# World of Empires — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of World of Empires by Bruno Fargnoli, rated 3.90/5 from 109 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/world-of-empires/id1166690605/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/world-of-empires/id1166690605.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 58 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 14 ## Newest reviews (10 of 50) ### 4/5 — Please Help *2022-04-30, version 1.28* This is my favorite mobile game to play by far, unfortunately I haven’t been able to enjoy playing it on my iPhone as much as I did when I had an android. For some reason around turn 150-200, the game always crashes and I can never move onto the next turn. I’m stuck and I have to restart with a whole new world, only for it to happen to that one to. This never happened with my android. Please fix this so I can continue to play on the same world and enjoy this fantastic game. ### 4/5 — It keeps turning off *2021-06-19, version 1.28* When I’m playing the game every time I buy a worker and make the worker build the game shuts of and restarts to before I bought the worker I’m not sure if it’s something I’m doing or anything but I would like it to be fixed other then that the games great👍 ### 3/5 — Beautiful Game, Just Crashes - Edit: Developer Update Fixed *2021-02-03, version 1.28* Update: I downloaded World of Empires II, and it runs seamlessly without crashing. I also like that I can save games to my Dropbox so I don't use up my iPad memory. I'm gonna go over and leave a 5-star review for the updated app. Original Review: I love this game as a much smaller version of a Civilization-type game that takes up much less space. Unfortunately, after the first 200 or so turns it crashed. I started a new game, and the same issue. Even after deleting all content and settings to clear my cache and free up storage, and rebooting my iPad from scratch twice now, I can't make it to turn 70 without a crash. When it crashes, it continues crashing in the same place even after multiple reboots making advancing in the game impossible after that. It's sad because I truly love everything about the game and I would really like a way to play it. I'm running an iPad Air 2 with OS 14.something - I just loaded the latest update this week. I have 16G of memory, with between 3-4G free at the time the crashes got bad enough I gave up on gameplay. If developers have a fix for the crashes, I would love to play again. ### 3/5 — Game no longer lets me load my save I do love the game though so 3. *2020-07-15, version 1.28* Read the title ### 4/5 — Great game but... *2018-09-23, version 1.23* I love playing this game, on most occasions I do for hours, but sometimes it’ll only play for a few minutes before automatically shutting off. ### 4/5 — Great game here are the problems below *2018-07-01, version 1.23* 1.) on normal the AI are borderline retarded, often betraying you even after they offer to make peace 2.) late game screwed my over as around the final turns of my game maria went into an infinite respond period where she didn’t move ( she needed to for me to continue) 3.) the explanation list (mid game tutorials to remind what things are) dont actually explain things too much 4.) movement is buggy when i want to attack someone it often cancels out when i tap on the enemy i want to fight (5.) THIS IS A BIG ONE- enemy cruise missiles dont get destroyed after its intended use. It explodes and still appears on the map for the AI to reuse over and over again, there is also nothing to kill it with 6.) sometimes countries never accept open borders even if you are giving them one of your cities after their last one is destroyed, idk if that is supposed to happen 7.) when you don’t have open borders with a country they can still move into your territory whereas you cant or else you declare war —— This is a pretty good game but it would be better if those problems were immediately addressed. Thank you. ### 4/5 — Great! I have a few ideas though *2018-06-20, version 1.23* This is a great and needed game on the App Store. Millions times better than Civ Rev. You and your team have done a great job! Here are some suggestions to make it more successful. 1. The UI needs improvement. It’s okay now, but if you want the downloads and it to be more fun, user interface goes a long way. I know that image assets can be very expensive, but changing the design of the buttons, adding different songs, changing the font, making the city menu and graphics look more appealing would make the game more fun. ALSO CHANGE THE APP ICON. It’s very messy and makes it look like a cheap game (no offense). CHANGING THE APP ICON AND GAME UI WILL INCREASE DOWNLOADS. 2. Roads need to be built faster. Please! 3. Wonders should be put in the civopedia and should have bonuses (like in the civ games). 4. Civopedia needs to be better, too. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MONETIZATION: I know that eventually you will need to make money, so maybe make most civilizations for sale and only a few for free. Also, how can I use the map editor? ### 4/5 — Multiplayer *2018-06-18, version 1.23* This game is one of the best free games out there. As long your playing by yourself that is. The multiplayer doesn’t work. I try to join the party my siblings make (were on the same internet) and it says no server found. Please fix this. Other than that this game is awesome. ### 4/5 — Idk *2018-05-08, version 1.23* The game is good but the map editor don’t work ### 4/5 — Better than Civ Rev *2018-04-02, version 1.23* I stumbled across this game completely by accident, unfortunately it’s well hidden. I’ve been playing Civilization since it first came out. I’ve played countless hours on every version, including Civ Rev 1 & 2 on my iPhone. If I had to peg this one it would be a Civ 3 clone, which is a blessing due to the introduction of workers and territory. I like it better than Civ Rev for so many reasons. Mostly because you can play for unlimited turns and you have much more control of the map and rules. To me that is the fun part of playing civilization, tweaking the map and players to create a fun and challenging game - something you cannot really do in Civ Rev. This game still seems to be in development. There are definitely a few things that are slightly broken or inconvenient, but nothing that stops me from playing. For example: workers don’t auto build roads and don’t auto sleep, spying seems needlessly complex and appears to be the only way the computer acts aggressively, auto explore always heads directly to the NE corner first, resources don’t seem to be usable across your civilization, and map size selection seems to have no effect. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Just keeps crashing *2022-11-08, version 1.28* Just switched over from android, can’t get it to stop crashing when my civ learns writing. Had noticed no updates to that one in a few years. Don’t think the dev is even interested in updating this. Too bad, was a 5 star. ### 1/5 — Good game but ….. *2022-05-06, version 1.28* This game is far better than civ but I give it a one star for the sole reason when I get to playing the game after about 10 min in the game force closes. I’ve un installed and reinstalled it but nothing. I’ve also contacted the developer and got no response. I know it’s not my phone I’m playing on an 11 pro not too old of a phone. If they fix it then 5 stars ### 1/5 — Play Civ 6 or Polytopia *2020-08-14, version 1.28* This game is just a trashy knockoff of civilization bad graphics bad ai. I’d recommend you play Polytopia a simple Civ based game with adorable graphics and special tribes. Don’t play world of empire a trash game ### 1/5 — Bad update.. 5 star game became junk! *2020-07-16, version 1.28* I’ve really enjoyed the game until the last update. The games closes unexpectedly, and will not progress further. Started New game play with the same results 😡😡😡👎 ### 1/5 — Stole civ 5 and made it worse *2018-07-24, version 1.23* This is EXACTLY LIKE CIV 5, with an identical technology tree, same look, etc.. except without a lot of civ 5’s features such as a notification when a city isn’t building anything when you end your turn, a civilopedia explaining things... If you really want this game, you might as well torrent it; it’s the same amount of stealing except a better game, or just buy civ 5. ### 1/5 — How is this game played? *2018-07-17, version 1.23* The only action I know is advancing to the next turn. I have no clue what I can do during a turn. At least post a tutorial on youtube. ### 1/5 — Bogus *2018-06-29, version 1.23* I click on things and nothing happens. At all. How do I move? Can’t. How do I buy stuff? Can’t. How do I end turn? Can’t. Lazy programming. ### 2/5 — Crashing *2020-09-15, version 1.28* After reaching turn 60 the game crashes and shuts down. Also the saves are not chronological in order. How to fix this bug? ### 2/5 — Buggy *2018-12-23, version 1.25* Keeps kicking me out of games mid game ### 2/5 — Can’t do anything *2018-03-28, version 1.23* It looks half decent, but I tried to create buildings and troops and do anything really except expand my land for a solid 20 minutes to no success. And the tutorial they give doesn’t help at all. Just a cheap Civ knockoff made hastily by a developer. Not worth anyone’s time. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The best game ever *2020-07-22, version 1.28* It’s the best game ever! What else needs to be said!? ### 5/5 — Great, but online is busted. *2019-02-02, version 1.25* My friend and I keep experiencing issues with online, when we try to load into our save, we can’t after we just left it. But otherwise, it’s awesome. ### 5/5 — Best!!! *2018-11-11, version 1.25* Best strategy game on iphone today ### 5/5 — Amazing work! *2018-08-22, version 1.23* Played the first was astounding this one just takes it And multiplies it I love your work man keep it up! ### 5/5 — Good knock off *2018-05-29, version 1.23* Really good game period. Want an in-depth look of how the game works, read the other review from March 27 headasses ### 5/5 — Great Practice *2018-05-25, version 1.23* This game is extremely fun to play and is a good way to waste a few hours. Until recently I realized this game was essentially a free version of Civilization, and it is this game that drew me to that series. I’ve played small bits of Civ and I love it to death, and I can thank this great game for getting me into the Civ series in the beginning. Until I get the actual game (likely through Steam) I can practice by using this game to get good at the game and use it as a nice sub when I’m separated from my computer. Well done developers! ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2018-05-03, version 1.23* I do not normally write reviews and when I do they are not generally positive but this game is worthy of all five stars. This game is very similar to Civilization but in my opinion took the direction of the civ games and went much further. You can decide on how large of a map to play on and decide what types of resources are seeded in the world. This game doesn’t cost anything to play and does not bombard you with ads. I wish these creators the best and hope they continue with their amazing work and make this game even better then it already is by adding even more features to the already impressive options that exist. This game can be saved and you can come back anytime. ### 5/5 — BEST CIVILIZATION GAME OF 2018! *2018-04-24, version 1.23* Omg so let me tell you I had this game back in 2017 on my Android but, then I switched over to iPhone so you know the market stores are different. I looked for this game on iOS for sooo long and could not find but but at last! They have it for iPhone I am so happy I’m going to play every chance I get I love this game you should definitely try it! 😌😄😄😄 ### 5/5 — Best Free Game I Own *2018-03-28, version 1.23* This is NOT a bought review. This game is seriously fun, and is the closest civ knockoff I have ever encountered on the App Store! Yeah, the controls can be a little difficult to get used to at first, but it is easy to learn quickly. The tech tree I do admit is quite glitchy and not very intuitive, but I know that can easily be fixed in an update. I do agree that having troops be upgraded based on the amount of kills would be a fantastic idea! Also, troop speed is VERY slow... something that I wish was fixed. If instead of a 2 square average, perhaps 3 might make things more playable? A good 70% of this game is moving troops, especially on the large map. I think the diplomacy screen could use some updating. Adding embassies, declarations of alliances, and other things might make the game even better. Lastly, I think the satellite tech should reveal the whole map, aka get rid of the fog of war... just a thought! Overall though, I cannot stress enough how great of a rip-off this game is from civ... I love it! Free, and super fun! 5-Stars! ### 5/5 — A very nice Civilization knock off *2018-03-02, version 1.23* I could wish that there were more explanation, but you know what? It’s free. Looks nice, plays well. Never, ever ends. Ah well. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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