I've been playing this game on mobile for several years. It definitely takes some patience if you want to play for free, but it is easily doable. There are the normal constraints of having too many buildings and not enough space to place them all, so you really have to compare the buildings to decide which is worth it. Some of the recent updates have been worrying but there have also been some excellent changes. Mobile now has most or all of the desktop features, and there is a fantastic search feature to find buildings in inventory, better than what I hoped would eventually be implemented. For the concerning changes, it's mainly about the ancient wonders. There have been updates to the bonuses given by the buildings that makes the rewards scale more consistently to match your town size, which is awesome. However, the resources required for upgrading is now much harder. It used to be relics which you could easily get by fighting an encounter or 2, but now it uses combining catalyst which overall is fine. But every 5 levels it uses royal restoration spells which is the 2nd rarest resource in the game. I have a small stash of it after being in one of the top 100 fellowships, but most players won't have access to it without paying. Still waiting on the new updates to bring more practical ways of getting this resource. Other than that, I love this game, I generally try to check in at least 1x a day although I used to do 2-3x a day.

Firstly, the negatives that only involve the app. You dont get ancient wonders, you cant truly explore other cities, and some things in the app just dont work like they do on web based game(i dont have comp based game but my fellowship mates tell me). That being said, these updates are coming. And i can patiently wait. Other than this, this game is fantastic. It has real substance and can be played for quite some time, im only on chapter 3(out of 12, with more coming), and it requires real strategy, whether that be in base layout(buildings dont rotate so you have to pay attention to where you put everything, and must move things and buildings increase in size via upgrades), resource management and trading, army structure, and what to research when(my advice is to find a good fellowship, and be active. You get an option to visit your neighbors and fellowship members daily, DO THIS. Its incredibly beneficial to both you and them). This game was exactly what i was looking for, and i look forward to future updates that make the app closer and closer to the web based experience.

This game has taken hundreds of dollars of unauthorized purchases of my account, I have called Apple to get a refund and dispute yesterday and haven’t touched the game since, AND THEN IT TOOK ANOTHER 50 dollars today !! If anyone knows how to contact the developers that would be great because I’m one step away from making this a legal issue, I have received manyyyy double charges, there are deals on gems that sometimes come with things like postal keys or royal restorations if you buy the gems NO WHERE DOES IT SAY THEY COST EXTRA and I’ve been charged for these free items along with the gems multiple times, I have one charge on my bank statement for 50 bucks for Royal restorations and I have NEVER EVER bought royal restorations, there isnt even an option to buy those directly with cash and not gems not to mention the only royal restorations I ever received/seen in the game was a free reward I got from the quest and I have never seen any after so how could I have bought them? I have all my receipts and statements from the game/Apple/and the bank and it simply doesn’t add up, I have spent of my own volition around 200 bucks and 700 + has been taken from my account, I expect some real help from technical support not a comment saying “we’re sorry we’re thieves”. I do not mind hiring a German lawyer and suing inno for everything I can

I enjoy playing the game. The quests are manageable and require tactic, sure they take time but it’s cool because you don’t have quests that are leading you on to something you may not even care about. Building the civilization is fun and a good way to unwind. However, it takes forever to get through providences because your army does not level up as easy and as fast as you go through the open providences so it can take weeks for you to complete one Providence because you have to level up so much stuff in order to be able to level up your army and even then the army may still not be big enough. Also it is so difficult to set up your village when you have to keep adding stuff but have no efficient way to rearrange anything you already have set. I could make space for more of the buildings I need if I could completely rearrange my base but I can’t. It would be a good idea to have a reset button where you can rearrange your buildings so they fit better! Overall this is a fun game but needs just a couple tweaks to be even better!