King or Fail - Castle Takeover

I have very strong feelings about this game, so get ready for a long rant and a lot of information. Because I have, unfortunately, spent quite a lot of time on this game. So I went ahead and spent the 8 dollars to get rid of force ads. And for the first while, this game was actually fun. But after a certain point, it gets just plain ridiculous. You spend hours building up parts of your kingdom, getting to a point where things kind of run themselves and it’s very satisfying. But then, you level up to a certain point and you are no longer harvesting apples, you’re harvesting PEARS, and while you still REQUIRE apples, you now have to buy them, and you’re starting with square one in the pears, harvesting is just as slow as the beginning. Same with stone. You spend hours building up only for all the progress you made to become absolutely moot. You level up your characters fighting a hundred times, and nothing ever actually changes. Basically at a certain point, the game basically forces you to start back from square one, while charging you 100x the amount for basic items and required upgrades. Not to mention the fact that without the eight dollar cost to get rid of forced ads, the game is virtually unplayable. It is about every 10 seconds that you are forced to watch an ad, and that is not an exaggeration at all. Also, even without the forced ads, you really cannot get through the game at all without watching some ads. At even slightly higher levels, you absolutely cannot defeat castles without giving yourself a boost by watching ads. They make it completely impossible.

I downloaded this game after playing the playable ad multiple times on a different game. The ad was slightly different as I have yet to build a sword or shield or have graphics that indicate inside a building but that’s the only difference. I enjoy this game as a way to kill time and it’s a good game to wind down the end of a long day. I also appreciate that you do not need to spend money to earn extra coins or resources. Yes, to earn those you do have to watch ads but the ads only last 20-45 seconds and the rewards have been worth it. There are pop up ads that happen randomly, but they only last about 30 seconds and usually you can skip them after about 10 seconds so it’s not bad. I don’t know how the decision is made for which ads to show but if I had some suggestions it would be to change them up more often, make sure the ads are not for apps that have really bad ratings/scams, and maybe more “playable” ads to make watching them more appealing. The game itself is good, I do wish you earned coins/village operated while you weren’t playing but that’s really my only game related complaint.

i genuinely love playing this game while winding down after a long day, its a simple concept that can be quickened by ads. the only problem i've run into after playing for a couple months is that if you upgrade or evolve too quickly the game will NOT catch up. i've been soft locked at level 37 for 3 weeks now, with no end in sight. i accidentally evolved a few locations too fast by watching ads and can't even buy the materials i need in the resource exchange. this simple bug has made my favorite game completely obsolete because the main goal is to level up and grow your community. hopefully this gets fixed so i can give it a 5-star review but until then i'll be looking for other games to play.