RISK: Global Domination

Missing Russia map. When I purchased the map pack the policy was "If you purchase a map pack you will get ALL future updates to that map pack included in the purchase. Map Packs are a once off purchase. We will NEVER remove maps from these only ADD” and I’m told that “may revisit returning these maps if/when the conflict has ended” Thanks heroes!

Not worth it It always loses connection and won’t reconnect and just kicks you out of a game. Then when you close and reopen it, hoping it will ask you to join the game again, surprise, it doesn’t. But when you finish a game and completely close it and get back on the next day, it asks if you want to rejoin that game. Not to mention the warped dice rolls and card distribution, I won a game the other day (barely) with 96 turns, I literally got 20 infantry cards in a row in a fixed turn in game. While the other players got a bonus 10 turn in every 3 cards. This happens to me almost every game. I don’t know how this game has such high reviews when everyone I’ve ever talked to has the same problem with this game. It seems like the developer just erases the bad reviews every couple months.

Hmmm Fun game, but I never get free tokens when I win or start the game after the last update.

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

Luci would not understand in-game harassment if it bit him in the butt Lots of cheaters. No punishment. Don’t spend money, you will lose it. You can only ban 100, players seek you out for retribution. No punishment. Of course there is no pattern, it is only against you. Fix the cheating!