# Card Guardians - Deck builder — user reviews > 877 indexed App Store user reviews of Card Guardians by Tapps Games - Jogos Eletronicos, rated 4.60/5 from 3,081 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/card-guardians-deck-builder/id1566663161/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/card-guardians-deck-builder/id1566663161.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,459 · 4★ 383 · 3★ 97 · 2★ 48 · 1★ 94 ## What do users think of Card Guardians? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Fun gameplay - 🕹️ Engaging card mechanics - 🎨 Charming art style - 🔓 Fair free-to-play model - 💰 Good value for paid version **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🕰️ Slow progression and grindy - 🎲 Lack of deck customization - 🧠 Imbalanced difficulty - 💰 Excessive microtransactions **Commonly reported bugs** - Gear drops not matching the active character - Inconsistent behavior of status effects - Infinite loading screens and progression blockers **Most requested features** - Ability to sell/recycle unwanted equipment - More character classes and deck variety - Longer and more replayable adventures - Better randomization and less RNG dependence - Quality of life improvements (claim all, etc.) ## Newest reviews (17 of 877) ### 2/5 — Ads not playing *2026-08-23, version 4.6.0* Game is fine but you have Ada that is not playing, I get it you need to make money from watching Ads but come on at least make ads playing and not causing my game play to reset because I have to close the apps because you have damn ads that is not playing. Angry customer!! ### 3/5 — Fun, but slow and annoying *2026-08-19* The game is fun, but playing it requires you clear your schedule for the next hour… The 2nd hero, Oriana, has one competitive build: illusions + lightning = extra actions… which is fine. The problem is that when you use it (which you have to if you want to beat anything) the game slows to a crawl. The game engine was written so poorly that the more effects triggered by events (e.g. illusion → elemental debuff), the slower the game gets. Louis can blow through 10 attacks in 3 seconds while it takes Oriana 15. Playing a card and waiting 15 seconds to play another one is excruciatingly painful. It’s as if the turn handler is just a giant loop with a thousand ifs in it that repeats for every buff in play. Do your players a favor: point some AI agent at the codebase for a couple hours and have it fix your game engine (as long as you have thorough test coverage of course). To add insult to injury, the game doesn’t save state during a battle. If the game disconnects for whatever reason (it freezes and you have to close it or you just need to pause), you have to **start the battle over**. This forces users to finish every battle they start, regardless of how long it takes, if they don’t want to repeat it. A massive faux pas in a single player game. Fix those, and this’ll be 4, maybe 5 stars. ### 3/5 — Fun, but slow and annoying *2026-08-13* The game is fun, but playing it requires you clear your schedule for the next hour… The 2nd hero, Oriana, has one competitive build: illusions + extra actions, which is fine. The problem is that when you use it (which you have to if you want to beat anything) the game slows to a crawl. The game engine was written so poorly that the more effects triggered by events (e.g. illusion → elemental debuff), the slower the game gets. Louis can blow through 10 attacks in 3 seconds while it takes Oriana 15. Playing a card and waiting 15 seconds to play another one is excruciatingly painful. It’s as if the turn handler is just a giant loop with a thousand ifs in it that repeats for every buff in play. Do your players a favor: point some AI agent at the codebase for a couple hours and have it fix your game engine. To add insult to injury, the game doesn’t save state during a battle. If the game disconnects for whatever reason (it freezes and you have to close it or you just need to pause), you have to **start the battle over**. This forces users to finish every battle they start, regardless of how long it takes, if they don’t want to repeat it. A massive faux pas in a single player game. Fix those, and this’ll be 4, maybe 5 stars. ### 3/5 — I’d play more if it wasn’t so slow… *2026-08-11, version 4.6.0* The game is fun, but playing it requires you clear your schedule for the next hour… The 2nd hero, Oriana, has one competitive build: illusions + extra actions, which is fine. The problem is that when you use it (which you have to if you want to beat anything) the game slows to a crawl. The game engine was written so poorly that the more effects triggered by events (e.g. illusion → elemental debuff), the slower the game gets. Louis can blow through 10 attacks in 3 seconds while it takes Oriana 15. Playing a card and waiting 15 seconds to play another one is excruciatingly painful. Do your players a favor: point some AI agent at the codebase for a couple hours and have it fix your game engine. Fix that, and this’ll be 4, maybe 5 stars. ### 3/5 — Freezes *2026-08-09, version 4.6.0* Great game, but after any given level there’s about a 30-40% chance the app just freezes, which makes me have to restart the app. The game will not count the completed level, and will make me replay the level I just cleared ### 2/5 — Nada a ver *2026-08-07* Muito demorado **Developer response:** Olá Allan N.S, agradecemos pelo feedback! Lamentamos que ache o ritmo do jogo demorado. Estamos constantemente trabalhando em otimizações e ajustes de balanceamento para tornar a jogabilidade mais dinâmica e divertida para todos. ### 4/5 — Player *2026-08-03, version 4.6.0* Wish there was a multiplayer mode,guild or clan other than that the game is amazing ### 2/5 — Hat Potenzial *2026-08-02* Ich bin leider absolut kein Fan von erzwungener Werbung, ob man bessere Karten bekommt, kann man hier im Spiel entscheiden mit Werbung angucken, aber manchmal kommt mitten im Spiel zwanghafte Werbung, die man auch mit schliessen den Spiels nicht umgehen kann. Weiterhin ist die App unfassbar langsam und ruckellig, alleine 25-30 Sekunden zum starten der App ist unzumutbar in der heutigen Zeit. Auch wenn man im Menü hin und her klickt wird 2-3 Sekunden geladen. Das Spiel ist schön Gestaltet und auch das Thema mit den Karten ist klasse, allerdings ruiniert der Rest mir den Spielspaß und ich lösche das Spiel nach 2 Wochen wieder ### 4/5 — Honestly- GREAT POTENTIAL!!! *2026-07-27, version 4.6.0* This game is nice, really fun. The character design is cool and I feel like there is some good passion behind it. The gameplay is really good!! But- there are a few problems. The first thing I would recommend would be changing the UI a little, especially the design of the front page. I feel like it’s a little too basic with the blue background and everything. There’s also a lot of loading in between tabs in the main menu? Idk. But besides those small problems, the game is really really fun and creative! It has great potential and it has gotten much better over the years. ### 4/5 — Fun to play but at a cost *2026-07-25, version 4.6.0* I like playing this game but to many ads ruin the experience you can buy to remove them but everything is expensive no body should be paying so much to play. ### 3/5 — Game is crashed too many times *2026-07-24, version 4.6.0* It’s a fun game. But it is crashed tons of times… ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-07-21, version 4.6.0* Allows players to use strategy instead of being a mindless game. ### 5/5 — Just relaxing *2026-07-20, version 4.6.0* A nice way to wind down yet still make your brain work. This game actually has a lot of strategy involved! It really is addicting and a way to relax yet keep your brain moving in my opinion. Hope this review helped! ### 5/5 — Fun game *2026-07-18, version 4.6.0* I just got into the rogue like card genre and this is holding my attention ( I got it on sale and think it’s worth the price to remove the ads ) ### 5/5 — Very satisfying to finish *2026-07-17, version 4.6.0* Only wish there were new levels being developed or a new character to upgrade. Lots of different ways to keep playing tho with the tower and wanted bounties. We need more!! ### 5/5 — Highly recommend *2026-07-16* If you like turn based rpgs or tgcs I highly recommend trying out Card Guardians ### 5/5 — Great Roguelite game *2026-07-10, version 4.6.0* I love slay the spire 2, this is a great mobile version ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Trying free games *2026-08-25, version 4.6.0* It didn’t take long for this game to hit a wall. Too bad, was fun but I refuse to spend money on this stuff. ### 1/5 — Desbalanceado *2026-07-14* No início até é bacana, mas em pouco tempo à dificuldade fica surreal, os únicos jeitos de passar os mundos é levando um tempo gigantesco ou gastando centenas de reais.Totalmente desbalanceado. **Developer response:** Olá LNRDTMT! Agradecemos por achar o início bacana. Lamentamos que a dificuldade pareça desbalanceada. Estamos sempre revisando o equilíbrio do jogo para torná-lo desafiador, mas justo e divertido sem precisar gastar. Seu feedback é muito importante para nós! ### 1/5 — Aggressive Micro Transactions *2026-07-11, version 4.6.0* Even after Paying to have adds removed it constantly pops up offering more things. ### 1/5 — not worth it in the long run *2026-06-29, version 4.5.1* this game absolutely cheats, especially during boss levels. when you need to heal, it gives all attack cards. when you need to attack, surprise all healing. ### 1/5 — not worth it - this game cheats *2026-06-11, version 4.5.1* some how Apple let them clear out my review again. the game was fun in the beginning but then it went into the p2w trap that all mobile games have these days. ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-06-10, version 4.5.0* ads. Lots more ads. ### 1/5 — Non stop pop ups *2026-06-03* Every fight (win or lose) you get like 4 pop ups to buy something. And the prices are insane too for the ‘value’ you get. **Developer response:** Hi 4(?8)?, thanks for sharing your thoughts. We apologize if the pop-ups and pricing are disrupting your experience. We want to balance the game's economy and will definitely review the frequency of these offers to make it more enjoyable for everyone. ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-05-20, version 4.4.1* If I have to spend more time watching ads than actually playing between areas doesn’t matter if it’s $10 to remove them it’s scummy way to force players to buy something they shouldn’t need devs like these deserve to lose everything ### 1/5 — Forced *2026-05-15, version 4.4.1* Why are we forced to watch ads ### 1/5 — Forced ads *2026-04-30* Forced ads = 1 star ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 3rd? *2026-08-28, version 4.6.0* Please give us the third character ### 5/5 — Decent *2026-08-23, version 4.6.0* I mean for ten bucks you get a hero card rpg that has everything any of the others do and the progression is fairly easy but it rewards you so you dont feel stuck for too long. ### 5/5 — Top *2026-08-23* Muito bom o jogo ### 5/5 — Purchases and progress erased *2026-08-21, version 4.6.0* Bought no ads option awhile ago. Redownloaded it to find all my progress gone sucks but ig I’ll just climb back up ### 5/5 — Muito bom *2026-08-15* Muito bom ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-08-09, version 4.6.0* Not a lot of ads, good quality and a lot of fun ### 5/5 — Bom jogo de rpg de cartas *2026-08-04* Brabo ### 5/5 — Top notch *2026-07-26, version 4.6.0* One of the best games you don’t have to spend $10(+) bucks on. ### 5/5 — Cool *2026-07-24, version 4.6.0* Can’t wait for more character decks ### 5/5 — Sensacional *2026-07-21* Vale mt a pena jogo mt intuitivo --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*