When comparing Star Realms vs Wordbase, the Slant community recommends Star Realms for most people. In the question“What are the best asynchronous online multiplayer games on Android?” Star Realms is ranked 2nd while Wordbase is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Star Realms is:
Asynchronous online play allows for the player to get matched up against a friend or random opponent.
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Pros
Pro Asynchronous online play
Asynchronous online play allows for the player to get matched up against a friend or random opponent.
Pro Bases
Bases are permanent cards on the playing field that each player needs to try and destroy but giving that there is a choice each turn to hit a base or the players ships, it becomes a juggling act of what takes priority to destroy.
Pro Unpredictable
There is no way for the player to know what will be in their hand or what they will eventually be able to purchase, making for every game being unpredictable.
Pro Pass and play multiplayer on a single device
Players can play a multiplayer game locally using a single device by passing the device between the two players for each ones turn. This makes for an easy way to duel when only one device is around.
Pro Single player mode
There is an included single player mode where the player faces off against the CPU.
Pro Strategic word based gameplay
Wordbase plays more like a game of chess than a conventional word game. With each player having a base at each end of the board, the goal is to get to the other side first with words on the board. Thought the most interesting part is that players can cut off the others line of words by intersecting them which results in cutting off the players progress above the intersection..
Pro Free to try with a single in app purchase for the full game
Wordbase is free to download and play but does include a solitary in app purchase of $2.99 to receive the full content of the game.
Pro Original take on word based gaming
Unlike most word based mobile games Wordbase is not a clone of someone else's game mechanics.
Cons
Con Design is lacking
More thought, design and production value could have been added to the game to give it a better polished feel, sadly it is not the case as most aspects pass as just serviceable.
Con In game dictionary is hit or miss
Wordbase could use a better dictionary as many words that exist the game does not allow to be played and some word it allows to be played are not real words.