Narcos: Cartel Wars & Strategy Reviews

by Vma7486

So long story short, I had cancelled an item construction within seconds of beginning to build it because it costed 1534 gold; I was like nooo not going to waste the gold, so the cancel option said cancelling this directive would restore. So I cancelled and nothing was restored; I lost 1534 in gold and the building that was never built and I have argued with Veronica who is the representative for this game/app and she is in no way helpful asked me for a screenshot showed her (not sure what I am screenshooting as there is no new building or gold replaced) and then still did not help me; so basically I’m in no way helped; I’m beyond confused and frustrated by this. I want to continue to spend money and enjoy the game but I’m ready to call a quits because I’m so unhappy with having to argue back and forth over imaginary gold that she can easily replace as I used real money to purchase but instead wants to be completely unhelpful. Yuck

by GoneFishing329

The game is decent, but you use “gold” to progress through the game. You can either purchase it, or complete “offers” from advertisers. The first offer I completed I received the promised gold reward for. However the 5 subsequent offers I completed never came through. These offers ask you to submit your personal info, download an app, complete a survey, or buy a product. The game has a way to report advertisers for not rewarding the gold, however all I have gotten back from fyber is some bs email saying it’s probably my fault and I need to submit screenshots showing the “offer” was completed. These ads take you through so many redirects and don’t actually give you a screen that states the offer is completed so screenshots of this manner are not probable. So like I said the game is decent but the company is set up to scam you out of your personal information and their customer support is non existent. Disappointed.

by Joey D 1167

Update...Still playing and love the game! I’m staying below level 40! After that I hear you’re thrown in with levels that are not fair and need to change with nerfing or something..My one star is still for this dbag company not honoring their free gold deals! It’s amazing how they won’t pay out when it cost them nothing! Do not waste your time doing it! And trust me,read all the negative reviews on the same thing I’m saying! Now I kind of want to say screw it and buy a cheap pack but some reviews are saying that their card got charged more than it was suppose to or did not receive what they bought? Now some people just complain to well complain..If I do spend some money,I’ll update you guys to let you know how it went..Again for now,do not waste your time on their free gold deals! They doing double this weekend..might as well be 100x because they won’t pay it out anyway smh!

This has been a JRock review!

by Whkn1ght

This game is unevenly challenged. You can be level 10 and you are fighting level 15+. That makes it almost impossible to progress.

Also, there is a bunch of special items or “speed up” perks you can get from watching videos. I would watch them completely and then I would not get the reward for watching it. I contacted customer support and they kept asking me to explain what happened and screen shot the issue. This is impossible to screenshot a video and explain the issue through screenshots! I kept explaining and they kept asking for an explanation. Not sure what I could have done to explain it better so I just deleted the game. Not worth the download or your time.

The developer responded the same way customer support did as you can see from their response. Not helpful at all. That’s why I deleted the game. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME!!!

by Bttrlife

I play this game sometimes. But they start making it a lot harder and want you to watch the videos of advertising in order for you to make some free gold or some extra reward but guess what it will always freeze right after the video finish and crash Narcos and they will never pay you the bonus or the gold almost every single time and I have this game on iPhone 7 and iPhone X and does the same exact thing. I emailed support and got an email back saying they are working to make the game better, but nothing really change. I used to play this game a lot more (been playing it for about 6 months) and now I am ready to delete it and not play it at all.
Way too much advertising, and they want you to pay for it in somehow.
Don’t put the game free if you are going to force people to pay for it in other ways.

by Loldlfnjchsjs

This game was great to start out. Fun to play. Takes some time though. But what game on our phones doesn’t. I’ve played for around 2 weeks now and man oh man it has me coming back for more, and then I realize the offers I’ve been doing everyday for thousands of gold aren’t going through and giving me my gold that I’ve sat for atleast 30 minutes doing on each. So I submit claims or whatever you want to call it and they are all denied. When the screen doesn’t let you go any further what are you supposed to do? Sit there and wait 10 years for the developers to understand, “hey my game is flawed and is taking time from our loyal fans that enjoy our game but it’s okay because we make money from wasting their time”. No. I’m done with the game and honestly it’s like every other game out there. Pay to win. Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Goodbye

by MikeHawk BIG

This is a great strategy game, not the best but definitely a good one. Then as you advance there is an option, like all games, to be rewarded with “gold”, which is necessary for play, for going through some sort of target marketing. Like subscribing to some sort of service or taking a survey and so on. Except that even after jumping through ALL the hoops (name, email, address, d.o.b., pap smear, etc.)they hardly ever apply the credit. And if you contact support for assistance they ask for screenshots and put the blame of the company conducting the survey. So I began to take screenshots and still no credit applied. I’m spending more time arguing about fake money just to be able to play this game than I am actually playing it. Enough stress in real life from ppl being funny with yo money, don’t need it from this game.

by Ry710420

I’ve been playing the game for a week now and I do enjoy it. They charge way too much “real money” for a very little amount or in game products. We should be getting more for our money. On top of this there’s a section where you can win more “gold” which is needed to move forward in this game. They ask you to sign up for different sweepstakes etc providing your email phone address etc. I did 3 different surveys and Im owed close to 1000 gold bars and I have yet to see anything . I’d stay far away from this game until the developer stops being so greedy and doesn’t even reward you for participating in there fake surveys.

by Ricsa13

When battling and you redirect troops the time they move is ridiculously short, so short they battle the same area you just tried to leave.

Updates, I updated and can’t attack attack because it says the player has a higher version then me. There is nothing more annoying then that, especially when it’s a special reward base that reloads every few hours for you to be able to attack again for the same sicario segments or ability cards. If it’s a base that hasn’t updated then it should be able to be attacked as it is in COC, Boom Beach and many other games.

On that same note, you should not have to wait until a player is offline when it’s a special reward base. Again on other games when it’s a special reward base attacking other players it’s the base layout that is cooped and used without affect to the player whose base was used. Therefore is able to be attacked when an attacking person has time to do so.

I am having fun with the game other then that. I really enjoy attacking and gaining trophies without moving past bases close to my level.

by Texan Made

Have played game for about a month now , finally have have built buildings, defenses but the nearly impossible to level up from Finca 6 to 7. To level up this round now you need new materials , stones. Need 8000 stones to level up , but the stone production is only in level 7. Been playing for a week to attack rivals to get some stone, finally got 2k, enough to get a stone storage to now build up 8k more and then how ever many more to buy stone production.
Don’t waste your time of your not planning to buy into the game $100 eventually . Game is rigged for you to get stuck , catch-22 , on a level, almost forcing a purchase. Will continue the challenge to upgrade but at some point may just delete this this app game. Nothing against a game company making money but they know 99% play for free, they want that number much lower.

by EazieReviews

When I first got this game, I was thinking of being bombarded with ads, since previous games I’ve played that are free. Include tons of ads during gameplay, but not this one thankfully! You can view ads to speed up (upgrades, more rewards, etc). At the start of the game, it was a bit tricky to understand the sicario’s, because I didn’t know how to place them on my camp.
Thankfully, I ended up understanding more down the road. When you join a cartel, I was informed on much more about the game and certain strategies/tricks to learn on attacking & defense. I’m now a level 30 and still approve of this game being one of my favorites.

Pros
•Addicting to you’re not waiting for 5 hours off Narcos to wait for something exciting to happen.
•In-App Purchases are definitely worth it since they give bonuses on top of what you buy. Rather than this is what you get at a flat purchase
•Offers many ways of collecting more loot with ads /& speeding up upgrades, training camps, and etc.

Cons
•When other users attack your base. It seems game allows them to take too much and ends up taking slightly longer time to recoup losses.
•Match-Making has periods where it assigns you to people that you can’t attack because of there defenses compared to your current on hand offenses & the levels they’re at.

Other than that, a decent game to burn time and binge on! Keep it up!

by Really?! Just Really?!

The game itself is very fun and addictive with lots to learn and to level up. Although you can very well see the “Pay to Win” aspects by FTX. You are bombarded with ads and deals. This can be annoying but you can easily look past this and play the game. The cartels can be very active if you find the right one. The glitches in this game I have noticed are very minor I have been playing for around 2 months, I have only noticed my “watch and ad to skip 20 minutes” is broken. This is probably the most annoying glitch because you watch and ad and nothing happens. Free gold need to be fixed often times you don’t even get the gold you earned, if you do get the gold it’s very minimal and not worth your time. As long as you can look past these little issues this game is very fun and addictive, with something new to learn or someone else to beat in cartel wars.

by Crowbar Jones

I love the structure of this game way more than Boom Beach because of the hero’s that assist you and that the graphics are more fluid. The only reason I gave it 4 stars was because I wish you could at least give us 2 builders at the start of the game cause right now building takes forever and getting 500 gold for another builder is pretty difficult. Also, my game doesn’t have ANY SOUND! I really want some sound cause it makes the game even more fun, I’m playing on IPhone 10 XR. So please fix that annoying bug. But I have loved this game so keep doing what your doing!

by Fun1616

I really enjoyed this game, I'll be honest, I have only spent $10 for 1200 worth of gold and still have 800 left. I have been one of the top players in the league tournaments have won 1st place twice, my point is, you don't need to spend thousands of dollars to have fun and win on this game. You need to strategize when you attack another player and when you build your defenses around your base, needless to say it could use some improvements with its glitches. Overall it's a fun game to play, but Please add new stuff to it because I can see how this game can become redundant as you continue playing it.

by Pelena4u

It’s a really fun, remix of boom beach but better in my opinion... but there’s a problem, so sometimes when I get into the game there’s this glitch makes all the buttons gray and pressing does not work, but I just refresh an iPad and go to my game and everything works fine, I’m just letting you know so in the future you will fix it and I understand that there’s to much to do, but overall it’s a really fun game EVER!!!! In my opinion.

by Katrina7881

I love this one game! I like the bounty Hunter, wars, side games and the different sicarios and only been playing for less then two months! Yes I spend a little money but u don't have to to enjoy and have fun! Great people in some cartels!! Although I'd really like to see the trolers get booted can't really build a cartel with people joining and causing drama make your cartel loose destroying everything..but other than that it's really a great game!! I love the new update can't wait to try new challenges! Thank you for the game!

by TPAO-71

The game is to me real fun. I have actually watched the entire this app series. Including the new season out now”go watch it if you haven’t.” This game is AD FREE game and IS NOT a pay to play and is not necessary. Even though you can buy your way through it just like most games. I just in recent time bought some gold etc. Not a lot but small pack. Again it is not necessary. If you play this game and your the impatient TYPE then buy it. The person who made the bad review is full of bologna. Anyway it’s great and enjoyable game.

by Big Boss396

Its very good game and cartel atmospheric gameplay make it better...
But your team have to improve it :
1.fix bugs , like ads : when I want to see ads to skip waiting for 20mins the game will be closed automatically ,,, chats menu doesn't work
2.make the game unique not boom beach2 by adding more things that player can do as a drugs cartel like deal scenes with man to man fire fight ( some thing like warships in boom beach as a real time fight)not man to defensive building fights
And more unique gameplay objects like escape from police in a hot pursuit or fight with police, not other cartels because police is most dangerous enemy for drug cartels ,,, or add some mini games to gameplay to make game special ❤️

by Wiskiiluv

I’ve been playing this app for about a year and am still having fun with it. A lot of reviews are people complain about spending money but you don’t really have to spend anything. You can get gold by completing the offers and just spending time playing. I have maybe spent $40 on this game and will not spend anymore. I actually have another account and only spent $1 (a builder was on sale) and don’t need to buy anything else. The one drawback is that it will eat up all your time if you want to be any good.

by Atm4414

I have been playing for about a month and I still enjoy playing. The game is challenging and rewarding enough to keep you engaged and coming back. There are numerous games and story lines within the game to keep it interesting. As with any game you can pay $$$ to get ahead, but the game allows you to stay competitive without using your checkbook if you have a little patience. This is not a ground breaking game that will change Narcos industry, but it delivers exactly what a game of this type should. If you are looking for a game to keep you engaged over the next few weeks and like these type of strategy games I would definitely recommend it.

by George C. Scott

this app cartel wars is a fun game to play when you have extra time on your hands. Starting out is fun since it gives you a sense of how you want to build your empire. After awhile the game can be a little frustrating and boring in a way. Only reason why I state the is because it takes a whole lot of time and resources to upgrade everything in your compound which can leave you frustrated. But for the most part the game is addicting and fun if you strategize and scout your enemies. If your a casual gamer who occasionally drops for in app purchases then you’ll probably enjoy this. If your a daily gamer who’s always dropping for in-app purchases then this games for you.

The only gripe I have is the constant loading of the game other than that this isn’t a bad game. Check it out.