Dragon City vs Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD
Dragon City is the better choice for casual players seeking a dragon-themed collection and battling game, despite its issues with ads and monetization, while Kingdom Guard is plagued by misleading advertising and aggressive pay-to-win mechanics.
Dragon City offers a fun dragon collecting and battling experience, though it's criticized for frequent ads and pushy in-app purchases. Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD suffers from widespread complaints about misleading advertising, aggressive monetization, and poor customer support, despite some users finding the core gameplay enjoyable.
Head to head
You enjoy dragon collecting, breeding, and battling games and are willing to tolerate frequent ads and in-app purchase prompts R2R11. You are looking for a game to pass the time and appreciate creative freedom in building your dragon empire R2R11.
You are specifically looking for a tower defense game and are prepared for a significant 'pay-to-win' environment and potentially misleading advertising R76. You enjoy grinding and playing online with others in a challenging environment .
Evidence note: The evidence for Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD is heavily skewed towards negative experiences, particularly regarding misleading advertising and aggressive monetization, which aligns with its lower lifetime rating compared to Dragon City.
Frequently asked
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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.
- [R1] Dragon City I can’t summon while others can: Please fix this, this will stay a 1 start till it goes away if I still play it.
- [R2] Dragon City Great game: Best game to pass time
- [R11] Dragon City This is your own dragon empire there’s no limit to your creativity and this dragon seat: First, I knew that if you’re in it in time and you’re outside or off-line, but it doesn’t make you off-line and when you reconnect, you could have more fun
- [R16] Dragon City Unable to get Dragon without Paying: I like the game but am unable to get a certain dragon without purchasing it, so I can not move forward in the permanent events. It is extremely frustrating.
- [R6] Dragon City Adds: Too many pop ups when you open the game, the red notification circles never go away or come back randomly, adds can be annoying bc they pop up randomly while playing
- [R7] Dragon City Quá nhiều quảng cáo: Quảng cáo nhiều quá Chơi khó chịu
- [R12] Dragon City So/so: It’s and ok game it’s can be fun but it’s a lot of being force to by things to upgrade because the time wait is crazy long ,witch means you can’t upgrade that leads to not being about to battle then you can’t level up so you’ll stuck just collecting until you earn enough to do everything witch will Mean a longer wait for the next level ..so I really don’t see my self passing the game on or
- [R19] Dragon City FRAUD!: I’ve been playing Dragon City for a long time, and it’s become incredibly frustrating because the game feels more unfair than fun. One of the biggest issues is the Arena and League battles, where I constantly lose to opponents that I have already defeated before, even though my dragons have gotten stronger, gained levels, and improved since then. Sometimes an enemy dragon’s health bar reac
- [R20] Dragon City Bugs: This a fun game especially when I’m bored out of my mind during the day but I’ve had to delete and download it again twice today for some random bugs that keep happening. And they don’t fix when I close and re-open the app, like for the race it told me to do 2 league battles and I did both but didn’t register and said I didn’t do them so I bought a refill to try again with my gems but no mat
- [R21] Dragon City I was 9 and it was saying you cannot play because your country and IT SAYS 9+: 3 stars
- [R22] Dragon City DO NOT PLAY: This game is such a rip off. They give you +10 gems to link an account, so i linked my apple. Then it STILL says +10 gems to link FB, so I did. Then it doesn’t give me the gems so i contact support and they say you can only link one account for the gems. THEN DON’T PUT +10 gems on there because you are lying trying to trick people to link FB. Everything takes so long you will have to
- [R31] Dragon City Some players restricted from using orbs and others are not: Game is fun and there are a huge number of dragons but they have randomly restricted some players from using the stronger orbs to summon dragons. This makes the rewards worthless. I was given this info directly from tech support. No clarity on why certain players were chosen for this restriction or when it will be lifted. Extremely
- [R49] Dragon City Don’t waste your time or money: The game is full of glitches to use up all your resources to force you to spend money buying more. No customer support as the excuse is always they have a small team, no refunds or compensation for loses just fake promises we’ll get back to you which is never 😡
- [R61] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD Greedy and allow cheaters to exploit the game: When I started over a month ago I was having a good time, but then the throne war happened. The largest guy on the server had figured out how to attack while being shielded. I captured it and reported it then they told me it was just a visual glitch….I don’t think a visual glitch would keep me from attacking the guy. They did nothing even with evidenc
- [R29] Dragon City I’ve been playing for years: Of course what the title says is true and I’ve been grinding at this game and honestly I love it still! Though there is some problems that I have like when I get on there’s a hundred things popping up and making offers. Besides that it’s a great game and I recommend it to anybody of almost any age
- [R39] Dragon City Not bad, but too much ads: The title and also I don’t think there should be a limit for how much you can skip with ads Thank you very much reply down below ty
- [R68] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD Fun but fraudulent: This game is nothing like it’s advertised.
- [R72] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD Another game that looks nothing like the ads: Downloaded to try shooting the snake segments (like the ad and like the first 4 screenshots in the App Store listing). Played tower defence instead for an hour, never saw the snake, uninstalled
- [R76] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD Fraudulent advertising for years: This game's ads have literally never once shown footage that even remotely resembles the actual game. It's basically a TRPG MMO and if you aren't willing to constantly spend massive amounts of money, you will hit a wall. Pay-to-win mechanics where other people are dropping thousands of dollars per month. I played this game for over half a year. None of this ga
- [R87] Kingdom Guard:Tower Defense TD Misleading: App is nothing as advertised don’t download
- [R34] Dragon City Pay to play: Use to be a fun game. Now if you are not willing to drop at least 100 a week you can not play. Big spenders ruin any fairness in the combats. You are congested just to keep enough habits.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store