Yomi App Reviews

Anyone who gets frustrated by people buying their way to victory in CCGs needs to play this. The price of entry gets you every character you need and the balance of this game is without equal: any character has a good chance of beating every character. Yomi is a brilliant simulacrum of fighting games, making the Rock Paper Scissors guessing games into clear strategic choices that are available to everyone.

Good game, but the iPad controls are terrible. The onscreen buttons for flipping a card, skipping to the next card, and selecting a card are unpredictable and often perform the wrong function. This is especially frustrating when you mean to flip a card and end up playing it instead. Terrible.

Really great job on this. Its a darn fun game, pretty easy to get, difficult to master and looks great.

Yomi is a phenomenal card game of strategy and tactics. Hand management, reading your opponent, and playing a bit of poker make this game unique and interesting. Similar to an arcade fighter, you will need to predict your opponents next move, counter, and execute large combos to win. This is tense, exciting, and most importantly fun. The app for Yomi has a host of features and game modes from replays to online matches to statistics. There are 20 decks to dive into, which if you were to purchase the physical version would cost upwards of $200! This digital version may be more costly than other apps on the marketplace, but you will be hard-pressed to find a game that is as well-balanced and full of content as Yomi is. At the end of the day, Ive sunk countless hours into Yomi in both its physical and digital renditions, and it never ceases to entertain me. I highly recommend this to anyone even remotely interested.

How this game is not one of the most popular games on iOS is mystifying. You get 10 decks for the ten dollars the game costs. That gives you a nice variety of characters and infinite replay-ability. The actual game play is fast, unique and very satisfying to play. A win feels like a win and not dumb luck. Go to YouTube and watch the video by Tom Vassel reviewing the game. That is what convinced me to make the purchase and I cant tell you how happy I am that I did. As soon as I am more comfortable with basic set of characters I will be buying the expansion set with ten additional characters / decks. Do yourself a favor and buy a ten dollar game you will still enjoy long after you have kicked ten one dollar games to the curb.

The game is great, but occasionally the login screen loses my user info or I cant continue a match because I cant tap pass. The game is still good enough to buy the hardcopy version, because the mechanics are very tight and the flow is great.

Sf4 player here. I love this take on it Really brilliant!

The game is solid, but either no one is on or there is a bug from hell on iOS. 9.99 is a lot of cheddar for an iOS game. Its too bad the multiplayer is a desert. Save your money, until this is fixed. I will update if thats the case.

Yeah, awesome! Buy the actual cards as well, they are even more fun

This game made a fan out of me. Coming from a hearthstone addict.

This has all the hallmarks of a great game: easy to learn, difficult to master. On the surface it looks like its some kind of Rock, Paper, Scissors game, but play it for a few hours and learn that it is such a deep game. How else can the best players rack up 80% win rates? If you like well designed games, put some time in to learn this great design!

Perfect card game. Takes the core of what makes trading card games fun, minus the wallet draining "trading" part. Worth your time for the modest one-time fee.

Pricey for an IOS game, but cheaper than the physical version and I play it way more than console games I spend $50-60 on. Great community, excellent well balanced characters with great themes... I could go on, but buy it.

Sirlin knows games. Sirlin knows balance. His iteration has crafted one of the finest card games on the market, with an amazing, original theme. "Yomi", or "reading", takes the age old game of Rock-Paper-Scissors and turns it into a riveting rendition of a 2D fighting game, without needing dexterity or substantial memorization. The app is a smooth and gorgeous translation of the card game. Highly recommended. Well worth the app price.

Yomi is a card game by David Sirlin. He specializes in creating games with asymmetrical balance. His games are all set in the same world where battle games (and games about the battle games) are the norm. Yomi has a different deck of cards for each character. The characters all have individual abilities. The basis of the game is a rock/paper/scissors mechanic of Attack/Throw/Block-Dodge. The cards are set against a standard deck of playing cards with numbered cards 2-10, the face cards, aces, and Jokers. Most of the cards have two different actions depending on which end of the card is at the top. So, a card may have an Attack action on one end and a Dodge Action on the other. The two players in the game play their combat cards facedown and are revealed simultaneously. Each character, in addition to having some innate abilities, also has different abilities on some of the cards in addition to the normal combat actions of the cards. Its a fighting game where you are trying to reduce your opponent to a K.O. The crux of Yomi is making your best guess of what type of card your opponent is going to play each turn in the hopes of playing one that will beat it. The base game has 10 different characters, and there is an in-app purchase option for 10 additional characters. There are also higher powered versions of each character which can be purchased or unlocked through gameplay. Since the game is primarily about understanding your opponents play style, playing online against other players is the standard game. You can also play matches against an easy or challenging AI to practice and to unlock the more powerful EX versions of the characters.

Great game but I think the latest patch is causing problems; my cards are showing up with the wrong artwork on them.

Its worth the ten bucks buying the game

I have been searching for a deep game I could really dive into and learn, and Yomi is more than a perfect fit. It is super fun learning the different characters, and it totally feels like a 2D fighter in board game form. I anticipate playing this for a long time, and hope for lots of people to meet up with online!

Yomi is an exceptional "fighting game in card game form." It is a game of mastery and mind games. What initially looks like paper, rock, scissors with cards is cleverly a game rich with character/deck strategies, valuation decisions, and yes--reading your opponent. And like most great competitive games, there is a strategic opening, middle game, and endgame in Yomi. Yomi is the game I play the most on iOS. Practicing vs the AI is a very fun, "when I find a little time," activity. The online play is cross-platform as you can play against players from iOS, Steam, and web browsers. As of version 1.13 the game is running perfectly on my iPad Air 2 and iPhone 5S, both running iOS 8.4. Yes, it looks great and is playable on the 5S screen. Skills rewarded: * Hand management (building your big win condition and maintaining a good hand of cards) * Valuation (understanding the strength of your options, what is usable/inefficient/tradeable/too good) * Reading or Evaluating Your Opponent (understanding the soundness of their plays, deducing their likely hand, observing their risk/reward preference and influencers) * Strategic knowledge and experience. Learning the game. If you want to quickly improve in this game, I recommend going to fantasystrike.com Yomi captures the forced mixup situations in many fighting games as well as the rhythm of more old school fighters like Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, and King of Fighters. The hand management is almost like Super Meter management in such games too as you build your big winning strike and try to time that big strike against your opponent. This game is very skill rewarding and worthy of mastering, even if only one character :)

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