Galaga Wars Reviews

Except perhaps for rescued ships leaving on a timer, this Galaga port has everything I could have hoped for in a modernized version of the arcade classic. Finger control on the iPad is excellent (with the possible exception of variations in bonus coin pickup by the different ships between levels). It is challenging, but possible to play totally for free, and as you save up, acquire and max out each of the unique ships, you can enjoy a nice variety of playing styles. Just be patient. I have done so for every ship, have over 300,000 available coins, 2800 warp capsules, and over 2600 replay tokens, and have never spent a dime on the game, not because the pricing was unreasonable, but because I didn't have to! To help provide some financial reward to the developers for their work on this great game, I have watched videos for daily bonuses, but can play entire matches without doing so if the need arises. I daily add 11 replay tokens to my total by playing all 11 levels, a task that normally takes around 15 minutes. My personal favorite ship is Starblade, but I enjoy the variety of options on each of the ships. I look forward to the next ship release, so I can add even more fun to my play experiences. I highly recommend this title!

what’s not to love. This is one of the few mobile games that I’ll play daily, it’s fun and challenging the further you get. A variety of ships from different games and each with different abilities that you can use in game coins to enhance, adding to the replay-abilty with different play styles.
This is also one of the only mobile games that I’ve spent money on in the last 5 or so years. $2.99 to remove static ads and double the coins value you receive, totally worth it.
I also enjoy being able to hunt down the credits throughout the stages, you can either spend real money on different ships or be patient and save up your credits to get them that way.
And while the gameplay is definitely great, I need to gush a bit about how great the models are for the ships and enemies. The team behind this game took great care to craft everything on screen and while still cartoony, this is one of the best looking mobile games I’ve ever played. Highly recommend, especially if you loved old school Galaga :)

I love Galaga! I’ve been playing since the 80s! The PSP version was a ton of fun and then the mobile platform took the works by storm! I like this game but the gameplay isn’t seamless. I shouldn’t go out of the game after I die once just to say continue for the 2nd life... who thought this up! Then I PAY for the Katamari character and he comes with an extra life but guess what I HAVE TO WATCH A VIDEO OR PAY 100 COINS TO USE THE EXTRA LIFE! I’m what Galaga world does that make any sense!! I get it, you’re looking for every single angle to collect currency for this game but you’re going about it the wrong way! Clean the game up! The three lives shouldn’t cost commercial breaks and should be seamlessly in the gameplay. Going from one sector to the next shouldn’t cost me something if I have already beat the boss!! Come on! You’re better than what you’re putting out!! Katamari was the reason I even opted to download this game! You should point out that you have to BUY him since you’re using him to promote the game! You can’t win him or earn anything to get him, you have to right out pay for him, which I did!

I love this game, it’s just like playing the arcade version just with better graphics. I don’t like that it requires so many points to purchase another ship. Especially when you only get one point per destruction of the little spinning thingy. I feel like you should get more points for every spinning thing you destroy because they come every few hours and it’s a bit discouraging when you only have 31 but need over a hundred to unlock more ships. And why do I have to watch a video or pay 100 coins in order to use my second life... How does that even make sense? You start with two lives but have to pay for the second one... The extra ship concept is whack too, in the arcade version you keep both ships until it gets destroyed or recaptured... It’s still an awesome game I just wish these things were corrected ASAP, please and thank you.
I’m not sure if it’s intended but after watching a video for the final life it does not pause when your finger is not on the phone, but it pauses when you are playing while using your first life.

I am so happy about I cloud sync! I can't wait to try it. Not having it was a real problem.

This also will make it easy to fix the space issue. Over time, its cache just grows. Now you can just reinstall GalagaWars to fix that. Easy. It's still a problem, but with a makeshift solution.

I guess the only bad thing I can say is that the Xevious and Galaxian ships feel under powered. For instance, the Xevious omni-shots are too slow to effectively kill probes for 👑 coins; the Galaxian's bomb has weak offenses, forcing you to dodge rather than aim. I always start with the Xevious ship so that I can kill it while paired with a better ship.

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Pre-dev Reply post:

Second, I just saw that they made a compromise on the high score rewards. I'm actually ok with it as it now is in the hundreds. That may be a fraction of what it was, but this more lives, an opportunity for higher scores is created.

Old Review:

It's a fun game, but killing the high score hurt. I finally fully upgraded the new ship. Not bad. Not perfect, but decent and free. You have to really like the genre to like the game. It takes a minimum of around 45,000 coins to deck it out, but less than 90,000 to insta upgrade everything.

What makes that problem worse is this: it takes up almost a gig of space over time.

I grew up a Galaga junkie so was excited to download GalagaWars. While the graphics are gorgeous that’s about it for this game. It’s not easy to keep the momentum going. If you dare take your finger off the screen, the “mission accomplished” screen pops up in the middle of play. It won’t let me move my ship with my finger slightly under it so I can see it so I get blown up in seconds. Like others have said, the ads are ridiculous and it takes a long time between lives. If you have a child trying to play this, their patience (and mine) will give out REAL fast. Plus, the ads are 30 seconds long between each death so really, unless you never die, you are just downloading an app for the ads. I get you need ads for the revenue and to keep this free but if we can’t enjoy or even play the game, then why bother with any of this? Sorry but I’m offloading it for now. If the reviews seem to change for the better, maybe I’ll try again. In the meantime, more phone space for me!

I really enjoy playing this game, when I am able to. However, this game tries way, way, WAY too hard to direct you to commercials as well as the screen where you have to pay money to buy new ships. There is a certain point in the game where you cannot go anywhere but the screen where you have to buy new ships. You can cancel out of it by clicking home, But after all of the efforts that this game spends trying to make you watch their commercials and so on before you can continue anything, it gets a little aggravating. It really makes me determined to sidestep any effort on the games part to make me watch their commercials or by their ships. I will play this for a while and probably get annoyed with it and quit. It’s a shame, because it is a really well put together game and I enjoy the nostalgia flashback to the 80s arcade games.

The game itself is fun enough. The graphics are nicely updated, and the variety of IAP ships seem fun.

Outside of playing a round, though, I spend all my time watching ads. Want to go into Settings? Press the gear and watch an ad. Want to go back to the Home screen? Press the 🏠 icon and watch an ad. Want to play a new game after visiting the home screen? Yep, we’ve got an ad for you there, too.

There are many worthwhile free-to-play games out there that rely on ads while a customer decides if they like it enough to keep it. But, most allow for paying a modest one-time fee to remove ads. This game does not appear to offer that. As a result, I tend to play one round, then close GalagaWars and go do something else. Which is too bad, really, because it’s a fun bullet hell throwback game.

Like everything about the game and I don’t mind paying for good work, my only grip is takes to long between lives to start the next ship to start going I thought after I purchased a ship it would get rid of that but instead of going into the next life to continue you have to hit 3 different confirmations and after that it does a count down as if your going to fight right where it let off but no it starts a complete level over again, why do I need a count down if it’s just going to clear the screen anyway to start the level over again, count downs our normally used when your going to continue fighting from the very point that you died or paused at, other then that the game is alright.

I use to play this game for endless hours when I was a kid beating level after level. I had blisters on my thumbs playing on my PlayStation.

My problem with this game is the same as others. The long frustrating ads, the credits you have to collect to get new ship, etc. I’d like to add that there isn’t enough levels. 11 levels is just not enough. When you get to the last level, you would think it’ll be some type of rewards or different types of challenges to earn more credits and/or coins. One last thing.... I absolutely hate what you guys did with the captured ships. It should be exactly how it was in the classic. I still love the game. It brought back so many memories.

You want to learn the levels before buying in so this is a real time loot shooter. I’m in less than ten at lower levels and feeling ok about the return. It’s streamable and the graphics hold.

Multiplayer, live with audio and video and then competitive playing in the future could get it added back to the real pantheon of original video graphics. It could make money for players and company too.

At a certain level, having a new ship is a good idea. If you are frustrated or have to do bling you can buy coins, and it is possible to progress with skills. It seems this is offset by the ads. I didn’t like them at first and then I realized the graphics are as good as a paid video game still. They are working out the kinks.

All in navigation and firing with one button is dreamy.

You can beat the bosses at the levels I’m getting to with the as is ship.

I’m streaming it on twitch. I’m sure others will too soon. Multiplayer and competitions could get this into paid competitive events again. I’d pay to play or go see. This game is epic. Thank you.

You guys have done a fantastic job. On my New3DSXL, I play a lot of Galaga (the original NES version) and I’ve always loved it. Earlier I got this game out of curiosity, since I’ve never played a Galaga game other than the NES version on my 3DS.

I love what you guys have done. The gameplay feels refined and modern, yet I enjoy seeing the references to the original Galaga. The captured ships joining you, the design of the enemies, and most of all, the reimagining of the player’s ship. Everything is amazing.

However, I am not one for phone gaming. That is why I always have my New3DSXL with me. I love being able to pick up and play Galaga wherever, but I’d much prefer it on the 3DS. Could you guys port this to the 3DS or New3DS? I think the control scheme would be awesome (I much prefer physical controls) and I think this game would grow substantially in terms of its popularity. As it is, it’s a free-to-play game. It’s so good though, that I could see myself paying full price for it if it was on the 3DS.

Dev team: I’m begging you to ask Corporate or whoever you have to ask in order to get this game ported to the 3DS.

A great update of an 80’s arcade classic. It’s a very enjoyable game that had kept me entertained for hours and hours. Love the different levels and especially the never ending last level. I’ve been playing it for about a year. At this point I only play it about once a day. You don’t technically have to make any purchases to enjoy this game, but I would suggest the coin doubler. I do hope they eventually add more ships as I have nothing to spend my coins on anymore. Just recently got a new high score of 20,692,358 which is why I only play it once a day. It can be quite time consuming once you get the hang of it.

I have this to say about Galaga Wars...

Fun gameplay. Improves a lot from the old games. Even adds new elements like the Jumbo Shot and Missile Barrage power pickups. This is most fefinitely a treat for Galaga and Galaxian fans. Originally I said my one complaint was the ads. Well for everyone, let me enlighten you all...

Buy the Galaga 88’ Fighter. It’s $3.99, and it REMOVES all STATIC ADS. All those random ads you see pop up when you’re in the main menu? Gone! You’ll still have the option to watch ads for free warping and for the occasional extra 100 coins & 3 warp capsules. But all the random ads will be gone, and all you have to do is buy that one ship. Let me repeat... Buy the GALAGA 88’ Fighter. It’s the only ship you need to actually buy with money, the rest you can get via the in-game credits. And to me, that $3.99 is worth not having all those random ads popping up to distract you.

So as of now, this game gets five stars from the Dark Lord. I love this game as a LONG time fan of the original Galaga. It’s so good to see a new type of Galaga game.

I want to like this game so bad, it’s a good game, really bring back childhood memories. The game play and control are good. I think they could do some improvements on the color scheme because it can be hard to see things with the busy background. But that doesn’t bother me too much. What really bothers me is the amount of ads I have to watch as I play the game, I feel like I’m spending a whole minute of ad watching for every 30 seconds of game play. The ads are EVERYWHERE, there’s an ad to start the game and there’s even an ad to use the second life. Those ads are super distracting and really take away the game enjoyment. I get that they need to make money but either charge for the game and make it ad free or be more strategic about placing the ads so it doesn’t distract player.

Love the game. Same as original with way more accurate ship control. 🤗

😫I paid for in app purchases a while ago,there’s a record of it. I haven’t used GalagaWars in a while . I was signed in threw Facebook as well as Game Center. I actually spent a lot of money, I had all the ships. Also, I bought the 2x coin multiplier. I tried to restore purchases several times over the past couple weeks. Every time, I get a message that says, “in app purchases cannot be restored at this time, try again later”. Reluctantly, and with the hope that Namco will continue to do right by their customers . I just purchased it again!! I would appreciate my money back for that purchase since I already bought it once. I would also be very pleased if I could get my previous in app purchases restored thank you. 😫

Very nice game. Much better than the classic Galaga. The power ups system is fun. The selection of ships is cool, though it seems like it’ll take a literal eternity to buy a ship. I like the boss fight, but I wish they didn’t keep reusing the same boss every level.
There aren’t any real problems with the game. Though I have a couple nitpicks. I wish ads didn’t display after every game. Also I wish the levels were randomized. For instance, level one is the same exact thing every time. It’d be nice if the levels still kept their same difficulty but sometimes the ships will be different etc.
Overall one of the best mobile games out there. I feel like I won’t be deleting this for a long time.

It's one thing to choose to watch an ad to get something in return, like extra lives, but the number of ads I'm now forced to watch has definitely increased lately. Seems like I have to waste 10-30 seconds in between doing anything now. I understand that ads pay for the generally free game, but maybe provide an option to purchase an ad-free experience? Just saying; it's way too many. Example- my ship got hit almost immediately because I wasn't paying proper attention, so instead of watching an ad to continue from there I just hit end to start over. And I was forced to watch not 1 but 2 ads before it took me back to home. Seriously?! It took more ads to NOT continue? Some BS. And I can't even progress in the game much because you don't get many lives, so death is frequent.

I’ll give this game credit, it’s Galaga, what’s not to love? But the way they made this game is just too much of a cash grab. Oh, now you get to move around the entire map and are always shooting the entire time and never have a fire rate increase when you kill an enemy. The game is cut up into sectors, and instead of having 3 free lives, you have 2 and have an extra one when you have to BUY ANOTHER SHIP, not to mention you have to WATCH AN AD OR PAY IN-GAME COINS just to use your other lives is dumb. If you’re gonna make a second or remaster of Galaga, do it right and actually look at the game you made before just adding new mechanics and adding micro transactions and ads because “it’s a mobile game” I would rate it 1 star but it’s Galaga and I can’t rate it that low.

No updates in 8 months. Sounds like the developer abandoned the project. Great graphics and game play. Nothing wrong with the game itself. As for the ads, here is the solution. When ad pops up, put the phone down or put on mute and get a drink of water. Do anything else, but be subjected to a forced ad. Eventually, I played enough that I added all the free ships so now I get 6 lives without seeing an ad. I would rather take the time to clean out my ears or blow my nose, than to allow myself to be subjected to ads. After 30 seconds, the game is back. Just my $.02.