Go Game - BadukPop

Max Brass

2 years ago

This is a great game! Many things to offer. I have years of experience playing go and this app offers plenty of challenge (in terms of AI opponents) Not only that, but I can play with my friends! Very easy to download and share friend codes to start a match. Thousands of tsumego puzzles, and you are able to unlock tesuji and endgame problems as well. I love this app and recommend it. All of my phones have had this app on it . And I am speaking of exclusively using the free version. Thank U.

A Google user

5 years ago

Excellent app for practicing local problems/puzzles/"tsumego" for the game of Go (aka Baduk). The app allows one to select a specific strength range, each problem needs to be solved in a certain time (pretty quickly) which makes for very good training for real games. This is by far the best Go/Baduk problems app!

Cary Austin

4 years ago

More detail would be useful, as would the ability to roll back turns against the AI given that this seems to be targeted at beginners. I made it to the first AI practice stage and wasn't actually sure how the game ended or was scored until I looked it up outside of the app. The ability to roll back turns vs the AI would be useful for beginners to explore how the different moves would impact the game or correct a misplay you didn't catch earlier.

Hans Barkei

2 years ago

As a beginner, it's hard to follow the logic puzzles since you're expected to see further ahead than it lets you play. Why did I get this puzzle wrong? I don't know, it didn't let me play it out to see why I failed. I got it right this time? Too bad I can't learn why since we've moved on to the next puzzle already. Also the AI's resign too quickly. Maybe better players would consider the game over, but I want to play it out till my position is secure, not just staked out. Friend v friend is good

Eddie B

1 year ago

I downloaded this for the puzzles and, while the puzzles currently in the app are a good start, I was disappointed that it didn't cover more shapes and strategies. As a suggestion for the developers, it would be amazing if you could add some ladder puzzles as well (how to make them and identifying if a given ladder will be successful or not). The puzzles already focus a lot on setting up atari, and ladders would fit into that as well.

Carlin Kersch

2 years ago

I tried this out as a tsumego app as an intermediate player, and found it to be a bit lacking. For me, the animation and music were a bit distracting, and the number of puzzles in a study and inability to review mistakes without a subscription were minuses compared to other similar apps like 101weiqi. I want to sit down and do lots of puzzles with review, which I can do for free elsewhere. It's nice to have a good, polished Go app in English, but I don't think this is quite there, yet.

Mathieu Jobin

2 years ago

I didn't like it at first but kept playing anyhow. And i am starting to enjoy several things about it. I am not quite ready to pay a subscription for it. I'd rather pay one-time purchase. But with SmartGo that was renamed and i lost my old purchase i can see how it might not change much in the end. Maybe something less than 50$/year? It's totally usable for free actually. And i find the tickets that takes an hour to recharge useful for my pace. Failing the problems after two tries is good too.

Jesse Cooper

4 years ago

Definitely great to get you started... I just think it's such a complicated game that there needs to be a beginner mode with AI walking you through a game, explaining it along the way. Overall I think they do a great job explaining moves and things... I just think it needs to be done during a game to truly understand them. I also only have the free version so maybe it's in the paid.

Steven Hearn

3 years ago

It's helping me learn some beginner strategies. My biggest compliant is that after doing about an hour of the tutorial puzzles, I still cannot beat the easy level ai opponent after about 10 matches...like not even close. I dunno if I am just not understanding the game but it's feeling like an unfair challenge that I'll never get past, and I have to wait another day to practice against ai again. I also wish the app could tell me where I'm messing up, because I have no idea.

CryptoSkywalker

3 years ago

Best free one I've found. I wish you could replay moves midgame to get a better look at the mistakes, but you can review them when the game is over. It helps if you understand the basic rules, otherwise you'd be a bit confused. The App could do a better job with hints and such for beginners, but overall it's a good free app to play Go against the computer or Online.

W (wstutzman)

4 years ago

Cool features, like the AI have specific strategies and its easy to learn with them. Biggest issue is that a full sized match takes all of your tickets and you have to wait for them to regenerate before you can do anything else, unless you pay $7/month. The microtransactions are also ridiculous if you're someone who buys ingame items. Some of the avatars are $20!! Hints and things will run you a couple dollars. I don't buy that stuff, and the app works well, it just all feels like a cash grab.

M

4 years ago

a nice training and practice app. scaled AI for playing. you can also play with random people or friends. you can play free with tickets that you get over time but you can max have three at a time. the paid version has unlimited play but it is a subscription and it is WAY too expensive (closer to 100 dollars a year). the developers would make way more money in the US if it was a one time $5 cost.

DeVante Spear

4 years ago

Really good app if you pay for premium, not a lot of long term value otherwise. Especially if you're a beginner. You're forced into a time limit that doesn't give you much time to think about moves and have to pay to increase the time. You're also unable to play against an AI more than a few times per day unless you pay, again the exact opposite of what beginners need.

Rogue Scholar

1 year ago

Good for experienced players or players better than novices, but for beginner's who've never played before, the first AI is way too hard. It capitalizes whenever I make mistakes and seems to create strategies that are long winded. So when you feel as if you've finally gotten close to beating it, it makes one move that captures 16 pieces, leaving you back in the dust. I'd understand if it was a rare moment for the AI, but this happens every game. It never tells you what you did wrong. Not good.

Pablo McFluffington

1 year ago

When trying to play online, it only gives two ways to login, Google account or Facebook account. Whent trying to login using my Facebook account, the app freezes and I'm unable to proceed further. Edit: Apologies, somehow I failed to realize I could change the AI opponent to a harder one. Maybe adding a strength next to the name when starting a match might help make this more apparent. That said, I am kind of sad I didn't catch that myself first. Thanks for informing me of it though developer!

Alexander Jenkins

10 months ago

Has some great functionality. They do limit play time in the free version, but you still get a lot of play and it's understandable given the hosting demands. The training exercises are helpful. I'd love to see a feature where you can play yourself to test general ideas basically simulating having a physical board in front of you.

Rong Yu Kuo

10 months ago

Edited: it ends up there is no bug but my mistake. The support team respond to my problem pretty fast (within 15 mins), and is currently investigating my issue. For unknown reasons the puzzles I unlocked with study keys do not go into permanent collection anymore after I unlocked around 18 puzzles. So I wasted my study keys on puzzles that I cannot go back to review in future. Otherwise, the lessons are a good start for go beginner, and you have variety of different levels of AI to practice.