# Run An Empire — user reviews > 362 indexed App Store user reviews of Run An Empire by Location Games Limited, rated 4.50/5 from 3,524 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/run-an-empire/id1073986257/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/run-an-empire/id1073986257.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,659 · 4★ 427 · 3★ 122 · 2★ 43 · 1★ 241 ## What do users think of Run An Empire? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Motivates to go out and exercise - ⚔️ Competitive and engaging gameplay - 🌍 Encourages exploring new areas - 👍 Unique concept combining fitness and strategy **Cons** - 🐛 Tracking issues and GPS problems - 💰 Subscription model and paywall concerns - 🔁 Repetitive gameplay and lack of progression - 🤖 Cheating and unfair advantage for some players **Commonly reported bugs** - Progress and data loss issues - Crashes and performance problems - Syncing issues with third-party apps **Most requested features** - Multiplayer and social features - More customization options - Improved tutorial and onboarding - Integration with other fitness apps ## Newest reviews (12 of 362) ### 4/5 — Rae *2026-01-02, version 3.12* Really fun and cool game but the ads are annoying ### 2/5 — Issue *2025-11-23, version 3.12* I don’t know how to choose land because it won’t let me when I click on the thing ### 3/5 — Subscription limits it *2025-10-10, version 3.12* I started replaying this game and it’s fun. But I noticed it is not what it used to be. Building my specialized buildings on the map now it’s a city? I can’t even relocate the city since I moved to a different state. I do enjoy the regional districts making it a battle for the neighbor/town against other players but I just conquered my second neighborhood and I can’t even see the rankings in it or the borders. I need to subscribe to control more than one district which is ridiculous. This game isn’t subscription worthy. I understand we all got to make money but the limitations is what ruins this application for me. I’ll still use it for runs but now the motivation to take new districts isn’t there. This game hasn’t been updated since 2023 according to the App Store so is this game and review just dead air? I hope a new update comes out. There is great potential for this game. Review from 2020 5/5 This game is fun. I love the idea of taking over a map and by implementing physical activity it really made the game enjoyable! ### 4/5 — Looks great but… *2025-06-11, version 3.12* Looks great and everything but you have to pay to play ### 4/5 — It’s nice but wish it was free *2025-01-21, version 3.12* That’s all ### 2/5 — Pay to PLAY *2024-12-31, version 3.12* Free to play is a lie when you can’t actually play the game without a $60 subscription. ### 4/5 — Great game, but I think the pro subscription is too intrusive *2024-07-12, version 3.12* I got this game very recently, and I LOVE IT. It’s giving me a reason to go outside even in the brutal heat to claim tiles. And I like that population gives you even more benefits during raids so it isn’t just for the city part of the game. But I do have issues with the pro subscription stuff. I’m not really someone to buy things for mobile games, so I think it’s really intrusive and here’s why. Some of the city tiles get people who give you quests or give you actual resources, but you can’t access the tile until they leave. However, some of the people require the pro subscription to even get rid of them. Which is so annoying. I wish I didn’t need a subscription in order to get rid of them. That’s all I really ask for. Otherwise, the subscription is fair. ### 2/5 — Slightly confused *2024-07-08, version 3.12* I originally downloaded this quite a while ago. Couldn’t really figure it out, also couldn’t compete with people who are running (vs my slow walking) or biking, gave it up as a bummer. Recently got back into walking and gave it another try. It has lots of potential. I visited the wiki to try to get some guidance and try to figure out what I was missing- not helpful. Tree tiles? Never seen one. Treasure chests? Never seen one. Eras? Science? Build castles? I’ve never seen *any* of this in my game. Like I said, lots of potential and I am motivated to capture hexes (I’m doing better since so many seem to have fled the game…) but this could be a lot better. ### 4/5 — Nice *2024-04-25, version 3.12* The game is ok it’s just I don’t like walking around I fell like this is not a game it’s a pacer app I still like it tho just make an update for taping and you conquer. ### 1/5 — Scam *2024-04-05, version 3.12* It tried to steal my location data ### 4/5 — It’s good but *2024-03-03, version 3.12* I like it a lot but I wish there were more customisation options. ### 3/5 — Fun game but not designed for out-and-back runners *2024-02-11, version 3.12* This is a great way to gamify running/walking/hiking. However, as an out-and-back runner and not a loop runner I don’t get as many points because you only get resources once per tile, per raid. If they could fix that that’d be great. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Why walk *2025-04-09, version 3.12* I wanted a empire game not a workout ### 1/5 — Absolutely TERRIBLE!!! *2025-03-07, version 3.12* I can’t sign in, so the game is terrible if I can’t play it ### 1/5 — Why it’s bad *2025-01-13, version 3.12* They are scamming you because I did the free trial because they still charge you money even if it’s free ### 1/5 — Not free *2024-10-29, version 3.12* Used to be free but now its pay to use. ### 1/5 — No f2p content *2024-09-24, version 3.12* Need to subscribe to earn passive coins. Alternative is to raid which is unrewarding. ### 1/5 — Not very motivating or fun. *2024-07-05, version 3.12* It’s some fun but you just need soooooo much exp and coins to do ANYTHING. And the amount of quests you get are too many. I want to run my own city, not build lots of houses to get access to a hex that a greedy quest giver took over. The plague doctors need so many resources to get off my land, and getting more is hardly ever an option. I also cant arrange things into a radius, like with the houses and town hall. Inbuilt more town halls, but the plague doctors tripled! Please fix these and maybe it would be decent. ### 1/5 — Scam *2024-06-06, version 3.12* You have to either pay a monthly fee or are forced to download apps. ### 1/5 — DUDE!!!! *2024-05-29, version 3.12* I’m very angry how they could do this to me I love games like this and I’ve been looking for one EXACTLY like this and I can’t find any well I did and it looks fun but guess what I need location services why would I need that and I don’t want to turn on location people spying on me sounds very weird then when I try to delete it I can’t what a waste of storage and my time pls remove location it would be amazing just let us pick somewhere on the map SMH ### 1/5 — It’s not free !!! *2024-04-26, version 3.12* I seriously hate this world. Get on and right away they want money to subscribe. ### 1/5 — Don’t even think about actually working out when using this *2024-04-14, version 3.12* I ran a 1.2 mile while this was on in 9 minutes. Not impressive at all, pretty standard. But when i finished it, the game said “suspected of cheating” and I lost literally all of my rewards on that raid. Genuinely insane dude. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Biker here *2025-05-17, version 3.12* Please add a version for bikers! ### 5/5 — I cant get pass the raid activity *2024-09-28, version 3.12* When I got on the game I passed these stuff then I wanted to raid but it’s not working so please fix this ### 5/5 — Game *2024-09-28, version 3.12* Best game I’ve ever played. It has really gotten me outside more than I used to be. ### 5/5 — great fun to play *2024-07-21, version 3.12* I like the game since i had it 2020 but it looks like it's downgraded since then. ### 5/5 — Goooooooooood *2024-06-30, version 3.12* You could run for some energy in this game You could raid for some energy Soooooooooooooo Goooood! ### 5/5 — Running an empire *2024-05-30, version 3.12* I think this is really good at telling when you’re cheating ### 5/5 — Cool game!! *2024-04-18, version 3.12* A good game and an interesting way to motivate you to run different routes. Awesome!! ### 5/5 — Good game but there is a stupid bug… *2024-03-26, version 3.12* I honestly like this game a ton but I am not really here to tell you why I like the game, there is a bug that needs spoken on. I had 7000 coins saved up from doing a few runs across town, and I decided to spend those coins to buy a city expansion (costs 1400 coins), the game lagged a little bit and it gave me 1 xp after I bought it and it didn’t show me buying it, so I clicked on the icon again and clicked spent… and I did that a few more times because it was not working and I thought it was not picking that up… well what you know I get the territory added but I have zero coins on 1400 coin purchase… I don’t really know what to do about this, I’ll probably have to stoop down and rebuild by coins, but it’s still a bug in the long run and I would love for it to be fixed so that such does not happen to other players. ### 5/5 — Love this game *2024-01-21, version 3.12* This game is sooo entertaining and not pay to win and it even encourages you to walk ### 5/5 — Good but… *2023-12-17, version 3.12* See if I was not in a dangerous neighborhood I would own the entire world lol. But since I live in a dangerous neighborhood we should have to option to get any piece of land once every 1-3 weeks so what I’m saying is for example in 1 week I get an option to take one piece of free land cause I can’t walk in my dangerous neighborhood. Now I don’t wanna delete the game because I have hope the game creator sees this review. Or just make it 1 month instead of weeks. That’s why I gave 4 stars. I will give five if change happens or something like that happens. --- *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 2026-09-02.*