# States Builder: Trade Empire — user reviews > 654 indexed App Store user reviews of States Builder by SayGames LTD, rated 4.60/5 from 23,867 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/states-builder-trade-empire/id6464049892/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/states-builder-trade-empire/id6464049892.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 18,950 · 4★ 2,635 · 3★ 1,275 · 2★ 370 · 1★ 637 ## What do users think of States Builder? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Addictive gameplay - 👍 Relaxing and enjoyable - 🚀 Decent progression - 🚀 Good for casual play **Cons** - 🐛 Laggy performance on some devices - 🔋 Overheating issues on some devices - 🔒 Missing cloud save functionality - 🐛 Glitches and bugs in certain levels - 💰 Aggressive monetization with ads **Commonly reported bugs** - Issues connecting required resources on certain levels - Inability to delete/remove small road connections - Rocket not registering completed deliveries **Most requested features** - Add level counter or progression tracking - Improve boat/port functionality - Introduce more resource variety and combinations - Add background music and sound effects - Improve UI layout and visibility on larger screens ## Newest reviews (12 of 654) ### 2/5 — Live/Hate *2026-09-05, version 1.12.4* Love this game, hate how many ads it has!! ### 3/5 — Glitch *2026-08-18, version 1.12.4* To many advertisements and is glitchy ### 2/5 — Good game but ads bugs *2026-08-17* Nice game, but ads keep openning safari. Keeps openning external browser. **Developer response:** Hello, dear friend! Thank you for reporting this problem with our tower war tactical game. We will try to fix it as soon as possible so that you can continue to enjoy it. Your feedback is extremely important to us because only together we can create the best game ever! ❤️🙏❤️ ### 2/5 — Gameplay *2026-08-11, version 1.12.4* The normal gameplay mode will definitely give you some entertainment. However, if you are interested in the PvP aspect this game has flaws. I’ve literally wiped my opponent off the map but yet am still losing the match, the math just isn’t mathing. If this aspect of the game was corrected it would be worth while. I’m only giving 2 stars because the normal game play mode does have some entertainment value ### 4/5 — Like the game but *2026-08-09, version 1.12.4* The game is fun but the current level is literally impossible. I can't connect the tire factory to the rocket because there is a building between them and no warehouse ### 3/5 — Реклама *2026-07-30* В игре есть бонусы за просмотр рекламы, но при этом саму рекламу посмотреть я не могу, при нажатии пишет что реклама недоступна **Developer response:** Добрый день, уважаемый друг! Благодарим вас за то, что вы сообщили о данной проблеме в нашей игре. Мы постараемся исправить ее как можно скорее, чтобы вы и дальше могли наслаждаться ею. Ваш комментарий крайне важен для нас, так как только вместе мы сможем создать самую лучшую игру! ### 4/5 — Second City Bug *2026-07-27, version 1.12.3* Great game- lots of fun! There is a bug it seems with the second city in levels where it doesn’t output as much gold as it says it should. For instance, my chocolate factory says it’s outputting 1000 when it only cashes out 600 on the second city. The first city is accurate. ### 2/5 — Will cook your battery *2026-07-25, version 1.12.3* Kind of fun resource management and direction game. Probably would have deleted after 10 levels of it wasn’t for rewards from other games. Getting to level 60 isn’t too bad, but seems to slow down significantly after that. According to my phones battery management app this game depletes a full battery in 1.5 hours of play, and makes phone almost too hot to touch. Makes me wonder if it’s running shady stuff in the background, because this in no ways should be a heavy phone resource game. ### 4/5 — Fun *2026-07-24, version 1.12.3* Once I figured out the objective, it was fun. Wish there had been directions offered or available. ### 2/5 — Aggressive forced ads *2026-07-19, version 1.12.3* 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. ### 3/5 — Game okay, but ads play too long *2026-07-17, version 1.12.3* 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. ### 1/5 — Nothing special *2026-07-11, version 1.12.3* 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. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — garbage meant to force in-app purchases *2026-08-29, version 1.12.4* The ad rate is at such a ridiculous level that it occasionally crashes, and it uses so much network bandwidth and processing in loading and changing ads constantly that it uses up more power than the charge port provides and, henceforth, drains the battery while plugged in. As for “Territory Capture” … I realize that true PvP competition would be hard and that you use simulated opponents instead, but the level of cheating is just plain blatant. I manage to get control of every tile on the map except for 3 that it won’t let me purchase, have a 19 billion lead on the scoreboard, and what happens after I go to sleep? The ‘opponent’ still only has control of 1 city and 1 soot, but now I’m 17 billion BEHIND on the leaderboard. Revolting cheats! ### 1/5 — Ads ads and more ads *2026-08-24, version 1.12.4* I’ve never seen such rampant ads anywhere. Banners, endless pushing of packs, forced ads everywhere. Completely unplayable and massive shame as it’s a fun little game but utterly ruined by intrusive and pushy ads. ### 1/5 — Do not trust *2026-08-20, version 1.12.4* Addictive. & when I play coincidentally spam calls and emails increase (downloaded, deleted, downloaded again weeks later). Be wary as they do share your info and you give them permission to by downloading and playing. ### 1/5 — Still no update- full of bugs *2026-08-20, version 1.12.4* Despite replying to my comment last time the developer has done nothing to improve the bugs. I would welcome some kind of new factory, but it’s the same factories on the same maps, but to advance in the game you now need 10 times as much money ### 1/5 — Ads, ads, ads. *2026-08-16, version 1.12.4* While I love the premise and I think the gameplay is fun… I just can’t give it anything above 1 star. You log in? They tell you to pay to remove ads. You buy too many properties? It’s ad time. You progress far enough for the game to force you to open up menus to see what’s new? Time for an ad break! Banner ads, unskippable ads, ads any time I open a menu or a progress window. I’ve easily made them $5-$10 in ad revenue simply by playing the game for a few hours! And don’t get me wrong, I understand the “Pay $5 to get our ad-free package!”.. But this is basically “Pay the $5 or you only get to play the game for 10 minutes out of every hour.” ### 1/5 — Broken app *2026-08-07, version 1.12.4* App is glitching will not let you get passed 1 level. ### 1/5 — Support is a Joke *2026-08-06, version 1.12.4* Have put in multiple support tickets to tell them what is wrong with the app. They didn’t do anything and just told me to wait. Been waiting for over 6 weeks for a fix. Still nothing. Don’t waste your time. ### 1/5 — Ads every 15 seconds, Rewards stopped *2026-08-04, version 1.12.4* I got this app through Test’em all. While the overflow of adds totally devalue this app, I had made it through many levels. Unfortunately, I stopped receiving the promise rewards through test’em all despite completing levels 33 and 52. This happens so frequently with Test’em all; developers they partner with, like this game, have to be aware and complice of this dishonesty. ### 1/5 — Excellent game ruined by “optional“ ads *2026-07-31, version 1.12.4* The game is enjoyable, however it is ruined by the fact that you have to spend about half your gameplay time watching “optional“ ads. While you can play it without the “optional“ ads, the gameplay will be slowed by about 95% making it utterly tedious and ultimately unplayable. So your choice is to spend half your gameplay time watching ads or be stuck on the same level for five days. ### 1/5 — Lots of bugs in the update *2026-07-25, version 1.12.3* Lots of enjoyable fun with this game except with the last update. You have to tap some buildings 10 to 15 times (that is not an exaggeration) before they react to finger press. In excavations a 1 appears in the inbox, but there is nothing to see. The idle two hours does not yield the same amount of gold as having a screen opened for two hours, in fact, it’s more like two minutes. Some adverts only go on for five seconds, but are repeated to fill a two minute window. I can bear adverts, but not like this. Sort your update out and fix those bugs. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Dios mío yo *2026-08-26, version 1.12.4* No Y La ### 5/5 — Baby *2026-08-22, version 1.12.4* Baby to not bad ### 5/5 — Seems fun *2026-08-17, version 1.12.4* Empire building game ### 5/5 — Progreso *2026-08-16, version 1.12.4* Entretenido, crecimiento constructivo, ayuda destrezas cognitivas. Lo recomendado para mejorar el enfoque y la atención en tareas. 👍 ### 5/5 — Relaxing game *2026-08-09, version 1.12.4* This game is so fun and relaxing and so fun and I love to unlock new areas ### 5/5 — Cool *2026-08-06, version 1.12.4* Fun would recommend:) ### 5/5 — Fun game! *2026-08-06, version 1.12.4* I enjoy building games and I have found this is quite fun. I had played it in the past and stopped when another game caught my attention. I recently restarted this game and I love the addition of the train. I hope they keep adding to it. There is much that could be done such as different cities of the same level ordering specific goods from other cities. They train could be used greatly in that capacity. ### 5/5 — Artur *2026-07-13* Muito bom **Developer response:** Thank you for such a high estimation of our efforts, dear friend! We hope that you will continue to enjoy states builder app and get only positive emotions as we carry on develop and improve it in every possible way ❤️🎉❤️ ### 5/5 — States Builder Trade Empire *2026-07-10, version 1.12.3* This game is the best ### 5/5 — Precisa de uma melhoria *2026-07-09* Poderia ter um sistema de salvar o progresso do jogo na nuvem. **Developer response:** Hello, dear friend, thank you for your highly important and precious feedback on our states builder game: it helps us make it even more entertaining! We'll be sure to take them into account in the development of the next updates. We wish you a lucky and sunny day! --- *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 2026-09-08.*