# System Lords — user reviews > 28 indexed App Store user reviews of System Lords by John Steuber, rated 4.10/5 from 35 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/system-lords/id1149692858/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/system-lords/id1149692858.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 21 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## Newest reviews (8 of 28) ### 3/5 — SG1 *2024-07-06* Huge fan watched em all! Game play is slow and rough. And depending which big teams attention you catch first you come to a swift death and all progress is lost ….. a better of being sustained would be nice and maybe have lvl limits of who can attack who ### 4/5 — Understand *2024-02-29* This game is really fun I got into it just 2days ago and I love it. All I would want is more info out you can’t look it up and it’s hard to learn the information needed like how to get advanced research points etc but besides that it is a really fun and good game besides some short comings ### 4/5 — Good game *2023-09-13, version 12.4* Good game in development so much potential. I enjoy this game. ### 4/5 — Stargate *2023-08-16, version 12.3* Great game but you should make it clearer that this is based off of Stargate. ### 4/5 — Tapping *2020-10-07, version 9.13* Nice Game.It raise the feeling of being a Member of the Stargate franchise. I‘ve made a mistake .I entered a wrong email adress. How can I change it? ### 4/5 — Univers de stargate respecté !! *2018-10-09, version 6* Super jeu , étant fan de stargate j’attendais un jeu de ce genre depuis longtemps ! Un peu compliqué à prendre en main mais après ça viens tout seul 👌🏻😁 seul petit problème pour moi , le jeu est uniquement en anglais... et quelque petit bug à résoudre ! Mais je tiens tout de même à dire bravo aux développeurs 👏 ### 2/5 — Needs optimization *2018-10-06* Very cool game. Seemed sketchy due to lack of easy to understand controls. Text is often small and hard to read on a phone (as opposed to tablet or other). It needs optimization for a better player experience. **Developer response:** There has been a lot of changes to this. Should give it another go. ### 4/5 — Surprisingly well made *2017-04-24* Very complicated game, but it's very well made and extremely immersive. I'm surprised such a large scale game has ever been made available for the iPhone. Only suggestion would be to add a tutorial and allow the game to be played in landscape. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2025-12-07* Looks like unlicensed use of the Stargate franchise intellectual property. Poor UI with suboptimal navigation and bugs that consume player time. Game universe itself seems dominated by a handful of players that pay for premium advantages over new arrivals. Slow. ### 1/5 — Broken *2024-09-09, version 13.0* After downloading and installing, picked tablet , and screen went to language and froze. ### 1/5 — SG1 *2024-07-13* Huge fan watched em all! Game play is slow and rough. And depending which big teams attention you catch first you come to a swift death and all progress is lost ….. a better of being sustained would be nice and maybe have lvl limits of who can attack who And as of recent an update was applied now I can’t play AT ALL doesn’t matter the platform some of don’t have computers so the game is still running on pc which means ALL OF US WHO HAVE ACCOUNTS ALREADY ARE JUST DYING BECAUSE OF HIS SCREW UP WITH THE UPDATE! ### 1/5 — SG1 *2024-07-11* Huge fan watched em all! Game play is slow and rough. And depending which big teams attention you catch first you come to a swift death and all progress is lost ….. a better of being sustained would be nice and maybe have lvl limits of who can attack who And as of recent an update was applied now I can’t play AT ALL doesn’t matter the platform some of don’t have computers so the game is still running on pc which means ALL OF US WHO HAVE ACCOUNY ALREADY ARE JUST DYING BECAUSE OF HIS SCREW UP WITH THE UPDATE! ### 1/5 — Developers money grab *2024-06-29* The developer and his buddies, play, and in my opinion, cheat! Only spend money if you wanna donate to group. You won’t keep what you buy long. It’s a pay to play! You’ll never win, unless you pay a whole lot to do so! Next time wait a little longer than a minute after the protection expires…. Ethics make companies that last! This company will be gone soon… ### 1/5 — Do not play *2023-11-03* If you are looking for a game to play this is not the one. There is some weird transvestite name Lord Trebor that makes the game unplayable. It only targets players under 500k strength while it has around 330 million and wipes them from the game. Don’t waste your time or your money on this game. ### 1/5 — Random changes *2021-07-04* Update to developer response: The information is not false. There are multiple screen shots of the developer making crazy claims. Similar reviews on multiple platforms in multiple countries. Reset was done with no warning. Just happened. Initially reset only big players giving a small portion of what they purchased back. Then when called out he reset the entire server again including small players. Then in chat said people should not question his decisions. Yes players were given free reign. One player was paying so much money per week he admitted that player paid off his loans. Then that player in galaxy chat threatened to cut another players brake lines and the developer laughed it off saying it wasn’t a big deal. The players that spent the most money were given preferential treatment post reset. Changes are not based on player feedback as many players have asked for different and similar things yet he refuses to do them as it’s not the game He wants. Yet players keep quitting within minutes of starting the game. Less than 300 players worldwide on this game. There are screenshots of conversations with the developer between him and multiple players that will show many different things that the developer is ignoring. Players have begged and even come Up with different ideas to grow the game which would lead to more money being spent by more people but many of those people either quit or quit spending money due to the hypocrisy This game needs serious work Just a week ago I would have given this a 5 star but now the creator has decided to completely reset the game with no notice. Everyone who spent money on the game lost everything and was only given a fraction of what they spent on in game items back. He reset under the guise of server issues yet no one I’ve talked to have had issues. The creator had touted that it would not be a pay to win now yet he slowed down the resource gather, increased resource cost of the most important items to gain more resource and important military items. Then increased the cost of resources if you wanted to buy any. It’s become a pay to win at this point. There’s no way strategy alone can give you what you need to be able to keep yourself safe. If you pay the creator enough money he will let you do whatever you want. He made it near impossible to grow at any steady rate without using actual money and has a handful of people that are dumping hundreds per week into the game and he is giving them 100% free reign. This developer should be removed from the App Store. People have been leaving the game and many others are close to quitting due to these issues. He initially only reset the strongest players, all of whom spent money in the game, then after an uproar reset everyone. The issue is the reset came with 0 warning. It happened late and when people woke up they had lost everything. Until these issues are fixed I’d advise avoiding this game as there’s no telling when or if things will change as the creator just decides to completely change the game randomly to suit what he wants regardless of what the players like or want **Developer response:** Completely false information. Everyone got the same amount of money back with the new value of naqahdah cost in the store. The economy in the game was way out of scope. so players were given credit back by using the new economy scale. No one in the game gets free reign redilcious or special treatment. If you say I reset the larger players who spent money on the game but yet you also say I give the larger paying players special treatment. So anyone reading this can just see this reviewer is contradicting what he is saying. Also the game is always changing but coming to a final version with in a year now. Changes are based on player feed back and player data as in how players play the game etc.. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2017-01-10, version 3.1* Only the worst game ever. Nothing make bloody sense. So support team to talk you thought the game. Just a waste of my time. ### 1/5 — Stay away *2016-10-14* The game is a scam, it's very buggy nothing works, there ARE NO ALLIANCES despite what the description says. No one talks in the game chat, and there is literally nothing to do in game. **Developer response:** There has been massive updates here in the year 2020 to 2021. There has always been alliances? ### 1/5 — Play at your own risk. *2016-10-01* The developer John Steuber funds players with free naq and bans top players who actually spend. I was one of the top players for over a year , undefeated in every war and actually wasted money on the game. My reward being banned and his reason according to my game screen was for having a multi which I didnt have. He removed alliances from the game because even with unlimited free naq no one could beat my alliance the Shadow Council. I called him out on it and for banning my alliance leader in the middle of a war while he was attacking then I get banned. Don't spend unless you want to flush money down the toilet if you get good he will ban you for no reason. Game is filled with bugs he won't fix because the 3 people who actually like him exploit them all the time to survive. Oh and the mods he uses in game are actual players that will ban you while your attacking so they can break your seiges on their planets. Long live Macgiviner God of Destruction and Pirate king. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — System lords as a whole *2024-12-30* Overall the been on a state in alpha/beta for the past 5 years hard learning curve, do to the lack of tutorials, however, the community is semi-friendly to newcomers, and you will you learn, the symbols used in the ui make it hard to figure out, most of there learning info buried in the menu system, overall plays nicely, but the store abit expensive, for a resource to grow over time, making it a money snatcher, for dev of development of over it, dev really nice and understanding, ### 5/5 — Update isn’t working *2024-07-10* The last update is broken. Great game. Please fix soon…. ### 5/5 — Not sure if game works *2024-07-08* Downloaded the game and says update but there is no update there for I can’t play developers ? You seeing this ? Game still up and running ### 5/5 — Hi Shadowing *2024-07-04, version 12.4* Unlike most games you have the creator of this game is in the game. He is open to suggestions and advice on how to make it better. Very few games are like that if any. How can you not give 5 stars? ### 5/5 — The game is always improving *2024-07-03* This game is pretty good. And a bit addictive. ### 5/5 — Great stargate strategy game *2022-12-10, version 11.9* Great stargate strategy game ### 5/5 — Excellent *2021-10-15* The game is very well thought through and very strategic. A great game to play with friends and people across the globe. Definitely underrated. It requires great patience to grow but well worth it when you dominate the universe ### 5/5 — Top *2016-10-06, version 1.8* Jeu un peux compliquer à appréhender au début espérons que les développeurs poursuive dans cette direction ! ### 4/5 — In Entwicklung? *2024-07-25, version 12.8* Wenn es mal fertig ist, dann hat es Potenzial ### 4/5 — Traduction en français. *2024-05-06, version 12.4* Serait-il possible de tout traduire ? Merci d’avance. --- *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 2026-08-21.*