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Dictator: Emergence – Strategy Game Review
Dictator: Emergence is a Strategy/Puzzle/Lifestyle game from Dmitrii Kuzmenko, first launched in 5th July 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,116+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dictator: Emergence Stand Out
Feel like a real dictator!
Try to strike a balance between power-hungry oligarchies, corrupt prosecutors, generals, and admirals, ruthless mafiosi, a tenacious opposition, and your eternally displeased subjects.
Hang onto power for as long as you can and build a statue of yourself out of pure gold!
— Make 2,000 momentous decisions
— Build a statue of yourself!
— Avert a revolution!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dictator: Emergence is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th August 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Improvements and bug fixes
Download & Availability
Dictator: Emergence is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dictator: Emergence on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Same character on application cover as Clash Royale???Sue worthy.
Great game to pass the time and how to be a dictator!! Haha.
There's nothing to upgrade or an ultimate goal to the game. After you get overthrown you start fresh like nothing's ever happened. We like the twists though it's keeps the game interesting.
It just a very neat idea of a game we think more people should get it.
It's an ok game, but there are way too many ads.
Too many ads, not enough fun. Too long of an intro.
And how could you just steal someone's art? Thieves…. Despicable and pathetic.
Same thing, same format. Just stole Clash Royale's icon. Drew over it. So you bring nothing new, and decide to steal someone else's hard work to sell your own thing? That's simply sad.
You guys should be sued for all the copyrighting you are doing in this app or a so called "game".
You guys literally just took the CR pic. You must be fat and lazy.
You guys literally just took the Clash Royale application icon and just drew over it. You guys are pathetic and lazy.
Thiefs should be punished. Stop stealing you low life's. Be original scumbags.
If there is 6,000,000 people playing why is there only 11 reviews.
This is an exact copy of Election Day. There's even six factions in Election Day. But, it's worse. This game has too many ads and grabs for money. Also, the logo is copied from CR.
It's all RNG, whatever the question is doesn't matter and answering those questions is THE WHOLE GAME so it's like… The game DOESN'T MATTER.
We're too edicted we don't even have enough time to write this.
Like it, but Dictator 2 has more potential. This is basically the same as revolt/outbreak. Good series. Hoping to see more.
It freezes every time a catastrophic event occurs. Puts a real damper. Happens around the 40-45th turn.
Fun game but it's very obviously designed to make you pay in order to play longer than a few turns.
We loved the idea of this game, but it has far too many ads in it to be playable in many cases.
Like 20 question s Random questioning.
We love this game it is a good game to pass time with and hard to put down our phone when we play this game. It is a simple but unique and cool idea. Easy Five Stars ^_^.
Game is good and fun also very original and creative. However some questions can be too hard and it feels to be missing another element to it not sure what.
It is very fun and addictive, but… We didn't Ike that we were removed from dictatorship… Should be able to just keep playing and to rebuild yourself back up!! Otherwise good game.
Great game. Can't play it now after restarts. Hoping an update will fix it cause our statue was turning silver and we had $5mil in the bank.
What the hell is with all the homophobia? It is mainly seen as negative to have "a gay" (grammatically incorrect) as a Minister of Defense and have gay pride parades. It's even seen as an achievement to let a pride parade happen. It's 2016.
The game has a decent difficulty and is decently fun, but you seriously have to watch the ads to not run out of money. Its annoying! Also out of no where on turn 102 the game crashed and when we loaded it it was at turn 67. Very frustrating.
We played this game most of our time, we lost a couple of times, but got better and it was something that entertained us all the time… UNTIL YOU CREATORS TOOK IT ALL, MY MONEY AND LIKE 500 POINTS, we WAS REALLY EXCITED TO TRY TO BEAT THE GAME, EVEN IF IT WAS ENDLESS, we'M ERASING THIS POINTLESS GAME, CAN'T BELIEVE ALL MY TIME WAS FOR NOTHING.
Update deleted all our progress almost at 300 moves.
Lost all money and turns/progress with update. We were over 500 moves in and we lost it all.
A better game than dictator outbreak we survived 100 turns.
A game we love to play when we're stuck in the car. It's the perfect long drive, road trip, boredom destroying game. This game is tactically perfect.
The gameplay is great & captivating.
This game is fun for the couch dictator. It is easy and is quite addictive. We suggest trying it out it is self played so no waiting on friends to make a move play it whenever you are bored and need to pass time super addictive.
We laughed at the review that said the game was rigged. ITS TOUGH. It's suppose to be. You're trying to make an entire population happy. Its what a leader tries to do. If you can't do it, you'll be assassinated. If you try to make everyone happy, you'll go broke. It's perfect for really being strategic.
We're in love with the game. It's also a great example of just how tangled things can get when your in charge.
Very challenging and entertaining.
We love the concept of the game. It's very addicting and very strategic.
Get it and you'll see why we put 5 STAR.
Love the new style of game! Very entertaining but a lot of ads. Annoying but still playable.
We are pretty into this game. Kinda sad :p But we got pretty far, 125 moves, then a revolution happened.. We were not prepared for them to be too happy.. :p.
This games is like our friend Fredrick he's nice one time us and Fredrick played baseball.
This is a very fun game. But challenging.
We played this to see what it would be like to be a virtual dictator. The simplicity of this game makes ruling dictators, past and present, like child's play. This is something for the person who does not want to do much in a game or have too many intricate features. We like how any and every decision can make the most important outcomes and ultimately it is all about seeing how long your rein can be. Love this game do add more features like different categories or the option of war.
And we love it. Harder than it seems.
This game is fun and challenging. We really see no problem with it. But we're always up for the challenge. We've played all the dictator games so far and thoroughly enjoy them. Great work guys.
Good game. Can't wait for future updates.
Did anyone else notice how the guy on the thumbnail looks exactly like the clash royale thumbnail.
It's a really fun and unique game we just wish there was multiple different levels of difficulty, while others have reviewed it saying it was too hard personally we got through it quickly and easily with no problem, it's still really fun though.
This game should have some sort of permanent upgrades that you can unlock to go farther into the game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.11
- Size: 149.35 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Dmitrii Kuzmenko
Last updated: 28th August 2017 | Genre: Strategy, Puzzle | Developer: Dmitrii Kuzmenko