# Castle Empire — user reviews > 143 indexed App Store user reviews of Castle Empire by HaoPlay Limited, rated 4.66/5 from 3,539 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/castle-empire/id1643664657/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/castle-empire/id1643664657.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,794 · 4★ 478 · 3★ 159 · 2★ 28 · 1★ 80 ## What do users think of Castle Empire? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎨 Fun and engaging gameplay - 👍 Straightforward and easy to understand - 🎉 Entertaining visuals and characters **Cons** - 💰 Pay-to-win mechanics - 🔁 Repetitive and grindy gameplay - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🕰️ Slow progression without spending money **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes during major battles - Login issues and loading problems - Compatibility issues on older devices **Most requested features** - Skip tutorial option - PvE-only game mode - More variety in gameplay and content ## Newest reviews (10 of 143) ### 2/5 — Great game, devs so-so *2026-03-04, version 6.0227.116* To be transparent, I have been playing this game for multiple years and made great friends along the way. I still actively play the game and moderately spend. The game itself is the best I’ve played in this genre on iOS (I have played dozens over the last few months trying to find another I enjoyed more to no avail). The support on disc does the best they can with the player base (Rache <3), however they have not figured out how to fairly match their svs events in years and are continually fumbling migrations between servers and we deal with multiple bugs and issues repeatedly. If you do decide to try the game, start a second castle in an old server while starting the first on the server they start you on for the best experience. I would rate it five stars, but won’t until the devs sort their issues. ### 3/5 — Фризы и тормоза *2025-05-15* Игра очень нравится но сбивает желание играть плохая оптимизация, постоянно вылетает и тормозит ### 1/5 — Fake adds *2024-12-25, version 4.1207.684* Fake adds ### 1/5 — Booted *2024-12-20, version 4.1207.684* Game would be great if every time major fights happen I don’t get kicked off over and over ### 1/5 — Game stuck on deploy hero’s *2024-11-28, version 4.1122.654* Mini game taking the towers is fun and challenging. The castle build is just to much. My game is stuck now when I go to the mini game where it says there are more hero’s to deploy when try to add a hero the screen does not respond to touch and have to close game when I go back to mini game same thing happens again deleted the app and redownloaded it same error. I cannot play the mini game and I am not into just building the castle so game is of no use to me now. ### 1/5 — You have to pay *2024-11-24, version 4.1108.626* If you don’t want to spend money ton of money I mean don’t download this game and don’t waste your time ### 3/5 — Broken parents *2024-10-13, version 4.0929.546* While playing this game, have you noticed that parents after birthing new civilians can again impregnate (or be impregnated by) their own children? Broken birthing system in the game. Sorry developers ### 1/5 — Horrible *2024-10-08, version 4.0914.516* Maybe if you made game like you advertise we’d give more than one star ### 2/5 — Eigentlich nettes Spiel,aber nicht mehr spielbar *2024-09-08* Ich finde das Spiel recht gut,eigentlich, aber seit heute Morgen nicht mehr spielbar. Mach das ersten Sequenz mit dem Verletzten Bürger kommt man noch gezwungenermaßen aus der Burg raus, dann wie geschrieben momentan kann nicht zu diesen Koordinaten navigiert werden, dann geht nichts mehr. Nicht vor nicht zurück, nichts mehr drückbar. Bitte schnell beheben sonst muss ich das Spiel löschen. ### 2/5 — Вход в игру *2024-08-14* После обновления, на iOS игра не запускается ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Не заходит игра *2026-05-15* Это что за такое? Я играла больше 2х лет в вашу игру, и после обновления не могу зайти! Верните все обратно! ### 1/5 — Не грузится на iOS 26.5 *2026-05-14* После обновления на iOS грузится до 75% и висит экран загрузки. Пробовал перезагрузку телефона. Переустанавливал приложение. Ничего не помогает Разрабы вообще не проверяют обновление чтоли?? ### 1/5 — Не рекомендую *2025-11-06* Игра плюс минус норм, обычная надо донатить чтоб быть на плаву, но после года игры возникла проблема, поддержка геймпплэя полностью инфантильная, одно название, ничего не решает, одни отписки стандартные, проблемы игроков не решает, вывод не стоит начинать играть в эту игру, если будет проблема вы останетесь с ней на едине, ### 1/5 — Horrible Customer support and money grabbing *2025-07-11* Dear Haoplay, you finally achieved a goal. I don’t know if it was the aimed goal but the game went from a good team game with fights, a great community and the possibility with average spending playing at top to a total Desaster. Why is it like this? 1. To have a single chance of winning any fights you need to spend minimum >1.000€ per month. Here cash, there cash - everywhere cash. 2. what’s even worse you LIE to the whole COMMUNITY which is in the game. Always new rules, always nee excuses for things which are not working; always unfulfilled promises by customer support. 3. don’t Download this game - you will spend way too much money if you want to play and have a chance and the game experience will just be frustrating instead of a joyment. I played the game for over 2 years and finally reached a point where it is just frustrating. Thanks ### 1/5 — Pay to win *2025-05-10, version 5.0426.232* It’s a fun game to play, but if you have any desire to do well or have good characters you must pay at least $100, and new updates make your prior payments obsolete. Not to mention the other players are all either power hungry and immature, or Vietnamese players. They market the game as teamwork and diplomacy, but the “diplomacy” is really the player who paid the most money and made the most fake accounts to support their main account in order to bully everyone else to do what they want. ### 1/5 — Delete your pocketbook *2025-04-28, version 5.0411.202* This is a game designed like a Vegas casino. Goal is keep you involved through control of your dopamine, while making every effort possible to extract as much money from you as possible. I haven’t seen any of the image previews in the game exactly as they indicate, they are all doctored somewhat. I did make a small purchase. The company keeps your information and makes additional purchases somehow (app store shows the purchase with no receipt for the fraudulent purchase), and reporting the fraud will get you banned. Good luck playing without paying more than they deserve. ### 1/5 — Zu viel des Guten *2025-03-10* Eigentlich ein schöner Versuch verschiedene Spielkonzepte zu vereinen. Aber das ist echt zu viel. Hab ich keine Lust drauf ### 1/5 — Pay to play *2025-02-10, version 5.0123.046* Pay to play seems the only way to advance, I’m only a few hours in lol ### 1/5 — False advertising *2025-02-08, version 5.0123.046* The ad came up making this look like a cool tower conquest game, but you need to go to the castle and do all this boring garbage and stupid tasks just to get to the fun game play, I’m deleting this game now, it’s complete trash game. ### 1/5 — Why are all mobile games the same nowadays? *2025-01-02, version 4.1224.718* Fun tower defence game let down by irrelevant and annoying house decorating mini game. Tutorial is yet another whack-a-mole endeavour in which you don’t learn anything other than how to proceed to the next screen ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Game Review *2025-09-17, version 5.0912.510* I have played now for almost 2 years. There are great options for new players and old players. There are options for players that want to spend nothing, spend a bit, or spend a lot. To be at the top you have to spend a ton, but you can contribute to your alliance simply by sending troops for defense or offense, no matter how much you want to spend to increase power. Your troops fight at leader’s strength. You can contribute and spend zero. Find a good server and alliance and join. ### 5/5 — Nice game, just wonder why there is a castle *2025-03-30, version 5.0314.146* Just let the battle rage ### 5/5 — Great game *2025-01-14, version 5.0103.006* Fun easy great game play ### 5/5 — Ok *2025-01-02, version 4.1224.718* Is ok ### 5/5 — Great game! *2024-12-17, version 4.1207.684* Fun gameplay and vibes ### 5/5 — good game *2024-11-28, version 4.1122.654* enjoy how straightforward it is tbh ### 5/5 — Very nice *2024-11-16, version 4.1108.626* Love the clean graphics. Cartoon style is lovely. Compelling heroes and game play ### 5/5 — Good *2024-11-14, version 4.1108.626* Nice mix of tower strategy, castle building, and some story. Very few to no ads so far. Will update if they start ### 5/5 — Title *2024-10-25* I love this game ، have been playing for 2 years , add some titles like deputy minister there is only 8 places , 8 for r4 as well Thank you guys. God bless you ### 5/5 — Entertaining *2024-10-01, version 4.0914.516* Fun so far. Includes bunker (castle) concept that is cool --- *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 2026-08-28.*