Top Heroes alternatives
Users often look for alternatives to Top Heroes due to misleading advertisements, a 'pay-to-win' structure, and repetitive gameplay. Alternatives offer more transparent gameplay, different strategic depths, or a focus on specific mechanics like hero collection or city-building.
Why users look for alternatives to Top Heroes
- The game's advertisements and preview images are highly misleading, showing gameplay that is completely different from the actual experience, which is often a chibi-style city builder with boring battles.R1R3R7R9
- Top Heroes is heavily criticized for being a 'pay-to-win' game, where progression is difficult without significant spending, and players feel forced to make large purchases.R12R16R21R25
- Players experience issues with PvP, finding it unenjoyable due to high castle defenses that prevent attacking similar-powered players, and a focus on purchases rather than engaging gameplay.R4R16
- The game lacks variety, with repetitive seasons and a desire for more heroes to unlock.R6R25
- There are reports of customer service issues, including accounts being locked out after legitimate refunds from Apple for unreceived content.R40
The alternatives
King's Throne offers a kingdom management experience, but players report issues with server merges, which can make it hard to advance, and persistent bugs that go unpatched R54R60. Some users find the game enjoyable for casual play, despite its flaws R58R63.
Better for: Players who enjoy a chill kingdom management game and are willing to overlook some technical issues and a potentially dated gameplay experience R54R58R63. It might suit those who don't mind a slower progression or the challenges of server merges R60.
Head-to-head: Top Heroes vs King's ThroneHero Wars has evolved to match its advertisements, offering a hero-upgrading and mission-based gameplay experience with PvP and alliances R66R78. However, some players find it becomes a grind after a certain level and note the presence of 'pay-to-play' mechanics R66R74R77.
Better for: Players looking for a hero-centric game with PvP and alliances that now aligns with its advertising R66R78. It may appeal to those who enjoy a grind and are prepared for potential 'pay-to-play' aspects R66R74R77.
Head-to-head: Top Heroes vs Hero WarsLords Mobile is a team-oriented kingdom-building game with many upgrades and different modes, offering a deep experience R80R81R87. It is praised for its mechanics, graphics, and game design compared to similar titles . However, it is a 'cash-grabbing, pay-to-win' game where significant spending is needed to compete, and it can be confusing for new players R86.
Better for: Players who enjoy complex, team-oriented kingdom-building and strategy games with good graphics and mechanics R80R87. It's best for those willing to invest a lot of time or money to progress and compete R86.
Head-to-head: Top Heroes vs Lords MobileFire Emblem Heroes is a gacha game with engaging combat, good characters, and art style, where getting a 5-star character is not impossible R94R97. However, it suffers from severe 'power creep,' making older characters quickly obsolete and requiring constant acquisition of new units to stay competitive R95R96R98R99.
Better for: Fans of the Fire Emblem series and gacha game enthusiasts who enjoy collecting characters and strategic combat R94R97. It suits players who are comfortable with the 'power creep' cycle and the need to frequently summon new units R95R96R98R99.
Head-to-head: Top Heroes vs Fire Emblem HeroesTotal Battle is a strategy game with social and political clan dynamics, which can be enjoyable R111. However, it is often described as a 'money pit' and 'pay-to-play' game, with paywalls and a shift from advertised direct battle gameplay to city-building R107R109R110.
Better for: Players who enjoy strategy games with strong social and clan interactions and are prepared for a 'pay-to-play' environment R111. It might appeal to those who don't mind the city-building aspect, despite the misleading ads R107R116.
Head-to-head: Top Heroes vs Total BattleYou enjoy a simple, relaxing game for killing time, despite the misleading ads, and appreciate a game with no forced ads unless you opt into them .
Evidence note: No alternative had too-thin evidence.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R1] Top Heroes Pictures Lie - game is not like them: It’s an ok game to play at first. But the pics all lie and what’s show isn’t what you get. I was hoping once I level up I can actually do quests and interact with the town. But it’s all Lies - It does not give what it claims too. And once ya get farther in it’s kind of more boring now and I’ll probably delete soon If it was actually as it shows via anima
- [R3] Top Heroes Ignore the Preview Images: The same looks nothing like the preview. It’s still fun to play, but those images aren’t what the game is.
- [R7] Top Heroes Not as advertised: The actual game is nothing like it is advertised. Unfortunately a bait and switch.
- [R9] Top Heroes misleading: the ads they use to promote the game look NOTHING like the actual game. keep that in mind before downloading
- [R12] Top Heroes Okay: It’s kinda fun just seems super heavy on the pay to win micro transactions
- [R16] Top Heroes Fake ads and picture of what the game should be: This is entirely a p2w war game. It has 0 of any feature it mentioned in the game feature. You are competing with whales to stay in power. I’ve played it for 3 months and you can see the power differences of someone who play 10 of thousands vs someone who pay here and there. Don’t fall for it. Don’t give them your hard earn money… No matter how much
- [R21] Top Heroes Pay to play: I would have given this game full stars but the designers are very greedy. You can progress in this game but certain aspects of this game that aren’t achievable unless you spend a large amount of money. Apple shouldn’t let any game developer charge more than £10 on an in game purchase. £89.99 is not a micro transaction. It is piracy!
- [R25] Top Heroes Scam: Lastimosamente al inicio parece divertido y te quita la idea de que todos sus anuncios y imagenes son totalmentes falsas a lo que es el juego pero cuando vaya pasando los meses lo unico que queda es seguir metiendo dinero y y dinero y no hay mas nada que seguir metiendo dinero todo es repetitivo las temporadas es exactamente igual si te puedo recomendar algo esque nunca juegues esto y si dec
- [R4] Top Heroes Bad game: Developers have only added more things to prevent any sort of enjoyable PvP. Their goal is servers full of people who only make purchases and do nothing else. Castle defenses are so high you cannot attack similar powered players even using a counter faction and they only add more every update.
- [R6] Top Heroes More heroes: The game is fun but it needs more heroes to unlock
- [R40] Top Heroes Paid content scams: Buyer beware! If you purchase resources, points, diamonds, etc and there is an error on THEIR end, you have no recourse. If you get a refund from Apple, the game locks you out of your account and demand you REPAY to unlock your account. No matter how much proof you show that you didn’t get the content (screenshots), they say it was “delivered correctly.” Lies. And they move the
- [R54] King's Throne A slog: Very dated gameplay, been playing for a few years and it just becomes tiring with the same few events and bugs and glitches that never get patched. Been trying to get support for some event problems…i’m vip7 and only get useless chatbot responses. They then asked me to submit a review, so here it is. Time to quit, no more money from me!
- [R58] King's Throne pretty fun: it’s a pretty chill game if
- [R60] King's Throne King’s Throne - Never Get anywhere: Don’t do it! Do not start this game. Good concept, decent game play. BUT, they merge servers nonstop so no matter how aggressively you try to advance you end up just getting further behind. Latest server merge now has created survey busy delay with gameplay constantly. Save your time and money, find another game to play. New update. Another merge. I used to sp
- [R63] King's Throne Good game: It’s a good game just a bit weird but all good to play when bored.
- [R66] Hero Wars Works: You pretty much get what you signed up for from the ads and stuff. It’s all there, just like you expect. Some extra stuff is also included (pvp, alliances, etc.) pretty standard. I just got bored after a while because there’s a certain level where the game stops being as fun and more of a grind. You’re trying to get to the next level and the game loop just isn’t as engaging as before. M
- [R74] Hero Wars Sucks: This game is nothing like the adds. Pay to with game. Overall very unsatisfying
- [R77] Hero Wars Meh: This game used to be fun, but the fun has been sucked out of it with the addition of the stupid realm and a whole bunch of pay to play mechanics. The company also permits cheaters to continue to automate the dungeon (there is no way that someone on a server live less than a year is 100k, yet alone 440k levels deep in the dungeon) despite reports of cheating. I have nothing against paying fo
- [R78] Hero Wars They changed the game to actually match the add & I’m being paid to say this: No, seriously this game used to be nothing like the add. It was upgrading heroes in a different way to play little missions. Something similar to the warrior path on Lords Mobile. I guess they weren’t getting enough interaction so now it’s the actual game that they usually advertise.
- [R80] Lords Mobile Lords Mobile: the kingdom of legends-heroes of villains: This game is awesome and more a lot of upgrades, and also Lord of the kingdom of legends heroes of villains. If you wanna play this game now, it is available and Apple store and Google play store and also this game is everything and also do not fail. It needs to show everything. Your experience to make your own kingdom beggar like a legendar
- [R81] Lords Mobile Good, but…: The game is great with some features. Problem is there are some many different modes and stuff. I’ve counted at least 4 different modes. It takes around an hour to actually claim everything. Also, absolutely nothing like the ads
- [R86] Lords Mobile I’ve Played for 10 Years, Please Read Before You Download!: This game is 100% a cash-grabbing, pay-to-win game. It will take you LITERAL YEARS to get anywhere if you don’t spend money. And even if you ARE willing to spend, unless you’re willing to spend TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, yes, TENS OF THOUSANDS, not hundreds, not even a few thousand, you are NOT going to compete. Want to fight other play
- [R87] Lords Mobile Daily Gamer addicting: I’ve been playing LM now since 2020, when we were all sitting at home and not able to be with people in person. I found the team oriented game play to be a new facet of gaming I hadn’t known existed. My team uses Discord and other platforms to stay organized and connected making the experience even better. This game is new and exciting daily with challenges, events, and we’l
- [R94] Fire Emblem Heroes Interesting: Fire emblem heroes is interesting. The characters are good. It’s like a card game. It’s like similar of rabbits Mario or whatever that game is but a serious one and a really cool one. It’s interesting. I hope Nintendo keeps this a long time. I hope so. I give it five stars.
- [R95] Fire Emblem Heroes From A Long-Time Fire Emblem Fan: Don’t get me wrong. I have so many good memories willingly gambling for 2D pictures and building my Camila’s and Elise’s to perfection, but the issue here is the POWERCREEP. Bruh…like who’s actually enjoying this company’s obvious greedy, quick money grab in exchange for skills with descriptions that no longer fit your phone screens and after you’ve finished readi
- [R96] Fire Emblem Heroes Utter trash now. Hope you like your new character cause it’ll be power crept within the month.: Five page long text descriptions of overpowered skills that will be power crept with a few months, inability to use any character older than six months competitively, 1400 characters of utter trash. This game has been designed to make all your previous investments worthless, so don’t bother investing y
- [R97] Fire Emblem Heroes Highly recommend: This game is so addicting, I love the combat style, the characters, art style, and unlike other gatcha games it isn’t impossible to get a 5 star. I really truly recommend this game it’s a fun past time
- [R107] Total Battle terrible: this game is no fun because you want to constantly shoot as they show you as the example of the game but then as you play, it seems to jump to some other level of game about rebuilding a city which is totally boring and you cannot follow it and thus what you think you’re getting and what you’re getting are two different thing
- [R109] Total Battle 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.
- [R110] Total Battle This is a money pit: Avoid this game… it’s all paywalls
- [R111] Total Battle Total Battle: This game is very enjoyable and fun!!! Meet some cool ssa people too🔥
- [R57] King's Throne Game lags and unfair practices poor support: Not only games have lags but also a poor support. When you report a bug or issue either your ticket gets closed without resolution or explanation or never get answered. When you pay in game there are not only hidden charges but also issue in top up Quantities. I will say Don’t waste time playing this game even if you do enjoy playing free don’t waste a
- [R98] Fire Emblem Heroes Pure Gacha but still fun: This game’s mechanics are all out of whack after the game updates. The ability to use “older” characters is utterly broken. The inherit skills is basically worthless as new characters come perfectly stacked and old characters are too worthless to waste good skills on. Dragon flowers are not enough to make any characters worth anything that are old (and they are stupid rar
- [R99] Fire Emblem Heroes If your favorite isn’t a lord or an OC you’re out of luck: If your favorite isn’t a lord or an OC you’re out of luck. The way this game is balanced makes it so the newest unit is always the must have unit. However, with how they balance this game, and how horrid the power creep has become, units get maybe 2 weeks of relevance until they’re powercrept by the next batch of characters. The main excep
- [R116] Total Battle Not what you think: This is not a scrolling direct battle game. It is a world building clan battle game. A lot of of push a button and wait. A lot of weeks of nothing active from the player unless you spend money. Bait and switch
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store