Forge of Empires: Build a City

Name: Forge of Empires: Build a City
Rating: 4.6 (167167 reviews)
Author: InnoGames

Civilization building game

Free · In‑App Purchases

167K Ratings
Ages

9+
Years
Category

Strategy
Developer

InnoGames
Language

EN
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Size

484.6
MB

Build your empire and journey through the ages: With Forge of Empires, we bring our award-winning strategy game to your iPad and iPhone. Build your city and develop it from the Stone Age to modern times (and beyond). Download the app and play Forge of Empires now! 5/5 "A brilliant city building game created by people with a true love of strategy." 5/5 "I am so addicted to this game. Unlocking new tech trees, buildings etc. feels very rewarding. I love this game!" FEATURES - Build your city and evolve from the Stone Age to modern times (and beyond). - Develop new technologies and discover new buildings and goods - Produce supplies to manufacture goods - Exchange your goods and trade with your neighbors - Discover new territories and seize control of the provinces and their rewards - Use your negotiation or battle skills to take over sector by sector Forge of Empires is based on our successful browser strategy game which was published by InnoGames in the summer of 2012. It was awarded Best Browser Game 2013 by the jury at Deutscher Computerspielpreis (German Computer Game Award). Finally, the online strategy game is available for iOS as well, providing cross-platform access. Forge of Empires is free to download and install. However, some game features can also be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this feature, please disable inapp purchases in your device's settings. A network connection is also required. General Terms and Conditions: https://legal.innogames.com/portal/en/agb Imprint: https://legal.innogames.com/portal/en/imprint

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Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

167K Ratings

Decent
02/03/2021

🐰💕🐻💕
FOE is a great builder style game. It has enough group activities and events to keep you interested for years. There are only two problems with the game that prevent it from being a 5 star app.1st is the 24hr world timer on your daily resource collection. The timer makes you wait 24hrs from the time you collect to respawn those resources. For example if you are playing on your phone and want to collect your daily resources during your lunch break but someone tries to chat you up for 5 minutes you have then lost those 5 minutes because you must wait at least 24hrs to collect again. And well if this happens again and again you can see how eventually you will lose entire days worth of resource collection. Other games I have played used 20 or 23hr world timers to give players more freedom but as FOE is roughly 4yrs old at the time of writing this they clearly intend to stick with this format.2nd as you can trade resources across the “Ages” it means you can obtain the best buildings (great buildings) at any point in the game provided you are able to farm enough expansion tiles to place them. This leaves players little incentive to move up to next age. Indeed it actually makes many features of the game harder. Which is really a shame because the art and the work in general that they put into these ages is kinda amazing.
Decent
02/03/2021

🐰💕🐻💕

FOE is a great builder style game. It has enough group activities and events to keep you interested for years. There are only two problems with the game that prevent it from being a 5 star app.1st is the 24hr world timer on your daily resource collection. The timer makes you wait 24hrs from the time you collect to respawn those resources. For example if you are playing on your phone and want to collect your daily resources during your lunch break but someone tries to chat you up for 5 minutes you have then lost those 5 minutes because you must wait at least 24hrs to collect again. And well if this happens again and again you can see how eventually you will lose entire days worth of resource collection. Other games I have played used 20 or 23hr world timers to give players more freedom but as FOE is roughly 4yrs old at the time of writing this they clearly intend to stick with this format.2nd as you can trade resources across the “Ages” it means you can obtain the best buildings (great buildings) at any point in the game provided you are able to farm enough expansion tiles to place them. This leaves players little incentive to move up to next age. Indeed it actually makes many features of the game harder. Which is really a shame because the art and the work in general that they put into these ages is kinda amazing.
Too complex and time consuming
06/23/2022

Magslynn2
Was having fun, enjoying the game until about two weeks in. I kept having this little robber icon pop up every time I was trying to collect enough supplies to add more buildings. It’s been 4 days and I’ve not gotten enough to do what I want to do. Went to the forums and found out that the robber icon is other players PLUNDERING MY SUPPLIES. Tried to figure out how to just play on my own with no interaction with other players and all I could find was rude people basically saying “stop whining.” “How hard is it to collect on time?” When you have a life where you have to work and take care of others? Pretty dang hard actually.I’m not looking for something this complex and confusing. If someone chooses NOT to join a guild, that means their level of game play is going to be low and letting other people steal their resources is not going to make them want to play more. It’s going to make them angry and delete the game. Like I just did.I am so tired of these games that do crap like this to try to get you ‘motivated’ to play more or spend money to get to a higher level, where it won’t effect you as much, faster.I’m trying to relax and unwind. Not spend hours looking through forums and the help section just to find out there’s no help for it. I don’t want to interact with other players. Why isn’t their an option to just play by yourself at your own pace?I love the basic idea of the game. Wish there was a version for single player though.

Developer Response
Thank you for your comment! Attacking and plundering is a part of the game. We're shuffling neighborhoods every other week to make sure that everybody's matched again comparably strong players.Also, you should make sure that your defense army is correctly set up and that you make use of the city shield that you can enable in the Friends Tavern.
Too complex and time consuming
06/23/2022

Magslynn2

Was having fun, enjoying the game until about two weeks in. I kept having this little robber icon pop up every time I was trying to collect enough supplies to add more buildings. It’s been 4 days and I’ve not gotten enough to do what I want to do. Went to the forums and found out that the robber icon is other players PLUNDERING MY SUPPLIES. Tried to figure out how to just play on my own with no interaction with other players and all I could find was rude people basically saying “stop whining.” “How hard is it to collect on time?” When you have a life where you have to work and take care of others? Pretty dang hard actually.I’m not looking for something this complex and confusing. If someone chooses NOT to join a guild, that means their level of game play is going to be low and letting other people steal their resources is not going to make them want to play more. It’s going to make them angry and delete the game. Like I just did.I am so tired of these games that do crap like this to try to get you ‘motivated’ to play more or spend money to get to a higher level, where it won’t effect you as much, faster.I’m trying to relax and unwind. Not spend hours looking through forums and the help section just to find out there’s no help for it. I don’t want to interact with other players. Why isn’t their an option to just play by yourself at your own pace?I love the basic idea of the game. Wish there was a version for single player though.
Developer Response 06/26/2022
Thank you for your comment! Attacking and plundering is a part of the game. We're shuffling neighborhoods every other week to make sure that everybody's matched again comparably strong players.Also, you should make sure that your defense army is correctly set up and that you make use of the city shield that you can enable in the Friends Tavern.
Too pushy in the tutorial phase
07/05/2022

Korvidia
First of all, let me say, the art is gorgeous. However, the interfaces cheapen the beautiful art & make it feel cheap and cheesy like standing in a fluorescent tube lit blue collar grocery store check out line among the screaming yellow candy wrappers & celebrity gossip rags. Maybe both of these things make a certain kind of person feel safe & reassured. Maybe the cartoonish childishness of the buttons is intended to make people feel calm & playful. But it felt condescending to me - and the mandatory tutorial forces you to walk through, pushing exactly the button it demands when it demands and placing pieces exactly where it says, with no options to even turn or move them, underscores that patronization. A game with graphics this beautiful & refined really should have a little more faith in its players & allow for curiosity, experimentation early on. If looks like college, but treats you like preschool, and the chunky interface is stuck in 5th grade. Not good cohesion between its various elements. But I personally am tired of idle clickers and that’s ultimately what this is, given the constraints on “the right way to do something”, disguised as a strategy game. If it’s always the same sequence of steps & positions to win, that’s not much of a strategy, is it? It’s just a process. And given that there’s no tangible reward, it is really just consuming our most precious resource - the time - without giving anything back.

Developer Response
Thank you for your review! We will look into possible improvements in this area.
Too pushy in the tutorial phase
07/05/2022

Korvidia

First of all, let me say, the art is gorgeous. However, the interfaces cheapen the beautiful art & make it feel cheap and cheesy like standing in a fluorescent tube lit blue collar grocery store check out line among the screaming yellow candy wrappers & celebrity gossip rags. Maybe both of these things make a certain kind of person feel safe & reassured. Maybe the cartoonish childishness of the buttons is intended to make people feel calm & playful. But it felt condescending to me - and the mandatory tutorial forces you to walk through, pushing exactly the button it demands when it demands and placing pieces exactly where it says, with no options to even turn or move them, underscores that patronization. A game with graphics this beautiful & refined really should have a little more faith in its players & allow for curiosity, experimentation early on. If looks like college, but treats you like preschool, and the chunky interface is stuck in 5th grade. Not good cohesion between its various elements. But I personally am tired of idle clickers and that’s ultimately what this is, given the constraints on “the right way to do something”, disguised as a strategy game. If it’s always the same sequence of steps & positions to win, that’s not much of a strategy, is it? It’s just a process. And given that there’s no tangible reward, it is really just consuming our most precious resource - the time - without giving anything back.
Developer Response 08/01/2022
Thank you for your review! We will look into possible improvements in this area.
In-Game Expansion Costs Real Money
07/25/2019

jayg44706
I like games that allow me to construct kingdoms and civilizations, so I thought this game would be fun. It started out pretty fun, and my empire advanced in technology relatively quickly. However, you get to a point relatively soon (the Bronze Age, I believe) where the only way to expand buildable space is to purchase diamonds (with real money) which you then use buy land to expand on. There are very limited expansions you can use the in-game currency to purchase, even though building in-game currency happens quickly. And victory and research progress provides very little land expansion. Which brings me to a second issue that ties into the land expansion problem.In order to progress through time, you have to conduct research. This involves a combination of spending points that automatically accrue, production, and in-game coin. One concept to developing new research requires a number of different productions (e.g. dye and masonry). The problem is you don’t have enough land to construct these buildings to produce the goods you need to advance the research. And you also need available population, which can only be expanded by building more residences on land that you don’t have. See where I’m going with this?The game is ok at best, unless you have real money you want to sink into it. As a passive Smartphone gamer, it is very rare that I spend any real money on a game. And when I do it is only $0.99. I plan to delete the game.

Developer Response
We are very sorry you feel the available land is less than adequate. Considerations to game balance have lead us to limit the amount of expansions available per age for Research and the campaign map. The victory expansions are not age limited and as long as you earn medals from all the various sources can be had by anyone. The premium expansions are convenient, but not necessary. The entirety of the game can be experienced without spending a single penny (including buying premium expansions as there are many sources for free diamonds in the game, albeit at a modest pace). Ideally when goods are involved you build the 2 buildings you have to boost for, then use over-production to trade with others for the 3 goods you cannot produce. Commerce with guild mates and friends is key here. Efficient city design (and the ability to fit the buildings you need, whether its housing or goods) is a skill developed over time while playing.
In-Game Expansion Costs Real Money
07/25/2019

jayg44706

I like games that allow me to construct kingdoms and civilizations, so I thought this game would be fun. It started out pretty fun, and my empire advanced in technology relatively quickly. However, you get to a point relatively soon (the Bronze Age, I believe) where the only way to expand buildable space is to purchase diamonds (with real money) which you then use buy land to expand on. There are very limited expansions you can use the in-game currency to purchase, even though building in-game currency happens quickly. And victory and research progress provides very little land expansion. Which brings me to a second issue that ties into the land expansion problem.In order to progress through time, you have to conduct research. This involves a combination of spending points that automatically accrue, production, and in-game coin. One concept to developing new research requires a number of different productions (e.g. dye and masonry). The problem is you don’t have enough land to construct these buildings to produce the goods you need to advance the research. And you also need available population, which can only be expanded by building more residences on land that you don’t have. See where I’m going with this?The game is ok at best, unless you have real money you want to sink into it. As a passive Smartphone gamer, it is very rare that I spend any real money on a game. And when I do it is only $0.99. I plan to delete the game.
Developer Response 08/28/2019
We are very sorry you feel the available land is less than adequate. Considerations to game balance have lead us to limit the amount of expansions available per age for Research and the campaign map. The victory expansions are not age limited and as long as you earn medals from all the various sources can be had by anyone. The premium expansions are convenient, but not necessary. The entirety of the game can be experienced without spending a single penny (including buying premium expansions as there are many sources for free diamonds in the game, albeit at a modest pace). Ideally when goods are involved you build the 2 buildings you have to boost for, then use over-production to trade with others for the 3 goods you cannot produce. Commerce with guild mates and friends is key here. Efficient city design (and the ability to fit the buildings you need, whether its housing or goods) is a skill developed over time while playing.

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