Head-to-head
Top Heroes vs Total Battle
Top Heroes
55
Winner
Top Heroes
Total Battle
50
Both Top Heroes and Total Battle suffer from misleading advertising and aggressive monetization, but Top Heroes has a slight edge due to some users finding it enjoyable despite its flaws, while Total Battle's pay-to-win mechanics are more universally criticized.
Full reviews: Top Heroes · Total Battle
Both Top Heroes and Total Battle are free-to-play strategy games with in-app purchases that are heavily criticized for misleading advertising and aggressive monetization. Top Heroes is seen as a 'bait and switch' by many, but some find it a fun time-killer. Total Battle also faces strong criticism for its pay-to-win structure and confusing gameplay.
Head to head
Top Heroes Many Top Heroes users feel the game's ads and preview images are completely misleading, showing a different game style (pixel art, dungeon crawling) than the actual city-builder/chibi-style gameplay R1R3R7R9. Some acknowledge the ads are fake but still enjoy the game .
Total Battle Total Battle also faces significant criticism for its misleading advertising, with users stating the game is 'nothing like the ads' and that it's a 'bait and switch' R61. One user was surprised to find the actual game 'richer in quality and substance' than the ad .
Top Heroes Top Heroes is widely described as 'pay to win' R12R16R24. Users report that progression becomes impossible without spending large amounts of money, with in-game purchases reaching up to £89.99 R16R24R51. Some feel the game is designed to force purchases, creating power imbalances where 'whales' dominate R4R16R39.
Total Battle Total Battle is heavily criticized as a 'money pit' and the 'ultimate pay-to-play&win game' R64. Users state that progress slows to a crawl without spending, with prices for supplies being 'unrealistic' and going up to $250 or £250 . The game is seen as catering only to those who spend money, making it unfair for free players .
Top Heroes Despite the misleading ads, many Top Heroes players find the game 'fun' and 'enjoyable' R2R5. It's described as a 'great relaxing easy game' and a good 'time burner' . However, some find it boring once they get further in R1 and desire more heroes or a skip button for content R6.
Total Battle Total Battle is described as 'enjoyable and fun' by some . Users appreciate its strategic depth and clan system . However, many find the gameplay confusing, convoluted, and boring after the initial stages, often involving too much waiting and building rather than direct action R61.
Top Heroes Top Heroes users report issues with customer service, particularly regarding purchase errors where content isn't received but refunds from Apple lead to account lockouts unless repayment is made R43. Some experience game AI issues R52 and VPN compatibility problems R60. There are also serious allegations of cyberbullying, racism, extortion, and soliciting sexual content to minors within the app, with developers allegedly failing to address reports R58.
Total Battle Total Battle users report frequent crashing and glitching, especially during new events . Connection errors prevent some from loading the game . The app refreshes too often when navigating away, leading to annoying double load screens . Customer service is described as poor, with one user reporting no action taken after a child's $65 purchase was reported . There are also reports of racial messages and inappropriate content appearing in-game .
Top Heroes Top Heroes has issues with 'overpowered dictators' and 'whales' controlling servers and bullying other guilds, making it difficult for weaker players to compete or even transport goods without being plundered R39R48R55. There are also requests for more chat room options due to harassment R42.
Total Battle Total Battle's clan system is a significant part of the game, but it can be difficult to scale without being a 'SUPER SPENDER' . Some users report being bullied out by clan dynamics and rules . The chat can devolve into 'trash talk' , and some users find the social interaction with 'unfriendly women' a reason not to play .
Pick Top Heroes if
You are looking for a casual time-killer and can overlook the misleading advertising and aggressive monetization, potentially enjoying the core gameplay loop R2R5. You are willing to engage with a game that has a 'pay to win' element but still find some enjoyment in its simpler aspects .
Pick Total Battle if
You enjoy complex strategy and world-building games with a strong clan system, and are prepared to invest significant time or money to advance . You appreciate a game with a fantasy story and detailed mechanics, even if it means a steep learning curve .
Evidence note: Both apps have a high volume of reviews, but a significant portion of negative reviews for both center on the discrepancy between advertising and actual gameplay, and aggressive monetization. Positive reviews are often brief and less detailed, making it challenging to fully understand the depth of enjoyment for non-paying users.
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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] Top Heroes Pictures Lie - game is not like them: It’s an ok game to play at first. But the pics all lie and what’s show isn’t what you get. I was hoping once I level up I can actually do quests and interact with the town. But it’s all Lies - It does not give what it claims too. And once ya get farther in it’s kind of more boring now and I’ll probably delete soon If it was actually as it shows via anima
- [R3] Top Heroes Ignore the Preview Images: The same looks nothing like the preview. It’s still fun to play, but those images aren’t what the game is.
- [R7] Top Heroes Not as advertised: The actual game is nothing like it is advertised. Unfortunately a bait and switch.
- [R9] Top Heroes misleading: the ads they use to promote the game look NOTHING like the actual game. keep that in mind before downloading
- [R4] Top Heroes Bad game: Developers have only added more things to prevent any sort of enjoyable PvP. Their goal is servers full of people who only make purchases and do nothing else. Castle defenses are so high you cannot attack similar powered players even using a counter faction and they only add more every update.
- [R12] Top Heroes Okay: It’s kinda fun just seems super heavy on the pay to win micro transactions
- [R16] Top Heroes Fake ads and picture of what the game should be: This is entirely a p2w war game. It has 0 of any feature it mentioned in the game feature. You are competing with whales to stay in power. I’ve played it for 3 months and you can see the power differences of someone who play 10 of thousands vs someone who pay here and there. Don’t fall for it. Don’t give them your hard earn money… No matter how much
- [R24] Top Heroes Pay to play: I would have given this game full stars but the designers are very greedy. You can progress in this game but certain aspects of this game that aren’t achievable unless you spend a large amount of money. Apple shouldn’t let any game developer charge more than £10 on an in game purchase. £89.99 is not a micro transaction. It is piracy!
- [R2] Top Heroes Yay: I love the game
- [R5] Top Heroes Love it: Really enjoyable game
- [R6] Top Heroes More heroes: The game is fun but it needs more heroes to unlock
- [R43] Top Heroes Paid content scams: Buyer beware! If you purchase resources, points, diamonds, etc and there is an error on THEIR end, you have no recourse. If you get a refund from Apple, the game locks you out of your account and demand you REPAY to unlock your account. No matter how much proof you show that you didn’t get the content (screenshots), they say it was “delivered correctly.” Lies. And they move the
- [R52] Top Heroes Game AI needs improvement: My team will have an enemy one shot then decide to focus a completely different enemy leading to a loss.
- [R58] Top Heroes child pornographers and extortionist: this app; allows its users to cyber bully people, allows racism even after multiple ‘reports’, extortion and soliciting sexual content to minors for in game currency. even after multiple complaints the users who do these things continue to be free to spread their hate and child pornography.
- [R60] Top Heroes Thanks for ending strife: Season 4 with water is great!! Excellent fun modes. Amazing work. Just need to be able to use VPNs. Very frustrating when traveling I can’t stay safe and need to turn it off. Major issue for travelers and people who value data protection. When traveling abroad, often with limited internet and needing to connect to suspect WiFi, I always have a VPN on. This game does not
- [R39] Top Heroes Too many overpowered dictators: We have some very overpowered whales on our server - one of whom controls the citadel and who has threatened the other guilds not to even try fighting for the citadel or he will burn every player every day if they do. It’s just so mismatched to favour the few. I don’t bother with the carriages anymore as they’re just plundered by players three times stronger than me
- [R42] Top Heroes Love it but one problem: I absolutely love this game! No ads or anything, and the gameplay is amazing, I just have one thing about chats I don’t really understand why there can’t be different chat rooms, (other than private and guild) but just being able to change chat rooms will be great, just so I can be around different people. Cuz I ended being harassed in the game , that I ended up have to b
- [R48] Top Heroes Alright But….: Ok to play but players 10x greater than you can steal what you work towards on your carts. Why allow new players to be attacked by players who are not in their levels, it does not make sense to spoil people’s game if the attacks come from people way above your level and you can not retaliate as you are 10x weaker. Make a balance of power for attacks. Poor design again for power warf
- [R55] Top Heroes Misleading Adds / Social Bullying: Not for kids. First installed because the add was about farming food… then found out it was a gar game. I said ok, I like strategies. Guilds with real people are involved… but then strong players create their own rules, as if they were queens and kings, killing players that don’t pay for the game and don’t want to be their subordinates. Basically you follow the
- [R13] Top Heroes This game is nothing like the ad: It sad how you make a game nothing like you are showing on your ads.
- [R51] Top Heroes Great game but you need to spend lots of money to be strong: Fun game but need to spend lots of money to get strong
- [R64] Total Battle This is a money pit: Avoid this game… it’s all paywalls
- [R21] Top Heroes It is nothing like the ads: The ads portray that the game will be where I can take my own unique hero’s out and fight dungeons, save towns, etc. but really it’s just a chibi style game about fighting boring battles + a city builder
- [R57] Top Heroes Misleading Images: I downloaded the game because I liked the pixel art style and the game play looked interesting. The app itself is nothing like the images provided by the developers and the gameplay is completely different from what is shown. Game is actually a cartoony style and the only “looting” is opening a few scattered chests on the map. No inventory management or interesting dungeon explo
- [R61] Total Battle terrible: this game is no fun because you want to constantly shoot as they show you as the example of the game but then as you play, it seems to jump to some other level of game about rebuilding a city which is totally boring and you cannot follow it and thus what you think you’re getting and what you’re getting are two different thing
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store