Last week saw WWG release the latest update to Star Realms. This update introduced the Frontiers expansion (“Adds 45 new ships & bases and double ally abilities!”) to the game. Something I’d been looking forward to. Mainly because despite having the actual physical cards I’d not managed to get them to the table. I can’t remember when I last played the game in the real world.

When you look at the update details on the iOS App Store there is no warning that the update will wipe any existing games. Apparently on Android there is, and a warning was also pushed out as a message. Some will argue that there was a warning on Facebook and the games official blog. I’m going to assume on other social media also. But like many we had missed those warnings. Which is easy to do. In fact a lot people didn’t know an update was dropping until it appeared. I normally look at the apps update details in the App Store to see what has been changed (see image above). So it’s inexcusable that there was no such warning on the iOS update. Naturally I lost the majority of my ongoing games.

I am liking the new cards. And a lot of my current games (initially anyway) have been with just this expansion (all others switched off). Which is natural because players of the game want to play with the new cards. It’s true here as it is in any other card game.

However there is one annoying thing about some of the new cards. The graphic design of the icons that tell you the cards abilities such as attack, authority, or gold is awful and sticks out like a sore thumb. The basic problem is it’s too large, and looks odd when viewed against other cards. It comes across as childlike to me, and that they would be more at home in a version of the game aimed at young children or those with poor eyesight.

And now for the viewing pleasure of the handful of folks that watch these videos, here is a recent game using the Frontiers expansion.

How many games did you get wiped? What do you think of the new cards?