RISK: Global Domination

Not a great game as is Edits at bottom- There are so many problems with the game, but I’ll start here: it’s almost impossible to communicate with other people. So if you think someone else is saying they’re willing to go allies with you to the end by using fist bumps and that garbage you just can’t ever believe it. I did in my last game and so instead my “Ally” attacked me and the third player won. Sounds simple, but it’s basically a game-breaking design. Because there are emojis that *seem* like they should be for communication but they’re not really. They don’t mean anything. You can always assume it’s a lie. A corollary is that you should always betray your ally because they’re planning to betray you. And because the bad “communication” system is in the design of the game I hold the developer responsible. There are other problems, like bugs, also game-breaking usually. And the dice-rolling never seems fair or correct. Supposedly they’ve fixed it but I don’t think so. There’s more but I’ve said enough. Edit5: I submitted a ticket as Luci asked me to. But none of the problems I raised have been fixed (except maybe ibailand caps - I haven’t checked in a while). So my rating of the game stays at the lowest. Edit4: bots! The design of the bots is terrible. I just played a game where a stalling player was just letting the bot add troops while they stayed in the game taking the full turn timer. It became apparent that another player was going to win so I targeted the staller or so I thought. Then the player left for real and the bot started attacking me at the same time as an ally betrayed me. A beautiful example of two game breaking flaws in the design of the game: first there are no true alliances so always betray first. Second, bots are erratic and may come to life and ruin your game at any moment. Edit3: the ads! They’re so bad. The worst ones are from chaos puzzle when they say “Shhh don’t tell your wife!” While putting salacious images on screen. Also bad in another way is when you click on ads it sometimes says loading forever without actually loading. I get you want to make money on ftp people but it’s gross when an ad runs 5+ times with the bar at the bottom getting slower as it goes on. How are these other companies paying for that extra ad time? Why are they asking us to not tell our wives? Gross. Also it’s 3 ads per game because you get 5 coins per ad, 10 coins per game, and you have to watch another ad to search for a game. And the ads freeze sometimes which means it can be more than 3 ads to play one game. Gross. Edit2: I’ve downgraded to 1 star again. The lack of meaningful negotiation capabilities while the game boasts that you can make alliances and such is a deal breaker for me. So glad I haven’t spent money on it. It really makes me rethink the multiple board game versions of the game I’ve bought over the years. Edit: I’m upgrading to two stars because the developers cared to give me a response. But I still don’t think the emotes make sense. It’s just enough communication to be an unpleasant part of the game but not enough to use effectively. In an OTB game you’d have some social interaction consequences if you always broke your alliance. And therefore people would get to know if they could trust you. Maybe if the app version of the game added a “% of the time this player breaks alliances” feature I could be happy. Or a game mode where alliances had a window in which they were unbreakable. As is, I do not like the emotes or communication or alliance part of this game and it’s bad enough that I am giving it a low rating here on the App Store. As for my other concerns, the developer did not respond to them, and while it’s been a few days since my last game breaking bug they still happen every so often. Crashes during gameplay. Multiple cap selection (seems to be an ibailand problem). Unclickable screen during troop deployment. These things still happen from time to time.

RISK I love the game overall but the ads are kind of annoying

5/4/26 it keeps killing my game in the middle of battle. 2023: update not in App Store. Looks like a phishing scheme. They say give us you personal data so you can play safer? Quite the opposite. 2022 review: The game was unfairly rigged against normal single player play & forced me to see ads. But if I play on stupid level & complain in reviews regularly enough they leave me alone. Hit replay every game. No ads and it’s mostly like playing against idiot AI’s that occasionally become geniuses. Get to play about 10 games a day AD FREE & when they start to screw me, I take a break & later it gets stupid again. 5 stars because I can avoid cheaters AND advertisers. Perfect. 2021 review: … when I turn it down to stupid level it still beats me 10% of the time. The purpose of this game is to sell ads. Skill, competition, reality? Don’t expect to encounter them here. No matter how well I play, it HAS to beat me 10% of the time. Tell me that is a legitimate game? Minus 10 stars not being a possibility. One damned star. So I write a bad review and usually the game works better for a minute. But now you have no legitimate response so I lose game after game solo against the computer on Novice when I have been playing Risk for 55 years. Amazing you can flip a switch & make the game better or worse but you won’t just let it be better b/c that would mean less ad views.

Buggy mess There are several very common bugs that consistently lose you games. No way to avoid they just completely make you unable to deploy or play the game.

5 stars easy It’s f2p and is AMAZING for keeping anyone occupied

Literally unplayable The ads that play are extremely long and cannot be closed.