Ad bug makes game unplayable, bots need tweaking
I love this game, but many ads now get stuck to the point where it’s impossible to actually play the game. After watching an entire ad, there is no button to be pressed to progress to the game. Instead you have to close the app, reload it, watch another ad, and hope that it works that time. As far as gameplay, the only tweak I’d suggest is default bot behavior should be neutral when a player leaves the match. It’s ridiculous the amount of matches that are fun right up until the point someone quits and a bot unfairly ruins the game. 1 star until ad bug is fixed, otherwise I’d say 4.5 stars.
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Bought the game then blocked from playing
I recently bought the game had to buy fake dollars to purgase the game that was only wild in higher increments than the cost of the game. Then I was blocked for “playing with friends”. I have never played the game with anyone I know and don’t care about rankings. Just like playing risk. I have had trouble with the app crashing and not being able to roll dice to finish the game. I don’t know if this was the issue. The support ticket system is a pain. And feel like the parchase was a rip off. Risk is fun the app creators just did a poor job creating the app.
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Ads ruin great game
Risks is a great game and this is well implemented
However the developers are greedy and unscrupulous
I purchased this game and it still shows me ads
The ads break App Store terms of service by forcing you to click on the ad and go to App Store to view random games I do not want
You cannot just wait or close the ad without this
Apple
Should remove this game till they stop
Cheating
However the developers are greedy and unscrupulous
I purchased this game and it still shows me ads
The ads break App Store terms of service by forcing you to click on the ad and go to App Store to view random games I do not want
You cannot just wait or close the ad without this
Apple
Should remove this game till they stop
Cheating
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Connection issues
This is fixed —Consistently can’t stay connected to a game in progress, but it can ask me to rejoin a game from yesterday? It also fails to allow me to rejoin a game in progress after exiting the app. Very poor. Get it together please—
For the love of all that’s holy tho do not waste your life on dice games in general. They will run through all your 10 territories and take 0 losses and you will lose 1-3 on every counter conquest. This game is cute, and a classic, and excellently implemented in this way by developers who actually put thought and effort into the beauty both out and inner of this game.
Fixed --Balanced blitz is unbalanced, and both progressive and fixed card systems are terrible. Make a constant plus 2 scaling card system, it’s so easy --
Fixed — The amount of times I’ve been disconnected while making a big play convinces me of cheaters.—
For the love of all that’s holy tho do not waste your life on dice games in general. They will run through all your 10 territories and take 0 losses and you will lose 1-3 on every counter conquest. This game is cute, and a classic, and excellently implemented in this way by developers who actually put thought and effort into the beauty both out and inner of this game.
Fixed --Balanced blitz is unbalanced, and both progressive and fixed card systems are terrible. Make a constant plus 2 scaling card system, it’s so easy --
Fixed — The amount of times I’ve been disconnected while making a big play convinces me of cheaters.—
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Don’t waste your time
The worst mobile game I’ve played, forces you to watch a 2 minute unavoidable ad, you get into a game, then it kicks you and makes you watch another 2 minute unavoidable advert before you go back on.
Could be great but
The game setup and play is very well done but people will be people. The collaboration is rampant and obvious but I am not sure how it can be stopped. The other problem is inexperienced players take too long and behave completely illogically.
Previous versions allowed you to see the skill level of others so you could pick games with better players which leads to another issue, the ranking system. Tough to get to master or grandmaster but 4-5 losses is a row tosses you back to beginner.
Previous versions allowed you to see the skill level of others so you could pick games with better players which leads to another issue, the ranking system. Tough to get to master or grandmaster but 4-5 losses is a row tosses you back to beginner.
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Completely Broken: Lost 3 98% chance attacks in a row
The probabilities are completely broken, opponents are irrational and ruin the game. you can’t control for one of your opponents being an idiot and attacking you for no reason taking themselves and you out of the game
Ridiculously unreal dice rolls
Blitz roll is now worse than it ever has been before. I had 320 men and was attacked by a player that had LESS than 200 men and I lost?!?!? This has become commonplace so I don’t know if this master ranked player can handle much more of it.
Love it but sick of the bugs!!
I love the game! But I’m exhausted of the game bugging atbsome point, restarting over, or freezing. It’s been years, what’s the problem???
Ads really suck
They put the continue button in the worst placement. Have to exit out…
Screwed
Didn’t receive battle points for completing the tutorial and no response from customer service. I will not invest 1 minute or $1 into this game until this is resolved.
Update: Took 3 weeks to fix the issue and was told this only happened to 1 person previously when the tutorial was completed offline. Deleted my account and made a new one and it happened again while I was 100% online. How is the tutorial bugged?!?
Update: Took 3 weeks to fix the issue and was told this only happened to 1 person previously when the tutorial was completed offline. Deleted my account and made a new one and it happened again while I was 100% online. How is the tutorial bugged?!?
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Not a great game as is
Edits at bottom-
TLDR:There are so many problems with the game, I wish Hasbro had another partner for mobile.
I think this might be my biggest complaint: the ads in the game are pernicious. You could watch 4 ads for a single game. That’s because it’s 5 coins per ad, 10 coins plus an ad to join a game, AND sometimes you have to watch another ad after gaining coins. I mean seriously 4 ads for one game? And then because of the other problems with the mobile platform you could be finished with your game in a couple minutes. It is possible to spend more time watching ads than playing. For such a classic game as Risk I think Hasbro needs a new partner. Get rid of SMG.
Next issue: it’s almost impossible to communicate with other people. So if you think someone else is saying they’re willing to go allies with you to the end by using fist bumps and that garbage you just can’t ever believe it. I did in my last game and so instead my “Ally” attacked me and the third player won. Sounds simple, but it’s basically a game-breaking design. Because there are emojis that *seem* like they should be for communication but they’re not really. They don’t mean anything. You can always assume it’s a lie. A corollary is that you should always betray your ally because they’re planning to betray you. And because the bad “communication” system is in the design of the game I hold the developer responsible. There are other problems, like bugs, also game-breaking usually. And the dice-rolling never seems fair or correct. Supposedly they’ve fixed it but I don’t think so. There’s more but I’ve said enough.
Edit6: the game is still terrible in September 2026. Bad design and incomprehensible logic. Ads are inane and the developers lie about how it’s just 30 seconds. Sometimes an ad doesn’t even put you in the queue for a game, you’ve got to watch another. I know I could pay for the higher tier access to game content but until smg fixes the many many issues I will not be doing that. I wish Hasbro would pick another mobile/online developer.
Edit5: I submitted a ticket as Luci asked me to. But none of the problems I raised have been fixed (except maybe ibailand caps - I haven’t checked in a while). So my rating of the game stays at the lowest.
Edit4: bots! The design of the bots is terrible. I just played a game where a stalling player was just letting the bot add troops while they stayed in the game taking the full turn timer. It became apparent that another player was going to win so I targeted the staller or so I thought. Then the player left for real and the bot started attacking me at the same time as an ally betrayed me. A beautiful example of two game breaking flaws in the design of the game: first there are no true alliances so always betray first. Second, bots are erratic and may come to life and ruin your game at any moment.
Edit3: the ads! They’re so bad. The worst ones are from chaos puzzle when they say “Shhh don’t tell your wife!” While putting salacious images on screen. Also bad in another way is when you click on ads it sometimes says loading forever without actually loading. I get you want to make money on ftp people but it’s gross when an ad runs 5+ times with the bar at the bottom getting slower as it goes on. How are these other companies paying for that extra ad time? Why are they asking us to not tell our wives? Gross. Also it’s 3 ads per game because you get 5 coins per ad, 10 coins per game, and you have to watch another ad to search for a game. And the ads freeze sometimes which means it can be more than 3 ads to play one game. Gross.
Edit2: I’ve downgraded to 1 star again. The lack of meaningful negotiation capabilities while the game boasts that you can make alliances and such is a deal breaker for me. So glad I haven’t spent money on it. It really makes me rethink the multiple board game versions of the game I’ve bought over the years.
Edit: I’m upgrading to two stars because the developers cared to give me a response. But I still don’t think the emotes make sense. It’s just enough communication to be an unpleasant part of the game but not enough to use effectively. In an OTB game you’d have some social interaction consequences if you always broke your alliance. And therefore people would get to know if they could trust you. Maybe if the app version of the game added a “% of the time this player breaks alliances” feature I could be happy. Or a game mode where alliances had a window in which they were unbreakable. As is, I do not like the emotes or communication or alliance part of this game and it’s bad enough that I am giving it a low rating here on the App Store.
As for my other concerns, the developer did not respond to them, and while it’s been a few days since my last game breaking bug they still happen every so often. Crashes during gameplay. Multiple cap selection (seems to be an ibailand problem). Unclickable screen during troop deployment. These things still happen from time to time.
TLDR:There are so many problems with the game, I wish Hasbro had another partner for mobile.
I think this might be my biggest complaint: the ads in the game are pernicious. You could watch 4 ads for a single game. That’s because it’s 5 coins per ad, 10 coins plus an ad to join a game, AND sometimes you have to watch another ad after gaining coins. I mean seriously 4 ads for one game? And then because of the other problems with the mobile platform you could be finished with your game in a couple minutes. It is possible to spend more time watching ads than playing. For such a classic game as Risk I think Hasbro needs a new partner. Get rid of SMG.
Next issue: it’s almost impossible to communicate with other people. So if you think someone else is saying they’re willing to go allies with you to the end by using fist bumps and that garbage you just can’t ever believe it. I did in my last game and so instead my “Ally” attacked me and the third player won. Sounds simple, but it’s basically a game-breaking design. Because there are emojis that *seem* like they should be for communication but they’re not really. They don’t mean anything. You can always assume it’s a lie. A corollary is that you should always betray your ally because they’re planning to betray you. And because the bad “communication” system is in the design of the game I hold the developer responsible. There are other problems, like bugs, also game-breaking usually. And the dice-rolling never seems fair or correct. Supposedly they’ve fixed it but I don’t think so. There’s more but I’ve said enough.
Edit6: the game is still terrible in September 2026. Bad design and incomprehensible logic. Ads are inane and the developers lie about how it’s just 30 seconds. Sometimes an ad doesn’t even put you in the queue for a game, you’ve got to watch another. I know I could pay for the higher tier access to game content but until smg fixes the many many issues I will not be doing that. I wish Hasbro would pick another mobile/online developer.
Edit5: I submitted a ticket as Luci asked me to. But none of the problems I raised have been fixed (except maybe ibailand caps - I haven’t checked in a while). So my rating of the game stays at the lowest.
Edit4: bots! The design of the bots is terrible. I just played a game where a stalling player was just letting the bot add troops while they stayed in the game taking the full turn timer. It became apparent that another player was going to win so I targeted the staller or so I thought. Then the player left for real and the bot started attacking me at the same time as an ally betrayed me. A beautiful example of two game breaking flaws in the design of the game: first there are no true alliances so always betray first. Second, bots are erratic and may come to life and ruin your game at any moment.
Edit3: the ads! They’re so bad. The worst ones are from chaos puzzle when they say “Shhh don’t tell your wife!” While putting salacious images on screen. Also bad in another way is when you click on ads it sometimes says loading forever without actually loading. I get you want to make money on ftp people but it’s gross when an ad runs 5+ times with the bar at the bottom getting slower as it goes on. How are these other companies paying for that extra ad time? Why are they asking us to not tell our wives? Gross. Also it’s 3 ads per game because you get 5 coins per ad, 10 coins per game, and you have to watch another ad to search for a game. And the ads freeze sometimes which means it can be more than 3 ads to play one game. Gross.
Edit2: I’ve downgraded to 1 star again. The lack of meaningful negotiation capabilities while the game boasts that you can make alliances and such is a deal breaker for me. So glad I haven’t spent money on it. It really makes me rethink the multiple board game versions of the game I’ve bought over the years.
Edit: I’m upgrading to two stars because the developers cared to give me a response. But I still don’t think the emotes make sense. It’s just enough communication to be an unpleasant part of the game but not enough to use effectively. In an OTB game you’d have some social interaction consequences if you always broke your alliance. And therefore people would get to know if they could trust you. Maybe if the app version of the game added a “% of the time this player breaks alliances” feature I could be happy. Or a game mode where alliances had a window in which they were unbreakable. As is, I do not like the emotes or communication or alliance part of this game and it’s bad enough that I am giving it a low rating here on the App Store.
As for my other concerns, the developer did not respond to them, and while it’s been a few days since my last game breaking bug they still happen every so often. Crashes during gameplay. Multiple cap selection (seems to be an ibailand problem). Unclickable screen during troop deployment. These things still happen from time to time.
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Frauds and Thieves
Stealing from kids is this company’s expertise! This is the most corrupt game and company and they’re stealing millions of dollars! They’re the Donald Trump sof gaming, complete frauds and frankly they severely damage the reputation of Aussies and Kiwis and make them all look like thieves and frauds; Australia/New Zealand should prosecute these pricks and save their reputations! Don’t play this game!
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Too many cheaters and hackers
You really have no chance of enjoying this game. Too many with teaming or cheating. Expect to play 3-4 against you every-time.
Terrible…
When you open the game and your are like “Ooh I can’t wait!” Then you complete the tutorial and play for real then you see
“Pay 10 coins to play” and you are so frustrated. One Star.
-Mr.Clucker (find me on YouTube)
“Pay 10 coins to play” and you are so frustrated. One Star.
-Mr.Clucker (find me on YouTube)
laggy game but fun !
Ads are permanent making the game unplayable and the games lag out that you can’t control when it’s your turn I’ve had this game since 2022 and this is the worse it’s been fix it .
Worst developers
Money grabbers who default the same reply for cheaters, ruined the game. Cowboys
They don’t respond to tickets
Trying to access my account after spending money in game more than once. The game says to open a ticket instead of leaving a review so they can promptly respond….. Multiple open tickets and no response
What a classic
Finally a turned based skill game that awards audacity and keeping the game moving
By far the buggiest game
The amount of time this game crashes, kicks you out, gets stuck on loading without way of going back and not refunding your tokens. All while making you watch countless ads is exhausting.
