Reigns: Beyond

I am a little bit addicted to this game

I have always loved reigns, but this one is by far my favorite game. The music is well done, the mechanics are new and interesting. My only gripe is that it can be easy to get lost, but then again you can always find you way again. The characters are fun and the dialogue is well written, and the art and backgrounds make me very happy. Good work all around!(this game is why I bought apple arcade :))

Not done yet

So the reasons I am not giving this five stars YET, are because of a few reasons, which I will list. I am at a kind of standstill. I feel like I’m repeating many things, and not really progressing in the game. I’ve tried repeatedly got get to the Balrion things through the unknown, but after 80 CARDS I died and couldn’t get farther. The pirate fights and also the bar room seem repetitive and I almost always die at the end of the space fights. Also, many of the places I now visit have the same old gear, the same old bars (with the occasional cryptic message), and I don’t know how to get to ‘the pirate king’, or the planet Mara. Nor can I get a manager, get interviewed, or play a song to a space whale. Maybe I’m just a really bad player. But can someone PLESE tell me what to do? If someone takes the time to respond, I will change my rating faster than you can say ‘this door is not like the others and doesn’t open’.

Fun at first, but...

I had a lot of fun with this game at first, and I've thoroughly enjoyed playing this as well as the previous Reigns games. But the longer I've played, the more bugs I tended to encounter. Not anything terribly gamebreaking, but they're still a pain to deal with. The speakers bug has been addressed already. Sometimes I'll try to visit my passengers and be told that I have none, making me go through Section B and find the cabins to access them. I also cannot get the "Win a space fight" achievement, no matter how many Pirate, Section, or Conglomerate ships I defeat. By extension, I also can never receive the supposed bounty that's on some of the Pirate ships that Sala finds. Seeing the Doctor get stuck with having Ringer's eyes is hilariously creepy.

Best Reigns Experience Yet!

Absolutely love this game. I have beaten every reigns game before this one and I have to say this atmosphere is incredible. Beyond builds on everything that made the prior Reigns games great and adds heaps of new content and ideas into the mix. This game genuinely feels like an adventure almost akin to the GoT spin-off reigns game that came out. One of the main reasons to keep Apple Arcade and hopefully it sees a PC release like other Reigns games have.

Not for me

See a lot of reviews from Reigns fans and wanted to add a different perspective. The game is so close to being exactly what I want from a mobile game - simple mechanics, easily pausable, complex strategy. The one thing that gets me stuck - it’s a lot of world building packed into not a lot of context. The game is SO simple and the story SO deep, that it only takes a few minutes before you’re completely confused. It gets better if you stick with it, but the approach of introducing so many characters and concepts right away is extremely jarring.

Could be great

I love the other reigns games and was pretty excited for this one. It’s fun, too - when it works. I’ve reached Mara five separate times (which takes a lot of work) only to be killed by speakers I don’t own. In fact, I can’t play any venueswithout being killed by an object not in my inventory. Also, battles are just never ending. I counted two separate battles where the card count was over 60, and I’m fairly certain that’s not intentional. Since there is a battle basically between each planet, this is very tedious. The game is basically unplayable - I can’t even clear game data, I tried doing it twice. Too bad.

A very interesting adventure

Awesome space adventure. You get to make decisions and sometimes play mini games, story and text driven but sometimes action with simple controls. Cool music! This is a fun one to play and talk about with friends or show them. The longer I have it, the more I like Apple Arcade and the more unique content I get exposed to. I’ve played loads of adventure text based games but this feels fresh.

I love the reigns games

These games are bomb. After all these years, I finally have them all... however, this game, in my opinion, is the weirdest entry to the reigns franchise. It’s not a ruler, just a dude in charge of a space ship. It’s also super hard to die, which takes some of the fun out of it. Still legit, and great for any time of day. And it also doesn’t obliterate your battery, which is nice😂

Also stuck in a loop

I’ve shot like 50 missiles at the enemy in space fights and nothing happens. Eventually I’ll just die or give up. Either I’m stuck in a loop where the battles don’t end or the warships take 20 plus minutes to fight. Oddly enough I closed my game once and opened it up and won the fight pretty quickly so something glitchy is going on that resolves itself when the app is in the background...sometimes. Really wish this would get fixed because otherwise I am very much enjoying this game. Also please bring back the text dialogue with Sala on the black market, stumped there Lol.

Stuck in a loop

I hate giving this two stars, but I really enjoy the Reigns series and cannot find support for this specific game. I’m basically caught in a loop when I get pulled into a space battle. This has happened for three consecutive lives now. Regardless of what choices I make, the battle either loops back to the beginning or I die. I cannot progress. When I start a new life I’m attacked almost immediately, pulling me back in. It’s to the point where I don’t know if this can be fixed in an update, or if I’d have to delete my save and start over. As it is, I can’t play it in its current form.

Devolver and Nerial have revealed Reigns: Beyond, a new take on the Tinder-style game formula that's headed exclusively to Apple Arcade for...

Engadget Fri Oct 23 2020