We really like games that have a start and end. You can learn how to play and do better next time. Worth the money if you are into deep strategy games. We still havent mastered the medium challenge.
Since the last update it takes FOREVER against the AI. You also cant pick up a saved game anymore. Super annoying!
The app updated on 10/5. Now it doesnt work. When we tell it to load a game, it acts like it, the bounces out of the app. When we double click to see the apps that are up, it shows up. But when we select it, it repeats the loading process. Running on an iPhone 6 iOS 12.4.8.
Not only is this game deep and well balanced the async play is best we’ve experienced on iOS. We wish other games mobile implementation where half as good as this one is.
We play other online versions of Thru The Ages. This one plays the best and gets upgraded more frequently. Highly recommended.
They have done an AMAZING job with creating this application. There is only one bug that we have noticed, the activity log will sometimes not scroll. Otherwise, the app is flawless. We have numerous over board game apps, and this one is by far the most well executed. Kudos to the team for making it.
We keep coming back to 5is game. We really like how they did the expansions to make it more re-playable.
Fantastic game, excellent app. We play exclusively solo and the challenges provide hours of fun!
If you love card based strategy games this is the one. The playability. The tutorial. All excellent you absolutely need to purchase the expansion. You wont regret it. Great pvp options. Any expansion they sell we will be first in line. This really is a great strategy game. We play online with friends and randos. Truly excellent and great support.
Excellent game in every respect and very challenging! Buy it!
Verified that family sharing works, and we also play with friends who bought the game with their own money. We had one terminal glitch and had to abandon a game but otherwise its been pretty flawless over many games. There is a learning curve. We mostly lose, but still have fun. You can play with people you know or people you dont know or by yourself (against the computer). The pacing is so perfect. You play a hand for five minutes and then walk away while waiting for others to play. Our games typically last about a week and provide little moments of fun several times a day when its our turn to play. We bought an expansion pack and its fun. Unfortunately expansion packs dont work with family sharing. Devices tested include iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 10, and iPad Pro 2018. Play the tutorial and read the rules – youll have less frustration that way.
A lot of fun, with very good AI PLAYERS (at least compared to myself). They should change the rules about military strength ties, though. One obvious change would be to use the exploration strength to break a military strength tie.
The latest update supposedly improves performance and gives fps options but what it really did was make performance way worse and battery usage is almost untenable. Im on iPhone 8 and one full laggy game of about 45 minutes takes battery from 100 to 40% performance. Please fix. This is one of our favorite apps but now we can only play it when Im plugged in. Very frustrating.
Great game but unfortunately growing increasingly unstable with frequent crashes. In recent release you often must abandon game and restart new App needs to be focused on stability fixes.
This is a wonderful digital translation if the original tabletop game. Do the entire tutorial, its totally worth the time.
An outstanding app. UI is user friendly, with a valued undo option. Game is great; it has a learning curve, but AI has multiple levels facilitating the learning. Expansion adds diversity and is worth the buy.
Edited – The developers got back to us and suggested that our iPad might be older and if we click the option for reduced graphics it might help. It fixed the issue completely and we cant even tell a difference. We love this game. It is super fun and addictive. It would be 5 stars except for when we try to play the challenges the app keeps crashing. You can restart it and it doesnt lose your spot, but it will only crash again and again. Usually once it starts it will keep happening over and over and it takes a long time to be able to finish the game. What is weird is it lets you play more than half the game before it crashes the first time.
We’ve played a few games and am amazed at the perfection. The tutorial by itself is worth at least half the cost for new players like us.
The game itself is an awesome game, but takes a super long time to learn and play. This app makes it MUCH easier to play quick games against actually competent AI. The challenges are fun and engaging, and the app is super well designed. Its the first board game app we’ve had that has an undo button, which we feel like should be a requirement for all board game apps.
Im a big board & card game enthusiast with a fairly large collection (compared w/ normal folks) and this digitalized version might even be better than its original 2nd Edition tabletop version. This is easily our favorite Civilization-themed board game and we love playing it online with our real-life gamer friends. This digital version allows for the near perfect info of tracking all the game decks and each opponents civilization, all at your very fingertips. Now, the new expansion allows for more variety and mix of cards to keep the game fresh with every new session. We wholeheartedly recommend this Civ based game as it has some learning curve but its really worth the ascent.
This is a decent port of the tabletop game. It loses a lot of points for forcing users to make an account and literally locking the expansion we paid for in the online game account. Bad bad bad. The game just crashed twice on us, iphone 6s. We swear we dont know why we buy boardgame apps anymore.
Good overall, but for the past couple months the game sometimes does not send a notification or badge.
In the tutorial when we get to the part about tap opponents strength rating and the… Tactics Help box opens, the app freezes no matter how many times we restart the level. Please help.
Absolutely love the digital version of this game! Our only suggestion is if you could give us a little bit more freedom in the custom custom game settings. We want the option to make our games longer, and do wacky stuff with the settings kind of like you have the challenge modes set up. Users love more freedom! Other then that, this is everything we would hope a Through the Ages, digital version would be! Excellent work and we look forward to see what else the team can dream up for the future of this magnificent board game.
We bought this game to teach us how to play the board game, so we can teach our friends. We are so happy we did. There are many nuances and details we may have missed. Highly recommended.
Amazing port of the game. The user interface is incredibly polished. We have almost 100 hours into this game.
Its way too hard to start a new game with specific people. Would be much better if we could just rematch after a completed game. An auto-rematch option would be even better!
If there is one thing we have to say about this game, it needs difficulties. And when we say that, we mean the training needs to be training, easy needs to be easy and so on. There needs to be a better sense of progress. Not punishment/frustration. Tone it down. We have seen the reviews here and we believe there need to be more critical/helpful reviews. This game is interesting but feels hopeless at the same time. It really is no fun to play a game where the easy AI is already hard. Why play further then? Its a card game, not an IQ test. And the card game is way too complicated compared to others. We have played plenty of civilization/strategy games throughout our life – Civilization, Age of Empires, Armello and so on – and never have we faced a more discouraging game than this. We have hardly beaten the easy AI, which is not a good thing. We usually dont even know how we won, considering the AI spam the bonus points at the end. That should be the medium or hard AI. But when its easy alone that shows you up, why even bother trying anymore? It really is discouraging. And how can the hard AI be any harder if easy knows the game so well? We have tried this game at least a dozen times and dont feel like Im learning anything. 7 Wonders is why we even found this game and that card game is way more balanced/easy. And when we lose at that, we dont feel nearly as defeated. Its a good game for all. Its as several reviews have said for me; we feel like we are catching up with the AI only to have the game end. Its ends too soon. There is a growing sense of frustration that defeats you right off with this. And playing a training AI is not an answer. Thats just dull. You just cut off its one hand/move. Brutal. Again, you dont really learn anything, you just try to cheap win.
Its a fantastic game and works really well on iOS. However, the app has all kinds of problems and any frequent player has memorized the Connection to Server Failed screen by now.
Tried a lot of Euros in real life and in the App Store and this one is the best.
Amazing game. Some minor bugs from time to time, but nothing major. Super fun to play and great online multiplayer experience.
Just finished our first match, and we have no words to describe it! That’s just an amazing strategy game, we’ll come back later to write a more detailed review.
Love the challenge mode, however have to leave a 1 star due to it all comes down to luck on drawing war cards and cars distribution. You play ~20 minutes and then game gives you 0 war cards. Cant be sure but stage 2 wonders pop almost always after your turn and you only get them if all AI passed it. If AI can take from you it will even if you arent the weakest player. Somewhat annoying too all of this makes this game kind of 99% based on luck.
An amazing game. Really glad this implementation exists. Does a great job of teaching the game. Its a blast to play. Super smooth.
03-10-2022 update on 14 Pro Max (iOS 16.x): below remains true to this day thanks to years of continued support from the devs! — Brilliant port of one of the greatest board games of all time. The developers have been devoted to ensuring that this title remains one of the absolute best on iOS. They have worked tirelessly to address community and provider issues while navigating the troubled waters of iOS development, including Apples ever-changing software and hardware requirements. This is and should always be expected, but CGE has proven far better than the vast majority of dev teams who engage in such undertakings. They have continued to support one of the finest digital board game implementations out there regardless of platform. Thanks CGE and keep up the phenomenal work.
BY FAR THE BEST GAME EVER! PERIOD. MUST BUY!!!
Honestly one of the best board games we’ve ever played. We work in the industry and have played over 1,000 unique games. Genius design. Up there with Mage Knight and Gloomhaven!
This game takes a few plays to understand the actions and a few more to get your civ developing in an effective way but it is worth it if you can get there!
Have never played the board game. But this is one of the best values for a game with a competitive AI (no cheating required). Get the expansion pack too. 10x replay ability of an already addictive and open ended style game.
We love the board game, don’t get us wrong, but we always end up finishing a game and thinking "I wish we had done xyz better" and having to wait for another game night. This version scratches that itch to try new strategies with the quick games where the automated housekeeping helps a ton.
We’ve checked this app on iPhone 8 and SE gen 3. In less than 5 minutes each phone would heat up, necessitate closing the app . That is problematic for a game that takes 30+ min to play for many people. The high energy consumption drains the battery. Attempted to find out if our install was corrupted with the Developer, but seems to ignore this complaint from many users. Otherwise we would recommend this implementation of the game to anyone.
We recently began looking for digital boardgames to play with our crew. We immediately thought of TTA but were afraid to conquer the learning curve. We started by going through the tutorial – only to see that it crashed due to the recent iOS update. We reached out for support and had a reply within a day or so that the dev team was working to fix the bug. Within a week, they had and now the crew and we can start to learn this amazing game better. Thx so much and wow – this truly is the standard that other digital board game translations can look up to. Amazing.