Shadow Fight 3 vs RAID
Choose RAID for a more polished experience despite its pay-to-win elements.
Both Shadow Fight 3 and RAID have their strengths and weaknesses, but RAID edges out due to better gameplay mechanics and a larger player base. However, both games suffer from heavy monetization, which can frustrate free-to-play users.
Head to head
you prefer a fighting game with a unique art style and don't mind grinding.
you want a more strategic RPG experience and are okay with spending money to progress.
Evidence note: Both games have significant pay-to-win elements that frustrate free users, but RAID generally receives more favorable reviews regarding gameplay and overall experience.
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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.
- [R39] Shadow Fight 3 Pay to win: The game is good but u can’t defeat the bosses without spending money this game is pay to win.
- [R56] Shadow Fight 3 Great game, could use some improvements: This is an amazing game, don’t get me wrong, it is incredibly fun. However, the game heavily relies on in game purchases to keep it going. The fact is that the in game purchases are somewhat annoying and it is frustrating to see such cool gear I could never get. The weapons are pretty cool , however, the gameplay could use some upgrades. The move variety is
- [R62] RAID Awesome job: It has good story telling interesting story’s and you can get your own champions and also boss fights levels and more
- [R81] 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
- [R4] Shadow Fight 3 Lag bugs freezes: This game constantly lags and has tons of bugs. It’s almost impossible to play at times really annoying and the developers really don’t care you tell them that the game has a problem and they don’t help.
- [R6] Shadow Fight 3 Internet Connection Error: I cannot play when connected to Wi-Fi. I am forced to use mobile data, but even then, it's very unstable and only works sometimes. This issue needs to be fixed urgently.
- [R70] RAID Cannot talk in game. Beginner players cannot do much of anything. Impossible to get Legendary’s.: Cannot talk in game. Players repeatedly chat banned for no reason. Cannot talk in Global Chat or Clan Chat. Players falsely accused by bots and mods. Rules need to be changed. Beginning players have no good champions to start with or good gear. Pretty much cannot do anything in game. Not enough energy
- [R93] RAID Gameplay: This is a fun game and will quickly get you hooked. However, the 3 star rating is because it is increasingly difficult to play without spending money on energy. There aren’t enough opportunities to gain extra energy without spending money and as you level up it takes more energy to do anything. Either allow for energy to gather unlimited or give more opportunities to win/earn event boost
- [R19] Shadow Fight 3 Chest and rewards: I am unable to open any of my 3 chest after earning countless keys through duels or throughout the game I tried uninstalling and refreshing it also reached out to support but I am still unable to open my chest
- [R109] 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
- [R94] 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.
- [R28] Shadow Fight 3 Worse game in existence: First of all the game experience is so bad everything is pay to win and if I come back to play this game I have to pay to complete any event since my gear isn’t good enough and I am not paying shi for this game that I won’t play in future this game is ruined and this game developer never listened to their community so it would be better if this game shuts down
- [R55] Shadow Fight 3 Pay to Play: This game use to be great for free to play, now that it’s pay to play, it’s very difficult and financially a burden. Do better Nekki.
- [R69] RAID If money is of no concern…: If money is of no concern then you can basically buy your way through this game at such exorbitant prices that you could easily buy a new car. The gameplay itself is good for a turn based RPG aside from time gates, paywalls and extremely limited resources to start with. Not to mention the excessive amount of harassment of buy this or that to boost your chances, characte
- [R118] RAID Decent but give me money to win: Decent game that passes the time but it’s so annoying when you have to be a pay pig to get any new character or just to get a legendary from a draw. Fork over 80$ and you have a 1% chance of getting a good character
- [R97] RAID Support: That game has the worse support ever, many ridiculous rules if you have problem on that game only god can help you
- [R112] 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
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store