Last War:Survival
Last War: Survival is a highly addictive base-building strategy game with engaging combat, but it is heavily criticized for its aggressive pay-to-win mechanics, repetitive late-game content, and poor customer support.
Last War: Survival is a free-to-play mobile game that combines base building with zombie combat, offering an addictive experience for many players. However, recent reviews highlight significant issues with its pay-to-win model, making it difficult for free or low-spending players to compete, and a perceived decline in content quality over time.
What users like
What users complain about
- Heavily pay-to-win, requiring significant spending (hundreds to thousands of dollars) to remain competitive or progress effectivelyR2R6R9R15
- Gameplay often deviates from advertised action, focusing more on base management and resource gatheringR1R4R12R20
- Customer support is unresponsive or unhelpful, especially regarding purchase issues or account problemsR17R19R24R36
- Game becomes repetitive, stagnant, and boring in later stages, with a lack of new or engaging contentR7R29R67R112
- Frequent technical issues including freezing, crashing, inability to load, and problems with in-app purchasesR11R21R26R28
- Long wait times for upgrades and limited daily activities hinder progression for non-spendersR1R9R67R173
- Developers are perceived as actively making the game worse for free-to-play and low-spending players by reducing rewards and increasing pricesR19R45R46R51
- Unfair server matchmaking and PvP mechanics allow high-power players to dominate weaker ones, discouraging new playersR14R56R61R187
- Account issues, including lost progress after reinstalling or being moved to a different serverR47R57R105R529
Latest update · v1.0.352
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Improvements: 1. Removed the notification popup above Kimberly's model in the Initial Buy event at the Base. 2. The level cap for all bosses in the [Rampage Boss] event has been adjusted to [15].
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy base-building strategy games, are willing to dedicate significant time daily, and are prepared to spend substantial amounts of money (hundreds to thousands of dollars) to remain competitive R9R16R61. It is not for players looking for a casual, free-to-play experience, those expecting action-focused gameplay as seen in ads, or individuals sensitive to aggressive monetization R4R20.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative (63.8% negative), which contrasts sharply with the lifetime rating of 4.7. This indicates a significant decline in user satisfaction over time, suggesting the game's trajectory is downward. The themes of pay-to-win, repetitive content, and poor support are strongly supported by a high volume of recent negative reviews across multiple regions. Positive reviews are generally brief and less detailed, often simply stating "I like it" or "fun."
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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.
- [R8] I like it: It’s fun I like it
- [R10] Loving this game: This game is great! The only problem is that it’s a little easy. But I’m not very far so I’m sure it will get harder. Jesus loves y’all!!!
- [R13] Good game: good 👊
- [R22] The best game: The goatttttt
- [R67] Great game. But needs more to do: The game is great. It’s addictive. It’s fun interacting with people. But the game limits how much you can do in a day. They need to increase the amount of stuff and not limit things to 5 per day. They also need to allow you to earn more to purchase in game without having to spend money. Or at least offer more of items to buy per week. They also need to add an opti
- [R455] Enjoyable but unless you have £££ don’t expect to compete: It’s a great game, especially to meet people from all over the world. It is getting a little repetitive now though. My issue is the cost. I’ve kept it relatively small on how much I’ve spent but some people in my alliance are throwing a lot of money at this and it’s impacting them financially. I’d say that if you struggle with gambling,
- [R51] Great game being killed by developers: I have played this game for nearly 18 months now and it has been a lot of fun. Working with my alliance, making friends and overall a great time. However, in the last couple of months, the developers have removed more and more packs and event rewards in an effort to “balance” the game. All this has done is made those players who invested early be untouchable
- [R4] Not Like Ads!: If you want a game like you see in the ads this isn’t it. I’d you want to spend hours clicking on upgrades and resource management of a base this is your game.
- [R92] Keep playing: I’m about 100 days in and the game changes a lot from the start, but gets better and better as you progress. Join an alliance and ask questions to understand. Go to v/s and follow the dailies. This game has so much going on, just spend some time learning all the options and play some of the events. I’ve mostly played for free and spent less than $10 and have had a great time playi
- [R2] Beware the scams: Beware the scam! They are preying on addiction and they have tons of scams to trick you into. People are spending thousands foolishly on here and wasting an extreme amount of time. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT START! If you are a parent do not let your kids have access to a credit card. I see younger people spending foolishly as if it were mom and dad’s money.
- [R6] Last War: Survival (5 month review): I am five months into this game, and I am already non competitive. I have spent over $500 American dollars and am so under powered still that opponents just laugh at me. Cant recommend this game. It’s a money pit with zero payoff.
- [R9] Time: If you want to immerse yourself in a game, this is the one, but be advised it requires a lot of time and or money to grow to the top, and it’s constantly creating new events to learn and adapt to, so be advised casual play and low spending / F2P players have literally no shot at enjoying the game unless you like losing continuously. Devote 4-6 hours each day if you want to get anywhere with
- [R15] Do not download if you have no money: The game is designed for donations, from beginning to end. It is interesting to play, but without investing real money, on the order of several thousand, or even tens of thousands of dollars, as the top Arab players do, you will be very weak and have no power. Even all promotions are designed so that without real money purchases, you cannot get the most valuable gift. · translated
- [R1] Too much time between battles: You have to spend way too much time navigating the base, upgrading things, unlocking, harvesting, and doing all these dumb tasks before you can just jump into the fun part (the actual battle). Not worth it
- [R12] Another trash: Most of the time you need to click on the part of the screen where they points to for building some trash instead of playing game.
- [R20] Deceiving: Game play not as advertised
- [R17] Good game bad platform: The actual playing of the game is great I’ve logged in everyday for almost a year it’s great… until there is an issue. The game updates constantly making hard to open the app without waiting 5 minutes for it to open. The time I have had to reach customer support, they tell you bs and stop responding when that doesn’t work
- [R19] Don’t start. Lots of bugs and no support: I’m about to start season 2 and the devs have gone out of their way to make it impossible for f2p or low tier spenders to compete. Daily sales have been removed and task rewards have been reduced. Unless you or someone on your team wants to do non stop diplomacy with other alliances you won’t get anywhere. Today my shields were reduced for no reason and
- [R24] Scam: Don’t buy the monthly passes you will lose what you buy. Customer service is a whole joke. $25 down the drain.
- [R36] Cannot access the game: The game is not working. It simply does not load. Support does not respond. The last news on the official website is from September 2025. · translated
- [R7] Game gets stale: By season 5 the game gets boring since the developers stepped down the game gets stagnant
- [R29] Loved it but..: Loved the game when started. Mainly played for frontline breakthrough but as you progress into the later stages those type of battle stop. Stages feel stagnant and don’t feel engaging. Fight is pretty much auto and you will need to upgrade your heroes significantly. In a strong alliance but only play for weekly frontline breakthrough event. Suggestion: Most players started playing
- [R112] Used to be more fun: Game is fun but since they removed almost all special events but 2 that just rotate every couple weeks or so it really makes you notice how repetitive this game is. Gets very boring after a while without the new event per week
- [R11] The game freezes and locks you out: After about few months this game has gotten frozen on Home Screen and there is no update so everything is lost. Don’t waste your time or money
- [R21] Game not working: Game wont move beyond the building base screen. Been a long time player but sad bc the app isnt opening the past 2 days :(
- [R26] Game not loading: What is going on…..I’ve been trying to load my game all day and it won’t
- [R28] Updated and now app won’t open: I updated the app and now it doesn’t open.
- [R173] Fun game, cash grab, no late game: The game is fun, but unless you pay you’re going to have to wait a long time to progress. I’m fine with it because I play while I walk, so waiting 3 days for my wall to upgrade so that I can wait another 4 days to upgrade it again. Out of stamina, pay. Don’t fault the developers, it’s fun, you run out of killing zombies after 100 levels, so nothing left to do but
- [R45] Good at first - then money grab: I know the game makers want to make money. That’s not a problem. But recently all in game purchases have just skyrocketed and the amount of in game resources available have been reduced - making advancing in the game all about if you spend big money. Really disappointing, if I had it to do over I wouldn’t even start the game now.
- [R46] Used to be a great game: Really enjoyed the game until they started pricing everything sky high. Used to have $4.99 decent packs available. Cheapest pack available to me now is $50. Ridiculous!!! So disappointed in the recent changes made to the game. It’s impossible to be competitive unless your willing to spend huge $$$.
- [R14] So unfair: Why open a new server for new player when everyone that hasn’t spent in this game. I watched a YouTube video said wasn’t going to do it know have ruined any experience for new players if new walk away ! How can you be letting 8 month to year long players join a new server and expect fairness !
- [R56] Terrible: I’ve played this game for a long time and have invested a significant amount of time and effort into helping grow my server. Unfortunately, the competitive balance system has made it clear that some servers simply are not given a realistic chance to succeed. Server 165 has consistently struggled to compete for first place, and despite repeated feedback from many players, the response ha
- [R61] Pay to play money grab: There is literally an option to buy 10 $1000 gold brick packs a week… $10,000. And there are people who do. They will crush you and make the game almost unplayable since you cannot compete. To even stand a chance you either spend a ton of money or befriend a mega whale. If not, you are just another base to be farmed.
- [R187] Want to give it a 5 star rating except….: I really want to give this a 5 star rating… Great game overall, but one issue hurts the experience: unrestricted high-power players can repeatedly attack weaker bases outside event windows. It discourages progression for non-spenders and breaks server cooperation. Suggestion: add protection mechanics (cooldowns, power-gap limits, or PvP windows) so player
- [R47] They moved my account: I’d been playing for awhile. They moved my account to a different server than all my friends and refuse to move me back. I asked for a refund or the ability to be given my characters I purchased on a new account and start from level 1. They refused to do that as well. Not worth the pain or hassle. Won’t be playing again or any game they create in the future.
- [R57] I was a lever 30: I had an account awhile ago with what I felt was a lot of progression and honestly money put into this game. Deleted the game and my wife started playing so I had reinstalled it to find I’ve been reset to level 1 and have literally NOTHING
- [R105] Why I like the game: I used to play this game ALL the time until I got a knew phome and everything reset but I love this game
- [R529] Change server: I lost everything to go on my father sever without advise
- [R16] Addicted game but it is all about $$$$: Don’t download this game if you don’t plan to spend $2000+ and 4 hours a day. The part that is fun has almost no rewards and the only rewards come from $$$$. Game like this will eventually run out players as the regular players won’t stay long. Games that money plays some roles but not make you 100 times stronger than others are much better.
- [R42] ITS NOTHING LIKE ADVERTED: This game is nothing like how it’s shown in ads also a lot a scamming going on. The game makes promises it can’t keep. The packs advertised are not what is in the game, and packs that were purchased were not given.
- [R48] Customer support: Customer support is poor. Don’t waste your money playing this game. They fail to contact you back in a timely manner when there is an issue.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store