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Head-to-head

Star Wars™ vs MARVEL Strike Force

Star Wars™ 4.6★ · Free + IAP 65
Winner MARVEL Strike Force
MARVEL Strike Force 4.6★ · Free to download 70

MARVEL Strike Force has a slight edge over Star Wars™ due to slightly better overall stability and less severe pay-to-win complaints, despite both games struggling with similar issues.

Full reviews: Star Wars™ · MARVEL Strike Force

Both Star Wars™ and MARVEL Strike Force are free-to-play, turn-based strategy games that offer extensive character collection and team-building, appealing to fans of their respective franchises. However, both are heavily criticized for aggressive monetization, pay-to-win mechanics, and persistent technical issues like loading problems and crashes.

Head to head

Features and Content tieR11R20R26R29
Star Wars™ Star Wars™ offers a vast array of characters, including different versions of the same character, and provides endless things to do, with guild events and turn-based strategy battles being highlights R20R26R29. Users appreciate the depth of character upgrades and the ability to pick up where they left off, even after months R11R20.
MARVEL Strike Force MARVEL Strike Force captivates players with its Marvel themes, extensive character collection, in-depth upgrade mechanics, and team synergy . Players enjoy the strategy and action, with new and exciting content regularly added .
Ease of Use and User Experience tieR3R7R19R22
Star Wars™ Star Wars™ is plagued by significant loading issues, with many users reporting the game getting stuck on the 'loading cantina' screen or crashing upon opening R7R19R22. Some users also report slow gameplay, requiring multiple presses for buttons , and frustratingly long battles in late-game content R3.
MARVEL Strike Force MARVEL Strike Force also suffers from persistent loading screen issues, frequently getting stuck at 24% and sometimes requiring reinstallation . Users also mention the game being slow and laggy, with occasional crashes .
Reliability and Performance tieR6R12R16R31
Star Wars™ Star Wars™ has numerous bugs and glitches, including damage immunity issues in Galactic Conquest, missing tokens in campaigns, and problems accessing mod battles R6. The game is also reported to freeze, crash, and even slow down internet connections R12R16R31.
MARVEL Strike Force MARVEL Strike Force users report bugs like characters not doing expected damage, specific abilities causing game crashes, and general instability . The game's loading issues are a major reliability concern, often hindering gameplay .
Price and Value edge: MARVEL Strike ForceR1R4R8R13
Star Wars™ Star Wars™ is heavily criticized as 'pay to win' and 'greedy,' with many essential items and progression locked behind paywalls R1R8R13R15. Developers are accused of nerfing rewards after purchases and constantly shifting goalposts, making spending money unpredictable and frustrating R4.
MARVEL Strike Force MARVEL Strike Force is also widely described as 'pay to play' or 'pay to win,' with many long-time players feeling that achievable rewards have been removed and new content is behind a 'money wall' . The cost to max out new characters is reported to be very high, sometimes hundreds of dollars .
Customer Support edge: Star Wars™R52R60
Star Wars™ Star Wars™ users report extremely poor technical support, with issues like account recovery being handled by multiple different representatives who provide unhelpful articles and run players in circles R52R60.
MARVEL Strike Force There are no specific reviews detailing customer support experiences for MARVEL Strike Force, but the frequent loading issues and game-breaking bugs suggest that support might be overwhelmed or ineffective.
Pick Star Wars™ if

You are a dedicated Star Wars fan who values extensive character collection and lore, and are willing to tolerate significant pay-to-win elements and technical issues for the franchise experience R20.

Pick MARVEL Strike Force if

You are a Marvel fan looking for a strategy game with strong team-building and character progression, and you are prepared for a grind or potential spending to keep up with content .

Evidence note: Both apps have a high number of negative reviews, especially recent ones, focusing on similar issues of monetization and technical problems. The lifetime ratings are high, but recent sentiment is much more critical.

Frequently asked

Are these games truly free to play?
Both Star Wars™ and MARVEL Strike Force are free to download and play, but users widely report them to be heavily 'pay to win' or 'pay to play,' making significant progression difficult without spending money R1R8R15R37.
Do these games have technical issues?
Yes, both games frequently suffer from significant technical issues, including persistent loading problems, crashes, and various bugs that hinder gameplay R7R12R19R22.
Is it hard to progress without paying?
Users for both games state that progression without paying is extremely slow and difficult, often requiring years of grinding or making it impossible to compete at higher levels R15R37R39R51.

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. [R11] Star Wars™ 5/5 · US Cockroach: Even if I drift away from playing it, I can always pick back up where I left off. And the automatic rewards still come even if I haven’t played in months.
  2. [R20] Star Wars™ 5/5 · US Best game ever: I love the characters and I love how you can upgrade them. The only thing is I wish there were more people that you could choose and like more ways, you could get maxed out players without needing to train them, and I wish that there were more clones like the croissant God fox Jessie Wolf, and more clones of different colors but other than that, I just wish that you could choose mo
  3. [R26] Star Wars™ 5/5 · US Amazing game, truly.: This game is AMAZING! The turn-based strategy battles and unlockable characters are great, guild events and guilds in general are fun, and the art style and modeling is smooth and doesn’t lag behind in performance. All in all, it’s a really fun game. One suggestion I have is to add a “multi-open” button for Bronzium Data Cards, as it can take a very long time to open them al
  4. [R29] Star Wars™ 5/5 · US You have to get this game: The thing that I like about this game is there is endless things to do and it’s free I really what to fight with ships and they have that!
  5. [R3] Star Wars™ 3/5 · US Great game but late game teams are just super unfun!: Emperor Palpatine just gets to do 1,000,000 turns in a row and refresh his whole teams ability’s that do AOE rebuffs the whole time and the worst part is they do NO damage so it’s deaths by 1,000 papercuts so if you actually wanna get into this game just get ready to play one round for 9 mins on conquest just waiting for ONE turn, terrible bala
  6. [R7] Star Wars™ 2/5 · US Game won’t open all of a sudden: I redownloaded after a few years, game has been working fine now today I’m trying to play and it is sitting on the “loading cantina” screen and noth8ng happens. Will rate five if the game would work
  7. [R19] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US broken: Game doesnt load.
  8. [R22] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US Game will not load: Game will not load. Stuck in “loading Cantina”. Zero stars! Do not recommend!
  9. [R6] Star Wars™ 3/5 · US Bug report: During the galactic conquest there was a glitch where they just gained damage immunity assuming it was a one time glitch but it happened again and again and again and while I’m here when doing dark side campaign I don’t get any dark side tokens for galatic legends same thing for light side campaign
  10. [R12] Star Wars™ 3/5 · US Great until…: Worked for two days on my iPad and then froze. Deleted it then redownloaded and it still was frozen. This was after I spent $$$. Disney blows! Don’t waste your time or money.
  11. [R16] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US Freezes your internet: If you have this app on ur device it slows it sown and makes apps that use internet not work
  12. [R31] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US Crashed and now wont load: I was playing, crashed after the battle and now can load in, what a bug
  13. [R1] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US Scam and hoax: This “game” hits a new level of free2win low. Not only it is a clear scam and hoax, with “random” numbers shamelessly being not random at all, but it is highly overpriced as such. Do not give them money under any circumstances. Lot’s of cheating and pay2win. Extremely low quality with lots of bugs. Sadly, all ‘covered’ by Apple with lots of fake reviews clearly written by people who
  14. [R4] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US Developer nerfs rewards after spending money: Capital Games is the developer. They have once again nerfed and gone backward on rewards for customers that spent money. They’ve built a system over the past 9 months that promised one thing, and have now rolled that back, bait and switch, moved the goal posts. Do not spend any time or money on this game. You have no ability to predict how the develope
  15. [R8] Star Wars™ 4/5 · US Pay to win: All goods are behind a paywall
  16. [R13] Star Wars™ 2/5 · US Horrible: There is no balance in Grand Arena. The donations are crazy, considering the rewards leave much to be desired! EA in their usual style: greedy for money! Fix the balance in Grand Arena already! Players always have 3-4 million more GP! What's the point of this arena if you can't win with such balance? · translated
  17. [R52] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US Previous profile reclaimation: I cannot access my old account. I provided you guys with everything you asked in order to help recover my old account but you guys keep assigning a new person to my case and literally running me in circles. Quit running me in circles and help out. I’ve spent so much money on this game. I literally have the apple receipts/time/date/amount/purchase ID and I provided th
  18. [R60] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US Technical support sucks: I used to play this game all the time and I loved it. I wanted to re-download it and import my old account onto this new one. The account is still active. I can log into it on the site but when I try to import it into the game, it won’t let me it gives me error code 9.0. I press the contact us to get EA help technical support. None of them know what they’re talking about.
  19. [R15] Star Wars™ 3/5 · US GAME FOR STAR WARS FANS WHO ARN'T AFRAID TO SPEND $$$: This game is one of my most played games on mobile hands down because I am such a big fan of Star Wars, but it is sad that this game is suuuuuuper grindy and makes you constantly want to spend money just to skip and the prices are honestly not fair or decent at all, they dont give deals when buying bulk such as buying 4 crystals can cost 320 a
  20. [R37] Star Wars™ 1/5 · US Don’t get this game it’s a waste of time.: I have had this game since launch and holy cow is it a giant waste of time. Unless you pay to progress congrats you have to play for 5 years to get anywhere. Not only that the gameplay is annoying as hell. Be prepared for the AI or boss’s to do exactly what they need to do to screw you over. And don’t even get me started on the characters. There are so ma
  21. [R39] Star Wars™ 3/5 · GB So slow: Great game but OMG it’s so slow. It’s 2-3 months of logging in every day to get a Galactic Legend open. Come on developers….give us a break.
  22. [R51] Star Wars™ 3/5 · GB SWGOH honest review: Beautifully designed game but essentially it is pay to win. You can get by waiting for resources hours upon hours but unless you invest actual money you cannot compete at any level because the main games currency in crystals are too hard to accumulate. Nice game for nostalgia purposes but unless you want to spend essentially years on catchup it’s a waste of time. Still given

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