DomiNations in IOS

★★★★★

★★★★★ I love this game!

This game has HUGE potential and I think it is very fun! The constant updates keep content fresh, new and exciting and the huge depth that goes into the game along with historical accuracy and the ability to play as one of 8 cool nations and use their special abilities and troops make this game one of a kind! This game stands out from all other similar genre games for this reason. The graphics are also excellent especially when it's not cartoony like Clash of Clans. Also, the fact that you advance throughout history makes you feel like you are accomplishing stuff. Advance from throwing rocks to shooting arrows. Develop gunpowder weaponry such as guns. Industrialize in the Industrial Revolution with new war weapons such as tanks, planes and machine guns! Develop helicopters later on! So much personalization as well. Play the way you want! Are you a constant attacker? Choose the French or Germans! Do you like developing your economy? Choose the Greeks or Chinese! Do you love huge loot? Choose the British! Love defending? Choose the Japanese! The only problem in the game is the troop A.I. They are kind of idiotic but it is manageable. It would also be nice for German riflemen and SMGs to look German and not French. Yeah, I love this game! I would highly recommend it!

★★★★★ Great game, few issues

Let me start by saying this game is awesome. Much more fun and involving than some of the others. Really interesting how you have multiple options and variables to chose from. Only problem I have is the paying, I think people that can play have a very unfair advantage. Only way I could possibly equal it out is with crowns, but those are so hard to get for free that it becomes impossible to enjoy fully. I think it would be nice if you could only buy same age armies instead of stuff like atomic and higher up age troops. So for example if a medical age could only buy armies that are available in the medical age. I’m sorry if this is confusing I just hope you understand what I’m trying to convey. If it seems like I’m highlighting the bad about this, I'm defiantly not. I’m just trying to explain what I consider as drawbacks. Aside from this it is really great. The alliance I’m currently in is very active and friendly. Science I joined I’ve been able to improve my game. I really hope Big Huge Games reads this and can continue releasing updates. Already they have a massive success, I just think if they continue fine tuning it would be even bigger. Again this is just my humble opinion please take this review into consideration and keep up the good work! ( Note: I think this game turns into more of a cash grab as you progress into the ages. Honestly I think we need more ways to get free crowns easily.)

★★★★★ Fun Game

This game is one of the few that I have been able to keep on my phone for a few years now. There have been times that I have stopped playing due to life, but I still come back to it. With everything there are pros and cons. The pros; the game does not only rely solely on money or sending requests for friends to join to advance levels, there are always updates to the game so it’s not stagnant. There is a lot of history that correlates with the game and sparks interest to research more on your free time. The battles are fast and helps if the user has a busy life that they cannot play the game for extensive periods of time. The cons: some upgrades during the game take an extremely long time to upgrade to the next level. I think this discourages users to quit the game once they reach a certain level because it may required two weeks for one upgrade to fully complete without money. I understand money needs to be made, but the upgrade do not have to be that long. One recommendation are the wall upgrades, way to expensive for the amount of walls that a user can build on their base. I wished the developers would create more options that can be placed on the base and stay permanently. Overall, this game is one of my favorites and I am going on year 3. Please do not make this game solely on money like other games have in the past. I am looking forward to more unique leaders and generals that are not hyped up in the media. Awesome game.

★★★★★ New Ideas

So first off, this a awesome game to play, no matter what people think of it, however I also think that there could be changes to it. I condensed what I thought some new ideas down to five things. The first being what nations we can choose from, now I do understand we have a variety already of different nations, but I keep seeing the same nations over and over again, so yes, I think we need at least 5 more new countries to choose from. The second thing is, if you do decide yes on the first, I think that some of the new nations should be unlock-able at certain ages, for instance I think if you put America in the game, I think it should be able to be unlocked at the Enlightenment age. The 3rd thing I would like to talk about is the amount of hit points and Dps of all units, I think it should be raised by 5 percent. The 4th thing is that if you follow the 3rd thing, I think you should up the hit points on structures by 3 percent. Finally, the last thing I would like to discuss is the control of your troops in battle, I think you should be able to move your troops individually to places on the battlefield and not just move all your units as a whole. Anyway, I know this is a long text, I hope you all have a wonderful evening.

★★★★★ Super … in the beginning

So much fun in the beginning. It has all the regular civilization building stuff and then some. If you’re competitive, eventually you’ll want to start battling other nations and earn medals. The battle matchup quickly becomes intolerable. You can’t search for an opponent with search parameters, you are totally at the whim of the programmer’s algorithms. However, if you do well and earn lots of medals, those algorithms start failing. It will literally give you opponents that simply cannot be defeated. Not because they are strong, but because they are so weak they have nothing to kill. For example: A level 1 town without a single building cannot be defeated, because there is nothing to defeat. I’ve spent entire hours trying to be matched up with an opponent only to get 50 or more of these undefeatables, and another 50 or so game errors that indicate the game cannot retrieve any enemy target data, and literally only get to battle twice before I give up. For comparison, in the beginning, I could easily battle a dozen times or more in an hour, AND, spend another few enjoyable hours preparing, collecting resources, upgrading technology, researching, etc. The failure of the battle matchup makes the game intolerable, but, believe me, there are so many smaller bugs all throughout the game. Again, if you are looking for a game that starts off enjoyable, this one is great. BUT, it eventually turns to endless frustration.

★★★★★ Losing connection

I haven't played this game for a while but I can see why people complain about the pay to win situation. The only problem I have had so far is almost half of the time I attack somebody or find somebody I'm going to attack it says I lost connection. This wouldn't be a problem if the game let you come back into the battle and place more troops down or at least lets the troops you’ve placed down keep fighting. Instead you automatically lose all your troops, the battle doesn't continue, it all just ends even if you have placed down every troop you have. This has happened to me multiple times making me lose my rank and placements that I worked to earn. Other games like this (ex. clash of clans) don't do this and let you continue your battle if you do lose connection. however in these other games I never have lost connection unless i do it on purpose by putting my phone on airplane mode. Because of this it leads me to believe it is the games faulty servers making me lose connection and my rank placements. This problem needs to be fixed immediately because it hasn’t happened only to me. They don't even need to fix the servers or whatever it is that makes you lose connection they just need to add a troop saving system after you restart your game or “lose connection.”

★★★★★ Scam of a game

You’ll spend crowns or money to get ahead such as buying peace treaties to prevent attacks. These peace treaties do not work and you will continue to lose resources to attacks. Customer service expects you to know the “Exact time and date” of every treaty you purchase (keep in mind there is multiple length peace treaties) even if you send screenshots showing the ACTIVE treaty (only two hours left) and the JUST finished attack while the treaty is currently active which means there’s no way the attack could have taken place without a peace treaty in effect but common sense isn’t common here. If I had known I needed to keep a log of the “EXACT” time I did ANY activity in order for it to be considered I wouldn’t have started playing. Even with screenshots it isn’t enough, they want the exact moment it happened which even if provided gets you no where and no assistance. The game glitches and throws you out during battles and takes things away but you better have screenshots and the EXACT time, date, and star alignment when it happened… even then I doubt you’d get assistance just an apology and a dismissal. I requested they delete all my data (which I will be confirming since I don’t trust them) Just a waste of time. There are plenty of other games JUST LIKE THIS ONE (even better) with good customer service and a proper working platform, I recommend downloading one of them instead of this nonsense.