Bowmasters vs Archers Online
Choose Archers Online for a more balanced gameplay experience with fewer ads.
While both games struggle with ad overload, Archers Online offers a slightly better user experience and gameplay balance. Bowmasters is plagued by excessive ads and user frustrations, making it less enjoyable overall.
Head to head
you prefer a more nostalgic experience and don't mind ads as much.
you want a more balanced gameplay experience with fewer ads and better support.
Evidence note: Both games have significant ad-related complaints, but Archers Online's issues seem less severe overall. Bowmasters has a larger volume of negative reviews focused on ad frustrations.
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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.
- [R3] Bowmasters Multiplayer?: Really fun good game I spent money and all but man I need multiplayer mode so I can play this game please
- [R13] Bowmasters Ugh: There is no more pvp you cant fight real people anymore😡
- [R64] Archers Online Use 2 be: The game was awesome but now that I have reached the end nothing!! No new levels and those you enter weekly no new rewards, just points and shards for nothing. I guess the developers didn’t think ahead or expect anyone to reach the end. We want more!!!
- [R72] Archers Online PLEASE UPDATE ARROWS: It’s been well over a year and the option to upgrade arrows that qualify for a upgrade has not been available. More maps need to be added as well. Playing the same maps over & over is no fun. PLEASE UPDATE APP :/
- [R4] Bowmasters ads: if I got a penny every time I got an add in this game I could buy the whole NBA twice. If i could get all the hours back of watching these ads i could start a new life a new job and start a family until im in a coffin.
- [R28] Bowmasters TOO MANY ADS!!!: Love the game but you have to watch an ad like every 15 seconds. RUINS the entire game!
- [R67] Archers Online Change: Annoying with adds i will delete that game .
- [R75] Archers Online Used to be great: This game used to be really good, but then they get greedy and now everything‘s all about ads and pay us money to get the upgrades. I don’t understand why developers can’t just make a game make it fun make it relatively inexpensive to buy things if you’re gonna be greedy, but no no you’re greedy. You gotta gouge everybody’s wallet just like everyone else and it sucks. I never und
- [R43] Bowmasters Lost all of my progress: This seriously would have been a good game if it wouldn’t loose my progress after an update. I had unlocked almost every character in the game and I guess there was an update or something because I never deleted the game or bought a new phone or anything, I opened the game recently, and I saw that I had lost every character except for the starter characters. I used to have
- [R78] Archers Online Unsure?: Issues I have no communication I have emailed 3-4x and nothing the consent crashing along with lost rewards and bonuses. I have spent money to purchase gems and I have lost gems due to then crashing of the game. However I really like the game but I'm becoming jaded with all the crashing and I have paid to remove the ads and there seems to be more ads to watch to get perks and awards becau
- [R114] Archers Online Crash crash crash: The game is great fun but it is constantly crashing. In the middle of a game, when the app loads, just constantly crashing. Probably once an hour.
- [R22] Bowmasters Adds: Way to much adds and nobody is paying 20 dollars for a subscription 😂😂
- [R49] Bowmasters Ads, ads and more long ads.: This game used to be a lot of fun, but it’s become almost unplayable because of the excessive number of long ads. What’s even more disappointing is that I paid $3.99 for the “No Ads” option, yet I’m still forced to watch lengthy advertisements while playing. That feels misleading and completely undermines the value of paying for an ad-free experience. I understand tha
- [R81] Archers Online Ads between every bout now, Really?: So suddenly you want to charge $6.99 to play the same game been playing for the last year! Would have given you five stars, but greed gets 3, and one less player!
- [R117] Archers Online Said I’d be back: Great game sadly ad’s after every match. And devs don’t give me we need to have ad’s we have all played plenty of games with no ad’s I could list some great ones if you like. By the way people £1.99 turn off ad’s, other than that a great game.
- [R19] Bowmasters Game has pop ads: I remember this game like 6 years ago it used to fun and barely any ads now it’s filled with pop ads and micro transactions that add nothing to the game
- [R118] Archers Online Technical problems: I really like this game but no technical support. Can’t add my new arrows to my quiver. Deleting
- [R80] Archers Online Advertising nightmare: Too many ads😞
- [R82] Archers Online Way too many ads: Too many ads and the ads are broke. They run for 5 mins even after reviewing the ad. How long do you want users to be stuck on an ad they have watched 5x. Maybe this is intentional to get people to buy no ads. Either way no ethical and messes up gameplay. I’m sure others are feeling this and user time is declining.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store