Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 05:02 pm
Grow Empire: Rome – Strategy Game Review
Grow Empire: Rome is a Strategy/Roleplaying game from ZERAUS DEVS LTDA, first launched in 1st September 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 13,419+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Grow Empire: Rome Stand Out
Grow Empire: Rome is a captivating game, mixing tower defense (TD) and strategy mechanics with role playing (RPG) elements.
You are Caesar, mighty leader of the Roman republic, your objective is to defeat other civilizations in ancient Europe with an army made-up of roman soldiers, siege weapons, heroes and barbarian mercenaries. Be ready for War!
Turn a small republic in the heart of the Italian peninsula into the greatest civilization the world has ever seen. Lead a bunch of weak peasants into the fierceness of battle to turn them into invincible warriors!
Upgrade your stronghold to defend yourself from the most fearful barbarian clans and armies from Italy, Gallium, Carthage and Iberian peninsula. Conquer them to expand your domains and see your national wealth grow.
The glory is awaiting for you, Caesar!
Veni Vidi Vici!
Features:
• Tower Defense (TD), Strategy and Role Playing (RPG) elements.
• +1500 waves to survive.
• +120 cities to conquer in ancient Europe.
• New city defense mode.
• +1000 building upgrades.
• +35 different Roman troops to discover and unlock.
• 4 European enemy factions, each with +12 different troops.
• Siege weapons and war elephants!
• 7 heroes with special skills.
• +18 Skills to unlock.
• +6 types of Card boosts with 3 levels of power!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Grow Empire: Rome is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixing.
Download & Availability
Grow Empire: Rome is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Grow Empire: Rome 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:
Muy bueno, excelente juego de estrategia.
We played this game for a few years and after getting a new device we saw it switched the design of the characters. Overall it is a good game except for the character redesign, we liked the 3d-2d mix better.
Love the game but needs new troops, maybe pvp.
We always played this as a kid its just nostalgia.
The game is amazing the mechanics of it everything and the fact we got to play a story based off one of the generals is amazing we also really like the mechanic where you can upgrade your car is to make more money than you can invade other people Aka npcs what does spider that we cannot stop playing the game Ive been playing it for so long now we just cant even wait for the more updates to occur thank you developers keep on working hard.
We absolutely love this game but we will write some things we want you to add we would like 2 things number one expand the map to Northern Africa and Anatolia number two we would like a expandable Roman city you can make bigger with gems but it can also give extra attack and defense to troops and give more money that is all thanks for reading.
This game is awesome and keeps us entertained and never get board playing this game 24/7.
We love the game but we feel like it lacks a little bit. It needs more factions such as the Germans, picts, Greeks, Seleucids, Israelis, and Persians to add to historic gameplay. We also feel like there should be more mercenaries and heroes, as well. Last, we think multiplayer would be huge for this game. Love the game hope the devs read this and take our opinions into consideration. Thanks in advance, Heston.
Pretty simple concept and easy to learn, we find it enjoyable.
We would give a five star but there is no way of getting back in to old accounts or other play throughs. If you just make that a thing we will give six stars.
This game is absolutely amazing. We were on a 3 hour car ride with basically nothing to do and played this game, and it had no wifi, it is repetitive in a good way, and the graphics are really good. We like all the aspects of the game and they are very enjoyable. Its also cool to see an aspect of history be put with a fun game. It takes time to build up, but it is really worth it. Really great, amazing, and enjoyable game. 10/10 recommend playing it.
We love this game, always have, loved the way it looked before though, favorite part was the graphics. Although now it kinda seems weird like if it was trying to be realistic, anyways we do like it now tho.
Thank you devs, this is honestly our biggest childhood game. Thank you.
Hello, we are one of the fans of this game. We love this kind of contents! We hope you will succeed in the game. We have been playing it recently but even though we loved it. We will refer this game for anyone who sees this review. Its an honor to find a such game. We hope other players/viewers love this game.
Heros system is eh maybe we just sunno how to use it properly but we like the game yes.
It needs to give more control over the movement of troops. The lack of accuracy of fort batteries is shocking.
We like this game over all. Us and our friend play it whenever we hang out, on the school bus and whenever we get the chance too.
To start the many cool things to do in this game Is the armys, they are well built and you can even hire mercenarys the game is very detail with many thing s to upgrade including Walls, towers, units, generals and citys. You can build a great empire from scratch and rule the Mediterranean.
This game is so good! We love the game. We suggest making more games like grow empire Britain, grow empire Mongolia, or maybe grow empire Ottoman! Also expand the map like adding Bosporus, Anatolia, Israel, Greece, Northern Gaul, Germania, and Britannia.
Now this review is about the game being god tier and also there should be different entire games like grow empire Byzantine or grow empire mongolia or grow empire Russian now since u guys made the game we just hope u see this and take it into consideration cause ima be honest after u finish the game its boring so plz make more games so we could play something when we dont have school.
We had a great time with this game. Our only complaint is there isnt much content after a month or so playing. Im all maxed out, Ive conquered every territory and Im now complete with this game. Again the game is fun and worth the download but we wish there was more to do.
We love it its now p2w and pretty easy to get good.
We love this game it is so fun and challenging and no random ads only is you want extra gold Im playing this game everyday try it.
Bro pls bring old version it way better broooooo pleasee we give 5 star for the game it the best pls bring old versions it wayyyyu better then new.
Every time we play this game we always have the same warriors and thats kinda boring that you always have to have the same thing every time so just pls add more warriors.
Its very simple and fun but new updates every now and then would be nice to add new units or something because Ive been playing for 3 months and there hasnt been one update but still fun.
We prefer the older art style and the original way the Arcain worked and the health system seems a little unfair to the enemies. We do love the Egypt campaign though. We would like to see if you could get elephant units to use when you invade different colonies.
If you are a person who loves conquering this is the game it has a defense and offensive mode and its just so well made so developers WELL DONE ONE OF THE BEST MOBILE GAMES EVER.
The game is really fun actually to play an upgrade your little characters. We totally recommend this game.
Ads and it keeps telling us to write a review but good.
To be honest, we think it needs more. It has a lot of potential, but you should add more like Macedonia, Greece, holy land, England, even the germanics just add more please.
We love all the different kinds if units and how they look different and unique after each 3 upgrades.
We love it it truly is one of our faviorte games.
We like Rome so much we got this game.
Maybe you shouldnt make the preview video 3D if the game isnt 3D but its a good game.
Insanely boring, and nothing like the video or photos.
End Game Campaigns are pointless, impossible to best unless you buy all the mercenaries maybe with $$$$.
Amazing game but needs a easier way to earn money or make things cheaper.
So we can back to this game recently and have found it very fun to pick up and play again. But theres one problem, daily rewards. We made it the wooden chest (daily rewards claimed 8 times) and now we cant claim it or the normal daily rewards claimed. Please fix this. Other than that no complaints love the game.
Ive been playing this game for years on/off now and every time we pick it up Im immersed in the wave-based main combat and striking out into the unknown to expand our empire Fantastic game, 11/10.
This is is the most fun and addictive games Ive ever played we play all the time when Im on a car ride or just bored we wish there were more developers like you no offense to any other ones but this game really stands out to us and is so fun Ill make sure to tell our friends about it again thank you for making such an amazing game.
We LOVE a the game its so tactical and we love the waves and we feel like the real Caesar and Ive done over 70 waves and only lost exactly 3 waves we say Im good Im trying not to brag, but we dont really like the bank much cuz we were playing for over (most likely) 1 hour and it only gave us exactly 5 gold coins but we think it should be like 60-100 gold coins but other the that we like the game and we recommend it a lot have fun playing. ;D.
We loved this game for years we even got our older brother to play it. A little over a year or 2 ago we did uninstall due to the game never really expanding after a certain level we really wish there was a lot more added to it we think this game had & still has a lot of potential as its very fun & satisfying.
This game is the best Rome game we have ever played before but we want you to add a few simple things: Such as more opponents and more units such as mercenaries and heroes etc and we dont really like the new graphics, and in our opinion we think that the old soldiers graphics are better and the new ones just feel weird, please change that but dont remove the new features like new heroes. Lastly we think you should change the potions to upgrade heroes the only thing we want to change about them is to make them more easier to obtain, like for example you get 5 gems and 5 potions after every 10 waves. Thats all we hope you see this, sorry for the long review.
We bought a 5 dollar deal that was suppose to give us like 200k gold. But we didnt. WHAT A SCAM. The offer also said no ads after buying this we still have them. WHAT A SCAM.
Daily gift has not been working for weeks Update. We do have version 1.55.1. Looking through some forums it seems to be a problem for multiple people.
Ive played this game for a long time and we love it. Just the one thing we would want them to add is a Greece or Balkan campaign. It would make the game more fun.
This game is great but there is a few more bugs when we do a origin for the first hero you get we cant get passed part 6 because when we hit the target/red circle it doesnt take damage.
Delete and redownload game if you cant claim daily reward.
We first played this game when we were eight that is how fun the game is but we dont like the system how to upgrade the heros.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.60.0
- Size: 339.40 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: ZERAUS DEVS LTDA
Last updated: 25th September 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Roleplaying | Developer: ZERAUS DEVS LTDA