# Five Heroes: The King's War — user reviews > 327 indexed App Store user reviews of Five Heroes by Banditos Studio, rated 4.50/5 from 2,569 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/five-heroes-the-kings-war/id1251847638/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/five-heroes-the-kings-war/id1251847638.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,914 · 4★ 389 · 3★ 123 · 2★ 29 · 1★ 114 ## What do users think of Five Heroes? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Strategic combat mechanics - 👍 Unique art style - 👍 Feels like a leader of 5 heroes - 👍 No ads - 👍 Can progress without paying - 👍 Engaging gameplay - 👍 Challenging but fair - 👍 Addictive and fun **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes - 🔒 Unplayable gambling mechanics - 💤 Boring and repetitive at times - 💰 Expensive upgrades and orbs - 🔁 Lack of new content updates - 🔁 Progression blocked by paywall - 🔁 Overpowered characters/teams - 🔁 Unbalanced PvP matchmaking - 🔁 Confusing UI changes **Commonly reported bugs** - Certain heroes not showing in list - Progression blocked by glitches - Unexpected changes to hero stats/abilities - Expedition progress not resetting **Most requested features** - New heroes and episodes - More in-depth tutorials - Ability to trade between guild members - In-game chat for guild members - Sell/dismantle option for excess gear - Improved character/team management - Faster progression for F2P players ## Newest reviews (13 of 327) ### 3/5 — Too many review interruptions *2026-05-06, version 7.6.11* And not enough added levels ### 4/5 — Soooo much lacking potential (but somehow still good) *2025-08-30, version 7.6.11* 5 heroes is a hidden gem of a game, it has strategic combat mechanics,(the best I’ve seen in a while) it has a unique arts style and to top it all off, it makes you really feel like the leader of the 5 heroes with words like “my lord,”. It is still quite flawed though: 1) no new content, new hero’s or new episodes would be really cool but nope… nothing! 2)unplayable gambling, from chest hunting to tavern, there is so much gambling. I mean it’s an RPG known for lots of gacha but I’ve made it to the last episode… with only 3 legendaries (including free young axe). 3)boringness, 5 heroes is a Easy game, but all long time players have had a time where they don’t have enough strength and have to grind daily summons just to fail a few levels later. Ouch! 4) little value upgrades,some things just aren’t worth working for, like castle upgrades (in late game) or tournaments (devs if your reading this, valour heroes were not a good idea)some things need small changes, some should be removed By the way, I’m not hating, I love this game so much just please have a big update and please make big changes. Thank you for reading ### 4/5 — Did this game die? *2025-02-10, version 7.6.11* I really like this game, been playing for a while now. Would have given 5 stars but I noticed about a year ago that there haven’t been any special events or updates, no holiday events. Am I playing a dead game? ### 3/5 — Summoning *2024-05-10, version 7.6.11* Why can’t you summon with orbs, I remember you could three years ago ### 3/5 — Autokampf… *2024-01-14* Der Autokampf ist nicht sehr intelligent. Erst werden alle Gegner bekämpft, wobei zwei Helden sterben, dann werden auf der Karte verteilte Heiltrönke aufgesammelt. Doll. ### 3/5 — Its ok but not ?!?!? *2024-01-01, version 7.6.10* So uhm game is fun and can be more fun if you fix it up Issues a lot but in a good way kinda Cant turn off chat or some time will just cause crash Crashing from time to time Hangs after a short time ### 4/5 — Needs balance *2023-09-04, version 7.6.0* The archer does 90% of the fighting. All other characters are too slow to see combat or are completely blocked by the archer or terrain . This game has potential, but it needs balance ### 5/5 — Selling *2023-08-31, version 7.6.0* Wondering if there’s a selling function for all the extra gear that gets accumulated. Game is great either way. ### 5/5 — Wow.. Thank you Devs *2023-08-14, version 7.5.4* I’ve been playing this game since… it was five heroes. I remember starting as the Palladian wish I was able to have her now -_- . But this game has gone huge. The devs really put in so much work for this game to be as big as it is. Great job guys you really keep me busy in the game, from events to guilds, to the campaign. Only thing I’m not a fan of is the novice… maybe it’s me but I have so many of them.. just to sacrifice lol. ### 5/5 — New favorite *2023-08-09, version 7.5.3* Love this game perfect time spending game ### 5/5 — bug bug bug *2023-08-05, version 7.5.2* 3-23 no hero no hero nohero ### 5/5 — What IF…? *2023-07-26, version 7.4.2* If the developer of this game made another version of this game but associating with Chinese story like 3 Kingdoms and associating with Lord of Rings, it would be fun. ### 5/5 — Code *2023-07-24, version 7.4.1* Xin chào, nhập code ở đâu vạy ae? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not cool. *2026-08-21, version 7.6.11* So I started at the beginning when the game first came out. Even put money into it to get the fire mage and ice mage. Plus a few other cool characters. But then life happened and I fell out of playing for a bit. Only to come back and have lost everything I paid for. I messaged the devs on discord and since when I bought the character was before a certain update. I’ve just lost the money and characters. Won’t restart or put more money on it just to have it taken again. ### 1/5 — Quase ótimo *2025-06-18* Podia depender um pouco menos de pagar. Mais de meses jogando é só consegui um herói lendário. Na moeda brasileira é caro. Mas dá pra jogar bem sem comprar ### 1/5 — Нет Русского языка *2025-02-12* Покупаешь выбиваешь героев а выливает мусор нет боланса получить героя большого ранга это не возможно вообще ### 1/5 — Old account disappeared *2024-05-09, version 7.6.11* I recently wanted to comeback to the game after not playing it for a long time first i lost my characters and if I remember right i spent a couple of dollars on some characters now i cant get them back ### 1/5 — Unplayable now *2023-09-02, version 7.6.0* The last update destroyed my characters I spent months building up. Now the maxed out characters are worthless. I had characters go from 900 strength and health down to 300. I have over 300 thousand experience and now get destroyed in the arena by players with 45 thousand. I can’t upgrade my best characters anymore so it pointless to even play now. Not sure what the purpose of all this was but you’ll lose as many players as you think you’ll gain. I’ve never seen a developer in any capacity deliberately destroy someone’s account. I want my wasted time back. Sent two emails and have heard nothing. ### 1/5 — Very greedy *2023-08-24, version 7.5.7* You literally need to pay hundreds and thousands of dollars to be able to play this game. Unbalanced in terms of pvp as well, in the start of the silver arena league I have 100-200k power opponents while I’m 15000, it is ridiculous. ### 1/5 — Unfair *2023-07-24, version 7.4.1* I sold kassandra on the altar now I can’t proceed with the game, this ruined it for me ### 1/5 — Decent *2023-06-30, version 7.3.2* The game is dominated by a handful of people that’ve been playing from jump that harass people that pay to play, think twice before spending money on this game. ### 1/5 — Game is ptw *2023-03-31, version 7.1.2* Game updates get worse and worse. They want you to spend diamonds to upgrade skills and they want you to buy gold to buy orbs. They increased the prices of orbs by 4 times original cost. Double the amount of time to get a training dummy. You now got to wait up to 3 hours to upgrade one skill now. You got to spend hours farming orbs. To get a small upgrade. They raised the prices of artifacts and upgrading them as well hope I g you buy even more diamonds to buy them. It’s a pure money grab. The devs are out of touch with reality. ### 1/5 — Would be an easy 5* but stuck *2023-03-10, version 7.0.5* I just got to the hero sacrifice thingy and there’s some sort of glitch where I can’t move past the select the ghost in a bottle to upgrade intro part. I can’t select anything and can’t just move past it ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Dead game *2026-07-14, version 7.6.11* Game is dead, no new updates, no seasonal heRos. Don’t play this dead game. Three playeRs bully newbs. ### 5/5 — Love the Game but developers never respond *2026-01-26, version 7.6.11* The game is great. I’ve played since before the big update and I like the update now for sure. Downside is I can get in the arena or join a guild and I had sent multiple emails and I never hear back from anyone. Hopefully they get back to me soon ### 5/5 — 1 *2026-01-07, version 7.6.11* Hi anyone here? ### 5/5 — Понравилась *2023-12-15* Русский язык добавьте пожалуйста! ### 5/5 — Strategy involved, good turn based combat game *2023-10-18, version 7.6.7* 5 Heroes is a good game for grinding through maps and leveling up your cast of characters. It has a cool story and is engaging. This fun game is really neat how you can challenge other players and see how well your team does. ### 5/5 — Idea? *2023-10-09, version 7.6.5* For the new season and since it’s October. Y’all should put out ghost characters. ### 5/5 — Fun rpg game *2023-10-04, version 7.6.4* Like most games these days it takes some money to get the best experience out of the game. This one is worth it at least with good story lines and characters. Easy game play great seasonal challenges and characters which are not always easy to get. Check it out ### 5/5 — Too Grindy *2023-09-07, version 7.6.1* So the game itself is a lot of fun especially with the auto run feature. But to complete all of the daily campaigns and guild stuff I’m spending WAY TOO MUCH TIME playing so I can complete them. Either make them shorter or add a 2x-3x speed feature. ### 5/5 — Lingua *2023-09-03, version 7.6.0* Bel gioco ma serve la lingua italianaa😭😭 ### 5/5 — Recent update *2023-09-02, version 7.6.0* Oh noooo! This game was a 5 star game for so many reasons until the most recent update! I don’t know how to even explain how bad this update was, but the update crushed all my characters abilities! I have one character with over 20k power but can barely do any damage in a fight. I can’t even finish a stage that I used to be able to finish with ease since this update! I’m very disappointed --- *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 2026-08-29.*