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Dummynation

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72%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, stability
72% User Score Based on 3,453 reviews

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Dummynation is a single player and multiplayer tactical management game with a economy theme. It was developed by Alejandro Hernández Ferrero and was released on April 15, 2022. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Geopolitical management game with organic borders and a streamlined gameplay.

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72%Audience ScoreBased on 3,453 reviews
gameplay25 positive mentions
monetization163 negative mentions
  • Highly addictive and entertaining with a great balance of strategy, diplomacy, economy, and warfare.
  • Offers unique and immersive world conquest gameplay with realistic country details and customizable maps.
  • Supports multiple game modes including single player, custom games, multiplayer, and provides modding capabilities.
  • Mandatory internet connection and frequent intrusive ads limit offline playability and frustrate players.
  • Recent updates made the game more complicated, laggy and harder to manage, losing the simplicity and charm of earlier versions.
  • AI behavior and alliance systems are often seen as unbalanced or unrealistic, leading to frustrating gameplay experiences.

  • monetization

    171 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    4% positive mentions, 1% neutral mentions, 95% negative mentions

    The game's monetization relies heavily on frequent, often mandatory ads that many users find intrusive, unskippable, and disruptive to gameplay, with some reporting crashes and inability to play without watching ads. Though a VIP pass is offered to remove ads, some buyers still experience ads, leading to frustration. Overall, while the game is praised for its quality, the aggressive and sometimes buggy ad system significantly diminishes the user experience.

    • “There are relatively no ads.”
    • “There are no ads in the game, only when you load it.”
    • “I bought the VIP pass for no ads, but I still received them and cannot remove them.”
    • “This used to be a pretty good game until it became a cash-grab asset. You can't play offline without paying for premium or watching ads. I hate how everything is monetized and has to be profitable. To the devs, please just let us play. Your game is amazing, and your efforts are appreciated, but please, let us have fun.”
    • “The game itself was good but all the ads are uncloseable. It's like every ad has no X button, so I have to close the game and reopen it only for there to be another uncloseable ad.”
    • “Unable to play the game at all due to an absurd amount of unskipable ads. You can't even play the game offline as you could back then anymore.”

  • gameplay

    55 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    45% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 5% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally praised for being easy to learn yet offering strategic depth in diplomacy, economy, and warfare, with engaging military mechanics. However, recent updates have introduced bugs, lag, and complicated changes—especially in military recruitment—that frustrate long-time players and affect the saving/loading experience. Many users request a return to simpler or original mechanics, offline mode, and additional features like naval battles and improved economic systems.

    • “⚔️ The gameplay is simple to learn but offers a lot of depth with diplomacy, economy management, alliances, and warfare.”
    • “But the gameplay itself was fun, simplistic, addictive, and challenging.”
    • “The mechanics are awesome especially the military mechanisms and it's easy to learn and pick up.”
    • “I mostly used it to create maps and scenarios, but now, after the new update, whenever I try to remove or annex a country or any territory in the custom section of the gameplay, the screen flashes (which hurts the eyes) and lags for a moment before everything returns to normal, at least until I try to delete something else.”
    • “This is the worst update ever. Why did the developers make it so complex? The only reason I played DummyNation is because of its simplicity. Never playing again unless the old mechanics are back. Pathing is still dumb, it's not fixed. The military recruitment is dumb. Edit: I can no longer open the game.”
    • “This game has so many glitches. I suggest you fix the glitches instead of complaining about the other updates you did. When I play the game, my gameplay is interrupted by 'your device is out of RAM' message; it's so annoying. Plus, whenever I get an ad and click the X button, it kicks me out of the app. This game sucks, I recommend not downloading this.”

  • graphics

    46 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    46% positive mentions, 43% neutral mentions, 11% negative mentions

    User reviews on the graphics of this game are mixed: while some praise its minimalistic, realistic, and enjoyable design, many express dissatisfaction with the recent update's graphics, citing them as cheap, messy, and causing lag or eye strain. There is a strong demand for either restoring the older, more visually comfortable graphics or providing an option to toggle between old and new graphic modes to improve performance and player experience.

    • “This game is the absolute standard for what strategy mobile games should have been from the start. Instead of having too much graphic design, this game fits minimalism into such a wonderful design that I get tempted to play once again.”
    • “Excellent game, loved it. I haven't played such a game that has so good graphics and realistic geopolitical management.”
    • “Very nice and good graphics. This game, I'm honestly surprised that this is for mobile lol.”
    • “The previous version of the game was best, but the new game graphics are very cheap.”
    • “The new graphics pinch the eyes while the previous version was very sober and mild.”
    • “Add graphics modes or something because it's basically unplayable.”

  • stability

    21 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from frequent freezing, crashing, and glitches across multiple platforms, especially during ads, saving, and in certain gameplay sections, which disrupts the overall experience. Many users report lag, "out of RAM" errors, and bugs that impact functionality and stability, indicating a need for significant optimization and bug fixes.

    • “But the mobile version constantly freezes during ads, especially when trying to save the game.”
    • “Crashes way too much even if you play single player. The moment NATO or another alliance member attacks, the game crashes or freezes frequently.”
    • “The game is good in all but it freezes a lot and sometimes I cannot even play the single player mode.”

  • optimization

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 30% neutral mentions, 40% negative mentions

    The game's optimization is inconsistent, with some users experiencing significant lag and low FPS, especially on mid-range devices, while others report good performance even on older hardware with minimal battery drain. Despite improvements and performance fixes, many still find the game clunky and in need of further optimization, particularly to support low-end devices better.

    • “As a tech-savvy user, I find it important to highlight that the game has really good optimization. I tested it on multiple devices and found it to perform well even on older devices. It doesn't overheat the device like other games and doesn't drain the battery much. I played for 2 straight hours on a Redmi Note 8T, and it only drained 8% of the battery.”
    • “Performance issues have been fixed, and the newer R&D system is great.”
    • “The game itself is fun and actually engaging, though it could use a bit more consistent performance.”
    • “The game is experiencing significant lag and stuttering on my mid-range phone, despite my phone having a good processor and 8 GB of RAM.”
    • “Developer, it's too laggy and needs a performance boost. It's laggy and unplayable.”
    • “Very poor optimization.”

  • humor

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's humor shines through unexpected and absurd alliances, as well as humorous outcomes like winning solely by economic growth. Players enjoy creating unconventional scenarios, adding to the comedic experience. Overall, the humor is subtle but effective in enhancing gameplay enjoyment.

    • “I burst out laughing when North Korea allied with South Korea, and when China allied with Taiwan. Overall, you all should play this.”
    • “It's funny to just not do anything for the entire game besides grow your economy and then it tells you that you've won due to having the biggest economy.”
    • “Funny tactical game!”

  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions

    Users appreciate the game's music but report issues such as interruptions, occasional cutting off, and persistent background music during game crashes or black screens, indicating a need for stability improvements.

    • “After 6 times of doing this, now when I go into the game, it's just a black screen with music.”
    • “The game doesn't work; it is just a black screen and background music. Please fix, I love this game.”
    • “Great game but can be slow or interrupt music, or sometimes in-game music will cut off.”

  • replayability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game offers high replayability, with each playthrough feeling unique due to varied strategies and country choices, keeping the experience fresh and engaging.

    • “Each game feels different, making it fun and replayable for all types of strategy.”
    • “There’s a lot of replay value, and trying different countries and strategies keeps it interesting.”

  • story

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users appreciate the game's historical theme and story but express frustration with gameplay mechanics involving bots, which slow down progress and cause performance issues.

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The atmosphere is described as enjoyable and engaging, providing a pleasant experience for players.

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Players find the grinding in the game frustrating and excessively difficult, feeling overwhelmed by constant attacks and unfair AI advantages, making progression feel tedious and discouraging.

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Dummynation is a tactical management game with economy theme. Common tags for Dummynation include politics, indie, choices matter, war, minimalist and others.

Dummynation is available on PC, Mac OS, Phone, Windows and others.

On average players spend around 5 hours playing Dummynation.

Dummynation was released on April 15, 2022.

Dummynation was developed by Alejandro Hernández Ferrero.

Dummynation has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Dummynation for its gameplay but disliked it for its monetization.

Dummynation is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Strategy & Tactics－Sandbox, Call of War, Age of History II, Ages of Conflict World War Sim, Territorial.io and others.