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Monster Legends

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Monster Legends is a monster-collecting and battling game that many users find fun and addictive, especially in the early stages, but it is increasingly criticized for being pay-to-win, having excessive ads, and long wait times for progression.

4.8★ lifetime (544,808) Free + in-app purchases since 2013 by Socialpoint updated 0.1 mo ago recent negative 11% 120 reviews across 4 regions
Pay-to-Win Ads & Pop-ups Progression & Wait Times Power Creep & Obsolete Monsters Beginner Experience Bugs & Account Issues
5★719
4★112
3★57
2★21
1★91
recent reviews across 4 regions, vs the 4.8★ lifetime average

Monster Legends offers a fun and engaging experience for new players, with many enjoying the monster collection, breeding, and battling aspects. However, recent reviews highlight significant issues including a strong pay-to-win model, an overwhelming number of ads and pop-ups, and excessively long wait times for in-game actions.

What users like

  • Engaging gameplay with monster collection, breeding, and battlingR1R12R35R43
  • Good beginner guide helps new players understand the gameR2
  • Many long-term players appreciate the game's longevity and nostalgiaR4R26R40
  • Offers a variety of activities and challenges to keep players investedR16R43

What users complain about

  • Overwhelmingly pay-to-win, especially for new or high-rarity monstersR44R54R59R137
  • Excessive and intrusive ads and pop-ups disrupt gameplayR101R157R172R187
  • Long wait times for building, breeding, and progression, often pushing players to payR65R200R275R455
  • Older monsters become quickly obsolete due to power creep in new erasR236R246R349
  • Some users report issues with account access, lost inventory, or bugsR106R130R174R248
  • Misleading ads that show features not present in the gameR55R511R568
  • Age verification issues prevent some users from playingR254R261R278R279

Latest update · v19.6

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

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Recurring themes

Pay-to-Win negative
Many players feel the game is heavily pay-to-win, especially at higher levels or when trying to acquire new, powerful monsters. Free-to-play progression is described as very slow or impossible for competitive play.R44R54R59R137
Ads & Pop-ups negative
A frequent complaint is the overwhelming number of ads and pop-ups, which appear randomly during gameplay, after actions, or upon opening the app, severely disrupting the user experience.R101R157R172R187
Progression & Wait Times negative
Players report that progression, especially for building, breeding, and hatching, involves excessively long wait times, which can be frustrating and often push users towards in-app purchases to speed things up.R65R176R200R233
Power Creep & Obsolete Monsters negative
The constant introduction of new monster eras with significantly better stats renders older, previously powerful monsters useless, diminishing strategic variety and making it difficult for players to use their favorite monsters.R236R246R349
Beginner Experience positive
New players generally find the game fun and engaging, with a helpful beginner guide. The initial stages are often described as enjoyable before the pay-to-win and ad issues become prominent.R2R42R54R223
Bugs & Account Issues negative
Some users experience bugs such as disappearing buildings, lost inventory, crashes, or issues with age verification preventing them from playing. The developer's notes mention 'bug fixes' but recent reviews still report issues like crashes and game-breaking bugs.R106R130R174R248

Who it's for

This game is for players who enjoy monster collecting, breeding, and turn-based combat, and are looking for a game with a lot of content and challenges R43. It might appeal to those who don't mind a slower pace or are willing to spend money to accelerate progress . It is not for players who dislike frequent ads, long wait times, or a strong pay-to-win model R59R101R275.

Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, particularly concerning ads and pay-to-win mechanics, which contradicts the high lifetime rating. The positive points are primarily from users who have played for a long time or are new to the game, before the issues become more apparent.

Frequently asked

Is Monster Legends a pay-to-win game?
Yes, many recent reviews indicate that Monster Legends has become heavily pay-to-win, especially for acquiring new and powerful 'mythic' or 'ancestor' monsters, making it difficult for free-to-play players to compete R44R54R59R137.
Does Monster Legends have a lot of ads?
Yes, a significant number of recent reviews complain about excessive and intrusive ads and pop-ups that frequently interrupt gameplay, appearing randomly or after completing actions R101R157R187R301.
Are there long wait times in Monster Legends?
Yes, players report long wait times for various in-game actions such as building, breeding, and hatching monsters, which can take hours or even days, often encouraging players to spend gems to speed them up R65R200R275R455.
Does Monster Legends support Arabic language?
No, some users have requested the addition of Arabic language support, indicating it is not currently available R20R207.

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. [R1] 5/5 · US Bob’s review: My name is Bob I think it’s Supra cool I saw Mrbeast and mrleast nice game
  2. [R12] 5/5 · US Monster legends-battle game: Really fun, great experience and if you’re looking for a better experience start battling
  3. [R35] 5/5 · US I absolutely love this game: It’s a very fun game full of characters with different abilities and mechanics love the way you can cross bread to obtain better monsters in combat
  4. [R43] 5/5 · US Honest review: Got bored so I wanted a game to get on my phone and invest some time In. This game solved my problem. It has so much to do, and is so investing and fun to keep progressing and leveling monsters, while also fighting the campaign challenge map and all the other fun features available, like the treasure room, monster lab, and maze levels.
  5. [R2] 5/5 · US Very good beginner guide: The beginning of the game gives new players a good chance to get a idea of the game and guides us through the game until we get the hang of things which is very handy n why i rate this game an 5 stars c
  6. [R4] 5/5 · US Great: Been playing for years. Has never let me down
  7. [R26] 5/5 · US Missed this game so much!: Still as good as when i played it back in 2017.
  8. [R40] 5/5 · US .: Nostalgia
  9. [R16] 5/5 · US Great game to play: I love this game because when I play it, it gives me the happiness I need, for an example when ever I beat a boss in the dungeons game mode and get a treasure chest, then open the treasure and get something really good makes me happy
  10. [R44] 1/5 · US pay to win: can’t even enjoy the game without spending money
  11. [R54] 1/5 · US H: The game is fun when you are a beginner but now im in level 53 the game is horrible and nothing is even fair now and there is so much pay to win
  12. [R59] 1/5 · US FOR THOSE LOOKING TO DOWNLOAD…: Skip this game. It isn’t worth it. It’s a P2W mess where the developers don’t listen to the community. The game may be fun at first, but you quickly realize that the charm falls off. Every aspect about this game is either about wasting time or hoping that you’re lucky.
  13. [R137] 1/5 · US too much pay to win: everything has some sort of pay to win aspect of it lol
  14. [R101] 3/5 · US Ads????: This game is good and progression is actually fun!! The pop ups get really annoying fast and I wish there was a way in settings to hide all the extra or unnecessary UI but the reason I’m writing a review is because after the recent update all of a sudden I’m getting ads randomly in the middle of my gameplay. That is so so frustrating and so annoying and if it’s not fixed I will not be kee
  15. [R157] 3/5 · US Es molesto: No entiendo porque le añadieron tantos anuncios
  16. [R172] 1/5 · US Final goodbye: It was a good game but too much changed and it was for the worse. I lost interest and maybe log on once in months, I can’t play without pop-up’s that continue to come into my face every time i re-open the app. Support has been useless, i asked for a name change since it was personal and was denied multiple times, overall the game was fun until it lost the plot and got turned into wh
  17. [R187] 1/5 · US Constant Pop-Up Ads and Promos: Constant interruption, tedious and anti-player experience.
  18. [R65] 3/5 · US Could be better: The game is really fun and I like the challenges it gives you but the way a little longer like a lot longer like five hours
  19. [R200] 3/5 · US Decent: I like how the game plays, monster designs r cool and everything but I hate how long things take to either build or create at a certain point. And EVERYTHING is a paywall
  20. [R275] 1/5 · GB This game: I heat it the waiting time is insane I had to wait 24 HOURS FOR A ROCK DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE IN GAME PURCHASES THIS GAME IS FUN AT THE START BUT THEN IT HITS YOU WITH THE WAITING TIME DON’T GET THIS GAME UNLESS YOU LIKE TO WAIT
  21. [R455] 3/5 · GB amazing: love the game very good yes yes yes takes ages to do stuff tho
  22. [R236] 2/5 · US Why it’s got worse: The game got much worse than before , developers don’t understand, they just keep adding new monsters every time and the old monsters are now useless and it’s just p2w. It’s the exact reason this game died but they just not listening.
  23. [R246] 1/5 · US The stats of older monsters: Please make the stats of older architects/mythics similar to the stats of monsters from newer eras. With every era released, the monsters have significantly better stats than the previous ones, which immediately renders the monsters in the older eras useless. This kills the creativity and strategy of the game, because there are so many monsters that I wish I could use
  24. [R349] 1/5 · GB The game is less fun: After taking a break during the blossom area I came back and seen the immense power creep along with the removal of stuff that was there before. For example in the legends pass there’s a free version and a paid one, in the free version before you could win a free monster, but now that’s been taken out and u can only get the paid one. Before I took a break there was a multipla
  25. [R106] 1/5 · US Where's my temple of nature??????: I've buildy a temple of nature and level up monster to 50. I out game later, then log in, wow that building was disapeared and I couldn't build it again???
  26. [R130] 1/5 · US I e been playing this game for years: Hi I’m Alex when I started playing this game many years ago it was my favorite now half of my inventory is gone a $200 (or more) valved just gone would not recommend playing for long term or spending money into this game
  27. [R174] 1/5 · US This game is mid too many bugs: But it crashes too often and there’s too many ads it also just took 300 gems for no reason I’m pressed
  28. [R248] 3/5 · US I wasn’t spamming: I wasn’t spamming all I was doing was trying to start over so don’t go jumping to conclusions cause I wasn’t spamming and I still want to play this game. It’s like y’all aren’t taking that I was being accused of something that I didn’t do seriously and that it took more than 24 hours to get back into the game sounds like don’t care y’all’s players at all and starting to act rude
  29. [R55] 2/5 · US The nice but bad game: In the ad, it shows that there’s a picture camera and you can take a picture of things so you can get more dragons or monsters, but there is no camera thing so you cannot take a picture so this game wise, but it is also really fun although it is not what it looks like in the ad
  30. [R511] 3/5 · CA Stealing Dragon City’s ads: I played this game before and to me it’s more of a Dragon City ripoff (no offense to the creators, it’s just my opinion), when I was on a app doing stuff and suddenly an ads popped up, I fought it was about Dragon City because they were using an ad about Dragon City until I saw the end saying “get Monster Legends now” and all that other stuff, I also think there’s too m
  31. [R568] 3/5 · CA Publicité mensongère: Il devrais arrêter de faire des fausses rumeurs
  32. [R254] 1/5 · GB Age: Says 9 plus ( I’m 13) but when I put 0-17 it said I can’t play?
  33. [R261] 1/5 · GB It wouldn’t let me play: I clicked that I was under 18 and it said I was to young to play
  34. [R278] 1/5 · GB Bad: I accidentally out rhe wrong age and now i cant play it
  35. [R279] 1/5 · GB Trash: This game and I am going to tell the truth this is the worst game ever it said that because I had to do a verification it under estimated my age so I could not play
  36. [R176] 3/5 · US Ok: It's alright but really does need to be reworked with a few changes that fan make it more fair for players progress, we need more efficient ways to earn gems otherwise progressing will take forever.
  37. [R233] 3/5 · US Slightly repetitive but fun: It’s fun to collect but it’s a lot of waiting and you need a lot of gems which most times aren’t aquired for free
  38. [R42] 3/5 · US Review: Is fun game
  39. [R223] 3/5 · US It good👍: I like it but I will update this review later but this is what i think about it after 10 mins but it only 10 so definitely might change
  40. [R301] 1/5 · GB Ads: So many ads i hate the game
  41. [R20] 1/5 · US Opinion: Please add Arabic language support. · translated
  42. [R207] 3/5 · US Language: There is no Arabic language. · translated

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