Defend the Castle User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience41.2% of reviews
Neutral15.3% of reviews
Negative experience43.5% of reviews

~ Based on 85 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Defend the Castle Safe?

Defend the Castle: Card TD has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Defend the Castle is 65/100.

This assessment is based on 70 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.2/5.

Safety Analysis

48.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
11.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
40.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 70 App Store ratings for Defend the Castle.

Is Defend the Castle Legit?

Defend the Castle: Card TD appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Defend the Castle is 65/100.

Based on 65 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

New update, some things fixed

Raising to 3 star now. Most of my issues with the game have been resolved. The balance seems good, though levels are still impossible, I hope to advance once I get more of the card and fuse coins. It seems to drop cards and fuse coins more. I have a small amount now that I am banking till I get more cards. It seems pretty balanced now. The ratio of getting a higher star card and just a higher level same card is still an issue.

Now what I want to see.

Events- a must. Maybe some special monsters or an endless wave event. Maybe a special tower event where you get to use a tower that is themed.

PvP- needed, either you play as a team or play till someone loses.

New towers and monster- obvious and something that is happening.
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Response from developer

We're sorry to hear about your unbalanced gameplay experience. We recently released version 4.0.0 with gameplay balance updates for gameplay, rewards and progression as well as daily Quests and Horde Battles to allow for faster accumulation of resources to collect and upgrade towers. Come see if the game feels better and if not, send a support request through to https://smallgiant.aihelp.net/hc/account/4-Defend_The_Castle/en/contact-us

New update, same issues

It is super hard to get cards and Fuse Coins. Why would you make it 50/50 to get nothing? Especially at 4+ star? You take so much time to get the cards and coins, you combine, and you just get 1 card of the same level (meaning you lose a card and get nothing), or worse, a wild card. If I take 2 4 star cards, that may be in my decks but I want a 5star, and get a wild 4 star card, I just lost 2 cards from my deck and have nothing. You have to fix this. Give something other than just a slightly upgraded same level card or a wild card.

These are still an issue in the July update-Taunt golems are so over powered. Pair that with a fairy, auto win on level 2 and 3. A wave 2 golem is over 100k. Who thought that was fair? With the trident debuff, nothing can put out that much damage in the 2nd wave. Their hit level is so high, it then forces you to attack that monster, letting all the other monsters just walk through. You have to adjust the wave buff percents or the golem. This is the 3rd update you broke a monster. Delete the game if you want to keep your sanity. I wish I could report bad devs, this is one of them. They delete and pay for reviews. Use to be at 2 star, now at 3.3. Looks like they slowed down deleting bad reviews. I know one of mine was deleted and I had to write another.
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Response from developer

We're sorry to hear about your unbalanced gameplay experience. We recently released version 4.0.0 with gameplay balance updates for gameplay, rewards and progression as well as daily Quests and Horde Battles to allow for faster accumulation of resources to collect and upgrade towers. Come see if the game feels better and if not, send a support request through to https://smallgiant.aihelp.net/hc/account/4-Defend_The_Castle/en/contact-us

No more stacking!?!

What happened to the tower stacking? Now it’s almost impossible to win a round unless you spend real money to level up your towers and even if you use ones to slow the hoard down, it doesn’t slow them down like it used to. This used to be my favorite game but with it being impossible to have a real chance at winning a round anymore, I don’t even want to play it and I just got past level 200…if it’s not fixed to how it was, I’m going to be deleting the app. I’m not spending money because you want to change the game and try to force money being used over actually strategy. You’re forcing me to end my usage.
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Some suggestions

- Your new horde mode suffers from being too short. Enemies walk straight line and by the time you get any fun defense up, it’s over. Either bake a time increase into manually speeding up waves alongside the score multiplier or just increase it overall

- Fusing two max level cards of any rank should never produce a wildcard of that same rank. It punishes players who commit resources to level up cards and should be a guaranteed rank up.

- All gargoyles should have an effect for how hard they are to obtain. Storm Gargoyle in particular should have pushback.
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Encyclopedia

Please add an encyclopedia listing all towers, enemies and troops. When will you answer?

New Update Ruined Game

The new update has made the game pay to win and is unplayable. I was having a ton of fun and now it is one of the worst games I have ever played. The greed of the creators sickens me.

Update wasn’t great

The towers don’t stack like they used to anymore. Darts and aces no longer multiply when you upgrade them during a run. It’s like they downgraded towers with this upgrade. Hoard time isn’t long enough either, the new hoard layout wouldn’t be bad if you had even a little more time during the run…Not a great update.
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Was great till updates

I have spent money monthly on VIP and extras. And was doing well, but since they have changed the mechanics twice in the last couple of months I can’t get past level 497. I will either have to spend tons of money buying packs or grind the quests for a very long time. If you are going to keep lowering the weapon stats, then lower the health or speed of monsters. If the game doesn’t even out. I will no longer be playing or spending money with this game.
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New update, same issues

**Dead Game, devs abandoned. Don’t download

It is super hard to get cards and Fuse Coins. Why would you make it 50/50 to get nothing? Especially at 4+ star? You take so much time to get the cards and coins, you combine, and you just get 1 card, or worst, a wild card. If I take 2 4 star cards, that may be in my decks but I want a 5star, and get a wild 4 star, I just lost 2 cards from my deck and have nothing. You have to fix this. Give someone other than just a slightly upgraded same level card or a wild card.

Taunt golems are so over powered. Pair that with a fairy, auto win on level 2 and 3. A wave 2 golem is over 100k. Who thought that was fair? With the trident debuff, nothing can put out that much damage in the 2nd wave. Their hit level is so high, it then forces you to attack that monster, letting all the other monsters just walk through. You have to adjust the wave buff percents or the golem. This is the 2nd update you broke a monster. Delete the game if you want to keep your sanity. I wish I could report bad devs, this is one of them. They delete and pay for reviews. Use to be at 2 star, now at 3.5.
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Delete account

The developers make you write out a reason why they should delete your account, REALLY? Why ? If I want to restart the game why do I have to wait for you to respond and type out a whole response just to delete my account. Such BS….

New update, same issues

It is super hard to get cards and Fuse Coins. Why would you make it 50/50 to get nothing? Especially at 4+ star? You take so much time to get the cards and coins, you combine, and you just get 1 card, or worst, a wild card. If I take 2 4 star cards, that may be in my decks but I want a 5star, and get a wild 4 star, I just lost 2 cards from my deck and have nothing. You have to fix this. Give someone other than just a slightly upgraded same level card or a wild card.

Taunt golems are so over powered. Pair that with a fairy, auto win on level 2 and 3. A wave 2 golem is over 100k. Who thought that was fair? With the trident debuff, nothing can put out that much damage in the 2nd wave. Their hit level is so high, it then forces you to attack that monster, letting all the other monsters just walk through. You have to adjust the wave buff percents or the golem. This is the 2nd update you broke a monster. Delete the game if you want to keep your sanity. I wish I could report bad devs, this is one of them. They delete and pay for reviews. Use to be at 2 star, now at 3.5.
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Response from developer

We're sorry to hear about your unbalanced gameplay experience. We recently released version 4.0.0 with gameplay balance updates for gameplay, rewards and progression as well as daily Quests and Horde Battles to allow for faster accumulation of resources to collect and upgrade towers. Come see if the game feels better and if not, send a support request through to https://smallgiant.aihelp.net/hc/account/4-Defend_The_Castle/en/contact-us

Not as fun.

The game was fun up until it became a merge grind, and a the cards became weaker and weaker no matter how much I upgraded them. Also with the merging system, I’ll merge my cards and get total bs. Either the same card but with extra level, or another level up card. Nothing that can help me progress or get further in the game. Also when you finally do get your cards up to 5 stars and finally were able to merge up until that point without getting bs. The new 5 star cards do no damage, and it takes an eternity to get anything to upgrade them. You can have all the coins in the game, but no emblems to upgrade them. Not as fun as it was, deleting until it hopefully gets better.
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I don’t want people to send messages to me

This was cool until it makes you join a group and then there is a group chat. WHY?! Deleted it right away.

Balance bad

Good game. Needs some more rewards and freebies though. I’d watch an ad to get some gems.

Need post match damage chart so I can monitor tower performance.

Needs more incentives. When you are stuck. There is no way to progress. All the rewards are stuck behind beating levels. The monster raid is a joke. You get 1 raid per week and the rewards are good for level 20 floors.

Also it’s so hard getting anything other than 1 star elements for upgrades.

Idk. More thought needs put in.
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New update, same issues

Taunt golems are so over powered. Pair that with a fairy, auto win on level 2 and 3. A wave 2 golem is over 100k. Who thought that was fair? With the trident debuff, nothing can put out that much damage in the 2nd wave. Their hit level is so high, it then forces you to attack that monster, letting all the other monsters just walk through. You have to adjust the wave buff percents or the golem. This is the 2nd update you broke a monster. Delete the game if you want to keep your sanity. I wish I could report bad devs, this is one of them. They delete and pay for reviews. Use to be at 2 star, now at 3.5.
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Response from developer

We're sorry to hear about your unbalanced gameplay experience. We recently released version 4.0.0 with gameplay balance updates for gameplay, rewards and progression as well as daily Quests and Horde Battles to allow for faster accumulation of resources to collect and upgrade towers. Come see if the game feels better and if not, send a support request through to https://smallgiant.aihelp.net/hc/account/4-Defend_The_Castle/en/contact-us

Love the game

The game is great but It could be so much better with better balancing for cards especially the 5 star cards they r kind of terrible

Rebalance

Overall it’s a pretty good game but I’m losing interest because it turns into a bit of a grind to upgrade cards. The merge percentages are killing me- the frustration when you merge and nothing happens is really disincentivizing especially when you’re at three star cards you’re merging to get something good.

You need a metric at the end that shows how much damage each tower did. Also it should show how much damage a tower does with each upgrade
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Balance bad

Good game. Needs some more rewards and freebies though. I’d watch an ad to get some gems.

Need post match damage chart so I can monitor tower performance.

Needs more incentives. When you are stuck. There is no way to progress. All the rewards are stuck behind beating levels. The monster raid is a joke. You get 1 raid per week and the rewards are good for level 20 floors.

Also it’s so hard getting anything other than 1 star elements for upgrades.

Idk. More thought needs put in.
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Fun but unreliable

I really enjoy this game its fun and has a lot of ways to be able to keep progressing even when your stuck. But lately with every update to the game they can change things so that your towers lose levels without any compensation for the resources you’ve spent and it will likely cost more resources to rebuild it than you originally spent due to a change in resource requirements
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It’s over

I really enjoyed this one. Like really enjoyed playing it. But they turned it into a cash grab and slowed down the weapons. What a shame. Devs got greedy. F this app.