Age of History II 4+

I remember seeing this game get a lot of flack among the Paradox Interactive community for being a half-baked copy of Europa Universalis IV and I originally never thought much of it, but as a mobile game I’d say this holds up very well. The game runs on a turn based model (á la Civilization) but works with the time period and general theming of Europa Universalis IV. The game manages to balance the two very well and is probably the best we’re ever gonna get to EU4 on mobile.

However, I do have a few gripes with the game. First off, the game follows the domination-oriented end goal of Civilization rather than the world immersion of EU4, leading to most playthroughs becoming mere map painting rather than true experiences. On top of this, the game is fairly prone to crashing every now and then, often for no particular reason.

Don’t let this put you off, however! As mentioned before, for a pretty good price, you’re getting the closest we’ll ever likely get to Europa Universalis IV on Mobile.

So like the title says, everything is perfecto, a few glitches here and there but nothing major, except for one thing. When I get too big (exceptions for when I formed the Austria-Hungary empire) when I logged off and came back whenever, when I reloaded the save it went back to the menu with a blank world. And when I pressed the button to get to the saves I clicked on the save that I want to reload, right, and when I pressed on something my screen just started to shark violently and I didn’t know what to do, so I deleted the game and re-installed it and…POOF! All of my saves are gone. And this also happened when I tried to reload my Franco-German empire save with ~1000 provinces, really truly annoying. If this was fixed then the game would be great, thank you for reading.

Let me start off saying that I do like this game, or at least, I like the idea of it. A grand strategy game for mobile is a dream come true for me, and I think a lot of the mechanics work well.
My issue with this game is the lagging, and the glitching, and the crashing. More or less every game I have started has been ruined by some game-breaking bug that ruins the whole thing for me. There’s a bug where the game will crash and when I reload it the civilisation I most recently annexed is still conquered but it’s territory is classed as being occupied instead of annexed. There’s one where it crashes and when I reload it seems fine until I find out it no longer lets me save, and there’s one where it crashes and when I reload it the screen will start flashing like mad the moment I press anything. I’m so sick of having my games ruined constantly by these bugs that I have decided that I won’t play the game any longer unless these issues are addressed. I hope the developer of this game sees this review and looks into the issue because it completely ruins the game for me.