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Rise of Kingdoms

Top Civilization Strategy Game

Ratings

Age

9+

Category

Strategy

Languages

English

Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade is a massive multiplayer online strategy game. Players choose a civilization—each with unique units and architecture—and expand their territory on a seamless world map. The game features real-time troop movements, exploration of a mysterious fog-covered land, and the ability to recruit and upgrade historical figures as commanders.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

90/100

Rise of Kingdoms is a titan of the mobile strategy genre for a reason. Its 'infinite zoom' feature—the ability to go from a bird's-eye view of the entire continent down to individual city streets—is still one of the most impressive technical feats on the App Store. It creates a sense of scale and immersion that makes the world feel truly alive, rather than just a series of menu screens.

The real-time combat system is where the game really shines. Being able to redirect your troops on the fly allows for genuine RTS-style tactics, like flanking an enemy or rushing to an ally's aid. The RPG-style commander system adds a great layer of progression, as you level up historical figures like Sun Tzu or Joan of Arc. While the game does have the typical free-to-play power creep, the depth of the alliance system and the constant flow of events make it a deeply rewarding experience for dedicated players.

Dinsun reviewed on: Sun May 19 2024

Features

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15 unique historical civilizations

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Seamless world map with infinite zoom

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Real-time battles and troop movement

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RPG-style commander talent trees

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Deep alliance and territory management

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Q&A

Civilizations like China or Rome are great for beginners due to their building speed and defense bonuses.

Ratings & Reviews

I love this game I would kiss it if I seen it irl
Sun Aug 25 2024 Heysigma

I've been playing "Rise of Kingdoms" for a while now, and it’s easily one of the most engaging mobile strategy games I’ve come across. The game allows you to choose from a variety of civilizations, each with its own unique style, commanders, and special units, which keeps things fresh and interesting. I love the real-time battle mechanics—it’s so satisfying to see my troops move across the map and engage in skirmishes or full-scale wars. The alliance system is another highlight for me; working together with other players to conquer territories and defend against attacks really adds a sense of camaraderie and teamwork. The graphics are surprisingly good for a mobile game, with colorful visuals and detailed animations that make the world feel alive. There’s always something to do, whether it's upgrading buildings, training troops, or participating in special events, which keeps the game from feeling repetitive. However, I do have to mention that the game leans heavily toward a pay-to-win model, especially as you progress to higher levels. It can be frustrating to see other players pull ahead just because they’re willing to spend more money. That said, if you’re willing to be patient and strategic, you can still have a great time without spending much. Overall, "Rise of Kingdoms" is a fantastic game for anyone who loves strategy and building games, and I'm still enjoying every minute of it.

Oldie but goodie!
Thu Nov 27 2025 candelaj13

What I mean by the title is the fact that this game has been out for a while and it’s consistently still getting new clients new players year after year and still providing a great product at the same time. If it wasn’t then, obviously they probably wouldn’t be people still playing this game let alone getting new new users every month. Between the graphics the gameplay and the team aspect of this game it’s well rounded in a great city building game to play, especially with other people. I think that’s where this game shines is the fact that it can connect and you can bring a lot of people together and for one goal and That alone is such a good feeling to have especially nowadays is to rely and be able to trust somebody that’s on your team that’s there for you. That’s that’s really rooting for you to do well and in games there’s not usually that type of camaraderie that you build but this game is definitely one of those that you can really build a great foundation of friends and Clan mates that just are willing to share and to help you with anything that you have to have anything that’s giving you issues as a new player or veteran player. Great job Des. You’ve done a wonderful job at this game and I know you guys just keep on making it better and improving it more and more year of year cause you at least have this lifetime player for this game

Addicted
Wed Jan 18 2023 {ÇØŁD BŁØØD}

I’ve played this game for over a year, and I have been hooked, unlike most games like Clash of clans or other similar games like this, none have a feature where there’s an actual world you can explore, where you can take your armies and go out of the city, trade with other players, have alliances that rule over the entire kingdom or alliances that fight with others to rule the kingdom and eventually fight other kingdoms. The only and huge downside to this amazing game is the P2W (play to win) I’m guilty of slightly participating in this but player I know are constantly flowing in money and even when they have less time than me they are 2 or 3 times stronger than me. P2W players can not only gain more power, but more troops, upgrades, accessories to make their commanders stronger, more technology and better troops. The game does have some things to counter this, such as having the ability to migrate to a newer kingdom (server) to have players in your power-range ability. This isn’t a review for the devs this is more for the players to know that while the game is so much fun at first, in the long run you will meet “whales” (extremely strong cities) where it doesn’t matter how much you’ve grinded because of the amount of money they’ve put into the game. Overall I love this game, I just wish there was a way that I could compete with these types of players.

Super fun game (two problems)
Fri Apr 01 2022 Rowan22787

OK I have played this game for about a year now and I love it there’s always something to do. You’re never bored, there’s always new events always something to upgrade. Unlike other games in this genre, however the kingdom that I’m in or pretty much any kingdom there’s always a bully alliance. For instance the one that I am in the bully alliance is 94RG. They try and control everything including KVK, and if somebody doesn’t listen to them, then they go ahead and kill everyone and ruin the game experience for everybody. It’s totally not fun and I feel like once you reach the top you should only be allowed to stay there for a certain amount of time and then get knocked back down. Second problem, everything costs money, if you want to upgrade or get a good commander it’s money, if you want to upgrade something and not wait a month it’s money and so on… But other than that this game is incredibly good and I literally have 375 consecutive login days. I’m part of one of the top alliances. Definitely one of the best games I’ve ever played and I’m going to continue playing it for a very long time. And for anyone debating on whether to get this game or not, and if it’s going to be like all the others. It’s way better in my personal opinion and I would definitely recommend getting it. Hope this helps keep on going guys

Amazing game but a few kinks
Mon Oct 24 2022 billybobbiejoey12345

I love this game! I’m at 10,000,000 power and am running two accounts and one alliance. I have so many friends on here and they all agree for it being 5 star. We are a new law enforcement alliance for our kingdom and have central control over top left region. My school wanted us to write a report to a video game so I obviously chose this one. All my friends play and their only complaints where mostly how you couldn’t watch the armies play in first person. If you could see the armies battle and progress as you move on in the game that would be awesome. Another thing is that when you join an kingdom there are usually more powerful people in the kingdom and can push little alliances around. But if you could form formations to make the gameplay more fair. The story of the300 Spartans versus 250,000 Persians was All about strategy. So if you could make it so you could form tactics that would be cool. Then a 50,000 army would have more of a chance against a 40,000 army. And that could make battles so much more fair. Plus it would give lower level players a chance to practice. Other than that there isn’t anything major a would suggest. Me and my friends have made our own game and know how hard it is to make games. So thank you for always making the game better and trying to give us the best experience possible. Goodbye 👋!

I Love ROK!!!
Tue Jan 31 2023 Timmay from Southern Park

So I loved this game, but then everyone was a higher level than me, and they had more power. I was going to get married, but a man showed up and told her that he had more power than me, and she dumped me and left with him. Many were telling me to join the Vikings, a powerful clan, but I had to pass on the offer. I am not skilled enough to be a Viking! I did not know how to handle this stress. I could not stop thinking about the man. Years later, I decided to ask him for some tips. He was a nice man and he yet again told me to join the Vikings. Normally, I ignore this, but his power level was too high to ignore. I joined the Vikings and I was finally good at this game. In only a week I had 2 million power! I played the game for months and months, and I k ow have a power level of 10 trillion power! All though this man taught me everything I knew about ROK, but he had also taken my wife! I knew what I had to do. I told my wife I had a higher power level than the man. She thought about it for a second, and she made the choice to be my wife again! I was so happy to hear this. Ten years later I have 69 quadrillion power on ROK! This game changed my life from miserable, and having no power, to having an amazing wife, all the power I could ever ask for, and I am living in a mansion with my three beautiful children. Thank you ROK!

This is nothing like the ads it’s better
Mon Jul 08 2024 Play it for the adventure

You should definitely play this game. It has battles. It has peacekeeping. There’s a little bit of ads, but they’re not that bad. It’s really good. You should definitely play it. my family doesn’t think they like it but I promise you they probably will. It’s really good. I have a PS five. It’s better than all the games on that. if there’s a perfect game, it would be this one. you should definitely try it out. I had to bind my account, but it wasn’t that hard. also, did I mention the exploring? if you were one of the soldiers, imagine what you would see the adventures you would go on. you should definitely play it for like the third or fourth time. that’s because you really should play it. did I mention how easy it is to collect and build stuff? I know I didn’t. That’s why I’m telling you now. i’m sorry if there’s any typos. but there’s a bit of bugs that you should fix. like for example. if I didn’t have enough resources to buy or research something. it was just instantly research it like I bought the instant. I don’t know if that’s for everybody, but it happened for me. and I’m actually kind of happy it happened. now I have like Calvary Bowman and stuff. I just started and I’m already hooked. I play for hours on end. and one last time you should play it.

Dear Lilith Games…
Mon Jun 28 2021 Octiveon

You produce advertisements that reflect on game content and to promote said content, this is what I’ve read in every review criticizing your adverts. This is not true, the content is typically poorly produced and does not reflect the new in-game content. You form the adds in a way that gives off the illusion that some kingdoms are far superior than others, leading to less diversity in the game because every new player wants to be the best. Now, you do reflect how the basics of how the game works in the adds, so that is something I will credit you for. Although, the content viewed is extremely repetitive, showing nothing new. And the BIGGEST problem, is the amount of advertising for this game. You haven’t shown new content in them, you haven’t shown any reasons this game is better than others, the quality is abominable (lip syncing, animating almost everything so there is limited actual gameplay, stupid situations, repetitive gameplay, and generally irritating “storylines”) If I’ve gotten nearly 80 Rise of Kingdoms advertisements in a week, I probably wouldn’t want to download it. I used to play AFK Arena, but after seeing your new advertisements for the game, I’m deleting it, for I’m frankly embarrassed that I even put any time in the game. Fix your problems, and maybe I’ll consider you a quality game producer, instead of a uninteresting, money hungry developer. -Hoping for change, and awaiting something new. This review was made by a active “gamer”.

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