Incredible mobile game
Tue May 02 2023 ArielleWashingtonThis is by far the best mobile game that I’ve ever played. Not only is this not a sponsored review, but I’ve never even written a review for any app or game. This game is so awesome that I just had to. Not only do you build your own culture, but you also build several allied cultures as well. You can also join an alliance where your collective goal is to build an alliance based city, to expand, and to rank to the top. I’m currently in one of the top 100 alliances which makes game play even more enjoyable.
This game is very in depth and is not overly filled with ads (in fact, you don’t even need to watch any ads if you don’t want the bonus research points or resources every day). It’s also definitely not a necessary pay to play game. You can easily get all of the gems that you could realistically need by just doing the daily exploration quests.
You expand your culture by conquering other cultures, trading resources that your culture creates with others who play, and by banking the resources that you have in order to expand your culture and further your cultures research.
There are also pirate themed treasure hunts which are really fun.
The graphics are cute too and are not glitchy at all. There are very minimal to zero time out/app freezes. Overall, this game is the best! I definitely recommend 100%!
Bring back unlimited wonder helps!
Sat Dec 03 2022 JazzpackThis game is great, gameplay looks and feels amazing, and I don’t have to pay a single cent toward the game to get ahead. The storyline about the characters you go up against isn’t superb but it isn’t cheesy either. I like the different missions and challenges, and the fact you can watch videos (if you want to) for extra research points and items. There’s no unnecessary ads you have to watch to play the game.
The only complaint I have is that the developers took away unlimited winder helps!! Now you can only help donate items and research points 5 times a day. That, to me, is the greatest way to increase your research points score and it helps other players in the game tremendously. I miss the old way where I could donate research points to other players, and if I was the highest donor by the time their wonder reached the amount of research points to upgrade it, then I would get a ton of research points in return. Sometimes an upwards to 35 to 40 research points. Since spending research points increases your score, that was a great strategy and everybody benefited from it. So please bring those two things back, but keep the current format as well because it’s pretty cool as well!!
Great attention to detail and love the art style!
Mon Mar 01 2021 Storm172All of the buildings and the workers working or animals in the buildings is very fun and enjoyable to just see what’s going on in your civilization and being able to visually watch stuff change as buildings are upgraded is great to see! I think the only thing very lacking is how the combat is. It’s way to simple and it’s more or less just watching your units fight with no real way to be strategic or involve any real tactics. I think if they can fix the combat to make it feel more strategic like maybe you could give your units different types of perks to choose from before the battle so you could mix and match what could work in fights or expand how combat actually works I think this game would have a strong foundation for being one of the best games on the App Store. And also maybe the developers could add different types of events that you could do once the combat is more in depth or maybe add some form of puzzle events that you could do as well as combat events I think this game will just be insane. Also there needs to be a way to link the account to Facebook or an email so we don’t lose progress. There’s so much they could do with the foundation they have currently. Can’t wait!
Fun game, but a few MAJOR design flaws
Sun Feb 13 2022 ProfBoyerISUOverall this game is well done, with a very pleasing visual design and rather intuitive play. I am very pleased at the ability to fully redesign your city at any time with the ‘stash all’ feature (oh to have this in Elvenar!) Although space is often at a premium, it forces making choices which I am okay with. It’s tough to get the extra wonders and premium buildings, but I’m patient enough to earn them.
But here’s the feature that will likely drive me away from the game - trade coins.
I am okay with only producing one of three goods and having to trade for the other two I need. I can also see that using ‘trade coins’ frees up the need for making balanced or unbalanced trades which causes so much frustration in Elvenar. The problem is that right now, the pool of trade coins is a LIMITED POOL. Everyone gets 750 coins when they first learn trade, and so far that’s it. The entire trade pool is limited to 750*pkayers. If someone has more than 750, it must come from someone else. Even worse, there’s an NPC merchant that REDUCES the pool if you buy from them. There is no mechanic for increasing the pool.
Supposedly there will be a trade partner discount, but I’m worried the system will die before it starts taking effect.
PLEASE fix the the trade coin pool before the game dies. Maybe free trade coins a day to people or bonus coins for trading?
Needs a few things
Tue Mar 01 2022 QueenHavokThe game is pretty fun, great time burner. It’s a classic progression builder, you don’t have to worry about pay to play players buying their way to the top and crushing everyone taking resources etc. Its just you vs A.I in mini battles, treasure hunt alliance mini game and collecting resources! Would be nice to see a “last played or logged in since” type of thing on the alliance list. 20 player roster gets filled fast and it’s hard to tell who is active and who isn’t. Hate kicking people to make room without knowing how long it’s been since they played. Also the gold and food ratio is not close to balanced. Easy to get millions in gold and can barely keep 2-3 hundred thousand in food. Also should be able to better search the trade screen. If I have 6000 coins it doesn’t mean I want to spend 6k on a item. When searching if you have a lot of coins they only show capped things to buy. Makes you spend all your coins on 1 thing. Sometimes I only want a small amount of something not all. The treasure hunt rewards could be a little more exciting and rewarding. 10 research for first place is pretty boring. Still the game is very fun and worth downloading. Look forward to updates.
Fun but some balancing issues!
Mon Feb 28 2022 ...Buler...The resource grind in this game is steep! The gold is easy to get since it’s automatic but the food! You have to run it consistently and on the most efficient short time setting to make enough food to continue while keeping up with the research and upgrading buildings. Another issue is the wonders and the amount of space you have. I love the wonders and they are great but since launch they’ve added more and we the amount of space you have doesn’t match the amount of buildings you get or are required to have. I had to purchase land tiles with gems which cost money to keep up. There are often challenges that require you to build six farms or more later in the game to continue but you probably can only run three regularly which and only have room for maybe four or five which is annoying because now they are a waste of space and you’ll need them again later for the next time that challenge happens so you can’t delete it. Suggestion: revise the amount of area we get, maybe create a way that farms can be made smaller or create a new space called the fields which have the farming space. Or just increase the area you can expand and make sure it fits building for all the event buildings.
UPDATE
I’m in the next era and I can’t put down more required buildings without buying more land.
Great early game, ruined by devs
Sun Mar 05 2023 Freshness99445(Edit:started at 5 stars, 1 removed for each edit) I’ve been playing for roughly 8 months and I really enjoy everything this game has to offer, except armies. In that time, I reached the Byzantine Era. In this era, failure of all units results in one hour of waiting to attempt again. Upgrading the Pirate Fortress decreases the wait time the most for armies (30+%) but getting upgrades are unachievable. After a year of playing I upgraded it 3/40 times! Edit: Battles with two phases are extremely difficult to win, without gems. The second phase never lets you have a full army. You go in handicapped against enemies 50% stronger than you. It’s awful! Edit: Battle Passes are ruining the game. Locking new building behind paywalls is not a fun experience. Nobody liked that. Edit: Wonders took a massive hit. If you need a legendary blueprint go grind. It will takes months to get one. The random number generator is awful, because you will never get the blueprint you are looking for. Here’s the math for a Legendary Blueprint: You need 80 orbs per Leg Blueprint at 200 parts per orb = 16,000 parts needed per orb. 15 parts times 5 a day (helping others)= 75 parts per day. Studio also gives 25 parts per day. For a total of 100 parts per day. 16,000 total parts divided by 100 parts per day equals 160 days of constant play. Or 4 months per legendary blueprint! This game is broken. Dont play it.
Connection errors
Thu Sep 23 2021 Deb85233I’ve been playing for little over a month and twice now I’ve been locked out due to connection errors. On Facebook there is the official group where I posted I could not access the game. Days later, after I had regained access due to update by innoGames, I was told by someone that officially represented the game, it was a problem with my app on my tablet and not the game itself! Both times I was locked out, it was remedied by an update from the developers. Some people took the advice of these people on the official Facebook page and deleted their app and reinstalled only to find the connection error again. Then once update came through, they find themselves at the very beginning of the game. That’s really a shame for those people, I would never start again! This stupid assumption on the part of the people answering these concerns incorrectly needs to stop. One poor person posted how he lost all his progress and does not know how to restore it. I’m guessing it can’t be restored. So I will say I enjoy this game, when it works and please don’t delete your app and reinstall because the “know it all experts” from the official Facebook can’t acknowledge the fact that it is their servers and not your phone or tablet
IMPOSSIBLE TO REPORT A PROBLEM! NEED TO SPEAK TO A REAL PETSON!!!
Sun Oct 01 2023 jen7779I really like this game unfortunately, there is no way to report a problem and actually HAVE CONTACT WITH A REAL PERSON! I have tried to report the problem through the game…Impossible! No area to report the problem…so, no solution! I tried same through here, again, no area listed for it! So, Developers, again, no way to get a solution to resolve the problem! THERE NEEDS TO BE A WAY FOR ACTUAL CONTACT WITH A HUMAN IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND NOT GET BOUNCED AROUND WITH NO SOLUTION! If I could contact a person instead of a pick a problem, that doesn’t include my problem, it could be resolved. How about doing so. If someone would do this I would give 5 Stars ⭐️. HELP! Thank you. PROBLEM#2- Supposed to conquer land in Sumerian Empire got all but last piece of land. Problem is their army is larger than mine so, I lose. Can’t upgrade my army because i need to be in the Minoan Era but, still in the Bronze Era,need another building to do that. Again can’t do that until my army defeats the Sumerian army and I get to expand. Do you the problem! Round and Round we go, with no way to contact “ ACTUAL PEOPLE FOR HELP”!!! How about some answers!
UPDATE- Thanks for getting back to me, I Shout because I’m extremely frustrated by not being able to contact a Real Person. If you know how to contact a Real Person PLEASE, tell me.
Bottlenecked quicker than any game I’ve played
Wed Dec 01 2021 WeresmypitaFirst off, I want to say how this game does well in its tutorial. Starting off, it’s at a really good pace and helps you learn about the game as you progress. Visually it looks great too, in a fan of the art style. However, the speed of how quickly the bottlenecks approach are ridiculous. I think if you’re a regular mobile phone game player, you understand that this is common. In this game, you won’t even make it past the first day playing until you’re bottlenecked on supplies (gold in my case). I get that maybe as a casual, couple hours a day at most, you won’t really notice this, but anything more and you suffer. The only meaningful way to get more gold is to wait in the game times and collect it from the town centre and houses. You can get it from attacking or incidents, but those are negligible at best. Just wish it wasn’t such a hard bottleneck so early on in the game.
EDIT: I hope this feedback, and others I see similar to mine, actually does something. I’ve continued to play the game and the gold problem has switched to food. Some of the rewards, like winning a battle and incidents, have not really changed much since I’ve progressed with the increased cost of everything else.
