Total Battle
Total Battle is a strategy game with city-building and PvP elements that many find addictive and fun, but it is heavily criticized for misleading advertising, aggressive monetization, and a confusing user experience.
Total Battle is a free-to-play strategy game that combines city-building with player-versus-player combat and clan systems. While some players enjoy its strategic depth and social aspects, many are frustrated by its 'pay-to-win' mechanics and the significant discrepancy between its advertisements and actual gameplay.
What users like
What users complain about
- Gameplay is significantly different from what is advertised, focusing on city-building rather than action-oriented combatR1R5R13R16
- Game progression is heavily reliant on in-app purchases, leading to a 'pay-to-win' or 'pay-to-play' experienceR7R11R21R22
- Gameplay can be confusing, complicated, and involve excessive waiting times for tasksR3R5R11R12
- Poor or unresponsive customer support, with reports of account issues and unaddressed questionsR22R37R43R95
- Frequent glitches, crashes, and connectivity issues hinder gameplayR170R200R280R332
- Aggressive clan dynamics and bullying can make the game unenjoyable for some playersR6R23R30R78
Latest update · v345.2.1934
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Bug fixes and stability improvements. We would be happy to hear your feedback and suggestions. Please send them to [email protected]
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Total Battle is for players who enjoy complex, long-term strategy games with city-building and strong social/clan interaction, and who are willing to either spend money to accelerate progress or be very patient with slow progression R10R17R19R23. It is not for players expecting a simple, action-oriented game as advertised, those unwilling to engage with 'pay-to-win' mechanics, or those who get easily frustrated by confusing interfaces or long wait times R1R5R11R12.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative (46.2% negative), which contrasts with the lifetime rating of 4.6 stars. This suggests a recent decline in user satisfaction, likely due to the recurring issues of misleading advertising, aggressive monetization, and technical problems. The consensus is strong on these negative points, with many reviews echoing similar complaints across different regions.
Frequently asked
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Does Total Battle match its advertisements?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R10] Love this game: I like that this game has many different things going on at once. I love that they have challenges, and a lesson on how to be patient too! If I were u I would definitely try this game!
- [R17] Awesome: I have enjoyed this game immensely over the past year or so. I always feel that I am learning something new weekly and the community is awesome.
- [R19] Total Battle: War Strategy: This game is very strategic and also very relaxing
- [R23] Great strategy game: The social and political dynamics of the clan system makes the game difficult to scale in without being a SUPER SPENDER to pay to play. I love that you can play for free, but the social dynamics and rules made within game by clans make it almost impossible to enjoy long term for fear of being bullied out.
- [R4] MICKEY: Good game
- [R7] Fun: Total Battle is one of the more fun games I’ve played in a while. You have to spend real money if you want to advance quickly but the prices are not too bad.
- [R9] Hoodbattle: Have to stop myself be on it all day
- [R27] The Apocalypse has begun: I love this game!!! It has absolutely NO ads! I’m out here killing the undead! Freeing all the citizens at last! So easy to maneuver I’m killin zombies on every round! What a way to ease anxiety Total battle gets 5stars! Hands down!
- [R41] The fun: This game is so fun and it is no ads it makes it the best
- [R62] No annoying 3rd party ads: A game that you don't get non stop 3rd party ads
- [R378] err: Well I like this game it is okay if you have loads of time on your hands but doesn’t really work if you just want to play for five minutes or so which a lot of other games allow you to do quite easily it is also very confusing and really hard to do and understand.Although it has no adds -that i have come across- overall okay game
- [R1] Fake game: I downloaded the game cause the ad looked fun, but the game was stupid. Please no one buy this. I’m begging.
- [R5] Not quite what is advertised: The game play is all over the map. What you see in ads is fun, until you’re completely blocked from playing because you have to complete these insane tasks. Just let us play the game. Oh and you need WiFi/service. It’s an A for effort, but a big pass for me sadly.
- [R13] Could Be Good: Good game concept with the scroll and choose battles. But after a bit of play it turns into upgrading buildings and battles for materials that have zero to do with the gameplay advertised. Deleted after a day.
- [R16] What even: This game is nothing like the previews
- [R11] Hate it: Of course, after just a few rounds, there’s no way to play without paying money. Overly complicated and so many unnecessary steps and storylines in between being able to play Rounds. Some people like that kind of thing, but I find it to be a drag.
- [R21] The ultimate pay-to-play&win game: If you don’t mind paying tons of money, this game can be fun. I definitely think they hired some psychologists to figure out how to get people to spend money in a game. The first day they give you all the perks, after that you have to start paying for them and it is not cheap…at all. If you’re exceedingly patient and don’t mind waiting five days between actions
- [R22] Unfair: This game only caters to those that spend money. Game play is so skewed that you literally have no recourse from attack by those that buy Rapid Marches. Then somehow miraculously they find your portal instantly. How do they know it was opened? Is there a hack? Support doesn’t care. How do multiple players know the exact moment your shield drops? The solution? The game gives you reminders
- [R3] Sucks: Spent way to much time to repair two mansions but there was only one. Delete!! Delete!!! Delete!!
- [R12] Kinda fun: So basically, your game is pretty fun and I like the feature where you can like move side to side and like get people and try to defeat the monsters but I think the game is a little complicated overall because it’s telling me to like teleport like I’m a new player, but it’s telling me to teleport and build portals and upgrade these houses and I’ll do all this other stuff. I kinda just w
- [R37] Support: Game is fun but the support team is lacking. I’ve had multiple questions that I’ve submitted over the last few days and none of them have been answered. In addition, have spent hundreds of dollars on this game and have just been locked out with no explanation as to why. Due to the time sensitivity of events can’t help but feel like they just stole my money.
- [R43] Game experience good… game support awful: So, the couple of times I’ve tried to contact someone for technical support within the game, it has been an awful experience. Not getting answered back at all. Not getting my problem solved. Man!
- [R95] Fraud takes money from kids: Kid purchased and they never consider it and refund my money back worst customer service ever
- [R170] Glitch: Game got stuck early during the repair mansion even though they had been repaired and couldn’t move forward. Ended up deleting the game.
- [R200] Glitch: Super fun but I've been unable to continue for days because my main questline is stuck.
- [R280] Glitching like mad: The game has been glitching like CRAZY - so draining to play these day having to come in and out and then again. Today the game crashed maybe 30+ times, what’s going on? Everytime there’s a new event you have all of this slow down. So exhausting. When the game runs well, it can be fine. But honestly you have to pay a lot to get the good stuff and also to stay in the game. Would
- [R332] Xjxn: I hate your game it keeps disconnecting I hate it so much
- [R6] 3 Wks and I’ve had enough!: I tried to like this game and gave it a run for weeks, but there’s little to keep you entertained other than grinding for resources and given the deliberate handicapping of resources by the developer to force cash purchases, that get real old, real quick. The last straw was the chat devolving into trash talk after the last election for King. This is a game that is short
- [R30] Clan/Click: So first off, you need to know that you can’t play this game unless you join a clan. You will only be able to advance up to a certain point. So unless you want to interact with other people and deal with a lot of unfriendly women I wouldn’t father downloading this game. Don’t spend any money on it. In my experience unless you are die hard about this game most likely you won’t survive.
- [R78] Bully game: This app has nothing but bullying on it Don’t even start, not worth the time, frustrations, nor the pressure the tribes put on you
- [R33] Good game: I wish I didn’t need to wait 6 days to move on. It’s definitely a pay to win game.
- [R35] Not as advertised: It’s fun for a little while but the game you see isn’t really the game you’re going to play. After 30 to 45 minutes you find yourself in a world building game in which you don’t have enough resources to continue. So you have to spend real money or wait. At this point, I’m supposed to upgrade a building three levels and just to get to the first level, I have to wait five days to
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store