Empire Four Kingdoms Reviews

by PackerBacker1953

Don’t get this game unless you have a lot of money to burn! I have been playing this game for over 9 years and it has turned into a pay to win game. Players who can’t afford to spend a lot are getting slaughtered by the big spenders. In an effort to even the playing field Goodgame just released “the update of the century” their words. All it is doing is making the game much more complicated and too cumbersome to play. I imagine any new players will not play for long since it is confusing for experienced players unless they spend a lot of money to buy a high level account that is for sale.

Dec 5, 2022 Update, I have quit the game

by WarGoddeSSofMyrms

Played game forever, played fair and spent way too much $ and then one day there was a glitch and I was charged twice for rubies as I purchased one package but they charged me for 2. Tried to contact GG support, what a joke they wouldn’t refund my money so I had my credit card back charges out and they deleted my account. They said they mailed my account a message, never got it. You can’t talk to anyone and you have to send messages back and forth, wait game plus super slow. Good grief they are scammers. I never heard back from them and they just deleted my account and never heard me out. They are a German company fyi which tbh if you are from another country it’s not easy to deal with their way of customer service, it’s weak by far. Don’t play. Find another game.

by Screw GGE

This game used to be fun. You could get by as a f2p player. Now it’s completely pay to win and pay to play. They changed it so you can’t participate in events as a lower level player. If you want to be competitive at a higher level you have to buy tools if you want a chance at good rewards. Servers are run by people who spend about a 200$ a week. If you want to participate in events in other realms you need to spend $. Even if you want to participate in regular events you have to pay to reach the next level or spend about a month to reach the next tier each time. Not a great support team. Game is a complete cash grab now.

by KingDev999

I have played this game for almost a decade now. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on rubies and equipment. The game USE to be so much fun, I would spend countless hours on it day and night! To say less I suppose it was addictive!
But then everything changes, is not the game I use to know, and love. I log on every now and then to see old friends, in my case most of them are gone. And it seems each time I get online it’s a whole new game! Or shall i say new things to just spend money on.
I wish they would come out with a E4K classic addition. Wow! That’s odd to say haha!
Anyway I remember a time when things were simpler, and fun now if I go full time I’d have to practically go to night school just to learn all the new stuff. Just a headache! And not worth it. To all new comers, just turn around.

by MeliMedi

Beware downloading and installing this game. They claim FTP but have made so many changes to this game to make it budget-friendly. They have also recently decreased the amount of content you can get for free to either force you to buy or force you to quit. There is no more in between and playing events for free in order to be more selective on spending. THIS GAME IS NOT FTP FRIENDLY, so please do not expect it to be anything other than a place to waste time and money. Everything takes a long time to do. Goals are not accomplished easily. That is not a complaint, because I knew this going in as a returning player. What I did not expect was for GG to limit my FTP options so much that it is virtually impossible to play any portion of this game without spending $15-40, at minimum, for every event (occurs every 2-3 days) plus investing $50-$100 per international event (occurring every 5 days or so). Basically, if you want a reasonably priced way to spend your time, THIS IS NOT THE GAME FOR YOU. You need to be a millionaire or have a lot of excess money to play at a competitive level.

by MartyWC1239

The developers have created small differences in its in game equipment that make it easy to mistakenly place very similar game equipment together that when not matched properly you don’t enjoy the bonus which the purchased equipment are intended to provide. The only way to undo the “mistake” is to spend rubies which cost real money.

This small practice is DESIGNED to confuse the players and extract a little more money from you. It’s a choice to play the game and it’s a choice to spend money on this game. Given the deceptive design in a game which is understandably designed to make me spend money I find this to be a greedy over reach. There are plenty of features that induce the desire to purchase in game bonuses to improve your position and strength. But to design the game to confuse players to extract more money is over the top. I spend money in this game to be a good player but spending money when I’ve been tricked causes me to not recommend this game.

by Vilken316

If your the type of person that loves pay to win games and developers that go out of their way to make the game miserable for people on a budget then this is the game for you. The game itself is fun and the people that play it are nice most of the time but that’s where the complements end. I’ve been playing for over a year and the amount of times GoodGame has taken things away from the players citing it was a bug, or raising the price on the micro transactions but not giving the players more in each pack is just a few examples of how these “developers” treat their player base. This game could be so awesome but it’s painfully obvious that the people that make this game don’t play it. If you read this far and your still on the fence about downloading do yourself a favor and play a different game.

by Adamant101

Don’t get me wrong this game is great through the first twenty levels, but after that, it slows down significantly. Construction becomes A LOT more costly and takes much longer, sometimes even a couple real world days. To evade this you have to buy items that cost rubies, which are not very common to get. Rubies are that currency in a game where you have to buy it to have fun and do well, and empire is no exception. You may however meet many nice people in alliances but that doesn’t change the gameplay. They can send you resources and defense but these take time too, and if you want to speed up the process significantly, you guessed it, you need RUBIES. You also need rubies to be able to build several buildings simultaneously, and you need them to heal special units. You even need them to buy a bakery which makes you produce food faster therefore allowing you to have a larger army. Anyways what I’m saying is the game relies too much on rubies which are hard to get unless you buy them (which I have never done) but if you are looking for a game to play for a week or two, maybe even a month, then yes I recommend this one. But if you want a long term game then go look somewhere else, sorry.

by PubliusUndBrutus

The game is a subtle pay-to-win. You don’t succeed unless you buy vast amounts of rubies, and then they only allow you to heal powerful units with rubies aside from the basic ones you recruit. Way too many pop-ups, and you can’t delete ruby ads in your inbox. The game is also idiotic on notifications: losing 5000 troops to starvation is not worthy of Notification Center, but you DO get notified when there are $250 worth of troops in your hospital to heal. And bc there is limited space in your hospital, if there are more wounded than hospital space available, the game prioritizes the ruby troops knowing you can’t pay while kicking out the troops you can heal with coins and time rather than your money in your pocket. Play at your risk: you’ll find all the clever little tricks that GG uses to borderline scam you.

by Ghh57

This game is great without a doubt I have had an amazing time playing it with fellow friends and alliance members and it is a fun experience. However this game is a subtle pay to win game. People with the cash buy the better commanders, casts and armies/ tools to better their opponents. With new events coming in such as beyond the horizon this game has tilted the scale even further towards pay to win players. These people can simply buy whatever they need win the event and collect the new relic buildings and build items in order to further expand their power. I come from US2 and one or two groups literally own the entire server and it’s ridiculous. Good game studios continues to do this crap in all of their games though and that is what will be the downfall of the game. One more note, the lack of pvp in this game is terrible. Everyone either protects each other or has some no hit policy in store that constantly results in any one alliance getting out of hand to be put back into a peaceful utopia. It’s a war game not build your castle simulator everyone should be fighting, but as I said earlier no one wants to fight because they will only lose what they have paid for. Overall not a bad game but everyday it slowly gets worse and the developers aren’t helping with their new ideas.

by T46,)&7.

I’ve played for years. It has been fun, its is fun. But The developer sucked the life out it. The cost of is ridiculous. Because of the high cost nobody wants to pvp. For me pvp is the best part, but the high cost to play/rebuild makes people join the big pay for play alliances which have rules that frown on pvp battles. These Alliances have one hit rules, which discourages rivalry. It’s too costly and predictable and makes trying to gain power without being a absorbed or affiliated with these alliances impossible. The game is great if you are looking to make good friends and chat. If you like doing events and missions this game have plenty. But pvp is dead unless you like hitting small castles and pointless hits.
The only suggestion I can make to the developers is to focus on making PVP great again.

by Bhart21

I like the idea of the game but I think the gameplay and HUD is pretty far off right now. Everything’s crowded on the screen.

Also let’s talk about the money part of the game. First of all it has IN YOUR FACE offers. Every time you open it there’s a couple new “limited time offers” that aren’t limited at all because they come right back every time you log in.

But I’ll usually pay a little bit for a game since I like to support the game and receive a little upper hand when starting it out. So I bought a couple offers including the starter pack. Both of which included new troops. And unfortunately you can’t produce enough food to keep these troops for very long. What a dirty trick for this company to pull... so now to keep my new troops I either have to spend more money to level up faster in order to support the troops, or I have to just let them die and waste the money I just spent... and so I thought instead I’ll just build more farms and raise my food production. A few farms in and it says, sorry but the more farms you make, the slower the new farms produce. Are you serious?

This game is full of constant money traps. And disrespectful offers that set you up to either spend more money or fail

by FC Manager

This is a great game, I have expended hours and hours playing it. Because I change phone I stopped playing it for a while. Now for some reason it will no longer recognize my account even thought it was link to my Facebook account, when I try to restart the password it says site under maintenance please try again later, and that’s the message I always get. It is frustrating because it does recognize my email (I keep on getting email with events notification) but again, now every time I try to play it will start from the very beginning. not to mention that I only spend 2 years playing this game, on which I bought a few rubies to get my kingdom on the right path.

by Mizter Man

This game is phenomenally fun and very well designed. It is very immersive and sets you in a great community with many choices to make just like a castle lord. However, it is extremely pay-to-win oriented. While anything is attainable, aside from a few things (including castle upgrades), there is still major advantages to having huge cash in the pocket. I personally don’t pay but I have thrived fine. The game is super fun and let’s you meet amazing people, but if you don’t have the patience to: Accept defeat against ‘ruby players’ (ptw players), expand slowly, or follow the rules of thumb (such as not attacking other players), then it’s probably not the game for you.

by Jake 2319

Don’t get me wrong I love the game and all but you get some kid with money to spend and he just buys all the high powered troops and can easily attack people 10 levels higher than him. The people that win and are on the top are people that buy things. There isn’t really a level stop for attacking which there should be. I can be level 20. A level 10 can buy all the troops he needs and wipe out my castle. But I can’t attack him back because he’s too low of a level? Doesn’t make sense at all

by Danger For All

This game is a lot of fun to grow in especially if you are lucky like me and find a good alliance that chats and has fun together, though it does offer very useful in app purchases, this game is in now way pay to play or pay to win, everything is obtainable and nothing is too hard to obtain to the point that you almost have to buy it, you can just sit back and build your castle in your free time rather than constantly have to worry about missing a key event or an attack or raid, all the events in the game last for several days allowing every one no matter their schedule the chance to participate and they all give very generous and very useful rewards, it is extremely easy to understand and grow in and I definitely recommend it

by Lemmorselas

love this game. but its realy expensive if you really want to stay on the top 2,000 of your level. Funny thing i joined in the allince with 20members hoping to get along with a lot of real players but then I found out we are only 3 active players. the two players used 4 or more accounts everyday chatting to each other and thats is fan right? to make my story short, i have 5 different accounts now with the same alliance :)

by Anonymous18247

I started playing this game again about a month ago and it’s just a great game overall. You never get bored cus there’s just so much to do. If you miss a event it’s not the end of the world and they have events every few days. Also, people in this game actually talk a lot and are nice (way too many games have teams or clans where nobody talks and it’s just super boring). A lot of people are saying it’s pay to win, but you can still compete with people who spend a lot (I’m in the top 10 for my server, I’m a level 24 and I haven’t spent anything) and you get rubies from a lot of in-game events. Doesn’t really get boring, people to talk to, events every couple of days, mini-games/chance games like the wheel of fortune and the fortune teller, pve and pvp, and just so many different games to play.

by Kvng_Nerd

This game is probably one of the best apps I have owned. This is one of those very few games you find that has great developers that always fix issues and will even give you gifts if it’s a big screw up. This game is not pay to win at all so if you want to be the best all you have to do is put time and effort into it. I do spend money on rubies when there is a 150% or 200% mark up only because I see it as a good investment later on as I grow my account. I have played on and off but have gotten back into for about a year now and it’s still the best game I’ve downloaded.

by Fighting Honors

I cannot believe what I have read in reviews. I have 4 castles, all at the top level 70, and since I live outside the U.S. now, I cannot make any purchases from the game. Even challenged my self by not going into the 3 other Kingdoms. And I still made it to the top level! You do not have to spend money to play. There are plenty of offers to buy, but you do not have to! I do have to delete the game each time there is an update. Problem, Apple App Store. Sometimes does not show the up date but delete, then reload from cloud. Everything works.

by Nohbsgy

This is one of those games that doesn’t false advertise or trick you into downloading it based on advertising one single aspect of the game. This game offers events that will give you the troops and items you need to actually be successful in the game. This game can be free to play and still give you a great advantage over other opponents. Overall, despite what I think, this game is designed to give you what you need to be successful and that makes it fun.

by Qerrataq

This is a great game to play. You make friends and all, no info tho about you. One suggestion: In the game, you can only build one thing at a time. What if you could buy slots, so if you buy two, you could build three different things at once. Or, how about buy slots another way: when training soldiers, there are 3 slots, and you can unlock more. If, let’s say, you need a mace man and bow man. You could put mm in first slot, and bm in second. Mm would train first and when done, bm would train. I think that would be nice to have with construction. You are about to be done for the day, but instead of building one thing, you could build three. Ok, if you don’t know the game, that was probably confusing. So, all in all, GREAT game, have fun, and here’s a tip: join an active alliance. A good one.

by Cant Turn Off572

This game is fun but you must spend money to get to the top. People joke about spending kids college money. it is very addictive if you enjoy building virtual castles. It is based outside of United States so many prepaid funds will not work and my credit card has been hacked 4 times unsure how they got my access. I noticed funds being spent in game I did not authorize. My advice is find a prepaid way to spend in game I haven’t found one yet.