Rise of Kingdoms

Rise of Kingdoms ranks among the more ambitious mobile strategy games, combining careful city building with a vast map shared by thousands of other players around the world. At the start, the player picks one of the historical civilizations, constructs buildings, chooses a direction for technological research, and leads armies commanded by real historical generals such as Richard the Lionheart or Zhuge Liang, giving the game a pleasant educational touch combined with a genuinely massive multiplayer environment. Controls are fully adapted to the touchscreen through clear menus and a sprawling map that the player navigates with simple swipe and pinch gestures.

Lilith Games bet on long-term alliances and diplomacy between individual players, where cooperation as well as open conflicts between rival clans form the core of the whole social experience, similar to other large-scale MMO strategy games on mobile. The huge scope of available content and regularly released updates have kept the game alive for many years since its original release and given it a stable and loyal player base across many countries around the world.

Monetization combines a free-to-play approach with strong pressure to speed up construction, research, and troop training through payment, which is entirely common for this type of large-scale strategy game and becomes a noticeable and almost unavoidable part of competing with other players and clans in the later stages of the game.

Why play it: Recommended for players who have enough time and desire to build a long-term community within a strong alliance, keeping in mind that without regular investment, competing with paying players becomes considerably harder and slower.