RAID vs AFK Arena
Choose RAID for a more engaging RPG experience despite its monetization issues.
RAID offers a more immersive gameplay experience with a rich story and character collection, but it suffers from high costs and pay-to-win mechanics. AFK Arena is fun and easy to play but has significant performance issues and a frustrating progression system.
Head to head
you enjoy deep RPG mechanics and are willing to spend money for a better experience.
you prefer a more casual game that you can play without significant investment.
Evidence note: While both games have their issues, RAID's overall gameplay and features seem to resonate more positively with users despite its monetization complaints.
Frequently asked
Is RAID Shadow Legends free to play?
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.
- [R2] RAID Awesome job: It has good story telling interesting story’s and you can get your own champions and also boss fights levels and more
- [R5] RAID He-man and the masters of the Universe collabs with raid shadow legends review.: I only really only started playing once I saw the Ad for the collab with masters of the universe. I got on and got on every day until I got Skeletor, he’s always been my favorite He-man character. I love his abilities and I love how you added a custom slower more deep version of the He-man theme to his Character when
- [R19] RAID Raid SL: The game is cool. Pros. multiple hero’s. Very nice graphics. A lot of events. Periodically you get a chance to obtain legendary hero’s by logging in and completing task. Cons. You h literally have to spend thousands of dollars to get any decent hero’s. Other wise you will get rare hero’s that die quickly when fully maxed upgraded and awakened. Skill tomes are hard to come by unless you
- [R68] AFK Arena Pretty good: Fun to play
- [R39] RAID Gameplay: This is a fun game and will quickly get you hooked. However, the 3 star rating is because it is increasingly difficult to play without spending money on energy. There aren’t enough opportunities to gain extra energy without spending money and as you level up it takes more energy to do anything. Either allow for energy to gather unlimited or give more opportunities to win/earn event boost
- [R49] RAID Fun game awful performance: Game is fun. It’s like someone made a raid version of ER. But optimization/performance has to be the worst I’ve ever experienced on a game of any platform in my 30 years of gaming. And before a dev replies that it’s my phone like I’ve seen them reply to others on here about. It’s not. I have brand new IPhone 17. 2-3 months old. I play marvel strike force and clash o
- [R64] AFK Arena Almost unplayable: With all the 1hr updates on 1gbs service is unreal. Most updates are 2gb and the game doesn’t load or is so slow to go from activity to activity it makes you not want to play.
- [R70] AFK Arena Crashed: Every time I load into the game everything is perfectly fine. But as soon as I press anything and try to actually play, I get stuck on the screen with the horse and carriage for ten whole minutes before just closing out the game.
- [R34] RAID App Freezes: This app starts to load and then freezes. It is only on IOS. Android and in my laptop works fine. This has been two days straight.
- [R61] AFK Arena Won’t Load: When I try to play it won’t start I sat there for 30 minutes and it never loaded
- [R66] AFK Arena Game is good, stuck in a perma black screen glitch on it though: Ive tried everything from restarting my phone, the app, I’ve offloaded the app, but I’m afraid if i fully delete it I’ll lose my account. Help is appreciated!!!
- [R3] RAID Prices are crazy high: Things cost way to much in my opinion
- [R9] RAID If money is of no concern…: If money is of no concern then you can basically buy your way through this game at such exorbitant prices that you could easily buy a new car. The gameplay itself is good for a turn based RPG aside from time gates, paywalls and extremely limited resources to start with. Not to mention the excessive amount of harassment of buy this or that to boost your chances, characte
- [R73] AFK Arena Don’t pay anything: Unless you want to spend $1,000 plus, it is not worth it to play this game. Expeditions might be fun at first, but soon you’ll be up against earlier leagues and there’s no hope against them since they have heroes it’s literally impossible to have. They will punish you for spending or being in a guild that spends eventually since their matchmaking is completely broken. Don’t was
- [R7] RAID Promo Codes: Promo codes don’t work after email verification. Support team button goes to a page that has no links to Raid shadow Legends.
- [R37] RAID Support: That game has the worse support ever, many ridiculous rules if you have problem on that game only god can help you
- [R67] AFK Arena Event Vaul of time Bug: Event bugged for several days, reported many time no response no improve. Feel like no management anymore.
- [R118] AFK Arena Great Game BUT…: I love AFK Journey and wanted a similar game to play so this was perfect. I’ve played for a few days and some of the mechanics are janky but it’s fun overall. HOWEVER just now I went to play and it asked me to connect to an email, and when I did so I lost all my progress!! Why would linking an account make you start over?? So yeah if I can’t get this fixed I’ll keep one star becau
- [R52] RAID If you like getting shaken down for cash this game is for you: Do you care about your hard earned money? Well if you said NO! then your in luck because this game will constantly harass you to buy and spend your hard earned cash on useless in game items. Do you want to play a game that doesn’t care about skill or playtime, a game that only cares about the money in your bank account, and a community
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store