Strategery 4+

It is so simple, you could learn how the game works in 60 seconds, but mastering it, working out the nuances to outwit your AI and human opponents, I'm surprised I they ears I've enjoyed the app for, yes, years (albeit sometimes infrequently) that it hasn't become best selling app. I'm yet to stumble into any bugs, it doesn't ask for micro transactions, and has the features you would want. Even a colour blind mode. It's probably one of the oldest, if not the oldest recreational app on my iPad but it's definitely up there with the best.

Trust me, get it, you'll love it if you enjoy anything along the lines of chess, checkers or othello or any little world domination strategy game, and it's perfect to just open and do a little bit on the train or bus and come bum too, or do a full game if your bored and have a bit of time on your hands.

This was one of the first apps I ever downloaded from the (then) brand new shiny App Store. It’s as great now as it was over a decade ago and something I come back to time and again. So the interface is looking a little tired these days but that’s what you get for a freebie!

The gameplay is deceptively simple so that a 5 year old can grasp it, but so nuanced it would entertain a chess grandmaster whose strategy may get thrown under a bus by a bad dice roll and have to rethink again.

I’d love to see some tweaks; how about options for a capital bonus, a discovery map (where you only see the borders of what you control and their armies), difficult to hold territories with a 3army max, a bar-charting readout of armies, hell why not a landscape view!

Or then again, you could just retain its beauty in simplicity and stay a brilliant hours-consuming superstar.

Beautifully simple, yet strategically brilliant game. I play this almost every day. One feature that would be nice is landscape orientation. I prefer using my idevices in landscape orientation so this would be perfect for me.

I started my venture into online gaming for this and it is really disappointing. To start with, whomever goes second gets an additional army to begin with so they can expand more quickly, one more on the first turn, two more on the second etc.. An unfair advantage. Then from nowhere, I accept a challenge and lost without ever seeing the map or picking a starting location or taking a turn or anything. What's up with that?

One of the main reasons for buying this version instead of the free light version, is that it has online battles but they're broken so until they're fixed, I'd suggest people save their money and get the free version.