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Top Heroes

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User verdict / 100 High confidence Divided

Top Heroes is a casual base-building game with hero collection elements, but it faces significant criticism for misleading advertising and aggressive pay-to-win mechanics that foster an environment of bullying.

4.6★ lifetime (27,986) Free + in-app purchases since 2024 by River Game HK Limited updated 0.2 mo ago recent negative 68% 120 reviews across 4 regions
Misleading Ads Pay-to-Win Player Bullying Bugs & Performance UI Changes
5★169
4★44
3★42
2★52
1★481
recent reviews across 4 regions, vs the 4.6★ lifetime average

Top Heroes is a mobile game that combines base building with hero collection and combat, offering a social experience through guilds. However, many recent reviews highlight that the actual gameplay differs significantly from its advertisements, and players frequently encounter strong pay-to-win elements and issues with in-game bullying.

What users like

  • Engaging and addictive gameplay for some users, providing a good way to pass time.R3R7R10R13
  • Offers a social experience through guilds, allowing players to connect globally.R95R96R366R78
  • Some players enjoy specific events like Glory Battlefield.R86

What users complain about

  • The game's advertisements and App Store images are highly misleading and do not represent the actual gameplay.R1R5R6R9
  • It is heavily pay-to-win, with significant power imbalances between paying and free-to-play players.R4R14R22R37
  • Players report issues with in-game bullying, harassment, and dictatorial behavior from powerful, often paying, players.R35R48R55R83
  • The game suffers from bugs, glitches, freezing, and loading issues.R171R397R431R456
  • Customer support is perceived as unhelpful, especially regarding purchase errors or player complaints.R30R48R539
  • The user interface changes frequently and sometimes inconveniently.R180R611
  • Lack of clear instructions for events and general gameplay.R169

Latest update · v1.111.6

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

New Guild PVP mode "Fortress Siege" launches Beta on July 4! Cross-server faction battles await. Plus: improved battle reports and Island Trials map.

Recurring themes

Misleading Ads negative
A pervasive complaint is that the game's advertisements and App Store images bear no resemblance to the actual gameplay, leading to disappointment and feelings of being scammed. Users expected an RPG or pixel-art style game but received a base-building war game.R1R5R6R9
Pay-to-Win negative
The game is widely criticized for being heavily pay-to-win, where spending significant amounts of money is necessary to progress and compete effectively. Free-to-play players struggle against 'whales' who dominate events and PvP.R4R14R22R37
Player Bullying negative
A significant number of reviews mention issues with cyberbullying, harassment, and dictatorial behavior by powerful players or guilds, often enabled by the pay-to-win structure. This creates a toxic environment where weaker players are targeted.R35R48R55R83
Bugs & Performance negative
Users report various technical issues including freezing, crashing, loading problems, and in-game bugs that hinder gameplay.R171R397R431R456
UI Changes negative
Some long-term players express frustration with frequent and unhelpful changes to the user interface, which they feel are regressions.R180R611

Who it's for

This game is for players who enjoy casual base-building and hero-collecting games and are willing to either spend money to compete or play very casually without expecting to reach top tiers . It might appeal to those looking for a social game with guild interactions, provided they find a supportive community R95R96. It is NOT for players who expect the game to match its advertisements, those who dislike pay-to-win mechanics, or players who are sensitive to in-game bullying and harassment R1R14R48.

Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, particularly concerning misleading ads and pay-to-win aspects, which are consistently cited across many reviews. While there are positive reviews, they often acknowledge the misleading ads but still find the core game enjoyable. The lifetime rating of 4.5 suggests a more positive past, but the recent trajectory is clearly negative.

Frequently asked

Is Top Heroes like its advertisements?
No, numerous reviews confirm that Top Heroes is nothing like its advertisements or App Store images, which often depict an RPG or pixel-art style game, while the actual game is a base-building war game R1R5R6R9.
Is Top Heroes a pay-to-win game?
Yes, many players describe Top Heroes as heavily pay-to-win, stating that significant spending is required to progress, compete, and avoid being outmatched by 'whales' R4R14R22R37.
Does Top Heroes have issues with in-game bullying?
Yes, several reviews report problems with cyberbullying, harassment, and powerful players dictating terms to weaker guilds or individuals, sometimes leading to players being constantly attacked R35R48R55R83.

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. [R3] 5/5 · US Love it: Really enjoyable game
  2. [R7] 5/5 · US Top hero’s: Awesome game
  3. [R10] 5/5 · US So far so good: Pretty dope game so far lotta screen tapping so I see what the point is also, who doesn’t like a good game.
  4. [R13] 5/5 · US Best game: No adds unless you want to use them, highly addictive.
  5. [R95] 5/5 · US Good game: So far really enjoying the game I like the ease of use and the improvements been playing for a few months now and can’t put it down fun fact find a good guild and your golden
  6. [R96] 5/5 · US Pretty amazing: So I’ve tried a lot of games. Something to enjoy that keeps my attention. I finally found it. There is literally always something to do. You can also make connections with people all around the world without the distraction of politics. I definitely recommend you give it a try.
  7. [R366] 3/5 · GB Love it but one problem: I absolutely love this game! No ads or anything, and the gameplay is amazing, I just have one thing about chats I don’t really understand why there can’t be different chat rooms, (other than private and guild) but just being able to change chat rooms will be great, just so I can be around different people. Cuz I ended being harassed in the game , that I ended up have to b
  8. [R78] 5/5 · US Fun: Had a great time playing with friends. · translated
  9. [R86] 5/5 · US Glory Battlefield event: The Glory Battlefield event is the best event I’ve seen so far. It lets you test your kingdom against others to see where you are on the power scale without risking everything you have. This event should be rotated into the mix more often with more than 5 attempts. Thanks for the great game!
  10. [R1] 2/5 · US 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
  11. [R5] 1/5 · US Not as advertised: The actual game is nothing like it is advertised. Unfortunately a bait and switch.
  12. [R6] 3/5 · US 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.
  13. [R9] 1/5 · US ads: We just gotta start rebiew bombing these games that make AI ads that are nothing like the game at all. Maybe then they’ll finally stop and just try to make a decent game.
  14. [R4] 2/5 · US 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.
  15. [R14] 1/5 · US 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
  16. [R22] 1/5 · US 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
  17. [R37] 1/5 · US Awful: One of the worst waste of time games I’ve ever seen. A pay to win garbage can played by devs, bots, and sharp tooth rats. All 5 star reviews came from shills. Pass for your own good.
  18. [R35] 2/5 · US Misleading Adds / Social Bullying: Not for kids. First installed because the add was about farming food… then found out it was a gar game. I said ok, I like strategies. Guilds with real people are involved… but then strong players create their own rules, as if they were queens and kings, killing players that don’t pay for the game and don’t want to be their subordinates. Basically you follow the
  19. [R48] 1/5 · US Pay to win and pro cyber bullies: This game does not care about its players. They only care about the money and seek it even at the cost of promoting cyber bullies and letting the ruin the game for all. They don’t care so much that reading my complaint about cyber bulling and their only response is to say how there are free contract for all. Completely ignoring the fact the cyber bullies prevent
  20. [R55] 1/5 · US Good game-Horrible people: This is a fun little game. I spent 18 days and $20 on it. Then the top guild in the server began cyberbullying all the other guilds. By this, what happens is every day you come into the game and find your castle burning. The actual impact is a relatively minor loss of resources, but the fun is gone. In my case the PKG guild leader Ben who had clearly “invested” in hi
  21. [R83] 5/5 · US child pornographers and extortionist: this app; allows its users to cyber bully people, allows racism even after multiple ‘reports’, extortion and soliciting sexual content to minors for in game currency. even after multiple complaints the users who do these things continue to be free to spread their hate and child pornography.
  22. [R171] 3/5 · US Fun, but isn’t loading: I love this game! From the great people to the fun daily quests, but my experience may come to an end as the app just refuses to load for me now. For the past two weeks it just sits at 75% and repeats the loading screen but doesn’t open. This is even after updating the app, so I don’t understand why there’s still a problem? I have a guild that I love, and missions I can’t w
  23. [R397] 3/5 · GB Crash: The game is good but please sort the crashing out
  24. [R431] 3/5 · GB Cool game, but too many bugs: The game is pretty nice and the gameplay is good. But there are too many bugs which make it annoying to play. Banner ads stick over the buttons so you can’t use. Quitting the game is the only solution. Some boundaries are not well designed so you can’t use end up in water and never get out again. Etc.
  25. [R456] 3/5 · GB Buggy: Fix guild leave button!!! Game is mostly p2w but is playable as f2p but you won’t be able to challenge fat whales, unless you make friends with them you will be their farm. Game gives random bugs too, sometimes chat button doesn’t work and now guild leave button is completely unresponsive, but forget about fixing the bugs you never forget to add new p2w event. Well done 👎
  26. [R30] 1/5 · US 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
  27. [R539] 3/5 · CA AI Marketing Scam: **The rating listed is so their AI rating bots don’t flag my review and get it removed.** Obviously the game is a misleading scam, however the worst of it is how the “developer” (AI Chatbot) responds to these reviews. They encourage you to ‘contact support’ to resolve grievances. What in the world is the “support” going to do? Unless they either completely recode the game to
  28. [R180] 3/5 · US Not sure I like the direction it’s headed: I’ve been playing the game for about 2 years. A lot of the recent updates involve changing and moving around user interfaces which aren’t helpful and feel like regression. The constant push to spend money is extra heavy. There’s also the complaint of bad power match ups in nearly every event. Simply, if you don’t spend money you’ll never get strong. It wo
  29. [R611] 3/5 · CA Stop changing the UI: Stop changing the UI every week, it’s so annoying. And why did you remove the queues from the village view? That’s so inconvenient! The combined view with construction + research + queues was great, please put it back.
  30. [R169] 3/5 · US Lack of Instructions: Game is fun enough. I wish there were clearer instructions. For example, I can’t play in the glory battlefield event because it keeps telling me to join my first solo match to join but it doesn’t direct me or instruct me how to complete the first solo match. I’ve been asking other members and nobody seems to know how to do this. Also, everything is timed and it’s hard to enjo

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