Crowd City

So, off the bat - buying “remove ads” doesn’t actually remove the ads. You have to watch a 30 second ad to “start bigger,” which is the only way to win. You also have to watch a 30 second ad to double your winnings, which is the only way to advance quickly. You only don’t _have_ to watch a 5 to 30 second ad after every game, if you don’t want to. So the 2:00 game takes about 3:20 after ads. You play against (this goes without saying, but other reviews don’t seem to agree) an AI to grow your little crowd to the biggest mob by absorbing white neutral people and your AI enemies. The problem with the game, that costs it a star, is the AI doesn’t play to win, it plays to keep you from winning. It is very easy, you should win at least 8/10 games. But it is very very difficult to win by eliminating all the enemies. They do not go to the center or to each other, but run to the opposite corners and edges of the game board. They often just hover in the corners, not moving or growing, but making it impossible to catch them all. It is not possible to cover the whole board in two minutes, so you will often leave at least one, sometimes two or three enemies alive. Otherwise it is a satisfying, quick game. There’s just something about running your crowd through an enemies crowd, watch your people split and absorb the enemy people.

Once I got this game, I loved it immediately. I love how satisfying it is. It’s really good, but it needs a few tweaks. First off, there is SO much lagging. I can’t even move my army an inch. Every 5 seconds, it has to lag. Especially when your killing someone, it lags like crazy. I also wish the map was a little bigger. I saw there was road, but then at the end of the map, it was just cut off. If a developer is reading this, I recommend that you please fix these problems. I also would like some sound and fun music. It can sometimes be a little boring without music playing or sound effects. I instead have to get my own music. Finally, I would like some more game modes. Having more game modes can give us more options. Maybe there can be a game mode were you have unlimited time and to kill everyone until there is one person left. That would be awesome. Plz, plz, please add so game modes. Overall, this game is amazing, but there are somethings we can fix. Thank you so much for reading.

This game is by far, addictively amazing. But, I’m concerned with more then one thing. First of all, A.I’s as the so-called players in this game. Some games DO have A.I’s as the components for the player. But, this game actually said that it was an online game with ACTUAL people. How do I know that they are A.I’s? Well, the creative names that the players have is totally unrealistic. Especially since the most people that play this game is children, who couldn’t possibly spend time just coming up with names like “S’more Vixen” or “Jurassic Savior” Even if. People do come up with a name that you don’t hear of often, Why would I repeatedly see the same name like these but never manage to get in a game with my friends! Because if. A.I’s. Also, If there were real people, I would have actual competition, but I alway’s seem to win the games, why? Since I’m about to finish up, let me end with this. So many people like me have given similar reviews, the developers of this game haven’t even lifted a finger to reply to one of them, much less actually change these problems. I guess what I’m trying to prove, is for this game to ACTUALLY give us the real crowd experience.

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Like other reviews, my experience started off easy where I was winning every game I played. Over time, it’s become clear to me that you’re playing against AI and not other users, as you can still play without cell signal or WiFi, and other players somehow wait for you to watch an ad before they move in what’s portrayed as “real time.” After a few days, I’m to the point where other crowds run from you and into the path of larger crowds. They are all placed near each other where they can quickly acquire each other and start off with an advantage over you, but you have to chase them for 15 seconds before you come in contact with any of them. Almost every crowd I chase to acquire suddenly decides to sacrifice themselves to another crowd so that I have a larger crowd to contend with. The only way to have a chance is to watch some 30 second ad to get 10 extra pieces, even after paying for no ads. This would be fun if you actually had multiplayer instead of passing off AI as multiplayer, and at least programming your AI to act more like other players instead of working together to make the game more difficult for actual users. Good concept, but very misleading.

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I got the game and was having a ton of fun at first. Seemed like I caught on really easily or something but then I noticed things were too easy. I was winning 95% of games just off the bat, I’m good at games but not THAT good which made me suspicious. Started paying attention to names and noticed that I came across every single name at least twice over a long series of rounds, and none of them were the generic “player” name. You’d think that in a popular free mobile game like this you’d have a much larger player pool, and that there would be AT LEAST 1 person who didn’t bother to change their name and went as player, like me my first few rounds. Also in a few rounds I noticed that there was a bit of an enemy team visible on my start screen, but they were immobile until I pressed start, which for one point was about 45 seconds. Right when I pressed start they sprang to life tho. However I’ve never had to wait on an enemy team to join in over 100 games. This, coupled with my ridiculous win rate and the fact that the enemies play like AI (predictable movement, too focused on gathering over killing), I have to say that this game does not in fact deliver the pvp multiplayer experience it claims.