# Ancient buzzland — Captivating Real Time Strategy

> Real-time strategy game with city building, resource management, and dragon combat. (iPhone/iPad app by Sravi Janga.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ancient-buzzland/id1437910629 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sravi Janga](https://appshunter.io/developer/647293282)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Action, Strategy
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.80/5 from 218 App Store ratings · 20 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 9.0 · 14 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2018-10-04
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ancient-buzzland/id1437910629/reviews.md

## What is Ancient buzzland?

Welcome to ancient buzzland, the birthplace of human civilization, a land where a great ruler (you!) lived, planned, built and fought dragons of the age. Find out how it all happened.

Play what we call a true real time strategy for the mobile platform: every move matters, gather resources, plan your city, build defenses and watch your creation unfold in front of you. With unlimited maps procedurally generated for maximum fun, this is a keep!

We have reimagined how an RTS game traditionally played on consoles and PCs would translate to a mobile platform while still keeping true to its genre (and taking advantage of the new form factor) Hope you like, please leave a comment on what you would like to see or what you love the most. Thanks!

Background Music:
Thatched Villagers Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

## Key features

- Real-time strategy gameplay
- City planning and building
- Resource gathering
- Defensive structures
- Dragon combat
- Procedurally generated maps

## Recent user reviews (10 of 20)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ancient-buzzland/id1437910629/reviews.md

### 2/5 — Good idea weak execution

*2021-08-18*

The idea of the games is great. Real time city building while attempting to fend of a dragon, but the main problem is villager management. 
1. No total count of villagers
       Also no count per job villagers are doing
2. No way to prioritize tasks
       I attempted to focus on building a house while villagers were chopping trees but I could not add a builder.
       My thought on this would be to have general villagers that would work as collectors of resources and automatically be balanced between resource collection and building. Then if you wanted you could add builders to a building to work on it more quickly, taking villagers off resource collection.
4. Villagers idle when there are tasks to do
5. When adding workers no message on where they are coming from or if any workers are available. 

6. Fortresses are under powered. 
        I had 4 fortresses surrounding 5 houses, council hall government center, and 2 farms, but they were still being lit on fire.  I tried increasing the number of workers in the fortresses but it still did not work.

### 2/5 — Could be good except

*2021-07-11*

I was enjoying the game until I somehow mistakenly turned off my hud. I couldn’t get it back so I exited the game and reentered and the last two hours or so of progress was undone. Two hours down the toilet because my hud disappeared. I ignored the agitating bugs like when the villagers wouldn’t even try to put out fires or when one or two would just freeze in place and never do anything again, or even when they would star working and need to navigate the width of the island to move materials two blocks over. But now I’ve lost a ton of xp and can’t get it back.

### 2/5 — Good bones but buggy

*2021-04-09*

This game has a lot of potential but there are some enjoyment killing bugs. The biggest of those is that the villagers will randomly stop working and never start again.

I got to the point of having 12 upgraded houses, which should house 36 workers, but I had less than 10 villagers who would actually do anything.  I had plenty of all the resources. They wouldn’t even man the towers anymore.

At that point, the dragon burns stuff down faster than you can rebuild it because even though I put wells all over the place, the villages only put out 1 of 3 fires or so.

### 2/5 — So many glitches

*2021-03-10*

This game would be enjoyable but all of your hard work goes down the drain. 
1. You need to keep your town from burning by telling villagers who aren’t busy to put out the fire. I could have everything set up right but there is a bug where your villagers won’t put out a fire even if there is a well nearby. This is the first thing that sets you up for failure because these buildings don’t cost coin they cost experience which can only be earned by RESTARTING your game. 
2. Some buildings that help your village develop cost XP which you only earn when resetting your village from scratch. Normally this would be fine but the “lazy villager” bug that lets building burn without putting them out makes resetting pointless since you’ll be having to rebuild buildings often. 
3. Your game almost never saves so even if you do somehow manage to put out all your fires, as soon as you close the app your village disappears and all the hard work you did to keep your village from going up in smoke becomes pointless so you just stare at the app on your screen while it mocks you because one day you hope the developers of this app will finally fix the bug but deep down you know that’s not going to happen. 

So if you want to save time and frustration, play once, then delete the app.

### 4/5 — One annoying issue

*2021-01-31*

I know people have addressed this but can you please fix the problem with fires not being put out while villagers just stand by doing nothing, I love the game but when that happens it’s just unnecessary, my villagers house even burned down while he was standing inside it doing nothing about it.

### 3/5 — Reset glitch

*2021-01-31*

I like this game a lot, but there is a glitch in where it appears if you make roads on a certain part of the first map, basically the middle right of the map, it crashes your game and sets you back about 10 minutes. This happened to me one time, and I thought it might’ve just been an error that wouldn’t happen often, so I rebuilt the stuff that was gone from the setback. Then I built roads on that one area again, not knowing it is what caused the glitch. It reset all of my progress. I have to restart the level completely now, and I got zero XP from it. Also, the xp I SPENT during the level is gone still... I only have 39 xp and started it with about 119 or so. Villagers sometimes don’t do tasks for a while after you tell them to also, but otherwise, very fun game.

Edit: I restarted and built roads over the one are, and it didn’t crash. Maybe it is due to the high time I spent in the level trying to get as much xp as possible, or that I had a ton of buildings, but not sure what causes it.

Edit 2: not the roads, just seems to happen randomly

Edit 3: yeah, game is unplayable, it just keeps crashing every 2 minutes

### 5/5 — Problems

*2021-01-13*

1. The villagers will go around before they bring water to the burning buildings and they will be late then they will go on the same path then the building will be gone make a fix for this 

2. The villagers (mostly) go on the tower after or i command them to go to the tower please have a limit only by one.

3 the enemy unit are over powered they will burn 3 buildings for 9 seconds are they using a portable dragon or something please fix this

I will response again if i got problems it may make good on other players and great game actually thanks :)

### 5/5 — One Issue

*2021-01-05*

I’m not entire sure if this game is still being developed, but I read reviews that addressed the issue of villagers not putting out fires. the most recent update was three months ago and it still hadn’t been resolved. unless there is something I’m doing incorrectly, but what bothers me is that I can have a well directly next to the building that is on fire with several idle civilians, and I have to watch my building burn because they won’t extinguish it. Also, the dragon bothers me slightly. Several times I’ve gotten the notification that the dragon has fled but within a second it comes back and sets a building on fire, I think there should be a cool down between dragon attacks that takes place the second the dragon flees. Otherwise the issue I mentioned will continue. If the developers read this it would be wonderful if they could address these, thank you!

**Developer response:** Devs are reading your reviews, please keep them coming! Also between us even we hate that pesky dragon, in a future update villagers can build a trap for it, until then build the towers strategically to thwart most attacks.

### 3/5 — Promising game with some sticky points

*2020-11-18*

This game is right up my alley and I’ve been enjoying the basic gameplay. There are many points I’ve seen in other reviews which I won’t repeat here. While I can get past most of the clunkiness or bad AI bugs, the issue that is ruining it for me is that my peasants keep getting stuck... game after game, they will get stuck to certain buildings like flypaper. I can’t control individuals, nor can you delete buildings. So, over time I have less and less people working as they are increasingly half clipped into the wall of some tower or windmill. 

Other than that, keep up the good work. It’s already fun for a bit and there’s a ton of potential here.

### 4/5 — Amazing game, lots of bugs to work out

*2020-05-04*

I love everything about this game, and I can play it for hours on end. There are, however, a LOT of bugs that prevent you from actually developing your towns to their full potential. The 2 most striking bugs are: villagers sometimes ignore a burning building, even if you press “put out fire” and if there are wells around. Also, some buildings get stuck mid-construction, and villagers keep going to them and wasting resources for no reason at all.

**Developer response:** Glad to see you are enjoying the game it was meant to be! - allowing players to play for hours with full creative freedom unlike others that have blocking Ads or IAPs. Thanks for the feedback (and sorry for your experience!) I'll try dropping in fixes into the next release. Unfortunately due to the current size of user base I am finding it hard to support the game, please share with your friends and social circles, more users is the only way I can start supporting this game.

## Frequently asked questions about Ancient buzzland

### What kind of game is Ancient Buzzland?

Ancient Buzzland is a true real-time strategy (RTS) game for mobile. It focuses on gathering resources, planning and building your city, constructing defenses, and engaging in combat, including fighting dragons.

### What are the key features of Ancient Buzzland?

Key features include real-time strategy gameplay, city planning and building, resource gathering, defensive structure construction, dragon combat, and procedurally generated maps for unlimited replayability.

### Is Ancient Buzzland free to play?

The application is free to download and play, but it does offer in-app purchases. This means you can enjoy the core game for free, with optional purchases available to enhance your experience.

### What platforms is Ancient Buzzland available on?

The description implies it is designed for the mobile platform, suggesting availability on iOS and Android devices. Specific compatibility details would typically be found on the app store page.

### What is the main goal in Ancient Buzzland?

The main goal is to become a great ruler in the birthplace of human civilization. You will plan, build, and fight dragons to develop your city and uncover the history of the age.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 19.1 — 2020-09-09

Burning construction sites can also be put out.

### 19.0 — 2020-09-04

Homes can now be upgraded for getting more villagers and better UX. Enjoy!

### 18.0 — 2020-05-12

Greetings builders! Game will no longer interrupt background audio (works even if you don't have friends!??) Reduced the difficulty a bit (wanted to reduce more but the enemy warned he will burn my house).  Enjoy!

### 17.0 — 2020-03-25

Greetings builders! Fixed an issue with 3D photo capture that can cause the game to close, happy sharing!

### 16 — 2019-08-23

Greetings builders! Even more improvements to fire fighting - now villagers who are outside will go to put out fire rather than folks inside towers, cause we need them to fight off dragons!

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