The Army

Buying upgrades in this game feels like trying to buy a house with a part time minimum wage job. The amount of money you get in this game does not scale nearly as much as cost of the upgrades do. The cost of upgrades basically doubles every time you buy and the income you make barely changes as you progress so you have to do 5 runs to upgrade it once only to get +0.01% attack power. You are actually pulling in scraps of change every run. Its so terribly designed. But not to worry right you can buy the money upgrades in the store! No! I spent 50k crowns for +0.5 crowns per kill! As for the gems and essence to get skills for your units. The only way to get them normally is through the event dungeon that is virtually impossible after stage 6. It literally goes from fighting enemies with 20-30hp to trapping your team in 333hp cubes + getting shot at by the entire US army. With how slow the game is you would have to spend thousands to maybe beat half of the enemies in that stage. After all of that and you finally get out of dungeon you get a whole 400 essence out of the 4000 needed to get one skill! So bare minimum 10 days to get one out of the 4 skills each troop has! Oh and the dungeon only comes around sometimes so its actually 10+ days for one skill!

The game is incredibly grindy. You spend hours sometimes even days grinding away just to progress to the next “episode” (it’s what the levels are called). However, it is very addictive and has a ton of potential. There is a discord they have (which is advertised in game) that has tips and tricks but be careful not to ask a question. You will be greeted with toxic, snarky and condescending comments. The moderators don’t investigate anything and will just ban anyone based on how they feel rather than investigating the facts. Definitely watch out for “TheSpark” he is one of the moderators on there who does exactly as in the aforementioned. The community is definitely something to avoid as it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and really misrepresents this game. I think if the game works out episode progression to be a little quicker by boosting the rate at which stats increase and making other stats more impactful rather than just funneling all your leveling into Block Damage, it could be a lot more enjoying to play. It also needs a change in unit A.I as your units priority for attacking is definitely not efficient. You will see units being actively attacked but instead of attacking back, they attack the blocks in their environment first (blocks in environment are non-aggressive, resource yielding objects). This game has a ton of potential and I hope it actualizes that full potential.

Before I say anything i want to make it clear that I really like this game, I have played for a few days and am currently about to finish episode 3. One of my biggest issues with the game currently is how long combat can take. The ad for 5minutes of increased speed should last longer, or there should be some other way to increase combat speed Another issue that I do not care much about but is still an issue is how your troops will target the nearest thing they can hit instead of what may be a danger to them. They should have some level of awareness when it comes to danger, but I also get the appeal in having them target the nearest thing instead. Random level generation would help a lot with the repetitive nature of the game. Lastly this is not so much a criticism, but an idea. I wish there was some way to earn gems for actually paying attention to the game so it doesn’t feel like i should make a macro to do the upgrades for me and earn crowns without even looking at the game.