This game is a lot of fun. I could literally spend hours on this, especially if the level os particularly difficult. The most recent update moved the events and status icons from the left side of the screen to the bottom, and at times I can’t continue to upgrade the towers or do whatever else on the home screen bc the icons at the bottom automatically pop up and show the updated stats after every battle. I don’t care for it, and when I wanted to see my current stats, I will click the relevant icons to see them. It’s annoying to have to wait for EVERYTHING to show so that I can continue in the game. I try to click on buttons faster than the updates popping up just to get it to stop, but there is no way to. It’s actually enough to keep me from playing as frequently. I’m sure the change had good intentions, but it’s an incredible nuisance. Please revert back to having the icons back on the left hand side, and please stop showing me my rank after every upgrade and star collection. I’m not playing for rank status, but if I was, I can check it when it’s relevant.

The game is fun but everything else around user experience is either a disappointment, off putting or flawed. My first issue with the app is that it crashes on my iPhone 13 at least once a day. The Ads on there are the most off putting. Not in the amount of them but the actual content of their ads - it’s clear they don’t moderate them or they don’t care. Some of them will put a fake X in the corner of the screen for you to click on so instead of exiting the ad you are just brought to download their game. They advertise for games with women characters in suggestive positions. There’s also an ad that starts off with a woman climbing up the side of a cliff and the first frame of the ad is just her behind CLAPPING in tight shorts jiggling on the screen. Then she climbs the cliff to fight zombies. But the MOST offensive part is now they are running ads that will not allow you to mute the sound on your phone and it will not let you turn down the volume manually. To be more specific I just had an ad for a fish game and the app REFUSED to let me manually turn it down. As I was holding the volume down button on my phone I watched the volume meter go down and then forcibly be brought back up to a baseline volume on my screen. I’ve never had an Ad experience like this before and I hope to never again. Do yourself a favor and download a different app. There’s others out there just like this but with better mindfulness of their users and ads.

This game is as advertised “oddly satisfying”. There is some strategy to picking the right components and beating the towers. There is satisfaction in upgrading the towers to increase performance and upgrading the mobs and cannons to make those better. There are enough events to make it interesting but not so many that I lost interest. Some how I didn’t even mind that I was typically watching 1-2 ads per round to double the fire rate or triple the earnings. Somehow I was still ok spending as much time playing as ad watching… I did notice that the coins were not particularly useful after a point but I just ignored them and I saw other reviews point this out. Presumably in an effort to fix this, an update made them more important. I don’t know what mob/cannon upgrades cost before but now I need $800,000 to $2,000,000 for each upgrade. And since a round only yields $20,000 to $400,000 (even with the extra ad at the end) I’m left with lots of cards to upgrade but not nearly enough coins. I tried watching ads for more coins but since each gives only $90,000 I could easily spend 2 hours of ad watching to support the upgrades earned during 20 minutes of gameplay. For me this makes the game frustrating and no longer enjoyable. I hope you can fix this for future players.