# King or Fail - Castle Takeover — user reviews > 314 indexed App Store user reviews of King or Fail by SayGames LTD, rated 4.66/5 from 16,425 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/king-or-fail-castle-takeover/id1672225232/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/king-or-fail-castle-takeover/id1672225232.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12,919 · 4★ 1,500 · 3★ 722 · 2★ 257 · 1★ 438 ## What do users think of King or Fail? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay - 👍 Simple and intuitive interface - 💡 Interesting concept and progression **Cons** - 🔍 Excessive and intrusive ads - 🔋 Game drains device battery quickly - 🐛 Bugs and glitches affecting gameplay **Commonly reported bugs** - Stuck on certain missions due to missing resources - Freezing and crashing issues - Inconsistent behavior of certain game mechanics **Most requested features** - More content and levels to progress through - Better balance and progression for late-game battles - Option to disable ads for a one-time fee ## Newest reviews (14 of 314) ### 4/5 — Pretty good for your average mobile game, just a tip. *2026-06-04, version 0.33.7* Now listen, I know it’s a mobile game and I shouldn’t expect Michelin star gameplay, but can we not have ads flooding the game to the point where my phone is overheating with how much is happening? I would advise that the ad placement be in something like the end of a castle raid or when I level up rather than as my character is walking, so y’all can still get ad revenue and I don’t have a thermal bomb for a phone. Fix that and I’ll be happy with the game. ### 4/5 — Fun until *2026-06-02, version 0.33.7* There’s a level cap on your ballista and at mid to higher levels the damage is insignificant yet you have to use it, so you’re watching about 16 ads to lower enemy heath to attack with troops ### 4/5 — Good but stuck *2026-04-17, version 0.33.7* Poured more hours than I’d like to admit into this. Hard stuck at a point now where I can’t defeat the next level of attack. My troops are fully upgraded as is my ballista but they barely make a dent in the enemy force. ### 4/5 — Please *2026-03-18, version 0.33.7* Very good game but you have been hacked with scam ads wrt weight loss ### 3/5 — Great game. *2026-02-27, version 0.33.7* I LOVE this game. Its really addictive and the little Blue King is really cute. The game play is good and not too tedious or difficult. My only criticism is that you only get points for fighting. I’ve found myself in the position of having to fight a battle I am seriously unequipt for. I can’t win the battle yet I’ve got loads of points to get before leveling up. I wish you could get points for collecting resources. I find I’m just fighting to get a few points every so oftern until I eventually level up. Apart from this issue its an absolutely brilliant game. After level 28 the missions seem a bit less thought through. For ages I couldn’t make marble because it said I needed a metal cube I could no longer make. Now on level 30 and can’t fish for bass. Every thing is upgraded but it still won’t fish for bass. I am now on Level 41 and there is a bug where a resource you need to upgrade the trees just isn’t available. You can’t buy it so you can’t progress any further. All resources should be available to buy at any time incase this happens. So until the developers fix this, my game is over. ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2026-02-25, version 0.33.7* I used to play this game when traveling and when I didn’t have access to my network. It was a great way to pass time. I downloaded again recently and every 2 minutes there’s an ad. Some ads get stuck and I can’t exit without closing the game completely. This becomes extremely annoying. Not only do they force ads to play but they also changed the way the vegetables and stuff grow so now trying to cut pumpkin or tomatoes are only possible if I watch an ad and get the buff. I’m genuinely disappointed. Bring back less ads … that’s WHY I LOVED THIS GAME BEFORE ### 4/5 — Great game - but has progression bugs *2026-02-18, version 0.33.7* Played lots of this game and really enjoyed building up the kingdom and doing the battles. Paying to remove ads was a nice quality of life improvement and made it much better to play. Currently stuck progression-wise though as some of the tiles you hand resources into to upgrade don’t accept the resources even if you have them so I can’t progress any further. Raised a bug report well over a month ago with no response so played less since Great game assuming you don’t get the progression bug ### 3/5 — Loved this game UPDATE *2026-01-17, version 0.33.5* I’ve paid to remove ads, totally worth it. The new update has made me re invest my time into the game BUTTT I’ve been stuck for a few days looking for a silver metal to upgrade but I can’t find it anywhere??? HELPP I miss this gameee ### 2/5 — Have to watch ads more than once. *2026-01-03, version 0.33.5* I love the game but almost 50% of the time when I watch the ad to receive the reward, I don’t receive the reward. ### 3/5 — What are the green locked zones?? *2025-12-11, version 0.33.5* I have been playing for a bit now and I’m on level 50 but none of the locked green zones opened up. At this point I have upgraded the trees, fish, fruit and now I’m on a new type of corn and metals! When will the other zones unlock?! ### 3/5 — Fed up of being stuck *2025-11-16, version 0.33.5* Game was great at first. Now been stuck for months because I can’t get past an attack. Why is it so difficult? I’ve watched 30 minutes worth of ads and still can’t win at the attack. ### 3/5 — Too many ads *2025-11-16, version 0.33.5* Too many ads ### 3/5 — What gives!? *2025-11-04, version 0.33.5* Hi devs, I'm having trouble crafting Obsidian in King of Fail despite upgrading everything in the game. I can't find the recipe for it whatsoever, but I'm not sure what's going wrong. Can you help me figure out what I'm missing or if there's a bug? Thanks! ### 3/5 — Enjoyable but … *2025-10-13, version 0.33.5* I’ve been playing for several months daily and truly enjoy this game. I have had a couple of problems with it. It has, on several occasions, taken gold from me but not applied it to the item I was paying. Also, the prices increase much faster than the gold output, even though I continually upgrade all of my items, farm help, all the things. It gets boring running in circles for almost 40 minutes to collect enough for the basic upgrades. The gold and upgrade costs were pretty steady in tandem, but it slowly deviated from that. Losing those coins and having them not be applied after working so long and hard for them is annoying. But I do really enjoy the game itself. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Biggest mistake was updating *2026-05-13, version 0.33.7* Biggest mistake was upgrading the game. It was basically a totally new game. I restarted from the beginning to understand and everything was different. Items were in different places. You have to win games in order to upgrade certain items. Please add a version of the game that was like what it was before. This was one of my favorite games. Will not be playing anymore ### 1/5 — Progress is based on ads. That’s not a game *2026-03-31, version 0.33.7* I fail to understand what drives developer to make a game where their main concern is earning rather than game experience for their audience. These games either want your money or want you to spend 30--seconds watching ads every 2 minutes ### 1/5 — It keeps bugging out on me *2026-03-07, version 0.33.7* It’s not loading the ads that pop up cause as you know ads are necessary ### 1/5 — Level up *2026-01-30, version 0.33.5* I’ve been playing the game for over two weeks or three weeks and it will not let me level up my Townhall to level two every time I walk by it I have the resources that It’s not letting me level it up I have the resources to do my upgrade, but it won’t let me ### 1/5 — Great game, but filled with bugs *2025-12-20, version 0.33.5* I initially enjoyed this game, even paid to stop ads, now after a recent upgrade, I keep running into bugs preventing me from proceeding to the next level. Even though I don’t see ads every 15 seconds, you still have to voluntarily watch them if you want to proceed to the higher levels. Deleting! ### 1/5 — I wasted my time so you don’t have to *2025-12-16, version 0.33.5* Don’t download this game. I really enjoyed it at first (pre-update) so much that I paid to have ads removed which I never, ever do. Now they updated it and I absolutely wasted that money. I’m on level 61 and it’s nearly impossible to continue progressing. There are SO many bugs now (disappearing items/money, materials you need but can’t make or produce). The worst part is the extremely over powered enemy castles to the point that I just watched 12 ads in a row, my soldiers are upgraded as much as possible, and I still lost. 48 ballista strikes before I start and I still can’t beat the castle. DO NOT DOWNLOAD ### 1/5 — Adv *2025-11-18, version 0.33.5* Too much advertising coming during playing not when you want it ### 1/5 — 👎 *2025-10-15, version 0.33.5* Been playing this game for such a long time loved it but the new update has just ruined it. Actually really disappointed as this was the only game I played and now I open it and close it within 5 minutes can’t do half the stuff it’s asking you to do. ### 1/5 — Time to Delete *2025-09-14, version 0.33.5* Game was a huge grind and ad watch to get anywhere. New updates is just one long ad watch to get anywhere. Time to delete. ### 1/5 — Was my favorite game once upon a time. Now it's just taking up space in my phone. *2025-08-01, version 0.33.5* UPDATE!!!!!!!!! Wont let me complete the task even though I have completed the task! Email support and they said absolutely both to resolve the issue. I'm just going to stop playing it. How many times can I go to war and collect crops. Over it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cool *2026-06-01, version 0.33.7* Dude this is amazing So cool 5 stars! ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2026-05-25, version 0.33.7* This game is so fun I love it so much I have Ben playing for a wile now.!!!!!!!!!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2026-04-21, version 0.33.7* I give this game 5 star rating ### 5/5 — Enjoyable *2026-03-25, version 0.33.7* I just started playing, but so far very enjoyable. It’s a great way to slowly build the place you are going to have to defend. 5 stars all around. ### 5/5 — I’m Susan’s *2026-03-22, version 0.33.7* Hanging ### 5/5 — I love it !! *2026-03-07, version 0.33.7* I love how you can see your kingdom grow 😊!! ### 5/5 — Fighting for us *2025-12-12, version 0.33.5* I AM Fighting for Us. ### 5/5 — Good but to many adds *2025-12-03, version 0.33.5* I love the way you chop trees and stuff I’ve been looking for a game like this for a long time but there are just too many many ads and no ads is to much money so please just get rid of ads ### 5/5 — Good game *2025-08-25, version 0.33.5* It’s a fun and relaxing game ### 5/5 — Update needed *2025-08-21, version 0.33.5* Please update game or I’m deleting it and won’t be starting over --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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