The Marble Age 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 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.

Dont buy.....yet

ShowerCoffee

Needs update. Waste of money

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.

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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.