Last updated on June 8th, 2023 at 12:05 pm
Slay
Slay is one of the best $4.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Sean O’Connor, Slay is a Board game with a content rating of 9+.
It was released on 27th February 2009 with the latest update 31st May 2022
Whether you are a fan of Board, Strategy, games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
212 people have rated 5.3.4
You can download the game Slay from APP STORE.
Description
Slay is a simple to learn game of strategy and cunning set in medieval times. The island is divided up between the six players, and you must try to capture your enemies’ land and link up your own territories to create larger and stronger ones. You begin capturing land by attacking with your peasants. Once your territories become richer you can combine peasants to make stronger and stronger people (Spearmen, Knights and then Barons) who can kill weaker enemy troops, or knock down their castles. Just be careful that you don’t create too many expensive men or the territory will go bankrupt!
"This game is pure strategy! It’s a work of genius. Brilliant AI. Engaging turn-based multiplayer strategy. Sid Meier, eat your heart out!" – GameSpy.com
"I love this game! I play it all the time, and when I’m not, I think about wanting to play it." – PocketNow.com
"At first glance, Slay looks elementary, but hidden beneath are cunning strategy elements that must be finely balanced for success" – PC Magazine
"Deceptively delightful. The graphics are simple, but the strategy is complex." – Download.com
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Updated on 31st May 2022
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Slay Reviews
Easy but good time killing games. Wish there were more maps.
On mobile we’ve come to accept games come and go. In many games the content is short lived. Even if you find a game you continue to enjoy, games often disappear without warning when developers stop updating. Even expensive $50 games can disappear without a trace (Im looking at you EA). But not Slay has been around FOREVER and is still kicking. Still just as fun. Still plenty of content. We dont think we’ve enjoyed any mobile game as consistently and for as long as Slay. So if the Dev reads this thank you so much because that matters. Buy the game.
Been playing for years. Challenging, relaxing, evergreen. Never gets old. Not that it’s necessary but purchased all content. Delighted to support this indie developer.
Pretty fun boardgame-like puzzle game with lots of maps. The difficulty options have a good variety.
We downloaded this game when it was free and came with the entire first row, mustve been 8 years ago (Im 25). Since then we’ve bought the other three rows and cant say enough how great this game is. Gone months without playing and the moment we come back we fall in love with it all over again. Such a well designed strategy game. Two things we wish they would add: 1) One more level of difficulty just for a challenge. Id like to see an AI that is on par with a well-played human player. We’ve moved through the first two rows and outside of a handful of maps we cant seem to get through, it doesnt feel like a challenge any more. 2) Stats Why can we not see how many games weve played, success rate, times played per map, etc. This seems like a layup that we cant believe the developer missed. Maybe theres something in the coding that makes this sort of thing difficult, but we would like to see it attempted. And with that, include achievements. Maybe include different themes to unlock after a certain level of achievements, games played, etc. We feel a lot can be done here. Just dont overdo it, game is great as it is right now. Again, love the game, hope developers actually look at these things and take this feedback into consideration. – An avid Slay player & supporter.
Great, simple, "it just works" game that can kill 10-20 minutes very quickly. Our only complaint after like 10 years of having this game and playing it every now and then, is that AI blindly yolo at the user player. Sure, we’re on expert, but when myself and another AI have small territories like 25% and the other AI has 50%, why is the other 25% doing literally nothing fighting the actual threat, and going for us instead? Makes for some frustrating scenarios, where they give up cutting the larger AI territory to take your tiles instead… -Even animals understand the basic concept of the larger threat, even if we don’t work together specifically we still need to leave each other alone or else the larger will just swamp both of us.
We had this on pocket pc and we don’t feel bad having to buy it again. Not liking having to buy the rest of the maps but it supports a great dev. edit Crashes on iOS 13. Emailed the Dev who was quick to respond. No need to apologize, Murphys Law is a bugger. Wish we could buy you a pint, heres to buying a couple more maps.editEvery bit if this game is amazing and worth every penny.
Playing it for years, Never gets old. Dont like the sound so always play on mute, but have been playing 10+ years now.
It takes a little bit of trial and error to learn the strategy, but once you get the hang of it, this is one of the greatest games ever made. We absolutely love how approachable it is on iOS and iPadOS. We reach for this game multiple times a day when we need to clear our head or just waste a few minutes. Just buy it and take a little time to figure it out. You wont be sorry. Our ONLY complaintI wish it used iCloud sync so that we could pick it up on any device. We have 3 iPads, iPhone, and 2 Macs, but we’ve had to stick to one device as we tear through each map in order on Expert (not quite good enough for Master yet). Not a huge deal because its really great to play on an iPad miniit would just be nice if we could choose any device and keep our progress.
We had this on pocket pc and we don’t feel bad having to buy it again. Not liking having to buy the rest of the maps but it supports a great dev. edit Crashes on iOS 13. Emailed the Dev who was quick to respond. No need to apologize, Murphys Law is a bugger. Wish we could buy you a pint, heres to buying a couple more maps.editEvery bit if this game is amazing and worth every penny.
Graphics is better on our old iPad than on our iPhone 12. Its slightly blurred when zoomed large enough to see.
Good strategy game. Comes with 100+ levels. Buy more if needed. Turn based. No adds every few mins, or at all.
Been playing this for years. Just logged into the app and cant restore our pervious purchase. Im being told we have to rebuy the game again basically, and we will because we love this game, but was hoping we dont have too.
This game first appeared in its original form for PC more than 10 years ago. There are copycats but this is THE original so you know this is the best. In some way its a cult classic because many people really love it. Even if you dont spend hours playing it youll still enjoy it. Its visually simple but under it is very clever strategy mechanic which always has multiple solutions and multiple strategy styles. Slay is a very unique game but has some elements of Go, Catan, even Civ.
Great game. Been playing it for a long time. It zooms out between turns, which makes sense. A while back you changed it so that if you accidentally bump it or scroll between turns you have to manually zoom back in every time. Please make this optional or just go back to the old way. Super annoying.
The gray bar on top of iPhone 8 plus is really ugly.
The computer clearly CHEATS, when only focusing on human player’s pieces. (not always) but enough times that the playing against 6 players becomes very frustrating. Developer needs to put in some smarter tactics.
Great game. Almost done though :(
This game is extremely easy to play and great for beginners. We would definitely share this for others to play. The game is tactile.
We just picked this up a week ago and it has become our go-to passtime on our phone.
The new colors are awful: neon green is never the answer. That color palette is called classic for a reason. On the bright (neon) side, it does improve accessibility for people with disabilities. Maybe you could change back the classic color scheme and create a new one for accessibility.
This game is fantastic; Id love to see a sequel with a little more depth; maybe siege units or naval units or something or some more unique maps like in conquest.
Hands down one of the best games we’ve ever played. If you like strategy games you need to play this! Also the replay ability is so great.
Great game, we have a suggestion. Often we find myself counting all the hexagons of a large enemy territory, then adding up their costs to see if a move would kill them. Seems like it could be intuitive to click on a territory of 8 or more and the calculations would appear, 32 Income, 28 Cost. We do love to play on the Master level, but some maps appear to be impossible to beat on that level. Not a big deal. Some of these maps are incredibly fun and if we could mark favorites maybe? Finally, in your game, Mother of all battles, a replay summary of each turn is replayed. It would be cool to see that on some of the tough victories.
Nothing but good things to say, except it would be nice to have a leaderboard so there could be the additional element of competition of beating a map in less turns than others. Please implement!
Update: Latest version is great. Finally fixed some kind of bug where the game got slower the more games you played. Now it’s wicked fast! Still wish the AI were better. Would love to get our hands on the source code and have a go at it. (I write game AI professionally.) Original: we had the PC shareware version of this a decade ago and loved it then and love it now. It’s very fun and relaxing, and the game design is so elegant and perfect. We wish the AI was smarter and there were some more game modes, like fewer but smarter opponents, or preset territories. Not a fan of all the different graphics skins, but the game is so perfect, we don’t care.
Great game, and the last update fixed some bad bugs, but if you scroll around when zoomed out (which you need to do on large maps), it will still not zoom back in. This is a great game but even an option or button to zoom back in to default would make it 5 stars.
We have played this game for years and we used to love it. It does not appear that the developer has put much effort into improving it for a few years now. The AI is not that smart. We are stomping through Master level and we have done some interesting experiments and the game logic breaks down if you run a map too many turns. This is a great, simple game, but you would think the developer would have learned how to improve it after all these years. So much potential here. Please make it better.
We have played this for years. We like how simple it is to learn yet challenging to master. For added challenge we like to give myself a few extra criteria for winning. For example we consider it to be harder to win if we can get the AI to surrender to our dominance while keeping each starting color alive. Or we like to have our territory touch each shoreline of the four cardinal directions and each lake as well before the first surrender is offered. Although we give this game a 5 star rating we dont like that the recent update seems to color the whole map our color when we accept surrender. We might be weird but we liked looking at how the island looked with each color after accepting surrender. We also think it would be cool if we were able to choose our color to play with (Like it was available on PC). We think another fun challenge is to beat the same map with each of the six color options as it is a different experience for each color even while playing on the same map. Another plus would be the option of choosing how many opponents to play against from 1 to 5.
Great game, thanks for such a fun app. Latest version has a bug where, after your turn, the screen zooms out, computer players do their turns, and then when the players turn begins, the map does not zoom back in. So every turn you need to re-adjust the zoom.
Each turn computer takes 20 seconds.
We’ve been playing Slay since before the iPhone, it stands the test of time. Just like Minesweeper, it is a light, casual game that is sorta puzzley, but in a way that you are never really challenged long enough that you need to put it down. The gameplay is world domination, but really you can just make the computer surrender by breaking its territories up. The challenge comes in balancing growing your territory with defending while also making sure not to level up too quickly or else you won’t be able to pay your troops (+1/space, -2/lvl1, -6/lvl2, -18/lvl3, -54/lvl4) Almost never buy the lvl4 dude unless you need to squash a lvl3, but usually you can starve them out. The game comes with enough maps for you to play one a day for over a year and you can buy more interesting shapes if you like it, no nagging, just available. Lots of cool looks/themes, all included. They just added a fourth row of maps that are all symmetrical. These maps are the toughest ones yet! Well worth the price if you enjoy the game.
Our favorite game for over 15 years. We started with its pc version. Glad it continues to be updated.
Get it – have had it for years – classic , should be way more popular!
We had this on pocket pc and we don’t feel bad having to buy it again. Not liking having to buy the rest of the maps but it supports a great dev. edit Crashes on iOS 13. Emailed the Dev who was quick to respond. No need to apologize, Murphys Law is a bugger. Wish we could buy you a pint, heres to buying a couple more maps.
Now back to our five star review. Great game we’ve been playing since our first iPhone.
This is one of the most fun strategy games out there.
We have been playing this since it came out on iPhone. The simplicity of it doesnt keep it from being challenging.
There are so many maps, the difficulty scales well and we still enjoy playing it.
We really enjoy this game both because it is a puzzle like challenge as well as the fact that you can stop at any time and pick up where you left off without losing anything. It makes it easy to play between other activities or when waiting for something in life.
Something about the gameplay for this is just pleasing. Our one ask is that it should allow for background sound to keep playing, so we can listen to podcasts and slay.
Just installed ios 13 and game crashes unable to open app in our iphone 8.
Slay splash screen loads then the game crashes. The free version loads and runs. IPhone 7 iOS 13.0.
This game shouldnt be this lagging. It became worse and worse through updates, and after the last one it takes 20 seconds per turn.
Title says it all. Waiting for an update.
Simple area control with unit promotion. The ai is challenging enough to keep the many many levels fresh. Really enjoying working through the levels.
Thanks for keeping this old favorite going! A great game. Endless maps.
An all time favorite just got updated.
Hey, we want to thank you for adding the local play, we can finally play against our friends. We have a few suggestions. 1. If you can make it iPhone X compatible. 2. Improve the design of the game and make it more Fantasy and a little Modern. Thanks really all and we hope to see this improve. The game will never die if one persons enjoys it and spreads it.