# Empire Takeover — user reviews > 261 indexed App Store user reviews of Empire Takeover by HONGKONG HERONOW LIMITED, rated 4.90/5 from 3,200 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/empire-takeover/id1584093266/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/empire-takeover/id1584093266.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,964 · 4★ 127 · 3★ 52 · 2★ 17 · 1★ 40 ## What do users think of Empire Takeover? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Addictive gameplay - 👍 Fun community - 🚀 Lots of content to keep you engaged **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently - 🤯 Confusing user interface and menus - 💰 Overly monetized with expensive in-app purchases - 🤔 Unclear game mechanics and progression **Commonly reported bugs** - Login issues and server instability - Graphical glitches and performance problems - Lost progress and rewards due to bugs **Most requested features** - Better tutorial and in-game help - Ability to play with friends - More focus on the core tower defense gameplay ## Newest reviews (12 of 261) ### 2/5 — Used to be fun *2026-06-26, version 3.7.1* This game was fun 4 years ago when I first started playing. Now it's really boring. They stopped developing levels so don't be misled by the screenshots. Half of those ingame games don't exist. ### 2/5 — Inappropriate Content *2025-02-03* When your in offline mode, there is a girl, whom you can spin around and tap to make her do a animation, if your turn her around and tap you can see under her skirt, please fix this, there are kids on here. ### 2/5 — マップがダメ *2024-07-13, version 2.8.4* ステージ構成に楽しませる工夫が見受けられず、適当に作っただけにしか見えない。タワーの説明も無いし不親切。 唯一早送りが出来るのは評価出来るので★+1 ### 3/5 — Confusing *2024-03-21* Fun but so confusing, so many different menus and options and things to claim, and upgrade and pop-ups notifications and hero's and armies and I'm just so incredibly confused. And I'm sorry but some of the English translation is not good so it makes understanding what I'm doing even more difficult. I just wanted to keep playing the tower takeover game, and the territory part is cool and all, but at level 50, I don't get what to do anymore. And it appears any progress is limited by not being in an alliance. I just want more tower stuff. ### 5/5 — Came for Towers - Stayed for Battles *2023-09-21* Terrific game and fun community. May take a few months to have a viable castle but have enjoyed it well over a year. ### 5/5 — Más o menos *2023-05-23, version 2.2.1* Juego entretenido sin anuncios ### 5/5 — 🤩🤩🤩 *2023-04-14, version 2.1.5* Voy comenzando y todavía no lo entiendo mucho pero me encanta!! ### 5/5 — 質問 *2023-03-25, version 2.1.4* いつ新しい王国が開かれますか？ ### 2/5 — Beta- Do not play yet *2023-02-27, version 2.1.1* I have played this game since it started. It is fun for towers games but DO NOT SPEND MONEY. The developers will separate and ignore teams by force with “imperial kingdom” which happens randomly anytime without warning or explanation. Players with $50,000+ accounts can’t even get help from in game support. The servers crash frequently during world events and many people have lost their investments and work because of game issues. **Developer response:** Dear Lord, sorry, empire is judged by system according to the comprehensive power of the kingdom, only when a kingdom has huge loss in wars or its comprehensive power is not match with an empire, the system may auto change the status. ### 4/5 — これについて *2022-12-27, version 2.0.1* なかなか面白い ### 2/5 — Carino, ma bisogna pagare *2022-11-30, version 1.9.3* Il gioco è carino, articolato, ma ad un certo punto si è obbligati a pagare altrimenti non si cresce più e si viene distrutti dagli altri concorrenti che hanno pagato. ### 5/5 — To the guy that can’t beat level 2 *2022-11-22* That says more about YOU than it does the game. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Pay to play at its worst. Unless you spend $5k or more you won’t have an elite account *2024-05-20, version 2.7.5* I’ve been playing for 3 years and my archers are 1300, but the top players have almost 3k. This is a money pit. Stay away ### 1/5 — Confusing *2024-03-27* Deleted this mess of a game. Way too much going on, and some things locked behind requirements like joining an alliance, which just opens your player up to attack and capture from other players, just destroying the fun. Also a lot, I mean A LOT of stuff will require in app purchases, even on an arcade game?!? The entire reason for the arcade is to do without constant micro transactions. It was fun but so confusing, so many different menus and options and things to claim, and upgrade and pop-ups notifications and hero's and armies and I'm just so incredibly confused. And I'm sorry but some of the English translation is not good so it makes understanding what I'm doing even more difficult. I just wanted to keep playing the tower takeover game, and the territory part is cool and all, but at level 50, I don't get what to do anymore. And it appears any progress is limited by not being in an alliance. I just want more tower stuff. **Developer response:** Dear Lord,thanks for your comment and feedback of our game.We will record this and will make improvements.Have a nice day~ ### 1/5 — Latest update is abysmal *2023-11-30* The latest app update is abysmal. Start-up is slower than ever. Weekly competition used to be boring and repetitive, but was a nice break, now it’s just too difficult to have as weekly competition. The game seems to be easy at some parts of the day and more difficult at others. Seems like they try to lull you in and then make it difficult at others to convince you to pay $80 for an upgrade. **Developer response:** Dear Lord, thanks for your feedback, we will keep improving our game. Have a nice day! ### 1/5 — Only beta servers for new players *2023-11-28* As a new game you have no chance of playing with old players (friends) because you can only get to K81 (beta server). K81 has no contact with the others and changing is not possible. I don't like playing like that, I wanted to play with a friend. That doesn't work, so the game goes down again! ### 1/5 — The new update is the final nail in the coffin *2023-11-24* This game was already hugely outbalanced between F2P and P2P players.. with the new update and introduction of T6 troops, that gap has been significantly widened. T6 troops cost £420 to unlock all troop types, and then a further £100 per 600,000 troops, around enough for a full march for an average player. This is a ridiculous amount of money to pay, and the developers claim it brings a more fair and balance experience for all, they talk rubbish. Avoid this game at all costs, but if do you decide to play it, do not waste your money. ### 1/5 — Would rate negative stars *2023-06-21* On Monday, June 19, Skydradon’s game glitched and issued a system-wide email reward that was very generous. I cashed in. Later, I got an email where they admitted they screwed up and said they were going to take away those rewards and everything I bought and upgraded with it. Which, they did today. I want everyone to know how crappy this game software is written. So, if you do decide to get involved in this game, be prepared for an extremely buggy experience that never gets addressed. Skydragon ignores feedback like this and others that I have given because they don’t care about the players, only that players spend money. **Developer response:** Dear Lord, sorry for bad game experience, we will keep improving our game. Thank you for your feedback, have a nice day! About the deducting, we only deducted abnormal items and rewards those got from the abnormal mails, we did not deduct normal items and rewards. And we have sent normal rewards and compensation mail to all players after we fixed the issue. ### 1/5 — Buying offers *2023-05-28* An advice do not buy any offer from an Apple device because there are malfunctions in the game because the technical support of the game and Apple company is very weak Buy offers from Samsung because they give you back the money if you don't receive the offer some payment because there are several problems in the game **Developer response:** Dear Lord, if you meet any problem, you can contact us in game by click the GM button, we will help you. ### 1/5 — Engel *2022-11-15, version 1.9.1* Güncellemeden sonra büyük sorun yaşıyorum . Oyuna giremiyorum . Apple’ya bağlı kalenin silinmesini istiyorum. Çünoü oyuna giremiyorum ! ### 1/5 — FACEBOOK ISSUE *2022-11-15, version 1.9.1* Our players can not log in the game because there’s a issue with the Facebook accounts. Fix this. ### 1/5 — Too expensive to little to offer *2022-11-04, version 1.8.8* I downloaded the game for the tower game and finished it at lvl 500… very disappointing. The packs are way too overpriced to get too little I’ll just stick to Lords Mobile way better gaming experience. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The great fun game *2026-08-05, version 3.7.6* It’s a great fun game ### 5/5 — Об игре *2025-12-10* Здравствуйте, играю давно и есть с чем сравнивать . Без впн не работает как должно, с впн работает но тормозит(, впн в России глушат. А искать на просторах интернета рабочий занимает много времени. Уважаемые разработчики решите что то с этой проблемой. ### 5/5 — สนุกก *2025-11-01, version 3.4.5* สนุก ### 5/5 — Perfect game *2024-04-16, version 2.6.9* Good Game ### 5/5 — Juego *2024-03-27, version 2.6.6* Está muy padre el juego ### 5/5 — My favorite mobile game *2024-03-27* The challenges are addicting, the community is fun, and there are lots of events to keep you wanting more. ### 5/5 — Good Fun *2024-03-12* Everyone should play this game. But watch out, it can get costly. F2P is available, just takes longer to get as strong as P2P. ### 5/5 — New *2024-02-24* Seems like a very detailed and comprehensive game. Only played for a day so far. ### 5/5 — Güzel *2023-12-13, version 2.5.3* Güzel ### 5/5 — Tem que colocar os cristais das estátuas mais aseciveis *2023-11-01* Tem que colocar os cristais da as estátuas mais nos eventos --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*