Untapped potential
Wed Apr 21 2021 Soluto47When I first opened this game, I was adamant on believing that it was another one of those grindy annoying .io games. What I was met with exceeded my expectations, and I enjoyed my first play through of the game. I will address 3 points in this review: game progression, ai, and the potential this game has. When I started, it was rather easy to grind out upgrades, and I enjoyed playing a game that actually felt like it had a tolerable grind. Right now, the ai in this game is quite lackluster in the later stages of my play through. Ai only attack each other most of the time, and it is quite easy to conquer their territory. What I would suggest to the game devs is an increase in ai difficulty, and maybe a buff in their forces. Now, onto the potential. Right now, there is only one continent, North America. I think it would be a smart idea to add more continents and countries, as one map tends to get stale after a while. If the devs feel like being lazy; then they could just give the player the option to conquer the whole United States. If the devs run out of countries, then they could move into areas in a certain state. Like I said earlier, the potential of this game is untapped, and if the devs see this review then I give them this advice. Please don’t change the progression system, make the ai a little bit more challenging for the player, and please consider expanding the map so that the player doesn’t feel bored after the first few playthroughs.
Good game
Sun Apr 23 2023 Hudson DOGI love the game, I’m like level 1500 or smth. My only complaint is the removal of the offline hourly income, that was a big source of income. And when you get to the levels I’m at, watching a 15-30 second ad to make only up to maybe 200k ish isn’t very helpful because each level upgrade is 500k coins, so really to level up one I have to play two rounds, which this far in takes at least 3 min, times two so 6 min. Then I must watch two ads, adding 1 minute all to afford maybe one level upgrade. That isn’t worth it anymore because as my competition levels up maybe even just 5 starting units every few rounds I can’t compete with that, the hourly income was good, overtime I could afford to make large income. Right now I have just over 4b coins, but I make close to 0 income proportional to my “expenses” for upgrades. Adding this back would be very useful. I understand it supports watching ads, which of course covers the income for the game developers and stuff, but at least nerfing it so I have a chance to still win, as rounds get increasingly more difficult. Besides that 1 ad after every game is a little annoying maybe every lost game, but still that’s a lot of ads. Besides those two complaints this is probably my favorite mobile game.
Help I’ve Gone Too Far Down the Rabbit Hole
Sun Apr 02 2023 Starscream2499I got this game a week ago after playing an add and thought hey this could be a fun game. I wasn’t wrong - the game is a blast. While not too challenging, it’s a fun and easy strategy game. While most of the time I’d win sometimes I’d lose and it was fun to play against the computers.
However, I’ve gone down the rabbit hole. I quickly realized the easiest way to get upgrades was to increase my offline earnings and then watch an add to multiply it by 4. At first no big deal because the computer increased in strength, but one day the computer maxed out. Like Megamind who destroyed MetroMan only to discover there was no more joy without the fight. I have now reached level 1000 and have become an unstoppable machine of country destroying destruction. Levels that used to pose a challenge are now beaten at ease. If the computer could continue to increase in difficulty no matter your level that would be fantastic. I want to feel the fear of a challenge again. Also if there was a difficulty setting like easy, normal, hard, chaos. That would be fantastic. Either way I’ll probably log on every now and then to continue getting ridiculous upgrades to increase my unstoppable power.
Developer, Please See Bottom.
Sat May 22 2021 Back in a flashWant new things? Watch an ad.
Want to do better? Watch an ad.
Want to break the game? Watch a lot of ads and play for hours. After awhile the caps mean nothing and if you don’t see the obvious way to win you will lose.
This game has potential and that’s the only nice thing I can say about it. Do yourself a favor and don’t play this game. Play if all you like to do is watch 100s ads for a game that lacks in graphics, dialogue, strategy, brain cells, and finely cut spaghetti.
If the developer put any thought and care into it the developer could make a decent game and make the ads completely optional. Note to the developer: If you make the game good enough then watching an ad won’t seem like a chore. Somehow you are #10 and that is great. If you make a better game you will definitely get more people interested and you will get more people watching ads instead of making them watch it for the “Gifts” that you have in the game. Don’t make it too obvious that you want us to watch an ad because every ad we watch you get a small amount of money. I get it so do yourself a huge favor and don’t make it obvious. It’s perverted.
Un-balanced ads vs. game play
Fri Feb 10 2023 cmwiersLoved the game play at first, but being forced to watch an ad after every round is a bit obnoxious. I am usually playing a game like this for some mindless distraction but this game is an ad farm nothing more. You play a round you can win in 20-30 seconds then have to watch an ad that takes 45-60 seconds. You can close the game after each round and skip most of the ad but then you are faced with a worse problem. You only get the measly amount of coin they give you for winning which is no where near enough to keep up with the again horrible unbalanced AI players. They will advance in numbers and growth and start to crush you around levels 30 to 50 depending on if you watch the ads for 3x coin. In the end you can enjoy the game for about 2-4 hour tops then it becomes unplayable outside of tripling your time just watching ads which will extend that time frame. Everything above is not even mentioning the horrible ad content and methods. The ads say they are 30 seconds but in reality are more like 45-60. They also make the X button intentionally small so you inadvertently select the ad and have to do that 3-5 times before finally exiting the ad. Then the content of their ads are abhorrent. The developers should be ashamed of the content they put on here. Terrible design and execution all around on every part of this game. One more on the heaping pile of unplayable, unenjoyable, waste of time games.
More ad than app
Thu Jul 06 2023 thepowerofselfrespectI like the game and don’t mind the AI most of the time. It can definitely be frustrating to get drawn into a game of chicken only to be attacked by three opponents all at the same time, but that just means I need to rethink my strategy. My issue is with the sheer number of ads and the necessity of wifi to play against AI. Every time you complete a level, you can either watch an ad to get 3x the number of coins you’d normally earn from completing the level… or you can say “no thanks” and then you still end up watching an ad for absolutely no reason or benefit. This is not including the banner ads that live at the bottom of the screen while you play. This also does not include the ads that you have to watch if you want to change your player color or icons from the default. I can also obviously understand the requirement for wifi if I wanted to play against other players, but I’m entirely uninterested in this and I see no reason why the app should really need connectivity otherwise, except to show me even more ads. It’s ridiculous and if the cost to remove ads were not $9.99 I would just do that, but at this point I’ll just play a round or two until I get tired of the ads and then switch to another app that isn’t shoving so many ads at me constantly, and I’ll save my $10.
Great game, for 5 minutes at a time
Thu Jun 16 2022 AzombiedingoThe game is great, simple concept, fun gameplay, decent difficulty (if you hold back on the leveling system), but the issues are the ads and the lag. I get the need for ad revenue, but the idea that a game with as simple a concept as this needs an ad after every round, which lasts about a minute, a banner ad at all times, and reward bonus ads at every turn is a bit much. And before the devs comment and say there is the option to buy ad free, $10 is a steep price maybe it would be worth $3, but I’d sooner stop playing the game then spend $10 to remove ads on any game. Also, I’m not sure if it is the ads or if it is the gameplay itself, but after about every 4-5 rounds the game causes my phone to go haywire, overheats, and crashes the app (or forces me to close it because everything freezes up). It’s a great game for the 5 minutes of gameplay I get even with the additional 3 minutes of ads, but the inability to play more than 5 minutes at a time is a real nuisance. I hope the lag issues get fixed, I’ve never had any issues running much more processor heavy games on my iPhone 13.
Not good anymore
Fri Jan 20 2023 Elev8ted09I deleted the app today. I had reached level 455, and my beginning count was 5000, and regeneration was 200 per second. When I started, obviously, it’s a pain to get to where I am now, but after a while, the AI is absolutely obnoxious. You can start one against three, or four different players total. Even starting with 5000, all of the other three will all attack you simultaneously. you literally do not stand a chance. Most of them start between 650 and 700 each, I can’t even overtake a different state or country without being completely bombarded. At one point, the game was good, but it has gotten to the point where it is unbeatable. Not to mention every single level is followed by an ad. I would continuously shut down the app, and restart it, trying to find a different way to win. One level took me 14 tries to win. I think the algorithm goes, if you stay out of the app long enough, the next level that you were previously on, becomes simpler. The game became increasingly aggravating. After 455 levels, you can assume that I have figure it out how to beat the game. But at times, two will immediately become one against one, and all of a sudden that person has the entire map. No matter if you have 5000 to start with, 10 states at 120 each, can completely destroy you.
Fun but disappointing
Tue Feb 20 2024 MemMoriI was really enjoying the game. But I was beginning to get a little fed up with all the ads keeping from just jumping into a new game right away. So I paid the $10 to get rid of ads…. but I still get ads if I lose or if I quit a game early. It’s really inconvenient and aggravating. The ads bother me so much more now that I spent REAL MONEY so that there would be no ads. Apparently I wasted that money. I would’ve continued happily with ads if I’d known that paying wouldn’t do anything. I should’ve checked the other reviews on here. But the fact that I DID pay, it’s ruining my enjoyment of the game. It’s such a shame. I really do like the game itself. And I legitimately was fine with the ads but I decided to pay for no ads so I could play more often. TLDR: The game is pretty fun and great if you’re okay with ads. Don’t pay the $10 to get rid of ads because you will be wasting the money and you will continue to get ads. I paid the money and now the game just isn’t as fun for me anymore.
update: had to wait for a game update I guess, but I now have no ads after each game! still, going off of other reviews having this problem, I wouldn’t recommend paying for no ads.
Ok, but not?
Fri Mar 31 2023 bob rose universityWhen I first downloaded this game and launched it for the first time I was met with a better experience then my expectation. Although once I started playing the game more I realized the maps are the same sometimes. So add more maps? Also the AI is great but whenever I reach max population on all of the provinces except one (which the AI is on) the ai doesn’t really attack anymore (which makes sense considering that the ai will never have more points then me) but I would at least like to see the ai try to sacrifice there population to make a last stand or something like that. Also, the game is alright but if you add more maps it would be alright if you could see the world you have conquered (like if you click a button it shows what you have took over). And, can you make a stats button to see how much people we have sent (to other nations or moved around and stuff) and can you also put a stat for how much of our population has died? Anyway, i know the reviews are mostly to see what they should fix but I hope you insert something like the ideas I had in the game.
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