Ancient Battle vs Battle Legion
Battle Legion offers a more balanced experience with fewer complaints about excessive ads and game-breaking bugs, making it the better choice despite its own pay-to-win elements.
Ancient Battle is plagued by an overwhelming number of forced ads and significant bugs, leading to user frustration and unplayability. Battle Legion, while criticized for its pay-to-win mechanics and aggressive in-app purchase promotions, generally provides a more functional and enjoyable gameplay experience.
Head to head
you are extremely tolerant of ads and game bugs, and prioritize a fast-paced, simple strategy game experience.
you enjoy strategy games and are willing to tolerate aggressive monetization and potential pay-to-win elements for a more stable and generally better-regarded gameplay experience.
Evidence note: Ancient Battle's reviews are heavily dominated by complaints about ads, making it difficult to assess other aspects of the game fairly. Battle Legion's reviews, while also critical of monetization, provide more detailed feedback on gameplay mechanics and bugs.
Frequently asked
Are there many ads in Ancient Battle?
Is Battle Legion pay-to-win?
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.
- [R29] Ancient Battle Great Game: One of the best games I’ve played on a mobile device since the evolution of smartphones! Great job developers can’t describe what else this app needs to make it better, you guys know what’s best if so🙅🏾♂️👌🏾
- [R50] Ancient Battle was skeptical at first but this game is so much fun: better then anything i’ve downloaded besides COD in the past few months
- [R59] Ancient Battle Super fun and easy to play: The title said it all. Just hard to stop.
- [R33] Ancient Battle Fake Multiplayer: Good concept but be aware you are NOT playing against real players, game still works on airplane mode. Not worth spending any money whatsoever. Because of this the game is pretty easy and gets boring
- [R7] Ancient Battle Too many ads, and game freezes: Used to be fun once upon a time. But now you’re forced to watch ads, and often times the ads freeze requiring you to close the game and reopen then you have to watch another ad which 50/50 freezes again. It’s like the devs set the game up and then abandoned it to whatever happens
- [R11] Ancient Battle Adds: I love this game. Fast paced matches are great upgrades are simple but effective. The problem is the adds. I don’t mind watching the adds, I know it’s a great income stream. My problem is for some reason a lot of the adds freeze up on my and I have to exit the game loosing all the bonuses I’d get from watching the add. I would give you money to stop the adds if that was an option. Pleas
- [R1] Ancient Battle Not good: Every time I tried to make a purchase it didn't give me the gems but charged me money! 😡
- [R2] Ancient Battle This game was Super Fun , it changed from English to a Different Language: I was wondering What do I use as my Username and Password now that the game changed from English to another language ? All my Progress is on the one called this one , how do I log into it? > 兵多多
- [R4] Ancient Battle So many ads: Haven’t installed this game in years and reinstalled it to find out there’s 10 minute ads in it now
- [R8] Ancient Battle Do not get this game: Have to put 5 stars for obvious reasons but if you want a game that’s fair then this game is not for you. They pop up ads in the MIDDLE of matches that make it impossible to play and they do not level it. In 5 seconds of the match starting someone will have 27K power without ever defeating an opponent and its near impossible to claim a victory when you first start playing. An
- [R10] Ancient Battle Ads, ads, ads: I've had the game for a few years now. I used to enjoy it but stopped playing for a while. Just tried to restart playing, and the number of ads they now use is absurd. Beyond the ads to claim items, they now play an ad before and after every battle. They've made it impossible to enjoy. Won't be back.
- [R17] Ancient Battle FAv game: I use to play all the time And buy the pass and gems now im back playing WHERE ARE ALL MY PURCHASES ? Still a bery fun time killin game
- [R52] Ancient Battle Had to reinstall, lost all progress despite having saved it.: Had to reinstall the game and despite having it in the game center and everything where it used to be able to allow me to restore, this time it doesn’t allow me to restore and it wants me to purchase everything again including the times to forever on gold. I’m not paying another $10 for something that I’ve already paid for. Also, you ne
- [R13] Ancient Battle Ads: This game was fun till they added all the ads. An advertisement after each button you press, practically.
- [R64] Battle Legion Pay to win let down: Cool game. Locked behind money annoyances. You simply can’t progress without spending real money. No thanks.
- [R73] Battle Legion 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
- [R75] Battle Legion Loved the game at first.: So I loved the game at first but then things got pay to win.
- [R76] Battle Legion 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.
- [R15] Ancient Battle STOP WITH THE ADS: Like others have said this game is amazing but I have tow watch an ad at the BEGINNING AND END IF EACH BATTLE and it’s not watch ad to get some this, the ad just plays. I would have paid to get rid of the ads but there’s no option for it. Great game ruined by greed.
- [R18] Ancient Battle Great but: Great game idea. Wayyy too heavily over monetized. Every single thing you do has an ad play. Ad before battle. Ad after battle. Ad after ad. The ads dont even go away when you pay money! Its very fun i would pay for no ads
- [R28] Ancient Battle Way too many ads and no way to remove them.: This game has been a whole lot of fun for me. However, the ads are becoming a problem. There’s no way to remove them that I’ve been able to find and there is more time spent on ads viewed than is spent in the game itself. I think it’s about time to move on.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store