RISK: Global Domination 9+

Great game , time consuming though

Don’t let other comments about too much luck in this game make you think that the game is ill designed. In deed, luck can determine the outcome of a single battle, but that s part of the game, after all, this game is called “risk”. What those casuals who complain about unfairness in luck fail to realize is that the more important part of this game is to understand your opponent, who you can trust, who is more easily triggered, who is willing to take more risks, who has a better skill thus pose a bigger threat, etc. speaking as a expert rank player, the ability to estimate these information early on in game, modeling your opponent and form a long term plan to victory is vital to your chance of win. This game is indeed very much heavily skill based. The rank system does need improvement though, as a couple of round with some beginner players who plays irrationally would easily drag me down from master to expert. I realize it is hard to improve, since you can’t guarantee to have enough high rank players in a game, but perhaps add a feature in quick play so that you can add a constraint on the minimum rank of players you would end up with?

Should be 5 stars

Great game ruined by my repeated bad experiences.
Average dices rolls say 16% for every face but from my observations i get a lot lot lot of 1’s and 3’s when it’s a key moment in the game.
luck definitely has a role to play, as person who wins at these games particularly risk (IRL) i find myself at the bottom of the barrel on this app.
i’ve been taken out by players who had no reason to take out half my troops, i’ve had players reach across the map to hit me on more then one occasion, i’ve seen my 20 troop completely lost against 15 and in the next turn watched 10 of me be removed by 12 of them who then had 6 left over to take my territory. I try my best strategies and i think whats the point when there’s always some berserker or moron with no regard for repercussions or proper strategy that comes along seemingly just to make sure that you get deleted ahead of them.
This review has come after three (perhaps) collaborators that had safe borders and me and another player were whittling one of them down and not one of the other 2 leap to claim his cards, one even overstretched himself to enter towards me which caused the ai player to attack me; 14 vs 12 he won with 4 left over! then 5 territories later the overstretched player is claiming my cards after ai decided it was too risky to attack him at all! Bizarre actions by ai that created an unfair advantage to another live player.. AGAIN.

Average

The game is probably suited to those who are interested in an intermediate level strategic game, although if you are interested in advanced strategic play the game is quite average (they seem to have designed the game to accommodate non-strategic players by gearing things such as dice rolls, computer player choice or the initial setup - there is a nontrivial benefit to a setup where fewer countries have a higher number of troops versus an initial setup with troops dispersed over lots of countries. Also there are lots of players whose stats seem to defy the logic of the gameplay i.e. people who win more than 40%-50% of the time despite the fact that matching those stats in a 6 player game (where chance / initial setup / dice rolls / etc are a factor) suggest that it is highly implausible (after watching a few players whose stats are that high I was surprised to see that they seem to generally roll higher numbers than would be statistically possible (despite what their dice roll stats say) and often then seem to benefit from computer player choice, both of which should not happen in a balanced game and seems to imply that it is a feature of the games design rather than some other thing). All of this seems simple enough to resolve (if the developer wanted to) although if you don’t overthink it it’s fine.

Developer Response ,

We have more information on our dice here: https://bit.ly/smgdiceodds and can try out our dice simulator at: https://riskodds.com Make sure to use Balanced Blitz for a more strategic experience! All the best, Luci@SMG