# Castle Craft : World War — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Castle Craft by Rising Wings, Inc., rated 4.55/5 from 359 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/castle-craft-world-war/id1562267321/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/castle-craft-world-war/id1562267321.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 289 · 4★ 30 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 22 ## What do users think of Castle Craft? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎮 Unique RTS-card game hybrid gameplay - 🎨 High-quality graphics and UI design - ⚡ Quick match duration and fast-paced gameplay - 🎯 Strategic depth with scouting and unit counters - 🤝 Responsive developer support - 📚 Easy to learn, quick onboarding - 🎪 Diverse strategies and unit variety - ✨ Successful revival of Castle Burn concept - 🎲 Generous rewards for free-to-play players **Cons** - 💰 Heavy pay-to-win mechanics - ⚖️ Unfair matchmaking system - 🔤 Overly aggressive chat censorship - 🐌 Slow server performance and sluggish gameplay - ⚔️ Unit balance issues (overpowered units) - 🎯 Rushing strategy dominates gameplay - 🔐 Security concerns and hacker reports - 💳 Aggressive monetization and paywalls - 🎁 Poor chest reward system and progression - 🚀 Early-game rushing too powerful **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes during matches - Purchase system failures (gems not received) - Chat censorship filtering non-curse words - Guild donation processing lag - Server performance issues and sluggish gameplay **Most requested features** - Update chat system with better filtering - Improve 3v3 mode and quest completion - Add friends list and co-op invite system - Implement archer towers or defensive structures - Add cosmetic-based monetization instead of pay-to-win - Improve guild donation system performance - Add more unit cards and variety - Implement grace period for early-game rushes - Better reporting system for inactive team members ## Newest reviews (13 of 50) ### 4/5 — Please balance matches *2022-01-29, version 1.1.21* I’ve been stuck in silver 2 for a week now. Every time I get to 985 points plus I get matched with someone higher level with 1200 plus points … why does this happen? Their units are ridiculous compared to mine. ### 3/5 — Purchase Failed *2021-12-27, version 1.1.18* Love this game but I tried buying more gems and the purchase went thru but never received the gems. I received a refund but afraid to try again since I'm not sure how many refund chances they will give me if it doesn't go thru again. ### 3/5 — Good but bad *2021-12-26, version 1.1.18* Game is awesome, untill you get to about level 8 and see how horrendous opponent matching algorithms is in 1vs1. 70% of the time you end up matched with someone 1-2 levels higher then you, which makes it virtually impossible to win. ### 3/5 — This is basically a Castle Burn reboot *2021-11-14, version 1.1.15* This is an exact replica of castle burn. Not sure if it’s made by the same company but by the art style, gameplay and the exact mechanism of all the cards it probably is. Anyways what to expect: This game is really p2w after level 7ish everything is too expensive with the in game currency. Events and Facebook coupons are probably your best bet if you are f2p which are quite generous but again they are events that aren’t always a part of normal grind. You will generally be matched with opponents of the same level but once you get high enough you’ll need to shill out some cash. Guild donation mechanism is broken. It’s such a waste of time when the game needs to load and process for every card donated. Yes every single card. You have to wait like a solid second just for it to process and it’s annoying. The balance is horrible. Some cards are over powered while others are too weak. Tier 1 is almost useless except Hunter, vanguard, penguin, and little Viking and sometimes spells. There’s almost no benefit to pushing and raiding early and destroying enemy base a little to set them back when they can get back easily by defending so it while your have wasted all mana on tier 1 troops. Whoever gets to tier 2 first usually has such an advantage when all the remotely impactful cards are in tier 2. Anyways this game still needs to be polished and updated. It still doesn’t have many cards as in the original castle burn yet so there’s still time. But right now 3 -4 stars at best. It is an RTS game though and those aren’t that common nowadays. ### 4/5 — A good game… *2021-11-09, version 1.1.15* An amazing game that reminds me of one that was shut down, very quick to learn and quick matches make it easy to grind. Only issue is a couple of bugs. Game crashes sometimes during a match and a lot of words I try to say are blurred out for no reason ### 5/5 — If you try it you will keep it *2021-11-09, version 1.1.15* Great game , you will enjoy at any level of your involvement with the game , like all games if you want to be number one it will require some investment for all mortals is fine , play it ### 3/5 — You know what to expect *2021-11-05, version 1.1.10* It’s fun until it isn’t. Classic progressive paywall that takes all the dark patterns from clash royale. Don’t expect to get past 550 medals without paying. ### 5/5 — Yes! Castle Burn is back! *2021-11-01, version 1.1.10* This game is great, it’s not p2w as any strategy can beat another and every unit has a counter. Sure you could max cards out through purchases but game plan/game play beats card level 10 out of 10 times. Fantastic game I’m just scared to spend money like I did on castle burn and it disappeared. Don’t go away please… ### 4/5 — Fire *2021-10-30, version 1.1.10* Game is amazing, just needs friends list and be able to invite friends into Co-op games not just 1v1 matches. ### 4/5 — Honest review *2021-10-29, version 1.1.10* This game is really fun and can get addictive, but to make things more balanced I recommend a grace period for players to have more time to get troops and camps. Because it’s not fair to have your base rushed at Tier 1 in only a matter of seconds. It extremely annoying and will impact how this game is received. ### 5/5 — Wow *2021-10-28, version 1.1.10* Honestly i saw these game mechanics and thought it had to be a fake. This hame combines 2 very cool and fun things, building and card playing similar to clash royal. It honestly reminds me of the old computer games such as empires and allies. Very very fun game. Wish it didn't put purchases in your face though. ### 5/5 — Great game so far. *2021-10-27, version 1.1.10* I’m enjoying this game so far. Got some good units early on to rush the other new players. ### 5/5 — Great, but feels slow *2021-10-27, version 1.1.10* Amazing game, play it! But honestly it feels like it is running on a server from 2001, sluggish, needs faster speeds across the board. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Good Concept *2022-01-30, version 1.1.21* Was fun at first, but after just 3 hours of playing the amount of pay to win got really apparent. It seemed weird to me how little strategy an RTS really took as well. Rushing has little to no risk and basically wins you the game. ### 1/5 — The Fakery in reviews….Sloppy App *2021-12-17, version 1.1.17* Why am I not experiencing any of the fantabulous game play as your extremely overjoyed reviewers….so this is Why you will never be a game and eventually be regulated… you seem to do whatever you want behind the scenes and that is extremely UNFAIR, UNETHICAL, DESPERATE, AND GHETTO not to mention how fake your reviews are. Get it together. Hey guys instead of all the redunkulous amount of cheating you are doing why not work on the better development of this sloppy app. Just saying…… **Developer response:** Hello Conqueror It's CastleCraft - World war. First of all, sorry for the inconvenience. Please send details of the problem you are experiencing to the address below. Please attach your ID (number) or nickname and send it to us. CS center: support@castlecraft.zendesk.com ### 1/5 — Not worth the time *2021-12-01, version 1.1.17* This game is fun but it’s pay to win. You can only get so far before you run into someone who has spent money on the game to get an advantage. It’s not worth it if you want the game to be “free”. ### 1/5 — Hackers in this game *2021-11-16, version 1.1.15* Don’t play this game it is full of hackers that spawn 3 times the amount of units than is even possible with their mana. This games security and anti cheat is a joke. Go play clash royal it’s much better ### 1/5 — Crazy pay to win after awhile *2021-10-28, version 1.1.10* There is absolutely no way to attain a commander that can obliterate entire armies with lightning or fireballs that do AOE damage unless you make a purchase. And you can’t easily report people who do nothing in team fighte ### 1/5 — Pay to win *2021-10-27, version 1.1.10* Constantly crushed by people who just payed for a their troops to be max level. Troops are unbalanced. You’ll be spammed by maxed out tier 1 troops till you can’t do anything. Unfair matching system. Pay 150 gems to go into colosseum and get matched with people 3-4 leagues ahead of you. Again, the “tactics” are spam one unit till you win. Would give 0 stars if I could. ### 1/5 — Pay to win *2021-10-26, version 1.1.10* It’s a lot of fun at first then you hit the pay to win players. They have units and commanders that they paid to get. There is no way to keep up unless you pay to win. Shame because it’s a great game ### 1/5 — Clone of castle rush/clash *2021-10-24, version 1.1.10* Exact clone of another game and it’s a pay to win fiasco. Starts off really fun (just like the other games) then you hit a pay wall and get overwhelmed with high level units. When your units that counter lose to the units they’re designed to counter because they are 4 level behind you know it’s garabage. If a less greedy company made this game it would be amazing. ### 2/5 — Pay to win *2021-10-31, version 1.1.10* Fun game until you run into whales. Might be enjoyable if your version of fun is spending money to acquire wins. ### 2/5 — Money money money money money *2021-10-27, version 1.1.10* Any tiny mobile game that has a $100 package shouldn’t be downloaded. It’s sad that this is a thing because some people actually spend all their money on it. These companies prey on people that are somehow uncontrollably addicted to games. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great game *2022-12-07, version 1.1.21* I first played this game about a year ago and I remember using this one strategy for spamming kolbolds and because of it I won every match but I came back a few days ago and the game is a lot better balanced, this game is a little bit like clash royale but is also it’s own kind of style ### 5/5 — The chat needs too be updated *2022-11-21, version 1.1.21* Can’t write too my guild members without everything being censored especially when it’s not a curse word and 3v3 needs an update so we can actually finish the quest required for 3v3 ### 5/5 — I love strategy game. *2022-05-15, version 1.1.21* StarCraft on mobile. Please update it, make it better. ### 5/5 — The new CR *2022-01-28, version 1.1.21* Better in every way ### 5/5 — YES, clash royal but with more control and management *2022-01-07, version 1.1.21* I played clash royal for a long time and have to say, as I don’t like to compare games when they are similar but unique, this game is amazing. You have more control options with troops, RTS gameplay, control and management of buildings. I never leave reviews like this but I had to for this game. Diverse strategies instead of cookie cutter. Try it out. ### 5/5 — Finally! Amazing! *2022-01-01, version 1.1.21* Finally a game like this, it’s perfect!!! ### 5/5 — unit cards *2021-12-26, version 1.1.18* I want unit cards different Ella ### 5/5 — Yes!!! *2021-12-02, version 1.1.17* Really loving this game, so much fun to have a hand sized RTS of this genre, feels like you’re playing a Starcraft/Warcraft type of game but on mobile and quick matches, hoping this game has a solid future! ### 5/5 — Finally *2021-11-29, version 1.1.17* A great fast strategic mobile game OUTSTANDING ### 5/5 — Top Notch Game *2021-11-09, version 1.1.15* This game is well developed and graphics are excellent. Not complicated and a lot of fun. Its like Clash Royale mixed with StarCraft. Developers are responsive to inquiries as well. --- *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 2026-06-10.*