The big difference between the two games is that Social Wars is robot/transformer-themed, whereas Social Empires is a medieval style game with dragons, knights, and kingdoms. Ironically, Social Wars is developed by the same company that created Social Empires (Social Point), and the game also boasts an impressive 1 million active monthly users. Which reminds us, we still haven't detailed the point of the game – to “build armies of warriors and mighty dragons,” and “attack other players' kingdoms,” and “battle it out in epic tournaments.” And of course the goal of all this is to “conquer the world and be crowned Social Emperor,” according to the game's official page on Social Point's website. Fortunately, most players of Social Empires are somewhat accustomed to paying for gameplay, as the game itself has a lot of in-game purchases that are almost necessary to make any great progress.ĭespite the monetary cost of the game (and the temporal cost that comes with the amount of time it can cause you to waste), Social Empires is obviously an addictive title that keeps players entertained, occupied, and motivated to continue building their digital empire. Those players were conned into purchasing a cheat that was supposed to give them extra resources to advance in the game. The game has a huge amount of cheats and tricks, which are apparently so commonly used that 135,000 players of the game wound up being scammed by a fake cheat, which was noticed and pointed out on BitDefender's HotforSecurity blog. The game's creators (a Spain-based game development company called Social Point), refer to the game as an 'epic adventure' in it's description, but it's actually an adventure-packed strategy game masquerading as an adventure game, which is not surprising since many adventure games require strategy and vice versa. That adds up to about 100,000 users per day (as of February 16 th, 2015). Social Empires ranks second in popularity behind Clash of Clans, but with 1 million active monthly users it is still an astounding 9 million users behind the top spot.

If you'd like to see the game in action, check out this compilation of Clash of the Clans trailers: With tournaments being held regularly and the game having such strategic depth in regard to training and planning in a social manner, it's really not surprising that it has become so well-adopted on Facebook. There's no denying that this can be one highly addictive game, probably due to the sense of achievement players get by being part of a collaborative effort to become the best clan in the game. In short, the object of the game is to help build a community as part of a clan in which you continually train troops and attack other clans strategically to earn elixir and gold, which can then be used to strengthen your clan's defenses.īack in September of last year, Business Insider published a piece explaining the game's massive following, and that was 6 months after a hacker revealed that the makers of Clash of the Clans ( Supercell) were bringing in more than $5 million per day in revenue from the game. With more than 10 million daily users, Clash of the Clans has become literally 10 times more popular than every other strategy game on Facebook, with the second-most popular (Social Empires) only having about 1 million daily users. (Note: This list is ranked according to popularity based on the number of active monthly users, according to statistics from GameChitah) 1. So go ahead and dispel the overhyped stereotype, and start increasing your IQ by exploring some of the games on the following list of the top 10 Facebook strategy games. Despite the fact that there are plenty of critics who love to bash Facebook gamers with the erroneous assumption that social networking and gaming makes you “dumb and lazy,” there are actually some very challenging strategy games to be found on Facebook.

One of the coolest thing's about Facebook is that it has so many apps and games built-in that it is almost like an online arcade as much as it is a social network.

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