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Smash Up
Developer Nomad Games
Smash Up is the digital adaptation of the award-winning (and totally awesome) card game. Smash together two factions, and destroy your opponent with a wild and wacky combination of pirates, nerds, zombies, wizards and more! From the Steam store page
252 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 1, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
114 positive · 77 negative
95% range 53–66%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 114 | 77 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 10 | 2 | 48 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
141 of 223 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
60% recommend · 116 yes, 77 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 193 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (167 of 271 positive).
Players appreciate the faithful adaptation of the physical card game. [1][2][3] Many reviewers criticize the clunky user interface and frequent bugs. [4][5][6] Some players note low online population and reliance on AI opponents. [7][4][8]
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Smash Up is a fantastic card game for up to four players. The basic rules are very simple. And as long as you have at least one person who knows what's going on, the game is very easy to follow. Smash Up, the digital game, however, is a mess. It's still Smash Up. It's still kind of fun if you REALLY, REALLY like Smash Up, but the UI and the way you interact with the cards is horrendous. It's a mess. It's clunky. …
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While I am a big fan of the game Smash-Up, their digital game is still broken. Even after this last update it still does not properly trace actions and card values. Its no fun playing if you play action cards, and the game doesn't care to actually trigger their effects. Or when you have a minion at a base that is immune to enemy cards, and when the AI plays a card against it, the game still acts like the the enemy …
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[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: IndieGems if you like and want to see more reviews like this one. Smash Up: Conquer the bases with your factions is an interesting board game that has a lot of variability in gameplay due to the different cards that are being used all of the time. Each game starts with each playing drafting two different factions (each 20 cards) …
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I love this game! Plays like the actualy boardgame. The glitches mentioned by the previous people seemed to have been fixed. They just need to add more of the expansion packs please
- [3]
Smash Up is a deck building card game of merging two factions into one, creating tons of different synergy and strategies. Having own both the physical board game and the Steam version, here is my take on it. If you enjoy the Physical Board Game, this version will be a good alternative. However there are some caveats to take note. 1. The UI takes getting used to. If this is your first time playing this game, I would …
Summarised from 34 of the 245 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
60% of the 193 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Smash Up. The complaint that keeps coming up: clunky and confusing user interface. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
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60 of 252 · most liked firstSmash Up is a fantastic card game for up to four players. The basic rules are very simple. And as long as you have at least one person who knows what's going on, the game is very easy to follow. Smash Up, the digital game, however, is a mess. It's still Smash Up. It's still kind of fun if you REALLY, REALLY like Smash Up, but the UI and the way you interact with the cards is horrendous. It's a mess. It's clunky. It's hard to follow. And, with what little experience I had with this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More throwback art for Spooky Season! Once upon a time I painted the entire werewolf faction for a game called Smash Up: Monster Smash. These illustrations are about 10 years old now and showing their age a bit, but it was a fun gig at the time. Digital 2014
neutral · AI labelView post →Recommend once issues are fixed: I love Smash Up, I own the physical game and a couple of the expansions. It is one off my favorite games to play. So, you understand why I was excited when this came out. But so far, I'm kind of disappointed. I've only tested it out a few times (versus the bot) and already have come across issues where some cards don't play right, or do something they shouldn't have done. For instance, in the Trickster faction, there is a card that prevents an opponent from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"ME NO LIKE WAHMEN AND BLACKS IN GAME ME SMASH UP THING TO GET THEM OUT"
neutral · AI labelView post →I own the game irl with ALL dlc's including limited sheep. Besides the user interface experience being so bad you need a minute to realise what just had happened in the past round, it has many .. many more issues. For starters, the popularity being so low, makes it so multiplayer-online is not an option. Which forces you to play against bots. And boy oh boy those artificially intelligent creatures just spam minions without having the ability to do so. They can just play all of their hand…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: IndieGems if you like and want to see more reviews like this one. Smash Up: Conquer the bases with your factions is an interesting board game that has a lot of variability in gameplay due to the different cards that are being used all of the time. Each game starts with each playing drafting two different factions (each 20 cards) in order to make up the 40 card deck that is then used for the game. There…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →17 years ago today, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up was originally released on PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii in NA. It was developed by Game Arts and published by Ubisoft.
neutral · AI labelView post →16 years ago today, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up was released on the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 2 in EU. It was developed by Game Arts and published by Ubisoft.
neutral · AI labelView post →17 years ago today, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up was released on the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 2 in the EU. It was developed by Game Arts and published by Ubisoft.
neutral · AI labelView post →While I am a big fan of the game Smash-Up, their digital game is still broken. Even after this last update it still does not properly trace actions and card values. Its no fun playing if you play action cards, and the game doesn't care to actually trigger their effects. Or when you have a minion at a base that is immune to enemy cards, and when the AI plays a card against it, the game still acts like the the enemy card took effect and you score no points because of it. If they can get their act…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an Orctober/Halloween Mash-Up Smash-Up! Trying out the WFB5th Ed campaign rules with Orcs and Goblins vs Undead. First game - Treasure Hunt! Krell and a diminished Kemmler take on a Black Orc Warboss with a grudge.
neutral · AI labelView post →#boardgame #promosky Just because I'm in the mood now Concept The Blockbuster Game Telestrations Smash Up Star Flux Munchkin Carcassonne One Night Ultimate Werewolf Million Dollars But Phase 10 Not all of these actually involve boards, but I'm not going to split hairs here
neutral · AI labelView post →Having a lot of fun playing this. And it's looking pretty sweet for EA. Looking forward to seeing it develop.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game worked for a bit and was fun but soon it just became unplayable and just constantly crashes. Reading reviews it's not a new thing and seems the developers just don't care.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Same as the card game version, love it! Can't wait for game to move out of early access.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With the possible exception of the acid trip construction that was Mouse Trap or perhaps the inevitable fatalities-in-waiting of the Smash-Up Derby cars, the crowning achievement of childhood toy ingenuity just might have been the Pop-O-Matic Bubble! What was your fave childhood game?
neutral · AI labelView post →Smash Up: The only game where Ninjas, Aliens, Zombies, and Kittens can team up—and somehow still lose to Grandmas. #ShuffleBuilding #TabletopChaos
positive · AI labelView post →Ah midnight Smash Up, the worst decision to make on game night, but one that calls to me.
negative · AI labelView post →Good fun for an early access title. Considering this is an unfinished release (the whole point of early access is to try before the development has gone gold!) I am happy with what is on show. Considering also the game is free to play, the devs are allowing anyone to try it out and so they will get no complaints from me. Things to note: Would be good to have the options menu right at the start screen. Ability to change/mute audio right at the start screen. When you return to a "saved game"…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Naming games is hard. Sometimes the name just lands. Smash Up. Love Letter. Other times you go through 500 ideas and still don’t feel like you have found the one that is worthy of the game you created. The game is great. The team believes in it. But until the name clicks, it's not finished.
neutral · AI labelView post →Working on the Smash-Up rulebook this week Name a game you love, but where the rulebook made falling in love a little harder. 🎲✂️ #DingDing #boardgames Designers: bonus points for tips on getting better at this underrated skill
neutral · AI labelView post →The game isn't new, and the developers had the time to fix the playing experience: however, they choose not to do so.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nephew, completely randomly during a game of Smash Up: what if the Bible is just fan fiction?
neutral · AI labelView post →Anna Cale joins me for a chat about Sport Billy, Silly Games by Lindy Layton, Trev And Simon's Stupid Video, Return To Eden, Joni Jones, The Incredible Hulk Smash-Up Action Game, Diana Dors' TV-am diet slot and more... timworthington.org/2021/03/29/l...
neutral · AI labelView post →Smash Up is an excellent card game, and the digital version is fun, but imperfect. The bot AI strikes a nice balance between competence and efficiency, leading to challenging but not impossible games without the frustrating wait times for AI pondering that some other games suffer from. The UI design prioritizes streamlined gameplay over clarity, so it takes some getting used to to understand what's going on. It also is not a 100% bug-free game. Both of these issues are manageable, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game! Plays like the actualy boardgame. The glitches mentioned by the previous people seemed to have been fixed. They just need to add more of the expansion packs please
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've bought every physical expansion bar Big in Japan which isn't released here. I've been waiting ages for this to come out, and when it does it peaks at 15 daily users, and because of my timeone when I try and play there is noone online. When I do find a match, half the time the game dumps me out before the end of game, and my stats have been wiped twice. I didn't buy this game to play against an AI, I bought it because there are very few SU players near me. Such a waste of money. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This PROCEED button nonsense needs to go away
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the physical Card game I own every expansion except pretty pretty. Right now the game is a bit clunky. I understand it's early access (Beta) but scoring should be resolved faster. There still seems to be an issue with bases that allow you to move your minions to another base once you score a base that is so prevelant in factions like pirates and others. If you like the physical game it's nice to have an options to play against an AI opponent who is really aggressive in taking bases.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game's audio starts up VERY LOUD! This is worth trying for free, but I wouldn't spend any money on it. I have never played the physical version of Smash Up, but the tutorial did an OK job of teaching me the absolute basics of how the game works. (Smash Up isn't rocket science... the whole premise is "smashing" two different decks together, for people who are too dumb to do real deck-building, such as young children who would get absolutely CRUSHED by their parents at Dominion and start crying…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Big fan of the card game, here's my 0,02$: DO NOT view this game as F2P. The F2P part of the game is lackluster, so as for the price of the game, everyone should view it as whatever your region is charging for the starter pack, which is a fair price TBH. However, is the game worth the 9€? Considering Smashup in a box costs around 25-30€, that seems like a really fair deal! For me, the UI is a dealbreaker for now, but we'll have to see and wait if it gets modified. I don't really like the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up is a platform fighter that has several playable characters from the TMNT series, released for the franchise's 25th anniversary celebration. Several game modes such as Smash-Up, Survival, Swap-Out, Mission Mode, etc. can be played.
neutral · AI labelView post →16 years ago today, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up was originally released on PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii in NA. It was developed by Game Arts and published by Ubisoft.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Victini! A Mystery Gift event let you catch a Victini when you got to Castelia City, making it the first Mythical Pokémon I ever used in a playthrough! I even made a custom Victini faction for the game Smash Up back in the day, themed around snatching victory from the jaws of defeat! #Pokemon
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with 1 TTRPG, 1 book, 1 board game, 1 movie, and 1 TV show TTRPG: Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined Book: Lord of Emperors (but with an honorable mention for Gideon the Ninth) Board Game: Smash-Up Movie: Mary and Max TV Show: Scrubs
neutral · AI labelView post →Smash Up is a deck building card game of merging two factions into one, creating tons of different synergy and strategies. Having own both the physical board game and the Steam version, here is my take on it. If you enjoy the Physical Board Game, this version will be a good alternative. However there are some caveats to take note. 1. The UI takes getting used to. If this is your first time playing this game, I would recommend watching some tutorial videos of how the actual board game plays on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Smash Up's aight as a board game. The card effects mean it's really hard to plan a long term strategy without just getting boned by random card effects, resulting in gameplay that's less strategic and more just two players taking turns telling each other to go ♥♥♥♥ themselves. Where this goes horribly ary is the quality of this PC porting of the rules. The UI is extremely clunky, pausing gameplay at arbitrary points, hypothetically waiting for players to respond to in-game actions, but when…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Smash up is a really fun card game. That said the Digital one not so much. The setup is werid, you can't get the factions for free if you own the physical copy and the game is buggy. I'll stick with the cards for now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You guys have done a great job putting this together. I'm really looking forward to more and more expansions being added in the near future. Don't stop! :D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're a fan of the physical game, sure, buy it. If you're not a fan of the physical game or haven't heard of it and are just looking for a fun card game, look elsewhere. The game is by Nomad Games who have made Talisman: Digital Edition and Talisman: The Horus Heresy. If you've played either game, you'll know that having a functional UI that makes any sense is not one of their strong points. Unfortunately that carries over to this game. Turn phases often don't make any sense and you'll…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is great but UI needs to be improve! Tutorial is too long and too many texts to read
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Give it time it's Early Access
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like Smash Up, this is great for trying out new combinations. It'd be nice if there were more people playing it online, but I can't really hold that against the developer. Hopefully the player base will slowly grow.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the boaard game I have all of the expansions, but the interface on this game makes it just unplayable to me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A solid digital start to one of my favorite tabletop games! This game will get better as they add more content, but the bones here are solid and there's a strong plan to improve it over time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →<<This is an early alpha game with DLC?>> Without paying for DLC there are only 3 deck types to choose from so there are no exclusive factions per player. The UI is terrible. Buttons fly in and out and bob up and down. I can't tell what pressing the Continue button does...when playing an interrupt action the game background changes to your colour but I can't tell whose turn it is. Then when it came to my turn after several plays in I was no longer able to play my own minions. The only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun game, looking forward to the extra factions coming soon. This game tends to crash frequently but it is early access so although it can get annoying, it doesn't hinder it enough for me to completely hate the game. Plus, if you are doing a local game, it will save it even if it crashed (which is really nice).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The interface is pretty good. Looking forward to the rest of the factions being released.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tonight’s board game night at the library! Gonna bring Smash Up with me! One of my favorite games!
positive · AI labelView post →Congratulations on your attempt to turn Magic into Smash Up, a pretty terrible game. Between next years 7 sets, 4 of which are UB and an awful line up of Secret Lairs are you just trying to drive away existing players and replace with waves of short term players who are fans of some random thing
negative · AI labelView post →Smash-Up is once again the most interesting game in the world. Check out thew new stuff in the Fun Factory. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ald...
neutral · AI labelView post →5/4/25 Smash Up This is a silly fighting card game. Players choose two factions to be their deck. You could have leprechauns and zombies or any other silly combination. Use your minions to reach the number goal of the base. Score for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place for presence. #Boardgame.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anna Cale joins me for a chat about Sport Billy, Silly Games by Lindy Layton, Trev And Simon's Stupid Video, Return To Eden, Joni Jones, The Incredible Hulk Smash-Up Action Game, Diana Dors' TV-am diet slot and more... timworthington.org/2021/03/29/l...
neutral · AI labelView post →*been playing a lot of smash up recently* > My brain: Robots are cool, I would love a miniature of the nukebot > AEG SHOULD MAKE A SMASH UP MINIATURES GAME!!! #cardgame #miniatures
positive · AI labelView post →When we play Smash Up, I'm not allowed to combine Zombies and Aliens. Aliens have a card that allows you to earn victory points without scoring them from bases, and Zombies allow you to retrieve cards from your graveyard pile. Won a whole game without bases, and was never allowed to again 😅
positive · AI labelView post →I recently picked up a game that had been on my list for a long while, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up for the Wii. With a name like that, it's what you'd expect: Smash Bros. with Turtles. But is it any more than that? Read my full review! tinyurl.com/fluidturtles
neutral · AI labelView post →Super buggy. Glad they made a digital version but hard to even finish 1 game without it crashing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I own the board game as well and I love it. You can play against the computer, pass n play, or online. I enjoy playing with family and friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really excellent adaptation of the card game, but is missing a whole lot of expansions and therefore a lot of replayability. Please add new factions, Giants, and more achievements for them!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Utterly ♥♥♥♥♥♥. The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ developers haven't done ♥♥♥♥ since 2016. I can't wait for this pile of ♥♥♥♥ to get the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boot from steam.
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