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Brass app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 3728 ratings )
Games Entertainment Board Strategy
Developer: Cublo Sp. z o.o.
5.99 USD
Current version: 1.7, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 12 Nov 2015
App size: 269.24 Mb

Top Mobile Board Game of 2015 by Board Game Geek and Board Game Quest

Top 10 Strategy Game. Acclaimed by players and awarded in 2007, 2008 and 2010!

Brass is a demanding economic game. An outstanding game about money and monopolies. Players take the roles of entrepreneurs attempting to make the most money from various industries during the Industrial Revolution. Each player needs to build an economic engine that surpasses all the others.

BUILD
Industries are the key to success. Will you become a Cotton Magnate owning the most Cotton Mills in Lancashire? Or do you prefer selling Coal and Iron to others? Ports and Shipyards are key constructions as well, since the others cannot function without them in the long term.

CONNECT
Build canals and later rails to connect towns and cities. Only then can you benefit from all the industries built in the country, even those built by your opponents!

DEVELOP
R&D is essential. The better developed industries you have, the more effective they are. Should others neglect development, your path to victory will be easier.

TRADE
It’s not what you have produced, but the thing you sold that makes ‘brass’ (said with a
thick Yorkshire accent - ‘brass’ being a local term for money). Watch the markets carefully and sell at the proper time!

WIN
Use the produced supplies and activate Industries, upgrade rails, save money. The most effective entrepreneur is the winner.


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Brass, a true classic by one of the world’s best game designers, is now available in the AppStore.
- 3-4 players
- AI opponent (intermediate level)
- Network multiplayer with push notifications
- Local multiplayer (pass & play)
- Beautiful artwork
- Works in any orientation (portrait & landscape)
- In-game tutorial & manual
- GameCenter: achievements, leaderboards
- Universal game application – buy once and play on all your devices.
- The game is designed for iPad / Use iPad for best experience.

Pros and cons of Brass app for iPhone and iPad

Brass app good for

Hard AI was a great addition, and this is a great game. Thanks for bringing it to mobile!
Good implementation, the AI is much more challenging now as well.
I have played the cardboard version only a handful of times. The graphics, player flow, and in-play tutorials combine to make this a first-class port of an excellent game. Wait. I want to talk about my favorite feature in this game. When I want to build something, this game helpfully highlights allowed moves. But sometimes Im convinced that the move I want to make is legal. So I attempt it, and the game shows a modal explaining what I need to be able to build there. This is something I wish more games would build, and is the one thing that delights me the most about Brass. The AI is sufficiently good enough for new players, but will probably not challenge experienced players. I hope rather than complaining, that the experienced players contact the developers with suggestions on what to improve. This is not perfect, but Im giving it 5 stars because they got so much of the basics right and I want to encourage the developers to continue working on improvements. Well done!
Ive been enjoying this game for a while and after the latest update fixed a couple annoying things about the game I thought it was time to come write a review. This is a very sleek and polished app. It has a reasonably low level of bugs (I only lost one online game to a bug and I think that issue has been fixed). If your looking for an economic/business themed board game with deep and varied strategy- and only a moderate level of luck- then youve found what youre looking for. I hate it when I buy a board game or strategy app and find there is no online community. This game has a good community when it comes to playing a game over a few days via notifications. Its rare to be able to log in and play a quick game. But it seems the number of players has grown over the past month or so, so Im hopefully it will eventually get a large enough player base to support this.
This app is great. It looks great and works great. But the instruction manual is rife with formatting errors. Tons of spaces are missing between words. Fix it and this will be perfect!
This is a fantastic port of a great game. It is relatively complex at first, but the tutorial along with a few YouTube videos will have you up and running in no time. Of all the board games that I have purchased on iOS this has got to be one of the best - probably tied with Agricola. If you enjoy board games and arent afraid to take a bit of time to learn you will be well rewarded!

Some bad moments

Theres a lot to like about this app - the implementation of the game itself is clean and the graphics are great. But the single-player AI is atrociously bad and online play is still broken. Games hang or get suddenly cancelled without warning, and all game notifications are still sent out in Polish. It needs a bit more work.
Im so glad they did Brass (one of my few perfect 10-rated games) and not Age of Industry (some would say the watered-down version of Brass). The interface is awesome and so is the tutorial. The AI is the only thing Im dinging one star for, as its not terribly strong at the moment. But I have high hopes they will be improving it as time goes on. For anyone who wants to play one of the heavy-hitter board games on their iPad get this!
Good implementation of a great and classic board game. Crashes about 8-10 times per game on my iPad 2 which makes things quite annoying.
Brass is one of my all-time favorite games. But the AI in this implementation is poor.
Excellent implementation of an amazing board game. Brass experts may have to settle for optimising their scores against the fairly weak AI until the devs incorporate variable difficulty settings, but for everyone else this is a solid, polished and fun game.
This is an amazing board game. If you like economic strategy games, very few beat designs by Martin Wallace and this is one of his best. This conversion has a lot going for it. The interface and visuals are well presented and very rarely let you do anything you need to take back. Heres the downers: AI is absolutely dreadful. They focus completely on Cotton Mills and put themselves into a corner. Ive played games where most of the opponents are passing for both turns in several rounds!! You cant see how opponents have developed their stacks. This is critical when trying to anticipate moves especially regarding the shipyard. Minor gripe but end game is very abrupt and doesnt entertain you with animating through final scoring like it does at end of era 1. ultimately I hope this gets some more dev time