Age of Origins:Tower Defense
Age of Origins is a pay-to-win city-building game with misleading advertisements, frequent crashes, and a toxic player environment, despite some users finding it fun and addictive.
Age of Origins is a free-to-play strategy game that primarily involves city building and player-versus-player combat, not the zombie-shooting gameplay depicted in its ads. Recent reviews highlight significant issues with monetization, aggressive player attacks, technical problems, and false advertising, contrasting with its higher lifetime rating.
What users like
What users complain about
- Game is nothing like the advertisements, which falsely depict a zombie-shooting gameR3R9R14R24
- Heavily pay-to-win, requiring significant spending to progress or competeR2R5R10R15
- Other players can attack and destroy your city, stealing resources, even when offlineR2R16R18R38
- Frequent crashes, lagging, and other technical issues make the game unplayable for someR20R21R25R51
- Gameplay is slow, repetitive, and primarily focused on city building and waiting, not actionR5R11R13R23
- Poor customer service, often blaming users for issues or not resolving problemsR37R44R53R61
- Game requires excessive personal data or privacy permissionsR4
Latest update · v1.3.853
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Optimized some of the game play.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy long-term, strategic city-building and management games, are willing to join alliances, and are prepared to spend significant money to progress or remain competitive R2R5R17. It is NOT for players expecting a fast-paced zombie-shooting game as advertised R3R9R14, those who dislike pay-to-win mechanics R15, or those who get frustrated by frequent crashes and player attacks R20R38.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, focusing on false advertising, pay-to-win mechanics, and technical issues. While some positive reviews exist, they are less detailed and often overshadowed by the recurring complaints. The lifetime rating of 4.17 suggests a more positive historical sentiment, indicating a recent decline in user satisfaction or a growing frustration with long-standing issues.
Frequently asked
Is Age of Origins a tower defense or zombie shooting game?
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Why do players complain about attacks in Age of Origins?
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.
- [R6] Graphics: Great graphics! Easy play.
- [R139] Good, but.. not: Great art, good sound design, music is good but redundant, convoluted and inconsistent UI / design, fun mini games (though towers don’t always attack the most ideal threat - so irritating), way too much visual clutter, way too much content clutter, you’re constantly asking “What is this for? What does it impact? Why do I need to do this?” (the guides often seem to not answer tho
- [R88] Amazing: Definitely one of the best games I ever played. But what it’s most amazing is the troops..as you progress , you can see that the troops are better and even more amazing and gorgeous graphics. The rewards are nice and playing with your alliance friends even better.. definitely 10/10 on troops and graphics. But unfortunately it’s pay to win. I can see big spenders on this game. Players who
- [R1] Age of Origins: Fun game to play with different options. Look forward to the updates.
- [R19] Fun, and very time consuming: I like almost everything about the game, except that people take to serious sometimes. Haters relax it's just a game at the end of the day!!!
- [R48] Pretty fun!: Definitely gets you hooked quickly. I like the gameplay and the arcade type quick fix I get
- [R52] Excellent & Absorbing: So many levels of thought required. Totally addicted!!!
- [R17] Great Game; Greedy Developers: Let me start by saying that I love this game. I love the strategy and being able to connect with people around the world. If it was not for Camel’s greed, I would give 5 stars. The game is set up in such a way that it is a never ending money pit. Constant events that require spending, constant events that require to use all of your items or kill many of your troops
- [R40] Not the same but good: The ads are about 1% of the game. Rest is building a city to fight others. It’s still kind of fun and alliances make the game interesting
- [R130] So far so good: Timing is everything, so is a good guild
- [R3] Fake: Been playing for over a week. The game is nothing like the ads. A tad bit fun but I’ll change the review if I get to parts that reflect what the ads show.
- [R9] Fake Game- not a shooter.: Games trash, not what the screen shots show, their should be Fines to company’s who falsely advertise just to get people to download.
- [R14] Not what it seems!: This game is alright but you rarely get to play the actual game that they show you. It is intended to pull you into a very different game based on making money for the developer. I have never seen anything close to the videos of giant zombies with chainsaws. In fact after a while you never get to play the shooting of zombies while you move thing. Just build your city, get bomba
- [R24] All of the marketing is fake. Not actual game play.: The actual game is nothing like what you see in the ads. The developer reached out to say “Some of the game advertisements made by our agency will have a certain amount of artist interpretation of the game’s actual gameplay” FALSE. 100% of the advertisements are ficticious and do not remotely resemble the actual gameplay. Be authentic. Do bette
- [R2] Trinket: I played for over a month to accurately assess how much of a pay-to-win dump this is. If you're not ready to pour money into this game, it's best not to even start. Most events will be closed off to you (because the main rule is: buy). City development will be severely limited (because the main rule is: buy). At any moment (if there's no barrier, and it's not permanent), your city can be invaded. · translated
- [R5] Painfully Slow Game Play: I have nearly 20 hours of gameplay in this so far and less than 10 minutes of that has been the fun battle sequences that you will see on their advertisements. The majority of the game is waiting hours to build things and gather resources. You can of course pay to play but that’ll cost you lots of money. Edit: Over 100 hours playing now and if you aren’t willing to spend
- [R10] Can’t advance with out paying out lots of $: Can’t advance with out paying out lots of $, such a bummer
- [R15] Game is garbage: They make it to hard to upgrade so either play the game for 3 years to maybe get to level 30 or spend money like most the idiots who play this trash game. Play Dark War bc if easier to upgrade and they give you more free incentives to help you upgrade faster so you don’t have to spend your paycheck on a game to get somewhere. The rating should be lower bc if I could I’d give it 0
- [R16] Pfff: I can’t understand why there can’t be one of these games that doesn’t include periodically include having everything I’ve built being destroyed by another player that has money to burn and nothing better to do. If they want to destroy things then why not just destroy more zombies? Or destroy AI generated zombie fortresses instead of fellow players, or maybe allow people like me that don’t
- [R18] Aumenta a niveles malsanos el cortisol.: Es un juego que estando en modo apagado, te atacan y destruyen tus edificaciones lo cual es estresante y malsano‼️
- [R38] Meh: At first I was going to delete this game. But I just kept playing. So I got into it. Made a lot of progress, but then I stopped making progress because other players can attack you and steal all the resources you collect. They attack when you’re not even playing the game. They steal all your resources so you can’t ever make any progress. DELETED.
- [R20] Bugged: App is always bugged and crashes repeatedly
- [R21] New update kicking off the game: After new update game kicking me off requesting a new update
- [R25] Lagging gets old: Update: I stopped spending money. The lagging is getting worse. Beware if you decided to play. The lagging in this game is bad. Happens all the time during events. You would think with the amount of money people spend on this game they would invest more money in better servers. You can be on Wi-Fi on the latest phone or iPad, clear the cache and you still lag. Get it together C
- [R51] Spending scam: Scam. Strictly only for those who enjoy squandering money for nothing. It’s a complete rip off spending scam. They can’t even keep the game running smoothly even despite the massive sums of money that they scam from players. It’s a scam! Avoid!
- [R11] Hard to navigate, too busy.: The game is full of unnecessary tasks that take far too long to kill zombies. Also, gameplay is nothing like the ads.
- [R13] Too much nonsense: Not what is advertised. Look, I want to shooting game. It is a long, drawn out game that that has confusing subplots - I just want to the shooting game like advertised!
- [R23] Battles: There needs to be more battles and fighting. You get to a point in the game that it is all about building.
- [R37] Trash customer service: This game is fun to play but the company that owns it doesn’t care at all about its user base. They will blame you for technical issue that goes wrong in the game and then say prove it through photo or video that an error did occur. How can you do that while playing a fast paced game or how can you always be ready to capture an error. I’m not screen recording the whole time
- [R44] No customer service: Ripped me off money. Won’t return money.
- [R53] Complaints: Don’t bother contacting them about an issue, Camel will turn it around on your own personal device .. They never accept responsibility.
- [R61] Awful Company: All the Ad’s you’ve seen are not in this game. Each nation amazingly has a super rich guy who purchases every upgrade and then attacks everyone so they can’t play the game. Maybe trying to get you to buy more.( who knows 🤔) Attacking an enemy city gives you a week or more heal time. 😂 you can buy 2-3 days of heal packs for £5. I purchased 3 in game items and got 2. Apple refunded
- [R4] Give up privacy to play a game: I did like the game but I don’t like the fact that you have to give them rights to your first born to play. Why do they need to track you so much. Deleted!
- [R93] Misleading gameplay: All I want to do is shoot zombies. What’s all this building a town nonsense? There’s barely any shooting gameplay. SO BORING IM DELETING
- [R74] App issue: So I love this game and have a number of cities but since the last app update I can no longer play unless on Wifi. As it loads it tells me it can’t find the network even though I have 5G it means I lose out on playing it on the train to and from work which was the main time I would play it. A real shame I hope they fix it soon.
- [R78] Game crashes become unplayable: I’ve played this games for about a year and a half and is initially a good game of 4 stars, however the better your city becomes and the more players that are online in the alliance the amount of times the game crashes is hourly when cross nation events are on you’re lucky to to get 5 minutes play before it’s crashed and you have to log on again that’s if your city
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store