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Shadows of Empires: PvP RTS – Strategy Game Review
Shadows of Empires: PvP RTS is a Strategy game from Sergei Kostriukov, first launched in 10th August 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 148+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shadows of Empires: PvP RTS Stand Out
SHADOWS OF EMPIRES – The most epic mobile strategy game (RTS), you have to build your Empire, participate in battles and sieges of cities.
Sieges and battles take place in real time, and the scale of the battles is breathtaking.
GAME FEATURES:
• BIG BATTLES IN REAL TIME
The results of battles are not calculated (unlike most competitors) – battles take place on the map in real time.
Several thousand soldiers can fight on the battlefield or under siege.
• GRAPHICS
All graphics in the game are made in 3D (unlike most competitors) – which makes the game unique given the size of the battles, where thousands of soldiers are involved
• MULTIPLAYER ONLINE MODE "GLOBAL MAP"
In this mode, your Empire is on the global map with other players. Your task will be to create the most powerful Empire in the world.
To do this, you will need to build and fortify your cities, extract resources, create an army, capture enemy cities, defend your fortress and attack hostile clans.
• SINGLE PLAYER MODE (OFFLINE)
This is a classic RTS strategy mode where you have to build your base, hire soldiers and capture enemy bases.
• ONLINE SESSION MODE
This is a classic RTS strategy mode with other players around the world, where you will need to build your base, hire soldiers and capture enemy bases.
• SIMPLE CONTROL
In “Shadows of Empires” simple and functional controls are implemented, thanks to this you can easily control thousands of troops in real time on your mobile device
• LOTS OF RACES AND UNITS
The game has 3 different races with their own characteristics and with their own unique units
"Land of Stone" – represent a civilization of people with powerful architecture, have an infantry of swordsmen and archers, as well as cavalry and catapults
"Iron Fortress" – represent the civilization of the orcs, have an infantry of swordsmen and crossbowmen, as well as horsemen and ballista
"Kingdom of Riders" – represent the civilization of people with powerful mounted troops, have horse archers
Are you ready to enter the war and conquer the lands to build your Kingdom?
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shadows of Empires: PvP RTS is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th June 2023
Recent improvements include:
1.8
-Fixed bugs
-New icon
1.6
-improved maps
-new icon
-Fixed bugs
1.4
-Added a new kingdom "Elves"
1.3
-Ability to capture up to 3 cities
-Now when you are not playing, units continue to be built (1h in passive mode = 1 min in the game)
1.24
-Ability to move buildings
1.1
-New mode "Global Map"
Download & Availability
Shadows of Empires: PvP RTS is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Shadows of Empires: PvP RTS 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:
Please you are making the game not enjoyable by advertisements every second the game if fun but a lot of player might lose interest in this amazing game because of that adds we hope you can do something about it.
This game is exactly like the ads and thats whats great about it. You can watch the battles in live action and control your armies. Of course, the game needs more support and updates but if the developer(s) dont give up and continue reaching out to apps like tiktok and create more ads then they have an amazing game coming up. It just needs more people and more quality and content updates. Other than that its a great game.
You have to be online for building to be completed. Its like watching paint dry deleted after 20 minutes. Tutorial is very short and doesnt explain very much. Game says its for ages nine and above if youre over 10 dont even waste your time.
Its magnificent and beautiful, we really was expecting it to be much worse but its pretty decent. If you see this we recommend to play, youll we enjoy it.
This game is everything we were looking for. Please continue to work on updates. Maybe some new units for upgraded barracks. And a few more factions maybe? Please do more projects Ill definitely be on the look out for more.
A real RTS and almost totaly free. It need many upgrades still in game play.
The troop freeze on the battlefield and the should add goblins trolls and more. But its a good game keep up the work :).
This is a great game… Except when you get steady random advertisements, which is bearable but the second a battle starts and then you suddenly get endlessly hammered with advertisements and this is the most crucial moments, its great trying to highlight troops and tell them to move to defend your base while constantly getting interrupted by stupid advertisements, whoever decided to do that is a complete moron (and we absolutely love that your promoting that one game that literally stole clips from age of empires and falsely use them to represent their game that doesnt even come close to looking or playing like that legendary pc game) this game came close to age of empires but you ruined it with your ad placement.
The game is absolute trash. Ads every 20-30 seconds, even in combat. The game doesnt pause or stop for the ads either. Honestly not a huge loss because your control of combat is limited to macro clicking your entire army to one general area. Everything else is left to the games ai, which is severely lacking btw. The game is just bad.
We get it, Ads generate revenue for the game. Our problem with the new update is the frequency of the mid game ads and the fact that it doesnt even pause when it goes to one. It went from a pretty to almost frustrating. Ill give this two stars, additional stars may be rewarded upon improvements to the aforementioned issues.
This game is like lord of the rings but this game is very amazing.
This game is very good, please add more things in the next updates. Thank you very much.
Is s good game need more armys like Dwarves ,elfs, an goblims Is the only game campture atencin yo us about army and empure like this game mi favorit game in this moment Please atencin to mi subjete y give 5 stars we see future in this game.
We think we found the new bug….. The game kept stopping so we reinstalled the game it helps but it keeps doing it constantly…… But overall a great game.
Just simply small things need fixing. Info on units, more empires, and a campaign. There isnt really an incentive for getting new settlements. Probably one of the best rts on the App Store and it could be the best easily.
Cant even get to build our army or gather resources before we get attacked. Single player mode needs a lot of work. Give us time to make an army. The game starts with an army and you dont get a chance to gather enough resources to make nothing but a small army. Then their an easy defeat. Make both side equal. If they start with an army give us one to. Same amount of resources for both teams. Dont limit the amount of buildings we can have down in a single area. Give us a chance to gather and build before we get attacked.
Solid rts, hope you add more factions and units tho.
Unfortunately it is crashing on start.
Honestly perfect. This is the game you see mobile adds advertising except they never have it. This game is underrated. The gameplay and mechanics are easy to figure out and arent complicated. Troops are balanced when they fight. And for a 3D game with soldier animations THAT CAN DO 1000 TROOP BATTLES WITHOUT LAGGING is pretty impressive (our device is by no means new). Only thing we would change is the damage a siege unit does to ground troops. Because of the large armies we think the siege units should at least be able to one shot archers -Also Im glad to see theres developers that have a great game with tons of potential not ruined by a pay to win system or loaded with adds.
Its honestly the closest thing to age of empires on the App Store and Im so happy we found this. The only thing we would change is the interface is a little clunky and its very low res but its kinda charming. Very excited to see where this goes great job dev! Also we love how you called the fog toggle Fog Of War we love that.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.82
- Size: 324.30 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, RU, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Sergei Kostriukov
Last updated: 30th June 2023 | Genre: Strategy | Developer: Sergei Kostriukov