Religion inc God Simulator Reviews

I played one game. At first, it had some charm. I immediately recognized it as a plague Inc ripoff, but hey, that's a popular game for a reason, maybe this one has some merits.

Imagine a game that has you watch an ad every other time you open the upgrade panel. It's excessive to the point of being unplayable. If it was an ad at the start and end of each match then whatever. If it offered plenty of opportunities to watch ads for optional bonuses then whatever. But just plain gameplay featured so many ads that half the time spent playing was spent waiting for the ads to be over.

When you start the game, the store has an option to unlock one more religion for .99 and all for 1.99. I bought the 1.99 instantly, because the reviews for this game were so good. Then the store offers you Premium for 1.99, which says “no ads”. I thought, ok, I don’t want to watch ads while I play, so I bought it. Then the store offers Premium+ for 2.99, which collects bubbles automatically. Now I was annoyed and thought I better try this game before I purchase anymore. 1 minute into the game, a video icon appears and offers me two rewards if I watch a 30 second video, look at the ad for another 5 seconds, click Claim Reward, then have to click out of ReligionincGodSimulator Store that it redirected me to. These ads are “optional”, but the reward is so good that you would have to do 3-4 minutes of additional gameplay to get the equivalence without the ad. These ads pop-up every minute. The game seemed ok, but after feeling compelled to watch the same boring video ads for trash games 8-10 times, I am never going to play this again.

I tried to like this. I’m a big fan of Plague Inc., so it made sense for me to try it. The game mechanics have some issues. What causes atheism to increase or decrease and whether I win/what happens seems random rather than based on choices I make. I like that it’s difficult, but strategy games do need clear strategies or people will give up.

After game 1, the amount of ads shown during gameplay increases as well. I understand that ads are a necessary evil for game developers, but I value my time too much to sit through countless ads, and I value my money too much to pay to remove ads for just any game. I’d rather just play something else.

Just go play plague Inc.

It's Plague Inc only with a prettier design and 10 times less coherent. There's nothing explaining what choosing different actions does, special mini missions pop up expecting you to add an ability from a particular development path, but the mission doesn't stay long enough for you to earn the points to make the upgrade.
Even the in game ads are glitched. Muting a loud ad jams up the playback and the countdown to skip the ad doesn't move.
If you look in the comments, there are year old comments complaining about vagueness, balance, and glitches. The developer/s comment the same thing on every critical review - "we updated it well" - so I'm not sure this will ever be a fully fleshed out game.

So far your game is pretty fun but then I would like to add some suggestion, can you add new different world layout? That would fascinate the exp of players and and fantasy layout too for elves or dwarves and other fantasy race, that would give the so much uniqueness and diversity in the game. And lastly please fix the bug and don’t be too hard on adds because I don’t want to play a game where every 20 sec I gotta watch the adds that takes 30-1min long which is crazy. So for now I would be generous to give 2 stars.

So is looking for a game like this and I found it and then I started playing I snored all the reviews and then I clicked on it and I was like why do I have to not why can’t I play all these different religions and then I clicked on the first one that you see and then I started playing it was really fun at first but then as I kept playing and start to get less fun and less fun instant stop giving me a religion but it’s something fun so don’t be fooled by how fun it looks in the pictures because it is not fun so take my advice don’t take my advice it’s up to you.

My opinion on this game is a little off balanced due to the fact that the map is the only thing in this game that was truly spent on. I would like to have more diversity and color to the home screen, or maybe have different modes to simulate other religions like Judaism Christianity Roman Catholics and Muslim beliefs. Due to this game being directional hitting the main points of belief within the first 3 minutes of me playing I was able to get about 5m. people supporting my religion. I was on the hardest difficulty. But as I was saying this game is based on religion and the devs could get a lot of flak about it from other people from other races and specific religious belief systems, so in my case you should watch out for that. Other than that this game needs more updates and more details than from what it has.

First up the obvious and unpleasant: this game is clearly “inspired” ( to put it mildly ) by Plague Inc. On top of that I could swear the map uses elements from Godus.

Ok, now for the game. The premise is mildly interesting, but it doesn’t feel fully ready/ balanced. It took me several tries to win a game on the lowest difficulty. I found the active powers to be confusing and not super easy to use.

Some of the in game mechanics feel like a mystery to me. The distinction between fanatics and enlightened is also not clearly explained, and to be honest I’m still not sure what it is. There is also a concept explained in the tutorial that conflicting ideologies will increase tension, but I have no idea how to tell if that has happened.

There also appears to be some missing text in power descriptions based on what I saw in the update log, where some powers should boost “superstition” ( Plague Inc mutations ) and others should reduce it.

Beyond polish and balance I think this game could set itself apart by leaning into the knowledge aspect. Showing historical tribes and cultures on the map is a nice touch. Pairing these and powers with blips of historical context, or even just Wikipedia links, might help that aspect shine.

This game is super entertaining, not your every day strategy game. It makes you consider culture and sociological factors as you spread your religion, and the divine intervention moves are fun.

What I would like to see is a little more personalization. We can name our religion, and choose practices (initiation, symbols etc) but there’s not a lot of substance. I’d like to see options for making your faith’s symbol, or the way adherents pray. We can have a prophet, but what is his name? Likewise, I’d like to see more animation or illustration. The map is awesome, but that’s all we get. Can we possibly see images of people worshiping in the religion? These may not be strategy-centered requests, but it would make the game way more enjoyable.

Dear creators of the game I understand that you may need money but to hide features of the game behind a premium pass that other very similar games like plague inc have and don’t hide just doesn’t do you any favors and it repels people from your game and just makes them go to other games like plague inc that offer the same play experience just without things hidden behind a pass so what I’m suggesting is that you open up the fast forward feature and add some more extra special features that games like plague inc don’t have and then put some of those extra features behind the premium pass not all of them cause you still want the free version of the game to differentiate itself from competing games but maybe put like an extra hard difficulty behind a premium pass and a couple other free features things like that or some special in game features also try to make it easier to understand for a younger audience cause the best games like Minecraft are easily understood by young people because on the mobile platform the majority of your audience will be young people.
From a fellow game developer

I do enjoy the game and I see a lot of potential here, so I am being harsh but only because I think this game could be so much more with a few tweaks to the gameplay.

My favorite part about this game is how well thought out the skill trees are. Each different type of religion has unique traits and weaknesses based on real life implications. There is real educational value in here.

From a gameplay standpoint however, the world lacks dynamics that would greatly increase the replay-ability. While individual nations can resist your religion, there will never be another major religion that pops up and competes with yours. Your followers will never lose faith in their religion if you backtrack on established values or take the religion in a more fanatical direction. There doesn’t seem to be any real difference between those who become “enlightened” by your religion and those who become “fanatics”. The world population stays at the same number no matter how many years have past nor how bloodthirsty your followers are.

It would be nice to see some changes that impact these aspects of the game. As for future content I am excited to see what traits they will give to the upcoming archetypes and I would love to see a humanist archetype or maybe even play as the Atheists.

I was genuinely interested in this game. It plays out similarly to plague inc. I also understand that many games build in ads to help offset the costs of development, but there have to be a point at which you say this is too much. 14 ads in less than 30 minutes is too much for me. Those were just the auto ads, then you also have start up and selection ads. Yeah at this point I might as well just watch ads for money and pay myself. Uninstalled due to intrusive ads.

I purchased the premium plus package when I first downloaded the game sometime last month. I’m not sure if it’s a bug with the recent updates, but when I went to play the game all of my premium+ perks weren’t there. I couldn’t restore my purchase and I ended up repurchasing. I’ve never had an app do this to me and I would really appreciate it if someone could reach out to me! I really love the game I’m just kind of upset and very confused about not being able to restore my purchase and having to repurchase.

I downloaded the game and was having a lot of fun so I decided to buy the premium version because it is really cheap and I was enjoying it so far. After trying different religions and different difficulties I noticed that the game will literally make you lose even if you did everything correctly. It got to a point where I didn’t get any religion points for almost 10 minutes and the games Atheism points kept going up until it made me lose (on the Preacher difficulty.) I’m not sure if this mechanism was made to make you feel like the games difficulty is going up from the the first of three levels on each religion that you can play in, but it felt like the games algorithm was crippling you so the game felt longer and “harder.” This however is very frustrating because no matter what you do and what skills you add your religion points to, the game will cripple you and stop giving you religion points so it can make the Atheism points go up. I had fun at first, but I definitely regret paying for the premium version when I realized how the game is set up. The game is entertaining at first, but do play a few hours and difficulties before paying for the premium version. Don’t let all the 5 star reviews fool you.

I like the gist of this game, it feels like another spin on Plague Inc. I had to play the game a couple of times to really find out what about the game I feel needed to be changed. This game def doesn’t hold your hand & explain much. Yea you can figure it out as you play but that goes back to, me having to play the a game a couple of times to even learn it. What if the next individual doesn’t even want to learn how to play & is just over it after a few attempts, without even a walkthrough of the game? I feel as if this game is not challenging enough. There are certain areas of the game that are well thought out & others that needs more attention & interaction. It feels as if there is no real opposition when it comes to challenges you encounter along the way. I went ahead & did buy the premium, I enjoy the game but def feel as if this game can be expanded on!

As someone who has studied and appreciates many different religions, this game caught my attention. There are a few quirks, and it is lacking polish in some areas, but it certainly shows promise. Anyone who has played Plague Inc. will easily understand this strategic gameplay, though, there is less hand holding than with Plague Inc. There are a few grammatical issues here and there. Nothing that a scholarly review couldn’t fix.

My biggest gripe is the music and sound effects. They are absolutely atrocious. It is as if the developer or producer didn’t know what vibe the game was going for. The poorly mixed sound clips combined with the MIDI-sounding music which just sounds garbled and chaotic, takes away from the beauty and mystic of the gameplay. As a composer and producer, I’d be happy to write a score for this game for free and completely redo the sound effects.

Overall, this is a promising game with lots of potential. I immediately supported the dev and purchased premium+. But I strongly advise revising the sounds/music, and correcting some of the minor grammar mistakes.

The map is fabulous, and the skill trees are super great. The only bug I noticed was that Intervention in Education 2 doesn’t do anything. If you get that, and then something speeds atheism up, it overrides the intervention completely. I appreciate that you don’t have to pay for anything to play this game and can support the developer/get perks just by watching ads. Fabulous game, I have spent an embarrassing amount of time playing it.

Game Center is good but it runs & saves progress through icloud backups as opposed to the present data files, other games will use facebook, discord or something in the likes, not only for players but for the developers who play intentionally to save their data from being lost. Love This Game Regardless of this predicament.

- And the only way to win is with ADs whether you paid for them or not thats a lame bummer.

This is my first ever review of an app, so beat with me. This game is honestly a ton of fun and very promising with a nice calming soundtrack! That said, seeing as its in development it does have some issues:

1) The English is funky. Which is fine, for now, and impressive for someone whose learning. But it still could use some corrections.

2) The video ads don’t work

3) I’d say charge more and remove the ads and premium stuff altogether. IMHO such things make an app look kinda trashy and like it’s trying to gouge the player.

Maybe charge an extra dollar for cheats, though. Rebel Inc does something like that.

4) Give us a sand box mode!

5) it would be fun to compete against other religions.

6) The Map….it’s atrocious. I love the *style* for sure! But I just hate the bad geography. It’s the worst thing about the game haha

7) It’s not exactly clear how you win, you can’t exactly tell and atheism rises too quickly.

That said, it’s extremely fun to play! These are constructive criticisms and I can’t wait to see what future updates bring.

I finished it, beating it with all religions on the hardest mode in one day. It was fun and relaxing, with kinda interesting and cool development options. Good game for the price but it would be nice if there were more than 3 things that can be adjusted as far as attributes, and the help/tutorial and explanations are way too brief or missing things.