Summoners War vs RAID
Choose RAID for a more polished experience and better community engagement.
While both Summoners War and RAID have their strengths, RAID edges out with a higher lifetime rating and a more engaged player base. Summoners War struggles with customer service and game stability, while RAID offers a more refined gameplay experience despite its pay-to-win elements.
Head to head
you prefer a game with a long history and a nostalgic community feel, despite its issues.
you want a more modern gaming experience with better overall polish and community engagement.
Evidence note: Both games have free tiers, but RAID's monetization is more aggressive, affecting user experience. Summoners War has a significant portion of negative reviews focused on customer service and game stability, while RAID's negative feedback is more about monetization and gameplay grind.
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.
- [R10] Summoners War Pull rates: The pull rates for any good monster are so incredibly low. It’s a shame how greedy this company is. If not for that it would be an amazing game. Too bad..
- [R30] Summoners War Money hungry: The rate for any good summons is terrible. Even if you sink money into it. It’s just not worth the effort
- [R75] RAID It’s Okay: Overall, I would say the game is fun for about three or four hours, then it gets very old, very quickly. It’s essentially the gameplay loop of summoning heroes, upgrading heroes, beating bosses, and collecting loot to summon more heroes. I’ve played a lot of games like this in my time, such as AFK Journey and otherwise, so I feel I have grounds to make the claim that this method isn’t a
- [R82] RAID Fun time waster at best: Pros: - Plenty of champions to collect. - Fun time waster. - Plenty of battling. Cons: - Way too much grinding just for the tiniest bit of progress. - Constantly spammed with buy offers every time you return to the Bastion/Main Menu. - Speaking of buy offers, the prices on those offers are insanely high. - The odds of pulling a legendary or mythical champion are aby
- [R9] Summoners War Constant Update: Every single time I try and play the game, I have to download upwards of 4,000MB, and regardless of my WiFi connection strength it takes upwards of 20 mins!!!! Please fix .
- [R28] Summoners War Game Crashing for months: IOS players have been reporting a bug for MONTHS that makes the game almost unplayable. The game will crash randomly and very sporadically. It makes it impossible to do anything in the game and its been at least 6 months of this. Hate to quit the game, but I literally cant play. My IOS is updated and I have a newer device. Fix the game or lose players.
- [R66] RAID Basic Game but won’t let you leave: If this were solely based on the gameplay and presentation I would give a 3/5. Not offensive but a basic gameplay loop and reward system. The game has realistic graphics which I actually believe reduces the quality of the game because it’s not creative and gives me higher expectations for the game that it doesn’t meet. However the real reason I don’t like the ga
- [R81] RAID Would give a more stars but!: Would give more stars, however, for beginners like me if you don’t know about The promo codes they have a 72 hour window on them and if you don’t claim it, you’ll miss out on some very great champions that are really hard to obtain. And will hurt your experience
- [R13] Summoners War Developer doesn’t care: Update from the last review. It’s been a couple of months now and the game still crashes like crazy. If you are using older generation ipad, just don’t even bother to install the game. Their support will lie about being there for us. Don’t even bother to contact support. They will lie and blame it on your device and connection problem. They will also threaten you with civil
- [R73] 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.
- [R91] 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
- [R3] Summoners War Kinda disappointing: Played the game across a few accounts for a few years and I can say that this game isn’t kind to free to play
- [R93] RAID Typical online gaming: I’ve been playing steadily for about 5 months now. The graphics and gameplay good. You can grind for hours and it can get a bit repetitive. Building teams to overcome challenges is ok. There are many aspects of the game built to entice you to spend money (such as the live arena). Long and short is a typical game that only lets you excel if you spend spend spend.
- [R96] RAID Money grabby: The game itself is fun but there’s only so far you can really get without making a lot of purchases. Which really is terrible. Also, the summon rates suck. You can spend real money on shards and get no one. There’s no way to try for specific champions you want, it’s just kinda like you get what you get. It’s disappointing because it could be really fun if people weren’t so greedy.
- [R1] Summoners War Very Poor Customer Service: I’ve been playing on and off for probably close to 10 years. The game is fairly fun, it’s a good activity with friends. Unfortunately, their customer service is abysmally bad. Their actual requests portal only works half of the time, so you’ll find yourself writing out your message multiple times. Then, when you finally get it to send, their service team doesn’t even at
- [R39] Summoners War Wish it was easier to talk to someone: I’ve been playing this game off and on since 17. I got a new phone in 2025 and they messed up my email and I emailed them four different times and they could never get it straight so I lost everything I did and now I’m having to start over. Customer service is horrible.
- [R76] RAID Support: That game has the worse support ever, many ridiculous rules if you have problem on that game only god can help you
- [R94] 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
- [R87] RAID Game is boring F2P: If you don’t have the money, don’t waste your time.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store