Castle Busters

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 This game is awesome: This game has a bunch of characters and keeps me coming back
2. [R2] 5/5 · US In depth excitement: My new addiction for couch time. The ads are a little aggravating, but the gameplay makes up for it.
3. [R3] 5/5 · US Very fun just like battle tanks: Reminds me of an old game called battle tanks all geometry and twist is different attacks and tactics as you upgrade the tank/castle. Con/pro shot clock. You have 25 seconds to make a move or lose the turn.
4. [R9] 5/5 · US Great quick game!: This game is great and quick to play and despite what you read on here, it is not necessary to buy characters or upgrades in order to win. My longest win streak so far is 56 straight Battles. Currently working on the next one which is up to 43 wins straight. Castle, armor and character upgrades, definitely matter, but strategy and terrain, positioning matter more. I would love t
5. [R5] 5/5 · US A little bit addicted.: I have not paid for a single thing in this game and have been able to level up pretty quickly. Matches are timed pretty well and some units are a bit overpowered but still can be strategically beaten. One of the better versus phone app games in a while.
6. [R7] 5/5 · US Fun time sink: I have played far more of this game than I would choose to admit. You don't need to pay to play. I routinely beat people who have spent a lot of money on the game. They have also done a good job of making it so that you can win even against people who are many levels ahead of you.
7. [R16] 5/5 · US Awesome: This game is great. I see reviews saying you need to pay to get the characters to win but that is just not true at all. Absolutely killed it with this game, thank you
8. [R4] 5/5 · US Super Fun: I’ve been playing this for a month and it’s a great game and very fun. Watching ads for extra rewards is definitely worth it to upgrade your castle and your units.
9. [R20] 5/5 · US Great gameplay: It is a fun game to pass the time, and personally, I don’t mind the advertisements being a part of the experience as it substitutes for pay-to-play. Also great the developers make the ads optional.
10. [R11] 2/5 · US P2W: After the pay to win mechanics and special units who can kill all your units or destroy the castle, the game is not fun anymore, whenever u see that units you know that you’ve lost already. I really loved this game before..
11. [R18] 2/5 · US Don’t Pay To Play: Very fun and addicting game. Play until you can’t win matches when your opponent has overpaid for all top tier weapons where you don’t have a chance….then find another game to play……This is by far the most unfair game to play if you don’t pay…..
12. [R21] 1/5 · US Fun BUT: Starts off great and is very fun with the strategy of playing and building but quickly gets overwhelmed by others who want to pay more money and are able to build and upgrade more than I will in a year. Pay to win is never good
13. [R38] 3/5 · US Fun game, for a price…: The game is very fun and unique. However all of the best units and features are locked behind a pay wall. The game is “pay to win”.
14. [R31] 2/5 · US New updates resulted in app not working: Fun game…up until I updated. Now the app doesn’t load or open.
15. [R32] 2/5 · US Game crashes: I lost my 59 game winning streak because the game crashed while I was in my living room on Wi-Fi. Weeeeeeak
16. [R34] 1/5 · US Crash: The game keeps crashing over and over
17. [R49] 4/5 · US Won’t load: I’ve been playing for almost a year and now I can’t open the app? It just sits in a load screen… what can I do?
18. [R37] 1/5 · US Fake game: This game has no real players, an enemy managed to emote during a moment at the end of a game where you are locked out from doing so. Also the “rounds” of each match aren’t back and forth it’s turns and the “turns” will skip ahead in numbers instead of in sequence.
19. [R39] 3/5 · US Dynamic algorithms, all robots, does that even matter? 动态算法，全都是机器人、有意思吗？: Your opponent is dynamically generated based on your score, and you'll find that no matter how hard you try, your world ranking won't improve. The reason? Opponents gain points through code, while you have to manually invest time, and even watch ads. Eventually, your rank stabilizes within a certain range. Whether you play o
20. [R42] 3/5 · US Needs more people and less bots: Needs more people and less bots
21. [R51] 2/5 · GB To many bot’s: Stop allowing bots to play in events it says the bar too high you have to play a crazy amount of games to keep up with them. If you wanna use both in PVP that’s …! just don’t allow them to play in competition/ events it’s not fair. We don’t have that much time in real life to play so many games.
22. [R23] 2/5 · US Cb: Love the game but my phone gets really hot while playing.
23. [R40] 2/5 · US Battery = Drained: The game is fun, however idk what you guys have running in the background but Nothing has Ever drained my iPhone battery faster. Not hours of COD Mobile, not streaming YouTube for hours on end, no other game or app has ever drained my battery faster. Im really curious what is draining my battery so fast. I have to use a portable power bank to play this game.
24. [R55] 1/5 · GB iPhone heats up.: I enjoy this game but there is a serious problem. My iPhone heats up alarmingly when I run the software. This has persisted from my old iphone13 to my new iPhone. Please take this seriously and fix - it’s a real problem and will be damaging phones.
25. [R13] 5/5 · US Fun game: It is a fantastic game, but please add a feature to play with friends to make it even more fun.
26. [R17] 5/5 · US Actually surprised: I usually download games and stop playing them because I don’t have time or o forget due to work, but this one really I enjoy and I genuenly have fun it’s so minimal and so simple that is so enjoyable, sometimes the thing that will give you the most joy will be the the simple ones. I would recommend this game, the only think I thought about was how cool will be to have 1v1 with
27. [R26] 5/5 · US We Demand To Play Online With Friends 🙏: We Demand To Play Online With Friends 🙏
28. [R56] 4/5 · GB Fun game: Great game I would give it 5 stars if you could play against your friends
29. [R35] 2/5 · US Unbalanced: I would give this game a 5 but after the last update I’m only getting matches against people who have nearly maxed out castles and characters… like cmon man I never had to face that which makes it even more difficult to put up a good fight. How can I match someone with characters at level 75 and I’m sitting at 57 ??? I hardly write reviews but this has annoyed me so bad. Before I felt
30. [R45] 5/5 · US Arcane Secrets to short: Great Game many strategies, Arcane Season 1 is way to short for advanced players either increase levels or shorten the time table. Seems like the payed for pirate was nerfed.
31. [R68] 2/5 · GB Update made worse: This was a nice little game, grind the games, save cash and wood to upgrade with the odd bought gem pack. Unfortunately the new update has nerfed all the characters I had spent weeks upgrading so they are now about as useful as pockets on socks. Disappointing.
32. [R113] 3/5 · GB Seems all units have been nerfed!: Since your most recent update the units don’t seem to have the same power they did before. Taking out enemies defences was done in 2 turns sometimes 1 now it can take 6-7 turns. Premium units don’t seem to be working as they did and it’s nothing to do with their castle strength as I’ve beaten maxed out castles (I’m on 12k+ trophies) honestly it needs to go back t
33. [R27] 4/5 · US $$$$: It’s a fun game, and I don’t mind that you have to pay to unlock some of the characters but some of the characters are broken cough, cough Laser Man. I also understand the need for ads, but the number has gone up too much for me personally. You get one after every match now, and it takes away from the game.
34. [R30] 1/5 · US Weekly for ad skip purchase: Any game that charges $10 a week for ad removal is a rip off. Make it $10 permanent and I’ll consider changing the review.
35. [R33] 1/5 · US Mexican Mexdin and caliente gambling ads: 10 out of 10 times these two ads rip you off, you watch the ad and it takes you to a page that says iTunes page not available and you get no rewards, it’s a great game, but these ads that show up every single time and give you no rewards is enough to delete the game
36. [R47] 3/5 · US Pay to win: This game is actually pretty fun until you hit the coliseum at lvl 8000. After that you are way unfairly matched against maxed out players in the 40000+ crown levels that are completely maxed out. There is no way to win those matches. At this point I’m seriously thinking of just deleting the game.
37. [R48] 2/5 · US Started out fun but turns into a pay to win game at higher rankings: Had a blast playing this, I got all the way up to Coliseum rank at 8000 points, now that I am at this ranking it only matches me against people vastly out numbering me. 5 matches in a row and the lowest I had was a guy ranked 15,000, at one point it matches me against a guy with 50,000 points. Needless to say this makes the game
38. [R126] 3/5 · GB Good Game, Bad Matchmaking: The game itself is great, wood gained compared to needed is a bit out of balance. Now I don’t mind matchmaking against someone who spends money that’s fine, but I have never been matched against anyone with a lower trophy count or a castle either the same or lower build. Meaning every single game i’m matched against tougher players. Yet every opponent I get gets an easi
39. [R8] 3/5 · US Wack: Makes it almost impossible to keep up with upgrading the characters you either run out of one or the other which then would make you want to spend money on the game. The maps are all the same it gets boring after a while already and everytime you get a new character after like level 40 their function are practically the same it’s lame
40. [R25] 1/5 · US Was great fun, but is now aimless.: Initially this is a fun game, but as other mention , it is pay to play (A LOT!). But what is most damning is that after a while you reach a point where no amount of time or money gets you any further. There are actual limits to the strength of your castle and level of your units (100). After that, why are you playing? You can’t advance and the gameplay gets st