Designer City: Empire Edition Reviews

Designer City Reviews

Published by on 2025-11-19

🏷️ About: Embark on a journey to construct a historic town that evolves into a thriving metropolis and ultimately transforms into an expansive empire spanning millennia. Immerse yourself in this free-to-play offline city-building game, devoid of wait times and restrictions! To establish a flourishing empire in this free historical city builder, entice inhabitants by erecting houses, villas, and opulent mansions for their residence.


       


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Overall Customer Experience 😎


🤬 Negative experience
66.7%

😎 Positive experience
33.3%

🫥 Neutral
0.0%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 897 combined software reviews.

Is Designer City Safe?
Designer City: Empire Edition appears generally safe, but use with caution.
33.3/100

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Is Designer City Legit?
Designer City: Empire Edition appears legitimate, though exercise caution.
33.3/100



Read 20 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.9 out of 5
App crashes repeatedly

Fun game but after reaching level 100 it continues to crash and boot me out I play on a I pad with plenty of available storage space yet game shows low memory within DesignerCity itself so much time wasted to reach a point where the game is worthless

Recently I have a problem

Some buildings are disappearing shortly after building them ..just vanished suddenly..I tried to re install the game more than once and the same problem..building vanished suddenly..thanks

It’s okay but……

It kicks me out all the time every time I would try too play

Improvement ideas

Fun, but if you’re OCD, these changes would be helpful to not drive you nuts …
1. Needs more designs for services. Each building needs fire, police, church and education to be near, but there is no match for many buildings. It looks stupid to have a Chinese buildings with Greek buildings. It doesn’t make sense.
2. If you pull something out of your warehouse, auto take from the warehouse if you have more than 1 building. It’s a pain to find an item, place it and then find it again for each item.

Awesome Game

I like this game very much it is easy to play, and pretty simple too! 👍🙂👌

Good game, but has a few issues

So I really like the this game. It has the two things I like, ancient history and city building. Its a fun simple game that has a lot of replay value.

But it does have issues but there sorta minor. Now the first issue is that the walking animation for people is gone. Idk if it’s a glitch or something else. But that’s a really minor issue.

Now the second issue is that the game won’t allow me name or rename my city. Which I feel like ruins the vibe. I hope you fix this cause I really like this game. I hope this review is helpful.

Remedy for City Building addiction

Although simple and with what most people would consider inferior graphics, this game blows Sim City build it out of the water. If you find yourself not being satisfied enough with this version,try their new version entitled Designer City: Medieval Version

Ecology

I love the game but it is missing geysers, hot springs, and volcanoes.

I love this game. You need to try it.

I like this game because it’s basically a sandbox game

Good game

Love this game because I love the games when you build your own city

Fun, beautiful game.

The variety of building designs is amazing- they’re so detailed and beautiful. So relaxing and so much fun to play. The scale of the city walls is awesome, it feels epic. Having a variety of European and Asian building designs is great.

Amazing, Not a Money Pit

This game really caught me off guard. I thought it would be some boring sandbox game with almost nothing to do, but I was way wrong. Unlike most city building games where you are often forced down a linear path of unlocking buildings in a boring grind, this game allows you to buy things you have not yet unlocked with gold, which is a rare currency. Most people who read that are thinking “Dang, this game looked cool, too bad it’s a money pit”, but that is NOT the case. The developers actually avoided that route and allowed you to earn gold very easily through achievements, or, if you want, you can watch an advertisement. Personally, I have not watched any ads and still have been able to unlock the buildings I want without spending real money or watching ads. Also, the achievements actually give you a lot of gold for how easy they are to complete.
This game is great, but I have a couple nitpicks:
1. There is no day/night cycle. Personally, I think the devs are really missing out on this one because I think a sprawling Roman Empire would look amazing at night time.
2. Too little landscaping options. I’m specifically talking about the texture changes you can use such as turning the grass to sand and what not. I think there is not enough variety and options for this. For example maybe the devs could add some dirt so you can make dirt roads and stuff, that would be pretty cool in my opinion.

Well, that’s the end of my review, I hope the devs take these “nitpicks” into account, as these could really make the game better I think.

You guys should design another city game

World wide Military based with different military branches of different countries bases military vehicles ships aircraft missile defense etc that would be so cool

Best Game ever to come to Apple store

I’ve been looking for building games that are specifically Roman era and I finally found the best one. It doesn’t take too long to build up the buildings, and I love that you can pick from multiple designs. I do wish we can do more with the military aspect(maybe for future update) Like defending territories from raids, and the guard towers are actual working buildings. it would be cool to also raise up an army to capture neighboring preset village or something like that. Anyways these are just some thoughts I had while playing the game. Cant wait for future updates so glad I found this one.

Best Game Ever

I have not encountered a problem yet so I really like DesignerCity a lot and I have read the other reviews and I think you’re doing great.

Great !

So I love education and I wanted to find a game about building and history but never found one then in 2022 I found the Designer City Games and in Dec of 2025 I found this game and finally found what I was looking for!

Amazing

This is a wonderful game!!! I love the constant additions of buildings! Two ideas i wish the 1x1 parks acted like roads and two i wish you could flip buildings in all four directions not on,y in two!

Fantastic

Best city sim ever! One improvement I would like to see is the ability to build a neighboring city. Just need to have a special bridge that would allow you to cross the edge. I am sure there would be lots of people willing to pay for such a bridge.

I love this app!

I have played all four of the games: Designer City, Designer City 2, Space City and Empire City. I can’t tell which is my favorite. Building is easy. You can play these games without spending real money. You can reach high levels. I have many times. I wish there was another theme city! I don’t care for Merge City!

I love it

I love this game I have been looking for a city building game where you make a city form the past and this is perfect I hope the make more like this one



Is Designer City Safe? 🙏

Designer City: Empire Edition appears generally safe, but use with caution. JustUseApp Safety Score for Designer City is 33.3/100.
This assessment is based on our NLP analysis of 897 user reviews. Combined with the app store average rating of 4.9/5.


Is Designer City Legit? 💯

Designer City: Empire Edition appears legitimate, though exercise caution. Our NLP models processed user feedback to estimate legitimacy. JustUseApp Legitimacy Score for Designer City is 33.3/100 .
This conclusion is based on analysis of 897 user reviews.




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Features

Empire City, a delightful casual offline city-building game, grants you absolute autonomy to design and construct your town without the hindrance of wait times.

Note: Designer City Empire Edition is completely free to play, with some entirely optional in-game items requiring payment, such as the purchase of game currency.

To establish a flourishing empire in this free historical city builder, entice inhabitants by erecting houses, villas, and opulent mansions for their residence.

Enjoy the game offline or online, as no internet connection is required to play Empire City.

Commence with a modest Roman city and expand to include diverse civilizations, encompassing ancient Egyptian, Aztec, Byzantine, Persian, Norse, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures.