# Nano Empire — user reviews > 81 indexed App Store user reviews of Nano Empire by James Senter, rated 4.70/5 from 145 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nano-empire/id994354970/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nano-empire/id994354970.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 118 · 4★ 17 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of Nano Empire? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - ♿ Fully accessible with VoiceOver for blind/visually impaired users - 😊 Highly addictive and engaging gameplay - 💰 Excellent value at $0.99 price point - 📖 Compelling narrative and story elements - 🎮 Multiple endings with good replay value - 🏗️ Creative world-building mechanics - ⚡ Minimal file size (6 MB) with rich content - 🎯 Well-paced progression system - 🆓 No ads or pay-to-win mechanics - 📱 Simple, intuitive UI design **Cons** - 🐛 Game crashes on startup after 9 years without updates - ⚔️ Combat system feels unbalanced and overly frequent - 🎮 Limited endgame content and replay value - 📊 Game crashes when stats reach very high numbers - ⏱️ Resources only generate while app is active - 🔄 VoiceOver focus issues with status bar - 😕 Unsatisfying endings that feel anticlimactic - 🎯 Combat math doesn't always make sense - 🏗️ Limited building variety and customization options - ⚠️ Game resets progress unexpectedly in some scenarios **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes immediately upon clicking any button (recent) - Game crashes when player stats reach hundreds of millions - Unexpected game reset after defeating all worlds and joining Core - VoiceOver focus constantly switches to status bar - Combat system mathematical inconsistencies - Progress loss when deleting app after crashes **Most requested features** - More enemy variety and additional world sets - Stat conversion system to reallocate resources between stats - Multiplayer mechanics and PvP battles - Alliance system with chat and cooperation features - Overworld map for exploration and player interaction - Ability to continue playing after defeating final boss - Sound effects and audio improvements - Amusement park building type - Customizable personal residence with multiple themes - Higher building level caps (beyond level 4) - Option to skip or reduce combat frequency - Ability to name your world - Quick action shortcuts for facilities - Offline resource generation - More story content and narrative depth ## Newest reviews (15 of 81) ### 5/5 — Ponder the Greatness *2020-06-23, version 1.2.1* Within the first five minutes, I was hooked! Set in a dystopian future, this little pocket dungeon is full of imaginative realms. I loved grinding my stats, beating a enemies, and of course, the surprise ending. ### 5/5 — Great!!! *2020-06-14, version 1.2.1* The game is great. I just got an ending. I’d love to see more games like this, particularly a fantasy RPG with fairies, dragons, elves, goblins, and the like. Thanks for an accessible game. ### 5/5 — Wow, I am Core Council *2020-01-13* Bought this a while back, but recent sat down to understand it. Wow, Nano totally captures my attention and after a week of on and off, I finally crushed Z! It’s totally an enjoyable progress bar sim that had enough sci-fi writing to pull me into the universe. ### 5/5 — Awesome game! *2019-11-16, version 1.2.1* Highly recommend it! ### 5/5 — Great little strategy gem *2019-10-21* Excellent incremental strategy game. Couldn’t stop playing once I started... I had to beat it 4 times to see the different endings. It was a lot of fun to fine tune a speed running strategy to get to the end faster each time. Outstanding game design! ### 5/5 — This game has so much potential *2019-04-18* I really really love the concept of this game, you should reallllly look into trying to develop it a bit more...I swear I’d play the heck out of it since I’ve already played liked 20 worlds so far already...only for 99¢?! The story, the simply yet progressive design and all of that stuff in the game is just, SO on point. I promise whatever update you add, if I gotta purchase an add-on ID BE COMPLETELY OKAY WITH THAT. I checked your twitter and it said you were a college student working on game development. I’m really happy to see your upcoming, and I’d love to see some more creative versatile world builders like this one. Major major props. Good luck in school! ### 5/5 — Great value and story *2019-04-14, version 1.2.1* This is a fantastic incremental which does not use a pay-to-speed mechanic. It tells a single story, like Spaceplan or Universal Paperclips. Well worth a dollar. ### 5/5 — Great! *2019-03-21, version 1.2.1* If you can enjoy text based game you will really love this game. ### 5/5 — Jack *2019-02-03* Great game for a blind player quite addictive ### 5/5 — Great fun. Has a STORY! *2019-01-22* Nice clicker. Good pace. Storyline is fun. Recommended. ### 5/5 — A great little game *2019-01-18* This is a fantastic game. It is fully accessible with Voice over. You just want to keep playing it. I really enjoyed playing this and am looking forward to playing more like this in the future. ### 5/5 — A good game *2018-10-14* A good game with lots of fun. Lots to do and see. Plenty of fun for all. ### 5/5 — Great *2018-10-10, version 1.2.1* Love this and great it accessible with voice over and would more games please! ### 5/5 — It may not be different but it is good *2018-09-16* How many cups of coffee wint cold while playing this game? I’ve lost count. it’s an engaging game and for a first attempt well, it’s really, really good. I like it. Never did get to dosome stuff though but I can always reset. ### 5/5 — A hidden Gem *2018-08-30* I had a great time going through this game. A very unique story. I wish these types of well made but small games got more attention in the App Store. If you are reading this I recommend you give it a try. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes *2025-04-03* Unfortunately this game no longer works. With the last update being from 9 years ago, be warned that now, the game crashes as soon as you click anything within it. Shame but the dev let it die, which doesn’t make me want to download his other games anymore… ### 3/5 — Improvements *2021-08-18* I do really love this game I love being the creator of the world but I was thinking we could have a building where do you have an amusement park and you have to create it and we can make the personal residence have a level five where you can make it look like a castle or a boat or anything that you want it to be ### 3/5 — Nice diversion for an afternoon *2018-01-22* First, I want to get the accessibility thing out of the way. It's the only reason I didn't rate the game higher. It was frustrating to play because when I would try to activate a button, VO would have trouble focusing on it long enough. So I would request a slower refresh rate for VO users. The turn-based combat was very nice for VO, though. Gave me time to read the status and decide what to do. I played through the game a few times to see the different endings. I like that you can win without resorting to extortionist methods like, you know, taxes. It was also possible to win without being unsavory. Yes, the energy you end the game with isn't nearly as great as if you took all available sources of production, but you were still producing. Good that I wasn't forced to be a villain just to win. The combats were a bit excessive. I suppose I could have zapped them and been done with it. But that's energy that could go into worldbuilding, so I never felt like it was a good use of resources unless I absolutely had to use it. It's astounding how much loot I could get from one fight, though, and I like how that was scaled. I almost never felt like I was strapped for energy. And if I did run low, I would often get help. That was a nice addition, too, that I haven't seen in other games. I'm not sure I really like any of the endings I saw. Kind of makes it feel like all the effort to build the world was a waste. At least, it's not like I lost days. The world can be built in a matter of hours. I enjoyed the worldbuilding. It was neat to see a blank world become a mighty empire and to have an established economy and steady stream of followers. This game is worth a look if you like text-based things with some roleplay elements. ### 3/5 — Sad I can't give 5 stars. *2016-07-05, version 1.2.1* It got to a point that regardless of my my defense and having a high attack I kept getting attacked by a bigger enemy that would effortlessly wipe me out over and over and over again. No matter how much I focused on raising my defense I got wiped out. This killed the game for me. I wish to play more but that needs to change. ### 3/5 — A Good Game Ruined! *2016-04-09* This is a beautifully written, well thought out game with, for me, one huge flaw which ruins it. The fights come way too often. You have no time to create or build, which is why I wanted the game, you're far too busy fighting off invaders and it gets boring and frustrating very fast indeed. I wish we could opt not to fight, or it could be saved until our world had developed at least to a certain level, but for now I feel so frustrated. I was loving my worldl but I can't get it any better. ### 4/5 — The first revew I've ever written that was not one star *2023-08-11* It is very good. I love the fact that each time you up grade, there is something new you can add to the location. However, the person who wins is usually the one with the most defence or attack. I know that in most battles the person with the ods on their side usually wins but not always. Take bozworth field for examsle although I goguess the only reason Richard lost was because Stanley interveened. Very good and I love the fact that you can create a mountain of candy and all sorts of other things. It's intirely free to play and you can get energy (the games currencey for free from your enemies. Also I wish their were options to make alliances with other worlds. Amazing. Keep it up and by the way developer if you see this I subscribed to your mailing list and cannot wait to play more games like this. I have just gone back to continue having finished and it has taken me back to the start. What? I'd defeated all the other worlds and it told me that I was now part of the core. Meaning the empire was mine to explore. I thought the rest of the battles would happen when I was doing that and it has arraised everything I ganed. And it's still the same enemies. ### 4/5 — Grate game but *2023-07-11* I love this game and sunk many hours in to it. However I became slitly overpowered with all stats in the hundreds of millions. folowing this my game crashed over and over again forcing me to delete it. This of caus erased all of my work. Plz fix ### 4/5 — Whoa... *2018-05-04* Only one complaint - the combat system doesn’t always make sense mathematically. 999,999,999 versus 5,000 and it takes more than a single hit to win? Other than that, great game. Already beat it once, going to try different tactics my second time through. ### 4/5 — Amazing *2017-11-01, version 1.2.1* This game is fun, I just there was something after you beat all opponents. ### 4/5 — Lady Levi *2017-05-21* Very cool game. I'm a voice over user and really appreciate how accessible it is. I just completed it and am going to play it again ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Brilliant game. *2026-04-18* This is a brilliant game as it really draws the attention of the player. I am blind and so this game is really accessible with VoiceOver. The enemies are interesting and I like never knowing when I am going to get attacked. It can be extremely frustrating when you havn’t the defence to deal with them but that’s all part of the fun. Thank you for making this game accessible. ### 5/5 — I would play the game a lot if you didn’t have anything better to do. *2025-03-26* It’s a lot of fun! ### 5/5 — Great game *2024-11-20* It’s an amazing game and so great and its simplicity! if I would suggest any improvements, then maybe adding another three or four sets of enemies so there there will be some sort of variation to a game Also a possibility to continue playing it after you defeat Z Maybe some sort of uprising in one of your own worlds or something Thank you ### 5/5 — really, really good and interesting. *2024-06-28* I've found myself spending hours and hours on this game and it is totally worth it. But, I would like to suggest some features that would make this game even better! It would be so cool if you could convert any of your stats into another stat. Say you had 100 energy and only 10 attack, you would be able to convert some of your energy and turn it into attack. I think this feature would be really cool and very useful. If you could add this, I would be so happy. Thank you for reading this review. If your looking to purchase the app, I highly recommend you do. ### 5/5 — Very cool accessible game!! *2023-08-13, version 1.2.1* This game is a very cool idea, and is 100% accessible with voice over. Thank you very much for your time on this :) !!! ### 5/5 — One of the best incremental games *2023-07-25* Classic game. Help the resistance or seize power for yourself. It’s up to you! NOTE: to learn the secret, repeatedly Listen to the Voices at the Great Clown Head and note down all words that have capitalized letters. When you write these down in alphabetical order, the capitalized letters will reveal a secret message. ### 5/5 — Game length *2023-06-27, version 1.2.1* This is awesome and addicting. I just wish it was longer and had more enemies. ### 5/5 — Addictive and fun *2023-02-01, version 1.2.1* As someone who had eyesight and use to love world, empire or city building war games, but uses VoiceOver, it wasn’t that bad. I can’t imagine how fun it would be if there was actual multiplayer mechanics such as battling other real players online or being able to join alliances and text and chat with them or if the game also had an overworld map where you could locate other players or mine resources, text and chat with and or attack other individual players or text and chat with everyone in that overworld or server. Plus, if you’re in an alliance, you could reinforce or send resources or rally with them to defeat stronger individual players and it would be cool if you could name your world too. I’m not sure how an overworld map would work with VoiceOver, but maybe if there was a way to use VoiceOver’s direct touch on the overworld map, it could work maybe because some games with direct touch designed for blind people allow the VoiceOver user to navigate grids or map tiles horizontally by swiping left or right with one finger and while swiping up or down with one finger lets you navigate vertically. I also think two finger double tap could be used to bring up a menu from the overworld map that lets you search for a specific map tile by typing in the row and column or (X and Y) coordinates or from that menu you could choose to return to the “Your world” menu where you can choose to continue the campaign, create or select one of the locations you already have so you can use one of it’s functions or upgrade it or just to review the overall progress of your world’s or empire’s growth and progress. Swiping left, right, up and down with two fingers can have VoiceOver read your current amount of energy, followers, attack points and defense points (depending on the resource assigned to each direction you swipe in), while swiping left, right, up and down with three fingers can read your current production rates of energy, followers, attack points and defense points. (Also depending on the direction you swipe in for each resource) If this game was multiplayer, it would be cool if it could track a lifetime of things like your victories, defeats, kills, lost and resources plundered or lost. this game is fun, but it’s really short and the upgrades are very limited because the maximum level for each building is level 4 and after you fully upgrade everything and either complete the campaign or the underworld, there’s really no replay value besides trying to get the few different endings this game has. i’ve always loved games that always has a endless amount of challenges or goals to reach, such as reaching a certain level or getting a certain amount of kills, I don’t know what it is about these types of games that attracts me but I think it’s when I complete those challenges or goals, I always feel a sense of accomplishment, or it just feels rewarding and it just motivates me to play more and more no matter what happens or how hard it gets or how much I lose. Yes, this game is super short and I literally beat it the day after I downloaded it and it really doesn’t have any replay value besides the different endings, it still managed to simulate that sense of accomplishment or being rewarding even if it was short lived. this game does have a lot of potential and honestly if I had to pay some micro transactions and I chose to pay to win I might because this game has that potential to be so much better and I would love to see more games just like this one that have reached it’s full potential, but I’m not going to knock this game’s rating for what it could be. ### 5/5 — Great game *2022-09-10, version 1.2.1* Might be great MSound affects ### 5/5 — Very cool game! *2020-08-03* This is a very cool game for those of us who use VoiceOver and are visually impaired. Sad to see it end, though/sure wish it could’ve had a few more battles/places to create. Oh well! It was fun/worth the purchase. --- *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 2026-08-28.*