Author Topic: Onirim (Read 4495 times)

Decar · « **on:** April 10, 2017, 09:15:47 AM »

Lots of people on the forum know about Onirim,

Just wanted to share that it's now available on the Andorid Play Store and the iTunes. Best 99p app-ever!

Hopefully I'll get chance to write about it one day!

Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3249.0

jungleboy · « **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2017, 03:15:38 AM »

I saw that and I'll probably get it. At that price it definitely looks like it'll be worth it, even without expansions. Not having to shuffle sounds like a huge bonus too, because I'm a bit of a rubbish shuffler and there's a lot of shuffling in the game. But I avoid app/online versions of games in general since that defeats a large part of the purpose of board games for me.

My physical copy of Onirim is still in shrink wrap as I was 'saving' it for a longer trip later this year. Now I might just get the app and bring a different game instead. Decisions, decisions...

Decar · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2017, 03:22:47 AM »

It plays extremely quickly, the look and feel is spot on; I even like the background music (which you can turn off). For 99p it's a bargain!

jungleboy · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2017, 11:43:19 PM »

OK, I caved!

Decar · « **Reply #4 on:** April 16, 2017, 01:25:41 AM »

Best cave in ever....and cheaper than my grimm forest cave in

Also: well done getting onto the top poster's leaderboard!

mPony · « **Reply #5 on:** April 16, 2017, 09:48:04 AM »

I bought it on release day and was very impressed. Great little game, well worth the purchase.

jungleboy · « **Reply #6 on:** April 16, 2017, 11:15:11 AM »

I'm super impressed with it too. It's already my favourite of the Oniverse series, but man, it's going to be hard to play the physical game with all the shuffling to use the expansions after using the app.

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Decar · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2017, 03:36:33 AM »

I knew it would port onto phones and mobile devices really well! The short-play time makes it ideal for a quick break. About 2-years ago I borrowed someone's rough implementation and assets to finish it off to make it playable:

I already had a head start

jungleboy · « **Reply #8 on:** April 22, 2017, 03:26:37 PM »

Sometimes this game is nice to you

Decar · « **Reply #9 on:** April 22, 2017, 04:03:15 PM »

sometimes it isnt:

jungleboy · « **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2017, 06:38:57 AM »

I’ve had a lot of time on my hands recently and have become pretty addicted to playing Onirim.

Early on, I had a win rate of about 25-30%. Then I gradually got better and my win rate slowly began to increase. By the time I had played 125 games, my win rate had risen to 40%.

The game was getting easier and easier and I was now winning most games I played. Even so, it wasn’t easy getting that percentage up, given my slow start. It took me 59 more games (with 33 wins) to get my overall percentage over 45% for the first time.

I then set myself a goal of reaching an overall 50% success rate. Last night, unable to sleep (ironically, given the theme of the game), I played a lot of games at some ungodly hour and I did it! To get from 45% to 50% took me 72 more games (with 45 wins).

I’m now going to ‘retire’ from the app, because the base game is pretty easy for me now. After winning 40% of my first 125 games, I won 59.5% of my 131 games since. I have the physical game, and it will suck having to shuffle the deck all the time, but I need the seven expansions to add more variety and a new challenge to the game. Still, 99 cents well spent!

Meanwhile, here are some screenshots from various games showing some curiosities.

1. My five-card hand consisting entirely of keys. Keys are the key (as you might expect) to winning the game, but having five at one time is not helpful.

2. Three only three brown keys in the game being the next three cards in the deck (they were naturally the first three of the five revealed cards here; I did not manipulate them). Someone smarter can me could work out the long odds of this happening.

3. With five doors already opened and 48 cards left in the deck, not a single nightmare card had come out yet. Needless to say, this was a pretty easy victory.

4. Discarding a key at the outset of the game to see the next five cards in the deck and turning up one nightmare and four of the eight doors in the deck.

5. With a hand full of red cards already, these weren't exactly the cards I was hoping to see when I discarded a key!