# Knights Chronicle — user reviews

> 51 indexed App Store user reviews of Knights Chronicle by Netmarble Corporation, rated 4.40/5 from 4,471 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/knights-chronicle/id1261722683/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/knights-chronicle/id1261722683.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,282 · 4★ 571 · 3★ 142 · 2★ 81 · 1★ 395

## What do users think of Knights Chronicle?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🎨 Excellent character designs and animations
- 🤝 Generous free-to-play model with easy currency acquisition
- 📚 Engaging story and character backstories
- 🕹️ Smooth and addictive gameplay
- 🔍 Helpful tutorials and guidance for new players

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and data download issues
- 🔄 Repetitive grind and lack of new content updates
- 💰 Costumes and power-ups locked behind paywall
- 🤖 Auto-battle mode issues leading to PvP losses
- 🗣️ Lack of active player community and global chat

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes during co-op and PvP matches
- Loss of rewards and progress due to server issues
- Inconsistent performance on older devices

**Most requested features**

- Trading system for unwanted characters
- Interactions between related characters
- More varied and challenging game modes
- Permanent data downloads to reduce load times

## Newest reviews (11 of 51)

### 4/5 — I miss this game so much

*2023-03-09*

I used to play this game religiously. I joined back when the game partnered with RWBY. I played the game like crazy for the next couple months. Then on and off for the next couple months. Around October or so of 2021 I got back into the game and got my girlfriend into it. We played it religiously and we had a bit of friendly competition. We ended up getting pretty good at the game getting the legendaries and immortalizing a couple of units. It was right around June of 2022 when we stopped really playing, and at that same time they stopped updating the game completely. No more new characters, no more new awakens, nothing, it was radio silent. I’m unsure why but I can only assume it’s because the player base had dwindled. This make me sad because I think it was such a great game, especially for a phone game.

I can without a doubt say this is probably the best game to get into the gacha type of game. It’s SSR summon rates are EXTREMELY forgiving (because the only usable units are really just the SSRs everything else is kind of not good) and they give out gacha currency very easily. While some of the systems on the game were a tad hard to fully grasp, nothing felt unattainable. 

I just wish there was more marketing for this game like I used to see. I really think it is a very fun gacha game that deserves more care than it is receiving.

### 4/5 — Addicting, but with flaws

*2020-07-06, version 4.1.0*

I started playing this game late last year, now I find myself playing it religiously every day. That’s not to say that it doesn’t come with its setbacks that makes a game annoying sometimes. One of the flaws is that some of the things that you really need such as crystals, or garnets you need to purchase with real money, or it’s infuriatingly hard to get.

The Crystals. You can collect a small amount of them by doing daily quests, before the love of God the Garnets, you have to pay for Crystals to get the garnets, which is ludicrous! To actually get the hero you WANT you have to pay money for crystals, and the garnets come with them, but at a very small amount.

Another thing I find annoying is the character fusing system, I am no stranger to it, but I am not a fan of it. Especially when you have to fuse the same exact characters to get better moves. Some of these characters you can only get by luck of the draw, or with garnets. But you can use some characters called Luna to fuse with the character you want of the same element. But the only way to get Luna is with Luna tickets. The only way you can acquire Luna tickets is by doing the labyrinths, which still is the luck of the draw if you get the Luna you want with the Tickets.... Yeah, not good. 

The game is still very rewarding, and has an interesting combat system, and story to hold my attention for so long.

### 4/5 — Love the game but there’s one thing I noticed

*2020-04-06, version 3.1.0*

I have been playing this game almost everyday now for at least about a year and half. It’s an addicting game and the graphics are just amazing and the heroes are well designed. I’ve tried many other turn based RPG’s on mobile and this is by far my favorite! One thing that I have noticed that has begun to bother me is that I question why the helper who is fully awakened, like my hero, does way more damage than my hero, even though my hero has a higher combat power and attack damage by at least a thousand points more. I’ve noticed it when both heroes land critical damage but the helper does much higher damage. Is there a reason for this?

### 4/5 — Honest, RECENT review

*2019-09-20, version 2.5.1*

So I’ve been playing this game for a few months now - so not since launch - so my perspective on this game is a little different from most reviews you’ve probably read. 

Yes, when this game first launched it was great. Yes, they kinda shot themselves in the foot by making top tier options locked behind real dollars. However, I’m impressed at the lengths they’ve gone through to remedy this and provide a great experience for new players. 

Each of the collabs have been interesting and fun. The characters are lively and interesting. Not to mention unique. The cast is large enough to make playing for a while worth it. I’m free to play, and I have most of the SSRs. And that speaks to how generous the resources are in this game. The farming can be a little monotonous at times, but I’m generally pleased. Farming is farming. Can’t get around that. The lack of new in game content is something to desire, but there’s still enough to do that I’m fine for now. They introduce new characters seemingly every month, which I’m impressed at. 

All in all, I give the game 4 stars because of these reasons. It’s a fun game, complete with great characters and thought-through rng (I know, weird). New game modes would be nice, although the labyrinth was a nice addition. Regardless, I’m enjoying this game and excited to see where it goes.

### 4/5 — Fun game

*2019-08-22, version 2.4.1*

I really like this game. Normally I get bored of these within a week but this one has kept my interest. I like that you cam advance in the game without having to pay. (obviously paying gets you there faster but the point is you don't have to.) The characters are fantastic. I love the helper system and this has good graphics and story lines for its characters. All in a fun and slightly addictive game. Easy enough to level up and enhance at least one team. My only issue is the bugs. Mostly in the multi player advents the game likes to crash right as your about to win. It takes your stamina but gives zero reward. That's the only issue I've seen but considering one attempt at the multiplayer (which is hard enough to get a good team with) is 72 stamina and you usually only have about 200... Yeah that's no fun. But other than that bug fairly good game. Even has a chat system.

### 4/5 — Amazing and some ideas.~

*2019-08-12, version 2.3.0*

Hello I would like to say that I played this game before and got back to playing again and I missed it. Such cool art style,gameplay, the special cutscenes and stories also having such good unique characters plus the collaborations omg. I missed a lot in the game that I saw so many collabs so didn’t get much of the characters, but got back in it cause I saw RWBY and was able to get all character and glad. But must say to finish this that keep up the good work on the game and hope you guys make more, it would be really cool if you guys did like a fighting game like with these characters like 2d fighting but 3D like street fighter but your able to control them and play just like a fighting games just an idea. (Also I think that if you do another collaboration, you should do persona it would be really great and I’m sure people will love it or nier automata like 2b and 9s~) ^~^;

### 5/5 — Great game for both casual and steady players

*2019-07-12, version 2.3.0*

I love this game, the difference between this game versus others in this genre is that you can tell the game developers put a lot of time and effort into character design and aesthetics because each one has their own flair and personalities. The voice actors do a really good job portraying their characters too in all the language settings available as well. I can play for the game for hours and not having to worry about ads popping up, (they just recently updated where you have the option to watch them though and get rewards which is fantastic.) I also sometimes take breaks from playing games for 2-3 weeks but can always jump right back in and start collecting new awesome heroes. The only small complaint I have is that a lot of characters aren’t able to limit break due to limited amounts of cards you can get each day but I think that allows them players to be strategic about which characters to focus on making stronger. Overall, I have been really impressed with the quality of this game. Definitely one to check out if you haven’t done so!

### 5/5 — PERFECT GAME! Response to Cmillertime 7

*2019-04-24, version 2.0.1*

This game is one of the most well balanced game I’ve ever played, and everything from the skill animations to the fair collabs make this game even greater! Though I would like to play it on the go, all of my netmarble games require WiFi, not LTE (data) and I’m really want to know what’s causing it to do this, plz fix! Other than that, this is a must have game for people who likes stories or new characters randomly! People only think you need to buy stuff, people saying here and there, “it’s a pay2win game” or the “it’s too hard to keep up" excuses. It really isn’t necessary to bring other people who want to find a game willing to give out free things and buy things to forget about this godly game, and only comparing it to your perspective isn’t going to do you good. Other than that, this is a well made game meant for beginners and experts of role playing games!

### 3/5 — It’s Good, but...

*2019-04-17, version 2.0.1*

Very easy to get addicted to, and the game also offers very generous rewards for the players especially newbies. So it’s very F2P friendly and easy to get into the game even when you’re just starting out. 

Yet after a few weeks of playing this game, I eventually lost interest and became bored with it. It was a good game at the start but can slowly start to be rather repetitive since the updates don’t really offer anything exciting or brand new. 

It’s a fun game to play for a while, you get hooked to it and eventually you move on to find other games to play. I wouldn’t say this is a game you’d continue to play for years, but more or less a short but fun endeavor to sedate your boredom.

### 4/5 — I enjoy this game but you all should listen to your fan base

*2018-10-03, version 1.3.0*

I enjoy playing this game. I love hero collectors and don’t mind the grind for them, but it seems like the game isn’t engaged with its community on changes that work for both f2p and p2p players. I’m in between, and every new feature seems geared towards cost rather than productivity. Obviously I don’t know what goes on behind the scenes, but I felt in its earlier inception, there was sense of understanding between gamer and developer that isn’t nearly as strong now. I hope it regains that soon as I’m a big fan of the hero design and even the backstory and relationships between the characters. I hope the dissatisfaction of the gamers will subside and doesn’t cause them to abandon the game because again— I love playing it. Thank you for your time.

### 4/5 — Very good game but...

*2018-09-24, version 1.3.0*

The game is amazing and I like mostly everything about it except from the fact that every time I’m about to enter the game a message pops up almost all the time saying that I need to download 700+mb to continue, which is very annoying and honestly makes me not feel like playing when I see that message. Although I don’t really mind installing the data, it’s just the fact that I have to do it every time I enter the loading screen so please allow us to install this data permanently or just try and lessen the amount of times we have to install it.

Thank you

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Data Problem

*2021-06-11, version 5.0.0*

I’ve played the game before in the past, and don’t get me wrong. The game, art style and everything else is amazing. But, I experienced a problem today. After playing for a few hours in the morning, I closed the app to get something to drink. When I went to open the app, not only did the data have to download AGAIN, but all my progress was lost. After reinstalling the game, I tried again. The same thing happened. Listen I love this game, Netmarble, but I wanna be able to get a game that saves my progress and doesn’t require me to start over every time I wanna play the game. 

Once and if you’ve confirmed the problem is fixed, I will get the game back. But until then, I’m gonna leave the game alone.

### 1/5 — I hope you like casinos and bad customer service

*2018-10-31, version 1.4.0*

I used to love this game but it has turned into an ugly pay to win bad customer service casino. This company is so greedy that you might as well go out and buy an Xbox game or PS game.
Because that’s how much money and more you would spend. And don’t get me started on casino everything is a chance you might summon 10 times before you actually get something good and that takes diamonds which you grind and grind to get just to get nothing for it unless you want to pay 4.99 for 60 diamonds which it takes to 200 diamonds to salmon then you don’t really know what you’re going to get. If you want a sure thing for your money don’t bother getting this game. And then there’s customer service I paid for diamonds and bought some dungeon keys 90 diamonds for 10 dungeon keys used one dungeon key and then the server crashed After the server came back I had zero dungeon keys and the 90 diamonds were missing contacted customer support and basically said I was a wire. So if you want a good game don’t look at this one.

### 1/5 — Was fun while it lasted.

*2018-09-22, version 1.3.0*

Looking for a world with tons of characters that don’t matter? Want all past purchases to mean nothing with every new character? How about playing the exact same dailies continuously with no variation? Well then Knights Chronicle is the game for you! Play a limited story mode to build up a character who will be meaningless by the time you get to the actual “deep” game play. Missed something from last week? Good news! Get it next week. No worries! This game does nothing new. Except characters. Spend all your money on the new character! Level it up! Build your team! Join in on PV...wait. Nevermind. New character is out. The last one is now pointless. But you can buy gems for this new one! The good news is, once you have a specific handful of characters, nothing gets balanced, so you will be able to play against the exact same team over and over again at every pvp rank!

### 1/5 — Remove paywall for costumes!

*2018-09-10, version 1.3.0*

I’m all for helping the developers make money from their work but locking content behind a pay wall is a horrendous practice. While costumes are optional and don’t affect the core of the game, making content exclusively towards people with disposable incomes creates an unfair balance to the game. Unless of guys have a plan of rotating the costumes that are available to purchase with in game currency, I see a lot of your core players writing similar reviews to mine. 

This game is very generous in terms of premium currency and I’ve never felt that I’ve had to pay for features, but locking exclusive costumes that power up characters without the ability to obtain it for free isn’t right. Make your money Net Marble you deserve it, but let your players earn your content if they so choose to. Allow us the choice to purchase the costumes.

### 1/5 — Not worth

*2018-09-06, version 1.3.0*

This game is good, I’ve been playing it since opening. Everything was perfectly fine until the update. Paying always always allows you to progress faster within a game, and I’ve paid money to progress faster. NetMarble should not be locking meta altering changes behind a paywall. I’ve spent around $600 and maybe I’m considered a whale, or maybe a casual player or w/e. Point is I’ve spent a great deal on this game and even I feel that locking stats and balances changes to old characters is unhealthy for the game. It’s great that they’re reworking old characters that need a bit of umph, but to say,” hey you have to pay $20 PER character” to do that is just wrong. F2P players are upset, and there are more f2p players than there are p2w. Losing all your f2p players means a loss of 3/4 of your community. F2p players bring in other players that don’t have to also be f2p. This game will die if nothing is done.

### 2/5 — It feels like the devs gave up

*2021-02-21, version 4.8.0*

I’ve been playing since 2018, stopped for a good chunk of 2020 though but picked it back up again recently, but there was a lot more to do back then than there is now. They’ve completely given up on features like epic quest (been nearly two years since the last one) and all the new “updates” is just new characters and there’s hardly any new costumes for characters. For the past year and a half or so almost all of the new costumes has just been the 4/5/6 star recolors of different characters and it’s become mostly grinding. The game itself is not bad at all, I just wish there was more love put into the game with more new content outside of “costumes” and new characters with every new awakening, maybe more crossover events or picking back up with the epic quests again.

### 2/5 — Practically unplayable

*2021-02-14, version 4.8.0*

I love this game, first of all. Really do. Friendly to free to play and graphics are amazing. BUT every SINGLE time I open the game 1300MB needs to be downloaded. Most games this wouldnt make a difference. Except for some reason this game takes up to 5 mins (don’t have any problems with others). This means every single time, which also includes if the game accidentally shuts itself down or something even before starting the game, you have to do it again. Yet when I go into game, it says I can’t bulk download cuz nothing needs to be done. It’s ridiculous that every single time I wanna play this game I have to wait 5 mins. I know that sounds like a bad complaint but it’s so annoying, esp when you just wanna play it on a break.

### 2/5 — Fun but Annoying

*2020-03-20, version 3.0.0*

The game has way too many pop-ups asking you to pay them around $4-$10 on every tab you click on and it gets annoying real fast. The game mechanics are relatively fun, and there have been some cool colabs they’ve done in the past such as Full Metal Alchemist, but those characters are no longer obtainable anymore. However the multiplayer servers, without fail, are extremely laggy and buggy, to the point most matches result in closing application because the game just freezes or someone else’s game freezes and they never move even though there’s supposed to be a timer for them to make their move. The multiplayer needs major polishing and the option to keep the pop-ups from appearing every time you login. The negatives outweigh the positives here so I have to give 2 stars sorry, please try and fix these issues.

### 2/5 — Decent game bad programming

*2020-01-13, version 2.8.0*

I have no real beef with the game because the last time I was even able to play this game is months so I can’t even recall any dislike/like. And here’s were the issue when people have very questionable choice of not have the game all in one package. Like for instance on consoles when you download a game and finish that download you can instantly play it with no real issue unless it’s new different story. And there is the other choice very questionable choice mite I add putting the game to separate packages. At first is like all right download and I can play but nope you have download another package for another hour. But then you think okay one time no problems. But it gets worse because this happens every update. So by now you can understand don’t trust the old 5 stars that’s always on top of the boards and the other reviews that understand the issue. But the developer chose to reject them and bury those reviews in dust of age build up negligence. So when you play this game be very aware of what your jumping into nest of messy programming.

### 2/5 — Poor Management Kills Great Game

*2018-09-22, version 1.3.0*

Let me start by saying that KC is a really fun game. Why 2* then? Because of Netmarble, the company that runs it.

For the first couple weeks I played, KC was very F2P friendly, with tons of free crystals. After 2 months of playing however, it's easy to see that is just to get you hooked. And it's easy to get hooked, because KC is a well-made and fun game. The problem is that after a couple weeks, you *have* to pay. And I'm not talking just a little bit. I always spend on F2P games what I feel they are worth; I've spent hundreds on KC. But I am no longer going to spend a dime after the costume release. With the costumes and a new OP hero every week, you *have* to be a whale to keep up. Even if you spend enough money to acquire every new unit, there's not enough fodder to level everyone up unless you spend even more money. This is just another example of a gatcha game company getting too greedy, and it's sad.

If you're a total whale, this game is 5/5. For everyone else, just avoid this game, because they haven't listened to the overwhelming negative outcry from the community about costumes and the massive shifts to pay2win over the last month or so. Just find a different game to play.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Greatest Off-Hand Game Ever

*2022-11-17, version 6.1.0*

I’m usually busy with work and other things, but this game is the best I have ever played that is not too time consuming, but lets you feel like you have accomplished a lot within the short time you have played it.

The rewards are really nice and they even added a good amount of extra missions that act as a sort of tutorial guide for starters, since the last I played this game.

I really hope they continue the main story as well.

I do have 1 problem: The story is very easy. Just level your characters and you’ll be fine. You can even add a friend’s character to help, if you need it.

But once you reach Chapter 14, the difficulty skyrockets too suddenly.

I could clear Chapter 13 section 10 easily with level 50 heroes… but once I enter Chapter 14, suddenly I can’t even beat it with some of my level 60’s? And it’s on Easy Mode?

I feel like I would need at least fully leveled 60’s with elemental advantages AND proper runes equipped for each one to at least have SOME chance of beating the chapter… without earning full stars.

I would understand if it was on Normal Mode or Hard Mode, but for that level of difficulty to be on EASY mode? Ha…

Looks like I’ll be spending some time grinding dungeons just to deck out a team fit enough to handle easy mode…

### 5/5 — PLEASE GET IT.

*2021-06-25, version 5.1.0*

i LOVE this game! ive started playing in 2018 but took a big break for personal reasons, i just came back a few months ago & WOW heros are soooo much more powerful its easier to get crystals bc thats not how it was back then. and everyone saying its keeps saying to download data it did that same thing to me, you need to FREE SPACE ON YOUR PHONE! mine was stuck on the data download thing for a few days until i deleted many useless things and im back to playing. this game is grinding and hard work. if your heros are strong enough you put them to work while you are busy with something else to pass the time. 10/10 recommend

### 5/5 — Best Hero Collector I’ve played

*2020-10-29, version 4.5.0*

I’m a huge fan of Knights Chronicles. I e played a lot of Hero collectors and for a few reasons I’ll explain below Knights is my favorite.

1) Is absolutely not P2W (play to win). They give players more premium heroes for free than most games I’ve played.

2) There is grind, most games have it, but the auto play and variations in story mode keep it from being repetitive.

3) Clan battles are fast paced and numerous: there are a lot of opportunities for clan battles and even if you lose, which I normally do, they pay out decently.

4) Skins and costumes: this is the one area where the game is lacking, but when you “awaken” your character you get a new skin that isn’t displayed beforehand. That said the skins you can get with in game currency could be a bit better, but no one is perfect.

5) Game is straight forward and easy to understand. Many games have very convoluted upgrading systems. Knights does not. You sacrifice heroes and monsters to upgrade heroes. It’s simple.

### 5/5 — really fun, but

*2020-10-23, version 4.4.1*

The game itself is Amazing, tho there are a bit of things it needs, for Example More missions to play with friends because after you finish those Advent Co-op or Treasure hunting missions, there’s nothing else to do but wait another 12hours just to be able to play with your friends, would be great if you could help other people with advent missions, Second we need new Advent missions, the ones that keep coming out are just repetitive after a while. I have no issue with the story, i love it! one more thing and sorry for bothering, i think costumes shouldn’t be remakes of the 4-6 star versions, i think a secret agent costume for Kali would be pretty cool, its just my opinion, anyways thanks for reading this

### 5/5 — I absolutely love this game and it’s perfect for all the anime lovers!

*2020-07-25, version 4.1.0*

Hi, if your reading this, I just wanted to let you know this game is perfect for you if you like anime, fighting games, and adventure games! This game is exciting has a lot of twists and turns and can be difficult but it’s worth the time and effort! It’s really addicting and I really do recommend this game! I have an iPhone XR and there’s really no glitches! I love summoning new characters, it brings excitement to my eyes, whether I get an SSR or anything! I’ve been playing this game since the Fairy Tail event and I can totally see the progress that has come within the game! I truly love this game and I hope you will too! Give it a try, it won’t hurt! ❤️

### 5/5 — Seriously?!

*2020-04-01, version 3.1.0*

Okay look... I honestly despise any game remotely close to this one. I don’t like RPG’s and I cannot stand ANY turn based games. I don’t even like Final Fantasy! This game has had me stuck for hours. I didn’t notice time flying by as I killed it level after level just continuously leveling, fighting, summoning and playing the events. There’s no paywall. I’m all F2P and find myself still contending with the top spots. A lot of the levels I could not pass alone there was multiplayer Co-op in real time! If this is your kind of game I highly recommend trying this one out. Amazing graphics and cutscenes and I even find myself following the story of the beloved character Theo. Overall color my impressed.

### 5/5 — Addicting!

*2019-12-30, version 2.8.0*

I’ve been playing this game nonstop for years, currently level 250, without putting a single dime into it. It’s easy to come by in game currency, and the story is relatively engaging. Each character is beautifully animated with personality making me want to have them all. My favorite thing is you’ll always have something to do because the developers are constantly adding new events to keep things fresh. My only minor complaint is I wish drops for characters were more accessible and guilds played more of a part :)

### 5/5 — Good game f2p

*2019-11-17, version 2.6.0*

Your progress doesn’t depend on spending money, it is very f2p. I got my team max lvl which is 50 at 6 stars all the very first day into the game and after a week I have awakened my first SSR knight, completed most of the map stages currently on the 11 hard mode, got up to 2 teams of SSR knights ,summon rate isn’t bad 1time got 2 ssr from the 200 diamond summon .Also there are some packages from the shop that don’t look bad ,so you can consider spending on a couple for extra help and awesome stuff. 

Only problem I have is I can’t find a way to log out, link to a mail acc and switch servers.

### 5/5 — Amazingly fantastic free to play game!

*2019-07-27, version 2.3.0*

The graphics are phenomenal. The gameplay is entertaining. The music is soothing and peaceful. Also, I like how it took me about one and a half to two days to earn three of the RWBY characters so far. It took me a week and a half to obtain the entire RWBY cast. I also managed to level up my characters pretty well without having to pay at all. I absolutely love the designs for all the characters as well! A very great app and I would recommend to anyone who likes RPG games. I might consider spending money on this game someday when I get more free income coming in. This app is super cool and fun and very addictive. I give it 5/5 stars. Everything about this game is amazing. Even the wait screen has a mini game while you wait for downloads!!! Super great feature that I absolutely love. I also admire the music and voices of the characters. I even like the designs of the characters I don’t use. I also enjoy my goal of completing the codex. I’m close to finishing the monster section of my codex. I really love this app a lot. Usually apps like this lose my interest fast, but this one has me hooked.

### 5/5 — A game fit for me!

*2019-07-13, version 2.3.0*

So Ive been known to be a gamer amongst my friends and that being the case its really hard to find games that I truly love and admire. Im gonna be honest I've seen your ads all over social media, but I never really wanted to try it out, because it seemed like every other mom or rpg games that I have. Now that I got to actually play it I just cant help but be Amazed! The plot line was immediately one of the man things to catch my eye! And the play style is easy to get adjusted to. One of my favorite things about games like this, are the characters! Their outfits and background make the game a little more welcoming in my opinion. I cant wait to see what you guys do next!

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