Good tower games rely on what you do in the map to determine whether you win or lose. In this game, you'll do fine for the first little while, until they decide they want you to start paying them, and then you'll find that unless you either shell out money or grind by playing the game hours a day for the next year, you're not going to be able to upgrade your units enough to advance. The interface is clumsy and restricting, and maps restrict you from upgrading where you want to.
Yeah I tried this game a lot. It really seems pay to win a lot more. I like the unit idea but it's really unbalanced the higher you go up. If all were as easy to get it be easier but just seems like you have to pay to get these gold units that are very powerful. Was up to rank 3200 and it's just fustrating not being able to do anything because of there build and it's not like you can change your build during a battle.

Alexis “Anjaliya” Radford
TL;DR: give it a pass As soon as you get the hang of the game, you are thrown against opponents with units you won't see for hours of playtime, unless... Everywhere you look, ways to pay money for a chance at those units. Then they start changing the rules on you mid-match. You take their tower? It's set to level 1. They take your tower? It's set to max. Maybe an actual tutorial on how matches work, and not vague hints on loading screens telling you to go look at the units... You have to buy.
Seemingly ENDLESS troops on opponents side. You can get them too if you buy into the in-game purchases, which seem endless too. If you just want people to pump your account full of money, just be honest about it from the start. SADLY, too many games are like this now. Oh, and the advertisements are repetitive, for other games in their "offerings"
Fun game at the start, but the matching isn't fair a lot of the time. Have to work extremely hard/wait for ages before you get decents troops. Have no idea why they only allow you to play the daily challenge 3 times per day. If they had any commercial sense they would allow you to play it as many times as you wanted and just increase the amount of gems required. Its the best bit of this game and you're opening yourself up for a stronger alternative.
You took the best part of Art of War(expedition) and made a new game around the idea and its an Epic fail! I love the expedition mode but you had to add the garbage parts of AOW(troops and levels). Why do I have to unlock campaign mode? After playing 5 levels I still haven't figured out how to unlock it? No more money or ad revenue from me. You stole $5 from me in AOW and I'm not giving you another chance. Fool me once. I'm out.
I like the game a lot! However, there is a fatal issue: the battle does not start at exactly the same time for both players - probably due to difference in network latency. Even though it is just a few seconds, it is key to victory. I got this conclusion by reviewing quite of my past battles - in most losses, I only start at 5:50-5:52, way after my opponent; no wonder I lost. Then I turned on VPN, and found I normally start at 5:57 - 5:58, and my winning rate is highly improved. I think you should develop a hand-shake protocol - when batten is about to begin, both players have to click "start". When both sides do so, battle starts. If one side fail to click "start" for a few seconds, then an automatic loss.
Used to be fun now it's a left over cash grab. Updates still happen over an increasing gap of players (terrible balance, read other reviews). The idle game needs your pity since leveling up is tedious. Go play a Nintendo Switch or something, don't waste time here since they give canned responses that don't work! They recommended the summit dual to someone who isn't high enough level. Edit: I'm not going to waste my time sending an email when they WON'T LISTEN to the reviews.
The game play is ridiculous. I will have 2-4 more towers than the opponent and have twice the amount of men. And yet I'll still end up losing, even when our unit levels are the same. I'll even be using better units than them and lose. They say they match you based on trophies, yet I'll continually be matched with someone who has 400+ more trophies than myself. I want to like this game, but as it stands, this game is more frustrating than fun now.
This game started off great, but now I have constant problems. The game keeps loosing connection and battles are lost without starting. I've lost 1000+ gems in daily challenges and have emailed them about problems at least 20+ times. They keep saying it's fixed, but never is. I've asked for compensation for all my lost gems due to the in game error and all they sat back is "try to download the new version, cheers" I responded with "I already have the new version", then they do nothing. Terrible
This was part of Art of War's Expedition Mode (and the only reason I still had that game). I see to replay those levels constantly. Still learning the different characters and what not, but this game is super addicting. Update: 5/21/2021. Only issue I have is with matching. I'm always drawing opponents with toys 2 levels higher than me. Kinda sucks the fun out. Update: Why add wooden chests with worse supplies and take away the ability to queue opening them?
I downloaded because I thought it was more of the expedition type levels from art of war. Turns out its just capture the flag. Super boring after a while. Also very little to it. Why didn't they just add the expedition levels but in a way that you can keep playing them, like maybe all the other super successful casual game models work. It's not like they have reinvent just add it in for more options of game play.
Tried leveling up but get stuck on a level. Even if you get close you get knocked back down by someone with higher leveled characters. The losing penalty is high. I've spent money, it's not worth it, because your assigned to a higher player, and the points you've earned goes away with the high penalty. I have returned to this game a few times, nothing has changed. Even asked for my money back, but support eats around the bush. I regret playing this game unless the developers can make it right.
Liked this game until it gave me a connection error trying to enter a battle. Nothing I did fixed this issue...in turn, I lost 2 battles worth of stars. Seems like you're always matched with opponents at an extremely higher level than you. Daily challenges aren't worth it because it's so mismatched. Single player mode is limited. Can't open up new levels until you have enough stars which makes it almost impossible because of mismatched battles. Uninstalled.
Fun, addicting game. 3 issues; the ridiculous game mechanic where players run back and forth between towers to increase troop population, and then win by overwhelming numerical superiority. It's incredibly boring to play that way, but you have to if you want to compete. Pay to win. Yep, it's necessary to enjoy the game past intermediate levels. There is just no way to get the best cards without it. The zerg. It would be nice to encourage other tactics. Most battles are now just a race.
Great idea and concept, a lot of fun as well and enjoyed playing it for months, I deleted it and will never play again after the one main problem with the game. Their is no ranking or order in the battles, they just match you with people that have been playing way longer than you, who have and are themselves high levels. Meaning that when ever you get close to a trophy goal, you'll get ranked with people who will just destroy you and prevent you from leveling up. Even with smart matching the gam
This game can be a lot of fun. However it becomes clear early on, the outcome of the matches are predetermined. Half of them you have no chance. Don't even start playing this After that comment I've tried again. Now the winner is predetermined most times. I've had the same "strategy" win or lose badly. It is all the algorithm. Don't get sucked into this game. Lots of better ones
Pay To Play. Read all the other reviews on the details... but it's pay for play... impossible to win. Your opponent... regardless of troop type will always regenerate twice as many troops as you do... if you spend no money on the game. I used a friend's account who does pay.... not the same phenomenon. There's a 1000 reviews saying the same.
Total pay to win game. Definitely the worst game I have ever played in this tespect. In the beginning all is good but as you go farther you will constantly play others that have better troops and buffs than you. It is obvious from those troops and buffs they spent a great deal of money, so either you spend, or lose. Then if you mention it you get an auto response that there is strategy. I agree there is, but not enough overcome the advantages gained by those who pay.
Game play is decent. Their matching system needs some rework for play. After you get a certain level, you might as we quit playing or get ready to pay for upgrades. Out of 100 matches, I was matched with higher level 85 times. Just started to quit each level instead of trying..you can win but it gets too difficult to enjoy. Be better, if you quit within few secs, to not punish as much especially when you are at 7s going against 10s. They need more campaigns..art of war has just as many.