Fort Sumter: Secession Crisis

Name: Fort Sumter: Secession Crisis
Price: 4.99 USD
Rating: 4.4 (35 reviews)
Author: Playdek, Inc.

By: Playdek, Inc. App

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Overview

Version:

1.0.7 (77)

Last updated: 2026-07-29

Ranking

#203,261 ▼ 127

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Can you drive the Secessionist into the Fort Sumter trap that gave Lincoln his historic victory? Can you successfully use the issue of States Rights to divide Northern opinion? Fort Sumter let’s you explore this seminal moment in American history in a fast-playing, easy-to-learn game.

The country is on the verge of being torn apart so how will you act? Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis is set during the events that led to the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the start of the American Civil War. The game takes the side of either a Unionist or Secessionist who must work to preserve the Union or follow the path to dissolve it.

Each player uses an area control mechanic to place, move, and remove political capital. The location of political capital determines who controls each of the four crisis dimensions - Political, Secession, Public Opinion, and Armaments. After three rounds of play, the game culminates in a Final Crisis confrontation.

Features

CDG (Card Driven Game) system designed by Mark Herman

Civil War Historical setting depicts the actual events of the crisis

Immersive voice over and audio that recreates the sound of that era

A.I. Opponent for Offline Play

Asynchronous or Real Time 2-player Online Game Play

Pass-and-Play Multiplayer

AN INTERNET CONNECTION AND PLAYDEK ACCOUNT ARE REQUIRED FOR ONLINE PLAY

Per our Terms of Service, you must be 13 years old or older to use the Playdek online games service.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Playdek, Inc.

Rating:

4.40

(35)

Version:

1.0.7 (77) Last updated: 2026-07-29

Version code:

881714345

Creation date:

2019-05-22

Compatible devices:

Size:

384.77MB

Price:

4.99

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Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-03

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# 203,261 ▼ 127

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Developed by:

Playdek, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fort-sumter-secession-crisis/id1457799708

User Reviews

I REALLY wanted to like this game. And my initial review would have been four or five stars. But now I’m giving this game just two stars. And I will delete it. Why? This game is way too dependent on luck. You might as well just roll two dice. High sum wins. Here’s what I mean. If you are, say, the Union player and you are dealt a run of Confederate 1 cards, just quit and start over. You will lose. And why is the Union player being dealt Confederate cards anyway? The Union player should be dealt only Union cards. And the Confederate player should be dealt only Confederate cards. This flaw ruins the game for me. Developer, please consider fixing this! And here’s one more thing. Each round, each player should pick his action card in secret. Just like with the Objective cards. This game could be so great. But as it is, no. On edit: I’ve played maybe 10 more games since this review. And my two-star review still stands. Get a run of opponent 1 cards, and the game is over. It doesn’t matter how clever you are. You lose. That’s ridiculous.

by Dr*****, 2023-10-26

Update to review- thanks for the turn indicator. A new problem is the log stops at the final crisis (at least I've noticed it in my current game wherein the final crisis was triggered by cubes in 2nd turn.). There is, afaik, no way to tell what opponents previous cards were, nor what either of their or your cube moves were. It's really important to be able to see that. 5 star after that gets fixed. Good game but, afaik, there is no way to tell whose turn it is in a multiplayer game. When you play multiple games, it is extremely annoying to go through the games to find the one where is your turn. Also the AI is weaker than I'd have expected. A decent neural net should have been able to make a reasonable AI I'd think.