# Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD — user reviews > 665 indexed App Store user reviews of Kingdom Rush 5 by Ironhide S.A., rated 4.80/5 from 13,696 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kingdom-rush-5-alliance-td/id1622869542/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kingdom-rush-5-alliance-td/id1622869542.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12,568 · 4★ 607 · 3★ 218 · 2★ 85 · 1★ 218 ## What do users think of Kingdom Rush 5? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great graphics and gameplay - 👍 Familiar and enjoyable Kingdom Rush experience - 💡 Interesting new two-hero mechanic - 🚀 Smooth and polished overall **Cons** - 💰 Excessive paywalls for towers and heroes - 🔍 Limited content for the price - 🔍 Levels feel repetitive or reused - 🔍 Difficulty balance issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Map scrolling issues on tablets - Inconsistent save/progress tracking **Most requested features** - Add endless mode or more replayable content - Improve tower and hero descriptions - Reduce paywall costs or add more free content ## Newest reviews (10 of 665) ### 2/5 — Micro transactions *2026-08-16, version 7.00.62* The only reason this game isn’t reaching it’s potential is greedy devs ### 4/5 — Prices Are Too High *2026-07-10, version 7.00.62* Its a good game like always but for a mobile game its starting to feel like these games are getting greedy now with all the towers and heros plus dlc being at least 50$ this isn’t Microsoft ### 3/5 — Pay to Win *2026-06-19, version 7.00.62* I love this game don’t get me wrong. But as you progress and the difficulty gets higher you start to see how virtually all the new towers and heroes are loved behind paywalls. Where as before you could get like half the towers unlocked, not you get the defaults and just one alternate of each basic type. I started noticing the problem when I realize I hav to use guides online to beat certain missions. I never had to do that before. The multiple ways of victory which allowed you before to play and rest different strategies are locked down to virtually just one on some of the later missions if you only have the default towers. I want to love this game but in an effort to make more money they made the game feel sweaty. 3$ for a new tower is crazy. And towers cost separate from the additional expansions too…wish it wasn’t so. ### 2/5 — Meh *2026-06-15, version 7.00.62* I’ve loved all the Kingdom Rush games and played them all fully. I fully enjoy the mix of towers and swapping them out in this game. However….This “game” just feels like an ad. I’ve dropped a looooot of money on this, including what I thought would unlock all those pesky “available” maps, only to find it just unlocked towers I either already PAID for, or I’ll never use. No new levels. The map is FULL of unplayable levels because you have to buy them. It’s incredibly frustrating to buy a game, but almost $50 (probably more at this point honestly) and still have HALF the map unplayable. Severe disappointment to PAY for a game only to have it be an advertisement. ### 2/5 — Nickle and Dime *2026-05-25, version 7.00.62* If you hate free to play apps that charge you for everything, you’ll be even more frustrated by this paid app that then proceeds to charge you more for heroes, towers, and content. ### 3/5 — Too much paywall! *2026-05-20, version 7.00.62* Good game; as good as its predecessors. Unfortunately, the amount of paywall, and the prices, are excessive. It’d be 4 or 5 stars otherwise. ### 3/5 — Great Vibe, But Lacks the Frontiers Challange *2026-05-15, version 7.00.62* As a Kingdom Rush Frontiers fan, I went into this game with high hopes, and while it delivers a visually stunning and fresh experience, the core gameplay left me disappointed. The maps, heroes, towers, and hidden Easter eggs are all fantastic and beautifully designed. However, if you are looking for a true tactical challenge, you won't find it here. Even on Veteran mode using only the free heroes and towers, the main campaign stages are surprisingly easy; once you figure out a few key tower patterns, you can simply spam them to clear every wave without much effort. ### 3/5 — Less value for money *2026-04-30, version 7.00.62* This version is more expensive than the previous ones and has less side missions. You have to pay quite a bit extra to get them. Felt quite disappointed there wasn’t more. ### 2/5 — Money Milking *2026-04-18, version 7.00.62* All new content they release is behind a paywall. Just looking to grab as much of your cash as possible. Not worth it for a single player game, sorry. Already have to pay for the game which is just a fraction of what you will be paying if you want to actually experience everything. ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-04-11, version 7.00.62* Always loved kingdom rush. Quality game you can play and put down any time. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Greedy company, getting worse *2026-08-26, version 7.00.62* As mentioned, such a gem of game but company greed is ruining it. Time to hang up the boots for me playing these games ### 1/5 — Artificial difficulty *2026-08-10, version 7.00.62* As a disclaimer: I beat the game and all DLCs on impossible. I write this review not due to a “skill issue”; I enjoy difficult games, and am a fan of the KR series for this reason. Overall this game is terribly balanced. The beginning levels, even on the hardest mode, are incredibly easy. Then there is a sudden switch in difficulty. Moreover this difficulty is completely fabricated: the enemies just become befeer and they start to disable your towers or troops. Furthermore many waves of flying or Aoe enemies come, and all of the free towers don’t do nearly enough damage to take them down. The result? You have to micro the heroes and barracks placements aggressively. I know this is part of the KR experiments in the previous installments, but there it was possible to beat the games without microing placements and “cheesing” enemies. Here, with default towers and heroes, not so much. The enemies don’t encourage much strategy of tower placements, the towers themselves are all too weak, the game is very poorly balanced and not fun to play. This is probably the second worst installment in the series, winning only over vengeance which had god awfully easy game. Other comments: 1. the art is much worse than the original games. Everything looks childish. 2. The vengeance style towers idea is terrible. It destroys late game strategy and the kingdom rush flair. Also, having “pay to win” towers feels very sleezy. Kingdom rush should instead: A) return to four towers with two tower upgrades at the end. For more variety, add level towers like the dwarf towers in KR frontiers. B) keep it at one hero per level (less micro) but add more heroes, and add spinning for heroes like a gambling system. Users can earn gems to spin for heroes or purchase them. Also heroes should level up in level so there is still late game strategy to hero placements. If ironhide wants more monetization, they can make it so you spin for a hero, and next time you spin it overrides the old hero. You can maybe have 2 slots for spinning, with more available for purchase. Then users will be rncourgrd to use gems more, but heroes won’t feel pay to win, since you can unlock them for free (but with stronger heroes being more rare). That is all my comments. To players: If you are looking for a good KR experience, don’t play this game. Play mods of OG KR like furious assault. ### 1/5 — Greed. *2026-06-27, version 7.00.62* I grew up playing these games and now they’ve just become a typical money grab game, where everything costs extra. It’s an embarrassment to the gaming industry and it’s the downfall of pure gaming. I will never buy another game from you or add ons. ### 1/5 — Monetization unreasonable *2026-06-23, version 7.00.62* Don’t buy unless you want to spend $60 ### 1/5 — Cash Grab *2026-06-19, version 7.00.62* Kingdom Rush was a great game before. Now it’s a cash grab. Half the campaign is locked by paywall. Didn’t I pay for this game already? ### 1/5 — Overcharged hero bundle purchase? *2026-06-11, version 7.00.62* I just bought the hero bundle, which was showing as $30 dollars, but my charge was $66.86? What’s up with that? ### 1/5 — Too many in-app purchase *2026-06-01, version 7.00.62* bad game ### 1/5 — Less strategic overall *2026-05-24, version 7.00.62* Feels an overall reskin of previous games than a completely new game. No attempt to create something completely different, more of a Vengeance Part 2. Towers you can only level up, no strategic choices to upgrade to different powers. You can have the same set to complete all levels unlike previous games (I have all). Levels end abruptly - anticlimactic. Waves of enemies become bland and uninteresting. At least have two different endless levels for longevity. Minuscule rewards for calling in waves early. Overall KR5 Alliance: 8/10 animation, 1/10 gameplay. Disappointed. ### 1/5 — What happened? *2026-05-06, version 7.00.62* Rarely have I been asked to pay so much more in a game I paid for. The balance is gone and a once great company and game has been changed and ruined ### 1/5 — Don’t bother, this is just greedy. *2026-04-25, version 7.00.62* So, I sometimes use the Apple game thing to “demo” games and the Apple game thing has it where the ‘premium’ heroes can be unlocked via just playing through the game, so I figured here I could do the same thing. I bought the two dlc, and then noticed the game itself felt like a slog to play, I didn’t have much fun, and it half felt like with how often it was tossing the diamonds at me, the premium currency, that okay fine, it’s a game where I’m meant to grind. Kinda annoying that every time I go into the hero tab to upgrade I’m reminded of all the paid for heroes but it’s fine, I can unlock them by playing the game. No. You can’t. The premium heroes and towers are purely purchase, for the paid for version, while the arcade version you MUST beat the level that the hero is attributed to. The game isn’t fun, and after paying over twenty six dollars for just the dlc and base game, the game then demands you cough up another FIFTY DOLLARS for the premium heroes and towers. And I was even wondering why the towers felt so weak, compared to the DLC towers, cause I beat the entire game just spamming the dragon brood tower, cause it had a map-wide kinda mortar attack and a stun. And then it hit me that the reason why is cause it’s trying to make you get the premium stuff, to pay that extra 50 (cause buying the towers/heroes solo would be a bit of a waste when the bundles are 50% off, according to the store itself) and on top of that there’s also an option to buy the premium currency, which is used for these extra three slots on the lower right hand side… For anywhere from five bucks to a hundred dollars. I remember the original kingdom rush, how much fun it was, and iron marines was kinda…meh, with the other installments being either annoyingly hard or just so far out in left field it didn’t feel like the same game nor really worth playing. This one however? I never had a kingdom rush game actively make me hate it, never made me hate it enough that I actually come in and write a review for it. Yet here we are. This is by far one of the worst games I’ve ever played and it’s purely cause of the sheer greed. You want 50 dollars from me? Make a game worth that 50 dollars and not this microtransaction bs. Kingdom Two Crowns was a hell of a lot more fun, and a lot more simple, and I know from past installments that you can do better than this from the original games. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I have every one of these games *2026-09-04, version 7.00.62* This is the hardest one yet ### 5/5 — Can’t wait for the next game *2026-08-06, version 7.00.62* Been playing kingdom rush since I was a kid on school computers, absolutely love this game and ironhide ### 5/5 — Another KR <3 *2026-08-03, version 7.00.62* Title ### 5/5 — Woooo hoooooo!!!!! *2026-06-21, version 7.00.62* Amazing! Never stop making these!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Enjoy playing this game ! *2026-06-15, version 7.00.62* Enjoy playing this game ! ### 5/5 — 成就不完善 *2026-06-11, version 7.00.62* 游戏内完成的巨龙战争在Game Center上不显示 希望完善一下 ### 5/5 — 🤖 *2026-05-31, version 7.00.62* El mejor juego. Saludos desde torreón, Coahuila Méx ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-05-23, version 7.00.62* Amazing game. The art is very good, the overall gameplay is satisfying and also accomplishing. Sad that i can't access the other stages like the dragon dlc tho ### 5/5 — Great Vibe, But Lacks the Frontiers Challange *2026-05-19, version 7.00.62* As a Kingdom Rush Frontiers fan, I went into this game with high hopes, and while it delivers a visually stunning and fresh experience, the core gameplay left me disappointed. The maps, heroes, towers, and hidden Easter eggs are all fantastic and beautifully designed. The two hero mechanic is top notch. However, if you are looking for a true tactical challenge, you won't find it here. Even on Veteran mode using only the free heroes and towers, the main campaign stages are surprisingly easy; once you figure out a few key tower patterns, you can simply spam them to clear every wave without much effort. Stages 14,15 and additional campaigns are the only ones with true challenge (took me a few restarts to beat). Yet, please keep the main campaign difficulty to difficult when it’s veteran. ### 5/5 — DLC가격이 pc랑 왜 달라요? *2026-04-23* 모바일버젼은 왜이렇게 비싼거야? --- *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 2026-09-13.*