# Istanbul: Digital Edition

> Classic strategy board game

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1296756606](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1296756606)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1296756606`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Acram Digital
- **Category:** Board
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (455 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-04
- **First published:** 2018-07-30
- **Size:** 451 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/istanbul-digital-edition/id1296756606)
- **Website:** [https://istanbul.acram.eu](https://istanbul.acram.eu/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://acram.eu/privacy-policy/](https://acram.eu/privacy-policy/)

## Description

The official digital adaptation of Istanbul faithfully recreates the award-winning board game for digital play. Lead a single merchant and four assistants through the bazaar’s 16 locations, planning moves to collect goods, trade, and acquire rubies. The digital edition preserves the original rules while adding online and local multiplayer, AI opponents, replay of last moves, and cross-platform play.

Features include color-blind mode, 3 AI difficulties, presets or random boards, atmospheric music by Andreas Resch, multi-language support (English, German, Dutch, Polish, French, Korean, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Spanish), pass-and-play, iPhone X support, and over 70 achievements. It’s the official Istanbul experience on your device.

## Rankings

- #75,487 — Overall

## Review summary

Players praise the Istanbul digital edition for its faithful adaptation, fast and replayable gameplay, and strong AI, but repeatedly call out missing expansions and persistent online-play bugs—especially invite/matchmaking issues and a recurring 'sell any goods' card bug—as major drawbacks, along with occasional stability problems.

### Pros

- Faithful, high-quality digital adaptation of the Istanbul board game with good visuals and UI.
- Fast, varied, and highly replayable gameplay that plays much quicker than the physical board.
- Solid AI with challenging difficulty levels and smooth, well-implemented opponents.
- Well-designed app that delivers a convenient, enjoyable gaming experience with minimal setup.

### Cons

- Missing expansions from the board game (Mocha & Baksheesh, Letters & Seals), limiting available content.
- Online play suffers from glitches, matchmaking/invitation problems, and unreliability.
- Sell Any Goods card bug that duplicates or prevents playing other cards, breaking gameplay.
- General stability issues and bugs affecting gameplay (crashes, resource/exploitation bugs).

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