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Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD
Ironhide Games · 31,541 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 18 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
16 negative reviews mention this · 89% of all complaints
★★★★★ "there's so many 3rd party tracking cookies taking your data behind the scenes on this game, it took me 35 mins to find out what they do and turn them all off, not a nice experience for a pay to play." - Richard N
2
"towers"
6 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I don't understand why, all these years later, Kingdom Rush is still missing a critical quality of life feature like increasing speed/ fast forwarding in a tower defense game. Trying to replay or use different strategies, towers and heroes …" - Daniel Șamata
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"behind"
5 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "there's so many 3rd party tracking cookies taking your data behind the scenes on this game, it took me 35 mins to find out what they do and turn them all off, not a nice experience for a pay to play." - Richard N
4
"heroes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I don't understand why, all these years later, Kingdom Rush is still missing a critical quality of life feature like increasing speed/ fast forwarding in a tower defense game. Trying to replay or use different strategies, towers and heroes …" - Daniel Șamata
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"games"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "it's a good game but way too short before games pushes you to shell out extra 9 euro for additional campaigns. very greedy model. shame" - Wojtek Wojciechowski
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"tower"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I don't understand why, all these years later, Kingdom Rush is still missing a critical quality of life feature like increasing speed/ fast forwarding in a tower defense game. Trying to replay or use different strategies, towers and heroes …" - Daniel Șamata
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"money"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The game purchase price was like $6. What they don't tell you is that half of the heros and defense towers are locked behind micro transactions. $2 per hero or tower. This is scummy pricing behavior. I understand that the devs need to make …" - Brandon
8
"defense"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I don't understand why, all these years later, Kingdom Rush is still missing a critical quality of life feature like increasing speed/ fast forwarding in a tower defense game. Trying to replay or use different strategies, towers and heroes …" - Daniel Șamata
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"feels"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I waited and waited for this game. It looks amazing but once I saw we weren't given a majority of the towers, I became angry. I expected the heros to be behind a paywall but not so many of the towers. Honestly, this game feels like a watere…" - JJJ
10
"game feels"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I waited and waited for this game. It looks amazing but once I saw we weren't given a majority of the towers, I became angry. I expected the heros to be behind a paywall but not so many of the towers. Honestly, this game feels like a watere…" - JJJ
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"locked"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The game purchase price was like $6. What they don't tell you is that half of the heros and defense towers are locked behind micro transactions. $2 per hero or tower. This is scummy pricing behavior. I understand that the devs need to make …" - Brandon
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"hero"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I don't understand why, all these years later, Kingdom Rush is still missing a critical quality of life feature like increasing speed/ fast forwarding in a tower defense game. Trying to replay or use different strategies, towers and heroes …" - Daniel Șamata
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I don't understand why, all these years later, Kingdom Rush is still missing a critical quality of life feature like increasing speed/ fast forwarding in a tower defense game. Trying to replay or use different strategies, towers and heroes becomes incredibly frustrating in Alliance. It could have been amazing.
The game purchase price was like $6. What they don't tell you is that half of the heros and defense towers are locked behind micro transactions. $2 per hero or tower. This is scummy pricing behavior. I understand that the devs need to make money. But I had no idea I was buying half a game. I read through the description and nothing was mentioned that I was buying half of a product. Very deceptive to thier consumer, mobile games are out of control.
First, you pay to buy the game. Then, you realize that most of the "cool" towers and the strongest heroes-the ones they advertise-are locked behind additional paywalls. If you want the full experience, you’re looking at spending $50+ on a mobile game. It feels like the levels are intentionally designed with "difficulty spikes" just to frustrate you into buying the premium towers or "cheat" items (gems/consumables) to win.
having to pay over 6 times the cost of the game for just two DLC packs is wild.
I do enjoy this game but any enjoyment is overshadowed by the absolute GLUTTONY of the developers. Why does a basic mobile game cost more than a console game? I mean c'mon. Really disappointing and kinda sad
buy full game but need to pay as well in game just no ....
Seems like you cant even progress without spending money which is a terrible design.
Not worth the money. Very little content for a paid game.
I make it short: You play against bots and get paired with bots who usually have 3 tower levels and 3-7 hero levels more then you. So you will loose a good 70% of your games. Then after a lot of grinding suddenly the system gives you a 7 games winning strike by fair matchmaking and you can enter the next map/world waiting for the systems permission to continue. Skills doesn't matter for progress. They delete critical comments here it's my second try now.
You already have to buy the game, but a lot of the content is still locked behind extra purchases. Heroes, towers, and other features should be unlockable through gameplay, not more payments. The game is fun, but it feels incomplete unless you keep spending money.
I'm not sure why "unblockable flying enemy hero micro hell" is the direction Ironhide keeps insisting to take this game in
there's so many 3rd party tracking cookies taking your data behind the scenes on this game, it took me 35 mins to find out what they do and turn them all off, not a nice experience for a pay to play.
it's a good game but way too short before games pushes you to shell out extra 9 euro for additional campaigns. very greedy model. shame
I waited and waited for this game. It looks amazing but once I saw we weren't given a majority of the towers, I became angry. I expected the heros to be behind a paywall but not so many of the towers. Honestly, this game feels like a watered down imitation within the mythos. It looks good but it is gilded in gold; hollow on the inside. Why do we need over 5 dragon heros? Why are the heros just reskinned versions of past characters? The voice lines r terrible.
Felt like I bought half a game.
If I had known that you had to buy most of the towers and heroes I would not have purchased. If I am paying for a game it needs to offer enough value, and beating this game in a few hours is not it. Sure, there are other campaigns...for $9 each. Would not recommend.
I like Kingdom Rush and hv all of it.. but the cost is getting more and more expensive... total cost of the DLC and heroes are more expensive than a AAA game.
It's a decent tower defense game but gets 2 stars for having freemium currency and mtx when it's a paid game. I don't partake in that scam that Google allows to run rampant on its storefront and expect games with an upfront price to be free of that kind of predation.
Sentiment summary
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