Forge of Empires: Build a City 9+

Great but it’s all about the money

The concept and gameplay is brilliant. Pity it’s ruined by the necessity to keep spending more and more diamonds to have the gameplay experience intended. They say there’s no obligation to spend but you do because you want to actually interact with most features they offer, otherwise it isn’t much fun at all. If you’re semi serious you’re looking at min $30 a month. The free version is like if you were playing a car racing game you just stay in first gear.

I found the support quick to respond, however a little arrogant. Even the collect all where you spend diamonds instead of clicking on all your buildings to collect then reset the production is bugged, their reply was well it half works so bad luck no compensation kind regards. Most apps at least compensate you when they admit they have bugs and screw up, not this one. This annoys the paying subscribers but they don’t seem to care.

Developer Response ,

Hi! We released a new update that fixes several issues in the game. Please update and it should work again! :)

Great! Self control is the key

This is a great game! The bad reviews are due to their own lack of self control. You have the option to not spend a cent. Like every similar game, when you buy, the price of packages increase.

I find this way better than Game of War which cost me almost $1000 to keep up! GOW has way too many updates and too complicated with so many components. The new troops cost too much and if you don’t have the gears you were crushed every time.

This is not the case here. You can build at your own pace. Joining a good guild is the key as well as finding great powerful friends to help with goods and teach you tricks and short cuts. There’s guild competitions where you fight the computer troops in diff levels and earn lots of rewards such as diamonds so you don’t need to spend. If you trade and swap and log in once a day to collect you will build up goods and fp and get great buildings without spending money. I have been playing almost 2 years now and haven’t felt the need to spend. You spend when your lazy but if you work hard you reap what you sow. Great guildies will help with donations to your great building to level them quicker and also means you have lots of opportunities to contribute to their buildings and earn rewards including great building blue prints. Also I got a lot of great buildings goods from great guild and friends. If it’s not them I wouldn’t be able to build without spending or it would be very slow

People are having problems with the developers?

I personally have no idea what half of these negative reviews are talking about. I’ve been playing this game on and off for a bit over 6 years, on two different worlds. I’m currently in the Oceanic future and I’ve never spent any money on diamonds. It became apparent to me that wishing wells and the guild expedition were the main source to gain diamonds, I have 30 shrunk wishing wells and get about 50 diamonds a day on average. Of course the developers want you to buy diamonds and offer insentives or bonuses with purchases but by no means are they “forcing” you to purchase anything. I have bought about 10 expansions with diamonds and I have enough for another one. Personally, I think they should probably make it easier for early players to progress in terms of goods because it can be really demotivating trying to get people to accept your trades, especially when you aren’t in a solid guild. But I stick by my statement that there is nothing greedy or unethical or any problems with integrity about these developers. They are just honest people, who need to make a living as much as the rest of us. If people want to spend money on this game for the fun of it I see that as a complete win-win. Top game, keep it up guys😁

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking the time to write a review! I am glad to hear that you enjoy our game so much :)