# Transport Empire — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Transport Empire by Game Insight UAB, rated 4.40/5 from 1,719 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transport-empire/id520117759/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transport-empire/id520117759.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,209 · 4★ 271 · 3★ 111 · 2★ 37 · 1★ 91 ## What do users think of Transport Empire? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Enjoyable gameplay - 🚀 Smooth graphics and performance - 💡 Interesting storyline **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 💰 Excessive in-app purchases required - ⏱️ Slow progression and resource gathering - 🔧 Expensive and tedious repairs **Commonly reported bugs** - Contract time not elapsing properly - Incorrect resource management and expert assignment - Compatibility issues with newer OS versions **Most requested features** - More frequent content updates - Cross-device progress syncing - Improved customer support and communication ## Newest reviews (12 of 50) ### 4/5 — Love this game, but one issue needs fixing *2023-02-04, version 3.0.89* I’ve loved this game since i first played it a few years ago, but when i try to buy gold or the silver coins a error occurs. If you can fix that problem then this’ll be perfect ### 3/5 — It’s turning into a slog. *2021-09-16, version 3.0.89* The game is fun, but the story progression has slowed to a crawl. Acquiring parts takes too long, and is making the rest of the game rather boring. What is the point of upgrading my engines and resources if the gameplay just gets slower from this point onward? Also, I’ve upgraded all of the clay pits, but I keep receiving clay pit experts from the airship contracts. I would appreciate an option for retraining my experts to solve that problem. ### 2/5 — Transport empire *2021-02-21, version 3.0.89* The graphics are good and the story line i good as as well, but the repair costs on trains, carriages, steamships and airships are prohibitive and things need to be repaired constantly. Makes it extremely difficult to expand without spending huge amounts of money. So unless that is something you have no issue with I would not recommend getting this game. ### 3/5 — Is There a Goal Here? *2021-01-07, version 3.0.89* After over two years I am wondering what the objective is. I’ve been at level 49 for almost a year. What’s left? ### 2/5 — Dead game *2020-10-04, version 3.0.70* Update: despite the most recent updates, absolutely nothing has been added to the game. In fact, it appears some features/functions have been removed to keep the game iOS 14 compatible. No new content has been added in more than 4 years. ************** While the game has great graphics and an intriguing storyline, it appears the developer has stopped supporting iOS devices. Their Facebook page shows a lot of activity and updates, but none have been made available to mobile device users for several months. Entirely new features and adventures have been rolled out to Facebook players, but no one else. The only players getting the updates, including news, are those actually playing on Facebook. When I inquired about the next iOS update to their support staff I was told "No one but the devs know. The rest of us must wait and see". Hopefully there will be a new release soon, but that's not how it looks at this time. ### 2/5 — Stop making it worse! It was great... *2020-09-25, version 3.0.70* History: had this game for 4-5 years, maybe longer, and I’ve almost unlocked everything as F2P. Hundreds of hours micromanaging over thousands of sessions. This is the greatest transport/train/delivery mobile game I’ve ever played. But... Today: The last 2 updates (which I hoped would reinvigorate the game since it had been such a long time since the last one) brought game quality way down, first with constant crashes during loading, and now the contract manager is terribly inconvenient and illogical. Once the game loads, it runs well usually, but starting it a 50/50 situation. As an example of the contract manager issues, sorting by “Time Left” for a few of my current contracts shows restarts as 6h36m, 2h01m, 1h43m, 5h56m (in that order) then shows the remaining completed and running contracts combined, listed by time duration, shortest to longest. It’s a big pain in the neck to watch the contracts jump around and search for them in this new crazy order. If you can explain the new order and want to keep it, fine, but please call it something else (maybe “Sorting Roulette”?) and give us back the previous sorting, which kept things that were complete and ready for restarts together. Overall, I’ve spent lots of time on this game, including watching hundreds/thousands of ads, because it’s been a great, almost always. Please keep that going and my review rating stars will go back up. Cheers. ### 4/5 — Fun game but missing 1 big thing *2020-08-05, version 3.0* I’d give this game 5 stars except for one glaring omission. It does not have the special events that the facebook version has. These events allow you to earn rare equipment as rewards. Pros: You don’ have to purchase in game currency to experience everything. I do anyway to reward the devs of games I like. Leisurely resource management - if you like these kind of games Cons: Crafting high end equipment takes an enormous amount of parts you need to collect. Playing casually I estimate it will take nine months to collect all the parts for the highest craft-able locomotive. Other than the main story and opening new territories there isn’t anything else as far as game progression. ### 4/5 — Gold *2019-07-12, version 2.2.10* The game gave me 3 times my order of gold and now they accuse me of cheating? Have no idea how to fix it. No English support. Love playing though ### 4/5 — Games On The Go 05: Transport Empire! *2019-04-03, version 2.2.10* (Snake Talk) Hello, Old Chap! I Love Thissssssssss Game SSSSSSSSSSo Much! The Trains In The Game Are SSSSSSSSSSpectacular! But On The Info SSSSSSSSSScreen Make The Trains Look Like They Do On The Menu Both In The Train Yard & In The Crafting Menu, For Example, For Gladsssssssssstone & Ashford. Also Make Gladsssssssssstone & Ashford The Lasssssssssst Trains In The Crafting Menu & The Train Yard Menu. Also Pleasssssssssse Make The Bonus Engines, (Hardwick, Atlantic, Decapod, Challenger, Lightning, Ridding, Mallet, Polar Express, Ironsides, Liberty Bell, Ghost Train, Etc.) Be The Enginessssssssss After Puffing Billy, Rocket, Mogull, IceBreaker, & Pacific. REQUEST: Make A Transsssssssssport Empire Newssssssssss Maker Game App Thingie Which Is Suitable For The Whole Family! (Babies, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults, & Even The ELDERLY! Recap: 0-100 Yrs Of Age Is Suitable For This News Game!) ### 3/5 — Fun for a few weeks *2018-03-29, version 2.2.10* It’s fun for a bit. I bought the starter package to make things more quicker. Most games stop selling you in app purchases after you buy something. Not this one. It’s almost constant. The higher you go up in levels, the longer it takes to accomplish a mission. They would prefer you use the gold, that you must purchase with real money, to speed things up. ### 2/5 — Math *2017-12-04, version 2.2.10* So this developer doesn’t understand economics for a game that’s runs on economics. At lvl 21 you still can produce the resources to open lvl 18. When you contact “tech support” they don’t understand the math. This is a game I’ve enjoyed on tv nights buy I’m not going to spend money to open parts of the game 3 lvls below where I’m at. I would imagine if I wanted to spend hundreds of dollars buying gold bars this game would be better. They need a better understanding of XP ### 2/5 — Just another 'pay to speed up' format *2017-10-21, version 2.2.10* Just wants to you spend coin to speed up every little thing. So hard to find a good time-lapse, goal-oriented sim like the old Railroad a Tycoon. And the 'guides'?! So demeaning to women. Bulging cleavage and thongs? Please. Not what I come to a game to find, and not something I'm willing to put up with. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Pay to play, all day! *2021-11-09, version 3.0.89* This game is totally skewed in the hopes you’ll spend real money to thrive. What a shame. I played it years ago and don’t recall it being that way. Also, in that time, I lost much of my progress. Don’t waste your time. UODATE: Most recently realized that time does not elapse if you’re not actively in the game! Ridiculous, as some tasks take up to 8 hours to complete! FIX THIS! ### 1/5 — Time problems *2020-08-13, version 3.0* Downloaded the game to see how things changed with the 3.X version and discovered that the contract time only goes down when the game is open. Their website provides very little information and no opportunity to save /restore progress. ### 1/5 — 3.0 update massively broke balance *2020-07-24, version 3.0* Contract length used to be based on real time: if you set up a contract that would take 12 hours it would be done in 12 hours and you could go to bed or do something else and 12 hours later it would be done. Now a 12 hour contract is 12 hour of playing the game: if you leave the app, your phone goes to sleep, you get a phone call, (or your phone battery can’t play for 12 hours!) the contract will take much longer... That sort of logic would be fine if contract lengths were measured in minutes, but when you consider that the shortest contract at a workshop is an hour, and a good locomotive uses thousands of parts, anyone who has a job or does anything with their phone other than play this game is going to find it far too “slow” to bother with. ### 1/5 — Was fun till I realized it’s cheating!! *2019-11-13, version 2.2.10* I’ve throughly enjoyed this game until now. 3 people in my family play Transport Empire but NO ONE can make the support work at all. It never loads and mine is not in English, but another language. That’s ridiculous!! 😡 I can’t communicate about problems or suggestions and I have no way of fixing this stuff. I’m so mad!!! My current problem is I have 5 coal mines and 16 coal mine managers. But when I try to upgrade a mine with managers it tells me I don’t even have 1!!! That I need 10 more managers to do it. My husband’s game is the same so this isn’t some fluke, the games is cheating! All the upgrades I’ve done to get more managers was a waist and worthless since I can’t use them. And because I can’t use Support and contact you, I just fume. FIX SUPPORT!!! AND FIX THE GAME!! I’ll take down/update my review when it problem has been solved. ### 1/5 — No support *2019-05-07, version 2.2.10* Well I am an iOS user... no support available in English in app, unable to even make the purchases anyways and I assume this is from the lack of iOS support now, but can’t even communicate with customer support to resolve the issue or verify... Well good luck, off to find another app. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t Work *2018-08-11, version 2.2.10* I played this game a couple times and got rid of it because I needed space on my phone. When I finally got more space, I downloaded it again. Now I can’t play it. It says that I need to connect to internet, meanwhile I’m standing right next to my router, connected with at least 3 bars of service. ### 1/5 — Content refuses to download *2018-06-23, version 2.2.10* I downloaded the game, but was never able to get much past the starting video because the game refuses to download the content. It downloads some quick stuff in a second or so, but then gets to 23 or so larger assets and errors out. Someone is not minding the store here. ### 1/5 — Money. Not for fun. *2018-01-18, version 2.2.10* I’m playing for years, and I’m planning to do it occasionally since they make it harder and harder to complete tasks, and the only possible way to do it in acceptable time is to spend money. They do everything to charge our money, but not to make the playing enjoyable. ### 1/5 — Bait and Switch *2017-04-12, version 2.2* Horrible game. Fraud. Even with the earliest quests, the criteria for completion keeps changing blindly. You complete the requirement for a quest, more requirements added without completion. If you hate your money, it might be fun. Will never download another product from this team. ### 1/5 — Huh? What? Why? Oh... MONEY REQUIRED! *2016-09-05, version 2.2* I'm a fairly smart guy, degrees and I'm fairly technical. But this game threw me a curve ball! I couldn't figure out how to play it! You can't do this or that because you have to do a "quest" first. Can't do anything because of one thing or another, so I just kept pushing buttons and checking stuff out. I kept ending up at the "buy gold" screen. I'm not opposed to spending money on a game... If I like it. But this is the FIRST game I've ever played that looked free but then wouldn't let you start playing without spending real money. Most let you start,meet you interested, and then you spend money. At first I was thinking now way! But yes, you must buy gold with real money to play. That said, what I could see looks wonderful! The game has great graphics, pretty scenes. And looks like it could be fun. Maybe I should have played more instead of deleting the game after a few hours (several attempts on different days), maybe I should have paid money to check it out. I guess I'll never know. I just felt cheated, or tricked. Why don't they just charge .99¢ and give you a started pack of gold? I don't know. But y'all should know that the game isn't free. You can't play it at all for free. Period. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The one and only game that you will enjoy *2022-01-20, version 3.0.89* Thank you so much ### 5/5 — Wish for new updates! *2021-09-30, version 3.0.89* Started playing a long time ago,haven’t had a update for years 😡. Will the level ever go higher than 45? Please let me know,I would hate to delete this game for no more updates. Thank You. ### 5/5 — Great Game But.... *2020-09-27, version 3.0.70* Love this game and have had countless hours of fun. My only complaint is that the developers have stopped supporting the game. Too bad and so sad. ### 5/5 — Nice job. *2020-04-03, version 2.2.10* The graphics and gameplay of this game is smooth and satisfying. I enjoy playing and it works my imagination from time to time. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Need to expand *2019-12-26, version 2.2.10* Hello all, Merry Christmas. Wish you guys would add new goals. I am down to collecting the2 pieces of gold so that I can expand what my cities can produce. Want to play more. ### 5/5 — I love my trains *2019-10-09, version 2.2.10* I am so hooked on this game I just love it. I love watching all the trains and boats moving around. I love the Challenge that that they gives us, so far I haven’t been able to get to the end. When I do get to to end will be a sad day for me, but I will all over again. ### 5/5 — Transport empire *2019-04-28, version 2.2.10* I love this game but it has a lot of bugs. My last phone warned me to delete the game because it detected an anomaly in the game. When you click on the customer service help button, a page pops up in some foreign Russian language, and it just returns to the game. No way to contact the game developers. And lately the audio has stopped working entirely no game sounds at all. ### 5/5 — I love this game *2018-11-03, version 2.2.10* Hello I really love this game I just got it and it’s already too fun I play more than roblox now because I love trains okay bye ### 5/5 — Missing a key feature, but good game. Can be better! *2017-12-13, version 2.2.10* This is a great and fun game. Simple and entertaining! BUT-if you have it on ONE device and DL’d it again on your other device, then you will have TWO separate games. NO cross compatibility exits by design by the dev’s. I discovered and discussed this at lengths. So pick your device, or computer that you will solely use and then enjoy. If a iPad/tablet so be it. The next downloaded device you will start from the beginning Level, sadly to report. But please enjoy. ### 5/5 — Really fun *2017-11-17, version 2.2.10* Only downfall is having to spend money to get way ahead but overall best game I have played. --- *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 2026-06-10.*