Hustle Castle: Kingdom Defense Negative Reviews

Hustle Castle: Kingdom defense App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Hustle Castle: Kingdom defense app received 171 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Hustle Castle: Kingdom defense? Can you share your negative thoughts about hustle castle: kingdom defense?

Hustle Castle: Kingdom defense for Negative User Reviews

✓ Great to beginSo this game has many different things to make it great. Mirrors one of my favourite phone games fallout shelter. However what this game does and is the reason I do not play anymore is due to the slow slog of progression. The game starts by spoon feeding you upgrades and gems etc... I rushed my fighter room and throne room thinking great ok I’ll have powerful guys. But now I’ve hit a cap where all the gear I get is levels above my skills of my castle e.g cooking skill level 15 and my guys are level 8 max. This takes an upgrade of 1m coins and without buying them it takes forever. Litt been logging into the game everyday for a week and I’ve got 600k coins. I understand you need to make money but at the expense of your game I think was a bad move..Bigb4lllsVersion: 1.11.1

✓ Ads have to goI have been playing this game for 2 years now and when the game first came out I handle all the money grabbing and the adds but now it’s gotten out of control this new company has taken all the fun out of the game I would highly recommend not playing this game.And another thing is the ads that we have to watch and then they won’t close easily take a goo look at this game before choosing very expensive and time consuming and this company don’t care about its customers.BuckeyemcgeeVersion: 1.73.0

✓ Has lots of potential, but...When I first started playing this game I would give it 5 stars. Which by the way is when they ask you to rate the game. Which is probably why this has so many good reviews. As I played more, my rating slowing dwindled because I realized how much time and money and I’m talking hundreds upon hundreds of dollars, it takes to get anywhere in this game. When gearing your warriors, the game is broken when trying to get legendary items. The only efficient way of getting them is by participating in this broken system they have called Arena. For everything other than than arena. This game utilizes a “squad” power which basically tells you how strong your team is. Everything from what I can see is based around it EXCEPT for the arena. its based on the average level of of your squad 0-100. So what happens is I get paired with teams who have 3 to 4 times my squad power who are the same lvl as I am, they hit me three times and I’m dead. Not fun at all and it’s a complete waste of time. If they based it around squad power instead, I would at least have a chance. The devs know this has been an issue since the inception of it but they refuse to do anything about it. They say they are working ok fixing it but don’t. If that’s the case give us alternative methods of obtaining legendary items efficiently and not force me to spend ridiculous amounts of money to obtain them. 2 stars for this game..ManchebeechVersion: 1.16.1

✓ Great game but ...This game is great and has a good social backing with clan aspects (real people interaction) ... that is really why I have played the game for over 2 years .. if it wasn’t for the real people interaction then I would shave stopped playing 3months in ... The pay to win players will always win as the standard weapons/armour/rings and amulets you can make and get for free are rubbish in compared to the event items .... Although most of the events are free, if you DONT buy a event ticket your left only getting a few items out of it and some of the OP items you will have to pay real money real money to get (but still have to grind to get it ... I don’t mind paying some to a game but in 2 years of playing I’m not that keen to go higher that throneroom 8 as beyond that the game gets really expensive and events even if you do pay for a event ticket you have to play near non stop to get any of the items as you get less and less event currency and less and less resources to play ... The events are too close together leaving you grinding like crazy to get anywhere... This game also forces noobie people to advance through the game super fast and leaves them overwhelmed by people that have payed their way through the game .. making them feel like they are unfairly matched in things like arena .. and for war they get totally smashed by tr11 OP sets... They should spread the events further apart and have events (past events) for people that are only new to the game (events spaced on the time you have played ) that way that can catch up with other players that already have that gear ... At the moment the Dino wand and the rapid fire gun is so OP that if you don’t have these items you don’t stand a chance ... About clan territory part of the game is a bit of a flop the only good thing is that you can get more resources for gem stone upgrades when you get out into a raider room ... the rest is just a waste of time and resources for no gain .. The game is still ok for me after 2 years so I will keep playing but the developers need to start to listen to the players as a lot are unhappy and leaving the game because of it ... Lack of apples to play is a big thing tr9 and higher... So to recap it’s a great game at the beginning but as you get through more to the end you’ll be grinding like crazy just to keep up .. and things start being more of a chore than a fun game... Hope this helps people understand the game more :-) Sorry I didn’t get your developers response please send it again ?.Rayzor111Version: 1.41.2

✓ Really good but..The game itself and the set up are really good, but it’s 100% a pay to win game. If you’re happy to just cruise along, log in and update stuff here and there it’s ok but if you actually want to play the game at any kind of pace, you have to pay. It’s starts off really quick and really easy and crazy addictive but that quickly slows down a few levels in and the need for diamonds is an ever present burden. Would rate 5/5 if not for the diamond dependency..The_Chapman91Version: 1.5.9

✓ False advertisingThe ads that kept showing up made this look like a battle royale style game but it’s just another waste of time builder app.TweakstterVersion: 1.8.4

✓ CautionJust a word of warning for this game. This game really does let you play however you want and upgrade in whatever order you can afford, but that should come with a caution; it won’t stop you from excluding yourself from whole areas of the game. I’ll give you an example; you can upgrade your barracks to give you extra troops, but that may mean you unbalance yourself and the arena tournaments will no longer find opponents for you, until you spend a long time upgrading other areas to bring yourself back into the game. Abs excluding yourself from the arena may mean you cannot complete daily challenges and therefore earn diamonds - the game’s premium currency. Of course you can pay real money to advance so it may not bother you, but it’s better you’re warned. I did bring this up with their support people but as you can imagine it didn’t get me anywhere which I’m sad about, but at the same time it’s a wake up call and I can move on and not put money into the game. I had some good times playing, and if you’re a real casual player and not intending to put money into it, you should be fine..Shader4862Version: 1.31.1

✓ 100% Pay to winBeen playing for well over a year now and just getting worse and worse. 100% designed for pay to win. Completely pointless fighting in the arena and now after the latest update, Gem bay is also now impossible. Unless you are prepared to spend up big time (and everything is so expensive) you have no chance in the arena. Every time I am matched against players hundreds if not millions of points higher than me. Impossible to win and utterly pointless to take part. Artefacts are a joke again unless you are prepared to pay for them as the artefacts I do buy with arena points are too high a level for my fighters to equip. This means you have to upgrade your throne room to allow you to upgrade your fighters to allow equipping them. But then as soon as you have done that, all the artefacts jump up again in required level meaning you can’t equip them either and everyone you fight in the arena has also jumped up even higher than what you faced before. Completely pointless and frustrating. Game is just a pointless waste of time and have deleted it. Don’t waste your time..Watchdog70Version: 1.26.0

✓ Fun… for a while.Been playing for over two years now. The game is fun when you first start, but you will quickly get to the point where you have to spend money in order to be competitive. Even if you do spend money on diamonds or special offers, the arena matches will almost never be fair. Most of the time I am matched with one or two people below my rank, maybe one at the same rank as me and the rest of the players will have squad points well over a million higher than my own. This seems to be the case no matter how high my own squad points get. Most of the time the special offers and diamonds you can spend money on are no where near worth the price. They are asking $30, $50… sometimes even close to $100 for in game gear or diamonds. It’s ridiculous. If they made it so you could get a competitive boost here and there for under $5 I would actually probably pay the money from time to time to make the game fun again. As it is, I will maybe log in, poke around for a few minutes and see if the portal is open (that’s really the only fun part at this point) and then log off for a few weeks..Daniel.P.HVersion: 1.57.0

✓ False advertising for this gameThis game is being advertised over social media everywhere as a puzzle game but when you play it it’s a build your army and attack style game? What a joke, if that’s how you get people to download your app, I don’t care to play garbage..CarolannnnnVersion: 1.18.2

✓ Pay to playIt’s fun when you start but as you progress you’ll need to spend money to advance enough to complete. It’s definitely a pay to play scam game. They promise big prizes in their special events they require money buy-in’s to win anything decent but use terms like “you might get” to justify why you paid into an event but didn’t get the prizes they offered unless you spend more money to buy extra chest well beyond the quests they give you. When you ask questions to customer support they send you vague generic answers that don’t help at all. Their battle matching is terrible and you’ll end up in battles with teams 10x your strength in arena battles which slows progress down. The game is designed to excite you at the beginning but as you start to get further along it will just push you into needing to add more money to get you a little further. As you progress the game will take longer to get anywhere and will become frustrating. If you’re not ready to waste money on a game I recommend searching for a different game to play. This ones a money pit scam.Avid WarriorVersion: 1.28.0

✓ Game BrokenGame does not work, unable to enter Arena for 3 days and no help from ‘support’ :).No-to-adsVersion: 1.75.1

✓ Such a well made game, but...The Devs have done such a good job on this game. The artwork is fantastic, uses heaps of native functionality; haptic feedback, accelerometer etc. A very high level of polish sadly overshadowed by an awful monetisation system. I’d much rather pay a one off fee for premium, not MMO level monthly subscriptions. So much is gated behind these micro transactions it makes the game depressing to play. At least give me the option to pay for a year up front..Sebastian J RobertsVersion: 1.1.1

✓ It’s good but....The game is a mixture of many game types, fallout shelter for one is the main base element just set it olden times. The art style is very family guy. The dialog is ok, be better if it was all spoken. Gameplay consists of micro managing your minions and finding gear in chests and doing missions just like fallout shelter. It is fun to play, but the time it takes to upgrade things is a bit too long. Earning food and gold is slow, gently nudging you to the transactions. The market is overpriced. There is also a subscription option that gives you tons of benefits. If you do that you have a distinct advantage over F2P players particularly in raiding each other’s castle. There needs to be a way to earn gems or convert unneeded gold into gems even if it is a grind. Or make gems cheaper like 250 for 99p or something. 5 pound for 500 gems is a bit steep. Also the helpers are timed, they should be permanent for the cost. It’s early days yet but the game is a good time killer but the market needs to be cheaper or a one of cost to unlock everything. Hope this helps!.FrgamingukVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Needs to be fixedThe game is fun at the start but as soon as you hit around level 20ish the people you go to play against are ridiculously higher then you and it makes it very unenjoyable to play as the tournaments that enter you’ll never win unless you pay money to get the better gear. Tournaments need to be fixed and have a good system where the people you play against are the same level so everyone has a chance of winning..YeeteryeeVersion: 1.8.3

✓ Tournaments are riggedThe game can be addictive and is enjoyable for a while, but like everyone else has mentioned, you eventually reach a wall where you absolutely have to spend money to compete or progress in the story. Arena tournaments are the most notorious for this. I’m almost always the weakest army in the tournament, sometimes getting matched up with other players who are three or four times my strength. Usually I have no chance which is no fun, and fun is the point of playing. I grind on this game so much. Been playing daily for over a year now and haven’t won a tournament or came even close to it after maybe the first week or so of playing. You need five star players to compete, and you can watch ads to get diamonds to upgrade your characters but the ads only give you 5 diamonds per ad with a limit of how many you can watch at a time. You can get more in the portal when it’s open but it’s unlikely you’ll get more than 100 before the portal shuts. You need 2,000 diamonds to get your character to 5 stars. That’s on top of the diamonds you’ve likely spent to get them from three stars to a four. Please update to where the tournaments are more even. Matching me with several players in a tournament that are over A MILLION squad points higher than my own is dumb and unfair. If as many people play this game as you all claim, the grouping certainly can’t come from a lack of online players. I know this company wants to make money, but gee-wiz. Cut us some slack..HairinyosoupVersion: 1.25.1

✓ ScamIt was nothing like the ad u saw. Waste of time..IahdnfkskbVersion: 1.23.0

✓ Pay to play or find your fun elsewhereAs other reviewers have said, this is a pretty solid game to begin with... but as it progresses, you NEED to shell out money in order to stay competitive with online features (other players). The game consistently pits you against other players with similar levels, not similar power levels, which means you’ll soon find that tournaments, raiding other castles clan battles & additional features/levels are next to impossible to even attempt to be mediocre at, b/c you’ll be way outmatched by those who don’t mind the extra hit to their wallet (lucky them). So you’ll have to grind a lot, and I mean A LOT, to get the resources and rewards necessary to power up your team b/c your rewards are based off your performance. Low performance (i.e. low power score) = low rewards (i.e. staying with a low power score) Wish this game focused more on micro transactions being a way to enhance the game for those willing to pay more, rather than micro transactions as a prerequisite to enjoy the whole game..AlligatorThreeVersion: 1.9.1

✓ Pay2winThe game as become really hard on wallet of those who want to keep up with the strongest!! I’ve been playing this game for 5 years and i (and a lot of people i play the game with) really start to thing of just quitting the game. Thats to bad, it use to be fun and playable without spending 50$ a month. Now, with 50$ a month, you dont even have the half of the stuff they are offering (reffering to the well challenge) anyway, this is what the game as became!!.RemisssssssssssssVersion: 1.83.0

✓ Pure pay to winLove the concept of this game. However as others have said, the only way to advance is to pay increasingly large amounts of money and the problem is that you can’t actually advance beyond a certain point unless you just keep on paying. Even that might be ok, but the entire game devolves into a boring AF grind... games are supposed to be entertaining and not a chore. I now work in the games industry and this is a great example of a nice concept that ultimately fails because everything about it is is a money grab. At no point does it reward loyal players. Do yourself a favour and buy a AAA game with hundreds of hours of unique environments, characters and game play. It will ultimately be cheaper than this game..RuffredVersion: 1.5.3

✓ Good gameGood concept of game but get your bank account ready to be emptied , with the amount of events , cost of diamonds ,cost of clan wars , cost of PVP battles , it’s more of a pay to win game , but you can grind it out which will take forever , weeks unless you upgrade, and customer service is the worst I have ever come across ,any queries you get an answer from ( The book of stupid answers ) eg , learn by your mistakes and play more , and the amount of battle draws is terrible so the only winners are hustle castle ,as no draw results get nothing at all, and best of all are the Special Offers Cocteau can range from a few £ to £ 50 or £60 it’s a fantasy game with fantasy prices .once again customer support never fails to amaze me with their answers ,I asked where I could see the famous game mechanics for answers However I was told to talk to other players on Discord, I think they use this as a pathetic excuse to put people complaining , any queries with support make sure to take a foto or you won’t get spoken to , i mean any queries at all..Kojak2009Version: 1.55.1

✓ Too much paid contentThis is a great game, but far too many components of this game are pay-to-play. Please fix this. Its so hard to go into an arena and have a bunch of dwellars with all event gear and legendary talents. Please make it easier to play the game whithout having to spend too much money. Perhaps increase the amount of rewards one can obtain without money. And please for the love of god cut the prices on the red dragon and travelling merchant. This games' management have the wrong priorities. Please heed what i have said..HellRider ;DVersion: 1.56.0

✓ My stuff is goneMy stuff is gone after I deleted the game. So could you add something to fix that, cause i had so much good items please..Afakasis690Version: 1.22.1

✓ OK I guessWow, awesome update. Ads no longer crash the app. But you never get any credits for watching them either! Well, maybe 1 in 6, you do. Prizes in events aren’t awarded anymore either. Original review: One of those games where you play a couple of rounds then can’t play for a few days until your updates finish. Full of illegal ads that can’t be stopped because they’re from abroad, and no way to report them or turn them off [update: seems for now they’ve stoped them]. Battles have absolutely no skill component. Match making is totally messed up. Battles are against such awesome things like walking broccoli monsters and fat ladies with mouths in their stomach (!?!?). Wars where you lose even when noone has competed against you. Bizarre interface like you normally see in cheap Chinese knock offs. Half the time the ads crash the app. What more can I say except I’m still strangely playing it. Haha..ZurbitVersion: 1.21.0

✓ Too Many Sales AddsThere are too many sales adds at the beginning each time you go to play it gets annoying and I gave up in the end..UnubisVersion: 1.46.0

✓ Fake AddsDon’t download this game based off the adds. They are all fake because the developer thinks users are stupid and won’t notice the game they downloaded is completely different. Should be banned from the App Store..ThemaskedcowVersion: 1.23.0

✓ Pay to play all the wayGood game at first, then you find yourself stuck big time unless you pay a lot. At first your against other new players and you can actually compete in the arena which is critical for rewards. But eventually you hit a massive roadblock where all the players have all legendary gear and you just get slaughtered over and over unless you spend big and I mean big on getting legendary gear. Also as you level up your throne room and castle level they keep raising the bar ie raid costs, event costs, upgrade times, and other aspects become unobtainable. I’ll be deleting the game after this as my entire clan is stuck loosing arena battles to people with all legendary gear and unable to improve due to horrific time and resource requirements. It really is not worth playing unless your ready to drop an easy hundred bucks maybe more. They bait you initially with special offers, but the gear you may buy becomes obsolete quickly along with other upgrades. You actually have to throw matches just to stay at a manageable level it’s pathetic. I give two stars for good initial gameplay but after a month or so it’s hands down the most money grubbing game I’ve played. I hope people read this and don’t play because I think they feed off new players enjoying the game until the end date where you realize you been ripped off hard. Boooooo..Cart man1313Version: 1.7.1

✓ Devolved into a kind of clickbait game.This game used to be really good in my opinion, I started in 2020 or 2019, and my playtime peaked in 2021. It all went downhill from there. I took a break, realized it got deleted, didn't bother to re download it in late 2021 - early 2022. I can confirm that in my 2+ year playtime, I have only seen the content on the ads in the game ONCE. I remembered the memories I made with this game a few years ago, and instantly got excited to download it again. When it finally downloaded, I got into the game. I was shocked to see that all of my data was WIPED. (And yes, I did sign in.) This game was already very pay to win then with enough problems, but I realized it turned into a clickbait game? This game got way worse than it needed to be. Back then, I got to a pretty respectable point in the game, especially with the fact that I was completely free to play with not a single penny spent on this game. I'm surprised I even progressed back then, because the odds were stacked against me in every way. I had barely a few gems when you could buy a bunch for like a dollar. I even remember writing a review in early 2021 to make it less pay to win. I used to really like this game, I really did. I always came back to it. But when I take a break for only a few weeks, my data gets wiped? Disappointing for a game that I gave tens of hours, maybe even a hundred..Darron1Version: 1.73.0

✓ P2WI’d been playing for a week or so before deciding to nix this game from my library. Achievements, quests, and story line aside, this game has an awful amount of pay to win, arena is a most notable example considering its one of the few you’re able to experience early on, and probably for the reason of getting you to pay for those glamorous items these other players have, the devs have the hots for showing off what you can get for a quick buck in their pocket. For example, I began and ended during the Phoenix event, and finding that people who had a lower combat level than I have a seamless trait to destroy my entire team. It may have been poor strategizing but I couldn’t find but one instance of my having a lower power level being advantageous, or at least better suited to beat my opponent, and of course I’d outfit myself with items that had the best stats I could RNG from these loot crates/chests. Now for the advertisement, it’s poor and most of the time irrelevant. What inspired me to play this game was this bridge building game mode that I could find no resemblance of in the game, I found it intriguing yet unfounded and no trace of that game mode being present in the app itself. My advice, don’t invest in this game, there’ll always be someone whose spent more than you; don’t put time into this that could have been spent elsewhere, and elsewhere would be much more beneficial if not profitable than this..OkoleenVersion: 1.22.2

✓ Hustle is rightThey will attempt to hustle you out of your money quick smart. Pay to win ruins what could be a long term game. But this pales into insignificance compared to the broken ad system - you can watch ads for chests, resources etc, but the ads load inconsistently, poorly, or not at all and leave you with a black screen and a force quit. Even when ads load, they take forever to register with the server and give you your rewards. Completely frustrating. Fallout Shelter is much better in every level - in fact, this game annoyed me so much it made me go back and play Fallout Shelter from scratch just to experience a good version of this sort of game. Additionally, the latest update won’t load past the splash screen... good times..Jamesy McFamesyVersion: 1.11.2

✓ Good in the beginning...When starting the game it’s fun.. and it’s equal.. then as you get higher up it becomes almost distorted in the way that you can seemingly attack players that are equal or lower skill level and always seem to lose... its almost as if they want you to spend money so you can buy more or better equipment so you can beat the players you are already significantly ahead of skill level wise... and then still lose to the people who are higher then you.. been playing for about 3 months and loved it until I have gotten to this point.. when complaining about how it doesn’t seem right... they respond with.. we can’t give strategic information out.. so I decided to change all strategies and equipment and what do you know.. same outcome. Really enjoyed the game but obviously at this point it’s quite frustrating since I can’t beat the people above me who are most likely bots and also can’t beat the people who are below me unless I pay to get better equipment. Anyways anyone who plays this game I wish you luck! Try not to get to irritated with it! -Derek.Drock001Version: 1.10.0

✓ Greedy DevelopersI have been playing for 10 months. It’s another pay per win game. The game keeps putting you in higher levels in the tournaments which you can’t compete evenly in. Since gems were introduced as another money maker it is ridiculous to what teams you can be put against. To be amongst the top players you would have to spend $5,000+ easily. That value is a conservative estimate as it may be much more. Disappointed to say the least..GreenlanternNTVersion: 1.7.1

✓ Do yourself a favor and give it a missTo be fair lots of potential, but takes the monetization to a new level compared to COC, Royale, BB, etc. “Have” to watch ads to receive half he awards, everything is geared towards paying for stuff but to a whole new level, and lots of little things to trip you up, eg I just accidentally clicked and spent 2 weeks worth of diamonds - the currency you purchase with cash, because my finger slipped. Deleting now, it’s so much more frustrating than any of the other afore mentioned games, seriously do yourself a favor and skip this one! Developers are just too greedy here!.RodderrzVersion: 1.11.5

✓ CrashGame just crashes on loading screen..GollumTheBaldyVersion: 1.8.1

✓ Extremely slowly progressive game, typical pay to winFirst the good points, the graphics and gameplay action is good. The potential for being a great game is there but not as of now. Now the bad points, typical pay to win. The upgrades are extremely slow and can last days unless you spend diamonds to build instantly which requires a lot of money, to get good items requires real money or a lot of diamonds and the items you do get are always for mages. In game fighting is set at 1x speed and can not be sped up unless you purchase premium biweekly or monthly package (in-game fighting speed should always be changeable in standard game play!). All resources very slow to gain and can also pay to increase. Customer support very unhelpful, won’t admit or help when reporting glitches. Unless you plan on playing this game for years or paying ridiculous amounts of money just to be strong enough to keep up with other players, really don’t recommend. Plenty of other games out there that benefit non paying players, more evenly..Mayham80Version: 1.8.2

✓ Not as advertisedAnother game using ads that done come close to representing the actual game play..Mrl1980Version: 1.15.0

✓ Marking down because of last updateI do not like how the new daily requests work in the new update. Instead of getting a reward for every quest completed, you now only get one reward (granted it is a larger reward) for all quests completed. Difficult to achieve reward as some of the diary requests are impossible (like giving gifts to friends, none of my Facebook friends play hustle). Please rethink this approach..EmmytooVersion: 1.5.8

✓ Worst support team everI’m giving this game or bad review because the service that they provide with their support team is absolutely the worst experience of my life I’ve been ripped off $100 from this game and they don’t even have the time of day to go and look through their tickets in fact they told me to just go ask my credit card company to reimburse it. They didn’t even want to handle it themselves.I put in multiple tickets and they closed every single one of them asking me not to put in multiple tickets because it’s just going to extend the time so they have to take to look over my issues, basically threatened me to stop sending tickets because they won’t respond to them. So I decided that if they’re going to make me go out of my way to get my money back that I’m going to also go out of my way to let people know what they’re getting themselves into. Don’t make in app purchases unless you feel like taking the risk of not getting your money at all nor your product. Oh yeah not to mention the support system takes their sweet time getting to you I have spent over 24 hours to 48 hours waiting for a response on one of my tickets and keep in mind not even 1 million people play this game. I’m starting to see why..Timothy LyonVersion: 1.9.0

✓ StupidI was enjoying the game but after spending some significant money on it was upset at not being able to load the game after the new update so now have deleted the thing.RagrizdemonVersion: 1.8.3

✓ BalanceThe game is so off balance, you want to just move on. No point in playing if you reach a point where you are attacked by players many times your level, and they take 30% or more. It should be closer to fighting within the level your at. To much is given to players are willing spend. You have to have both non-paying and paying. It’s not going be paying players that draw in more players, it’s non-paying that will. And their going spread to other players if the game is worth the time.. spread little honey and you will attract more bees. You will make money, someone will always will pay. If you make the game enjoyable for non-paying players you find in time you get them to spend as well. Way is now, get only those eager to spend and not the true players. Wish there way to delete the account, for my castle will be farmed for resources regardless if I delete the game, and this game requires you spend money if you want to advance your people. This game is one you should avoid and for what you get if spend money it’s not worth it..Teura NahokoVersion: 1.31.3

✓ Stupidly expensiveThe game play is great but the cost of progression is overboard. It’s a lot like fallout shelter, perhaps even adding better parts like the battles and story. Except $15NZD gets you 1 pet, In Fallout shelter, you’d get 40 for that price. The Mr. Handy equivalent is a goblin you pay premium currency subscription to have for up to 30 days at a time. Everything has a real money cost, the premium subscription option give you very little, and any progression eventually hits a massive pay wall. A potentially great game crippled by a high demand for cash. Would not recommend..FkakkakasckgltkwiaiVersion: 1.3.1

✓ They try to make harder players job to spent moreThey release the Clan territory after 2 years and after first week, they start messing up with it. First of all, low tr level players are punished pretty bad. They cannot get fair coins compare to higher lvl players. I am talking about 1% of high lvl players. They just want you lvl up fast then spent real money to catch up with others. Second part they put some useful clan building such as hunter neighborhood. First of all, clans, admins have the control who will use it. It is totally fine but then they also put a cool down time on it. Most of players spend 3-4 hours of their time in a day to play the game and they have to wait to use this benefit. Especially local clans will have huge problem. Because people try to play this game after work and all clan members will try to play on the same time. Developers only think about money and not consider players need. If you are rich and want to spent your time, start this game, otherwise, find something else that provides better service..DarkTurksVersion: 1.32.0

✓ Used to be good gameA year ago it was a fun game. Now the devs are greedy. Constant pay2win events with low level prizes no one wants or needs and bad drop rates on the good items. Don’t play this game..420greenthumbVersion: 1.28.1

✓ Was fun for short while before it gets stupidGame was fun and playable for a while. After you hit lv25, all your enemies will 10 level above you and hundred thousands or even millions above you so yeah what’s the point of playing anymore? The game doesn’t even help you to progress, even if you spend money you will still be facing enemies not on the same level as you. Total waste of time, I downloaded the app from the puzzle ad and it doesn’t even have any puzzles lol.NivlunVersion: 1.20.0

✓ Could be great but let down by how it’s managedThis game is quite entertaining on how you join clans build up your castle similar to a lot out there however when events are on you’ll always be let down. Every time and event is on you can grind the game out as much as you want but the only people receiving anything half decent are the ones that’ll put a hundreds of pounds in every event and it’ll always favour those. Through the community page I have posted several questions none of which have been answered and they keep closing down my requests without telling me anything. Often you’ll watch adverts without actually getting the rewards for the adverts something that the customer service teams said wasn’t an error and is within the games programming so you literally just waste your time so overall very underwhelmed by the games actual running but first few days playing good blast but after that unless you want to be spending a lot of money every 6 weeks I’d not bother..Makpye101Version: 1.37.1

✓ GarbageNothing like what they advertise. Game is terrible. Don’t even bother installing..TeddiesggfssVersion: 1.17.1

✓ Sick of dealing with it!!!First off I’ve been playing this game for a yr now and I have been stuck in the same position forever! This is why. There is absolutely no reason a person with 3 million squad power should be attacking somebody with only 750 thousand squad power and taking 3 days worth of loot! Clearly I could never win revenge against this person! Every time I get so close to being able to upgrade something people in the millions come and attack me and take everything! And TONS of points but when I attack somebody in the 500 thousands sometimes I don’t even get any points? This game should have leagues were certain groups can only attack people in their squad power range! There’s no reason for any of this besides complete unfairness! And don’t even get me started on the tournaments.. Completely out of wack. Sometimes I get lucky enough to even able to go up against 1-2 people without others being WAY higher than me. I’m so sick of this game being money drivin. It seems the only way I’m going to progress is if I spend my real money and that’s just not going to happen. When I first started playing I bought premium and few diamonds and that’s IT! The game is just no longer fun to me anymore and stresses me out more than anything!.GamergirldeeVersion: 1.21.0

✓ Sadly I can’t progress without spending a lot of money.I have been playing this game a while and it was pretty good, a lot of different things to do and a fun story to go with it but sadly now I have hit a brick wall. I have now come to a point where I can’t progress without spending money and i was happy to put some money in this game as it was fun at first but now I have to spend a lot of money just to further in the game which isn’t right. I don’t see the point in playing any more because I can’t increase my defence so I’m losing all my resources as I’m being attacked by people that are willing to spend lots of money on this game and I have now lost all interest as there is no point in it anymore. My advice for anyone starting this game save your diamonds don’t use the for anything other than increasing your characters rank or you will hit the same brick wall..STARKcrazyNIGHTVersion: 1.12.1

✓ Developer greedI have enjoyed playing this game for over a year now but it is now getting to be more and more pay to win. With every special event, they require you to buy more diamonds with real money to have a realistic chance at getting the special items on offer. The latest offer is the same with some really broken chance algorithm as well. Friends have managed to get 4 snail artefacts out of 5 chests (when you can realistically only use 1 snail artefact in a battle so the other 3 are just a waste) and yet I bought 6 chests and got not a single snail artefact. I will be deleting this game soon if things are not fixed..TheIF86Version: 1.7.1

✓ Fun game BUT.....I’m going to start this review out on a positive note and say that I have really enjoyed playing this game! I have been able to meet plenty of people that just want to have fun with the game as well which has been great. But that being said if you are going to play the game don’t go above throne room 7. The reason for this is because once you get passed that level you will and I mean will have to pay to play (at least if you want to stay competitive). I don’t mind spending the occasional 20 here and there on the game but I don’t want to spend 50 or more every week to have fun with the game. I also don’t like the way they set up the arena, when I am in there the next closest person to me is at least 150k more powerful than I am ps I am TR8 currently which is why I said stay at 7. Maybe if they can fix this then the game could be a bit more fun but until that time stay low power and just sit back and relax at 7..Bill497Version: 1.7.1

✓ Spend $ to play beyond lvl 30Played this game for several months to reaffirm my opinion about it. It is actually a very enjoyable game early on but as the game progresses it becomes completely a pay to win game. If you are not planning on spending money at all on this game you are best not to even start as you will get to a point where premium players can basically take all your resources in a single castle attack. I do not mean that players are trolling, the community is actually fairly nice, it is just the bonuses that they have purely as a premium member.RPG foreverVersion: 1.11.2

✓ Money pitThe last event they had was $20 for a pass for the *chance* to spend diamonds to win prizes. Diamonds also cost money. In the past buying the pass and grinding in the game 10-12 hours of game play per day would get you all of the items but not for this last event. Huuuge waste of money even putting the $20 in to unlock some rewards. Some of the rewards for this event was the chance to spend more money. I also had frequent issues in gem bay where my fighters would all make it to the next round and when I was taken out to the open queue my fighters were dead even though they were clearly not. When this was brought up the mods told me it was a glitch on my end and not a system error at all which also lost my points toward the event. Waste of time and money, they are losing players very quickly. Not to mention that there are tons of bots in the game and it is almost impossible to set up a good squad for arena anymore. I used to have a very good set up and would more often than not place top 3 now I’m lucky to win a battle or 2 per tournament..Clire111Version: 1.27.1

✓ Repetitive, misleading game trailerYeah, the interesting and fun looking games shown in the pop/up trailer which enticed me to play the game any in the game. Also, be prepared to spend enough for a brand new PlayStation to beat this thing. There is no way to getting ahead is to constantly buy weapons, super wizards, whatever. Wanna upgrade a room that is essential to move up in the game? That will take 4 days(real time). Just use some magic diamonds to speed it up! Not enough diamonds? Enough diamonds to get it built on time are “on a special deal! Only $4.99. Now just repeat this for infinity and you can be up there with the other clowns who spent an incredible amount of cash to play a game which is basically an infinite maintenance game like the sims or any other iteration skinned as theme park owners, pirates, taco stand entrepreneurs, zombie whatever’s blah blah blah.. Take the time and money and read a mind bending book(or 20), buy a guitar, learn it, save up for a car, learn to juggle, get a girl/boyfriend and have fun sex and fall in love, or, aim low and at the very least just buy a nice video game system and a few games instead of playing this crumby excuse for throwing time and money in the trash..BobCrabmmVersion: 1.19.1

✓ Good game, could be better!When I first downloaded this game I thought finally a game that has caught my attention although time based most things are achievable in a reasonable time period and there is plenty to do to pass that time in-game. Then I played the tournaments and what a let down. You work hard on your set up and obtaining/crafting items just to be thrown in against people who are so far ahead of you in power you literally can’t even damage them. This really needs to be looked at as I would happily play this game all day long if they could make it a bit more even. It’s a real downer especially when you have to earn tickets for a tournament that you will have no chance of winning. What a shame..Sir moosefaceVersion: 1.6.0

✓ Good game but needes changes.This game is a really fun game but the amountbof grind involved is just insane it is also pay 2 win and i would get certain things but can't since my parents didn't write down the in app purchases password and everything expires all of the deals and i really want to get them but can't. Also currently there isbthe jurraic challenge which is also sooooo grindy and being a dinosaur fan and loving the graphics of the new items i'm annoyed that you literally have to spend HOURS to just get one reward which until you get like 30 reward aren't even that good. So good game but but to grindy..KazzyeVersion: 1.27.0

✓ Poor customer supportFun game, but support sucks.Raze1488Version: 1.24.1

✓ Response to developers.So I was asked for my input to make the game better. Ok. Let’s start with the problems. Any other game you play if you focus you can upgrade at a decent pace. Unlike here you get a building to level 4-5 and you’re taking anywhere from a day to two days to upgrade. For low level buildings? Seriously? So now you want for a player with a competitive nature to spend $10 for 1100 gems that will not satisfy an upgrade to a level 3-4 building. Option buy a $20 and get 2500 gems. Oh wait you want to have extra builders to upgrade faster well you have to buy that too. While you’re at it here are a dog and cat you can buy that do absolutely nothing. So now if you want to rush you “forcefully” have to spend money. Not to mention if you go into a tournament you’re not placed in your certain power level you’re fighting people with higher your level, higher your stats and higher hero’s. Just as fun as a hole in the head. You guys have algorithms that can pick up if a character is 4 stars and offer packs to upgrade them but you really have to ask a player “talk to us so we can improve the game” what a joke. This game has been out how long? (Deinstalled) I can buy a game from Xbox or PlayStation and get more excitement..Gottti79Version: 1.29.0

✓ To The person that wrote for the recordYou are completely right and i have wasted too much money into this game i asked apple for a refund but could not get one DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME unless you have money at your disposal it is very expensive to keep up with and very addictive its not very well made and arena wars are a joke with pay to win people at the top and all others falling beneath them.OksjfnvduahaVersion: 1.23.0

✓ Grindy, dull, but moderately rewardingIt takes a long time to do anything worth doing, especially as far as building rooms is concerned. You can only build one room (for free) at a time and they can take hours to build, that's just one of the things that'll keep you waiting constantly. It's dramatically more waiting than 'action', so it's not something that you can just pick up and play. If you're fine with picking it up for a minute every hour or day though, it does have a decent sense of progression and reward. It's a decent concept and decent core gameplay, but it's arguably not worth the time and effort because it succumbs to the typical phone game tropes that just straight-up ruin so many games..Robert7531Version: 1.5.3

✓ Just a game, and a grind.Would love to find a great game that makes you feel like your money AND time is well spent. Still haven’t. The game is a good building game, with some fun and strategy type things to do. You need to take a lot of time to advance slowly or you will quickly find yourself overmatched by slow grinders. Spending money may help it seem like less of a struggle. The mini games needed to get better items for better and stronger game play are literally not random. You shouldn’t have to draw 24 of 24 things to get a unique thing, if it’s slated to be random. Just state that, not hide that it isn’t random. Almost want to play longer than the 2 months I have played in hopes of a feeling of satisfaction when playing the game. That feeling only happens early on in the “hook” that the games tantalize you with. Once you hit the “grind” probably should stop. Lots of people playing though, so this may be your cup of tea. If you like sloooow tea..DRL76Version: 1.42.0

✓ How much do you value your time?If the answer is very little this is the app for you. While the game is fun when you have something to do (battle, upgrade characters, etc) you also spend a lot of time waiting to upgrade rooms and therefor level up and the higher level you go the longer the upgrades take. I’m at 3 days on some upgrades. Can pay a bunch of money to speed that up but probably not the best investment to make..Matty.Scotty19Version: 1.14.3

✓ It’s aightFun game, but full of sweats, to the point where your trying to save gold for upgrades to progress while being attacked constantly and versing people literally 10 times better than you ..That you clearly can’t beat, ever win or get any rewards. What’s worse is high level players lose trophies, go down to the small leagues and annihilate you using all workers an one extremely high level card so that your matched up evenly but have no chance. Takes the fun out, because the only way you can effectively progress is spending money on diamonds. It’s just designed in a way that can be easily manipulated, when your in a low level your versing insanely good players and when your insanely good your versing people with half your power..Starlet020Version: 1.55.1

✓ General, Events, and PVPFirstly, the game is enjoyable and has a lot of potential to be great. There are however a few issues that I have been running into. These issues are annoying enough to make me want to delete the game. In the PVP arena, I believe that I have only had a hand full of matches that were fairly ranked since I’ve started playing. Currently I’m around 200k power rating and I’m being placed against opponents that are over 2.5 times mine. Which would not be so terrible if it didn’t take over 5 mins to complete one arena. The amount of time it take and the matchmaking is ridiculous. Now this winter event that is taking place currently. I’ve put thousands of gems and dozens of free spins with nothing really to show for it. Even had the same exact reward (like a poison spell) over and over again. I don’t just mean getting it the majority of the time. I’m talking about spinning three times and each spin was the same reward. In my opinion it’s horrible odds and infuriating, especially using gems. As a side note, the Angry Birds advertisement needs to be fixed. After watching it kicks me out of the game and locks me from watching another video to get the reward..HkkhwidveualVersion: 1.19.1

✓ False advertising on Facebook,Thought this was a puzzle game, not happy that I was mislead.RaeofallVersion: 1.17.1

✓ Fake ads ( do you really need them ), delete this game nowI’ve seen plenty of the same old ads about a man who gets some power number and every time he defeats an enemy he gets more and more power. But then you play the game and it’s totally different. Why do you do that, you most likely get less sales because of this and the interest of the game last until you download it. And people are voting 5 stars to this game and yet they don’t realise that what they wanted and got informed from ads was the thing that like and they got a game they didn’t want. I’m not writing this for the developers but more for the people. Also one more thing, I’ve never seen the developers read and reply so you guys never listen so recommend anyone who has read it this to never play this game! 🙏 for your own gaming sake.Loki supermanVersion: 1.64.0

✓ Fallout Shelter CloneGreat game, I just wish I didn’t get rekt by all the pay to win plebs. As a game designer myself, I know there are ways to make money on a free to play game, pay to win has to be the sleaziest way of doing it. It reeks of laziness and poor business ethics, I will continue playing this game because I genuinely enjoy it and if you’re looking for a game that’s highly addictive and don’t mind grinding for days give this one a try. All things considered, it’s a great game concept, it’s easy to play, has a goofy storyline, it’s pay to win AF, and it’s highly addictive . . . if you’re into Fallout Shelter clones. Please studio nords or my com if you’re reading this consider reworking the pay to win system it’s just not fair or competitive. Yes it’s fun but I have 46 tournament tickets because I can’t win any of my tournaments against all the people that bought their legendary gear so why should I even bother with doing tournaments. Why can’t you just be happy with your $5 a month from premium players? At least let me buy those legendary item pieces with diamonds. So far the only thing in this game that seems fair is the portals and even then only the people that have been playing the longest and buying the best gear can truly benefit from that..BigChieftonVersion: 1.4.2

✓ In app purchasesI really enjoy this game and decided I would purchase a rather large amount of diamonds to progress with my castle. I never received my diamonds and my credit card was charged. I immediately contacted the app to create a ticket for my issue and because there was only a generic ROBO type response, I created a second ticket for the same issue. One ticket was closed due to the fact I had created 2 tickets ( in a rather timely manner) and not even a single response to any of my comments on the original ticket. If anyone else is having an issue with in app purchases, Apple was able to refund account and resolve my issue immediately. This is just bad customer service on part of the developers of the app. I followed all directions needed for them to resolve my issue and was even willing for them to just dump my diamonds into my app. Developers please fix whatever bug might do this to another customer and please make sure that issues are being resolved promptly !!.NathgoggVersion: 1.5.6

✓ For the recordI am rewriting this review since my previous one was removed (by the devs maybe?). Don’t bother with this game, especially if you came here from seeing one of the paid for ads of it (they are not actual gameplay!). All the action, looting and vehicles you see in those ads are not actually part of this game - they are ripped from other games and made to look like they are from this. Highly unethical and misleading. The game itself is a lazy re-skin of Fallout Shelter with more expensive pay-to-win features. Make no mistake, unless you plan to spend (waste) a lot of money on this game, you will have no chance of playing competitively. Give it to charity instead, these devs don’t deserve your money..1erCruVersion: 1.11.2

✓ Money pitGood game but only if you wanna spend hundreds of dollars because that’s the only way you’ll go anywhere in this game..AlanWhiteDudeVersion: 1.14.5

✓ Fun, but it’ll cost yaI’m generally ok with pay to play if the game is honest and fair, but after playing for a couple months now it’s become clear to me that their AI is designed to restrict your castle and team’s abilities once you’ve gone about 7-10 days without paying for something. Overnight it will go from where you’re doing decent, even quite well, then the next day you get destroyed by everyone you come across, even PVE, PVP, and tournaments - all of it just gets to where you obviously cannot achieve anything unless you cough up even more money. Even purposefully allowing your team to get destroyed over and over to lower your ranking dramatically [which should cause the AI to adjust and put you up against more evenly-matched foes] has no effect at all. I mean zero. I’d say I’ve spent about $60 on this game and frankly that’s way more than enough for a “free to play” game so since I’ve learned it’s going to put the screws to me about 7-10 days after my last cash purchase in the game, I can not recommend this game to anyone no matter how much fun it is - which is sad because it’s a really fun game. Just keep your wallet open and your cash endlessly flowing if you want to continue to get anywhere - the AI will make sure you do. And that’s not acceptable..Danno210Version: 1.2.0

✓ Pixel junkyHmmmm great game but my only gripe is that it costs heaps, I’ve spent a few hundred dollars. (Diamonds are very expensive!!! Use them Wisely) matchmaking in tournaments is appalling you need at least 2.5 million power to get anywhere because everyone you play against is much stronger than you! By a lot so you will never win and the new update made enemies on the map invading your lands too strong to beat (fighting them is the best way to increase your gold, wood, mana and iron) however seriously what’s the point of having enemies that are 4 million strength when you are only 1.7million strength? It’s totally pointless. You really should match equal parties around the same value to make it fair, even revenge is stupid when someone is double your strength and they just stole half your resources. Grrrrrr come on Nord!!!!!! You make over $45k a day from this game! Leveling up your team takes days or hundreds of diamonds if you are impatient!!! Same with leveling up rooms in the castle, I think this is a bit silly. Merging gems, and inlaying good ones can cost 3 million gold! Which is way to expensive considering how hard they have made it to get gold. Hmmm, unless you want to spend mega bucks, wait for ages to get anything done, is not bother with this game. It’s too frustrating especially what I mentioned above about matchmaking. Ps: super tight with 5 star births as well! Even when mating 2 x 5 star people..Giant leaps of faithVersion: 1.18.2

✓ Over charged itemsHonestly after spending 60+ dollars just to unlock 3 rare items only to find out that when I unlocked it only gave me to opportunity to buy them for another 21$ each honestly it’s way too expensive to begin with they would probably make more money if they made it more affordable for people to actually upgrade.092294Version: 1.14.4

✓ Further disappointmentGame devs have really hit a low point with these new updates. The 1 hour cool down after a player goes to a neighborhood for a 5 minute invasion. Raiding store prices x5 over night. Absolutely the worst updates I’ve ever seen. I will not give this game 1 penny until they fix this mess. It’s absolutely ridiculous and completely ruins clan territories. Orange gems used to be a big deal. Now they’re common and red gems are in. But a team 1 red gem and nothing else can take out a fully orange team with twice+ the power. You work on your team for years just to have a player with a big wallet beat you easily. The only good reviews are 3 years old. That should tell you something right there. Devs absolutely do not listen or respond to players without a copy and paste answer as you can blatantly see in the dev responses to these reviews. In over 2 years I’ve never gotten a competent answer to an in game issue. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME..ToymomVersion: 1.36.0

✓ COPYI think this is a copy of fallout shelter because this is simply a worse version of fallout shelter i highly recommend u try this game but if you dont like it defintly recommend trying out fallout shelter !!!!,.Needs more coulorVersion: 1.31.1

✓ WasteNot like the ads at all the game is trash.Halloww67Version: 1.81.1

✓ Out of balanceLike a lot of feedback the cost in time and money is very high once you get up a few levels. Good clan structure and clan wars are interesting. Worse for me is the total imbalance in the arena, you can find yourself against players with over double your strength. Maybe add slots for strength and not use trophies or level. Also look at time cost and don’t be so greedy in cost for stuff. Hence only a 3, be easy to make it more player friendly.SeakiwiVersion: 1.10.0

✓ Good game. Bad companyI have played this for a long time now, so thought it was time to write a review. This game is well designed and fun to play, with plenty to do each day, although a bit repetitive. As with all these games, F2P will only take you so far, so expect to get your wallet out if you intend to ‘compete’. Herein lies the problem... The pay walls aren’t huge if you have a bit of patience, but it doesn’t matter whether you spend 1,000’s or none at all, if you ever need any help from them, then forget it. The company strategy seems to be set up solely to extract money and provide 0 service in return, the support will never solve anything for you and will either blame apple or whoever they can to close your ticket. I have since discovered they even have a policy that if you need a purchase refund for a legitimate problem their end, then they may oblige, but will close your account in the process. I may sound like I’ve been burnt but I am not bitter, in fact, I still play, but I’d like to just warn people before they get themselves too deep into the game. TLDR: Enjoy the game for what it is, but until they pass some better consumer laws, these companies will not provide you any support whatsoever..MW555Version: 1.34.0

✓ MONEY GRAB GAME. DO NOT DOWNLOAD.They’ll hand out events that only paying players can join. You can save up as much diamonds you can but you’ll never be able to enter special events because they’ll require you to pay REAL MONEY instead of diamonds. USELESS!.AskvijenaVersion: 1.32.0

✓ Horrible customer support and very costly to playCustomer support for issues is horrible - they send the same canned response to every query (makes me wonder if they have a computer responding to all service requests) and do nothing to address issue. If you try to escalate, they send more of the same generic response or worded slightly differently. In my most recent issue (related to value received for price paid in an event) the final comment was “will pass your comments on to the developers” - and then they closed my ticket. No respect for a paying customer and no attempt to make at least a token gesture to placate me like other games do. It also costs money to progress in this game but there is very little value received for what you pay in their “special events” and the events are rigged to force you to pay above and beyond the “golden ticket” price in order to actually receive the advertised rewards. All in all, if you want to be treated fairly as receive value for money paid, STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME!!!.AurorajohnkVersion: 1.28.1

✓ Pay to winFirst day or two is ok up to level 10 or so. Then it becomes unplayable unless you pay for upgrades ($4-15 in the early stages) and more powerful items. It has a really refined interface and has great graphics. Just wish it were more playable without constant need to put money in. The multiplayer is a waste of time, every other player is super powerful so you always rank last and can’t earn enough to advance. Definitely need deep pockets to make this game “fun”..Kevinwong82Version: 1.7.1

✓ Just too much$$$$Absolutely loved this game… I have been an avid player since it launched… there’s too many adds to buy …there’s too many events that you have to buy. It’s all you do is buy once you reach a certain point. Have seen soo many people get frustrated and leave because of the cost. I left my clan today of over 4 years of service simply because I just can’t afford to keep up. If your not willing to spend hundreds of dollars every month for an event then don’t download. The only way to grow after a certain point is to drop tons of money into a game that doesn’t reward you back. I’m ashamed to say I’ve spent thousands on this game and now that I’m not willing or able to spend that much to keep up there isn’t value in trying. It’s simply impossible to stay in a competitive arena without your purchases. Let this game be fun again… Love u Camelot, useless nut is the best!.ScruffmuffinVersion: 1.53.0

✓ Fun but expensiveI really enjoyed this game to start with. Going up the first levels reasonably quickly with no need to buy any extras. However the last couple months I have gotten absolutely nowhere. I bought all the cheapest gem packs and upgraded my throne room and bought some boss armour etc and finally started getting somewhere again and was so excited. But it lasted about a day before I could no longer attack anyone because they were all way above me again and I couldn’t progress any further in missions because my warriors weren’t strong enough. I have no spent about $400 on gems and armour and am again at a stand still. I have to wait and try and build my money and wood up the hard way, and just when I’m starting to get enough to upgrade something about 10 people attack my castle and I lose a million dollars and hundreds of thousands of wood and manor. It’s so disappointing when you work so hard and wait so long and get nowhere. Please make it not so much a pay to play, I have a real life to live as well, and unfortunately I couldn’t afford to pay as much as I have. Another suggestion is to make attacks on others the same level..Fun with dragonsVersion: 1.13.1

✓ NulNul.KirikirikinetVersion: 1.12.0

✓ Please read this suggestion!I’ve looked through the reviews and it gets worse, you should really add an update on the arena. It’s good and all but it's annoying that most of the time you’ll get paired up with squads more stronger than you, one time I was in a tournament where almost every single player had a squad power of 100,000+ and you know what’s worse? I only had the squad power of 97,000+ I barely won any matches and most of the players had beaten me with ease, I have a suggestion where you could have choose how much squad power do you want your opponents to be, or if you could just check the amount of power the player (as in you) has and pair them with opponents of a fair amount. Like seriously! You’d almost have to pay to win in-order to win most tournaments and it’s frustrating to most newbies and players who’ve been playing for months. In the conclusion of this review/rating; PLEASE MAKE THE TOURNAMENTS FAIR!.Yamaceles ShipperVersion: 1.27.0

✓ Totally rigged against you!This game was great for awhile but lately I’ve found it literally impossible too progress any further due too being constantly attacked by other players with strengths 50x my own! This morning I opened it up ready too collect the last bit of money I needed too do an upgrade and BAM during the night I had been attacked 4 times by players with strengths of over 5,000,000 (I’m at 650,000) and lost nearly 3 million in gold and other supplies setting me back 2 weeks!! I’ve even payed from premium too protect resources but it still gets stolen.... I’m deleting my game and taking my money elsewhere....Porridge.,.Version: 1.38.0

✓ Game panders to the pay2playI’ve been playing this game since March, I enjoyed it at first and then really got into it when I joined a clan. Unfortunately, the developers have recently changed the policy with regards to arena entry (where all the best gear is found). They’ve made it so cheap (resource wise) to enter the arena, all the highest pay2play players have saturated the arena meaning normal players place last every time. If you’re play2play in a big way then this is a game catered to you. If your a normal pick up the phone/tablet 2-3 times a day person don’t bother. The devs have given limited thought to the on-going progress of the game and instead jumped straight to the money-boat. It’s a shame as the game was excellent..Thedaddy13Version: 1.5.7

✓ Pay to playGame use to be a lot of fun and getting upgrades was reasonably easy if you play a lot. Game odds now are really poor for prizes. Most are crap if you have been playing for awhile. Match ups extremely poor with no chance of ever winning. I am a level 58 castle and only got there by spending money. Complaints about system problems are not resolved and you get the “I do not care” response. Decided to not put any more money into the game and reduce how often I play..Toomanytriesto doanicknameVersion: 1.35.0

✓ Get your games straightFirst and foremost I do enjoy the game I seriously do however the event were you get to spin and use the 100 snowflakes to spin and see what kind of prize you get is completely not worth it, it’s simply ment for you to think you have a chance to win something big and trust I have checked with my alliance members and none of them have posted any big wins that’s insane !! You have a great app why do push people away by making these stupid excuses for a great game?? Why!!!! We are loyal customer and you by far treating this like this nothing also the time it takes to get support from you is almost impossible seriously a reply to my iCloud would be nice. By the this reminds me of the 2accounts I have lost so far! YES YES YES 2 !!! 2 flipping accounts on this one device. What is the point of linking it with Game Center if it won’t remember you if the app was deleted by accident or cleared ? My account is still the same with Game Center so was my data not saved or was this just left behind I do make purchases with my games and I do want to buy some stuff here but how can feel secure that if I lose my app or phone again I will also get the investment I put into the game back well because I won’t that’s why. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER..Jonh goodmanVersion: 1.19.1

✓ Lunar New YearWhat’s the whole point of having to spin when you know most of the time you’ll end up getting gray dusts? Totally set up. Shame!!!.<P0larBear>Version: 1.8.3

✓ BizarreOnce again I’m punished for apparently spending too much time playing this game. If that’s the way you treat people who play the game how do you expect them to put their hands in their pockets and pay out for the premium options. Like many people I’ve found myself with a lot of extra game time recently but I won’t be spending my cash all the time I’m punished for playing! Recently I have been subjected by multiple attempts to sell me things as soon as I start the game, you cancel one another pops up in its place. This is putting me off of even starting the game. I know exactly where to go if I decide to spend I don’t need multiple pop ups making me aware of what’s on offer..Steve the CabbieVersion: 1.40.0

✓ £€¥$Used to be really fun and moderately priced. Has become a money pit, terrible drop rates and very much pay to play..H1N1 Piggy PigpigVersion: 1.35.0

✓ It’s okWell it’s a ok game but like every other game it’s ridiculous how it forces to put money into the game the only game that asks you to pay for loot don’t let you replay the levels as you please where’s the other ethnic groups or option to chose other beings? Like all this phone games waste of time they not great in any aspect they all just ok there’s worst and more greedy games than this but in the end they all same rubbish. Only reason I play them it’s because I’m recovering from three road accidents and got bare time to waste. This should be entertainment and it ain’t if I was a leader of any country I would have banned in game purchases out right specially this one that look like its targeted to kids that normally they will use their parents phones and they might waste money on it..BrunodeBarrosVersion: 1.4.2

✓ Can’t open the gameActually i really like this game, but after the latest maintenance I can’t open the game, it said “your game version is out of date, please download the latest version”. But when i check at app store, there is no update available, if the developer can help me i’ll raise my ratings up, thanks.KnightxstyleVersion: 1.1.0

✓ Progress for free? Really!!I understand that you, as a company would like to make money for the time and effort you put into building the game. But like many have said, you charge far too much for micro transactions, have to subscribe monthly for benefits and the worst part of it, you have to pay over the odds for the events, that happen every month or so, £10 just for a pass and an event background or £20 for a few more benefits, then get conned by the chests if you’re luck enough to reach them, by giving me rubbish I already have, nothing to advance me in the game. The game ‘balancing’ does not exist, I can’t even win once in the arena! And I’ve played for over 3 years now! Clan battles, I make up the numbers but can’t win anything. My team is 2,500,000 power, against 12,000,000 plus, I have no chance! Unless you can throw £100s at this game, avoid like the COVID virus!.BarryC_1Version: 1.40.0

✓ Pay to win out of its mindI need to say I did enjoy this game for a few days as the lower level stuff comes with what I now know to be honeymoon phase freebies, it will become very apparent the difference paying even a couple of pounds into the game will make. The fighting dynamics are silly/non-existent within the game and tournaments are a waste of time unless, shocker, you’ve put a bit of money into the game or have been sweating over it for a number of years. Another peeve was the single player, I constantly found myself gearing my guys way higher than the enemies and still my guys lost with absolutely no rymn or reason why, I’m literally still stuck with this and my guys are leaps and bounds better than the story enemies. Training units takes far too long, I’m not even middle of the rung character level I’m only in the 30s-40s (max being 100, if you have certain characters (or any character if you are willing to buy it)) and we’re talking 5/6hrs per level for each character with every likelihood of getting a lot bigger. The way you gather loot is silly and really inefficient as there’s nowhere to farm anything and if your luck was crap the first time you aren’t gonna get another chance to do anything about it. Anyway make your own decision in life, don’t be sheep. Hav’a goodyen.AlexJames96Version: 1.10.0

✓ Not like the adNot like the ad.Marvelboy69Version: 1.22.2

✓ Money HungryI enjoyed getting into this game but as soon as I get past the lower level quests and battles they want you to pay for everything including the Boss Loot!!! Yep that’s right you have to pay $4.50 to get the gear the boss’s drop which as we all know will only last till the next Boss fight when you will have to fork out more for the next set. The game has a lot of potential but the creators are just too money hungry. Now I’m not a Scrooge if I like the game I’ll pay but only for permanent upgrades not ones that wear off after a few days and want you to pay again..M'gavinVersion: 1.0.2

✓ Garbage PVPThe pvp is so broken in this game it’s a joke. The castle raiding system is so broken you are forced to attack unassailable castles just to reduce your match making rank just so you can be matched against players on your level. PvP arena is an instance where you are thrown in with 10 other players for a series of matches, good in theory but the game is riddled with players with no intention moving up through the bracket system that determines matching making. Meaning unless your team is top notch with legendary gear again you can’t compete. This would be fine if there where anything else to do in the game but there really isn’t..DakayrusVersion: 1.40.0

✓ Tournaments are turning off playersGame is awesome, I don’t even mind waiting days for certain items so I don’t have to pay a cent on a free game. But ever since the update I’m versing players 6-15levels higher then me constantly in tournaments, and it’s already made lots of clans members stop playing, cause now instead of days for items we’d have to either spend money or wait weeks. Hope it gets fixed!!.Red jellyfishVersion: 1.5.3

✓ Stupid gameIt doesn’t even load😡😡😡😡😡.JdhdhkshdjfjdVersion: 1.35.0

✓ Not as advertisedI only added it because the ads that kept popping up in my Facebook made it look like a “save the dude” puzzle type game, I like puzzle games, but the second I opened it, it was directing me through this “super Mario” type warrior game, I tried giving it the benefit of the doubt and going through it’s necessary stage and first level or two, but the puzzles I wanted to play never showed up! If it’s gonna be a cartoon fighting game please advertise as such!.AIH-look it up.Version: 1.16.1

✓ Too expensiveSuch a shame. This great game is ruined by greedy developers, IAP costs are just ridiculous. I don’t mind paying reasonable amounts but these guys are off the charts. Don’t waste your time or your money, play something else..Yo mammys mammyVersion: 1.2.0

✓ Not worth your timeImagine a game with a great concept, then have it structured very badly, and you get this. It’s starts off smooth and fun, but by the end of the first couple of chapters, the grind sets in. And the pay to play really comes to the forefront. Want to grind to get rare items, sure, you can do that, but it won’t help. The game uses an adjusted development to try and keep you on equal footing with other players, BUT, if they pay, they get a decidedly unfair advantage. I played this for sometime, and ran into many in game play issues. Resources become more and more exponentially off balance the further you develop. Making game play harder, and money more important. I’m all for paying games to help the ones I enjoy, but this one is pointless. Nothing is permanent. Rare artifact? Useless the moment you level up the throne and move up to the next tier. Premium account? Not really a thing. It’s temporary at best. The one in game bug I had involving credits was resolved fairly quickly, and that is about the only good thing I can say about this game. Sorry folks, don’t bother with this one. Much better clones of this style of game are out there. Also, don’t be fooled by the rating... I’ve seen negative reviews vanish from this site..Wielder13Version: 1.11.2

✓ Strong on PTWThis one is fun and entertaining, but could be better. Not even out of the "tutorial" stages yet, and I already can see how it is very strongly a pay-to-win type game. What's worse, it is one that requires a subscription for its premium benefits(so not a one-time purchase for premium benefits, but rather a monthly payment). Greedy developers. The subscription does NOT, however, give you all the good stuff. A subscription does not even give you any extra in-game currency(meaning diamonds). Furthermore, the matching system for this game is WAY out of wack. Not only does it almost always put me up against players WAY stronger than me, but even when other players seem to be weaker than, I still will often lose. The battles are extremely unpredictable. That was before. Now, they have created a whole new battle "Arena," where you go up against other players, to fight them for prizes. Only once again, I am put up against players with "squad power" all more than mine, and most of the players have more than twice my own "squad power." The battles are also, once again, extremely unpredictable. I find it impossible to beat ANYONE I'm put up against in the Arena. Several MAJOR adjustments are needed in this game..Sailor_0703Version: 1.1.1

✓ It has fun moments but don’t be fooledIt’s a full pay to play, it’s getting worse for what they want you to buy and even when they give you a free rewards they can take them away at any moment and claim it was always intended to be removed. Played for 3 years and can’t believe how bad it’s gotten now - thankfully I’ve not had to waste money on it..DadalorianbrownVersion: 1.79.1

✓ Beware of the terrible support when things go wrongWell this game is very enjoyable at 1st but you will find to be competitive you have to spend a lot of money to keep up with the events that come around far to often as well as set introduced that cost money again to be competitive as the essences needed to craft can be gained in game play but to get the needed again you have to spend money the free gameplay that used to be on offer has been squeezed away by the developers in pursuit of more money spent by gamers as well as the nerfing of gear and items within the game that can have a drastic effect on gameplay in clan wars and arena this was once a great game but over the last year greed from the developers has become crazy hope you have very deep pockets!.Nords greedVersion: 1.26.0

✓ Really unfortunateInitially when I downloaded this game, it was on a whim. It looked fun, and don’t get me wrong... it was.. at first. With games like this there seems to be a pattern; the game is fair up until about mid-way in. After that, you can really start to see how greedy it’s creators actually are, and how little they care about their players. The unfortunate thing is though... that these devs, along with all others who share in this sense of greed, don’t seem to understand that behavior like this will only serve to spread poor reputation - which in the long run means that despite starting off strong, their creation will eventually end bitterly once people realize how low grade their games progression system really is. If only they understood that valuing their customers and putting effort into creating a game EVERYONE could enjoy would result in a widely loved, popular game with an indefinite lifespan that would ultimately bring in MORE income and funding then a game run by greed ever could. The best games in the world are where they are because they listen to what their players think, and care about their enjoyment. Maybe take a lesson from them and stop trying to fill your pockets with cash as fast as possible? You’re just screwing yourselves over in the end..Tate 66 whoopVersion: 1.32.0

✓ They only want money!!I have had this app for a while now and the times I’ve had problems, the developers acted very uninterested in fixing them. I spent $10 on in-app purchases because I enjoyed it so much at first and apparently once they find out you will spend money, they make it almost impossible to move on in the game without doing so. I have set up another game on a different device to see if this is actually the case and that game has moved forward faster and further than the one I spent money on. My castle is constantly up for attack so I can’t save any resources to upgrade it without purchasing diamonds. On the other device, it’s only vulnerable once in a great while. Also, the algorithm used for the tournaments is severely flawed. I have not been able to even place in a tournament in a long time. They fail to address the problem and continue to state that it is working just fine. Once again, on the other device, I have placed first in quite a few tournaments. I wish they would make an honest game where you weren’t forced to make a purchase after finding out you WILL spend money. Shame, I would’ve considered this one of the beat games on the market if they didn’t act like crooks..Derm1121Version: 1.16.1

✓ Major bug reduces the enjoymentThis game has a major flaw, it is continually disconnecting from the internet and then runs very slow. It is not my phone, or my internet, I have just upgraded both to see if it helps. The only solution is to delete the app every other day and reinstall. It is really frustrating as I enjoy playing the game. Every other game, video or app doesn’t disconnect, nor do they run slow. It is only this game and the helpful answer section says it may happen but blames everything but it’s own app. Sort it out please..DesertdeserterVersion: 1.55.1

✓ False advertisingThe add that kept coming up that made me want the game had nothing to do with the actual game..GemmlerVersion: 1.18.2

✓ Hustle CastleI absolutely love the game! The only downfall are the prices for everything! If you want to gain power you have to pay a fortune for it and I do mean a fortune. If you don’t pay to upgrade, it’s never enough, it could take quite a few years and become very frustrating. However no matter how much you play and pay, there are many other more powerful forces at play to make your gain very slow and frustrating with bots place to beat you at every turn. The events that take place monthly are expensive and overrated, it is hardly worth while buying the upgrade to the event, although most people do, hoping to gain something to help them along, which almost never happens.YoogalooVersion: 1.42.0

✓ Very expensiveAt first it seems a reasonable game although to progress at decent speed you have to pay for premium speeds(£4.99) also you need to pay for the goblin assistant so that your players level up while your not playing the game. The levelling up times are very long and only get longer as you progress. The diamonds you buy are very expensive and to speed up and upgrade is even more expensive. Also I find that the level I’ve reached I.e. 5 million but yet lower level fighters beat you easy but rarely the other way round so that you don’t achieve the rewards you should receive and when you actually complain to support your not given any satisfactory answer but rather fobbed off. With this game you will get hooked but it will cost you lots of money..Mr Brendan MVersion: 1.21.0

✓ Need money to winThis is the time of year when suicide rates are high. The stress from the holidays still linger, while the added stress of a new year makes it even worse. I am writing to you because of the fragile state that I am in, I am pleading for you to understand my plight! Suicide is an epidemic in the United States, there have been many this month in my town alone. What I don’t think gaming companies, like yours, understand is that people like me turn to you for help. We turn to our gaming systems to cope with the failures of real life, in order to find something that boosts our confidence and self worth. Playing this game has been making me depressed and feel inadequate lately. I have tried asking for your help with why the game is like this but I received a blanket statement response about the arena matches. And my questions were left unanswered. What my point is here is that you are ruining the point of these games. These games are supposed to pass the time with fun and a bit of challenge for thrill seekers. It isn’t supposed to leave you defeated and hopeless. I hope someone cares...BEER CHICKVersion: 1.8.3

✓ Starting to become all about the moneyWith recent updates this developer is becoming more and more greedy. While the game and updates are overall good, they are targeted at high money players. I have been playing for over a year and a half and lead a clan with lower power players teaching them to play. Some have ended up being people that also spend. However, our clan cannot get the 2.8 million clan chest that contains ancient materials for more advanced players. Clan chests are irrelevant as a result for higher level players. Is the goal of this developer to chase more advanced players into clans with only more advanced\spending players? Seems to me this is counter intuitive. Clans like ours power your future spenders. Please update clan chests so that they reflect the contribution of lower power clans that drive this game. I and others are thinking about quitting. Heatmiser. Clan SYD..Heatmiser11Version: 1.18.2

✓ I need to restartI made lots of things and I want to restart but it won’t let me if you want more ratings then tell me how to restart pls Thanks bye-bye 😭😭😭😭😢😢🙏🏿.AussieGidgeVersion: 1.5.5

✓ Great premise slow slow playLooks it’s clever but so very slow to play and your always behind the 8ball not often properly equipped to fight anyone and that sorta begs the player to spend money to speed everything up. I think it would be far more popular and enjoyable if it moved a little quicker and you felt like you were ever getting anywhere.Bored builderVersion: 1.0.2

✓ Very confusedWhat is the point of advertising a game one way and not have it anything like it. You cause disappointment before the game is given a chance..Nate🙈Version: 1.17.0

✓ Change my mind!My partner and I have both been playing now for over 6 months. It is our main phone game and have happily paid for premium membership the entire time. Up until now we have loved everything about the game and all the new features, however the latest event ‘Way of the Eagle’ is way too heavily geared towards pay to win! We both decided to make our first gem purchase when this event started as we couldn’t quite reach the final items in the last event so thought we would get a head start. Only to realise that the rate you can progress is much much harder I’d say about 10x harder and to make any real progress would set us back about $300 in gems???? Please fix this....BradPrimeVersion: 1.12.1

✓ A bully’s gameI’m finding this game depressing. You only make progress by bullying those weaker than you, and everytime I open the game I find i have been bullied and robbed by players much better than me. In the map and the arena it is difficult to find the right match of opponents, often finding players with >500k stronger to match against. Playing in arena where you are the weakest of 16 is not fun, in fact, if I’ve stopped going to the arena. I’m at a point where I’ve spent $5 but I’m stuck at rank around 2000 with all my fighters at 70 but I can’t get any higher without throwing cash at it, and every-time I open it I find I ve gone 2 steps back for the 2 steps forward I’ve hard earned previously. I’m ready to bin it. I’m not going to throw good money after bad..Grrr-enoughVersion: 1.22.2

✓ No Slay?So I don’t get to slay b######, It showed on the ad that my character would be able to slay that dank as p####.Alex4270Version: 1.5.9

✓ This game is broken.I’ve been playing this game for a few months now, and it’s a pretty good time waster. However, it is 100% pay to win. If you’re not willing to fork over money (bare minimum for a premium account and the goblin, which I have done), you’re not going to get anywhere. Everything you need to build is too expensive and takes way too long. It can take days to save up to build a single room. The combat is completely broken. I’ve unlocked every map, so I usually have around 14 people to attack, and usually maybe attack one of them. Every single other person is hundreds of thousands of attack points above me, and I’ll waste all of my food trying to change them to someone I can attack. Because of this, you can’t build up money to buy things to make yourself better to be able to fight them. Such a good idea, a really fun game early on, but once you hit a certain point (level 25+), the game breaks and you basically can’t pay it unless you pay. The latest “sale” is giving a discount on some stuff from ~$1100 to $150 - that’s not a sale, that’s a rip off..ArthurianGoldfishVersion: 1.2.0

✓ They’ll take your money, but won’t help with problemsI’ve been playing this for a while now, and overall I enjoy the game. Yes I pay to play certain aspects of the game, which is my choice, but here lies the problem. The developers are quite happy to take your money, but if there’s a problem they will more often than not fob you off and do everything to avoid helping. Their “support” if you can call it that, is nothing short of disgusting. I recently encountered a problem and they basically told me it was my fault. Quite amusing considering it happened in the middle of the night when I was asleep...they are still refusing to help and resolve the issue and my loss. My loss, to be fair, is minimal, and I’ve been reasonable in my request, but they just don’t want to know. They’re a disgrace, and think they’re above the law when it comes to customers, be it F2P or paying customers. Thankfully there are new laws emerging every week to combat companies like this. Not sure if this is simply their support team that’s full of imbeciles or if it’s company policy to take your money and run. In short, it’s a good game, it’s fun....but don’t expect any help if things go wrong.TestmyresolveidareyouVersion: 1.11.2

✓ Customer serviceI had lost my phone, for some reason when loading all my stuff to my spire phone with same number all things came back but not this game now I got a response witch was even with £100 Worth of receipts and spending a year plus playing and them finding my Account, they could not in anyway help and only gave me about 9k diamonds witch if you work out was very poor they wood not move up or pass Me onto a supervisor and wood not listen to reason or fairness, this is just to remind you all good game poor customer service, I have now been permanently band for the one star reviews that I gave please if anyone is reading this if you ever object scrutinise strongly disagree with practices despite spending money you will be banned.LoganwalkVersion: 1.44.0

✓ It’s a good game but..It’s a good game and I really enjoyed it at the beginning. Spent some money and got some diamonds. It’s all good. But once you reached to about level 27, you will be finding it’s really difficult to progress with the game, because it’s either take a long time to collect all the resources or take a long time to build items or upgrade. So, if you want to speed up with few dollars, then the in game purchases are very expensive and cost you too much. Seriously those diamonds costs over $100, you can only spend them to speed up the progress and save my time of waiting? I would rather get a PS5 game, and I should be able to get more out of it..JohnsonyuamayVersion: 1.42.0

✓ HmmmmThis is a relatively fun game by itself good challenge. Decent story. However it is definitely a pay to play & pay to win type of game. At the beginning it seemed relatively easy to understand even children can play it, however when you start leveling the missions and players get progressively harder and they game almost forces you to pay money to get any kind of advantage. or to just be on equal footing. There is limited space in the castle so one cannot really build there dream castle in my opinion. If you have a child playing this game make sure you pay attention because if they have your credit card you may be getting some surprise charges to it LOL. But again the story is half decent and has some funny moments so that is why gave it a middle score. If I was not so much a pay to play and pay to win type game I would’ve given it a five. If you want a game similar to this I would recommend fall out shelter it is a older game but just as fun.ZequethVersion: 1.4.0

✓ A game with LOTS of surprisesI really like the the new version because it adds a randomly 3-5 seconds on the Gem bay tour when I click the start. It makes me to stop and think if I really should uninstall this game.Btc-nick-name-is-takenVersion: 1.59.1

✓ Stay far awaySo I started this game 32 days ago and invested about 700 dollars in that time to advance. I learned that this software developer lives by their name as “HUSTLE CASTLE” they hustle the consumer by force lost of matches. I have reported them to the better business bureau and I feel developers in this nature should not be allowed in iTunes and should be investigated upon for unfair and violation of privacy and said agreement and apple should be placing such apps in iTunes. As now I struggle to get my money back and have to go through legal matters steaming from playing this game. I’ve experienced a lot of bait tactics definitely in their tournament game play. I’ve even experienced a team battling me and losing against me and minutes later going against the same team that lost against me just to lose against them right after. It’s a software developer hustle to force the consumer out of money and is in violating if the consumers right of fair play. Stay away from this one... good game if you want to spend thousands to just be undercut by developer scandals.Gód FathęrVersion: 1.8.2

✓ Nothing is “once in a while”The games is really good, building, training and improving your castle day to day, people moan about the time to upgrade rooms but this time gives you chance to train residents, produce spell, armour and rebuff invaders. This games was so close to getting a 5 star review! But... certain weapons/armour/accessories say “once in a while” as in once in a while when the ally dies a certain thing happen, or once in a while it will resurrect an ally, but it isn’t once in a while, it’s every single battle! Or even 3-4 times in a battle. So rather than “once in a while” it should say “every time.” I find this so annoying..DafevVersion: 1.2.0

✓ Pay per playI loved this game (and the artwork!) at first and was willing to pay over $60 in total for “special” deals. But after about level 25 you need to pay to win. I found myself at a point where I could really only compete on the daily automated “raids” on the map, as all the competing players had way higher squads than me. I was still happy to do the slog to level-up my rooms and fighters UNTIL I went to logon this morning to find I had been banned! No response from support so they have just taken my money and kicked me loose. Save your time and $$ for a better game..Herlo98Version: 1.10.0

✓ Hustle Castle Honest ReviewGreat game with great game mechanics however it is too slow in a sense as a direct result of the elongated construction and fighter level up time as you progress. The arena matchmaking is also tedious and often takes over ten minutes to finally find players even though they end up being much higher than you in terms of overall squad power. Great game hopefully they can fix these issues in the future ❤️.HyctcftctfVersion: 1.45.0

✓ It is what it isThis game has a bit of appeal for what you can do. It will occupy your time and can be a bit fun at times. The first intro to the game is completely misleading. When advertised it lead you to believe something completely different to what it actually ended up being. I gave it a chance regardless ( mainly out of boredom) The only way to get ahead seems to be paying. I refuse to pay since the algorithm seems to always pair you with players who are 3-5 times stronger than you. Even players of the same level who pay for the game outclass you to the point of frustration. You would think time, patience and strategy would eventually pay off..... but that is a fantasy. Nothing comes from you playing a smart game. Literally you get stuck waiting weeks to level up... and just when you think you can build your resources in peace while you wait? Boom a player who outmatches you sometimes up to 10 times swoops in and snatches away you’re resources( and it happens back to back). So all in all. This game is a great way to waste time, but not worth investing money or emotions into in the least..JahteleVersion: 1.24.0

✓ Not at all as advertisedI had looked at the game a while back and thought the Family Guy inspired characters looked cute - but I didn’t get because it’s not my type of game. Then I started seeing adds on Facebook for a very different game. The adds show a puzzle game where you have to rescue a hero and/or treasure from water or hot lava by moving a number of metal rods. I was surprised when I saw it was claimed this was “Hustle Castle” as I didn’t expect this kind of game mechanic to be in there. Anyway I following the link from FaceBook and it took me to the Hustle Castle game in the App Store. I downloaded it as I like puzzle games - but guess what - nothing like the adds on facebook, it’s essentially a army management game, where you complete against other players (as I previously thought). Essentially the maker is trying to trick people into downloading their app using material not in their game, possibly because sales are waning using real game material. To the publisher and the marketing team: - this is a dishonest and exploitative tactic. I hope others call you out on this - you are lying to get customers..Stu_b55Version: 1.15.0

✓ Waste of timeThis game is nothing but an on going add. Takes for ever to get anywhere unless you are willing to spend money. Then you are matched up against opponents that are triple your power so you have no chance of winning anything on top of which you loose all the money and other resources you gathered. Waste of time unless you like giving away real cash. Find a different game. Lots out there.YamacasperVersion: 1.14.5

✓ Too much money for nothingGood game really like to play, now I do for like two-three weeks. Gems are expensive, chests too and they not even giving you good stuffs. After a while PvP is really hard, I’m on lvl 25 now, have some good clothes and weapons but around my castle there are only lvl 30-35 castles impossible to defeat so it’s just lost enjoy. You can try to buy chest, to make your squad stronger, the best one for 550 gems, 1100 gems for £9.99 but chests gives you nothing useful. I’m tried everything to keep my squad level on high to defeat enemy but it’s just seems impossible and not worth the money anymore. So sad because it’s could be a good game :/ Just update I stopped play this game so bored nothing to do and everything expensive :/.Xenia1125Version: 1.1.1

✓ Mistakes after mistakes and generic support response garbageBeen playing this game for 2 years. I’m in one of the most active clans in the game (top 5) and I’ve always enjoyed the game because of the players I’ve met in game. Recently, Nord has got extremely greedy and lazy. Creating a new event each month of which all include bugs and to make things worse, the recent event release included a “mistaken” description which enticed players to spend the highest amount to buy the expensive game pass - except the enticing item wasn’t actually for this event it had been described for. Other game issues persists with this event including drop rate of certain items to which support states was due to luck but have since changed their tone and sent out another maintenance to fix this. The question begs for a large outfit making money from its loyal customer base, do you care about your customers? So many are quitting..LiDynastyVersion: 1.42.0

✓ Pay to win (only)The game started off fine, but towards the end its tedious. The game seems broken. There is nothing I can do but wait 4 days for an upgrade so I can continue. And it’s only pay to win. I literally get ads offering me extra bonus troops... Overpriced. Slow. Very short lifespan. Not worth it..ChopaceVersion: 1.8.2

✓ Can’t do anythingSo, very quickly you start getting put in tournaments where you are wayyyy out numbered. For example my power is 800,000 I will be paired up with people who have a power of 5,000,000. They annihilate me without me even having a chance. Also, trying to upgrade anything is impossible. I even paid for the goblin helper in the hopes that I could hang on to some resources only to find out it didn’t matter. I have about 2.5 million gold and as soon as I sign off I get attacked and lose 3-500,000. So then I figure I can attack my enemies so that I can recoup my gold. Only to find out that my enemies that the game has selected have between 16-20,000,000 power. I can’t even touch them. The ones that I can defeat only have 50,000 in gold. You are constantly running behind in the game with no room to advance. Unless you simply pay for your upgrades, and plan on continuing to pay for each every upgrade you need. Also… allow me to mention that IF you stay on the game too long it will make your castle “vulnerable” and people will be able to steal even more from you..BexanddonVersion: 1.43.0

✓ Too expensiveFor a F2P game this one sure is costly. I like the game, it is engaging and well designed but it is fundamentally flawed in that it takes sooooooooo long to progress or upgrade unless you are prepared to pay. I’m happy to spend on games like this but the prices are far too high. £4.99 for 500 gems when to speed up a room upgrade is over 1000gems gives you an idea of the money grabbing here. Plus, there is no fun in playing a game if the only way to progress is to buy your success. When you start you will absolutely fly through the levels and be bossing it in the arena. After a week, unless you pay money for chests and skins you will find your progress stalls. In my opinion the developers need to sort out the arena as everyone reviewing here is telling you that the matching system is not working. There is just no reason to play if you are always matched against players who are more than double your level AND make the purchases a reasonable price. Then you’ll get players sticking with the game longer. You’ll still make the same money, probably even more. As it stands I doubt I’ll continue with the game much longer because the fun is diminishing with the long upgrades and the cap on progression..JashmoVersion: 1.13.1

✓ Fun to a pointFun game, I really enjoy it. I am leader of a clan and that is where my major frustration comes in. If you find a player you would like to get in your clan, there is no way to contact them. Want to talk to one person in the clan, have to do it publicly in clan chat, as there is no other way to talk. Game needs to give players a mail system that allows us to privately talk to other players like other games do. I can’t ask people questions as by the time they come online, it may be lost in chat many messages above. If you could message them, they would be able to see it and respond more easily. Recruiting would be easier also, and warning players about to be kicked would stop any embarrassment at being called out publicly. Other than that, events are fun with good rewards, matchups are part of the strategy it seems,and sometimes it works other times you are pitted against monsters and there is no way to win..KdmcEVersion: 1.41.2

✓ OkEssentially this is a good game. However certain things are extremely irritating. It is expensive if you decided to pay for help, but this is a personal preference and not necessary. If you don’t it’s extremely slow to progress, but that is fine too. What really gets my goat is the lack of adverts. An event starts and you are completely unable to participate because you come against the brick wall saying, “ surprisingly we’ve run out of adverts.” It’s so frequent, that is not a surprise at all, it’s surprising when you push the button and everything works as it should. The key to playing is lower all expectations, don’t expect anything to work as you think it should, and just take it excruciating slowly. Most of all never part with any money. Stick to these simple principles and enjoy the game. As I way, it’s ok, at best..¥ $ *Version: 1.26.0

✓ Algorithm is messed up.The algorithm needs to be reset. Can’t win any tournament battles because I’m up against guys who throw in one fighter as strong as my whole squad with a bunch of chefs. Now those guys are ruining gem bay and lighthouse too. Even all the castles in my land are 20M might stronger than me. Otherwise it’s a fun game. Just don’t let cash players make it unplayable for the rest of us 🙂.ElliesinwonderlandVersion: 1.67.0

✓ Good game but needs major improvementsThe game is good but the real negative on this game is the arena matchmaking, I’m level 23 with power of 278,000 and I’m getting matched against players of between level 26 and 35 with power of 350,000 to 650,000 so there is no way I can beat any of these, at least half of them should be around my level. Even on the enemy maps I get players of much higher level & power so it’s just pointless to fight them as no way of winning, and when you pay 7000 food to swap for another player it gets replaced with a player higher than the one you swapped. Would of been a game I could enjoy and maybe spend some money on but until they improve these issues I’m not gonna waste my time..PEEJ4YVersion: 1.8.4

✓ The game is good but is frustrating at timesI’ve been playing this game daily and I’ve reached the point where I’ve needed to have a few million coins to upgrade. Getting the first million is no problem but once I reach two million it’s like I’m enemy number one. I’ll put my phone down for a few hours and find that I’ve been attacked 6-7 times and everyone steals 2-3 thousand gold putting me back into the hundreds. I’ve had to hoard daily resource chests and watch the daily ads to earn diamonds so I can afford upgrades since it’s extremely rare for me to earn enough to afford them on my own. The I’ve had to grind to get the premium memberships so I’m able to produce enough gold to afford it. It’s ridiculous on how much production is for regular players as compared to those who cough up the money to get it. It would be fine if it was double but ten times the amount?.Zombies 935Version: 1.41.0

✓ Not load - Wi-Fi problemsAfter last update I can’t play in Wi-Fi with different phone and laptop. Internet provider already check and no problem here..Hribeiro77Version: 1.58.1

✓ Sexually suggestive ads including young teensSexually suggestive ads showing almost naked teen girls. Suspicious activities in the game. Ads selling diet pills..TheVrkVersion: 1.57.0

✓ All the video is buggedAnything involving watching a video for time reductions or rewards is bugged. I have to exit the game, and screen swipe the game out to force it to reset. I therefore do not get the reward for watching the video. That is 3 rewards you owe me, there wont be a forth. Core functions should work. 3 hrs playing 1/5 stars.BigDazzyDazVersion: 1.10.0

✓ Design for you to pay.There is so many items that you cant have unless you pay and it makes you really weak compare to the ones ready to put some money in the game. Matchup are an absolute joke with people always twice your strenht with items you have to pay to get and makes it impossible to even win 1 fight in tournament. Emnemies in map are always way out of my league so cant win or they are super weak so i dont earn trophies or barely any loot. The 2 stars are because it has potential.... In all the games ive played its the most greedy company. Not worth it unless you wanna spend THOUSANDSSSS of $$$.Thot47789Version: 1.23.0

✓ The bloom is off the roseIt was fun while it lasted, but I’ve hit the whale point. I don’t mind paying the occasional few quid for extras. After all, they made a product and should get paid for it. But I’ve reached the point where progress is now impossible without cold hard cash. I cannot build anything else because I can’t generate enough gold and resources to build. Why? Because every time I open the game, I find I have been attacked multiple times and my gold and resources stolen. Not one attack. Not two attacks. Many attacks. I cannot build up my defences and strength any more. I need over 4 million gold for the “next thing” but can’t get past 2 before it’s stolen. I thought this game had the freemium model right. And they did until this point. So, I’m done..GenorpVersion: 1.15.0

✓ Game is broken and developer doesn’t want to helpI have had an issue with this game where you need to watch ads to get bonuses throughout the game. You watch the ads and nothing happens afterwards. I have reached out to the developer, they have given troubleshooting steps to help resolve the issue. They don’t work. When you go back, the ticket has been closed. You open a new ticket and they close it off and refer you back to the troubleshooting steps....Ragnorak13Version: 1.5.4

✓ In app purchases!!!!!Seems to be a good game, but I don’t think there is a single screen that isn’t asking for money. It’s a bit much..SqooiiooVersion: 1.1.1

✓ BewareThis game is a good game at it’s core. However, the game is set up to extract as must money from you as possible. The developers have designed certain areas of the game to ensure you make critical mistakes. For example, going up in levels on your throne room which can ruin your progression in this game if you do it too early. There is no way to roll back these mistakes which you make as a new player. The storyline is setup up to drive your building construction forward so you make these mistakes by game design. How do you rectify this? You guessed it by spending hundreds of pounds, and you will. This game has children playing there are elements of gambling for example with chests. The developers are greedy and there customer service is several cut a paste pre prepared responses they do not care. I have no problem paying for games. However, I do think it’s not good to trick players into making mistakes that they can only rectify with hard cash. My advice, give castle hustle a wide berth your money can spent more effectively elsewhere..Atta nerdVersion: 1.9.1

✓ Support is a joke. It’s all about $.Support will often ignore your question and provide a cookie cutter unrelated answer and close the ticket. Ask for clarification? You get a cookie cutter response saying it was already answered and you get ignored. Watch ads, perform a transaction, but didn’t get what you were supposed to? Too bad. Want to participate in an event but it pairs you up against someone several tiers above you at twice the power level (260k more power) where it is impossible to defeat one of their people much less all 5 or 6? Too bad. But... you can spend money to buy diamonds to speed up the building of your barracks, trainer fighting room, leveling your fighter levels, building the three crafting buildings, speeding up the crafting of the 5 items for each of your people, and then you might be on equal ground where you have a chance of winning (until you get paired up against someone insurmountable again and have to shell out more if you want to participate in the “free” event). Don’t waste your time. That is how it is intended to work per the support who say they consulted with the developers who agree. They don’t care. Don’t give them your time or money..XalerionVersion: 1.8.0

✓ Money grabberThere is no shame with these developers, the game is free to play but the last 5 updates added in features that cost diamonds which is money in the game and although you are rewarded 1 diamond here and 4 there the majority of anything good costs thousands of diamonds pvp and pve match making is extremely flawed, where you don’t stand a chance unless you spend money. They have special events and awards but those all cost money, they try to hype it up but saying you might get a pet from a chest but the pet is totally useless and does nothing what so ever. The latest update is changing the way your game looks but yup more diamonds more money, and if you do pay your cash you are competing with thousands of others who have spent thousands...the game is fun to play, free to play to win you gotta pay...and the developers just give you cut and paste dry answers with any questions... all in all this game is nothing more than a costly wallet draining time losing distraction that’s not worth the effort or the time. Avoid at all costs or it will cost you..Jedi511Version: 1.5.6

✓ Not a new player friendly gameDon’t trying to play if you’re new, I have been played 2month, was a good game at first week, i have spend around $200. As the game continues after 2week,you will realize everybody around you that played this game earlier than you will be impossible to defeat,(event item , legendary item that from event only)even for those free-to-play players. So new players don’t join this game,or join with empty pockets, do not spend a single dollar on this game, it’s not worth..SteeeeeeaKyVersion: 1.15.0

✓ Premium is pointlessSo i genuinely love the game so much in fact i payed for a 40 subscription for premium only to realise its worthless. If you expect people to pay for an on going subscription then at least make it worth the while also the the arena is impossible to win when I first went on everyone had higher health than me and I lost ever time and i put it down to my inexperience so i upgraded my squad and tried again and again but ever time i have the lowest health and loose every battle i know you still get a small amount if you don't win but why would i want to sit there and wait for battles i know I’m going to loose? At least give people a fighting chance my squad is now level 40 and still I’m the lowest every time i play so i just stopped playing. I really think this game has so much potential but certain aspects let it down i played this game when it first came out and it doesn’t seem any different since then..Beckib123.Version: 1.23.0

✓ $$$$$$The Russian dev are super greedy since Russia gone to war…. Don’t support the war.PlbillbobVersion: 1.59.0

✓ Pay to winLove this game but too many events.Lola podsVersion: 1.28.1

✓ Growing to despise the gameAt first I loved the game, but as time went on I learned that you can only progress so long until you have to start spending real money to continue growing stronger. You will be unable to go far in events, become a strong player, or even properly participate in the game without spending hundreds of dollars. If you enjoy spending your hard earned money on real things, this is not the game for you, avoid it before you get committed and tempted to waste cash. Besides being a pay to win game without saying so in the description (come on game developers, don’t scam people like that), it is also an overall frustrating experience. In the Arena you will be matched with people far stronger then you most of the time, you won’t get to the end of the gem bay without using all your diamonds, and you won’t be able to play for very long at a time because you don’t get many resources unless you, yes. Spend real money. I look forward to the day when we can play games without our financial situation being relevant to our success in the virtual world..Blake1140Version: 1.22.2

✓ Unfair mappingThis game is pretty fun, however, I think there’s an issue with the players who end up on my map. Every time I enter the game, about 7-10 people have attacked my castle and I’ve lose like 110 ranking points but when I go and try to attack the other castles, they’re like 5-10 times stronger than me and I lose the battles plus even MORE ranking points. Plus, the people that attack my castle are at level 65 or something and I’m barely level 35. It’s also frustrating that when other players attack my castle, they take like 25 ranking points from me (even when they’re 10x stronger) and so much of my resources, but when I (maybe) find another castle to attack that I’m a LITTLE bit stronger than, I only get like 5 ranking points or none at all and not NEARLY as much resources as the other players take from me. It’s incredibly frustrating that all these players raid my castle but I can hardly find any castles to raid. It’s super annoying and makes me wanna stop playing and delete the game. Also I think the pricing in the Colosseum is weird..Puffy SkiesVersion: 1.67.0

✓ Slow goingFirst of all, it’s not as exciting as they make it out to be in the advertising, a bit boring compared to the advertising. Some of the side events aren’t even playable unless you spend money on it due to being under powered. The arena for example, with all your stats maxed out and the best weapons and armor you can find, a couple weeks into the game you’ll find yourself being the weakest person on the list unable to get through one round. Just happens you have to beat a certain number of players for the achievement, good luck beating one if your lucky because they’ll match you to players who spend money ( which is probably deliberate to inspire you to spend ). I’ve been playing for over a year and at this point it’s just unrewarding repetition. Clear the lands, watch a ton of advertisements, some of them lock up the game and cause you to restart. Game support is unresponsive regarding the issue. My advice on many of these games in the App Store, buy a console if you don’t have one already, play console games. Once in a while you may feel compelled to buy an add on but the console games are far less money and you won’t spend a year watching timers count down. A huge problem, pretty much every time you reach another realm it can take months to develop your fighters to a strength in which they can even start completing the fighting stages, then you whip through the realm and repeat the whole process. These negative factors make the game pretty boring..LosinginterestfastVersion: 1.15.0

✓ Ok gameGame is ok. Once you play awhile, troops healing takes too long. It makes the game boring. Not going to spend any more money on it..NoForgiveness1Version: 1.18.2

✓ Waist of moneyI download the game and was enjoying trying to build up a team but no matter what you do or how powerful u get ur team ull get beat by someone half the strength. And they have one armor “skeleton armor” thats impossible to get and totally one sided that u kill ur opponent and it resurrects two skeletons and u kill them and the opponent again and itll resurrect 2 more skeletons and repeat even though ur army is twice the strength. They do this to get you to spend more and more money and one week upl be doing good beating everyone and then the next week u cant beat anyone to get you to spend more. Sadly ive spent hundreds on this game and its just set up so you keep spending in hope that eventually youll be able to start winning but take it from me that wont happen cause they just want your money and with the skeleton armor no matter how weak the opponent is you loose. Ive contacted the support team about it and they dont do anything and if u email them again they just close ur ticket and ignore you. Its to bad cause if it wasnt about just getting ur money and setting it up to loose no matter how strong you are it would prob be a good game but if you dont wanna throw ur money away just to be frustrated and not get anywhere no matter how much you spend i wouldnt even bother with this game..Dont go !!!!Version: 1.5.1

✓ Love it but starting to resent itThis is a great game......up to a point. They get you hooked building your castle and spending so much time investing into developing your people and castle....it is a grind but one you enjoy. Then it gets to a point that unless you spend money....your progress grinds to a halt. But you feel compelled to buy resources because of your time investment. You’re constantly being invaded by people who have purchased those resources, and beaten. It becomes a game based on what you’re willing to spend vs your skill and strategy. You can easily become successful if you purchase the resources but if not....the grind no longer becomes fun and game becomes monotonous and boring because of lack of progress and the days it takes for building to be completed......but if you just purchase those diamonds to get things done faster it’s great! (Sigh) .......and that’s the part that makes me no longer want to play. Don’t like feeling manipulated..Watching_the_world_go_byVersion: 1.19.1

✓ False AdvertisingYou guys seriously need to stop the false ads. This is a trend that’s been happening with many games that show completely different gameplay in the mobile ads. You showed an ad where this game was a side-scroller and another where you can get guns?!.Aaron1003Version: 1.13.1

✓ Scam stay clearThis game is a scam.Jarrod2436262645Version: 1.8.0

✓ Epic gameSuch a shame about the customer service team who circulate around HC. They are abrupt. State the obvious and make you feel childish when you report things which you’ve not come across before. Clan spirit is epic and as a new player for almost 5 weeks Iam still finding my feet. Be warned don’t play no more than 6 hours a day while in lock down and don’t spend no more than 20£ a day or you’ll be kicked out of doing arena battles and your castle becomes vulnerable to attacked for 24 hours. And yes I know why this is in place and yes it’s shocking you don’t do a pre warn lol up prior to the bans. If you want better customer services don’t play this game. Simple.CjslaterhotVersion: 1.23.0

✓ Ridiculous hoop jumpingI made a typo in my nickname when restarting the game because my data got wiped. Apparently there’s no way to change this other than restarting which they’re demanding info such as my isp and drivers license just to restart a game that’s <10 minutes of play time. Also they shouldn’t even have any of my personal info to verify any of that against so what’s the point? Game should just let you change your name or include a reset button..AndithuVersion: 1.32.1

✓ Please fix thisWould be great it we could building & upgrade multiple rooms/things at once.KateWilson12Version: 1.5.3

✓ Cheaters have ruined this gameAdd me to the list of longtime players who have left this game due to a grossly unbalanced system. Retiring from this game due to an over abundance of cheaters, and devs who blatantly don’t care. Been playing since the beginning and while it used to be a lot of fun, the cheaters and greedy developers have turned this game into a total sh¡tshow. Devs don’t care about the cheaters and claim that they are playing within the rules of the game when reported, but that’s a bunch of malarkey. There is no way a player that is at least 1 million points weaker, who also isn’t equipped with any jewellery or gems, AND is using basic weapons that are well below their TR level can beat a player with maxed legendary event/arena gear & gems - a 2.5 mill TR10 winning fights against a 4.5 mill, while using grey or green TR6 or TR7 daggers, without jewellery or gems isn’t cheating? C’mon now! It shouldn’t be physically possible, but according to ‘Customer Support’ it is. It’s laughable! The arena is also in dire need of a revamp but the devs don’t seem to think anything is wrong in that department either. For example, TR9’s in the 6x85 are having to compete against opponents who are two TR levels above them. TR10 and TR11’s are dominating that bracket because of a broken system. They have access to upgrades and relics that the TR9’s don’t, which gives them a massive advantage right from the start. Add in the fact that they also get an automatic strength increase with each TR upgrade, and you get a blatantly unbalanced & unjust system. Do the devs care about this issue? Of course not. The higher the Training Room, the more money a player has to shell out. They like the unbalance because it forces a lot of players who don’t know any better to quickly level up in hopes of getting stronger so they can actually stand a chance of winning. The thing is, in order to get strong enough to start winning, you have to spend a boatload of real money, and that’s exactly what the devs want from you - and even then it isn’t a guarantee, because well, cheaters!!!! They only care about their bottom dollar and the cheaters help them with that. It’s a sad fact, and a despicable one at that. Save your money, save your sanity. Find a better game to play. Hustle Castle has been used & abused, and is ultimately worn out. Goodbye old friend! 👋.FaunafioriVersion: 1.23.0

✓ It's okay, but the wait is too longWas looking great at first, fallout shelter style build with fighting and rpg elements. Intices you with low waiting times and free skips when have under 10 mins to go, good progression if you keep your fighters training. Then when you start really wanting to play the game it hits you with 5-10 hour wait times, 1 room at a time (it's a mobile game, I'm not spending real money on this). I go to the pub come home want to play a little more and my training room is still building, reduced to once a day play with little to no progression in pointless imo, I'll go back to fallout shelter on the pc thanks..RinarakVersion: 1.6.0

✓ Stole $50 off my credit card without my approvalI’ve been charged for purchases I did not make. $50 to be exact. When contacted they told me they can’t do anything about it. Not even an apology. By the way, this happened on Christmas Day. I’m short on bills now. Hopefully, Apple can solve this problem. BEWARE HUSTLE CASTLE ARE THEIVES!!!.MandersthegreatVersion: 1.32.1

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