Grow Empire: Rome

You can immediately tell it’s a mobile port brought to PC, no doubt about it. Still, it does what it promises: it’s fun and keeps you hooked for a while. That said, after some time it starts to feel a bit repetitive, like it’s missing a bit more variety so it doesn’t always fall into the same loop. That being said, the overall experience is positive. It’s not a masterpiece by any means, but it works really well as a game to kill some time and just zone out for a bit.

Where to start? At first, unhappy that i did not notice this was a mobile game, and paid for it for PC! Steam, there should be a clear tag sayin "this is a mobile game"! Sure, addictive, got to kill that next wave, but... tactical?, zero to very little, strategy? non-existent, despite the claims of the game Sure, it's Rome, that counts for something, but with a limited (partial) map Sure, different soldier types to work with, but now way to control apart which unit in which wave Javelins, overpowered clearly Replayability? as far as i can tell non-existent... 800+ hours of game-play - make that 600 hours waiting time to generate denari whilst playing another game Now at a point everything is maxed out, no more purpose for the denari generated. Looking at the difficulty level of what still do, can't be done without the cards in the game wich you earn slowly every day if one doesn't want to pay for it ( and I don't) sure they have been keeping you busy untill that time : defend your base city, conquer the map (which they call 'colonize'), unlock heros, unlock mercenaries (nope, not available everywhere, you can only use them t conquer the map) defend your colonies, play in the colosseum,...nope, not more, thats the game content. Not that one has to, but cities are numbered, as one follows the numbers (once visible) you conquer italy first, than Gaul (which suprisingly stoppes somewhere in the middel of current France), than Iberia, than Carthage, than Egypt ( i guess Illyria, Greece, Trace, Asia Minor, Crete, Cyprus,, Rhodes, and the levant is for another game) . And no, when all cities are conquered, you don't own 100% of the map, of no, for that you have to defend you colonies one by one for 3 times, only than you own it in full...as said they keep you busy, Good thing perhap it is not the full Roman known world to conquer, the scrolling accros the map would most likely make you forget you are playing a game... bottom line, ...was reasonable while it lasted, but no, can not recommend