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Battle Legion

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Battle Legion offers engaging auto-battler strategy, but recent updates have exacerbated its pay-to-win mechanics, aggressive monetization, and technical issues, leading to a decline in player satisfaction.

4.8★ lifetime (10,030) Free + in-app purchases since 2020 by GODSPEED GAMING SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED updated 0.2 mo ago recent negative 25% 120 reviews across 4 regions
Pay-to-Win Monetization & Ads Unfair Matchmaking & Balancing Recent Update Issues Bugs & Technical Problems Core Gameplay & Strategy
5★331
4★41
3★52
2★38
1★100
recent reviews across 4 regions, vs the 4.8★ lifetime average

Battle Legion is a strategy auto-battler game praised for its core gameplay and tactical unit placement, allowing players to enjoy competitive battles. However, recent reviews indicate a significant shift towards pay-to-win elements, with aggressive in-app purchase promotions and an unbalanced progression system that heavily favors paying players. Many users also report various bugs, connection issues, and a lack of new content.

What users like

  • Engaging strategy and auto-battle gameplayR4R16R30R38
  • Allows for diverse unit placement and tactical experimentationR4R53
  • Initially fun and addictiveR19R36R45R175

What users complain about

  • Aggressive pay-to-win monetization makes progression difficult without spending moneyR5R9R15R17
  • Frequent and intrusive ads, including forced pop-ups and browser redirectsR1R3R25R48
  • Unfair matchmaking pits players against significantly higher-level or paid opponentsR11R12R55R61
  • Recent updates have made unit leveling more expensive and difficult, especially for free-to-play usersR24R100R101R102
  • Numerous bugs, glitches, and connection errors hinder gameplayR7R21R34R50
  • Lack of new content and repetitive gameplayR355R359
  • Loss of progress or accounts reported by some usersR10R40R52R88

Latest update · v4.7.0

What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):

New Cosmetic Stability & Bug Fixes See in-game News for full changes Join the Battle Legion Discord

Recurring themes

Pay-to-Win negative
Many reviews highlight that the game becomes heavily pay-to-win, especially in higher ranks, where progression is stalled unless players spend real money on unit upgrades and rare cards. This creates an unfair advantage for paying players over free-to-play users.R5R9R15R17
Monetization & Ads negative
The game is criticized for aggressive monetization, including frequent and intrusive in-game purchase 'deals' and pop-up ads. Some ads even force browser redirects or prevent gameplay until manually closed. The value of in-app purchases is also questioned.R1R3R25R49
Unfair Matchmaking & Balancing negative
Players frequently report being matched against opponents with significantly higher-level units or 'busted' overpowered compositions, making it nearly impossible to win or progress without similar investments. Some suspect an algorithm designed to keep players from climbing ranks.R11R12R46R55
Recent Update Issues negative
Several recent reviews specifically criticize the latest update (v4.7.0 or similar), stating it made unit leveling much more expensive for new players and generally worsened the free-to-play experience, contradicting the developer's claim of 'Stability & Bug Fixes' by introducing new issues.R24R100R101R102
Bugs & Technical Problems negative
Users report various bugs, including game freezes, connection errors, inability to load past the loading screen, season pass not functioning, units getting stuck, and unexpected battle outcomes. Some also mention issues with ads not loading for rewards.R7R21R34R50
Core Gameplay & Strategy positive
Despite the issues, many players still find the core auto-battler gameplay, unit variety, and strategic placement enjoyable and addictive. It's often praised as a good time killer and a unique take on the genre.R2R4R8R16

Who it's for

This game is for players who enjoy auto-battler strategy games with unit placement mechanics and are willing to either grind extensively or spend money to progress R4. It might appeal to those looking for a casual time killer . It is NOT for players who dislike aggressive monetization, frequent ads, or pay-to-win mechanics R1R5R73. Players expecting fair matchmaking or a smooth, bug-free experience should also skip it R7.

Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, particularly regarding monetization and recent update changes. While the lifetime rating is high, the recent sentiment indicates a significant decline in user satisfaction. The developer's notes mention 'Stability & Bug Fixes' but recent reviews contradict this, reporting numerous bugs and connection issues.

Frequently asked

Is Battle Legion pay-to-win?
Yes, Battle Legion is widely considered pay-to-win, especially in higher ranks, where progression becomes extremely difficult without spending real money on unit upgrades and rare cards R5R73R76R317.
Are there many ads in Battle Legion?
Yes, Battle Legion has frequent and intrusive ads, including forced pop-ups and in-game purchase advertisements every few rounds or upon launch, with some even redirecting to web browsers R1R3R25R49.
Does Battle Legion have connection issues or bugs?
Yes, many players report various bugs, including connection errors, game freezes, inability to load past the loading screen, and glitches affecting unit behavior or battle outcomes R7R51R63R394.
Have recent updates improved Battle Legion?
Recent updates, specifically around version 4.7.0, have been criticized by many players for making unit leveling more expensive and difficult, particularly for free-to-play users, despite developer claims of stability and bug fixes R100R102R104R370.
Can you lose game progress in Battle Legion?
Yes, some users have reported losing all their game progress or having their profiles deleted, even after significant time investment R10R40R52R88.

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.

  1. [R4] 5/5 · US My type of game: If you like strategy games this is a game for you or if you like to lets say there is a enemy team that is just to strong for you but what if you use characters with abilities that can affect them so that they cannot use move or slow them down or cause them to fear with that is an ability in this game and they will run away causing me to have the upper hand in the battle and then
  2. [R16] 5/5 · US Nice auto battle game: Fun to play
  3. [R30] 5/5 · US One of my favorite games: One of my favorite GAMES EVER MADE!!!!!
  4. [R38] 5/5 · US Amazing game: This game is absolutely amazing, I’d love to write a longer review but I need to get back to my game lol, just download it I don’t have to explain
  5. [R53] 5/5 · US Great base game but…: The base game, I absolutely adore. The freedom of placing your units wherever gives rise to a lot of strategies That feel free form. I’m currently ranked around 2400 which I assume is decently high since every enemy I find has units sometimes leveled up twice the level of mine. I was able to get pretty high decently fast despite this, but I feel like I’m at a point where it’s
  6. [R19] 5/5 · US Good: It’s a good game it’s not boring
  7. [R36] 5/5 · US Great Game: Loving the game so far…my son got me hooked on it and even got me an apple gift card to buy a gift pack since I like it so much!
  8. [R45] 5/5 · US Very addictive: Can’t stop playing…
  9. [R175] 3/5 · US Addictive...and frustrating: If you are tempted by this game, I find it one of the most addictive games that I’ve ever played. This obviously has its pros and cons. It is “fun” sometimes, at least in the beginning, but there are also a bunch of little things which make you want to tear your hair out. First of all, there is a pretty quick ramp up of levels and such, but once you reach a certain p
  10. [R5] 1/5 · US Pay to win let down: Cool game. Locked behind money annoyances. You simply can’t progress without spending real money. No thanks.
  11. [R9] 2/5 · US Honest review: So I first discovered this game years ago and recently found it again and decided to download it cause it was fun. It’s a fun game, different units, art is great, Strat is fun, but it’s really heavy on paying for gems and such, not really good for ftp players. Also, it seems the player base is gone because I looked at a ton of clans and tall their members have been inactive for 1 to
  12. [R15] 2/5 · US $$$$: Vicious pay to win like everything else. As long as you pay 10$ for the Witcher in the beginning of the game you don’t need another cards. No point in really trying to progress.
  13. [R17] 1/5 · US PAY TO WIN: biggest pay to win game i’ve come across, get the green dragon and you’ll win
  14. [R1] 1/5 · US Opens Browser Regularly & MTX Everywhere: App keeps opening the web browser to access random websites before opening the store during ad views. Ads they partner with will sometimes automatically do this, even if the phone is not touched. Shoves 5-10 ads in your face every launch which several dozen MTX in the shop among the worst value I've ever seen in a MTX store (regularly 6.99 for a minor pow
  15. [R3] 3/5 · US Annoyed by overly aggressive IAP “deals” that ruin gameplay features as well as buggy ads: Never been so annoyed before by a feature so as to score this low. The game has an “auto” play feature that allows you to automatically match and fight opponents x number of times per day. Doing so allows you to accumulate some basic rewards for the wins you get. Sounds great. The problem: the game is so ag
  16. [R25] 1/5 · US A lot of forced pop-up ads and “quality of life updates”: Tons of pop-up ads that you can’t get rid of for a brief period of time. “Quality of life” updates that add things like you can only progress the story part three times until they’re replenished or watch ads yayyy!
  17. [R48] 1/5 · US PLEASE STOP USING ROGUE ADS!!!: PLEASE DON'T USE ADS WON'T CLOSE UNLESS FORCE-CLOSE THE GAME Why hate your players?
  18. [R11] 1/5 · US Unbalanced: Have fun staying in low rank because you’re never going to climb if you don’t have enough shards to level up the specific units to create a Busted overpowered Comp with no counter play.
  19. [R12] 1/5 · US What’s the point?: Game was great until I got to the point where it was almost impossible to win anything. No matter what I did, I lost. Every..single..time.
  20. [R55] 3/5 · US Decent combat, intrusive pay to win: Good: Game is fun when you’re on an even playing field with an opponent. Bad: Fighting someone who has units you’ve never seen before with high levels. This would be fine if you could buy new units at high levels, but since you need multiple copies of them and lots of gold, this is difficult.
  21. [R61] 1/5 · US Pay to win and abuse game mechanics: This game is fun for the first hour or two, then you hit the med game. You start seeing players abuse the piss poor excuse of a Ai. And you’ll start getting into matches that whip your whole army is seconds bc the game lies about other players stats🙄
  22. [R24] 1/5 · US Desperate and sad: This game use to be epic now however the new patch they decided to charge ppl gems just to play campaign y’all need money that bad??? How about maybe adding something to the game that would make ppl want to spend money it’s crazy u think we should spend our money just to play ur games I’m done I’ll take my interests to Top Troops!!!
  23. [R100] 1/5 · US Recent Update: I love the game but the most recent update which change the leveling system, completely F’d the game for anyone except whales. if you’re thinking of picking this up right now, DONT. wait for them to fix this update.
  24. [R101] 1/5 · US New update = bad: I love the game but they just added a terrible “x10 update” that kills the free to play aspect and is a deterrent for new players. I don’t understand why they did this.
  25. [R102] 1/5 · US 1 star because of greedy changes: They recently made a change to what it costs and how the shards / levels work on your units when upgrading them. Turns out to actually cost a lot more to upgrade units now and feels unintuitive. Please refund what we upgraded in the current patch and stop being so greedy. This game costs way too much as it is. 1/5 stars until fixed.
  26. [R7] 1/5 · US Good game but: Game is fun honestly alot of fun. But once I unlocked pvp the dumb tutorial forces you to click it then make you click your army in the bottom left corner. Then the game freezes I’ve uninstalled and reinstall and same thing happens so the game is just unplayable once you unlock pvp? I don’t even want to play pvp but since they force you too and the game is bugged I can’t progress pa
  27. [R21] 4/5 · US Need of fixes: For starters, my season pass that I had purchased no longer is functional so that’s the thing I hope that is resolved and part of the reason why I’m doing this review the other is that I am in a guild and I have lots of shorts that are on nonfunctional to myself and I would like to give them to my brother, but I am heavily limited in the aspect of me being able to give him shards an
  28. [R34] 3/5 · US Walls unit: The wall unit is a great idea but I think it is underwhelmingly bad due to friendly units running in to it and not beable to run around it. The wall unit basically acts as a magnet to friendlys making it a easy loose game when using it. The second part is when the opponent is using it instead of walking to the side of the wall where the enemy units are units want to go through the wall
  29. [R50] 5/5 · US High degree of completion: beautiful art style. great game play. but the Assassins are invinceble. the trail taught you just trap them. but while in PVP. No bududdy can attack assassins include trap/groundDebuff/bomb/wormhole. both melee and range never attack them. So assassins always live to the end of game. but my assassins intant died at first teleport. it's not fair! and I found my debuff alw
  30. [R355] 3/5 · GB Great game, but extremely repetitive: You literally just auto play battles forever, there are no events, didn’t even do anything for Easter such as an Easter skin, completely boring and such a waste on a great game.
  31. [R359] 3/5 · GB P2W: Pay to win, lack of content, imbalanced units. Cool concept so gave it 3 stars instead of 2
  32. [R10] 3/5 · US I don’t get you guys change it plz: I was playing this game since I was little I had a lot of stuff but the the next day I went to play I restarted everything but still a fun game and why you guys put paying emeralds for the battle thing I want it to be free again
  33. [R40] 5/5 · US This game is so fun, but: Now I really love this game it’s the best game I have played for strategy and action, but I deleted the game once to make space and when I re-downloaded it I lost all my progress also when you run out of gold and a level is way to hard to win you can’t upgrade you have to wait for your chests but overall this game is a 5 star I think and I hope it’s very successful and pe
  34. [R52] 1/5 · US Impossible to level: Twice this game has deleted all of my husband and my profiles. Significant time has been invested to level up characters, skills, and resources only to be lost forever. Additionally, once you get to a certain level, every two weeks, your level drops considerably and you have to battle to regain that level. It makes it impossible to level up. If you can’t level up, what
  35. [R88] 1/5 · US Loss everything: I played this game when it first came out and i will admit i spent money on this game but at the beginning of development it was impossible to move up on the levels because it was in development stages so i did uninstall the game. Now coming back to literally have none of my cards nor the cards i bought from the beginning is just terrible. It’s not worth it all again. I did put le
  36. [R49] 2/5 · US Okay game: Forces you to see an "ad" for their in game purchases EVERY TIME you open the app. It's very annoying. Also, "progression" is mostly based on watching ads to get gacha-shards to upgrade units.
  37. [R46] 1/5 · US Typical poor matchmaking: It’s the usual mobile game flow. You start out ranking up, getting new units, some free goodies and then you win 1 out of 10 matches since your opponent badly outclasses you. Daily quests want you to donate/request units but there are no active clans, or they’re not easy to find in-game. If you have tons of disposable income to compete, it’s actually fun. If not, don’t
  38. [R2] 5/5 · US Good: I use to play this game all day when I was young, I forgot about it and now remeber it, very good game
  39. [R8] 3/5 · US It’s a decent game: It’s a decent game
  40. [R73] 1/5 · US Incredibly pay to win: Despite what you’d think at first once you start getting to even as far as the middle tier arenas the game starts to become incredibly pay to win, you’re always struggling to get gold and continuously get rolled by people who payed money to afford all of their troops upgrades. Games pretty fun for a couple hours then nosedives miserably, sadly another failure in mobile game
  41. [R76] 3/5 · US Laughing at featured review and dev response: Great game, but I just had to laugh at the featured review and the dev who was lying through their teeth responding to them. I’ve been playing for a few months now and enjoy the game, but I’m a completely free-to-play player and there’s no way you will ever get past Gold Rank without dropping some serious cash. Every single player at Gold Rank or highe
  42. [R317] 3/5 · GB Good but too much pay to win elements: A enjoyable first 20 mins, but end up with a pay-to-win wall where you stuck at 900 around forever unless you pay. You need to balance your game so that even with lower level troops you could still win if you plan well, now it’s hardly the case, the player with higher level troops will just crash whatever you put there
  43. [R51] 1/5 · US Horrible game, won’t even load past loading screen: I suggest to the creators of this game get better workers or get better at your jobs. If your game can’t even go past the loading screen because of a fake “connection problem” when my WiFi is just fine my phone is just fine, even reset my phone and redownloaded the game 5 times. So with my knowledge on games and game creating I know for a fact th
  44. [R63] 3/5 · US El juego: me pase horas jugándolo, y de repente cuando fui a volver a entrar no me carga, carga hasta el 8% y me dice que no se pudo conectar al servidor, y bueno para un juego que me gusto bastante, me decepciona eso, ya que el internet no es el problema y reinicie el móvil por si era algo de él y nada, sigue sin cargar
  45. [R394] 3/5 · CA Need help for connection error: Loving the game but I’m currently being locked out. Keeps saying; Connection error , can’t connect to server. I’ve tried redownloading and switching my connection from wifi and LTE and still happens. Help please!
  46. [R104] 1/5 · US Feel bad for the new players: Speaking of the title the game devs decided to makes things more expensive as of yesterday for newer players in the cost of both gold and shards for newer units . Older players are dealing with gold cost increase but the shards seemed balance. What occurred was splitting the initial 15 levels of a maxed unit into 150. A multiple of 10 levels between each whole true
  47. [R370] 3/5 · GB This is a great game... but: It’s not even out of beta(?) and with 1 update it’s been made into a Pay2Win. For £5 you can get 10,000 coins. Enough to master an entire army. Then there’s the chances of finding units; A friend got 2 death knights within a week of playing I’ve not gotten one after 8 days. And the current meta being the single powerful archer and I have 1 whereas I come up against

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store