Area Conquer: Tower Battle War

Before the update and rename I would have given this game four stars. Four, not five because I paid for “no ads” but there are ads still imbedded in the game… like when a tower is on the bottom edge and you accidentally bump a booster you don’t have or if you accidentally bump the post-game score wheel. Ultimately this is still an ad delivery system wrapped in a game. As for the game itself: Before it was rewritten and renamed I never once had lag, except perhaps when the game was first loading. Since the rewrite/rename I have not had a single round without lag. I suspect that something it is doing is using the network during game play and that is at least significantly increasing lag. Why the game would be using the network during game play I have no idea. Scoring makes no sense. I have done absolutely horrible and definitely made mistakes in a round and It’s given me max points. I’ve absolutely killed a round (done well) and it’s scored it at 26 points. The scoring simply makes no sense. Enemy towers break the rules. I have seen a strength 1 tower last until the end of the game while being assaulted by multiple chains of maxed towers then it suddenly dies when some other tower dies. If the towers are tied together that way then there needs to be some indication that they’re tied together. If these things were fixed I would give this game four stars. If the “accidental” ads were fixed (perhaps with a game pause and a pip-up asking if I wanted to watch an ad in exchange for X) as well then I would give it five stars. Btw the way “accidentally” activated ads turns “no ads” into an outright lie.

Pros: game seems to be best of its kind. Very fun to play and have been able to get to 708 now without the aids you can get from watching adds. Just try different strategies if you happen to fail on one(or just be quicker). Cons: if you don’t pay you have to watch an add every level to get minimal gold at high level. You don’t have a choice but you can skip most after a few seconds Adds aren’t very appropriate Recently seems to be replaying levels but haven’t payed much attention until around level 680 Level difficulty doesn’t really increase as you go if you upgrade towers evenly Ranking system has no explanation and it says I’m number 1 after every level but doesn’t really make sense Note: merge mode you need to watch adds after every win or you will hit levels you cannot beat. Makes it very difficult to get up the gems to compete because losing gets you very few. Recommend: Having more towers on a level. Having multiple sections that can’t ever reach each other. More explanation on ranking with maybe a pvp mode.

This is not only a good game but hats off to the person who kept the ad removal cost reasonable. Otherwise I wouldn’t of bothered. There are way too many games that want far too much money on such a simple game just to remove the ads. My only complaint about this game was it took me a while to figure out exactly how the towers function. It would’ve been nice to have a better FAQ or something. I eventually figured it out. Maybe it’s because I didn’t play the first one.