Dictator: Emergence

It is way too complicated to explain entirely, so I’ll make a pros and cons list. Pros: • I really like the concept: a dictator ruling a democratic republic, having to appease factions while also not appeasing them too much. • Even with the simplistic nature of these mobile games, it has a significant amount of detail. • I especially like the part where there’s a giant statue in your image, and people are bowing down to that statue out of respect and awe. • Much of the reactions from the factions are accurate and even realistic to a large extent. • Even without the game features, just the concept of it is so well-made and interesting. However, there are many cons as well: • There is the “now resolve the problem” guy constantly repeating the same message over and over again, even after the tutorial is done. It can get extremely annoying. • Money is quite scarce, and it’s very difficult having enough money unless you spam-appease a lot of the factions enough to get money. • Speaking of which, the bank (where you can collect money from), and the money generator generates so little money, it’s almost entirely useless. There are some rare glitchy moments where I get way more money from the bank than I’m supposed to, but they’re extremely rare. • Some of the reactions from some of the factions are buggy and nonsensical. • There is no “save button”. • A lot of glitches sometimes as well There’s a lot of both pros and cons, way too much for me to mention all of them. But you get my point. The game’s concept, and many of its components, are very interesting and well-made. It’s how the concept was executed that is the issue, it seems some parts were rushed or not well-done. I really want to give a 5-star review, because of the game’s potential, the great concept, and some of the amazing features. I really want this game to succeed. However, with its many glitches and problems, I unfortunately cannot. I hope in the near future, problems are fixed, and this game is improved for the better.

This game was indeed a 10 out of 5 back then when they first come out. It’s now all just adds and redirects. Truly sad to see that it’s gotten so bad. Also I paid for add free forever ago and tried to restore purchases and nothing. Stay away unless you like adds and just poor quality for iPhone 12pro or newer

I used to really like this game, but upon redownloading it there’s a bug where the advisor pops up *every round* of *every game* telling me that i need to resolve the problem. like dude, i know. and there’s no way to turn it off. honestly feels intentional to get more people to buy the sequel rather than the free original.

tutorial won’t stop

The concept was good, the animation pretty good, but it got unbearably glitchy. Was also a bit too simple in execution, like it should have had more complication. Certain animations associated with beginner orientation would simply repeat every turn, which was a bit annoying. Eventually just glitched out to a statue of kim jong un being praised.

It’s a fun strategy game, cool to see how long you can last. But it’s objectively worse than the old version. The new graphics are dumb, “family” replaced with “mafia” makes no sense, and now it has ads.

Love the game, but glitches too much. It keeps resetting

I really like this game, it has good graphics and good sound production, and the gameplay is engaging enough to really make you think strategically. However I can never get far enough in the game, it’s too easy to lose when you constantly need money. Either the game needs to start you off with more money, the money upgrade should be cheaper, or consequences shouldn’t be as expensive. Also there’s a glitch that keeps coming up every time I’m about to make a decision, the tutorial guy keeps telling me what to do, so that needs to be fixed.

Fun except the helper dude. I don’t know what wise guy thought it would be fun for it to give you the same instructions every time you make a move in the game that you have to skip but it’s annoying!!!

This is a really fun game and I love it, however, I have this really annoying bug where the helper dude keeps popping up and telling me to “solve the issue with this faction but rememberer your choice affects this faction and other factions” it pops up when I click on a faction to see even though the tutorial is over. But other than that I have no other issues. I really hope that the devs fix this bug.