In depth review

This is my first ever game review. I’ve played GOG for almost 2 years, and yes I am a spender. Common words about GOG “pay to win, no real strategy needed, full of bugs, bad Devs, and terrible support” yes it is pay to win. It takes 10s of thousands to be among the top players in the game, however with enough hard work and time invested you can become a mildly strong player, and have fun. As for the strategy aspect. This game is LOADED with little quirks that exchange the fighting aspect of GOG. Again with enough time... these quirks can be learned and make you a very very skilled player. The bugs are bad. Most major events at the start cause supreme lag and crashing (KVK, UAC) however this lag is often fixed in a few minutes. To me the Developers are among the worst of any app. In just a short time a new kingdom can easily overpower the simple beast in game (Underworld, threats, and red guards.) This needs to be adjusted. Painful underworld was a challenge when retribution gear was the strongest gear. Support, while slow is often helpful. My suggestions for development... merge the 3 kingdoms that are created on the same time schedule, rework or add stronger red guards, and underworld opponents, and have a way to get rid of the more offensive players of a kingdom. I believe if these features are addressed GOG would not only make more money, but also receive more pleasant reviews.

Love this game! BUT…

I absolutely love this game, all the features & fun special events & the community of people! BUT, I genuinely hope they keep things where everyone can play. I used to play Mobile Strike & it was so fun, same game concept, very similar & it was getting big! But then they got greedy, you couldn’t play unless you poured money into the game & as soon as you bought something or reached a certain level BOOM new packs with upgrades would come out making everything you just bought useless. Needless to say, that game is a dead zone now, everyone left & it was so sad saying goodbye to everyone. Im praying this game doesn’t do that. Please please keep up the good work! So creative and actually listen to the players, bugs are fixed impeccably fast AND we get rewarded for the bugs & mistakes. We don’t get much joy in life anymore as everything has gotten so outrageously expensive & unattainable for most of us so thank you again for keeping this game where all of us can play if we just put the time & dedication in even if we can’t spend or can’t spend very often. Giving us all opportunities to earn cool guards, pets & now there is something with mythical creatures through special events is so appreciated. Your creativity & dedication does not go unnoticed I promise. All of you game creators are amazing 🤩

Really fun, really expensive.

At first, as a non-spender, I didn’t really enjoy the game. It was slow pace, most tasks were impractical and it was impossible for me to contribute to the alliance. Somehow, regretfully, I began spending. The game became much, much more fun. It’s extremely competitive when you’re at a higher level of play but most likely because everyone at that level has invested thousands and thousands of dollars. In the last year or so they seemed to have worked on making it more practical and enjoyable to spend a reasonable amount and have an desirable, competitive experience. If you not looking to spend money, or looking for an alternative to a game you’re spending to much money on, for your sake, don’t download. You’ll want to spend to compete and you’ll have to do so in order to compete. This isn’t the type of game you play for a few minutes here and there, you’ll do best with routines and consistency (ie. Everyday at server reset and before work). With that said, as you become more invested the game becomes much, much more fun. Oh, and this game is all about events. Tbh, there’s a good chance you’re kingdom is just chaos for the first year and you can’t pull it together for good events anyway. But hey, there was some fun in the chaos too.

Keeping players engaged

Most of the times people have mentioned pretty much true butAs a five-year player in GOG I would have to say The concept of adding new kingdoms having three days of adding players to that kingdom then creating another one is ridiculous at this point. players added to the game would be much more suited for thriving kingdoms that will taking him in with open arms teach them the game keep him engaged so they can spend,build,compete and I have a few laughs. in the three day time in a new kingdom that you add new castles at least 75% quit for a month just switch it up kingdoms that are competitive regardless of age and new players to them best case scenario you go from 75% quitting down to 50 or better worst case it stays the same and it was also horrible to get rid of the beginners teleport any reason a player would have to continue playing is a good thing don’t close doors if a player wants out. i’ve had many players tell me they’re quitting because they don’t want to go through the trouble of restarting. again my suggestion is add players to established kingdoms they will be taken care of and have a better chance at being a committed player for the long term which will intern make the game more money

Poor customer service re:extortion tactics by bullying players

Extortion is regular part of games like these but they have a poor set up in comparison to other games - like no bracket systems for fair level playing or no prestige tiers when overpowered players attack beginning players - like less rewards or loss of prestige/player power for attacking below you. There really are no protections in place for lower players or beginning players where another OP player can demand weekly amounts of resources and either the lower player gets attacked repeatedly or just complies and the game developers reply that it is the lower players fault (their way of saying - your fault you do not pay to level up). Honestly, the game developers/tech support are straight up rude when replying, aside other occasions they gave false/wrong information regarding trouble-shooting bugs in the game. I don’t mind paying for in-app purchases to support games, but the customer support and game developers response to players is a huge turn off. Agree with other reviewers, don’t spend money on this game, it’s possible to advance without it, but especially because of the poor tech support (wrong information proving costly later) and rude customer support - don’t spend the money when their infrastructure is so uneven/unbalanced/uninformed support compared to other game platforms with better systems like brackets or prestige exchanges and better tech/customer support.

Do not Download

I’ve had this game for a week and it is a huge cash grab that has no love for what it. When I first saw the adds this looked like a great 1st/3rd person game about leveling up to becoming a king, but without looking at the reviews, or pictures which was a huge mistake, I clicked download and when I first got on, it told me to build a couple buildings, invade a small structure and then it left me without any other explanation, I should also mention that the game is a huge money farm for the developers who make you pay just to win the game. Even with the glitches and crashes the game has that no one at GoG takes any notice of when you send them complaints trying to make the game funner and easier for you and other players who were tricked by this sorry excuse for a good strategy game. And looking at the reviews afterward showed that all the employees who read them only write back saying their sorry for the bad experience and try to turn down the claims with no evidence at all and blaming it on an unnamed advertisement company that doesn’t know what your game is about. And if you corporation Jerks respond to this the same way, it proves that you don’t care about this game and would rather live in a mansion bought with money from players who thought that if they gave you an unreasonable payment, they could find some joy out of this awful game.

Downward spiral of money and attitude

I’ve played this game for 3 months and spent about $100 on purchases. First this game is geared toward causing you to necessitate spending loads of money on gear and speed up. For example, I spent a total of $15 on scholar gems and opulence gear because it take weeks and millions of pieces of iron, wood, food and silver to move up from around castle 18. It would take someone constant attention and months to get there otherwise over castle 20. The new Sun King equipment takes 100 fragments and 1800 rare item chests not to mention thousands of other items to create. How does someone go from a castle 22 to 30 in a week? Well they spends hundreds and thousands using real cash while poor folks spend weeks to make one piece of armor. Also what totally cant stand is the attitude, bullying and general nastiness of this game. Moderators are players too and they can just be as bad. If you enjoy drama, staying on a game all day and getting wiped out constantly by folks that are bigger (there are always bigger fish waiting to kill you) and spending loads of REAL money this is the game for you. Good luck if you indulge and say good bye to many other things in your life due to this game taking you away from reality simply because you are trying to heal the 200k troops you lost because your shield went down while you were driving or you slept too long.

Really unfortunate...

This is the first time I’ve decided to review anything in my life. It is unfortunate that it is about a game that I have managed to enjoy for almost 2 years now. The premise is simple. The game has been dumbed down to the simple-stupid, and has taken the aspect of strategy and control away. You could spend your way to a big castle, but it still took intelligence and strategy to maintain and be formidable. Yes, some of us have choosen “pay for play” but it was also part of a strategy. We became the enforcers of or Kingdoms. However, now with the destruction of mixed marches, over powered guard combinations to effect 1 type of troop, and the general lack of explanation as to how the game now operates under its apparent RNG in battle, it has just become another point and click at best. I’ll hang around a little while longer, I am heavily invested, but an investment I will gladly let go if something is not changed. The dumbing down of games is always the destruction of them. Hardcore or truly engaged players will become bored and it becomes mundane, which is really where we are now. Log on here and there, go through the motions, but no point in click and pointing. The social aspect with your alliance is really all that is left of what made this game great prior to the last patch.

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