States Builder User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience38.0% of reviews
Neutral17.5% of reviews
Negative experience44.6% of reviews

~ Based on 606 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is States Builder Safe?

States Builder: Trade Empire appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for States Builder is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 22,654 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 18,171 App Store ratings for States Builder.

Is States Builder Legit?

States Builder: Trade Empire appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for States Builder is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Aggressive forced ads

There’s not much to the game, it’s kind of a zen no skill needed experience. Pleasant enough but ruined by continuous, aggressive forced ads and relentless monetization that also break your game progress. Forced ads will play even if you’ve just watched a bunch of rewarded ads. The ads themselves can be over 2 minutes, with multiple interactions required to hunt for tiny buttons hidden in the corners, followed by another 45s wait followed by another tiny button hunt etc. Truly a terrible experience on what could be a decent chill type game otherwise.
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Game okay, but ads play too long

The ads you have supporting your app run three times longer than average for other games. That is a crucial disadvantage when doing competitive play. Also, the amount of resources required to build in competitive play versus solo are off the charts ridiculous literally forcing one to watch ads to advance. For these reasons I give your game three stars.
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Nothing special

Like the 7th best ad machine game on the App Store. Even going “ad free” up front it still just bombards you with pop ups for more packs and “optional ads” to speed things up. Just get Builderment, much better logistics game. Would not recommend.

Ads machine

Sad to be deleting this. I like the gameplay. But the only way to win multiplayer events is to be CONSTANTLY watching ads rather than just playing the game.

States Builder Trade Empire

This game is the best

Devs got greedy Update ruined the game

The game used to be a fun thing to pass the time but this last update where an ad plays every time you click on something is just ridiculous. This seems to be the way that the app industry is going create a game that people like get people hooked the update and force ads every 20 seconds. Don’t waste your time! AND WHY THE HELL ARE WE SEEING 2 MINUTE LONG ADS EVERY20-30 SECONDS?!? 10-15 seconds is plenty
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Territory capture

Been playing this game for years, but the territory grab it is impossible to get all the rewards. I even dominated the whole map and watch ads for currency, but still do not get all the rewards it makes a person not to participate in the weekend awards gotta make the rewards achievable. We are raising all this money for you by watching the ads.
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So fun with five stars

If you don’t know a game, I get bored a lot even though when I get new games, but this game is kind of just like make me feel like I can buy lots of stuff not in real life. I’m joking. I’m joking. I’m joking but like in the game like it’s so funny it doesn’t really get boring to me there. I’ve not have an added an ad yet so that’s pretty good and I love how this game doesn’t get boring uh-oh I just had an ad only one ad though. It is it’s a real good one. There are like barely any ants, but there’s like only one per game. I don’t know how many so play the game now.
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Territory Capture Lies

The Territory Capture feature pretends to have an opponent that you compete with for land and economic growth, but it’s just an automated algorithm that grows your opponent’s money no matter what actually happens. I cut off all of my opponent’s income and resources and their money kept increasing. They had $0 in actual earnings to their city, yet they were gaining money as quickly as I was. The whole thing is a lie. 2 stars.
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Hi

It’s amazing so far so let’s hope it stays that way

Good game but bonus section feels rigged

Overall, a great game ,but something is amiss with the Lost Treasures. I am currently on level 350, and after all this time my selection of 1 of the 2 last items gave me 14 correct prizes(the one I wanted) !?! In the real world this is a 50/50 chance , 50% chance. My yield is at 4%. Sorry, I have a better chance at the arcade!

Final update : just finished level 360, and as expected, in 10 levels, the best so called prize was NEVER selected.

Updated July 3 2026
I restarted game, and am at level 89. So far have not selected the highest item in any of the tries. Definitely a rigged section, like those at a carnival. Game is fun, but do not care for the impossible odds in getting rewards.
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Last Jan ‘26 update

A bit of a cash grab still, more so with most recent update and new HUB With market, academy, elixir vending. They removed a way to get free gold cards completely. I’ve stopped playing daily 😑

Track number of levels

Unlike most games I’ve played like this for some reason I find than more addicting than others. The thing I don’t like is you don’t have a level tracker. You show the worlds when you go in the rocket but technically each world is multiple levels. Why not show a number count to show your progress

The new update fixed my problem!!

A week or 2 ago I left a review saying I loved this game but recently something happened and all the tiles cost way too much!! But after I left the review a couple days later the developers responded (which i know is probably autogenerated, but still) I went back and the tiles prices were super reasonable again and the game was progressing way faster and the way it used too!! Thank you so much for fixing this issue!! 5/5 stars!! Love this game
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Addictive

Fun zone builder

New Update Fixed the Game

I have to start this review by thanking the developers for listening to recent reviews and changing the game for the better. The land prices have been rebalanced to be a lot more fair to the player. The upgrade and region unlock prices are still a little too expensive, but I can truly see the effort from the devs to appeal to those who had expressed their grievances. I had to put the game down for about a month while they worked out the kinks, but I am now back to the grind :)
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The game cheats

It cheats you in the territory capture mode. Idk if these are real people or bots. But I am losing first place to the opponent that I have full cut off from their cities. They can not make income yet are somehow maintaining a lead against me. In the terms of hundreds of millions. It is very blatant and pathetic
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Adslop

Sit too long? Ad. Progress in the game? Ad. Log in? Ads. Want daily challenges? Ads. I spend more time watching ads than actually PLAYING

Kinda fun

Its a relatively fun game but the ads are an absolute nightmare. I am ok with a game that has ads, but the ads in this app dont close properly and stay open eternally, having to eventually close and restart the app. Sort it out.

Crazy increase of property

After playing a bit the property costs increase so much that only way to advance is to watch so many ads