Dragon City alternatives
Dragon City players often seek alternatives due to excessive ads, pay-to-win mechanics, and persistent bugs. Alternatives like Dragon Mania Legends and DragonVale offer different dragon-collecting experiences, while Hungry Dragon provides a more action-oriented gameplay.
Why users look for alternatives to Dragon City
- Players frequently encounter an overwhelming number of ads and pop-ups, which disrupt gameplay. Some users report ads appearing randomly during play or immediately upon opening the game.R6R7R33R44
- The game is perceived as pay-to-win, with long wait times for upgrades and progression that encourage in-app purchases. Users feel forced to buy items to advance, especially for permanent events or to summon certain dragons.R12R16R27R30
- Numerous bugs and glitches are reported, including issues with summoning dragons, game freezes, and problems with battle registration. Some players experience being kicked out of events after paying or getting stuck on loading screens.R1R18R20R21
- Customer support is often criticized for being unhelpful, unresponsive, or for not resolving issues like missing gems after linking accounts or lost progress. Players report issues with linking accounts for rewards, only to be denied the promised gems.R22R36
- Some users, even those above the stated age rating of 9+, are unable to play the game due to age restrictions or account issues. This prevents them from accessing the game despite meeting the age criteria.R15R34R40R46
The alternatives
Dragon Mania Legends offers a dragon-collecting experience that many find fun and easy to play, reminiscent of childhood favorites R58. However, some users report significant issues with excessive and unskippable ads, as well as game freezes after updates or claiming rewards R54R59R60.
Better for: This game is better for players who enjoy collecting dragons and find the gameplay easy and engaging, especially those who played it in the past and want a nostalgic experience R58. It might suit those who are willing to overlook or tolerate frequent ads and potential bugs for the core dragon-raising mechanics R54R60.
Head-to-head: Dragon City vs Dragon Mania LegendsDragonVale is a long-standing dragon-collecting game that evokes nostalgia for many players who have enjoyed it since childhood R69. It focuses on breeding and collecting a wide variety of dragons, with users appreciating the extensive collection aspect . However, new players may find progression slow, with breeding taking multiple days, and some users report issues with in-app purchases not being delivered or inappropriate ads R65R67R68.
Better for: DragonVale is better for players who prioritize dragon collection and breeding over combat, and who appreciate a game with a long history and a nostalgic feel R69. It suits those who are patient with progression and enjoy the management aspects of building a dragon park R67.
Head-to-head: Dragon City vs DragonValeHungry Dragon offers a more action-oriented gameplay experience where players control dragons to eat and grow, which many find fun and not boring R80. The game is praised for being a good way to pass time R80. However, a significant drawback is the lack of cloud save or data transfer, meaning purchased dragons and progress are lost if the game is uninstalled or moved to a new device R79R82. Users also report high prices for dragons and issues with purchases not being delivered R83.
Better for: This game is better for players who prefer active, arcade-style gameplay with dragons rather than breeding and city-building R80. It's suitable for those who enjoy quick, casual sessions and are less concerned about long-term progression or potential loss of data R79R82.
Head-to-head: Dragon City vs Hungry DragonKingdom Guard: Tower Defense TD is described as a fun game that surprisingly matches its advertisements, offering tower defense gameplay R95. However, players report that the game quickly introduces too many 'side' activities that must be clicked through, and it becomes heavily pay-to-win, with some users spending thousands of dollars monthly R95. There are also complaints about fraudulent advertising, unresponsive customer service, and developers removing helpful features like 'Bounty options' in favor of 'Secret Quests' that are perceived as cash grabs R93R96R98.
Better for: This game might suit players who enjoy tower defense mechanics and are prepared for a significant time and financial investment to progress R95. It could appeal to those who don't mind navigating numerous side activities and are looking for a game that aligns with its advertised core gameplay, despite other issues R95.
Head-to-head: Dragon City vs Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TDWar Dragons is a game that some players have enjoyed for years, appreciating its artwork and resource recovery mechanics R111. However, it is widely criticized for being pay-to-win, requiring significant spending (e.g., $20 per month) to keep up with other teams R110. Users frequently report severe bugs, server timeouts, and unresponsive or actively unhelpful customer support, with tickets being deleted or ignored R107R112.
Better for: War Dragons is better for players who are willing to invest substantial money to remain competitive and who enjoy team-based combat and base defense R110. It might appeal to those who can tolerate persistent bugs and poor customer support for the core gameplay experience R107.
Head-to-head: Dragon City vs War DragonsYou should stick with Dragon City if you enjoy its core gameplay of hatching, breeding, and battling dragons, find the fighting system balanced, and are able to overlook or tolerate the frequent ads and microtransactions . It's also suitable if you appreciate the creative aspect of building your own dragon empire and find the dragon animations adorable .
Evidence note: All alternatives had sufficient review evidence.
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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] Dragon City Adds: Too many pop ups when you open the game, the red notification circles never go away or come back randomly, adds can be annoying bc they pop up randomly while playing
- [R7] Dragon City Quá nhiều quảng cáo: Quảng cáo nhiều quá Chơi khó chịu
- [R33] Dragon City Not bad, but too much ads: The title and also I don’t think there should be a limit for how much you can skip with ads Thank you very much reply down below ty
- [R44] Dragon City too many ads: love the game but girl… ads are gnarly. improve divas xx
- [R12] Dragon City So/so: It’s and ok game it’s can be fun but it’s a lot of being force to by things to upgrade because the time wait is crazy long ,witch means you can’t upgrade that leads to not being about to battle then you can’t level up so you’ll stuck just collecting until you earn enough to do everything witch will Mean a longer wait for the next level ..so I really don’t see my self passing the game on or
- [R16] Dragon City Unable to get Dragon without Paying: I like the game but am unable to get a certain dragon without purchasing it, so I can not move forward in the permanent events. It is extremely frustrating.
- [R27] Dragon City So…: Way too many micro transactions but a fun game in general
- [R30] Dragon City Good game but way too P2W still quite fun even without it though: Cool
- [R1] Dragon City I can’t summon while others can: Please fix this, this will stay a 1 start till it goes away if I still play it.
- [R18] Dragon City CR41G: I have been playing this game allot recently as my cousins got me into it and honestly I would give it a 3 for the fact that I just got scammed on the enchanted room trail 3 times in a row I got kicked out after paying 10 jems to get in. Plus I think the game could have a major rework on graphics and it would be a 10/10 game.
- [R20] Dragon City Bugs: This a fun game especially when I’m bored out of my mind during the day but I’ve had to delete and download it again twice today for some random bugs that keep happening. And they don’t fix when I close and re-open the app, like for the race it told me to do 2 league battles and I did both but didn’t register and said I didn’t do them so I bought a refill to try again with my gems but no mat
- [R21] Dragon City Gets stuck on the loading screen: Great game but the loading screen gets stuck at 98%, I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game but it just doesn’t work
- [R22] Dragon City DO NOT PLAY: This game is such a rip off. They give you +10 gems to link an account, so i linked my apple. Then it STILL says +10 gems to link FB, so I did. Then it doesn’t give me the gems so i contact support and they say you can only link one account for the gems. THEN DON’T PUT +10 gems on there because you are lying trying to trick people to link FB. Everything takes so long you will have to
- [R36] Dragon City Don’t waste your time or money: The game is full of glitches to use up all your resources to force you to spend money buying more. No customer support as the excuse is always they have a small team, no refunds or compensation for loses just fake promises we’ll get back to you which is never 😡
- [R15] Dragon City I was 9 and it was saying you cannot play because your country and IT SAYS 9+: 3 stars
- [R34] Dragon City Bruh: Am 16 and I can’t even play this game even tho it says 9+ like bro 😭💔
- [R40] Dragon City Played from so long: I played for one to two years and now is says I can’t play because of my age😡😡👿👿👎👎
- [R46] Dragon City I’m 15 and can’t play ?: Why . It’s really stupid
- [R54] Dragon Mania Legends Insane Ads: This game was fun years ago, but redownloading it was sad. The amount of ads is like Times Square. Click into something, ad. Click out of something, ad. The fight map scene animation has an ad square in the middle of it. The home islands have ads all over them. The store now has more icons to buy with real money than game money. You have to scroll past all of it to get to the in-game
- [R58] Dragon Mania Legends My favorite game: I love to play this game I also used to play this game when I was little I still play this game when I found it again I love this game so much and I would recommend playing this game. My friends play this game too and I think that they like it nowadays I have been playing it most often and I love this one the most right now I might even play this game when I’m older I love this g
- [R59] Dragon Mania Legends Make a new update: With the last update, the application just stopped working properly, when you take the reward for performing daily rewards, the game freezes
- [R60] Dragon Mania Legends Ads won't turn off, restarting doesn't help: At some point, ads started appearing with almost every click, and then the 'X' to close the ad and return to the game wouldn't show up. The game is unplayable; developers have crammed in so many purchases and ads that there's no game left. The greed is astonishing. And now, these ads can't even be turned off. · translated
- [R65] DragonVale charged me WAY too much: I've been playing dragonvale since I was a little kid, and I just recently downloaded it again because my family members still play it, and I was bored. I made a purchase of $4.99, and obviously tax comes with it too, but I was charged $8.45. Huh..? I'm a teenager so I have like NO money, but thank god that was actually in my account. I have nowhere to get actual support be
- [R67] DragonVale Takes too long: I can see why I didn’t play this game for too long when I first installed it. I redownloaded this game on a bored whim, saw I had no progression beyond having only one dragon, and decided to give it another try. And honestly, this game is ridiculous towards new players. It shouldn’t take twelve hours to breed what are basically the beginner dragons, and another twelve to hatch them
- [R68] DragonVale Piggy Bank: I purchased the PiggyBank and never received my reward. Support is impossible to get in touch with.
- [R69] DragonVale Brings back memories: This game was one of my favorites growing up and I had just recently rediscovered it. I am so glad that I’m able to play it again
- [R79] Hungry Dragon BEWARE: Once you buy something, and uninstall the game, Ubisoft doesn’t save that information. I purchased a dragon, and can’t use it on my new phone. This has happened with every phone I have redownloaded this game on. I have always had to start from scratch. For that reason, making you rebuy stuff, not saving your info / progress, AND having the worst customer suppor, I recommend you downl
- [R80] Hungry Dragon A ACTUAL GOOD GAME: This is such a perfect game to play, it actually is not boring, first time finding a actual and simple game, thank you so much for making this game. I can't think of any improvements, so I put 5 stars, thank you developers.
- [R82] Hungry Dragon data transfer: data can’t even be transferred
- [R83] Hungry Dragon Too much money but good game: The dragons cost way too much money but it is really fun to play. Kinda gets boring as you play it over and over and over but it still is fun to me because I LOVE DRAGONS!!😍! So great game but LOWER PRICES BRO!!!!!!!!!
- [R93] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD Greedy and allow cheaters to exploit the game: When I started over a month ago I was having a good time, but then the throne war happened. The largest guy on the server had figured out how to attack while being shielded. I captured it and reported it then they told me it was just a visual glitch….I don’t think a visual glitch would keep me from attacking the guy. They did nothing even with evidenc
- [R95] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD Fun, but too much “side” stuff: The game itself is pretty fun, (it’s actually accurate to the ads, surprisingly). But after like 10 levels there is way way WAYYY to much “side” stuff that you HAVE to click through to do to play the main levels. And you HAVE to use your legendary hero’s, so forget all the common/rare ones you unlock. Luckily upgrade materials seemed easy to come by. Overall, decent
- [R96] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD Complain about service: Send more money for it. But they do not take care good for customers
- [R98] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD In-game purchase received: To celebrate the game's fifth anniversary, I participated in a 'flash sale' event. However, I did not receive the full amount of items specified in the offer. I immediately contacted customer support, where my claim was registered under number 9fla1. After some time, I tried to get feedback on my claim, but the system did not respond. · translated
- [R107] War Dragons Unacceptable: I have played this game for years and the support team has usually been helpful.. until now. I have been unable to access my account for 4 weeks and the support team has done nothing to resolve the problem in fact they have been actively Deleting my support tickets 😡😡if this is how they support the game they will have no players left very soon. Totally Unacceptable and embarrassing 😡
- [R110] War Dragons Game sucks: Don’t bother starting this game. As someone who has played for years, I can tell you it’s not worth your time. There are a handful of powerful teams full of level 700+ players, and there’s nothing to prevent them from stealing what teams with lower level players have worked for years to get. The rules the game admins claim to have put in place to help actually disadvantage weaker teams
- [R111] War Dragons Review: Glitches with claiming multiple event prizes still exist. No multiple leveling available for dragons ( 1 click per lvl). Great artwork for dragons. Resources recovery after attacks are easy unlike other games. Translation feature is nice
- [R112] War Dragons Tap box: I’ve had this game for awhile now and I don’t know what happened after the last update but every single time I load the game and go into an event I can’t leave it unless I stop the game and re-launch the game, please if this is something on the developer end please fix asap I truly do enjoy playing this game
- [R29] Dragon City I’ve been playing for years: Of course what the title says is true and I’ve been grinding at this game and honestly I love it still! Though there is some problems that I have like when I get on there’s a hundred things popping up and making offers. Besides that it’s a great game and I recommend it to anybody of almost any age
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store