States Builder: Trade Empire

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Ratings

Age

4+

Strategy

Languages

English

Latest Version 1.11.3

Mon Feb 09 2026

This is a technical update that improves gameplay and performance while also fixing known bugs and issues

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Become the ultimate tycoon in States Builder: Trade Empire. Start with a single plot of land and grow it into a massive economic powerhouse. Harvest resources, establish trade routes, and reinvest your profits to unlock neighboring states. Each new territory brings unique resources and challenges. Balance your production and logistics to ensure your empire runs like a well-oiled machine in this engaging idle-strategy hybrid.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

76/100

States Builder: Trade Empire is a compelling mix of idle management and territorial expansion. The game starts small—tapping to gather resources—but quickly evolves into a logistics puzzle where you are managing trade routes between different states. The satisfaction comes from the visual growth of your empire, seeing small outposts turn into bustling trade hubs with roads and caravans flowing between them.

The UI is clean and the progression feels constant. It’s the kind of game that’s perfect for checking in on throughout the day. While it starts as a simple clicker, the 'Trade Empire' aspect adds a layer of strategy regarding which resources to prioritize and which states to unlock next to maximize your gold-per-second. It strikes a nice balance between active play and passive income.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

Expansive map with multiple unlockable states

Deep resource management and trade systems

Satisfying idle progression

Clean, intuitive management interface

Tips & Walkthrough

Optimizing Resource Flow

Focus on upgrading your transport speed before increasing production capacity. There is no point in producing 100 wood per second if your trucks can only carry 10.

Gameplays

Unlocking New States

Each state has a 'entry cost.' Save your gold for the coastal states first, as they provide access to maritime trade, which is the most lucrative in the game.

Screenshot

Q&A

Yes, your trade routes continue to generate income for a set period while the app is closed.

Ratings & Reviews

I enjoy this game

Mon Nov 03 2025 magoo u

This game reminds me of logistics - get the right materials through production and to market and go back through supply lines and reroute or upgrade supply to get everything flowing again. Unfortunately, it looks like theres only 4 levels left. Those past five locations look like they were quickly added only 4 or 5 regions. Without any of the issues of what port to or region to ship to for products to get to the correct location. The only issue i have had is the storage gets confused or the lines going to and from. Especially when one storage has products going multiple directions. Or you now need to reverse the flow due to sending to city and then needing to send to port. The productions and trade bonuses have rarely matched up with the product line i working on..some are so late i am not sure why my goal is to upgrade it. I have introduced it to a seven year old and explain the idle part. I think it is a good learning experience and a different type of puzzle. The head to contest needs something to make it more interesting. I play and everyone attacks my holdings. Since its always against the same 3 they may be tired of me winning it each time ive played. Maybe change the opponents more? Good job- so excited to have a game that is different from the rest.

Love the game

Sat Jan 31 2026 Miss_Insidious

I never do reviews but I love this game honestly. It’s been helping me a lot with my stress here lately & I play it everyday at some point whether it’s waiting for something, having nothing to do, or just trying to fall asleep. It makes me feel more relaxed which is hard to feel sometimes. However, I do agree with other reviews I’d honestly love to see other things added in. We have wheat, ores, animals for wool & milk, ink, notebooks, etc. & while I do enjoy what the game has so far, I do wish there was more to it. I’m never ever bored with the game which I always get bored with but this one has been different for me. I just wish there was more things offered other than the same things repeated or recycled with each level or every other level. Plus you don’t necessarily need all the research stuff after awhile unless you want the main last golden chest which I always get because it lets me play for longer. Again, fantastic game but just wish there was more than the same 6-8 things.

Competition is fake

Mon Feb 02 2026 Czernobog_

I’ve noticed the competition levels up significantly when I level up. I started stock piling product this event and the highest player had 60k when I started upping my score by 700 K and they went to 53 billion. I went up from 17th place to 2nd place down to 72nd place. This is all within 30 minutes. You can’t tell me 71 people got on an all up their score at the same time that significantly. That isn’t even fair that I spent time on this competition to come in 71st place. It is one thing to have fake competition, but to escalate their score so significantly that I have no chance of even competing is not fair, especially if people are spending real money to try to win it. It also offered me several ads to watch of the highest negative being at -1.2 billion coins. I actually watched one thinking maybe the negative was a mistake but it took my coins to a negative amount. The weird thing was I still had positive in the competition even though my coins were showing negative. It is the same on the territory competition. The competitors will connect random territories, but won’t send anything to their cities. I can disrupt their chains and they will never fix them even though they get the territory back.

Possible to get permanently stuck

Tue Mar 05 2024 dilirah

I was enjoying this little game and didn’t mind watching ads to get bonuses every now and then. But then I started a level with a nomad village that attacked and destroyed my only income source. I waited for the investor to offer me gold to watch an ad, but he never showed up - maybe he’s linked to how much money you are making, because it’s linked to not time played. I stared at the screen for quite a few minutes and he never showed up to offer me deals. Not enough gold to uncover another base resource. Not enough gems to purchase gold and not going to spend real money for in-app purchases. No way to restart the level. I contacted support, but received no reply in over 48 hours. Deleting the app and good riddance. I’ll find another time waster to give my ad-watching money to.

New updates a BUST

Sun May 26 2024 Avoid Rheem

I've been playing this game for months, because up until now it was relaxing and enjoyable. However, the new update ruined that. It appears that difficulty was significantly increased at an attempt to persuade gamers to watch more ads. The result is that a i find myself annoyed and closing the app to move on to a more relaxing game. I will keep checking back with the hope that you return the game to when it was good. Examples, as I noticed others point out, the "free every 8 hours" should read free every 24. Before the updates, leveling the buildings in progression worked well because each building and or power up was balanced. now it's completely out of balance, resulting in gold accumulating way too slow (again, it appears an attempt to force more ad watching). This kills the playability of the game. And what's up with the characters now raiding buildings? That is totally out of place with the play of this game. Another attempt to slow progress and force watching ads. Overall, I do not recommend playing this game in the current form. It has lost all its relaxing qualities and is now nothing but frustrations. Its probably time to delete this one.

Terrible Bug in Game

Mon Mar 03 2025 212Smokey

I 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 don’t even click anything and it comes up. I don’t mind watching the advertisements because that is how the game makes money, but this is too much!!!! I don’t know if threatsweeperXYZ is acting on its own or the game developers are allowing this, but you can’t even get into the game without it bouncing you out. I did reach out to developers before and they promised an upgrade, but it never happened.

On going glitch that’s making me stop playing the game.

Tue Dec 02 2025 PurplePay

So there’s been this glitch on my IPhone 15 plus, probably since level 106 or 105, where if I connect something but then I leave the app, like full on swipe up and close it, it’ll reset some of what I did so it’s not connected anymore, it’ll reset sent an email about a month ago on what I thought was your guys Apple Store email for bugs or glitches, but I never got a response back, I had even cleaned out my storage and made sure the app and my phone were updated, but nothing seemed to work, and I’ve had this app for maybe a few years now, and I would be sad if I had to delete the app and lose everything I’ve done. So if someone could please look into the glitch, that’d be nice. Thanks.

Idle grinder

Mon Dec 25 2023 Kannan Fodder

The game is pretty easy, but it’s a very long slow grind without taking advantage of the proliferation of voluntary booster ads. (Like an offer every 30 seconds.) Haven’t seen many mandatory ads after a week of playing, so the pay to remove them option seems like a waste of money - especially since it won’t remove the “watch this ad for a boost” ads. (Or let you get the boosters without watching the ads.) The game is also silent. No music or sounds whatsoever. I thought it was a glitch at first, but even after completely closing out and restarting, there is absolutely no sound. Really wish there was at least some background music. There are also regular purchase offers, but the game is completely playable without them. It’s just going to take a bit more patience and grinding.