About This Game Five clans are fighting to rule over the Isle of Skye. Only the chieftain who develops the best clan territory and trades wisely will be king! When leaving your castle, build up the Isle of Skye by adding green hills, perfect beaches and mountain ranges. Raise livestock, produce precious whisky, build forts and ships... Expand your territory tile by tile, pay to keep hold of your tiles or sell them to an opponent for the price you've set... Tile price setting, purchases, sales, and structures are the key to becoming the ruler of the Isle of Skye! Every game is different and will see you developing different strategies and tactics! With changeability and easy to learn rules, Isle of Skye is the perfect game for all types of players. Features: • Both simple and tactical game mechanics, adapted from the award-winning Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King board game by Andreas Pelikan & Alexander Pfister • 1 to 5 players • Play in single-player with challenging computer opponents, against your friends in local multiplayer, or face clans from all over the world in online mode! • Choice of objectives: Select 4 of 16 different objectives for a unique gameplay that changes every time • Learn the rules with our Interactive tutorial or even watch games of the top players on your device! • Take your time in asynchronous game mode with push notifications and never miss a turn. • See fabulous illustrations by Klemens Franz, which make for a true Scottish atmosphere! Awards for the original board game • 2016 UK Games Expo Best Boardgame Winner • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee • 2016 Kennerspiel des Jahres Winner • 2016 Kennerspiel des Jahres Nominee • 2016 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee • 2015 Meeples' Choice Nominee • 2015 Jocul Anului în România Beginners Finalist • 2015 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee • 2015 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee • 2015 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • 2015 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee 6d5b4406ea Title: Isle of SkyeGenre: Casual, Indie, StrategyDeveloper:DIGIDICEDPublisher:Asmodee DigitalRelease Date: 26 Jul, 2018 Isle Of Skye Download Xbox One Another board game marred by game-breaking bugs.It's actually a wonderful adaption of a physical boardgame, which I've never played, but will buy at some point. At first sight, it looks similar to Carcasonne, but it has some unique mechanics that set it aside. The main two mechanics that work really well are 1) a bidding system for tiles whereby each player sets prices for the tiles they are dealt and 2) random victory conditions for each match.The bidding system determines which tiles you get to play on your turn or how much gold you have for future turns. The random victory conditions are determined by having 4 random scoring conditions selected at the start of the game, chosen from a selection of 16. Also different to Carcassonne is that each player makes their own individual land as opposed to everyone contributing to one big kingdom.The game for the best part, plays well, looks good and has a good level of strategy mixed with some randomness. The reason I'm down-voting is a number of "minor" bugs that don't look like the devs will fix. When playing in async, the game doesn't show the final round, so you don't get to see how you won\/lost!! For me, this is unforgivable. After playing for a number of days of async, why wouldn't you want to know what your opponents did on their last turn? You get to see the score, but not how we got there.The game occasionally doesn't allow you to take your turn which has a negative effect on your rank as you end up losing the match. A lesser bug is sometimes the game gets stuck when you're placing tiles. It seems to be when you've rotated them a few times. This can be worked around by exiting the game and going back to it, so more an annoyance than game-breaking.Another annoyance is the way that the game decides to zoom itself in during the replay, which means having to zoom out over-and-over again if you don't prefer this view.I could almost forgive these flaws if the devs cared to respond or give a glimpse that they may try and fix them at some point but the game seems abandoned by the devs as they have most likely moved onto other projects. It's for this reason I have to down-vote what would otherwise be a fantastic game.
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