Infinity Kingdom Review: Does It Respect Your Time and Your Wallet?

Infinity Kingdom describes itself as a "cartoon-style MMO strategy game". You are a lord in the land of Norheim, rebuilding a city, raising armies and holding off an invasion of gnomes and their mechanical army, while other players are free to attack you. It is published by YOOZOO (the Steam page lists YOUZU (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. as developer and publisher) under its GTarcade label. It reached iOS and Android worldwide in late January 2021 and Steam on July 1, 2021, for Windows and Mac. It is free to play with in-app purchases on every platform.

The question here is the one Bannerdex asks of every game: does it respect your time and your wallet?

How this review was built

This review does not come from hands-on play, and no playtime is claimed. The assessment rests on three things, all checked on October 4, 2026:

• Official material: the Steam store page and Steam's public review data, the Apple App Store listing, Steam news posts and the official GTarcade forum.
• Critic and site coverage: Hardcore Droid's scored review (2021), Pocket Gamer's launch coverage, and write-ups from Pillar of Gaming, PerfCore, GamingonPhone and BlueStacks.
• Player reception: Steam user reviews and community threads, App Store user reviews, and Glotier's July 2026 breakdown of 150 Google Play reviews.

Two gaps to flag. We could not load the Google Play listing directly, so Google Play figures below come from Glotier alone. And we found only one scored critic review, written at launch; there is no critic aggregate to lean on.

What the game gets right

The store pages set out the hook: more than 50 Immortals, heroes drawn from history and legend such as Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Merlin and Robin Hood, who lead your troops, and seven elemental dragons that you hatch and raise. Immortals and dragons are paired by element for battlefield buffs. GamingonPhone and Pillar of Gaming list the elements as Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Shadow and Holy. Around that sit the usual pillars of the genre: construction, research, a PvE campaign, ruins to explore on the world map, and alliances.

Presentation is the closest thing to a consensus. Hardcore Droid, which gave the game 4 out of 5 in February 2021, called it a "visually pleasing, professional-looking game" with unique animations and voices for its characters. Pillar of Gaming praises the same things, App Store reviewers call the graphics "incredible", and in Glotier's sample "beautiful graphics" is the second most common theme in positive reviews.

Alliance play is the other strength. The App Store listing puts alliance-based kingdom-versus-kingdom competition at the center, and players agree it is where the game works: one App Store reviewer notes that most negative reviews come from people who are not in an alliance, and Glotier counts "engaging alliance battles" among the top praise themes.

Early generosity gets mentioned too. Hardcore Droid's reviewer "never had a shortage of anything", and an App Store reviewer describes gems, the premium currency, as abundant.

Monetization: gacha, but how fair?

Immortals are recruited through chance-based summons in the Hall of Immortals, with advanced summons paid for in Philosopher's Stones, per GamingonPhone's guide; PerfCore also notes the element of chance. On top of that sits a VIP ladder, climbed with gems, that unlocks perks at higher tiers. We could not confirm current summon rates or guarantee rules from two sources, so we give none here.

The App Store's own purchase list shows packs from $0.99 to $5.99 among its most popular items. A second builder queue is a purchase several sources mention, at around $5 according to App Store and Steam reviewers.

The recurring complaint is that money decides competitive play. Glotier found pay-to-win named in 30% of the negative Google Play reviews it sampled, the largest share. A Steam reviewer with more than 1,400 hours calls it a "decent game" that is "very pay to win as well as time consuming"; another writes that "most of the game is a paywall". On the App Store, a three-star review says "whales run the show". Hardcore Droid noted the same claim on Google Play as early as 2021.

Events draw fire as well. A Steam reviewer with roughly 1,500 hours warns of "numerous events daily that want you to spend money", and a 2022 post on the official GTarcade forum, from a user labelled IK Press Officer, asked for game modes that are not "just events added to the Calendar where you spend money and gems".

Not everyone agrees. One long-time Steam reviewer says the game has "very low spam for spending", and Pillar of Gaming calls it player-friendly. The fair summary: you can play for free, but several sources say you will not contest the top of a server that way.

The Steam picture and the Discord reports

Steam's numbers are the weakest of any platform: Mixed overall, with 49% positive from about 1,310 reviews, and Mostly Negative over the last 30 days, at 23% of 26 reviews. The App Store shows 4.8 out of 5 from 42K ratings, and Glotier reports about 4.5 on Google Play.

Much of the recent negativity is not about gameplay. A large share of recent English-language Steam reviews describe the same experience: a stranger on Discord claims to have added them by mistake, builds a friendship, invites them to play Infinity Kingdom, then encourages spending. Steam community threads carry the same warnings, and Glotier logs "predatory marketing" in 25% of negative Google Play reviews. We could not verify who is behind these accounts, and we found no statement from the publisher. Online Threat Alerts describes the pattern as the work of scammers using a legitimate game. Whoever is responsible, treat an unexpected invitation to this game as a red flag.

Support is the last recurring complaint: App Store reviews describe bugs after updates and tickets left unanswered for weeks, a Steam reviewer reports the same, and Glotier puts poor customer service at 20% of negative reviews.

Who should install it

Try it if you enjoy alliance-based strategy, have a group to play with, and are content to stay out of the top rankings. Skip it if being outspent in PvP is a deal-breaker, or if you want a game you can finish. If you do start, our beginner guide covers the opening, and the tier lists and codes pages are the next stops.

FAQ

Is Infinity Kingdom free to play? Yes. It is free on Steam, iOS and Android, with in-app purchases.

What does it need on PC? The Steam page lists 64-bit Windows 7, 2 GB of RAM and 2 GB of storage as the minimum, and Windows 10 with 8 GB of RAM as recommended.

Can PC and mobile players play together? The Steam page lists cross-platform multiplayer.

Verdict

6.5 / 10. The score is the midpoint between the critic side and the user aggregate: the one scored critic review we found (Hardcore Droid, 4 out of 5, so 8.0) and Steam's all-time player score (49% positive, so 4.9), which gives 6.45. Two cautions come with that number. There is no critic aggregate, only a single review from launch in 2021, and Steam's last 30 days sit well below the all-time figure at 23%, so the score may flatter the game as it stands today. App store star ratings are left out of the score, as on every Bannerdex review; the App Store's 4.8 is context, and the written reviews there repeat the same spending and support complaints. On time, it is a long-haul alliance game. On wallet, it is free to enter and, by most accounts, costly to compete in.