The Marble Age
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $3.99 | MIKHAIL VASILEV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
**Pocket Gamer - Bronze Award ** “… Challenging and addictive resource management game”.
**“… fills its chosen space with considerable panache, and is capable of eating your spare time with considerable gusto.” - PocketGamer.co.uk**
*«Playing this game, you need to think, think and think. Rushing forward relying on luck is a way to fail. You need to count all bonuses, carefully manage population etc. This is especially important because there is NO “EASY” mode, so do not be surprised that at first you will not succeed. The understanding will come with experience». - Wise advice from one of the reviewers (agams92). *
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!
FEATURES
During the 4000 years (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD), you will have to:
• Raise the population
• Invent technologies
• Construct buildings
• Trade goods
• Explore world
• Found new cities
• Start and end wars with neighbors
• Survive through the hundred real historical events.
The key to victory is choosing the right development priorities, allocating resources and managing the foreign policy. Mechanics of the game is a mix of old-school game designs.
Reviews
Broken
Niquil s
Victory conditions are sometimes impossible due to a bug that miscounts the number of united cities. Tried to report this on support page, but the support page is disconnected
I want this game to be good.
redbeardsam
I really wanted this game to be good. It has lots of elements that should make this app very enjoyable, but the difficulty setting makes this almost impossible to enjoy. It feels like even on the easy setting there is a very specific set of actions that must happen in perfect order, and if you miss a step or try to come up with your own strategy you will fail. It feels like this is more about finding out the predetermined path the developer created rather than coming up with your own strategy for winning. With some tweaks to difficulty this could still be a fun game. I'm waiting for an update.
Great purchase
VICK 1988/
After spending hours and hours on this, some ideas can take it to the next level. Let us play over the 300 turns! I just wanna keep upgrading stuff :) ... Also, I'd say the general/envoy system is too challenging... Really! I've had all the upgrades, all population on max but had to wait almost 40 turns for an envoy to unite greece!!!
fun game needs change
Dudeman375
I had a fun time playing this game but I felt it ended too quickly. I wanted to conquer the world and I never got the chance due to the ending. Please add the ability to continue play after victory and add the spartan campaign soon, also MAKE GENERALS COME MORE OFTEN OR ADD ABILITY TO HIRE THEM
Is this game even possible?
Unhappy user120393
I love the concept but the game is waaaaaaaay to hard. I've tried 10 times to get the second objective.
You get what you pay for
Randnotell
Well, I've definitely gotten my money's worth, given the amount of time I've spent on this. But it's pretty frustrating that I haven't even come close to beating it, given how much precise calibration and luck the game requires. This difficulty seems to be much more of a bug than a feature, as I'd enjoy something with an increasing level of challenge if I had the opportunity to ease into it. Instead, expect to enjoy picking at this lock but never actually turning the key. After an "easy" mode, or heck, even a "normal" mode, this game sorely needs a better "help" section. For a game that's so dependent on numerical interactions, there's very little explanation of why things occur the way they do. A number of grammatical errors, probably lost in translation from the developers' Russian, compounds this problem. I hope I can beat this game before the update comes out, and I hope the update makes it easier.
Difficult but learnable
tinysubversions
This is a great game that reduces the mechanics of a good city-builder or 4x title down to the bare minimum. Note that it's very difficult, but definitely winnable. It took until maybe my tenth game to survive to get a bronze medal, but each time I played I got a little further so I did feel like I was progressing. My main advice to a new player would be to play up until the Persian invasion. If you can't beat that, restart and try again until you manage to beat them. This game is learnable and there is solid strategy required! While there's an element of luck to this game, I'm now at the place where I'm consistently beating challenges I thought were impossible at first (the plague) and am almost ready to try hard mode.
Great update
Sebago4
The game is great, the new update made it better. It was very difficult on the easier mode, but this game has been perfected. Can't wait for next game.
Marble age
Beezer the Turnip
A real good, but not quite great game. There are interesting choices, and it's nice to build up your civilization. But, there are annoying "trap" options, things that are bad but don't bite you until it is well too late to do anything about. Lack of replay value is also an issue. The game is really one long puzzle, not a strategy game per se.
