Potential

Only being honest here ……Ok so Progression is extremely slow. As a free to play player prepare to watch many ads to get gems. I’m here for that aspect of the game although pay to win is not necessarily the goal we know you have to make money so the option is technically there. However the Lab time it takes to upgrade certain aspects of the game take astronomically long periods of time without GEMS which cost money/offerwall/ads/events I just started 2-3 days ago and to upgrade game speed from 3 to 3.5 takes 1 day 10 hours or spend 60 gems. I can wait that long don’t get me wrong but it makes me wonder about game speed 10 and how many diamonds that’ll cost then bc if it says I have to wait 11 days and 500 diamonds I’ll most likely lose interest and drop the game before I watch that many ads. Sure the lab time reduction is an option to upgrade but what a crazy grind with slow reward and im sure it won’t be the only statistic that takes eons to upgrade either. MAJOR COMPLAINT There’s no clan or guilds at all just a tournament every so many days… I’ll mention there’s not even world boss to work towards with dps/wave completion rewards. I can’t even get my group of friends to play this game bc it’s not multiplayer at all. This game has MAD potential but honestly I feel a bit let down compared to what it could be. Hope it gets reworked guys sorry to be so critical for now it’s a 3.5 for me. Will round to 4 bc I have hope gg 👍

Great game, though having a problem…

Games pretty good and straight forword. Lots of ads but honestly, I could tell the game filled my ADD desire of something to do during dead moments in my job. So i paid the measly $10 to support them and bypass that. It is grindy. But thats the point in this game. Its a time killer clicker when you only have 5-10 min. The game saves your run if you exit the app on the last wave of enemies you did. Its constant supply of mechanics keep small things and investments churning with every small amount you gather. The only thing from me that is keeping this 4 stars is i have a bug. If im connected to the internet in wifi, when i load into the game. It only shows a black screen. If i go to my quick iphone tab, disable wifi momentarily on bootup, then turn it back on once i get to the main screen. It reconnects and using wifi and not my data and works properly. Unsure whats causing this. But its not that much of an issue as im still able to get in and play. Just would be nice if this didn’t hapoen. Will change to 5 stars if this small thing is fixed. Never wrote a review. But this game is worth it for fitting my needs in what i was searching for. $10. Worth it for ad removal. Recommend that at least.

Helpful info

I have played this game for over a year now and I have a few pros in the beginning and cons at the end. This game is a really cool strategy games and involves thinking and math. the developers of this Game constantly contribute helpful info and updates and makes the game feel alive and is really cool. A big plus for me is when there is no ads and you have a choice for an add for a reward (I find this one of my favourite things about the tower) There are of course things that I will say that you will have to be ready for though. If you are a busy person this game can in the start be pretty non time consuming, but later along the line you will have games leading up to 12 + hours a round. Now most of the time I split that into a few days. Another thing is that there are a few things that are unfair when it comes to buying in game purchases and when you are a non spender it could feel a little demotivating ( of course that is that cuz how else the game game make money. If you arnt afraid to make purchases this is the game for you. This game has also tested me on my math skills when playing with upgrades and checking out new strategies. And don’t be afraid to ask the community question like on discord cuz they will in no time. Overall this is a great game and I will continue playing it for how knows how long. Enjoy !!

Slow

Played very much for about 7 days. The game is pretty much a tease. Looks aesthetically pleasing, but the entire game is basically spent waiting just so you can start waiting more. You just wait, and wait, and wait, and wait. Then get an “upgrade” that increases the amount of time you have to wait. Then wait longer, longer, and longer. Keep waiting so you can “upgrade” again to a new, longer wait time… The “upgrades” are barely a noticeable affect on gameplay. you wait hours or days for something unnoticeable. The entire gameplay consists of waiting to click a button that will have barely noticeable affect on what is happening. Keep hoping that you will unlock something useful, but never useful enough. There is nothing to win, just keep waiting to unlock something that barely helps you a noticeable amount. Made it to a new round? Your reward is start from the beginning again. Wait. You should just rename the game “Waiting” its a shame because the game has great potential. but the mechanics are painfully slow. Perhaps you could build some type of mode that allows the game to continue playing while the app is closed, allowing you to “farm” resources and then when you come back to play you can collect them and use them to actually experience a meaningful impact on the gameplay, not the same monotonous boring grind and sour un noticeable “upgrade” reward system.

I enjoy it, but I’ve had my run ended twice.

I’ve enjoyed the game a fair bit, got probably close to a couple dozen hours in it. My biggest problem right now are how it’s kicked me twice from two very long runs. The first was understandable, it kicked me because I “played less than ten rounds the last time I was on.” I’m assuming this is to prevent save scumming in order to get better rng, so fair enough. The other reason that just happened was because “I opened that round more than 10 times”. Or in other words, I opened the game, played a bit, and closed it more than 10 times in a round. This one I do not understand at all, as games can go for 1000’s of waves, and take several hours to get there. I’d be able to stomach both of these more if there was any kind of warning before hand, but now I’m really disheartened because what if there is another rule I’m unaware of that’s gonna kick me at wave 2000??? Edit: making an update here. I lowered my review from 4 stars to 2 stars as random resets are still an issue. I started on wave 29 last night, played until wave 41 just because I wanted to play a few minutes before bed, and I wake up this morning to see that not only did it scrap my run, but it also forgot to do my research that I set it to do last night. It’s done this before but I would’ve assumed it would be fine considering I had the game open for more than 5 minutes.

Slow Progress

This game has extremely slow progress compared to most mobile games. I’ve been playing for a few days in my off time and still feel like I’ve barely touched even 1% of the game. In a way it makes it more fun though, you can’t earn everything in the game in a few days or a week like most mobiles games these days and just end up bored. They actually put some thought into the game. Most of the slow progress is because the health and damage of the enemies really takes off and doesn’t stop. So you constantly have to play over and over through however many waves you can get through to earn “C” to have permanent upgrades to your own health and damage from the beginning of each round. You’ll have to play one round to get 2 or maybe 3 permanent upgrades, and there’s 20 different upgrades you can do to your tower and then however many times you can level up each upgrade which also get more expensive. Devs if you see this, a simple solution would be a higher payout of “C” so you can get permanent upgrades faster and make better progression. Even something like watching an ad for 1.5x bonus, make it 2x.

great game, but progress slows

I have maxed most of my stats in the game and even still there is a point where the enemies difficulty scales too fast to keep up. The lab research is a great way to incrementally improve your stats but is also ineffective after a couple researches into a stat. For the coin multipliers for the different tiers, the difficulty feels much harder than the return you get. So there is less incentive to go to higher tiers. Thorns is amazing late game, but it seems like sometimes enemies hit you twice before thorns activates when they should take damage simultaneously as they damage you. The ultímate weapons are visually good but don’t scale very well, marking them next to useless. The card abilities are much more powerful than the ultimate weapons as they do absolute damage. It seems as though the interest we get each round isn’t affected by the cash multiplier even though the cash multiplier is supposed to multiply income from all sources. The amount of stones you get from tournaments are ridiculously low, even if you get first you can’t get a reasonable amount of stones for your effort. I’m a big fan of the game but i think there could be some improvements still

This game NEEDS to be changed dramatically!!!!!

Super slow pacing you’re gonna have to spend months playing to get anywhere good, on top of that the only way to go even slightly faster is to pay but you still hit a wall really quick! There’s no time to idle idk why it’s called an idle game you have to be paying attention 24/7 and there’s button that idles for you and you aren’t constantly earning coins and you aren’t even getting any offline rewards so definitely not an idle game in the slightest and the worst part about it is the upgrades that was the whole point of the game right to “endless upgrades and all kinds of possibilities” WRONG everything costs so dang much that you have to spend your coins on things you may or may not want just to progress in the game because every upgrade costs an insane amount of coins to the point where you could be playing for an hour just to upgrade something ONCE!!! Way too slow paced of a game and it doesn’t even take advantage of good slow pacing like other games this game better have a lot of changes otherwise it’s gonna be garbage that people will forget about REALLY QUICK!

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