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Galaxy Defense: Fortress TD
CYBERJOY LIMITED · 8,887 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 64 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.
1
"game"
44 negative reviews mention this · 69% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why tho?. Why make your merge function this way? Every other game in existence merges similar items together and gives you a higher version of said similar items. Why do you think you’re so special to make it so brain dead like this? How is that in a…" - Thomad
2
"level"
19 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why tho?. Why make your merge function this way? Every other game in existence merges similar items together and gives you a higher version of said similar items. Why do you think you’re so special to make it so brain dead like this? How is that in a…" - Thomad
3
"money"
17 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "V15 still crashing. Not only does it crash, but you lose out on the resources you spent to play that match… really wish I had not given them money…" - Fishfood00
4
"spend"
13 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paid and can’t play. So I bought the VIP pack and it cost 50 dollars, and now I have ran out of energy, and can’t play. If I spend as much as a ps5 game on the phone I should be able to play when ever I want. Class action anyone?" - No winss
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"progress"
10 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why tho?. Why make your merge function this way? Every other game in existence merges similar items together and gives you a higher version of said similar items. Why do you think you’re so special to make it so brain dead like this? How is that in a…" - Thomad
6
"play"
10 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Just saw a click bait ad. Just saw an ad for this game on Instagram and it was not how the real game play looks so I'm uninstalling and giving a bad rating the game is too grind heavy with no return wouldn't recommend unless you have no self control and buys pointle…" - Ryan_Crow
7
"upgrades"
10 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not so good. Game is hard enough for you to not be able to manage which turrets you want to take to battle👎🏼and the upgrades are so complicated, it takes forever to be in a stable level even if you purchase . Good game to kill sometime but not to keep" - Reyes glob
8
"long"
9 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why tho?. Why make your merge function this way? Every other game in existence merges similar items together and gives you a higher version of said similar items. Why do you think you’re so special to make it so brain dead like this? How is that in a…" - Thomad
9
"levels"
9 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BEWARE. This game is cool until it isn’t. First 4 levels you’re good, then the game becomes pay to play. Fun for an hr, then delete." - justmyko_
10
"random"
8 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why tho?. Why make your merge function this way? Every other game in existence merges similar items together and gives you a higher version of said similar items. Why do you think you’re so special to make it so brain dead like this? How is that in a…" - Thomad
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"unless"
8 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Just saw a click bait ad. Just saw an ad for this game on Instagram and it was not how the real game play looks so I'm uninstalling and giving a bad rating the game is too grind heavy with no return wouldn't recommend unless you have no self control and buys pointle…" - Ryan_Crow
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"turrets"
8 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful Update. The game was pretty ok until this horrible update. Why are the turrets more stupid now and malfunction randomly? Also, I just opened up one of the packs from Project Ark event and why did I get 2 Epics that were exactly the same? That …" - APlayerThatLikes
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Why tho?
Why make your merge function this way? Every other game in existence merges similar items together and gives you a higher version of said similar items. Why do you think you’re so special to make it so brain dead like this? How is that in any way a good thing? How does this help progression?
Incase anyone reading doesn’t know, this game merges any old chip together with any other chip. Resulting in you losing good chips in exchange for useless random chips you don’t need or use. For example: it’ll take an atk + chip, a guardian chip, fire damage + chip, etc and then it’ll give you something random like electrical damage……instead of the usual method of taking several of the exact same and giving you a higher version of them.
Took way too long to realize that this was going on. Now i am stuck using chips that I don’t use, effectively reducing my effectiveness and not being able to progress any further. I’m literally one short of a full 5 slot on one of my gear pieces because of this. I’m level 27, on normal 15, elite 10, and I’m currently short a chip on one of my gear. I now have to wait til the rng gives me a chip to fill the slot.
Ruined the game for me. Wasted my time.
Incase anyone reading doesn’t know, this game merges any old chip together with any other chip. Resulting in you losing good chips in exchange for useless random chips you don’t need or use. For example: it’ll take an atk + chip, a guardian chip, fire damage + chip, etc and then it’ll give you something random like electrical damage……instead of the usual method of taking several of the exact same and giving you a higher version of them.
Took way too long to realize that this was going on. Now i am stuck using chips that I don’t use, effectively reducing my effectiveness and not being able to progress any further. I’m literally one short of a full 5 slot on one of my gear pieces because of this. I’m level 27, on normal 15, elite 10, and I’m currently short a chip on one of my gear. I now have to wait til the rng gives me a chip to fill the slot.
Ruined the game for me. Wasted my time.
Guild name invoking racism
Seeing guild factions such as the name JewKillers (ID: #0f10a114) with the description “we don’t like Jews” needs to be banned. Clearly, and unfortunately, people lack decency and need to be managed in that sort of thing. Please, admin of this wonderful game, take action on this.
Frustrating
Spent weeks trying to get past a certain level and ended up deleting the app out of frustration
Random
This could be great but everything is so random it is annoying
Just saw a click bait ad
Just saw an ad for this game on Instagram and it was not how the real game play looks so I'm uninstalling and giving a bad rating the game is too grind heavy with no return wouldn't recommend unless you have no self control and buys pointless stuff in free to play games that don't mean anything
V15 still crashing
Not only does it crash, but you lose out on the resources you spent to play that match… really wish I had not given them money…
Paid and can’t play
So I bought the VIP pack and it cost 50 dollars, and now I have ran out of energy, and can’t play. If I spend as much as a ps5 game on the phone I should be able to play when ever I want. Class action anyone?
Awful Update
The game was pretty ok until this horrible update. Why are the turrets more stupid now and malfunction randomly?
Also, I just opened up one of the packs from Project Ark event and why did I get 2 Epics that were exactly the same? That never happened before.
I liked the new event you guys did, but man there is a balance issue when 1 guy kills off enemies faster, all the other guy has to do is wait and then he sends off the enemies to the other guy with TRIPLE strength. Seems like damage also doesn’t register and when there’s a clear winner on one side, it makes the other person win with the weaker side.
Update: WTF, why are we watching double ads now????
Also, I just opened up one of the packs from Project Ark event and why did I get 2 Epics that were exactly the same? That never happened before.
I liked the new event you guys did, but man there is a balance issue when 1 guy kills off enemies faster, all the other guy has to do is wait and then he sends off the enemies to the other guy with TRIPLE strength. Seems like damage also doesn’t register and when there’s a clear winner on one side, it makes the other person win with the weaker side.
Update: WTF, why are we watching double ads now????
Locks functionality behind “updates” that don’t come
Got the game and played for a bit, then got SVIP because I liked it. Every single guild has been full since I started.
Now, you can’t even access the guilds because you need to update to version. 15.0 but Apple App Store in the USA has been on 14.7 for over a week.
Might try to request a refund since there’s zero reason to lock this
Now, you can’t even access the guilds because you need to update to version. 15.0 but Apple App Store in the USA has been on 14.7 for over a week.
Might try to request a refund since there’s zero reason to lock this
No update
Can’t update won’t let me talk to my clan.
BEWARE
This game is cool until it isn’t. First 4 levels you’re good, then the game becomes pay to play. Fun for an hr, then delete.
Rigged
This game is just garbage. Saved gems for months and used them in an event to never even have a chance at an armgun, turret, or guardian. Don’t waste your time on this game
Misleading ads
Claims no ads. Ads everywhere. Many levels are designed to not be passed unless you pay or run the same level 100 times to just out level it. Whole app is scammy
Forced signup: scam by design
Their UI ensures that attempting to exit the app will trigger the “continue” button that accepts their prompt to share your Apple ID and personal info.
It set a new low bar for unethical design, so congrats, this is the most evil app on the App Store so far.
It set a new low bar for unethical design, so congrats, this is the most evil app on the App Store so far.
Not so good
Game is hard enough for you to not be able to manage which turrets you want to take to battle👎🏼and the upgrades are so complicated, it takes forever to be in a stable level even if you purchase . Good game to kill sometime but not to keep
Ad machine
Just another thing to put ads in your face.
问题没人反馈
提交了存档和付费不见的问题，一周都没人理
All about ads
This game is designed to make you watch as many ads as they can cram down your throats. It’s a fun game, but it is almost impossible to progress without paying or long grinds. The ads are everywhere in this.
Mid
Lost me at the forced ads after playing for 6 minutes. Hard pass.
Pointless game
The game lacks progression unless you spend thousands. Extremely boring and the towers lack any depth or strategy. If you want mind numbing…this game is for you.
Ads break it
Lots of fun but the ads break the game constantly making it freeze and having to reboot app. Too bad too, first game in a long time that’s kept my interest for longer than 2 days, but too frustrating to have ads freeze when I’m 1-3 levels away from beating elite stages and it doesn’t save progress to come back.
Pay to Win Scam
Exceptionally unfair level difficulty scale crossed with abysmal turret mechanical value.
Not paying the developer? Stay away. This game is a poor excuse for a “strategic” game, disguising itself as a “challenging experience.”
There’s challenging, and then there’s deliberate handicapping the player to promote sales. The turrets, the one thing the player relies on for defense, are horrendously programmed. Frequently missing a SCREEN FULL OF TARGETS, choosing to fire into a direction without enemies, or sometimes not at all is unacceptable for a tower defense game.
Before asking for donations, maybe fix your game and make it playable.
Not paying the developer? Stay away. This game is a poor excuse for a “strategic” game, disguising itself as a “challenging experience.”
There’s challenging, and then there’s deliberate handicapping the player to promote sales. The turrets, the one thing the player relies on for defense, are horrendously programmed. Frequently missing a SCREEN FULL OF TARGETS, choosing to fire into a direction without enemies, or sometimes not at all is unacceptable for a tower defense game.
Before asking for donations, maybe fix your game and make it playable.
F your battle pass
Game seems fine but constantly pops up trying to get you to spend money.
Typical money grab
Game is great until level 24. The level is unplayable unless you like to spend lots of money or replay the same level a thousand times. If you don’t care about money, play away. Otherwise, don’t waste your time.
Server issues
Fix the cloud save error that has plagued the game for weeks now. Some people pay to play and expect stuff to work. This is getting ridiculous.
Pay to win levels
The game is fun to start. Multiple levels are extremely overturned difficulty wise to effectively be pay to win road blocks. Just deleted game. Do yourself a favor and google different levels such as 15 to see multiple player feedback on it that the company is choosing not to listen to.
P2W and scammed.
Played this for a long time. Every day logging in. Could have been a year or more tbh. I could see it was pay to win but still played it in my free time for fun.
But I just got a notification that I was charged for something in the app that I did not do.
Instant delete and one star, also reported to Apple and got my refund. Can’t support this game any more sorry.
But I just got a notification that I was charged for something in the app that I did not do.
Instant delete and one star, also reported to Apple and got my refund. Can’t support this game any more sorry.
Fun game but good lord
The game is very enjoyable, sometimes. The difficulty spikes are horrendous and some levels have taken me a week or more to beat. Progression is abysmally slow and any progress you do make feels pointless.
Deleted my account with purchases. Instant 1*
The title says it all. This is unacceptable business practice. Installed after a long break, to see if it improved. It has not. This new finding ruined my view on this game entirely. Lost time and money. Unacceptable thievery. Fix it and my review will be updated.
Don’t believe the reviews
It’s behind one of the most significant pay walls I’ve ever seen. Level 15 becomes ridiculously difficult and all of a sudden weapons rarely give an option for tier upgrades. Strategy means little.
Do NOT give these clowns your money
This game is 100% cash grab. You will be stuck on the same level for weeks at a time unless you pay for multiple upgrades. And those will only get you through a couple levels before you have to do it again. The multi player is a joke; I'm in Project Ember with almost double the attack of my opponent and losing anyway. I very much wish I had not given them the money to skip ads. They don't deserve a dollar.
Pay to Win
I downloaded and enjoyed this game for two days before I learned what kind of game this is. The first few levels are doable, but then you realize how strong the enemies become and how little damage you actually deal. And then the amount of enemies just keep piling on. Along with the turrets that maybe activate once every 10-15 seconds it seems like, you’re essentially powerless. So the difficulty increases exponentially while you become stronger linearly (if at all). It’s quite unfortunate because the shooting/turret mechanics, along with the ability to eventually become powerful are extremely satisfying. However, that quickly gets outweighed by the poor design of the game. The only real way to progress is by spending a ton of money, which for someone like me who has other financial responsibilities, is a complete waste. Asking for money in a game is fine, but the amount they’re asking for, which is hundreds of dollars per week, is absolutely outrageous. That’s a months’s rent worth of money if you want to make real progress in this game, which just isn’t worth it. Don’t bother wasting your time with this game.
Will wreck your screen
Maybe they should allow the app to go to screen saver mode?? The permanent impression this app made on my screen, says so… 🤬
Money Grab!
Once you get past the first 5 levels you’ll quickly realize that you cannot progress further without paying real money for rewards you should already be getting oh you played this level 10 times here’s enough materials to upgrade one item one time get a grip devs.
Still no fixes
Still crashing constantly, put in three tickets and no response. Don’t give them your money.
don't waste your time
this game is cool until you spend some money to progress and proceed to lose all your progress over the last 2 hours you made for no discernible reason.So I spent money and got literally nothing out of it. Robbed, I was essentially robbed of my money. I reached out to their help/support multiple times over the course of 2 weeks AND HAVE NOT HEARD ONE SINGLE WORD OR RESPONSE. to summarize: if your into sinking time and money into a game to make a bunch of progress and lose all of it while being ghosted completely by whatever "support" they offer, then this game is for you
Lots of bugs
Pick upgrades but you don’t get upgrades, watch videos but don’t get the rewards for watching videos good game but these bugs make the game so bad .
WHERE DID MY ACCOUNT GO?!!!
Refund me for x2 game speed. I had played a few months ago and had earned an event tower and was really far along. When I hit “recover account” it still started me fresh anyway and worse I paid $3 for x2 speed which has now been changed to $10 for 1 month or a WAPPING $40 permanent. That’s a $37 increase for permanent within less than 6 months. #DEFUNDGREEDYDEVS!!!!
Luck based strategy game
Why create a strategy game that does not allow you to be strategic? Random turret options and upgrades that incentivize ad watching. Way to cheapen your game. Lame lame lame
Latest update/changes
Deleting. Increased difficulty to drive purchases I guess. I was enjoying it. Not playing a game that requires purchase. I was even spending $10/mo. I guess that isn’t good enough. Good luck.
Pay to Enjoy
It’s a horrible waste of time. Your gameplay is based on RNG and how much real money you spend-nothing else.
I regret spending any money on this garbage and even more the time I spent on it.
Stay away!
I regret spending any money on this garbage and even more the time I spent on it.
Stay away!
Money grab
Through reading reviews and playing for awhile. It has a high probability of pay to win. When stats are built towards a style of play. Cards necessary for that style requires watching adds or rarely show up until halfway through the first part of a mission. For a game that in the beginning stacks the enemies against you. It becomes harder by constantly missing the targets from energy weapons and rockets, lack of cards, and endless grinding to build. After a week of playing…I decided to uninstall the game and will check out other games from developer
Fun Game, extremely greedy devs
This game is quite enjoyable, you kind of just watch your guy and the 4 turrets blast enemies. The upgrades are cool and you can somewhat strategize based on enemy weaknesses, but everything gameplay-wise is entirely random chance.
Now as for the game progression, it is pathetically bad. Even at level 45, stage 29, you still barely get maybe 300-1000 coins for doing anything, barely any turret shards or gear chips. And don’t even get me started on gem distribution for the events or “loot boxes”. You’re lucky to get 50-100 gems at most, and many things in this game require 200+ to do anything.
While the game is enjoyable to have on while doing whatever, the devs seriously need to be far more generous for all players, it feels extremely scummy and is the hallmark of a good game ruined by greed.
Now as for the game progression, it is pathetically bad. Even at level 45, stage 29, you still barely get maybe 300-1000 coins for doing anything, barely any turret shards or gear chips. And don’t even get me started on gem distribution for the events or “loot boxes”. You’re lucky to get 50-100 gems at most, and many things in this game require 200+ to do anything.
While the game is enjoyable to have on while doing whatever, the devs seriously need to be far more generous for all players, it feels extremely scummy and is the hallmark of a good game ruined by greed.
Pay to win
Missions are so hard to pass
Greeds final boss…
I enjoyed this app and felt comfortable spending 20-30 bucks a week when I started playing. You learn VERY quickly that if you’re not spending several hundreds on a weekly basis then you have zero chance of winning any of the constant tournaments going on. I wish that I was overreacting or being unreasonable, but all of this on top of (of course) never ending ads (unless you spend $40 to permanently remove) is a new level of greed and points to how far apart these companies are getting from their consumer base and instead of trying to polish and better balance, they just move right on to the next one, never giving a moments thought about customer service, quality assurance, or customer LOYALTY. If you’re comfortable spending a couple hundred bucks a week, every week, just to have an iota of a chance at “fairness”, then this very mid game is for you. If you’re tired of the greed and lack of customer care and don’t wish to continue rewarding and supporting developers and companies such as this, congrats you’re a good person who chooses to not contribute towards burning our world down just so the very few at the top are able to appease shareholders and/or investors, so that they’re able to add another zero to their “worth”. They don’t care about you or balancing any game, just your money, so if you aren’t able to afford that, they’re letting you know that you don’t matter to them. I would say do better, but none of these clowns possess an ounce of self-awareness nor morality.
!!!PLAYER BEWARE!!!
!!!PLAYER BEWARE!!!
“Random” upgrade rolls are transparently chosen to antagonize your builds
The farther you go in missions, the more often the 3 upgrade options you receive each level are so obviously designed to impede your progress. A situation you easily could handle in mission 5 becomes impossible in mission 15 because all the upgrade options you get will be optimal for single strong attackers vs swarms and vice versa when the opposite is needed. Insanely underhanded and sleazy
Pay to win game
This game will make you spend money just to pass thru level 5 lol
Horrible mechanics (0 star)
Just wanted to say the mechanics of this game are absolutely trash.
The gun/turret intelligence is awful.
Whoever designed the priority system for said turrets has no idea what priority means.
The elite stages early in the game are substantially easier and more fun than the ACTUAL stages.
You get more upgrades in elite stages than in regular. (Feels extremely bad)
Also the upgrade system is horrendous to the fact that there isn’t a lucky tag to a specific upgrade if you wanted to specialize in a way. Meaning if you have 2 upgrades in an ability more than abilities, there should be a mechanic where the chances of you getting that specific upgrade is MORE LIKELY. The randomness of fishing for upgrades and wasting daily energy is a garbage mechanic. No one likes fishing for upgrades (unless you’re insane).
The gear upgrade system early is completely dependent on using your stage materials (gems) for a chance at gear upgrades -only to get crapped on by RNG.
The drop chances of getting “good” gear early is nonexistent.
The chip merging system is trash. Combining 3 random into an upgrading random is not at all fun. There should be a select 3 of the same tier and specific chip and upgrade to next rank.
RNG everywhere means no fun.
Example: *plays for 3 weeks* *gets exciting drop* *plays for 3 weeks* *gets an okay drop*
It is very lackluster.
Sincerely, I do not recommend this game (in this current state)
PS: you should rewrite your mechanics.
The gun/turret intelligence is awful.
Whoever designed the priority system for said turrets has no idea what priority means.
The elite stages early in the game are substantially easier and more fun than the ACTUAL stages.
You get more upgrades in elite stages than in regular. (Feels extremely bad)
Also the upgrade system is horrendous to the fact that there isn’t a lucky tag to a specific upgrade if you wanted to specialize in a way. Meaning if you have 2 upgrades in an ability more than abilities, there should be a mechanic where the chances of you getting that specific upgrade is MORE LIKELY. The randomness of fishing for upgrades and wasting daily energy is a garbage mechanic. No one likes fishing for upgrades (unless you’re insane).
The gear upgrade system early is completely dependent on using your stage materials (gems) for a chance at gear upgrades -only to get crapped on by RNG.
The drop chances of getting “good” gear early is nonexistent.
The chip merging system is trash. Combining 3 random into an upgrading random is not at all fun. There should be a select 3 of the same tier and specific chip and upgrade to next rank.
RNG everywhere means no fun.
Example: *plays for 3 weeks* *gets exciting drop* *plays for 3 weeks* *gets an okay drop*
It is very lackluster.
Sincerely, I do not recommend this game (in this current state)
PS: you should rewrite your mechanics.
Fun at first
Wish the weapon cards appear in game weren’t so random and how the combo cards almost never appear for me even when I meet the requirements, when you build your gear around certain cards and combos then they never show up makes the game unplayable
Avoid
The only way to progress in this game is to spend money! Difficulty level jumps significantly all of a sudden. I'm blocked from the discord page because the moderator doesn't like me it's totally personal. Customer service is non existent I've sent dozens of messages and not 1 has been responded to.
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Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)