# TRANSFORMERS: Tactical Arena — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of TRANSFORMERS by RED GAMES CO, LLC, rated 4.68/5 from 8,776 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transformers-tactical-arena/id1534035610/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transformers-tactical-arena/id1534035610.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6,908 · 4★ 811 · 3★ 275 · 2★ 152 · 1★ 224 ## What do users think of TRANSFORMERS? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Balanced and fun gameplay - 🚀 Quick-paced action - 💎 Great visuals and animations - 🎨 Faithful to Transformers franchise - 🎮 Engaging strategic depth **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches (disappearing cards, frozen matches) - 🔢 Unbalanced matchmaking (mismatched card levels) - ⏳ Slow progression and tedious grind - 🤖 Overpowered AI opponents - 🔢 Lack of game modes (only PvP) **Commonly reported bugs** - Disappearing cards during matches - Freezing/crashing issues - Incorrect card level scaling in matchmaking - Inconsistent AI behavior **Most requested features** - Add cooperative and PvE game modes - Improve progression system (more rewards, faster leveling) - Implement faction-based mechanics and synergies - Expand character roster (more Decepticons, combiners, etc.) - Improve UI and quality-of-life features (deck builder, replays, etc.) ## Newest reviews (13 of 50) ### 3/5 — “AI” Balancing and Own Rules *2023-02-28, version 1.7.1* I seem to end up playing a lot of “AI” games and disappointed to see that the higher my level is, the more the “AI” appears to play by different rules. For example, seeing Bonecrusher played, followed by some other troop, followed by Bonecrusher again. It seems like they also have an 8 card deck but apparently re-roll availability vs sequentially appearing like a human user. Not at all expected or intuitive. Notice I don’t say “fair” because it is a game after all 😃. However, there sis a natural expectation that either the “AI” plays by the same rules. ### 4/5 — An actual review from a person who probably plays this game too much to be this bad at it *2023-02-16, version 1.7.1* I really like this game! It has a strange balance to it, but everything seems to have an counter strategy. My biggest critiques are about the turrets and card levels. It wouldn't be so tedious to get to the game if we had an easier time collecting cards. My plebeian recommendations: 1: Make the shop rotate multiple times a day and cost way less O-13. 2: Get SOMETHING for playing a match even if it’s just a good chunk of ore. I just played 2 matches in a row that went in to “Tiebreaker” and got nothing for either of those really long, but also really fun matches. 3: Better loot boxes from daily missions. I’d like to see megas, but idk how balance works so yeah. 4: Ore-13 costs to upgrade become insane for the last few levels of a card. That would be fine but we cant really “farm” any currency so it feel like unless you win, you wont get to get stronger. ### 3/5 — Fix OP characters and gems *2023-01-04, version 1.7* The last changes have caused 9 out of 10 players I face a day to just drop turrets and add chimera stone for an easy lazy tower hit . When I come to those players that start a game that way they are sure to do it 4-5 more times making a dull game. So eventually I stated to give them the lane and wait for better players. Same with having to face GRIMLOK 8 times a game. He’s so over powered so shouldn’t be available that easily and for that many times. You fixed the issue of unbalanced game play with walking characters with RATCHET down the lane unharmed. So you can figure this out as well.— —update: all that has happened is they added a robot Jedi and and even bigger OP CHARACTER that takes up half the board. No new levels. No balancing for OP characters. no fixing the laser turret nonsense. No where to go at upper levels. No changes in the game to make it worth continuing.—update: now there are overpowered suicide drones that show up in every game. It’s getting further away from Transformer vs Transformer strategic game play. A gorilla on a surfboard??? Ugh ### 3/5 — Engaging game until… *2022-11-22, version 1.6* Don’t make the mistake of leveling up past 3000 points too quickly. 3000 seems to be where most of the actual players play. Do whatever you can do to stay below that until you’ve improved your decks or you’ll find yourself in a position where you’re not strong enough to win any games, but you can’t get stronger without getting crates. You can’t get crates without winning games. And you can’t win games without getting crates. See the problem? ### 4/5 — Love everything except this *2022-11-11, version 1.6* So I’ve been playing this game since day 1 and I love everything about it except for the fact that if I can’t find someone online the AI they make you play against is so broken I feel like they can put down whatever card they want without worrying about cost and I have an all level 8 team its far too weak to defeat a team of all 9 cards. I shouldn’t be forced into a match I know I’m gonna lose because I’m not matching up with anyone the AI was much more balanced before level 9 cards were introduced ### 4/5 — Draws you in with quick paced action *2022-09-22, version 1.6* Action packed, but if leveling up quick, to get stuck on level 7 (once you reach an arena one can’t get relegated), only to play 3 games, to win one, to get a chest, that doesn’t drop what one need…then this is the game for you. Was fun until the plateau, now it’s a “why am I doing this” grind. One is consistently matched with opponents 1-2 levels above, and if they are the same level, their cards (characters) are maxed. Are they just hanging around level 7 to farm chests, or are they stuck with me?🤔 Sorry, don’t have the patience to play for years to level up. Highly addictive at first, which I’m sure is by design. Great replay value! Good luck. ### 3/5 — Its sad to see a great game killed by its progression *2022-07-28, version 1.5.1* The game is fun balanced has depth and potential with a few needs for UI/quality of life tweaks. However That comes with a huge asterisk. For a game without micro transactions (thank whatever god(s) you want) it’s terrifies to give you rewards. Particularly cards and ore (the games currency) Why does a win = 5 cards and like 10 ore when you win a match for reference it can take 100 cards and 1,000 ore to upgrade one card. Yes it’s as insanely bad as it sounds and destroys progression particularly at 3k trophies as there’s fewer players and no more trophies rewards of value. Side note never play the AI they will always have over leveled cards and cheat energy like crazy it’s just a timer for when they play the next card which means they can cheat the biggest cards in the game and create hoards of the largest cards in the game ### 3/5 — Needs an update *2022-05-24, version 1.4* Pretty fun, really takes me back to the show. I really like it but what frustrates me is that it’s almost click bate on my notifications. I say this because it tells me I have a daily prize and then I click on it and I get nothing. Also I check the supply shop everyday and never updates with new cards to buy from. Other than those things it’s a pretty addicting game. Also sometimes for no reason at all I’m in the middle of a match and I win and then game shuts down and I go back on and it’s as if I never had that match and I don’t get a reward crate or ranking points. Good foundation but needs some tweaks done ### 3/5 — Love it but… *2022-04-16, version 1.2* I love the gameplay and overall it seems quite balanced. However, last season I finished in the top 0.9% of players yet still failed to reach the highest league on the leaderboards. A lot of this has to do with the fact that when facing AI opponents every single one of their units is level 8. Oftentimes the entire strategy of the AI is to spam level 8 Bonecrusher who has so much health he monopolizes the DPS of every unit on the field while they are destroyed down by other units. I’m also quite certain that half of the “real” opponents I face are in fact AI, based on the fact that I’ll face someone with a level 7 base fielding an entire team of level 8 units. I just don’t see how that’s possible. I’d just like to win based on my strategy and unit selection vs. knowing I’m going to lose 15 seconds into a game because the AI has a full compliment of level 8 units and rarely used yet perfect counters to my team. ### 4/5 — Great game very addictive *2022-02-19, version 1.1.2* Gameplay is awesome, but I have played it for several weeks now and have noticed some bugs for some reason some of my legendary players are not receiving there upgrade they get the necessary amount of cards but doesn’t give me the upgrade this is very annoying. Balance is a little off it and matching will sometimes put you with someone 2 levels higher which is not always a problem but most of the time they will win like I said great game awesome graphics but need some more improvements. ### 5/5 — Enjoyable *2022-02-16, version 1.1.2* When I first downloaded this game I couldn’t get into it. But I recently decided to give it another chance and can’t get enough of it. I’ve had fun with it and have evolved my tactics quite a bit and am intrigued by the attacks by others as well. It feels very strategic and keeps getting more interesting as new characters are unlocked either by myself or by my adversaries. ### 3/5 — Needs work *2022-02-15, version 1.1.2* It’s fun when it works but the disappearing cards make it not playable. It’s happened 3 matches in a row. That’s unacceptable Edit: The disappearing cards have been fixed. The game is really fun to play. Now just needs some tweaks. The rewards seem to have gotten worse. Maybe they’ve always been this bad, but the last 20 matches I won I received the smallest crate-every time-. I mean c’mon. They give you 24 ore-13 per crate. You need 4000 ore-13 to level up 1 character to level 8 It’s like after receiving 3 or 4 bigger crates, that’s all you get until the next day so once you’ve gotten those few good crates it’s not worth playing anymore ### 4/5 — Disappointed *2022-02-05, version 1.1.1* It seems like I’m being hacked because when I play and battle my health goes down when others aren’t even close Also when I stop playing and go back on it often sets me backwards. Very frustrating and aggravating. It’s too bad because I really like the game, but these things get me very upset. Thanks. My cards keep disappear also so it causes me to keep losing. Very very frustrating. Can’t tap on anything. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Horrendous *2023-01-27, version 1.7.1* There are barely any strategies here. The game is extremely unbalanced!! If you like frustration in life then this is your game!!!! Once you reach 2500 points it is a hard struggle, because the opponent can land 4 squads for every only one of mine. It is obvious you will be defeated. Once you get to 3000 it is literally impossible to win, because now your opponent gets to land 8 units for every three of mine. This is where it gets completely impossible and super frustrating. Once I reached 3000 I have won twice out of 22 tries. Judging by the replies, the developers need to take responsibility and admit that they have work to do to improve the game instead of ridiculously worry about the stats. ### 1/5 — Game becomes frustrating once you hit Champions League *2023-01-20, version 1.7* I am constantly matched against players that have higher level cards than me which makes it near impossible to win battles. If you can’t win battles, you don’t collect crates and that means you can’t level up your cards which then means that you can’t win battles. It’s a vicious cycle. My recommendation to the developer is to max out card levels to 9 for all players who reach Champions League, that way battles are SKILL BASED and not who has the better hand based on character level. Until then, this game is a frustrating mess and there is nothing more to see here once you reach Champions League. No incentive to keep on playing whatsoever. ### 1/5 — Horrible Matchups *2022-06-20, version 1.4.1* I just got to 3,000 and every round is the same. I get wiped out and get nothing in return. I stay weak while others profit off of my failure. God forbid I win one or two rounds out of 10. I’ll still end with 3,000 and even weaker. This game has great graphics and sounds good but honestly, it’s not worth playing because once you’ve reached a point in the game you don’t grow. I’m always getting stronger players with stronger characters. You just keep getting matched up with the same players, always wining and profiting against you. They’re cards get stronger while you stay looking like a clown. Apple Arcade games are supposed to have fair mechanics that’s why I pay for it. This game is completely unplayable for me now. Thanks a lot. This won’t get fixed for some time by the developers I’m sure. So I’ll place the Star Wars style of this game instead. It’s much fairer and balanced. ### 1/5 — Snor…yawn…blah *2022-01-07, version 1.1* Don’t waste your time. As these style of games go…this one is just plain bad. Whoever made this game doesn’t understand Transformers. Hardly any Decepticons to choose from, but plenty of Autobots…which is lame. You start off with Prime, so don’t expect to see Megs in your lineup anytime soon because he’s a super rare pull. This game needs balanced factions. You build an eight character team, and you mix factions…which is dumb. But, after Hasbro destroyed the Transformers TCG, I’m not shocked at this. They no longer understand their own products or characters. Did Michael Bay help develop this game or something??? Ha. Anywho…this game has actually lead me to cancel my Apple Arcade subscription. I’d rather go pay for games than settle for generic garbage. Weak offering, Hasbro….which seems to be the trend these days. ### 1/5 — New upgrade is not thoughtful! *2021-12-30, version 1.1* New upgrade on health and strength of cards is not balanced and makes handful of your past achievements useless. It is like starting all over again. Level 7 card can be easily defeated by level 2 or 3 card with weird advantage. There are a lot of bugs with this update as well. More freezes, card disappears, empty cards, repetitive cards, you name a few! This is definitely a quickly implemented update with narrow thinking. This was a goto game but started playing very less since this update. This is a great game otherwise. Hoping to see one more fine tuning to make it exciting again. Otherwise interest will wane very soon. ### 1/5 — Needs serious work *2021-11-10, version 1.0* I like the game fairly fine, but literally the game will always put you up against higher level enemies with much better cards, and I even lost a game when my enemy took my second tower, I had already took both his towers out and was advancing on his final tower, but the moment he took my SECOND tower I lost 40 trophies,please explain how that makes any sense, I took both towers first and was about to win, but he just took my second tower wayyyy after and I lost? How? Also the game is brutally hard to gain more cards and will always give duplicates to cards you don’t even want, for a monthly subscription this game ain’t worth it just yet ### 2/5 — Great game for only a small mount of time *2022-10-31, version 1.6* The developers could have a fantastic game but for whatever idiotic reason they have, they decided to have each match already determined (or at least very heavily favored to win) before you even start. I’ve tested this out numerous times and whether it’s me or the other player (AI or real), someone always gets double the energon throughout the battle. Never ever fails. It seriously could be a ridiculously awesome game. But it’s not and it gets so frustrating and makes me despise the game and never wanna play it again. Many other great games on the arcade. ### 2/5 — BROKEN & UNFAIR *2022-10-02, version 1.6* I've never written a review before but I have to write one after reading the other comments. This game's computer AI is obviously cheating. I have discovered that the number of "energon" being used by the computer is inflated. I have shown this by recording my gameplay and calculting the bots being played. This is because the developers are trying to create a "ranked" battle environment so they can controll the payout of cards based on gameplay as to not get the gamer to tap out. what they dont get is that they have an A game and dont need to trick us into playing it more. We are hooked, just make it fair! The gambling psychology being used is clever for a capitalist copmpeting in a saturated market, but transformers is one of the best games that I have play in a while. Change the ranked system into a "campaign" where charactor cards are unlocked by climbing the ladder. After a player completes the campaign, then they will have (all?) of their cards to go then fight and level up in the multi player based on a true ranking system. Otherwise the psychology is immoral and people are going to catch on to unfair games like this one. ### 2/5 — The units are balanced, the tower levels are not *2022-09-24, version 1.6* Depending on the arena, depends on who you fight. I would normally say this should depend on the tower level, but because it takes so long to get from tower level 7 to 8 and now 8 to 9, there’s a HUGE discrepancy as far as card levels go. Example: I’m tower level 7 and most of my cards I use are level 6-7, but I can fight someone who has level 7-9 cards and they’re still considered a level 7 tower. This is even more frustrating when the game’s AI is a level 9 against your level 6-7 units. There’s no strategy at that point as you get rolled by anything that isn’t low health. This can be solved by introducing more tower levels by splitting up some of the current ridiculously long progressions of tower levels such as 7 to 8 or what I assume is the case for 8 to 9. Considering how long it took to roll out max level 9 though, I doubt this will be fixed anytime soon. ### 2/5 — Terrible Match Making *2022-08-01, version 1.5.1* The match making in this game isn’t very good. It doesn’t seem to take your decks total power into consideration when matching you to an opponent. While we might have the same total level score I am always going up against higher level cards. Example: my cards are level 6s and 7s my opponent has a deck of all maxed out level 8s. There is very little you can do because the higher power cards grind my lower leveled ones down and i have to play 2 cards to counter their one. Also there are a lot of matches where you are fighting where the tower power levels are missed matched as well. Example: I have a level 7 tower and my opponent has level 8. They are now starting with the advantage of a tower with more health and defense power than mine. The match making should go by the total power of the deck the player is currently using and their tower power should always be equal. If this issue is fixed this will be a really good game. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Game feedback *2023-02-08, version 1.7.1* Hello, I recently subscribed to apple arcade and downloaded this game(transformers). I found the game to have very nice animations, great balance, and good playability. I really like this game. However, I have recently encountered a problem in I have a problem with the game. When I click the button “battle ” to match, it always searches for a few seconds and then returns to the main screen. This causes me to be unable to play against real players. I would like to know if this is a bug. ### 5/5 — Best game ever since clash Royale !!! *2023-01-30, version 1.7.1* I play this game basically every single day and absolutely love the fact that they have Optimus primal in the game and cheator !!! Leveling up is awesome and you don’t have to pay out of pocket for this game like crazy to level up they give you the adequate amount of power to level up your cards and have the nostalgia of getting all the old auto bots and deceptive cons and their voices make it so amazing when they drop in to the battle it’s just completely incredible and one of the best experiences ever as a gamer! ### 5/5 — More Than Meets The Eye! *2023-01-24, version 1.7.1* This is a very good game, as it's the primary reason why I have an active Apple Arcade subscription. The game needs work, but the developers are cool. They seem to genuinely care about improving the game and respecting the history of Transformers. The game is quite faithful to the 1980s cartoon. Actually, it's even better. Optimus Prime and friends look great! Possibly better than ever. (I prefer the classic G1 style instead of the recent movies.) The major downside to this game is that it's Player-vs-Player combat (which is incredibly intense) but slowed down by frustrating level grinding. It's as if a pay-to-win game was force-fit into Apple Arcade's no in-app purchases environment. The end result is a lot of unnecessary and mindless tedium. I think the game could benefit from a cooperative mode and a PvE mode. I don't want to fight AGAINST my friends. I want to fight TOGETHER with my friends. The AI is the real enemy here. HA HA! 😄 At the top of the leaderboard, the computer battles are insane. Since there are not so many players at the top, the AI is a stopgap. Instead of mixing PvE and PvE, it really should be two separate modes. I look forward to watching this game grow. The updates are fairly regular and they usually add to the fun. Hopefully matchmaking is truly improved and more friendly play modes are added. ### 5/5 — Balanced and fun *2022-12-24, version 1.6* Love this compared to Clash Royale and the pay to win approach. Started playing 30 days ago and have come back every single day since then. Love the explainer videos for each unit showing their strengths and weaknesses--makes it accessible for beginners. Feature Requests: a battle log of your win/loss history; and the ability to share the replay of your game or save a copy to analyze. More stats on your different decks. ### 5/5 — Decepticons and factions. *2022-07-22, version 1.5* Absolutely love this game and I’m a hard core transformers fan, but it just feels like there’s not many Decepticons compared to Autobots. I would love to see more because quite frankly I think there better looking, there’s very few, there’s not a good Decepticon for crowd control like moonracer and there more unique, like Astrotrain and Blitzwing for example a triple changer or Thundercracker. Also I would like to see a faction system pick Decepticon or Autobot and work to reach a goal or maybe just clans either work but please separate them if you can. Regardless what you do it’s still a really good game and you guy’s do such a good job of balancing. ### 5/5 — Great game with a lot of potential *2022-07-10, version 1.4.1* The gameplay is amazing and it’s nice to see a good transformers game after so long but there are a few things i would like added. More characters need alt modes because that’s kind of the whole point of transformers and i would love to see this game get more attention and have more troops and characters from the transformers series added like the combiners and stuff like that. ### 5/5 — It’s like clash but way more fun *2022-07-04, version 1.4.1* When I started playing this game I quit clash royal. I love that it is free on Apple Arcade and doesn’t encourage micro transactions. Plus the graphics sound and game play are better. I do get frustrated that I can’t use the new cards when they come out because it takes so long to level them up. I wonder if there is a way you could have separate challenges where you have to use the new cards in the deck and when you win you get a bunch of that card, and playing those challenges don’t effect your rank. Or do something where new cards are leveled up to your tower level for the season. Wait that gives me another idea. What if you could choose to play the game I ranked. It could still pit you against people at your level but you wouldn’t go up or down if you won or lost. A way to play around with decks without risking going down a level. ### 5/5 — Impactor *2022-06-09, version 1.4.1* I see the autobot impactor, BUT I don’t see it in game. Can you please add him??? I have a good idea for him. He is a legendary autobot card. In bot form, he uses his cannon and targets only building. He also has a lot on hp. In vehicle form, he moves slowly towards the turrets, only targeting them and legendary troops. Both forms have a minigun that attacks the first enemy that comes in range. In bot form, his cannon can’t attack air troops, but he can in vehicle form. And the minigun attacks ground and air troops, no matter what form. Please add him with theses ideas. Thank you!!! P.S. more air troops would be nice, such as dreadwing. Then you can make an air deck, and even have more variety if your looking for an air troop. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Very fun. But too intensed for me. Why not add coop PvE. *2022-04-01, version 1.2* It’s well balanced, requires a lot of thinking. It can be really strategic despite the fact level is playing too big a role to be fair play. The game has its good and bad as most popular PvP games, very addictive, but too intensed. It’s the kind causes insomnia. Hopefully it can add in some fun and relaxing game modes, like PvE perhaps? Or coop pvp and coop pve. One more idea is make the UI bigger. I’m playing on iPad Pro but still find robots too small to really enjoy detailed models. I really have no idea how others play the game. Probably like from another review I quote : I don’t know if I’m using a transformer or my little pony. ### 5/5 — Great game..but… *2022-02-28, version 1.1.2* It may be a big task l. But this game needs better structure. It’s too easy to get characters which I don’t mind but there should be more gaming levels. There should also be clans or alliances. There needs to be more specialized characters. There needs to be more arenas. I means guys come on, we are paying to play this game so you can at least give us more characters and arenas and game modes to play. There needs to be a separation of auto bots and decepticons. When I say that I mean that there should be classes and synergies. For instance star scream should be the legendary character for his type of decepticon. So you should have Ramjet and Thundercracker along with him because they would serve as a jet class. Does that make sense? There’s so much you guys can do with this game and it would be in competion with Clash Royale and other tower games like it. Please improve the gameplay and your revenue would probably double in a fiscal year. --- *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 2026-06-10.*