Good game just needs a bit of tweaking
Mon Feb 07 2022 ladypong42I’ve had the game for about 3 days now and I just wanna say it’s amazing. I love the space invaders style of games a lot. I also love that there are different ships and stuff with unique abilities to help you with harder levels and bosses. Another thing that I rarely ever see any more in games is that there isn’t any forced ads. Of course there still are ads but you don’t need to watch them they’ll just help you get stuff to give you a little boost.
However I would give 5 stars but the game just has such high prices for new ships and that. Especially just starting the game you’ll get all these blueprints for ships you don’t even have. Also the premium subscription I personally don’t mind but 20$ every 30 days is a little high maybe like 5$-10$ I’d be fine with. Lastly the ads. I know I said there’s no forced ads but there still are ads. 2 ships at the time of this review you need to watch ads to unlock. One ship you have to watch like 30-40 ads to unlock it and the other ship is 80 ads to unlock. Now from what I can tell getting the premium thing will remove these ads but for the players who don’t wanna spend money. They are gonna have to watch a lot of ads just to unlock a ship.
All in all though the games a lot of fun. Even though it’s kinda difficult to unlock new ships and stuff it’s not impossible and you don’t need to purchase anything to get to the top as far as I can tell at the moment.
Fun Game, Low Reward
Thu Aug 03 2023 ZT.MI am currently in world three after abstaining from making a VIP purchase. As others have mentioned, the coins are virtually useless. The games main currency is gems which help in upgrading your ships. Yet having 4 ships (2 @ 54k + power), various drones(11k-19k power), and stones, it is still a challenge progressing through world three.
For a regular level you can earn 2 gems on easy, 3 on normal, and 5 on hard. For boss levels you can earn 5 gems on easy, 9 on normal, and 15 on hard. This totals 414 gems across one world (30 levels total with 6 boss levels). Now this was plenty while getting through the first world, but made it challenging getting through the second and now exhausting getting through the third.
The problem is the rewards are exactly the same across the worlds, yet the difficulty goes up significantly. I love the game and I enjoy a challenge, but I am not inclined to make a purchase to simply complete the story mode. I will no doubt continue playing, and will enjoy what I can while I trudge along this world. If you’re willing to invest in their VIP starter packs, I think the game should be fairly more do-able and enjoyable.
Open Ur Wallet!!
Sat Feb 10 2024 nd fhrurhfhGreat game and a lot of fun. But, once u hit a certain point in the game, u won’t get past that without spending some money - serious money. Not just 20, 30 bucks. Probably bout 100. Without doing that, ur left with no option but to watch ads - a BUNCH of ads. They limit u on how many u can watch each day but, at MINIMUM, it’s like 50 ads per day. So, if u wanna do well in this game, open ur wallet or watch ads for the next 5 years. U can progress and enjoy the game for about a week before ur left with those 2 choices. Plus, this game is TOTALLY rigged. They have a PvP option and it’s obvious the winner is chosen before the match even begins. I’ve been defeated by players whose ships are NOWHERE near as strong as my mine and I’ve beaten people who ships are 10 times stronger. How does that make sense? If this only happened on occasion, I’d think nothing of it. But it happens ALL DAY, EVERYDAY. Just like in sports, the better team USUALLY wins but, of course, upsets do happen. It only stands to reason, if we’re fighting the same battle, the stronger ships SHOULD WIN - MOST OF THE TIME.
Update, now the problem is you can’t even get the game to connect to the internet. They have an internal chat room to speak with other game players and EVERYONE has said, basically, the same thing - U can’t play or do most of the daily activities, challenges, etc cause every time you try you’re told “ No internet connection.” It’s ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE!!
Flawed Game That Could Be Terrific
Fri Aug 25 2023 New Berlin LarrySo, I’ve been playing this game for a couple of months and I have some specific thoughts. This game could have been great, except for some bad design flaws & the ridiculous amount of ads you have to watch.
It’s not out of the ordinary to watch 30+ ads in an hour of playing. Crazy! Add to that fact that a lot of the ads hang the game causing you to reboot. Ads have gotten progressively longer with some being up to 90 seconds in length. That’s nuts!!! You can earn free stuff, but that can take weeks. Greed? Yes! If you choose to make in-game purchases, you can proceed more quickly, but EVERYTHING is seriously overpriced - by a LOT. When you start playing (and trying to earn power) be prepared to get crushed by stronger players. The designers made ZERO effort to balance out the gameplay between the weak & the strong. This can get VERY frustrating at times because you’ll start to ask yourself why are you bothering to play when you have no chance of winning? Finally, on my iPad, the game seems to hang up in the evenings during times of heavy use by players. For goodness sake, invest in some faster servers!!!
Like I said, this game could have been great. It’s too bad the designers were more interested in squeezing money out of their players then actually developing a great gaming platform. SAD
Hope you like to spend money
Fri Feb 23 2024 McNyloIt’s fun at first and you can blast your way through a lot, but pretty quickly it gets almost impossible to beat without spending money. I spent $30 on gems to get the best ship in tier 1 that’s maxed out and STILL it was a challenge. Honestly, most of the “good” ships are absolutely terrible. High damage, but the stupidest fire rate and pattern ever to make it just a pain to use, but you’re basically forced to use them because they have the higher damage you need.
Along with that are the many, many ads you can watch (or are forced to watch) in order to unlock stuff. There’s a ship that’s worth 80 ads and it’s not even that good after a while. It’s just not worth it. There’s so little reward to anything and once you get to the higher levels, you’re not going to win. Period. Unless you spend hundreds of dollars. Spending $30 is already quite a bit and really should be ALL you’re spending total. But $30 gets you nowhere, so I’m deleting this app. I’ll give it 2 stars because it’s fun at first, but it’s a hard nose dive after. I’m sure the developer doesn’t care because they get a fat payday regardless, so best just to avoid this app and get something else.
Stay Away
Mon Feb 19 2024 Sorry I joined this gameBeen playing this game 2 years now and I’ve finally had enough. Endless ads and most are over 1 minute long. Purchase monthly premium package to get rid of ads and still have to watch too many ads(only reduces some ads). Make in app purchases to develop my squads only for the devs to make power adjustments(weaken) my squads. If they don’t weaken your squads they adjust the strength of the bosses you need to kill. End result you spend money to achieve nothing but make theirs bank accounts grow. They have one goal and that’s to make their game the top $ grossing game period. Many top players and high dollar spenders have left the game because of this and I’m going to be next to leave. Ok game if you don’t spend money I guess but be warned. You will not go far without spending money because they keep adding more and more ships, drones and stones making it harder to collect the cards you need to expand and strengthen your squad’s. So if you don’t mind having a weak squad and watching ads that go on forever and spending countless hours farming for gold coins to make upgrades when you finally evolve a ship,drone or stone then this might be the game for you. My advice stay away and spend more time with the family you have instead of spending time on this game.
Can be ok but always wants your money
Thu Dec 07 2023 BillypeaAsks you to buy something every other minute. Hundreds of chances to watch ads. If you don’t watch lots of ads or buy lots of upgrades, you won’t be able to proceed through the game. There are multiple shops, multiple currencies, multiple kinds of upgrades and multiple ships, drones, and stones to buy and then upgrade. Not only that, once you upgrade you then have to “evolve” which requires more upgrades. You can’t play certain levels unless you have certain ships, which are locked. Each level has 7-10 stages. If you die at stage 9, you have to start at 1 again. Each level costs credits. Restart the level, pay more credits to try again. Run out of credits, wait 6-12 minutes for one more play - or just buy more - there’s always a chance to spend your cash. Bosses are boring and repetitive and take forever (unless you have lots of upgrades) Overall, it’s ok. Would be fun if I wasn’t constantly closing windows trying to get me to pay for stuff. Would be more fun if enough upgrades were available not to make it a grind.
Worst Customer Service / purchases don’t get credited
Sat Mar 25 2023 jbd1579Played the game and I enjoyed it, so I decided to spend some money on some in app purchases. Account gets charged, but you don’t receive all of them right away. Bought a ship for $8 but had to wait almost a day to get it. Had to go thru customer service who wanted screen shots to prove I had purchased them. Thinking that was a one time thing, I purchased a few more in app purchases a few days later. Only got 1 purchase right away. Contacted customer service again in order to get the 2nd purchase. I was then instructed to record a video of my opening screen as well as a video of me proving (a video of my purchase history thru Apple) that I had really made the purchase thru the app. … but you can’t send a video because the file is to large. And apparently a picture of my Apple receipt and a pic of my purchase history wasn’t enough proof that I had purchased anything. All and all I spent $40 and received 2 in app purchases directly after purchase, 1 received almost a day after purchase, and 1 wasn’t received at all. I guess I’m a liar. They will not receive another cent from me. Play the game, but make purchases at your own risk. I wouldn’t trust them …. I found out the hard way.
Pay to play
Sat May 08 2021 4skineaterThis game is advertised through AMC movies I downloaded to play during a wait with friends to pass time. As I progressed about 4 levels it was apparent from the store that to buy the game out right and have 1 great ship with 2 side kicks and a boost stone you will without a doubt spend 150$ to get it. This is one set up of 4 that you can run as extra life’s. 150$x4 and that’s just beating the story mode without loosing the time you would actually have to put in to beat the campaign. As for boss raids. Defeating bosses plan on the 150$x4. If you in fact are a saint and can watch 50,000 advertisements and battle every story mode from easy to hard. You would probably log over 300 hours on this game 150$x4 and 300 hours is still a low ball on the real numbers. 😂 I enjoy the game I’ve spent about 50$ and I’m only on the second planet. And barely. Barely have 1 decent ship. I’m dealing about 100k damage and these ships and sidekicks can get well above that. Well above that. I love the game. I’m completely dissatisfied with how corporate has controlled everything about this simple game. I will continue to play. Just not happy. I’d rather play cheaper game that’s possibly better on the store. The store on this game is massive.
The Orb 1042
Sat Feb 19 2022 The Orb 1042The game is a good time killer but you had better be ready to spend some bank or have more patience than the law allows. The designers are genius if you ask me, they have formulated it so you will never be able to actually finish the game but will spend $100’s if not $1000’s in your attempt to do so. You can max out your ships, drones and stones thinking “Wow I’m almost at the top of the heap and I should really be able to ascend the ladder” just in time for the designers to add another tier to the aforementioned, thereby making your existing ships and stones obsolete.
Trust me, they have definitely thought this thing through, if you are the type of personality who plays to win or needs to finish what you have started, then they have you. You will always want to reach that end goal but you will never get there as no matter how much patience you have nor money you have in your pocket, they will continue to stay one step ahead and dangle that nice juicy carrot that will always be just out of reach.
Won’t even start with how much of your lifetime that will be lost slogging your way through the unbelievable amounts of adds necessary to receive the paltry “gifts”. These folks are clever.
