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Head-to-head

Battle Legion vs Hero Squad

Battle Legion 4.8★ · Free + IAP 60
Winner Tie
Hero Squad 4.6★ · Free + IAP 55

Battle Legion offers a more strategic gameplay experience, but both games suffer from aggressive monetization and significant technical issues.

Full reviews: Battle Legion · Hero Squad

Battle Legion is praised for its strategy and auto-battle mechanics, but many users report it's heavily pay-to-win and plagued by intrusive ads. Hero Squad offers a fun, addictive experience with numerous upgrades, yet it's widely criticized for severe lag, frequent crashes, and a broken 'no ads' IAP.

Head to head

Features and Gameplay edge: Battle LegionR5R12R14R30
Battle Legion Battle Legion is appreciated for its strategic depth, unit abilities, and auto-battle mechanics R5R14. However, some features like the 'wall unit' are considered underwhelming due to pathing issues R12. Players also desire features like friendly battles R30.
Hero Squad Hero Squad offers a fun, addictive gameplay loop with many upgrade options . Users enjoy the concept and find it a good time-killer . However, there's a lack of enemy variety, which can make the game repetitive .
Ease of Use and Progression tieR4R9R15R16
Battle Legion Battle Legion is criticized for making progression difficult without spending money, with many users calling it 'pay to win' R4R15R16R18. The tutorial is described as overly long and restrictive . Some users also report losing progress upon reinstalling R9.
Hero Squad Hero Squad's progression is hampered by numerous bugs and crashes, especially in endless mode, leading to lost rewards and personal bests . Daily challenges are often broken, preventing players from earning rewards .
Reliability and Performance edge: Battle LegionR10R20R21R61
Battle Legion Battle Legion has reports of freezing, connection issues, and specific bugs like the PvP tutorial freezing R10R21. Some users also mention issues with purchased season passes not being functional R20.
Hero Squad Hero Squad is widely criticized for severe lag, frequent crashes, and freezing, especially in endless mode R61R64R66R77. Many users report that the game becomes unplayable due to these issues .
Price and Value (IAP/Ads) tieR1R3R4R13
Battle Legion Battle Legion is heavily criticized for aggressive monetization, intrusive ads, and being 'pay to win' R1R3R4R13. Users report constant pop-up ads, browser redirects, and high prices for minor power boosts R1R3. The game also limits free currency earning .
Hero Squad Hero Squad is also heavily criticized for its ad monetization, with many users stating that purchasing the 'no ads' IAP (priced at $2.99) does not remove all ads R67R70R73R85. Ads are frequent, often for 5x winnings, and sometimes don't even grant the reward R70.
Support and Updates edge: Battle LegionR11R31R63R69
Battle Legion Battle Legion has some users noting a decline in quality after a change in developers, with new changes being 'unnecessary' R11. There are reports of incorrect prices for in-app purchases R31.
Hero Squad Hero Squad users frequently complain about a complete lack of in-game support or contact information for developers . Many reviews call for urgent updates to fix bugs, lag, and crashes R63R69.
Pick Battle Legion if

Pick Battle Legion if you enjoy strategic auto-battlers and are willing to tolerate aggressive monetization and some bugs for the core gameplay R5R14.

Pick Hero Squad if

Pick Hero Squad if you're looking for a simple, addictive time-killer with many upgrade options and can overlook significant performance issues and misleading 'no ads' purchases .

Evidence note: Both apps have a significant number of negative reviews, especially recent ones, focusing on monetization and technical issues. While Battle Legion's lifetime rating is higher, recent reviews for both skew negative, indicating a decline in user satisfaction.

Frequently asked

Is Battle Legion pay-to-win?
Yes, many users report that Battle Legion becomes 'pay to win' at higher levels, making it difficult to progress without spending real money on unit upgrades and shards R4R15R16R18.
Does Hero Squad's 'no ads' purchase work?
No, numerous users report that purchasing the 'no ads' IAP, which costs $2.99, does not remove all advertisements, as ads are still required for bonus rewards and other in-game actions R67R70R73R85.
Are there performance issues with Hero Squad?
Yes, Hero Squad is widely reported to suffer from significant lag, frequent crashes, and freezing, especially during endless mode and after extended gameplay, leading to a frustrating and often unplayable experience for many users R61R64R66R77.

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. [R5] Battle Legion 5/5 · US My type of game: If you like strategy games this is a game for you or if you like to lets say there is a enemy team that is just to strong for you but what if you use characters with abilities that can affect them so that they cannot use move or slow them down or cause them to fear with that is an ability in this game and they will run away causing me to have the upper hand in the battle and then
  2. [R12] Battle Legion 3/5 · US Walls unit: The wall unit is a great idea but I think it is underwhelmingly bad due to friendly units running in to it and not beable to run around it. The wall unit basically acts as a magnet to friendlys making it a easy loose game when using it. The second part is when the opponent is using it instead of walking to the side of the wall where the enemy units are units want to go through the wall
  3. [R14] Battle Legion 5/5 · US Nice auto battle game: Fun to play
  4. [R30] Battle Legion 3/5 · US Need friendly battles: Great game but I wish you could play against friends or people in your clan in real time
  5. [R4] Battle Legion 1/5 · US Pay to win let down: Cool game. Locked behind money annoyances. You simply can’t progress without spending real money. No thanks.
  6. [R9] Battle Legion 3/5 · US I don’t get you guys change it plz: I was playing this game since I was little I had a lot of stuff but the the next day I went to play I restarted everything but still a fun game and why you guys put paying emeralds for the battle thing I want it to be free again
  7. [R15] Battle Legion 3/5 · US Loved the game at first.: So I loved the game at first but then things got pay to win.
  8. [R16] Battle Legion 1/5 · US Unbalanced: Have fun staying in low rank because you’re never going to climb if you don’t have enough shards to level up the specific units to create a Busted overpowered Comp with no counter play.
  9. [R10] Battle Legion 1/5 · US Good game but: Game is fun honestly alot of fun. But once I unlocked pvp the dumb tutorial forces you to click it then make you click your army in the bottom left corner. Then the game freezes I’ve uninstalled and reinstall and same thing happens so the game is just unplayable once you unlock pvp? I don’t even want to play pvp but since they force you too and the game is bugged I can’t progress pa
  10. [R20] Battle Legion 4/5 · US Need of fixes: For starters, my season pass that I had purchased no longer is functional so that’s the thing I hope that is resolved and part of the reason why I’m doing this review the other is that I am in a guild and I have lots of shorts that are on nonfunctional to myself and I would like to give them to my brother, but I am heavily limited in the aspect of me being able to give him shards an
  11. [R21] Battle Legion 3/5 · US El juego: me pase horas jugándolo, y de repente cuando fui a volver a entrar no me carga, carga hasta el 8% y me dice que no se pudo conectar al servidor, y bueno para un juego que me gusto bastante, me decepciona eso, ya que el internet no es el problema y reinicie el móvil por si era algo de él y nada, sigue sin cargar
  12. [R61] Hero Squad 2/5 · US Laggy this download: Downloaded the 4th or so time real laggy this time
  13. [R1] Battle Legion 1/5 · US Opens Browser Regularly & MTX Everywhere: App keeps opening the web browser to access random websites before opening the store during ad views. Ads they partner with will sometimes automatically do this, even if the phone is not touched. Shoves 5-10 ads in your face every launch which several dozen MTX in the shop among the worst value I've ever seen in a MTX store (regularly 6.99 for a minor pow
  14. [R3] Battle Legion 3/5 · US Annoyed by overly aggressive IAP “deals” that ruin gameplay features as well as buggy ads: Never been so annoyed before by a feature so as to score this low. The game has an “auto” play feature that allows you to automatically match and fight opponents x number of times per day. Doing so allows you to accumulate some basic rewards for the wins you get. Sounds great. The problem: the game is so ag
  15. [R13] Battle Legion 2/5 · US Honest review: So I first discovered this game years ago and recently found it again and decided to download it cause it was fun. It’s a fun game, different units, art is great, Strat is fun, but it’s really heavy on paying for gems and such, not really good for ftp players. Also, it seems the player base is gone because I looked at a ton of clans and tall their members have been inactive for 1 to
  16. [R11] Battle Legion 4/5 · US Used to be a better game: I’ve been playing this game almost since it was made and the original developers, before they sold it to godspeed, had everything pretty locked down and perfect. Godspeed took over and started implementing all these unnecessary changes and additions and it’s definitely not as fun to play anymore. Still a fun game and one of the only games like it though.
  17. [R31] Battle Legion 1/5 · US Incorrect prices: In app purchases are labeled once thing and they charge you double the price of what it says
  18. [R63] Hero Squad 3/5 · US Update needed. ⚠️: I want to keep playing this game, but it needs an update. Not just to upgrade the squad, but to recent iOS devices, bug fixes, and improvements. Please Kwalee, update this game, even if it’s just a minor update. I'm not trying to be critical, we just want updates that include the following listed. 🙏🏻
  19. [R69] Hero Squad 3/5 · US Fix bugs: There are a lot of bugs in this game but overall a good concept and I like the game
  20. [R18] Battle Legion 3/5 · US Decent combat, intrusive pay to win: Good: Game is fun when you’re on an even playing field with an opponent. Bad: Fighting someone who has units you’ve never seen before with high levels. This would be fine if you could buy new units at high levels, but since you need multiple copies of them and lots of gold, this is difficult.
  21. [R67] Hero Squad 1/5 · US Paid for no ads and still have ads: I paid $2.99 twice and I still have ads.. this needs to be fixed or I want a refund
  22. [R70] Hero Squad 1/5 · US Ads: They make you watch the same ads every time. Then if you want to get 5x your winnings by watching a ad it doesn’t give it to you
  23. [R73] Hero Squad 1/5 · US scam: payed for no ads but still gives me ads never playing again
  24. [R85] Hero Squad 2/5 · US Okay concept: I like the concept as it has twist on typical rogue-like games like archero and survivor.io but it is a huge money grab. Bought the 2.99 remove ads only to find out the vast majority of stuff is still behind ads. What a joke.
  25. [R64] Hero Squad 2/5 · US Crazy Lag: The game was fun when I first downloaded it. I love the amount of upgrades it offers but for the past 4-5 months there has been a terrible lag in the gameplay. I was hoping they would’ve fixed it by now with the newest update but no change still.
  26. [R66] Hero Squad 3/5 · US OK: It’s A Good Game But It’s Being Slow
  27. [R77] Hero Squad 4/5 · US Cool but it crashes in endless mode: It’s a really cool game nice weapons my favorite is the icethrower to much ads it angers me but it’s a really good game

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