RISK: Global Domination App Reviews

Ive noticed a lot of people complaining about connectivity issues. Ive never been disconnected spontaneously. Whenever I d/c its my own fault for walking out of range of my wifi. My issue with the game is people rage-quitting when someone invades their continent or they dont get a good placement at the beginning. This makes most 6 player games 1hv1hv4c and the gameplay suffers. If people quit beginning or mid-game they should be penalized with say a 3 hour lockout or something similar. People will complain about dcing and getting locked out but I feel that if the connectivity issues are addressed adequately it would be a beneficial trade-off.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD. This game is worthless, all you do is play a computer who you cant beat. Its supposed to be a random assortment when the dice roll, but mysteriously the computer always gets the higher dice. Leaving all your troops dead and you kicked out of the game before you even get anything done. This game is a huge waste of time. The only reason I gave it a star is because I had to. This game deserves nothing, it doesnt even deserve a space on the App Store.

2 out of 4 games either crashes or freezes. I was going to pay for premium version, but am now just tired of games crashing before they end. Lame.

This game could be so much fun if it actually worked. The ranking system is a total joke with only about half of your games recording. Im ranked in the top 300, have beat 2 masters and intermediates in a game and went down! Then beat 3 novices and moved up 20. There is no sound logic behind this, nor can you go back and review any of your games. Even worse, when a player drops out the replacement is dreadfully slow and incompetent completely destroying the strategy built throughout the game. Nothing is more frustrating than playing for 1 hour only to have someone drop and change the entire dynamic because the AI is horrible. Risk is an awesome game and a functional version of it would be amazing to play if they could figure it out. Ive logged more than 50 hours, but if an update doesnt come soon, Ill stop wasting my time.

The first complaint I have about this game is that the coin system is a hindrance. Starting with 3 and only getting 1 every 8 hours severely limiting the ability to simply play, with online games costing 2 coins means you can only play a game on average once every 16 hours. When games last at most 3 hours you are not able to play roughly 4/5 of the time. I dont feel that I should have to pay $6 to play more than once or twice a day. The second complaint is the maneuver phase being too restrictive. In the actual board game you are not restricted to how many troops you can move. In this game however you can only make one move per turn. This is a severe disadvantage to the player who has troops scattered throughout their empire and is suddenly attacked. They may be unable to maneuver troops to form a effective defense. The third complaint is that players can attack allies without breaking the truce. The truce would be a more practical feature if a player was unable to attack allies without first breaking the truce. That said I think that the player should be able to break a truce and attack former ally in the same turn to have surprise attacks. Lastly I have a suggestion instead of a complaint, introduce some form of chat or in game messenger system. This would allow allies to strategize to form a plan to benefit both. Additionally it would be cool if allies could win together; say red and green are allies and they are the last two on the board, they would both win. This would probably require a system where alliance are known to secondary parties. I.e. red is allied with only blue, if blue allies with green red is notified and can then decide whether or not they also want to ally with green or risk it. Lastly I would like to point out that this is risk and that some of the ideas Ive laid out would make it more like diplomacy. Alternatively only complaints 1&2 could be changed and the rest made into a new app where people play diplomacy. The developer would certainly be capable of doing this based on their existing games.

Really enjoying this game!

Love the game. Long story short keep your money. Ive played 5 games and the app crashed 4 out of 5... Ive finished one game..

This game is

This game is great online. I can play it for hours.

Fun game. Lousy scoring. Many wins not recorded. Wish the same happened when I lost

Its risk! Pretty much everything you could hope for or expect.

I LOVE THIS GAME! Loved the board game so i came looking for an app too since no one plays the board game anymore. Only problem with this game tho: token cooldown is 8 HOURS. And it costs 2 tokens to get an online game. Please cut this timer down or get rid of it all together. Ik hasbro gets money from impatient people but i want to play a few games too :]

Been a fan of Risk for years... after the server fixes, the game is much better!

Yes, I love this game although, wait. Let me get something straight, I dont play online so I dont know what its like. Back on track, against AI, when they attack you ,like when you attack the AI, instead of the game doing It, you should be able to roll the dice.

DO NOT PURCHASE THE GAME. There are serious flaws with the ai and matchmaking. The ai does not get progressively harder at higher levels but just rolls higher numbers. Matchmaking is completely absent unless you only play wth a friend. Also there is no gameplay mode to play with just two people. I really regret this purchase.

The only reason this got two stars is because I love playing the game, but this version is absolutely infuriating. The dice rolling algorithm isnt fair by any means, I cant tell you how many times Ive attacked a territory with one or two soldiers on it and had 8 or 9 of my own and lost. When Im playing with my friends its rolls like that that can lose me the entire game. Statistically theres almost no chance of that happening but it happens very frequently. Hasbro really needs to change the algorithm to stop favoring the little guy and use real dice roll algorithms then it will be way more fun.

Needs some work but good start. Would like to see multi players against each other, etc

Really nice job on this app. I love being able to cast it to the TV. Would appreciate some tougher AI :).

Like so many game apps its about getting you to make in-game purchases. So the dice are rigged to give the advantage to the computer. As a statistician, Ive encountered multiple scenarios where the probability of the particular combination of rolls is statistically improbable. Once maybe, multiple times in same game its the app trying to rob your wallet. This is an amazing game and I grew up with and love it. Playing on an iPad takes away a lot of the time involved in set up, adding, etc. Thus it is sad not to recommend a really great board games for others to try. I know Im old fashioned, but one day I hope they get pricing figured out on games. I want to enjoy a game on my device; not be gamed out of the money in my pocket.

I enjoy the board game.