Castle Creeps TD

Initially I ranked this game 5 stars and was obsessed with it. Essentially, it was my go to game and the best TD game I had ever played. Generally, I spend a few bucks on games I like and work hard to progress. However, in this game, you hit a wall at around level 70 to 80. At this point you will run out of gold to upgrade your heroes and towers. So is there any way to get more gold? Nope. You will need about 200,000 gold to upgrade your troops. The gold costs $10 for 20k. So you must spend at least $100 or quit the game. I elected to quit. Whatever, I’ll just download another game. As far as working hard to make more gold and develop? Not a chance. Their tournament rewards are garbage, plus it’s insanely hard. You don’t get gold from replaying levels. Free chests may give you 500 while paid chests only give you 5-6,000. Give me a break, what’s the point of playing a game that you can’t progress unless you pay. I deleted the game and you should not bother with it either.

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i love tower defense games, but this one seems particularly difficult straight out of the gate and soon becomes unplayably hard without purchasing boosts, or buying currency to purchase said boosts. the gold situation is also impossible - it's bizarrely difficult to collect enough gold to unlock upgrades that you need in order to move forward - and that isn't even the "premium" currency! it's understandable to have to be very careful about gem use, but gold should be much easier to find since it's the most basic currency in the game and required for so many things. PLEASE work on the balance of this game so it can actually be entertaining beyond the first couple of levels! as it is, i'll probably be deleting and looking for something else to fill the tower defense void. EDIT: part of the gold issue results from being unable to earn extra gold by going back and replaying previous levels. you can replay, but the only way to get gold from it is to get more stars than you got before, which is incredibly limited and beyond frustrating if you already have 3-star victories on everything.

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The game itself is fun and challenging. But once you reach about level 80 (which only takes a few days of casual play) you can’t proceed any further. This is because it costs gold to upgrade your towers and heroes and there’s no way to grind for gold. There’s a limited amount of gold per level and once you’ve beat level and earned 3 stars, there’s no way to beat it again to earn more gold. So you’re forced to either buy gold or wait a day and a half for the medium gold chests to become free to open, which sometimes contain gold, and sometimes don’t. And when they do contain gold it’s only about 6,000 worth and by level 80 your towers cost around 8-10k to upgrade and your heroes cost even more. You end up being able to upgrade a tower or a hero about every 3 days. And with 5-6 heroes and 16 towers, upgrading is an impossibly slow process. And if you can’t upgrade your towers and heroes you can’t progress. There’s also a way to earn a medium chest by doing daily challenges. With those you can earn about a chest a day. So that speeds things up a bit. But it still takes way too long to progress without paying to play.

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This game is one of the most fun tower defense games out there. It’s nice to look at, has all the usual elements plus a few extra for progression. I’ve had this game a few years now and have seen the various updates and changes to game mechanics. I stopped playing at one point because the ability to continue required I sink a *ton* of actual money into the game; I’m all for supporting developers who produce good content... but each individual player shouldn’t be making the equivalent to one of your mortgage payments in purchases in order to enjoy the game. You need to be less greedy and balance the game, give us more coins. I want guaranteed coins in EVERY gem box, I want coins from replaying levels, I want coins to be cheaper to purchase with Gems. Play to win games can be fun, and mutually beneficial to the developer and player; by implementing an aggressive P2W strategy you have alienated your player base. We will spend $5 here and there, but not $5-20/day.

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By default you can only earn basic/crappy versions of most of the characters I’ve seen, then there are better versions with unique skins that are purchase only and even then they are locked behind a timer. It’s one thing to have pay exclusive items/units but they way about it in a distasteful way that I find unfriendly to consumers. For example, your starter character is a basic knight with an aoe slam, but then there’s a paid version of him that can breath fire and is better in just about every way; but here’s the thing, this p2w version is only available for the first ~48 hours you play, so not only do they have a lame pay model where you can’t earn anything good but they actually try and pressure you with their little timers. I for one do not support game developers like these and am deleting the game, I’d recommended you not support this game with purchases. If you want games to get better you have to vote with your wallet, it’s the only thing these companies care about, it is no longer about the player experience or customer loyalty.