States Builder: Trade Empire Reviews

The game is pretty easy, but it’s a very long slow grind without taking advantage of the proliferation of voluntary booster ads. (Like an offer every 30 seconds.) Haven’t seen many mandatory ads after a week of playing, so the pay to remove them option seems like a waste of money - especially since it won’t remove the “watch this ad for a boost” ads. (Or let you get the boosters without watching the ads.)

The game is also silent. No music or sounds whatsoever. I thought it was a glitch at first, but even after completely closing out and restarting, there is absolutely no sound. Really wish there was at least some background music.

There are also regular purchase offers, but the game is completely playable without them. It’s just going to take a bit more patience and grinding.

The game is fun but when I bought the ad free option it still keeps randomly putting ad based content in front of me. True I have to click on it but you can’t tell what is free or ad driven until you click and many of them items are needed if you want to finish a level. So I dropped two stars for the ad annoyance and what I call false advertising for removing the ads (which I paid for).

This game is extremely simple but strangely addicting and fun! And there are forced ads but they’re like every 15-20 minutes which is doable for me. You literally can just sit there and play for hours without having to spend a dime!

Is there supposed to be audio in this game? Been silent since I started playing a day ago.

I’m enjoying the game but the upgrades menu does not work, so there for I can’t complete all the challenges. So I’m just stuck until it decides to work and I’m unable to move forward

It’s not advertised correctly at all. There are regions divided with each resource they don’t blend together. You don’t get to decide where they go. You just run tracks to all of them and watch the belts carry resources and spend money on tiles you will never use.

You can’t play for more than a minute without another ad popping up. This is not worth your time.

Shows ads that challenge kids to “take of their bra” and gyrating animated strippers for “my gentleman’s club” game. Gross and poor judgement.

If you like playing Ad games then this game is for you.

You need to watch ads if you want a boost as it takes sooooo long otherwise.
Deleted the game because it is worse than watching cable TV/YouTube.
You don’t have to watch but then just have to wait forever and nothing to do until you have enough money.
But most games are like that nowadays and I delete them after few hours of playing

Cute and relaxing. I don’t mind ads. However I am supposed to connect bakery to the city and there is no bakery 😵‍💫 glitch? I can’t progress
Help

Mandatory ads are fine for F2P. Every 2 minutes? Delete

I love this little resource manager game. It’s extremely fun to play and can at times be a bit addictive😅 Two features I would love to see added:

• There isn’t much for sound in this game so some background music or sound effects would be great

• The storage building lets you see the amount of items stored within, but items build up in other building such as forges/mills/factories. When not connected to another building, items can build up within creating another type of storage just for that one item. I would love to see those buildings also showing the amount of produced items being held within as they build up.

Great work on this game!

If you look at all the developer responses there all very much alike. We’re working on it, thank you for playing and so on. If you could give us some idea if you plan to ad sound or plan to bombard us continually with ads or something more than we’re working on it I believe people would stick by this game as it is a good game and very addictive.

The game is fun really addictive my only problem is there is no background noise at all I don’t know if it’s a bug or intentional but I would like to hear something just saying

i love this game. this isn’t a review more a question. i know this is stupid BUT what do i do with the rocket when it has the red thing and wood pile moving? so confused lol😭

Game was fun for awhile. The levels are all the same. Upgrading takes forever and upgrades do not really improve gameplay. Only way to really get thru levels is by watching endless ads. Game is based on getting you to watch endless ads.

Need to move the ui or make it smaller so. It. Doesn’t cover the map at the bottom.

I don't know what to say about this game. It's basically not bad even though it has ads.

Way to many ads.

There are apps at the bottom of the screen that will redirect out if StatesBuilder without even touching the screen. Upon returning to StatesBuilder , it will redirect again and again. Very annoying, and unplayable.

I have been playing this game for a few awhile now and I like the constant changing of products to keep you thinking which way to send your products.
The only complain I have is the ads. I bought the no ads bundle to see NO ADS, as it says. Not some ads to add more money or diamonds, but no ads. Other games do as they say, no ads mean NO ads. I complained 4 times before I even got a response stating they are looking into it and never heard from them again. I guess there goes my money. I guess it’s time to stop playing also.

I recently started playing this game and I always purchase the no ads package and sadly it doesn’t work for me on this game like many others. If the developers could fix this that would be awesome.

Fun

Great game I can sink tons of time into it.

Tons of ads I will say,

And I really wish they would add some way of tracking progression . It doesn’t tell you what level you are on at all so when comparing with friends it’s difficult.

Ads, ads everywhere. Banner ads along the bottom, forced ads when you expand territory, plus optional ads. Lots and lots of ads.

To make room for the banner ad at the bottom, the interface is moved up, but the scroll area does not account for that, so on some levels it’s nearly impossible to get to some of the tiles. There are also so many UI elements for buying things that they overlap. The big No Ads icon ends up getting covered.

The gameplay itself is easy and repetitive. I very quickly went through the first few levels and then started to find it boring. There is little to no challenge.

The basic game is interesting, and figuring out how to move resources around is fun. However, I have noticed worlds repeating, and have screenshots to confirm. I bought the ad free package, which makes things go fast. You have to repeatedly choose restore purchase to refresh your ad free coupons. I would like some new worlds and some new chains.

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing this game, but my phone gets really overheat even if it’s been 5 minutes. I’m not going to blame the game as it might just be my phone, then again I have other games but never seem to get hot in the slightest.

It was fun the first time around but when I moved to the next region and everything reset and started from the beginning again and played out exactly the same as the first region, I lost interest. :( It would’ve been more interesting if I could build from what I had and develop regions over time. For those who like constantly having to start over, the goblin mining game and the eat verse or something restaurant game that keeps coming up in ads lately in other games, are exactly the same, just different imagery. Max a level and start over, etc.

Giving three stars instead of two due to having a decent balance of ads to game play and more incentivized ads that reward players with something instead of ads to have ads.

This game would get more stars if it had sound. Who likes playing a strategy game with no sound at all. There is no feedback at all from the game and makes it very difficult to play for any length of time.

It is also a very slow tedious game to play through a level takes a considerable amount of time. I’d much rather there be more levels with faster overall play through per level than to drag everything out.

Decent game but needs several updates to make it worth your time.

I can’t stop playing this. I genuinely have a problem. I don’t go outside and touch grass anymore I’m constantly on my phone and my friends and family are getting concerned. It is so addictive I think the game literally has drugs in it. I checked my screentime and I’ve already spent 7 hours and 30 minutes on this game just today. I’m literally not kidding. Help me.

One of the best if not only game to show real gameplay in the ads and not random gameplay but this game shows how the game really play

Great game to pass the time

Worlds should be levels also you can keep track of which one your on.

I was enjoying this little game and didn’t mind watching ads to get bonuses every now and then. But then I started a level with a nomad village that attacked and destroyed my only income source. I waited for the investor to offer me gold to watch an ad, but he never showed up - maybe he’s linked to how much money you are making, because it’s linked to not time played. I stared at the screen for quite a few minutes and he never showed up to offer me deals. Not enough gold to uncover another base resource. Not enough gems to purchase gold and not going to spend real money for in-app purchases. No way to restart the level. I contacted support, but received no reply in over 48 hours. Deleting StatesBuilder and good riddance. I’ll find another time waster to give my ad-watching money to.

On the iPhone the font is way too small, discriminating against pepple less than perfect vision (not everybody’s version is correctable to 20/20). When are you developers going to stop making everything an eye chart test?!

This game could be crazy good fun if you didn’t have to keep doing the 3-finger zoom to read things, frequently accidentally changing something, for a man to three finger move on the iPhone screen! Oh please. Not everybody have the fingers of a 9-year old. Cudos for having a screen for the iPhone and not a sueezed down tablet or desktop screen (I won’t even go into the ads.)

You FORCE people to do the tutorial! I WAS going to buy it after purchasing the land to the south and StatesBuilder starts forcing action, real irritating.

So I delete StatesBuilder and reload it. Dumb move for you start forcing the player to do the braindead tutorial. The cripes sake. (This is dimple as it gets. You don’t need a tutorial if you ha ve a brain.)

I said forget it and just deleted States Building. You make it too much work to give you money.

No Sale!

Enjoy the game but needed a bigger screen and what I found out is that I when i downloaded it to my IPad- I’m starting from the very beginning.

Been playing this game for almost 3 weeks now and bought the no ads pack for seven dollars and no regrets. This game is addicting and some of the levels that you need to get some of the product to the Rockets makes you really think on which way you need the conveyor belts to go. Love this game and so worth the money to do the ad free. That way you only watch the ads you want to get extra money or gems. This game is a definite 10/10 recommend!!!

Roads are too easily deleted. You should make it so that you have to double tap to delete or click on and make a pop up with a trash can to confirm the delete.

Also if you could zoom out a little farther to see the entire world in the screen?

I’ve been playing for a few weeks now and I enjoy this game! I bought the get rid of mandatory ads and even though there weren’t many auto ads it was still nice. However, there’s some gameplay things that need fixing. If two things are right next to each other and are connected, you can’t I connect them. They’re too close to tap and get rid of the road, they just become stuck there. The recent update made it so when the ads for the game bits are up they take a few seconds now for the exit x to appear and that’s annoying. I used to just be able to click out instantly and now I’m stuck looking at them for longer. It’s harder to see the merchant guys than it was to see the balloons, so it’s harder to do quest things. (Also the free chest says it’s available every 8 hours but it’s not. You can click it for free every 24 hours or so and you can watch an ad for it again which doesn’t make it free. If you made it so it didn’t lie that’d be cool, but that’s just a small thing)

It’s just a few little things that, if fixed, would make this much better! I do really enjoy this game, it’s quite fun! Just harder to play now with the recent update messing things up a tad.