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Heroes vs Hordes: Survival RPG
Swift Games GmbH · 32,041 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 33 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"
24 negative reviews mention this · 73% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay to play frustration. The game was fun enough for the fist 4 or 5 levels. By level 5 it was impossible. No feasible path to avoid the hordes without dying multiple times requiring vast resources to revive. The Devs strategy to access your wallet became obviou…" - Gr8Mustache
2
"play"
11 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay to play frustration. The game was fun enough for the fist 4 or 5 levels. By level 5 it was impossible. No feasible path to avoid the hordes without dying multiple times requiring vast resources to revive. The Devs strategy to access your wallet became obviou…" - Gr8Mustache
3
"money"
10 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t bother, it’s a money trap. They have events so you can get a different hero. Problem is you get 1 ticket a day to do it. But you need about 60 tickets to get to the hero. The event only last 15 days. You can pay 200 crystals to play more boards but the only way you g…" - MikeDaMan3298
4
"level"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay to play frustration. The game was fun enough for the fist 4 or 5 levels. By level 5 it was impossible. No feasible path to avoid the hordes without dying multiple times requiring vast resources to revive. The Devs strategy to access your wallet became obviou…" - Gr8Mustache
5
"waste"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay to play frustration. The game was fun enough for the fist 4 or 5 levels. By level 5 it was impossible. No feasible path to avoid the hordes without dying multiple times requiring vast resources to revive. The Devs strategy to access your wallet became obviou…" - Gr8Mustache
6
"other"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t bother, it’s a money trap. They have events so you can get a different hero. Problem is you get 1 ticket a day to do it. But you need about 60 tickets to get to the hero. The event only last 15 days. You can pay 200 crystals to play more boards but the only way you g…" - MikeDaMan3298
7
"nothing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Nothing like the adverts. So yeah, don’t download. It’s nothing like the ads" - 154355mang
8
"another"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Will the real game pls stand up. 8 different ads I've seen for this game. Similar but definitely different and not one of them truly matched the awfulness that is this game. Another game riddled with ads to get you to spend money to play a game with more ads" - Tacona
9
"without"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay to play frustration. The game was fun enough for the fist 4 or 5 levels. By level 5 it was impossible. No feasible path to avoid the hordes without dying multiple times requiring vast resources to revive. The Devs strategy to access your wallet became obviou…" - Gr8Mustache
10
"games"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t bother, it’s a money trap. They have events so you can get a different hero. Problem is you get 1 ticket a day to do it. But you need about 60 tickets to get to the hero. The event only last 15 days. You can pay 200 crystals to play more boards but the only way you g…" - MikeDaMan3298
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"these"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Mix of good and bad. It’s a decent game other than a few big detractors. The number of unique characters is a big plus to an otherwise decent - if not original - game concept. Then you get to ads. I get it. Games have ads. I’m not new to this. But normal ads …" - OgdenZero
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"levels"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay to play frustration. The game was fun enough for the fist 4 or 5 levels. By level 5 it was impossible. No feasible path to avoid the hordes without dying multiple times requiring vast resources to revive. The Devs strategy to access your wallet became obviou…" - Gr8Mustache
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Pay to play frustration
The game was fun enough for the fist 4 or 5 levels. By level 5 it was impossible. No feasible path to avoid the hordes without dying multiple times requiring vast resources to revive. The Devs strategy to access your wallet became obvious pretty early. Don’t waste your time.
Don’t bother, it’s a money trap
They have events so you can get a different hero. Problem is you get 1 ticket a day to do it. But you need about 60 tickets to get to the hero. The event only last 15 days. You can pay 200 crystals to play more boards but the only way you get enough of those to do that is to buy them. This game doesn’t like you if your f2p. I have only got 3 heroes but that’s bc you get them as a new player. You just have to check in each day to get it. But at this point it’s impossible to get anymore unless you pay. I can’t stand games like this. They make it seem that you can get a different character that’s better than the junk they give you but the only way to get it is to buy it. I’ve deleted the game already. If your new and f2p don’t download it. You will be disappointed
Nothing like the adverts
So yeah, don’t download. It’s nothing like the ads
Will the real game pls stand up
8 different ads I've seen for this game. Similar but definitely different and not one of them truly matched the awfulness that is this game. Another game riddled with ads to get you to spend money to play a game with more ads
Okay game but don’t waste your money on getting VIP 4 for auto feature
The game isn’t bad, though it doesn’t make sense as to why they added an auto feature that would purposely walk towards objects that can hurt you. When spoken to support, they claim it’s only for early stages and doesn’t help with obstacles (ex. Snowballs that damages the player). Though that’s in level 20, which doesn’t even open most of the features of the game. You have to unlock level 4 VIP to get access to the auto feature which makes you buy items to get it, and it’s supposed to only work with early stages? When asked what they considered early levels since level 20 already had features that would ultimately make the auto feature unusable, they closed the ticket without answering. I used it in another level that’s higher than 20 that didn’t have any obstacles and it still had issues. Why would it make the character walk TOWARDS an enemy when they’re low health? And they’re not attacking them because it happened first wave so it didn’t even have the powers to fight the enemy.
Fake ratings.
Same old thing. Choose between the same upgrades, or watch an ad to reroll, watch an ad to revive, popups for purchases, buy buy buy. Bye.
Garbage greed fest
Just another game that had potential but greediness has completely ruined it. The heroes are boring and requires paying to actually get the most out of them and they still are about useless and boring. Powers are lame and almost no thought put into them. Enemies are all the same except for design. Which shows once again that no thought was put into them. Better games out there especially if you’re paying to play.
The game is racist
It has been 7 months since I rated the game with one star and said that the game does not support the Arabic language, while it supports all languages, and my demands were not met, and my review was not answered either. If this indicates anything, it indicates that you do not want to improve the game. I regret the deletion of the game, even though I reached VIP status (7).
Gotcha scam, pay to play & win
Just another Gotcha scam, pay to play & win game by a money w-h-o-r-e dev. Don’t waste your time downloading this.
Nothing like the demo
The demo is more fun then the actual game
Pay to play.
Can’t advance without paying.
Greediest devs ever, boycott them
Not worth any stars but they bury other reviews. No matter how strong your character the ai will always adapt and be twice as strong. Even if you go back 20 levels to try and farm coins, the ai will be just as strong as it was on the higher levels but with far less coins from the end stage. Most times the ai is so op that u can’t get past the 1st stage of a level without reviving or using gems. It will also adapt to the skills u normally use and eventually make u use gems to reshuffle the perks.
These losers copied from another source, changed it to their preferences, and proceed to greet players with outrageous and ludicrous pricing. Seems like greed in everyone has increased 10 fold.
These losers copied from another source, changed it to their preferences, and proceed to greet players with outrageous and ludicrous pricing. Seems like greed in everyone has increased 10 fold.
Fake reviews
All these reviews are lies you get to level 29 and can’t progress at all garbage game unless you love spending money
WTF
Played for a while and spent some money. Then suddenly, some of the game modes became unavailable and I’d just get a pop-up saying to sign in. I signed in, and it just re-set the while game! I lost all my progress and all the money I spent. Immediately deleted the game. What a rip off.
Not as advertised
Getting sick of these ads being NOTHING like the actual game. Waste of time really.
Disappointed.
I played my guild event ticket, it took the ticket, but my score never was recorded to the guilds board. I’ve contacted support but heard nothing back. Also, I get kicked out of the game about every other time I try to play hero clash And have to reload the game. So I end up playing it 10 to 12 times instead of just 5 times. And half of them are losses. If I could just get my guild ticket back to replay so that we don’t lose those 24k in points, that would be great. Update: December 7th. It’s happened again. And I’ve still not heard back from any support person🫤. Also I don’t see this review showing up. Update: Dec 13th. I see my review finally got posted. I still haven’t heard anything about my missing gold points. It happened twice. Thankfully I actually got gold points this event on my first hit. It was the first hit each time, the last two events before this where I didn’t get the points but the ticket was still used. I’m also still having issues going kicked out of the game and having to reload it. If it wasn’t for these issues I would give the game a great review.
Don’t Waste Your Time
You Will Not Be Able To Get Pass Certain Levels Unless You Fork Out Lots Of Cash. The Daily “Freebies” Are A Joke. It Is No Different Than Any Other Cash Grab Game Out There.
Incredibly paid to win and full of dark patterns.
Even if you are slugging it out to play the free side of the game, which I was not I did pay to remove ads as I think that is pretty fair payment to ask. The game does nothing unusual by presenting you with 5 to 15 different attempts to get you to purchase things every day. All the while, the endgame currency that you can slowly generate gets accidentally used by the place highly manipulative.
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Only rated 5 to be seen
Stuck at lvl 48 for nearly a week cause the ai increases the difficulty drastically to keep from getting to 50. Game is horribly unbalanced. Enemy health and dmg output doubles or triples with each level the player gains while player has to rely only on upgrades so most of the upgrades/skills are actually meaningless. Player should have slight stat increase each level not just based on the measly 5 slots for skills. No option for obtaining additional skill slots. This makes the game last for years unless you pour money into it.
99.9% of chests will always give just 1 skill upgrade which makes this copied from another source game the worst of the worst. Also just realized how many other ways the game scams players but to much to list here.
DO BETTER, greedy, lazy scammers
99.9% of chests will always give just 1 skill upgrade which makes this copied from another source game the worst of the worst. Also just realized how many other ways the game scams players but to much to list here.
DO BETTER, greedy, lazy scammers
Fun but
Game is fun but the chapters seemingly grow harder at a faster rate than the game gives you currency to upgrade yourself. Stuck watching every ad for a potential advantage and still end up losing because I can’t revive myself. Just forced to replay it again and again for minimal rewards which I can then do one upgrade or so with, which doesn’t end up helping.
Greed
Greed
Bruh
It’s not the same with the ad I played on. Rather play the ad version
Pre mature 5 star
This game really fooled me as a good game. It starts out good first stage you get swords spinning around you and a steady pace bolts bolts from your crossbow wile your up against a good size hoard. Each stage has about 3 breaks each one harder then the last I thought was good. Then when you complete the first stage you get the disappointment you unlock the knight and start the second stage and find out that you only attack with a single sword swipe about once every 5-10 seconds. You lost all your perks from the last stage so your weaker and slower wile the hordes are faster and stronger. You get to level up and each time you can pick a perk or a skill to improve and that seems ok for the next two stages. Remember you start each stage weaker and slower back at level one but the hoard starts off faster and stronger by now the level ups are way under powered and seem useless. You don’t get faster attack speed, or more projectiles or even stronger projectiles you get things like spread your weak aurora out 15 % making it even weaker and by stage 5 it takes way longer to level up and the hoard is too fast and strong to do anything with. So if you like a game that you cannot progress at then this game might be for you.in my opinion it’s a complete waste of time and a major disappointment with the strong start of the game.
Worst game of all time made by bunch of greedy people
Too many ads and this game want to make you go broke. They only care about the money. If u don't spend the money u can't go any more higher. So I suggest not to play this game. If want to then try it out and you will see. This type of game is made for billionaire people only🤣
Watch out they try to tap your phone
Apps used to take your info
False Advertising
Not the same game that was advertised.
Starts fun, then same old
This game is the same as all of the other ones out now. Starts fun, but then it becomes impossible without spending a ton of actual money to get things done. It is the same garbage that’s made to seek out whales (people who spend a lot of money on mobile games). I even bought the $20 part to skip all adds and other benefits, and I am still stuck after a couple days because I refuse to spend any more money to make progress. I sincerely hope the creators of this game and all that work on it have a lot more suffering in their lives: that’s what they deserve for this poison in the world.
Offers
Please give us a option to disable the offers, I have already paid for the ad free version of this game. It would be nice to not have the extra offer pop ups occurring considering the full version has been paid for.
Mix of good and bad
It’s a decent game other than a few big detractors. The number of unique characters is a big plus to an otherwise decent - if not original - game concept.
Then you get to ads. I get it. Games have ads. I’m not new to this.
But normal ads are 20-30 seconds and then you’re done. Recently, ads play multiple times in a row or splice together two one-minute ads. It didn’t start here, obviously, but the trend of sneaking in two to four times the expected required ad time for an offer is dishonest and has to stop.
With that specifically in mind, this game is built around ads. You get a terrible set of upgrade options in a run, you reroll it with an ad. You need to revive, you watch an ad.
And now ads are just unavailable. What the hell??? “No ads available at the moment.” Did you misplace them?? It’s ridiculous to have this come up at ALL. But some options that are supposed to be important aspects of the game just don’t work because you can NOT wait a minute or two to revive because there’s a five-second timer on it. And having to just sit and wait for an ad to even be available massively extends downtime for these “free” options in addition to that 1-2 minute ad time.
In short, this was a fun game with a few ads but now plays more ad time than game time. Maybe they can’t fix the content of the ads, but the rest has GOT to change before I recommend playing it.
Then you get to ads. I get it. Games have ads. I’m not new to this.
But normal ads are 20-30 seconds and then you’re done. Recently, ads play multiple times in a row or splice together two one-minute ads. It didn’t start here, obviously, but the trend of sneaking in two to four times the expected required ad time for an offer is dishonest and has to stop.
With that specifically in mind, this game is built around ads. You get a terrible set of upgrade options in a run, you reroll it with an ad. You need to revive, you watch an ad.
And now ads are just unavailable. What the hell??? “No ads available at the moment.” Did you misplace them?? It’s ridiculous to have this come up at ALL. But some options that are supposed to be important aspects of the game just don’t work because you can NOT wait a minute or two to revive because there’s a five-second timer on it. And having to just sit and wait for an ad to even be available massively extends downtime for these “free” options in addition to that 1-2 minute ad time.
In short, this was a fun game with a few ads but now plays more ad time than game time. Maybe they can’t fix the content of the ads, but the rest has GOT to change before I recommend playing it.
Cyclops is a gem sucker
Unnecessarily difficult cyclops..
Ok but really
The ads hype the game up, it’s a horde game with extremely low graphics and is NOTHING like the ads. It’s so far away from the horde game the ads show it’s not even funny.
If you don’t mind a low quality game that lied to you then I’m sure it’s great, but there are better games out there
If you don’t mind a low quality game that lied to you then I’m sure it’s great, but there are better games out there
Fun game but don’t spend money
I feel like if you spend 50 bucks on gems for an event you should get what you want
I’ve done this for multiple events and failed to get the hero
This game is kinda a rip off when you spend money
I’ve done this for multiple events and failed to get the hero
This game is kinda a rip off when you spend money
Sentiment summary
97%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)