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State.io - Conquer the World

War strategy: Epic battle game

Ratings

Age

13+

Category

Strategy

Languages

English

State.io is an abstract real-time strategy game that challenges your tactical thinking. Lead your army to occupy all the states on the map by managing your troop flow and reacting to enemy movements. It features a clean, minimalist design and simple controls, offering deep strategic gameplay in bite-sized sessions. Conquer continents and dominate the global stage.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

81/100

State.io is a masterclass in 'distilled' strategy. It takes the complex genre of global conquest and strips it down to its absolute essentials: numbers and territory. You play as a color on a map, and your goal is to send your units to capture neighboring states while defending your own. It feels like a high-speed version of the board game Risk, but with real-time troop movement.

The beauty of the game is its pace. A full conquest of a map usually takes less than three minutes, making it incredibly addictive. I loved the tactical trade-offs: do you send all your troops to capture a huge empty territory, or do you keep them at home to defend against a sneak attack? The minimalist aesthetic makes the board easy to read even when hundreds of little units are flying across the screen. It’s a smart, sleek, and highly competitive experience.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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Fast-paced tactical gameplay

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Global conquest campaign

3

Online multiplayer mode

4

Minimalist, easy-to-read graphics

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Yes, as you move to new continents, the AI becomes much more aggressive and starts with more territory.

Ratings & Reviews

Number one.
Sat Sep 21 2024 arturoferg

Hello I am Arturoferg the #1 player in at least the southern United States but I believe I am the best in the world. I am number one with more then 1000 points above the closest player and I know that doesn’t sound like much but in this game it is a lottttt. This is my favorite mobile game. This game is easy when you get started however that’s how they trick you, once you get more troops so do the AI and the players in ranked. This game is almost too easy when you start you can ignore strategy and beat your opponents with shear numbers however. This game is not easy I spend 5 to 10 minutes a game and it takes all of my attention in order to win. I have conquered the world over 100 times now and every time it is more challenging and more exciting. If you want an easy game then don’t upgrade anything stay low and you will have fun but if you want a challenge come and take my crown, I dare you.😘 (Edit for the developers: I play this game once a week now and that is only to allow other players to catch up. I have been at the top for over a year and I will play until this game ends. I love this game and I’m sorry to be that guy but I would like a more competitive experience. My numbers are so high nobody can touch me not even the AI. Please expand the experience for the players on top because it is too easy up here. Thank you for creating my favorite mobile game I see all the effort you have poured into this and I appreciate it. I am excited to see what you do in the future. Love you guys.)

Untapped potential
Wed Apr 21 2021 Soluto47

When I first opened this game, I was adamant on believing that it was another one of those grindy annoying .io games. What I was met with exceeded my expectations, and I enjoyed my first play through of the game. I will address 3 points in this review: game progression, ai, and the potential this game has. When I started, it was rather easy to grind out upgrades, and I enjoyed playing a game that actually felt like it had a tolerable grind. Right now, the ai in this game is quite lackluster in the later stages of my play through. Ai only attack each other most of the time, and it is quite easy to conquer their territory. What I would suggest to the game devs is an increase in ai difficulty, and maybe a buff in their forces. Now, onto the potential. Right now, there is only one continent, North America. I think it would be a smart idea to add more continents and countries, as one map tends to get stale after a while. If the devs feel like being lazy; then they could just give the player the option to conquer the whole United States. If the devs run out of countries, then they could move into areas in a certain state. Like I said earlier, the potential of this game is untapped, and if the devs see this review then I give them this advice. Please don’t change the progression system, make the ai a little bit more challenging for the player, and please consider expanding the map so that the player doesn’t feel bored after the first few playthroughs.

Good game
Sun Apr 23 2023 Hudson DOG

I love the game, I’m like level 1500 or smth. My only complaint is the removal of the offline hourly income, that was a big source of income. And when you get to the levels I’m at, watching a 15-30 second ad to make only up to maybe 200k ish isn’t very helpful because each level upgrade is 500k coins, so really to level up one I have to play two rounds, which this far in takes at least 3 min, times two so 6 min. Then I must watch two ads, adding 1 minute all to afford maybe one level upgrade. That isn’t worth it anymore because as my competition levels up maybe even just 5 starting units every few rounds I can’t compete with that, the hourly income was good, overtime I could afford to make large income. Right now I have just over 4b coins, but I make close to 0 income proportional to my “expenses” for upgrades. Adding this back would be very useful. I understand it supports watching ads, which of course covers the income for the game developers and stuff, but at least nerfing it so I have a chance to still win, as rounds get increasingly more difficult. Besides that 1 ad after every game is a little annoying maybe every lost game, but still that’s a lot of ads. Besides those two complaints this is probably my favorite mobile game.

AI is dumb as a rock
Thu May 27 2021 Treydon j

This game, although addicting, is unbelievably easy once you learn how the AI works. The AI always goes for the neutral locations first, so all you have to do is wait until they attack a neutral location and then time your attack so that your fighters hit their base eighth when it hits zero. I’m effect your get to claim an enemy base for free while the neutral location eats up enemy reinforcements. The enemies rarely attack you until all the neutral locations are captured and by that time, if you haven’t already overrun them, you have a such a huge lead that you can basically win anytime you want. I was forced to try to play using zero upgrades to try to make the game actually interesting and still managed to get all the way to past level 150 well into the point where the neutral locations start with 80, then I just stopped playing because it was too easy. There are certain levels where the particular layout of the map makes it more difficult and I ended up losing because I made a few mistakes in timing it just got unlucky with the way the AI happened to attack, but even with mistakes as long as you keep at least two enemy factions alive they will just fight each other and you can steal their bases right after they attack. Also would like to see them add the rest of the world as they don’t have Asia, Australia, or Canada. Ultimately a cool game that is addicted which is why I gave it 3 stars instead of zero, but they really need to improve the AI to make the game truly playable.

Help I’ve Gone Too Far Down the Rabbit Hole
Sun Apr 02 2023 Starscream2499

I got this game a week ago after playing an add and thought hey this could be a fun game. I wasn’t wrong - the game is a blast. While not too challenging, it’s a fun and easy strategy game. While most of the time I’d win sometimes I’d lose and it was fun to play against the computers. However, I’ve gone down the rabbit hole. I quickly realized the easiest way to get upgrades was to increase my offline earnings and then watch an add to multiply it by 4. At first no big deal because the computer increased in strength, but one day the computer maxed out. Like Megamind who destroyed MetroMan only to discover there was no more joy without the fight. I have now reached level 1000 and have become an unstoppable machine of country destroying destruction. Levels that used to pose a challenge are now beaten at ease. If the computer could continue to increase in difficulty no matter your level that would be fantastic. I want to feel the fear of a challenge again. Also if there was a difficulty setting like easy, normal, hard, chaos. That would be fantastic. Either way I’ll probably log on every now and then to continue getting ridiculous upgrades to increase my unstoppable power.

Developer, Please See Bottom.
Sat May 22 2021 Back in a flash

Want new things? Watch an ad. Want to do better? Watch an ad. Want to break the game? Watch a lot of ads and play for hours. After awhile the caps mean nothing and if you don’t see the obvious way to win you will lose. This game has potential and that’s the only nice thing I can say about it. Do yourself a favor and don’t play this game. Play if all you like to do is watch 100s ads for a game that lacks in graphics, dialogue, strategy, brain cells, and finely cut spaghetti. If the developer put any thought and care into it the developer could make a decent game and make the ads completely optional. Note to the developer: If you make the game good enough then watching an ad won’t seem like a chore. Somehow you are #10 and that is great. If you make a better game you will definitely get more people interested and you will get more people watching ads instead of making them watch it for the “Gifts” that you have in the game. Don’t make it too obvious that you want us to watch an ad because every ad we watch you get a small amount of money. I get it so do yourself a huge favor and don’t make it obvious. It’s perverted.

Un-balanced ads vs. game play
Fri Feb 10 2023 cmwiers

Loved the game play at first, but being forced to watch an ad after every round is a bit obnoxious. I am usually playing a game like this for some mindless distraction but this game is an ad farm nothing more. You play a round you can win in 20-30 seconds then have to watch an ad that takes 45-60 seconds. You can close the game after each round and skip most of the ad but then you are faced with a worse problem. You only get the measly amount of coin they give you for winning which is no where near enough to keep up with the again horrible unbalanced AI players. They will advance in numbers and growth and start to crush you around levels 30 to 50 depending on if you watch the ads for 3x coin. In the end you can enjoy the game for about 2-4 hour tops then it becomes unplayable outside of tripling your time just watching ads which will extend that time frame. Everything above is not even mentioning the horrible ad content and methods. The ads say they are 30 seconds but in reality are more like 45-60. They also make the X button intentionally small so you inadvertently select the ad and have to do that 3-5 times before finally exiting the ad. Then the content of their ads are abhorrent. The developers should be ashamed of the content they put on here. Terrible design and execution all around on every part of this game. One more on the heaping pile of unplayable, unenjoyable, waste of time games.

More ad than app
Thu Jul 06 2023 thepowerofselfrespect

I like the game and don’t mind the AI most of the time. It can definitely be frustrating to get drawn into a game of chicken only to be attacked by three opponents all at the same time, but that just means I need to rethink my strategy. My issue is with the sheer number of ads and the necessity of wifi to play against AI. Every time you complete a level, you can either watch an ad to get 3x the number of coins you’d normally earn from completing the level… or you can say “no thanks” and then you still end up watching an ad for absolutely no reason or benefit. This is not including the banner ads that live at the bottom of the screen while you play. This also does not include the ads that you have to watch if you want to change your player color or icons from the default. I can also obviously understand the requirement for wifi if I wanted to play against other players, but I’m entirely uninterested in this and I see no reason why the app should really need connectivity otherwise, except to show me even more ads. It’s ridiculous and if the cost to remove ads were not $9.99 I would just do that, but at this point I’ll just play a round or two until I get tired of the ads and then switch to another app that isn’t shoving so many ads at me constantly, and I’ll save my $10.

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