Empire City

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Empire City is a multiplayer casual management game. It was developed by RED BRIX COMPUTER SYSTEMS and was released on August 9, 2024. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Rise your kingdom and write down your name in history!

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72%

Audience ScoreBased on 1,060 reviews

graphics56 positive mentions

monetization42 negative mentions

The game has attractive graphics and a well-designed ancient theme that many players enjoy.
It offers a relaxing and slow-paced city-building experience without aggressive PvP or combat.
Players appreciate the engaging gameplay with various building and customization options, including trading with other players.

Storage capacity is very limited and upgrades are slow, causing players to run out of space quickly and often block progression.
The game features numerous intrusive ads and aggressive monetization, with many paywalls and expensive in-game purchases that hinder free play.
The complex micromanagement, repetitive tasks, and unclear mechanics (like the military system) cause frustration and reduce long-term enjoyment.

graphics
79 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
71%
25%
4%
The game’s graphics are widely praised for their detailed, ancient Greco-Roman aesthetic, vibrant buildings, and overall pleasing visuals that enhance gameplay immersion. While some users note minor issues such as low resolution on certain devices or occasional bugs, the consensus highlights smooth animations and attractive design as standout features. A few found the graphics slightly repetitive or less high-res than expected, but most appreciate the historical theme and visual quality.
- “The graphics are amazing, the buildings well decorated and the characters, entertaining.”
- “Great storyline, excellent graphics!!”
- “Pretty good game, the graphics and detail in the buildings look great.”
- “Quite disappointed with the black bars, thought the graphics would be more high-res and support my phone's screen size.”
- “Lol.. not into wasting my money on an app with low quality graphics.”
- “The graphics looks too old.”
monetization
46 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
4%
5%
91%
Monetization in the game is heavily ad-driven, with many users complaining about the excessive frequency, lengthy unskippable ads, and occasional buggy or intrusive advertising experiences. While ads are optional and rewards can be earned through gameplay, the sheer volume and length of ads frustrate players, disrupting the overall enjoyment. Some appreciate that purchases and ads are not forced, but the overwhelming presence of ads is widely seen as a negative and intrusive aspect.
- “Monetization left and right, but you can earn all the expansions for your city and your various projects simply by playing and sending out trade ships from the port.”
- “Has no ads unless you want rewarded.”
- “Contains bugged ads that loop to the Play Store with no close button and no response to the back button.”
- “Since 2-3 weeks, I have been getting torture ads with no skip option and without my consent, and I am not able to do anything about it.”
- “The game is full of ads every 3-4 minutes, and when you try to claim something, you're forced to watch ads.”
gameplay
27 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
56%
29%
15%
The gameplay is praised for its smooth, engaging mechanics and appealing Greco-Roman aesthetic, offering a relaxing and visually pleasing city-building experience. However, some users find the mechanics repetitive, influenced by freemium design patterns with ads and progression tied to in-app purchases, and suggest improvements like more varied tasks, offline play, and enhanced controls. Overall, while gameplay is enjoyable, it could benefit from deeper features and fewer monetization constraints.
- “The gameplay is incredibly engaging, and the graphics are top-notch.”
- “I recommend this game, great graphics and smooth challenging yet forgiving gameplay.”
- “One of the most terrific and privileged gameplay experiences in my list of city building games.”
- “A good city builder set in the Greco-Roman period with fancy graphics, but full of dark patterns taken from social networks and other freemium games, designed to capture your attention and keep you playing as long as possible, creating a fear of missing particular events.”
- “This is the umpteenth city builder with the same tap-everything mechanic meant to keep players playing for ad revenue.”
- “The bad: super sensitive controls make performing the pretty much only gameplay loop a bad experience.”
story
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users generally find the storyline immersive and enjoyable, contributing positively to their gaming experience. However, repetitive missions, frequent quest notifications, and resource payout ratios detract from the overall story engagement for some players.
- “The storyline is really immersive, and I find myself getting lost in the world of the game. I really love this ”
- “Love the graphics and storylines, haven't been playing long but so far I'm having fun.”
- “Great storyline, excellent graphics!!”
- “Uninstalled because the merge story adverts keep on buffering and my phone freezes.”
- “After some time, similar items and missions start to repeat.”
- “If it wasn't for all the quest and 'buy me!' icons around the edges I would have added another star.”
grinding
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Grinding in the game is often described as tedious and repetitive, involving excessive micromanagement and slow progression unless players spend premium currency. However, some find the grinding enjoyable and manageable, though overall it leans towards being a dull chore with cumbersome mechanics.
- “A decent enough game, but it becomes evident fairly quickly that in order to avoid the tedious grind, you need to pay gems faster than you get them for free.”
- “Too much scrolling and clicking, tedious micromanagement.”
- “Hand starting every resource is beyond tedious.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
Users praise the music as enjoyable and fun, complementing the graphics well; however, they are frustrated by the inability to permanently turn off background music and the frequent ads appearing when opening the music player.
- “Great music and great graphics”
- “Nice music, just fun”
- “You cannot turn off the background music; even if you switch it off, it turns itself back on almost immediately.”
- “Every time I open the music player, ads appear.”
emotional
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users find the game emotionally frustrating due to unresponsive controls, leading to repeated, tedious actions that diminish enjoyment and cause dissatisfaction.
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game generally offers smooth graphics with minimal glitches, but some users experience stability issues such as freezing and buffering during merge story adverts.
- “Uninstalled because the merge story adverts keep on buffering and my phone freezes.”
optimization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game features good graphics and runs smoothly, indicating solid optimization.
- “But the graphics are good and the game runs smoothly.”