# Magic vs Metal — user reviews

> 165 indexed App Store user reviews of Magic vs Metal by Foursaken Media, rated 4.80/5 from 1,376 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-vs-metal/id1521684249/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-vs-metal/id1521684249.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,241 · 4★ 93 · 3★ 24 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 13

## What do users think of Magic vs Metal?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 👍 Generous free-to-play model
- 🎨 Great graphics
- 🕹️ Engaging combat
- 🔥 Addictive gameplay
- 👏 Excellent game from Foursaken Media

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🔁 Repetitive and grindy
- 🎮 Needs controller support
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes when using too many powers
- Text replaced by jumbled symbols
- Berserker loses self-heal when equipping Crusher weapon
- Unable to progress past certain levels

**Most requested features**

- Multiplayer and co-op modes
- More campaign content
- Ability to disable auto-fire
- Seamless view switching
- Improved inventory management

## Newest reviews (16 of 165)

### 4/5 — Needs a bit more but good

*2025-12-22, version 1.3.2*

Maybe add a few more, Magi and mechs and more weapons

### 4/5 — A better game

*2025-07-17, version 1.3*

Need a new viewing angle option like clash royal and new place other wise a good game

### 4/5 — Needs more

*2025-02-17, version 1.3*

I wish there was more units. There is just three wizards and three robots.

### 4/5 — Please fix the buggies.

*2024-10-13, version 1.3*

Love the game. Way fun! I play all the Foursaken Media games, including Block fortress and Block fortress War. This is just the latest in a legacy of fantastic games. 
Please fix the glitch where it crashes when you use to many powers at once, though. I am often almost at the end of an attack, sometimes mana storms as well, when I use a lot of powers to finish off the enemies, and then it will just go black and crash. 
It erases my progress and I have to try the attack again. 
Over all, though, amazing game.

### 4/5 — Great except for one problem

*2024-09-10, version 1.3*

I got this game a long time ago and I haven’t played it since but now I’ve downloaded the game again and it kept all my progress from when I first got it. If the developer is still paying attention to this game I would like to know how to reset everything. Other than that great game

### 5/5 — 이 게임 업데이트가 없는 이유

*2024-08-01*

게임 현질이 필요없으니 아무도 현질을 안할거다
돈이 안되니 업데이트가 늦을 수 밖에 
다른 스토리 모드나 pvp있으면 더 재밌겠지만 
지금만으로도 꿀잼 
수천가지 게임중에 진짜 현질 필요없는 게임 첨봄
광고 없음 재화 때문에 스스로 광고 누름 ㅋ

### 5/5 — It’s pretty fun

*2024-06-13, version 1.3*

N stable

### 5/5 — Game good🤫🤫🤫🧏🏻‍♂️🧏🏻‍♂️🧏🏻‍♂️

*2024-06-02, version 1.3*

When I first started playing the game. I instantly got with it. and never seen a good graphic mobile game like this. very good but also hard and strategy game.

### 5/5 — Amazing game

*2024-04-29, version 1.3*

NO FORCED ADS, i literally love this game so much because it gives you just enough stuff to play the game actually normally and its not one of thoughts pay to play or pay to win games

### 5/5 — Nice

*2024-03-07, version 1.3*

Easy going with nice steady progression.

### 5/5 — My impression, ITS AMAZING!!!

*2024-02-27, version 1.3*

This game is a very unique take on the rts genre, and I really think it’s cool. Having two playable factions, each with different strengths and weaknesses, is a very cool design. As a budding 40k fan, I really like the technology faction, as it reminds me of the mechanicus. Keep up the good work!

### 5/5 — Grind a little

*2024-02-04, version 1.3*

At first it’s boring, but grind and unlock spells. Then it gets very fun.

### 2/5 — Удалил через день

*2024-01-25*

Два вида заработка валюты:
- Донат
- Просмотр рекламы

### 5/5 — 잼있어요

*2023-12-22*

좋아요

### 5/5 — Another instant hit by Forsaken

*2023-12-08, version 1.3*

Coming from a PC player that casually plays mobile games here and there this is an absolute labor of love. I first found Forsaken Studios when Noblemen launched and from there on they have been my #1 in mobile games. It has a very intriguing story line that’s easy to get into, streamlined gameplay and a good bit of strategy to go along with it. Just like every other game these guys have out Forsaken studios have managed to hit yet another homerun with Magic vs Metal.

### 5/5 — This is an absolute God send

*2023-11-18, version 1.3*

I’ve played Noblemen, Heroes&Castles2, B.E, but this is one of the newest and my personal favorite game by far. The way it looks, operates, battlefields could be changed so it isn’t repetitive, and it even has it’s own backstory/lore. A few levels get very, extremely hard when they have enemies(I am playing as Mecha solely right now) like the Nightmares. For some reason shooting a nightmare never kills them or quite frankly damages them. They seem to be invincible from my attacks half the time and it feels like only my troops do damage. But all in all this is a game that should win awards for being the mobile game needed to be seen in the App Store more often!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Looks amazing, awful control setups.

*2025-05-18, version 1.3*

Fix. The. Controls. These are the most unresponsive control setups I’ve ever seen, nothing works as it should, deleting this and am not ever playing it again. I could not redo whatever tutorial there was. This game is not worth it if these issues are not fixed. Controls, proper tutorials, mechanics that work, like a tank not damaging me when it technically can’t hit me, that sorta thing.

### 1/5 — Can’t reset

*2025-05-05, version 1.3*

Game won’t let me reset data, not even deleting the app from my storage directly works

### 1/5 — Ни о чем

*2025-02-15*

Суть игры это стоять на одном месте с одним сюжетом и ждать пока твоё оружие выстрелит.

### 1/5 — 반신반의하며 받았는데

*2023-11-16*

뭔 처음부터 버그가 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
움직이지도 않고 슬로모션에
터치 먹통
1분만에 삭제함
별 한개도 아까움

### 1/5 — Extraordinary! But bring back NYZ 2 please!

*2023-06-16, version 1.3*

This is fun and addicting! Reminds of me a lot of the classic Heroes and Castles 1. 

Dear developers, 
PLEASE…. PLEASE.
BRING BACK NYZ 2 !!!
It would very popular today!

### 1/5 — ugh

*2023-03-24, version 1.2.10*

another ' you have to do it this way ' game

### 1/5 — Repetitive grind

*2023-03-18, version 1.2.10*

After i found a bug that gives me unlimited resources (gold and premium in game cash), i was able to beat hundreds of levels. However it just has nothing new to offer. If you play the first 20 levels you have seen it all. 

What is the bug? Can’t tell you here. Hopefully i am not the only one knew about this.

### 1/5 — Very disappointed

*2023-01-14, version 1.2.8*

This game is both crazy grind and expensive. First of all, there are 6 heros from 2 factions, each faction play different levels and have different currency. Yet each hero need to be independently upgraded (weapon, monster and level). There's around 20 paid skill for each hero that can only be obtained through gacha, and IS NOT SHARED. Its more like playing 6 account in parallel instead of having 6 heros. Furthermore, this makes maxing out heros nearly impossible. This game have a lot of areas that requires paying with little hero control (move or gun, not both). There is so many games like this with more fair price. I would suggest this: 1.Have the same "deck" level for all heros, with each "pull" giving 2 awaed, 1 for each faction. 2.Be able to select another hero as "backup" or summon card. So people have incentive to train multiple heros. 3. In the future, other than adding more card, add more heros to each faction. 4. add some sort of paid levels where you can select Any factions's card you like with fixed levels, call it something like "chaos" stages and write some story like aliens control Unit to attack both factions. 5. 4, but rogue

### 1/5 — Controls Do Not Work

*2023-01-12, version 1.2.8*

I would have liked to give this game a try. However, the download was riddled with bugs. First, I choose single hand control and the app would not load from that. Then, with two-handed control the app loaded. However, the attack on my base started and I was without defense or attack controls. When options for defending and attacking finally appeared, I could not properly choose a target. After being defeated in the battle (obviously) the app would never transition out of the “Defeat” window and locked up. I tried loading it several times and checking ways to get this app to work with no joy. I used the latest version of iPad Air with a ton of free memory space. This one was a big loser.

### 1/5 — 버그가 너무 많아요

*2023-01-08*

롤백 되는 경우도 많고 업글 했는데 재접하면 반영 안되있고 등등 결제 했다가 피봤네요 찍먹 정도만 하세요

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Nice!

*2026-05-27, version 1.3.2*

It’s fun and easy to play strategy game.

### 5/5 — Amazing games, but with one (small) catch

*2025-12-14, version 1.3.2*

Forsaken has made some of my favourite games on here and most are free! Absolutely download every game of theirs, you will not be disappointed. But, I have one piece of constructive criticism for these superb games: they don’t support a controller on mobile. For most people, this is fine. But there is a community with controllers that hook up to their phone. But these games are so good, I’m fine to play without controllers. But if you want the games to be perfect, PLEASE add controller support for your games, forsaken.

### 5/5 — Great game

*2025-11-26, version 1.3.2*

Best game I’ve played hands down on the phone

### 5/5 — Best game

*2025-07-13, version 1.3*

Отличная игра уже давно поигрываю на разных устройствах . Будет ли продолжение ? А вообще я ваш фанат с 2014 года начинал с n.y zombies 2 и heroes and castles 2

### 5/5 — Great gameplay

*2025-04-16, version 1.3*

This game I came across by accident. I played it and was thrown off by how immersive everything is. The abilities for each character and the way each character is. What would top this off even more is if you added costumes for each character or added a vs play with your friends if possible. So far this game has me hooked 😆

### 5/5 — Fun for hours

*2025-03-10, version 1.3*

This game has great graphics and gameplay. You don’t have to pay to win, but you might have more fun.

### 5/5 — Reminds me of Heroes n Castles (still my fav)

*2025-03-02, version 1.3*

Similar gameplay, but more polished, like a shiny new car. 

Immersive, smooth and freaking cool.   
Great leveling system,  unique troops to summon. 

Thanks for allowing it to function (like your older games)  without constant internet,  because I travel and this works better for that.
I support this by watching some ads,  but I’ll gladly buy some upgrades in game too 🙂

Awesome work!

### 5/5 — 隠れた名作かもしれない

*2025-02-23*

全く知らないゲームでしたがやってみて驚きました。
ファンタジー系かマシン系のどちらかの勢力でプレイするのですが、どちらもかっこいい！
ウォーハンマーが好きなら絶対ハマると思います。
ただ、不満というか、最初にプレイする時に横画面か縦画面かで選べるのですが、開始した後は変更できないのでしょうか？
やり方があるなら教えてもらえると嬉しいです。

### 5/5 — .

*2025-01-09*

이런 배경 좋아하면 상당히 재밌게 플레이 할 수 있음. 한번 깔아보고 해보는걸 추천함

### 5/5 — 熱中必至

*2024-11-30*

3D背後視点のオートチェス 　キャラの個性と使い分けが絶妙。
 　キャラに応じて多様な支援ウェポンを使い分ければ、どのキャラでもマップクリア可能。マップレベルとウェポンの強化により、変更してゆくべきその組み合わせを見つけてゆくのが、また楽しみ。
 　報酬請求権を高めるには全てのキャラを育成していく事が必要で、それが飽き防止にもなっている。
 　欲を言えば、今作と同様の戦闘システムで、入り組んだマップを攻略する次回作を遊んでみたい。

　音楽も素晴らしい。荘厳にしてアグレッシブなオーケストラサウンドが、魔法とメカニックの対決という世界観を味合わせつつ楽しませてくれる。

 　以前プレイしていた、自キャラ肩口背後視点のウォーハンマー40,000風のゲームを探していたところ、このタイトルを発見。まず重量感あるキャラがのしのし歩く体験を楽しみ、他の軽快なキャラでもシステムを堪能。
 　他のオートチェスではマップ全体を一望出来るが、視野が限定されるこの方式では錯誤と混乱を乗り切る楽しみ方が追加されていて、そこにまたのめり込んでしまう。

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