Crowd City 12+

First off, my rating is 2 stars. I’m only doing 5 stars so more people can see it.

Very fun game to binge, and I love the satisfaction of starting out as 1 person, then ruling the city and flooding the streets with hundreds of your people afterwards, and increasing the stuff in the upgrades is so fun in the long run! But... First of all, I don’t mind the ads, I honestly think they’re fine, but other people can get very mad that you’re basically saving 3-4 minutes of working by watching one ad to double your earnings from the session. Second of all, I think we all by now know that they’re not really online players, which does actually make it easier in a way, but you don’t get the fun unpredictable chasing and ambushing, or the satisfaction of taking out somebody’s hard worked people. 3rd is the most annoying of all time—I went offline for dinner, came back on and I noticed that I only spawned in with 1 person instead of my upgraded 4 people. And then I noticed that I didn’t have the starting magnet and the rolling killstreak power up... And all my skins are gone! My whole progress is RESET? By literally getting off for dinner, I come back to nothing... I won’t play it again knowing that my progress could get reset again at a random offline time. I hope this gets fixed, but most likely won’t because Voodoo is most likely working on new games that you normally delete after playing for 1 hour, and realizing that it wasn’t worth your time.

My real rating for this is 3 stars, but I’m putting 5 so you see it. This is my third time writing the review cause it kept not sending. Alright, third times a charm! This game is very fun and addictive, as well as being able to play off WiFi easily to help the ad annoyance. There are a few flaws though. One is that the app glitches out all the time. Just imagine. You are in the middle of a round, your on top, you have 500 followers, and then you get kicked out of the app! It is super annoying and unsatisfactory. As well as that, when you get any upgrades, you might think, “yay I will be able to start with so many followers every time I play”. Sorry to say but that is wrong! If you leave the app after getting any upgrade, when you come back, there will be nothing there anymore. I find this very annoying, and I really hope Voodoo fixes these things, although they probably are busy working on new games. So in my opinion, you should get the game and try it at least, because apart from these few little fixes, I give this game a decent rating.

So, off the bat - buying “remove ads” doesn’t actually remove the ads. You have to watch a 30 second ad to “start bigger,” which is the only way to win. You also have to watch a 30 second ad to double your winnings, which is the only way to advance quickly. You only don’t _have_ to watch a 5 to 30 second ad after every game, if you don’t want to. So the 2:00 game takes about 3:20 after ads.

You play against (this goes without saying, but other reviews don’t seem to agree) an AI to grow your little crowd to the biggest mob by absorbing white neutral people and your AI enemies. The problem with the game, that costs it a star, is the AI doesn’t play to win, it plays to keep you from winning. It is very easy, you should win at least 8/10 games. But it is very very difficult to win by eliminating all the enemies. They do not go to the center or to each other, but run to the opposite corners and edges of the game board. They often just hover in the corners, not moving or growing, but making it impossible to catch them all. It is not possible to cover the whole board in two minutes, so you will often leave at least one, sometimes two or three enemies alive. Otherwise it is a satisfying, quick game. There’s just something about running your crowd through an enemies crowd, watch your people split and absorb the enemy people.