Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 10:27 pm
States Builder: Trade Empire – Entertainment Game Review
States Builder: Trade Empire is a Entertainment/Simulation/Strategy game from SayGames LTD, first launched in 1st December 2023.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 19,453+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes States Builder: Trade Empire Stand Out
► ARE YOU RESOURCEFUL ENOUGH TO BUILD A WHOLE WORLD?
It’s all about supply chains in this fun idle world-building simulator game where the aim is to develop all of human civilization one hex at a time. Log, mine, craft and process raw materials to earn coins, then use them to upgrade your facilities and expand your profits so you can open up more land, unlocking entire continents and eventually the whole wide world.
If you’re looking for a fun builder game with some complex strategy elements and satisfying challenges, then download States Builder now and start building your worldwide business empire.
◾ GET LOGGING: It all starts with wood – you cut trees to sell at market, then soon you’ll be able to afford a logging mill and a board factory. As you progress through the game, you’ll open up all sorts of other resources that can be processed in a variety of different ways.
◾ FEED THE CHAIN: Processed resources take longer to produce, but also make you more money. Use strategy to work out the best way to maximize your profits in the game by building varied supply chains, then watch the coins come pouring in.
◾ IMMEDIATE RETURNS: Spend profit on upgrading facilities on the map to increase your income in your current level. Each mine and processing facility has six levels, each of which increases productivity and profit. Adapt your strategy to make profits as fast as possible and move on to the next level of the game.
◾ INVEST IN THE FUTURE: You can also buy upgrades for resource production speed and greater profit. Upgrades apply to all facilities producing one type of material, and also carry across levels in the game, so you get to keep the benefits.
◾ RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Divert resources to equip and launch exploration balloons that will scout out new lands. Each time a balloon is launched in the game, you get coin and crystal bonuses.
◾ DISCOVER NEW LANDS: Once you’ve opened every hex in an area, you’ll need to save up coins to unlock the next area. Who knows what resources you’ll find when you discover new lands?
◾ WE HAVE LIFT OFF: When you’ve unlocked every hex on a continent, you’ll find a rocket. Fuel it up with resources to complete the level, then blast off to a new virgin continent with new resources to mine and craft, and start building all over again.
► BUILDER, INDUSTRIALIST, TYCOON
From a small single settlement, through a developed town, to a fantastic industrial civilization with your own spaceship, in States Builder you get to build your way through human history and watch as your whole planet becomes a hive of industry. If you enjoy strategy games and would like the chance to build your own world, then install States Builder now.
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, States Builder: Trade Empire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Daily and Weekly Quests: complete new quests every day and week to earn exclusive bonuses and unlock hidden surprises
Railway station: your gateway to exciting adventures and quick deliveries
Fresh levels: dive into newly added levels packed with vibrant scenery and challenges
Bug fixes from previous versions: we've improved stability and fixed bugs to make your journey even more enjoyable
Love the update? Have ideas to make it even better? Share your feedback as it shapes the future of the app!
Download & Availability
States Builder: Trade Empire is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get States Builder: Trade Empire 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:
We have been playing for close to a year, we get caught up and lose track of time. They have contests, upgrading items are easy and makes the game even better, once you figure out the dynamics, your HOOKED. GET THE GAME,.
This game is oddly addicting. We really have enjoyed playing it but do have a couple complaints. First of all we have noticed that sometimes when new region becomes available to buy its expensive but if we close the app and open it back up, its cheaper. Not sure why? But we have also noticed it drains our phones battery which is annoying. Looking back at our battery data, yesterday we played for a total of 2.5 hours and it used 54% of our battery.
End of level gets very laggy and kills phone battery. Played games like this and its not a problem. Other than that good game very simple and repetitive but satisfying.
We began playing this, and really enjoyed it. However, it surprised us how quickly our full battery drained enough we received a warning (20% battery remaining). So we plugged in our charging cable, and kept playing. But then we received another warning (10% battery remaining). The game absolutely destroys battery life. Dont play this if you need your device for literally any reason. You wont have enough battery left to do both.
Small island not infinite more fun when infinite.
This is a fun enough game, but as others mention the constant ad interruptions are annoying. And the events are frustrating verging on boring; the costs to expand in events make it fun for maybe the first half hour before its too expensive and takes too long to generate in-game revenue to keep building and expanding.
Overall, a great game ,but something is amiss with the Lost Treasures. We are currently on level 350, and after all this time our selection of 1 of the 2 last items gave us 14 correct prizes(the one we wanted) !?! In the real world this is a 50/50 chance , 50% chance. Our yield is at 4%. Sorry, we have a better chance at the arcade! Final update : just finished level 360, and as expected, in 10 levels, the best so called prize was NEVER selected. UNINSTALLED.
We love this game but it stopped working in our phone.
The game is fun, good way to past the time. We bought the ad-free version and ads still show up. If any of the developers see this why is this happening.
Fabulous game, with just the right amount of challenge and a good balance of patience vs progress. Many levels have impressed us but our favorite so far is definitely #119. Its actually a brilliant map of Japan, but for some reason the name of the level is Detroit. Bizarre.
Great app but we would love a iCloud activation to be able to have the same level on our ipad and our phone.
Overall, we quite like this game. One of the latest updates introduced a major bug, though (and we don't know how to report it other than here). The mini-games (Coin Pass) and Lost Treasures) keep restarting in the middle of a level. This makes it very frustrating to begin a new play session. It seems to happen whenever the app restarts (not just resuming from the background). Though, it restarts a lot more than we would expect as well.
No matter what you move slow through levels never feels like you make an upgrade.
The game is very enjoyable,keeps you busy.love the idea for distribution..but for some reason the boat transport gets a bit tricky.and there arent ant options to restart or stop transporting.ive been stuck on a raw gold transport to another.the port on the other side doesnt want to accept the goods.which makes the boat with the goods go back and forth.ive deleted all the roads from and to the port.but they still wont accept the goods from the boatat the moment im stuck and dont know what to dohope you check that error.
Stuck on level 3. Resources wont load onto rocket.
We really love this game. We play it every night before bed. However Ive gotten stuck in what seems to be a continuous loop. Every time we come back to the game at night, our progress on events resets (like coin pass and the mining). Its like we never started the event. Ive been stuck on 2 days left of the mining event for like 3 weeks now. If we purchase diamonds or ad skips, if we dont use them immediately we end up losing them when we come back to the game. Its really put a damper on the experience for us.
The game used to be very good. We enjoyed playing it and we did so often. However, with one of the recent updates, they filled it with ads. Its now losing its appeal very quickly and we are seriously thinking of removing it. We simply dont understand why developers do this. Why would you deliberately make your game worse just for more money.
This is one of those games where ads randomly (or regularly pop up) so it may be a fine game, we just decided not to waste 1 minute for every 2 minutes of play. So its meh.
Game is kind of fun but forces you to watch ads at a ridiculous rate.
Boring game that just has you sit there and wait for things to happen. We dont see the appeal. You can pay money to not wait as long. Seems like a waste of time.
We have played many mobile games, and this one is different than the average game. Its simple, but pulls you in instantly. The art is well thought out, and we really like it. We have only played through a few stages so Im not sure how the gameplay will change, but Im having a lot of fun so far. Overall, better than expected and really interesting concept. Good game.
Update: After multiple restarts of the game and our iPad. The bug is gone. The only reason its not 5 is because the high prices of the packs. Sometimes Ill support if we really like a game by the prices are wild. We like the game. It was slow to start but after a bit the idea is fun. We got to Level 7 and the cheese got stuck on one of the boats and never refreshed. Theres no other way to get it to the rocket and we cant restart the level so we Guess thats it.
We love the same but we finally got to California and our game frozen no matter what we did it didnt work, we had to delete the game because that was our last resort just wish we didnt have to start over.
This game is actually cool, our only issue is the boat, we wish there was a way we can upgrade them so they can carry more resources or move faster. When the boat comes up we always have a bottle neck of over 2,000 resources at the ports. Oh yea we list to music or podcast while playn so it would be cool if the audio would not randomly cut out.
Ive been playing this game for a few months, its a good time killer. However, this game has a very bad habit of interrupting other apps. For example if Im on Audible, every few minutes the game will glitch and audible will pause. So Im forced to go back to the other app and resume what Im listening to. The other issue Im having is Im constantly being redirected to a scam website selling malware protection. We know its a scam based on the URL. If these issues were to be fixed, we would go back to this game.
We have been playing game for some time and like most games, you need to watch advertisements to get coins, open a new city, get gems, etc. This game has a terrible bug in that the advertisement for ThreatsweeperXYZ automatically comes up for no reason while you are in the middle of playing the game and bounces you out of the game and onto threatsweeperXYZ web site. This is happening way too often and has become very annoying. All you have to do is click anywhere on the board of the game and it comes up. Other times you dont even click anything and it comes up. We dont mind watching the advertisements because that is how the game makes money, but this is too much!!!! We dont know if threatsweeperXYZ is acting on its own or the game developers are allowing this, but you cant even get into the game without it bouncing you out. We did reach out to developers before and they promised an upgrade, but it never happened.
One of the Ads we guess is opening our browser which is kinda a security issue for us. Still, we love the game and the concept.
Definitely should be rated for a younger age then 17.
We were genuinely enjoying this game, but after like the third time of being forced out to a Safari web browser for spam and virus checking on our phone and then a random high-pitched almost amber alert like noise emanating from our phone did we have to say no more.
The game itself is fun, but it has started having forced spyware ads that open Safari without permission and say that your device is at risk.
Every time we open the game its restarting the events and thats super annoying because we cant get to the big prizes without playing for a long time. Our gems we get from the events are also disappearing. This needs to be fixed.
Hey, it's us again, in our previous review we only shared our feedback on the game, now we're going to share our suggestions on how to make the game better. 1. Something in between stages: this always felt a bit weird not having something in what feels like a pretty decent spot to put something like a mini game or something you can build from completing a stage. 2. More sectors of production: we have had livestock, ore, crystal, wheat, wood and a few more, but we feel like it gets a bit old, we'd like to see levels either having historical factories or more advanced factories (The factories needing 2 materials to work) (Also we don't know what to call the pieces of the trade network, so when we say factory we mean the place the products come out of before reaching its next form or your city) 3. Seasonal environmental: this can be as simple as, changing the shops background or giving players a free chest or adding new landscaping like snow or leafs. Those were our top 3 suggestions, tell us what you think :) To be honest they feel like nitpicks but the game might benefit from these changes -Nate.
Its really nice to enjoy your game, and go up levels all in one sitting, without feeling like youre constantly pushing on an ad. Are there ads? Yeah, but you get things for the ads we play for like 15 minutes and when an ad comes on, we take a break and go the other room and come back and the ad is over. Who is it out there that is sitting on their butt playing on their phone for an hour straight? Thats not healthy. Update: To those people that dont want to give it a five star rating: we paid for no ads and we dont have any ads except if we want to make the game run quicker. You can make the game run at 3.5 times the normal speed if you watch an ad. Nothing else in the game, requires you to watch an ad! Everything is available to you. And the price to remove ads is the price of a coffee. After playing for a couple hundred hours we have to say this is one of the best phone games we have ever played.
Dev Want money from us? Add saving so we dont have to restart.
Hi, is there any hug in the game? No update from last 1 month. Also from last event, no new event is coming. Also we are getting the prize of last event, every time we start the game. Can you please check? Otherwise the game is fun to play.
The game opens Safari randomly and brings you to a website for Norton antivirus!! Other than that, fun game. And the adds are a bit annoying but they gotta make money somehow. Update: developers. Thank you.
We love the app, but wish we could sync our progress across multiple Apple devices. Also, the new dig event is a lot of fun, but Id like more opportunities to win hammers and collect ALL of the chests without having to spend money. Id also like more dig-type events to be running simultaneously and Id even like other mini in-game features to occupy time alongside the main game. Basically, the app in its current form is fun but very basic and could use some more stuff inside it.
We do like playing this game, but Ive noticed a few mistakes in a few of the levels. The one Im on now, Hungary is if you do it just right, youll have a bunch of gold bars that can only go to the storage facilities and no where else. Took us forever to reach the goal of getting the gold bars to the city because we had done the order of buying land incorrectly so now we have a bunch of gold bars that can only move through the storage facilities. Its a never ending line if gold bars between the three.
Its ok gets kinda boring but good for long car rides.
Ive played for a while now and we love the game and concept its exactly as described in the ads, but if you buy the no ad, all it does is remove the pop-up ads. You still have to watch the ads to get the boosts. The game is 5/10 free to play where its constantly trying to get you to buy things. Devs please chill with this it really kills the game vibe if people wanna buy things well go to the shop, we get it you want money.
How to lose players 101: Put a pop-up ad in for malware that takes you out of the game to an external web browser every 5 minutes. Fix that, and youll get us back. And no, we wont pay to get rid of that. We do pay to get rid of ads, but not when its so outright obnoxious.
The game is nice but it forces you to watch ads so.
We cant level up any of our industries or use any gems because both items are not saving and disappear when we close the game. Before this problem we were enjoying the game although if youre not willing to watch ads then its a slow, slow game.
If the item are removed from the port they cant be seen again.
We loved the game even spent some money until it crashed and we lost everything. Now every time we start the game, we start at 0 contacted support but after a few days, no help nor a single reply.
Been playing this for nearly a year so we were quite ahead. Switched our phone and now all of that is lost because they have no way to save progress or make an account to use on another device.
As others pointed out, there is definitely a memory issue or something happening when the app has been open for a long time. Lags pretty hard.
We CANT BELIEVE THIS MY DAD HAVE THIS GAME but we love this game so much we really like this game its so fun Hehe oh and everybody thats a boy kiss us right nowAYYY GIRL U-U UwU SuS oh and Im a Muslim hehe but Im so confused of this game where is the creator of states builder? TELL ME NOW!!!!!! And guess what our dad got to level idk but our dad will tell us soon and Im only six years old and Im in first grade, but dont tell anybody hehe im gonna go to school tomorrow and its the last day of school YAY guys Im only in level 3 at least that is good bye.
This game is kinda fun. It is cool too.
Thank you for not that much ads.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.10.0
- Size: 257.39 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: SayGames LTD
Last updated: 1st October 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: SayGames LTD