RISK: Global Domination 9+

A big gap to be filled in online

Game is well designed and rating would be five stars except for one fatal flaw! In online, when a player quits and the computer takes over, the computer needs to be more logical and sophisticated. I was just playing an online match and it was between three players. A computer controlled, a human opponent and myself. The human opponent had at one point, four continents under full control, I had one (Australia) and the computer had its troops spread over Asia with out control of the full continent. The computer proceeded to consistently attack territories in Asia and corner me in Australia by stacking surrounding territories with high troop counts, while my human opponent was absolutely running away with the game! To make matters worse, the human opponent left some continents with little protection and the computer still didn’t attack one single territory to reduce the bonus troops for the human opponent. Needless to say I lost the match. My issue is I didn’t lose because the human player out strategized me, but rather because the computer player was in la la land with its head up its a-s. Please make the computer in online much more sophisticated so that the games remain competitive and fair when some one quits mid game.

Good but deteriorating

I first downloaded this app back around 2015 or so, and it was exactly the game I was looking for. I enjoyed playing regularly enough, but when the first pack of new maps came out, it was game changing. I was especially fond of the USA and Europe maps. I had since downloaded several different series of maps, and purchased the game twice when my original Apple ID was lost. I was happy to do so for the quality of gameplay. Over the years I have gone for periods without playing, but I somehow always come back and keep going. I understand the need to keep cash rolling after all these years, but the game is started to turn into every other gems for items game. The purchasable emotes and figures are annoying having felt the purity of the game in its early days. I shouldn’t be surprised, and am always excited to see the new maps. I wish you’d go back to world maps and regional maps. I always enjoy real world scenarios more, personally. Also, with all the changes, I keep needing to login with my ID. It’s really annoying, and has created at least 4 different characters over the past few months, as well as making an entire map package I purchased no longer available. I didn’t mind rebuying the game when I lost my Apple ID, but I lost one of my favorite maps in one of the character changes.

Developer Response ,

Sorry to hear that, can you reach out to us about that here? https://bit.ly/smgticket Thanks! Luci@SMG

Great game!

Overall the app is great. The developers do need to tweak a few things, like during the first draw, some players might get more armies, even if all have the same amount of countries (which is probably a bug). Also dice might throw far fetched bad or amazing lucky strikes (continuously), which defeats the purpose of randomness. You might play against newcomers who do not really know risk strategies (like balance of powers or over emotionality), which can really build crazy setups (215 troops in one country and the other borders are defended by only one troop, which is hilarious and would not happen in a real risk board match), but as you advance in the ranking (from no ice to grandmaster), you will get better players and way more interesting games. Point is, I love risk, my whole family are risk players and we are taught to play risk and drink whiskey when we were five. This is a pretty fun app and you will find fun players you can match with. It’s awesome you can play with people around the world. AI players are kinda rudimentary (not to say dumb), that could improve. The other boards are fun to explore, but I’ve honestly stuck to the traditional board and traditional rules (old school style). Yet, the zombie scenario is pretty fun though. Hope this helps!

Hope the developers can fix the first things I wrote, that will be great!