Main game can be fun, heavily play to win. It's an amalgamation of multiple pay to win games in one. Most "micro transactions" are $20-$100 and net overall little progress. Game obviously caters to whales. Sub section of the game called outlands costs energy to play, has chance to drop units per map, chance to drop as elite, and chance to loot those drops. Makes progression synthetically longer. Most days you loot literally nothing. That kind of rng progression is frustratingly stupid.
A year or two ago, I had this game, and although its not like what it is advertised, it was a fun and strategic turn based board game. Now its horrible. I was forced to play an unskipable boring stick figures tutorials, ads every 5minutes, the characters are lame. This game went from a fun, addicitng, full of potential game to a cash grabbing, boring game. Too bad!
This game used to be one of my favorites. It used to have wonderful graphics/art and plenty of different cards and strategies. Plus the free to play aspect was good and I was able to make progress without spending any money. Then it updated and replaced everything with this stick figure stuff instead. All of my progress was gone and I have no intention of starting all the way over. If they were going to do this, WHY!?, didn't they just make it a whole separate game and left the original alone?

ArcticX Cleaver (Arctcxcleaver)
Such a stupid trick. You advertise for something that isn't what this game is. I didn't install this game for the stupid lore, ridiculous characters, or lifeless gameplay. I installed it for the puzzle game of stick figures fighting through a tower of other guys. That's it, that's all I wanted, but yet you seem to think I want more than that and force the rest down my throat if I bother to want to play your game at all. If it weren't a free game this would be fraud. Nothing fun about it!
100% pay to win. They just want money. Avoid this game if you don't want to spend money on an app game. We're not talking $1-5. We're talking $50 and $100. Then if you buy say a pet you have to spend more gems, which cost money, to be able to level them. This doesn't level them out right it just gives you the option to level them via quests that need to be done in 24 hours. So you have to spend more gems to be able to finish the quests on time.
This game is a cash grab. When you finally get past someone in the "campaign" you come to someone even harder. You can buy jewels to get better characters and level up, and you will have to do it again two characters later. Quit making it harder so that people have to pay to get past a certain point. Developing trust with your consumers works so much better. Make it to where you can get a decent amount of jewels for 0.99 or 1.99. Once I see anything over 4.99, I dont even bother with it.
Despite the game automatically countering your party everytime you switch heroes out, the game was still fun. Wouldn't have put in more than a year of time if it wasn't. But recently, they added the morgoth hero or commander or whatever, and it's really ruined my experience. Once the swords come out, it's over. They have too much hp for how powerful they are. How are we supposed deal with it? It's ridiculous. And it's not like I have chump parties.
This game was enjoyable enough in the beginning and I enjoyed the mini game. The in-game currencies were plentiful, in the beginning, and if I needed more, I could simply wait to collect the free-to-obtain amounts and save up. But then I spent money to speed along my advancement. It has gotten to the point that I'm spending more and more money to not be stuck waiting a long time to advance. I wouldn't mind this, except VIP is temporary and you have to keep buying more to keep it. Not fun.
I have been playing for months. Been doing pretty well without paying much. (Like $20 after two or three months.) But it seems like when there are updates I can't play for the entire day because it tells me to update even though I did, works fine the next day. And now it says network error all day. Decided to reinstall it and there is an error there as well.... it also seems like this happens all the time after events, just as I am able to get to the end of the event and get some good loot.....
This game is a money pit, no matter how much you put into it without spending money, you'll never get anywhere. Half the time when you spend the money you don't get it anything useful anyways. The drops just eventually give you the same stuff. Tried complete an events, but couldn't because of the tasks needing so much money to be spent to complete. The campaign mode cannot be completed either. I really just want a refund, but pretty sure I won't get it. AVOID THIS GAME.
Not only is this game one of the worst versions of pay to win I have ever seen, I didn't get anything for one of the journey trophy things I did pay for. And if you look at the pictures of the game only the last 2 are actually in the game! You will only win if you pay money. Not just a couple bucks, 50-100 dollars a week to keeps up wins. And thats not mentioning the deceptive advertising. Don't waste your time. Also my original bad review is gone somehow! I'll put this one here in its place! DO NOT BOTHER, MOST OF THE REVIEWS HERE ARE FAKE!!!!
The game would be great, except for two major issues. One, the game's progression is barred behind pvp. Two, the pvp element is saturated with pay to win gamers. You cannot advance the game without paying for it. Not because you want to support the developers, which would be fine with me, no, to advance in the game at all. Subtract the game's mechanics getting locked behind player versus player and this game is an absolute winner. Until then I would highly advise just giving the game a pass.
The game itself is very fun with a good mix of champions with a variety of skills. With that being said the novelty wears off very quickly when the only way to actually compete isn't by skill nearly as much as finding legendary champs, which are virtually only attained by spending $$. I realize most games are like this, unfortunately this game is among one of the worst offenders.
Free to play? Yeah right. Any time you open the game or any menu all it does is pop up ad to buy this or buy that. Cant even play the game without the dev's asking for money left and right. Are you sure its a F2P? Also, the adds show Towers and these are not even in the game. Lame way to advertise for money. Gameplay is fun for a beginner, you get hooked on winning and beating opponents but there is little in the way of turorials. Cant win once you get higher XP as you need to spend $$$. Lame.
Excellent gameplay hindered by pay to win model. There are so many different currencies, it seems like they are trying to force you to buy them. For eg. something as basic as buying heroes(cards) cost friendshoip coins which are extremely hard to get(slow rather). Meanwhile I have 25K coins(primary currency) with absolutely nothing to spend on. There will be instances where you really can't do anything but just wait and come back in a day to make progress. Absolute garbage.
The game brought me in from deceptive ad. The Journey section had very little (but still some) of what the ad showed the game to be, but that is gone in the third region. This game is unnecessarily complicated. There are so many ways to play and things to earn, from quests, Brawl, PVP, Clans, Turf War, collecting units, and upgrading units, and it's all very nice looking. But the game just isn't fun to play. You made a complex game and a Pay-to-Win system, but it's not fun to play.
The game is nothing like the ads used to get you to install it. The gameplay in the ads is a minigame. Even the pictures they use are NOT representative of the main gameplay - which is more of an RPG game. Gameplay is very unbalanced, you will face enemy characters that have higher health, attacks, and access to magic & other helpful aids (for them) that you will not have access to for a long time. CPU characters can wipe you out easily. And you'll barely win. Do NOT install or waste your time!
First levels are a good experience. Quickly devolves into PtW, but there are enough normal players that you can still find good matches 1 out of 3. Clan war is poorly setup. Playing my first event, one of the achievements is to purchase chests with rare in-game currency. Did this, claimed it, but when I came back to the game that progress was lost, but the currency was still deducted. Typed in an in-game report, but it wouldn't send, so I'm missing out on the event.
Broken in so many ways. There are literally characters that hit the board and your only choice is to surrender or lose. When you do get that character it does not work the same way it does for others or even the computer. Everything is designed to separate you from your money. Developers have zero interest in balancing game play and matchmaking meaning you will literally spend months stuck in a spot. I would not recommend.
Frustrating game, there is 1-2 pay walls every time you click certain game modes. It's fun most of the time but once I hit about 3200 I'm losing battles that are supposed to be 'easy' and 'very easy'. This game tells me to update which isn't popping up in the Playstore so I uninstall and reinstall the game only for the game to tell me I'm still playing an outdated version. That's probably the end for me, not gonna wait around to play a game I only moderately enjoy.