Castles

This game is fantastic in many ways. The graphics are superb. However, once you begin to play there are necessary resources that you must have, to advance. You can purchase them, just attach a credit card. Then, it takes thousands to play. In two years I have racked up over four thousand dollars (USD)! It becomes a freakish desire to better your castle. Then, it was suggested to have a farm castle you can harvest for more resources. Then it requires dollars to advance to have sufficient resources to harvest. More castles, more money! Then, you are a level 13 castle and somebody comes along with a level 29 castle, obviously no contest, and they burn you down when you are not online to defend yourself. Start rebuilding and do you have more money on that credit card? Again, great graphics, the heroes you recruit are phenomenal, the dragon incorporates some great graphics. Overall I like it but have decided no more purchases, and the game now has slowed to a crawl, and when your castle is destroyed while you are not online, well, struggle as best you can and soldier on. If it weren’t for the low life’s burning down all your stuff while you are not online, I would give this game 5 stars.

Money Pit

You do not want to download this game. Sure it’s a lot like the old 90’s computer game which is the reason I got it. But it’s nothing but a money pit. At first I made the mistake of paying for things and I regret it now. Unless you have $100’s and I mean $100’s you will be nothing but a castle that gets destroyed by players that have the money to invest. Which that’s all this game is about fighting castles. I’m not joking unless you have the money to invest you can’t make your castle powerful enough to compete with the ones that do. Don’t listen to the developers they say you have chances at no cost. Yes you have a .01% chance of obtaining heroes that will make you more powerful. Lol. Listen I don’t usually bash games I fall victim to playing phone games like everyone else and will spend some money too. But this is ridiculous. $100’s I mean it too $100’s if you don’t have the cash flow I would stop now. Or you will just be castle bait for the castles that do spend the money and that’s what the developers want. They update things In the game all the time that make you want ti spend money so you can be the most powerful castle. You could download this game drop a $1,000 and be more powerful than castles that have been playing it for years. Well that’s my spill I’ve invested enough that I can’t walk away just yet but regret it every second. Good luck ha now it won’t let me post this review of course

No regulation

The game in general is good however, there is no restriction on how players act towards others. It feels as though the developers only care about the money coming in instead of the racist derogatory comments that are made by players. We have players making threats to families, racist remarks etc yet their accounts are still active. I would post pictures if if could but can’t in this review. Those accounts need to be banned permanently but because they spend money it’s “ok”. Once the developers get a grip on that it would be a much better experience Response from developer “ "Dear players: I'm very sorry to give you a bad experience. If you find any illegal remarks in the game, you can click the dialogue to report it, or contact us directly in the game (click the billboard next to the base, click customer service help), provide a detailed description of the problem, and related screenshots. We will verify the reported person, and once found to have violated the rules, we will impose penalties. Of course, our game rules are fair to every player. Thank you for your comment and have a nice game." The issue is that we (meaning numerous players) have reported such behavior yet it still goes without consequences. If I could post images of the hate and disgraceful messages we receive i would. If you do not address this then maybe we should goto Apple directly to remove the app all together

Scam Magnet Update

Updating my initial review and giving it 4 stars. I was able to find a decent alliance that is not run by scammers and so far the game is fun. I’m not paying a dime for it and have leveled my Castle to 16, which isn’t bad for the time I’ve been here. The terminology and event play is still confusing since I’m new, but there are YouTubers out there that have instructional videos. WATCH out for the scams, find an alliance run by average gamers, and you will do fine. Original Review: 2/5 stars. This game looks fun at first, but it’s really just a money grab and rife with scammers. You get rushed into joining an alliance because you can’t survive solo, and then the “alliance leaders” all follow the same script: “Are you a bot? Where are you from? Do you have Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord?” They try to push you off the game into outside chats, where the pressure starts to download other apps or spend money. Some try crypto scamming. They tried it with me. If you don’t play along, you’ll get kicked and raided. Bottom line: the game is designed to make you spend and funnels you toward scammy groups. Not worth the time unless you like being pressured to pay or join shady side apps.

Sad to say

This game is addicting 😝 but a strong but! You cannot do anything against the big time spenders😭 I’ve been playing for 11 months now. I use to be a very big spender but no more. I’m done with this game for now. Yes you make great friendship along the way from all over the world but… at what cost? Thousands of money just to be caught up? When I die they won’t be at my funeral because they won’t know who I am…this internet/international “friend” … will not attend your funeral, months unless you met them in person. Yes I’ve talked personally with couple friends within this game but mainly to only talk about the game. You can make friendship here for real… but at what costs? Developer costs? As long as you keep spending? I lost hope in this game for real. As previous reviewers said, you need money to play. Devs do NOT CARE as long as you keep paying… calculating what I spent to get to my castle and hero strength… spent over 5k USA money… ridiculous to compare what Asia spent. There is a money gap between china and USA…. If you’re from USA or equivalent of spending as us, I advise you to stop. Just wasting money

Was fun but developers destroy what you work for

The game was extremely enjoyable and fun until this weekend. You’ll put in hours and hours of time building your castle and characters. You’ll even spend money in game. Then this weekend the developers decided it would be a good idea to put a “State Vs. State” game play which I was excited for. I spent a month building up my castle with what I thought was a strong alliance. The other state invaded and destroyed the state I was in in about 1 hour. No chance. Days of resources lost and 30 days of building solders gone. Here’s how. Apprantly, some people spend thousands of dollars on this game. I had a pretty powerful castle and power rank of nearly 2 million. Out of hundreds of players in my state, the top player had 15 million power. The the developers matched us with a state that had a dozen players with 32 million power. There is no chance to survive. They have dragons that knock down your shields and then they rob you of dozens of hours of work in resources and wipe out a month of armed forces that you built up. Clearly the developers threw us to the wolves and erased dozens of hours of hard work for 100s of players. After a month of fun and some money spent I’ll be uninstalling the game I came to enjoy. If you are a new player, avoid the game - you’ll just be disappointed in the end.

Pay to win much?

I understand a free game having some micro transactions... but this game goes well and beyond. You need heroes? Buy them, you need resources, buy them, you need speed ups, buy them, you need crafting equipment that takes months and months to acquire? Buy them, your stamina is gone on your troops? Buy some more. Your troops died? Buy a money only item that increases your weekly revive from 30% to 100%. You need courage medals for research? Buy them. Oh here is an event for rewards for how more money you spend. Did I mention you get gems with all purchases? Oh here’s more speed ups and resources. Oh base rewards? Well don’t plan on getting those because the people who are spending money will completely make you useless. What’s that you want a 50% building time buff.... buy that. Oh vip shop unlocks at castle 20.... but you need to have spend 100 just to unlock it, and 25 monthly to keep using it..... but you can build it though. Not only is this a copy of lss which is entirely just different names and pictures. But some countries have a different money currency. So what will cost you 1000s to do, will cost them hundreds instead. Don’t even bother. You want to be a boss and spend $10,000 on this game it’s for you. You want to spend $100 don’t even bother. You and all the free to play people will just be fed on and used to increase the money spenders.

Horrible help support

Any game is supposed to bring pleasure, but not this one. It's made only to take money from you, and even if you pay, you won't enjoy the game anyway. Developers don't care about players at all, although they bring them a lot of money. The development in the game depends on the money invested in it, but in different regions prices vary significantly, this is normal, so it should be, but the problem is that the game is not divided regionally. There were about 300 people from different countries in our state, all of them played at the same level and everyone had fun. But three players came and just in a month destroyed what 300 people were building for 8 months, spending a lot of money and time. These players came from the Asian region, where prices differ significantly, respectively, and the level of their strength differs significantly and nothing can be opposed to them. Game restrictions allow them to do it, and nobody care that’s totally not fair. Players with different prices can’t mix in the same game zone. 100 people from the state have already abandoned the game, thereby losing all the money that was invested. And the rest will quit the game in the near future. A lot of requests were sent to developers, help zero. They just don't care about 300 of their customers who brought them a constant income.

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