Age of Dynasties: Crusader War

The game has a series of really fun concepts that it fails to execute on in favor of making itself into an ad farm. You balance like 16 resources and every decision you make gives you some of each recourse and takes away from another. The choices you make to give yourself more resources may even have more widespread effects on the game at large, but the UI is a little too clunky to be able to easily tell. The problem is what you do with all these resources you collect.Nothing.Instead, every spy and general assigned, every relationship you build, every upgrade of your military or defenses costs XP. A resource you get through in app purchases or by volunteering to watch ads. You get about 6-7 per “turn”. Each turn is one season and 4 seasons in a year. Each ad you watch gives 50, which coincidentally, is about how much you need to do anything.If you don’t watch ads with at least some frequency, you WILL have a miserable time. Your wife will hate you. Your armies will be managed by morons. Your Diplomats and spies will be worse than useless. Your administrators cosmetic.The game has a lot of really fun and cool concepts. The AI art and chat features are rudimentary, but well implemented. The story and character traits are good and the decisions well made. I don’t know how poorly the game was doing financially that you had to make ads a mandatory part of playing, but you’ve done your game a disservice in the interest of maximizing profit.

Had an issue with the amount of ads shown when going back and forth between screens, and wanted to see if there was a way to buy a no-ad version. Reached out to their team through IG and not only got a response, but they realized it was a bug and fixed it right away. Very happy with the gameplay as well, it’s quite complex for being so compact. The ability to play a game as deep as CK3 while only having to click on one action at a time is a blessing to someone who works full time. My only recommendation would be to allow the picture vs selection fields to adjust. It’s a little tight when scrolling through 10+ selections, the ability to expand the selection area would be great. And some sort of in game chat so we have some community cohesion (no pvp, just chat). Something to think about! Thanks again for the help and good luck, it’s a great game. The game is awesome. I left you all a review as well on the App Store, I’ll write another in a month or so. Your small team has made one of the best, original grand strategy games out there. Even though you market it as turn based, you would probably have a better audience targeting the 4x strategy community (Sid Meiers Civilization, Age of Conquest IV for example). This lacks the character modding that turn based typically has (gear, stats, skills) but what you’ve really done is make a “one-tap 4x grand strategy”. It’s amazing. You get all of the control and balance of a 4x, without any of the confusing movement or panning the screen to see your empire. I’d really focus on that niche of gamers. No one has come up with a game like this, and I really hope it doesn’t change into the p2w games that everyone is trying to push. Thanks again for listening, stay safe!

Ok I really like this game. It’s very fun and sometimes it’a interesting to see how everything plays out and all of the events. But, however, there is one thing that always makes me really upset: the game is painstakingly difficult at times. For example, right now my dynasty isn’t doing the best, and I’m trying to get free xp. Well, it won’t let me because it keeps saying that it can’t show me an ad right now. Which I understand but my kingdom is over here going crazy and I need an advisor to help me. Also, when I do get enough xp to hire an edvisor, they only ones available will be for stuff I don’t need. Like for example, let’s say my factions and my iron are really low and my church and army are doing very well, they will be advisors for the church and the army, but not for the factions and iron. Also, sometimes my dynasties will die out really quickly but that part’s probably just me lol. Well, thank you for listening to what I have to say I appreciate it. :)