The Splendor App is a digital representation of the board game. It has solo challenges as well as a pass and play mode.

Splendor App Description:

In Splendor you must gather gem chips and use them to buy development cards. Each purchased development card gives you a permanent gem you may use when buying future development cards and 0-5 prestige points. The game ends at the end of the round when one player reaches 15 prestige points. The player with the most prestige points wins.

On your turn you may take two or three of five different colored gems tokens. You may either take three different colored gem tokens or two of the same color (if there are four or more in the supply). You may not end your turn with more than ten gem tokens. Extras are returned to the supply. Another option you have on your turn is to reserve a development card. You take the card and a yellow gem token. Yellow gem tokens are wild and you may never have more than three development cards reserved. Lastly you can choose to purchase a development card (including ones you previously reserved). Any gem tokens used to buy development cards are returned to the supply. After you buy card a new one is drawn.

You can gain the favor of nobles by having a certain number of purchased development cards of specific colors. These nobles get you 3 or 4 prestige points.

The Splendor App lets you play against three friends in pass and play mode or three AI opponents in solo mode. The AI has different behaviors that you can set and determines how they play the game.

The app also has a challenges mode for solo play. In it some of the base rules might change or you might need to reach a certain number of prestige points in a certain number or turns.

There are also achievements you can earn for playing different types of games or meeting different win conditions. For example, winning a four player game against the AI with 5 more points than the second place finisher.

Quick Review of the Splendor App:

The Splendor App is pretty splendid. It looks great, has an intuitive interface and a fun solo mode. You can learn the game in five minutes from the app and is very accessible.

The app mimics the board game pretty much exactly and even has a few advancements like keeping track of each player’s prestige points without having to add up their purchased cards. The challenge mode is tough and adds some fun new ways to play the game.

There is currently no asynchronous play, but that is in the works and will be added at a later date at no cost.

If you enjoy the Splendor board game you should buy the digital version for your iOS or Android device.