Boom Castle: Tower Defense TD

This is one of those games that starts out phenomenal, and as you play begins to get so hard that it’s impossible. Some of the upgrades you get as you go along actually end up being downgrades. At level 24, I got a weapon that said it was great for low level enemies. This is a weapon that should’ve been introduced on level five. Then as you update them, they actually do nothing more. I really wanted to love this game, and I’ve actually spent about $100 in upgrades. They got me. Basically, at level 28 the game is over. It’s impossible to progress. I think the developers have actually not gotten past working on this level and have purposely crippled the game. They have literally NO IDEA how to upgrade characters. I grinderu for hours. HOURS. When I finally upgraded my character…. 3% damage upgrade. That’s it. 3%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t waste your time. At this point it’s a joke. Do me a favor developers… when you fix this game let me know so I can download and try it again. UPDATE: This game is still impossible. They were getting so many bad reviews, they made a few more levels possible, then you grind to a halt again. These guys don’t know what they are doing.

I haven’t found a game I enjoy this much in quite a while. I’m glad they’re still adding features though. It’s a little bare in certain ways but it plays so well. Graphics, characters, and mechanics are all pretty fantastic. You just can’t get much play time. The energy to battle is really restricting. Once you hit mid 30’s it’s just a slow grind for gold to get upgrades to beat higher levels. Checking weaknesses and employing strategies is really cool though. They just need to add some additional modes. A large endless battle mode with full power and all characters would be cool. An additional mode that’s not energy reliant would be nice too. Even if the rewards are minimal it would be nice to enjoy the game. Anyway, still worth 5 stars. I hope they keep up the good work!

The basic premise is simple - protect your castle from attacking monsters. The first 5 stages are pretty easy and serve as a good tutorial, but then you hit your first difficulty shelf. Stage 2 is like 1% harder than stage 1. Stage 3 is like 2% harder than 2, stage 4 is like 2% harder than stage 3 and so on. But stage 6 is like 3000% harder than stage 5. It is impossible to finish - not difficult - IMPOSSIBLE. Until you spend 2-3 hours replaying stages1-5 to farm resources and upgrade your cannon and heroes. The same thing happens around stage 19 or so, except this time you have to spend more like 4 or 5 hours farming for resources. By stage 22 -23, you are spending 6-8 hours farming resources to beat anything. Then they add daily dungeon challenges. The first one was hard, but winnable. After that, they are all impossible - so why even offer them? Several of the daily dungeon challenges include “bosses” that, even with weapons that are well upgraded, you can’t take more than 10-15% of the boss health off before he destroys your wall, so what is the point? The game gets frustrating after stage 5, which might take you 20-30 minutes to reach, but after that, the difficulty shelves are just too punishingly steep - it’s just not fun to go play stage 19 75 times to try to upgrade 2 heroes so you can maybe beat stage 20, then do the same thing again to beat stage 21.