![]() Add in the reports of dropped games and the annoying email verification system to get signed up, and it’s easy to see the uphill climb The Mind has to gaining a large online user base.Īs it stands, The Mind is a fun introduction to the game and does enough to spark some interest in the physical game, but I’m not sure it will find a warm reception in the digital space. If online play is well made, it could provide a fun online experience with friends, but I suspect something big would be lost there as well. Play enough and you’ll start to figure it out, but it’s tough to see many players getting to that point. The game is asking a lot of players to learn how those three small rating bars next to the AI names translate into actual gameplay. The problems come in with a rather large learning curve to understanding how the AI operate. The app is well made and does a good job of presenting the game and letting players play it with a variety of AI options as well as online play. A game like Love Letter has a lot of social aspects and it made the transition fairly well, so it can be done, but The Mind just isn’t quite the same. The Mind is simply one of the oddest games we’ve covered that has made the jump from physical to digital. I simply can’t see the fun of Hanabi porting well to digital form and The Mind’s digital implementation is interesting enough to get me to take a look at the physical game, but the app is almost certainly not going to stay in my rotation for long after this review gets published. I’ve never played the physical game, but I can easily see the comparison to Hanabi which I’ve played quite a bit of. The app is also interesting in that it has a handful of built-in AIs with their own defined tendencies. The app attempts to replicate this with the built-in emotions, but it’s not the same. The physical game is all about nonverbal communication across the table. The Mind is a downright bizarre choice to get a digital port. ![]() The idea of putting your hand (physical or digital) on the table and pulling it away to provide some sort of meaning is clearly an important piece of the intended game experience, but it gets ignored by people playing the physical game? If you browse the physical game rulebook it will be called “concentration.” The curious thing here is that, after watching a handful of online reviews/rule explanations, none of them mentioned the concentration phase. One thing to note is how much the app emphasizes the synchronization phase.
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