Black Plague Companion

Love this aid! Withholding a star for the UX gaps that frustrated this veteran player: Zombie turn is next to absent. I found that it simply wasn’t at all managed. Understandably, it’s a displaced experience as the game is taking place “off camera” if you will. However, it should be a guided mode in-app, not simply a marque wiping across the screen. Pause and present Attacks with the heroes arrayed for resolution selection. Done, advance to Move. Done, advance to Zombie Deck. Done, advance to next player turns. Equipment and Zombie decks should have visible discard piles to provide some indication of progress though the deck, and the last ten, five, or three cards slightly “open” or “fanned” to visualized the end of the deck is approaching. Borrow ideas from Forgotten Island or any solitaire game on the app store. Trade should have a drop icon to open the hero/player drawer. Defence or Armor rolls felt unpolished, but maybe just needs an introduction screen somewhere. Well done still! I’ll be bringing this to games a lot! Looking forward to improvements!

I really love this app. It makes the game run smoothly when you don’t have to shuffle all the cards or fiddle with all the dashboard organization. The game app takes care of it all for you. Leaving much more space on the table for zombies and other miniatures. Being able to join multiple apps together is brilliant and very easy to do. I would love to see them develop apps like this for other games, especially Massive Darkness! (OMG please!!) Are there improvements that could be made? Sure. And hopefully they’ll continue to update this app going forward. I’d love to be able to fine tune what expansions are in play (more so than it is now), but that’s a minor thing. A+++ on this one CMON (and whoever developed this app).

We LOVE the companion app. It makes the game run much smoother and quicker. The card draws for equipment and zombies are nice too, helps with more random draws if you shuffle bad. The instructions need to be update, we had no idea you could do rolls from each weapon, nor the armor and door bust rolls. The weapon rolls are really helpful when you have a high level character with a bunch of skills that add to dice rolls and what not - it auto calculates everything and lets you know if you hit or not. One other thing I wish the app had was colors for your miniatures. If you're playing with more than one character, without the color pegs it can get confusing who is who on the board.

I’d say this is a near perfect companion app. We had some issues when one survivors phone died and player controlled characters got randomly assigned to other players. We weren’t able to return control to the correct players. Even still, it was easy enough to restart and get everything back to where we had it quickly. The only other thing I’m hoping for is an update for Zombicide: Green Horde and it’s expansions to be added to the app. Maybe it can be updated after they’ve fulfilled the Kickstarters this summer?

I really like using the app. Currently I am using it for Black Plague and Wulfsburg. I like it for keeping up with the next player, player stats and drawing the zombie cards. It makes keeping track of everything much easier. We enjoy drawing the equipment cards separately so haven’t used that feature yet. Only disappointment is that I just ordered the Friends & Foe expansion and the app doesn’t support it even though the expansion is supposed to work with Black Plague, Green Horde or both. Please update the app as I don’t want to stop buying expansions....