The 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.

I find myself in a mixed basket when it comes to this game. I enjoy the fallout shelter-ish/disenchantment/Futurama feeling I get from this game, but there’s such a fat gap in pvp for newer players. This game works but the max level in which your people can go instead of the power level in arena and that’s such a foolish game mechanic. Playing arena is practically impossible to get a good rank because I went too fast with my leveling and now I’m going against people with power levels of 400k-500k when I’m stuck in 200k too afraid to level up certain rooms because I know the levels will just get worse and worse. Getting legendaries is easy in events, which seems to happen every month or so, but in between that fat gap getting legendaries is nearly impossible. Meanwhile in arena your going against fat cats who’ve played the game for months upon months building up their collection of legendaries just to completely desecrate the unfortunate who are newer to the game. That’s the way I see atleast, I feel like this game just needs a arena matchmaking rework and this game will feel less p2p. Unless of course that’s the intentions of the game designers to throw you in that pit. Either way it’s a fun game just with the balancing actually, well existed. Hope this helps with anyone looking to get into the game, if you like games that have you get into for about 5 minutes and jump off for a couple of hours or so with a silly sense of humor it’s for you, just take your time with leveling up so you don’t get completely and utterly destroyed in the arena. 👌

If you never played this read to the end.. For a long time this game had strategy to it when you played.. recently it went through some “updates.” The developers called, “improvements” all they did was made this game more difficult to play unless you are spending money on it to play it. When I have submitted tickets over these “improvements” they said it was normal game play but it didn’t use to be like that. For example if you go into what they call a dungeon you need to with someone your same size to pass through it and it use to be you might die before or he end and have to start over one or two times. Now you will only make it if revive your dwellers. Which cost diamonds to do 40 per dweller. You have 8 dwellers in there. Diamonds cost real money. Sure you can earn 30 free diamonds per day by watching six adds.. but to get through one dungeon now you need about 10 to 15 revives now per dungeon run you do.. even then you might not make it through. There events a year ago were geared toward everyone whether you spent money to play or not.. now it’s all about how much you spend to accomplish there events. I give it two stars because it use to be good. Also if I put haven’t started playing this I wouldn’t bother not unless you have lots of money and that’s what you like to do with it is pay out $1000’s on a game you play on your phone. They start out showing you $5 purchases but slowly those disappear and before you know it, they have grown to $100 every-time.

First 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.