Hustle Castle Medieval Kingdom Reviews

I have had HustleCastleMedievalKingdom for a while now and the times I’ve had problems, the developers acted very uninterested in fixing them. I spent $10 on in-app purchases because I enjoyed it so much at first and apparently once they find out you will spend money, they make it almost impossible to move on in the game without doing so. I have set up another game on a different device to see if this is actually the case and that game has moved forward faster and further than the one I spent money on. My castle is constantly up for attack so I can’t save any resources to upgrade it without purchasing diamonds. On the other device, it’s only vulnerable once in a great while.

Also, the algorithm used for the tournaments is severely flawed. I have not been able to even place in a tournament in a long time. They fail to address the problem and continue to state that it is working just fine. Once again, on the other device, I have placed first in quite a few tournaments. I wish they would make an honest game where you weren’t forced to make a purchase after finding out you WILL spend money. Shame, I would’ve considered this one of the beat games on the market if they didn’t act like crooks.

First off I’ve been playing this game for a yr now and I have been stuck in the same position forever! This is why. There is absolutely no reason a person with 3 million squad power should be attacking somebody with only 750 thousand squad power and taking 3 days worth of loot! Clearly I could never win revenge against this person! Every time I get so close to being able to upgrade something people in the millions come and attack me and take everything! And TONS of points but when I attack somebody in the 500 thousands sometimes I don’t even get any points? This game should have leagues were certain groups can only attack people in their squad power range! There’s no reason for any of this besides complete unfairness! And don’t even get me started on the tournaments.. Completely out of wack. Sometimes I get lucky enough to even able to go up against 1-2 people without others being WAY higher than me. I’m so sick of this game being money drivin. It seems the only way I’m going to progress is if I spend my real money and that’s just not going to happen. When I first started playing I bought premium and few diamonds and that’s IT! The game is just no longer fun to me anymore and stresses me out more than anything!

Initially when I downloaded this game, it was on a whim. It looked fun, and don’t get me wrong... it was.. at first. With games like this there seems to be a pattern; the game is fair up until about mid-way in. After that, you can really start to see how greedy it’s creators actually are, and how little they care about their players. The unfortunate thing is though... that these devs, along with all others who share in this sense of greed, don’t seem to understand that behavior like this will only serve to spread poor reputation - which in the long run means that despite starting off strong, their creation will eventually end bitterly once people realize how low grade their games progression system really is.

If only they understood that valuing their customers and putting effort into creating a game EVERYONE could enjoy would result in a widely loved, popular game with an indefinite lifespan that would ultimately bring in MORE income and funding then a game run by greed ever could.

The best games in the world are where they are because they listen to what their players think, and care about their enjoyment. Maybe take a lesson from them and stop trying to fill your pockets with cash as fast as possible? You’re just screwing yourselves over in the end.

I’m giving this game or bad review because the service that they provide with their support team is absolutely the worst experience of my life I’ve been ripped off $100 from this game and they don’t even have the time of day to go and look through their tickets in fact they told me to just go ask my credit card company to reimburse it. They didn’t even want to handle it themselves.I put in multiple tickets and they closed every single one of them asking me not to put in multiple tickets because it’s just going to extend the time so they have to take to look over my issues, basically threatened me to stop sending tickets because they won’t respond to them. So I decided that if they’re going to make me go out of my way to get my money back that I’m going to also go out of my way to let people know what they’re getting themselves into. Don’t make in app purchases unless you feel like taking the risk of not getting your money at all nor your product. Oh yeah not to mention the support system takes their sweet time getting to you I have spent over 24 hours to 48 hours waiting for a response on one of my tickets and keep in mind not even 1 million people play this game. I’m starting to see why.

I download the game and was enjoying trying to build up a team but no matter what you do or how powerful u get ur team ull get beat by someone half the strength. And they have one armor “skeleton armor” thats impossible to get and totally one sided that u kill ur opponent and it resurrects two skeletons and u kill them and the opponent again and itll resurrect 2 more skeletons and repeat even though ur army is twice the strength. They do this to get you to spend more and more money and one week upl be doing good beating everyone and then the next week u cant beat anyone to get you to spend more. Sadly ive spent hundreds on this game and its just set up so you keep spending in hope that eventually youll be able to start winning but take it from me that wont happen cause they just want your money and with the skeleton armor no matter how weak the opponent is you loose. Ive contacted the support team about it and they dont do anything and if u email them again they just close ur ticket and ignore you. Its to bad cause if it wasnt about just getting ur money and setting it up to loose no matter how strong you are it would prob be a good game but if you dont wanna throw ur money away just to be frustrated and not get anywhere no matter how much you spend i wouldnt even bother with this game.

First of all, it’s not as exciting as they make it out to be in the advertising, a bit boring compared to the advertising. Some of the side events aren’t even playable unless you spend money on it due to being under powered. The arena for example, with all your stats maxed out and the best weapons and armor you can find, a couple weeks into the game you’ll find yourself being the weakest person on the list unable to get through one round. Just happens you have to beat a certain number of players for the achievement, good luck beating one if your lucky because they’ll match you to players who spend money ( which is probably deliberate to inspire you to spend ). I’ve been playing for over a year and at this point it’s just unrewarding repetition. Clear the lands, watch a ton of advertisements, some of them lock up the game and cause you to restart. Game support is unresponsive regarding the issue. My advice on many of these games in HustleCastleMedievalKingdom Store, buy a console if you don’t have one already, play console games. Once in a while you may feel compelled to buy an add on but the console games are far less money and you won’t spend a year watching timers count down. A huge problem, pretty much every time you reach another realm it can take months to develop your fighters to a strength in which they can even start completing the fighting stages, then you whip through the realm and repeat the whole process. These negative factors make the game pretty boring.

So I was asked for my input to make the game better. Ok. Let’s start with the problems. Any other game you play if you focus you can upgrade at a decent pace. Unlike here you get a building to level 4-5 and you’re taking anywhere from a day to two days to upgrade. For low level buildings? Seriously? So now you want for a player with a competitive nature to spend $10 for 1100 gems that will not satisfy an upgrade to a level 3-4 building. Option buy a $20 and get 2500 gems. Oh wait you want to have extra builders to upgrade faster well you have to buy that too. While you’re at it here are a dog and cat you can buy that do absolutely nothing. So now if you want to rush you “forcefully” have to spend money. Not to mention if you go into a tournament you’re not placed in your certain power level you’re fighting people with higher your level, higher your stats and higher hero’s. Just as fun as a hole in the head. You guys have algorithms that can pick up if a character is 4 stars and offer packs to upgrade them but you really have to ask a player “talk to us so we can improve the game” what a joke. This game has been out how long? (Deinstalled) I can buy a game from Xbox or PlayStation and get more excitement.

I’d been playing for a week or so before deciding to nix this game from my library. Achievements, quests, and story line aside, this game has an awful amount of pay to win, arena is a most notable example considering its one of the few you’re able to experience early on, and probably for the reason of getting you to pay for those glamorous items these other players have, the devs have the hots for showing off what you can get for a quick buck in their pocket. For example, I began and ended during the Phoenix event, and finding that people who had a lower combat level than I have a seamless trait to destroy my entire team. It may have been poor strategizing but I couldn’t find but one instance of my having a lower power level being advantageous, or at least better suited to beat my opponent, and of course I’d outfit myself with items that had the best stats I could RNG from these loot crates/chests.

Now for the advertisement, it’s poor and most of the time irrelevant. What inspired me to play this game was this bridge building game mode that I could find no resemblance of in the game, I found it intriguing yet unfounded and no trace of that game mode being present in HustleCastleMedievalKingdom itself.

My advice, don’t invest in this game, there’ll always be someone whose spent more than you; don’t put time into this that could have been spent elsewhere, and elsewhere would be much more beneficial if not profitable than this.

This game used to be really good in my opinion, I started in 2020 or 2019, and my playtime peaked in 2021. It all went downhill from there. I took a break, realized it got deleted, didn't bother to re download it in late 2021 - early 2022. I can confirm that in my 2+ year playtime, I have only seen the content on the ads in the game ONCE. I remembered the memories I made with this game a few years ago, and instantly got excited to download it again. When it finally downloaded, I got into the game. I was shocked to see that all of my data was WIPED. (And yes, I did sign in.) This game was already very pay to win then with enough problems, but I realized it turned into a clickbait game? This game got way worse than it needed to be. Back then, I got to a pretty respectable point in the game, especially with the fact that I was completely free to play with not a single penny spent on this game. I'm surprised I even progressed back then, because the odds were stacked against me in every way. I had barely a few gems when you could buy a bunch for like a dollar. I even remember writing a review in early 2021 to make it less pay to win. I used to really like this game, I really did. I always came back to it. But when I take a break for only a few weeks, my data gets wiped? Disappointing for a game that I gave tens of hours, maybe even a hundred.

I’m generally ok with pay to play if the game is honest and fair, but after playing for a couple months now it’s become clear to me that their AI is designed to restrict your castle and team’s abilities once you’ve gone about 7-10 days without paying for something. Overnight it will go from where you’re doing decent, even quite well, then the next day you get destroyed by everyone you come across, even PVE, PVP, and tournaments - all of it just gets to where you obviously cannot achieve anything unless you cough up even more money.

Even purposefully allowing your team to get destroyed over and over to lower your ranking dramatically [which should cause the AI to adjust and put you up against more evenly-matched foes] has no effect at all. I mean zero.

I’d say I’ve spent about $60 on this game and frankly that’s way more than enough for a “free to play” game so since I’ve learned it’s going to put the screws to me about 7-10 days after my last cash purchase in the game, I can not recommend this game to anyone no matter how much fun it is - which is sad because it’s a really fun game. Just keep your wallet open and your cash endlessly flowing if you want to continue to get anywhere - the AI will make sure you do. And that’s not acceptable.

This one is fun and entertaining, but could be better. Not even out of the "tutorial" stages yet, and I already can see how it is very strongly a pay-to-win type game. What's worse, it is one that requires a subscription for its premium benefits(so not a one-time purchase for premium benefits, but rather a monthly payment). Greedy developers. The subscription does NOT, however, give you all the good stuff. A subscription does not even give you any extra in-game currency(meaning diamonds).
Furthermore, the matching system for this game is WAY out of wack. Not only does it almost always put me up against players WAY stronger than me, but even when other players seem to be weaker than, I still will often lose. The battles are extremely unpredictable.
That was before. Now, they have created a whole new battle "Arena," where you go up against other players, to fight them for prizes. Only once again, I am put up against players with "squad power" all more than mine, and most of the players have more than twice my own "squad power." The battles are also, once again, extremely unpredictable. I find it impossible to beat ANYONE I'm put up against in the Arena. Several MAJOR adjustments are needed in this game.

Good game at first, then you find yourself stuck big time unless you pay a lot. At first your against other new players and you can actually compete in the arena which is critical for rewards. But eventually you hit a massive roadblock where all the players have all legendary gear and you just get slaughtered over and over unless you spend big and I mean big on getting legendary gear. Also as you level up your throne room and castle level they keep raising the bar ie raid costs, event costs, upgrade times, and other aspects become unobtainable. I’ll be deleting the game after this as my entire clan is stuck loosing arena battles to people with all legendary gear and unable to improve due to horrific time and resource requirements. It really is not worth playing unless your ready to drop an easy hundred bucks maybe more. They bait you initially with special offers, but the gear you may buy becomes obsolete quickly along with other upgrades. You actually have to throw matches just to stay at a manageable level it’s pathetic. I give two stars for good initial gameplay but after a month or so it’s hands down the most money grubbing game I’ve played. I hope people read this and don’t play because I think they feed off new players enjoying the game until the end date where you realize you been ripped off hard. Boooooo.

When I first started playing this game I would give it 5 stars. Which by the way is when they ask you to rate the game. Which is probably why this has so many good reviews. As I played more, my rating slowing dwindled because I realized how much time and money and I’m talking hundreds upon hundreds of dollars, it takes to get anywhere in this game. When gearing your warriors, the game is broken when trying to get legendary items. The only efficient way of getting them is by participating in this broken system they have called Arena. For everything other than than arena. This game utilizes a “squad” power which basically tells you how strong your team is. Everything from what I can see is based around it EXCEPT for the arena. its based on the average level of of your squad 0-100. So what happens is I get paired with teams who have 3 to 4 times my squad power who are the same lvl as I am, they hit me three times and I’m dead. Not fun at all and it’s a complete waste of time. If they based it around squad power instead, I would at least have a chance. The devs know this has been an issue since the inception of it but they refuse to do anything about it. They say they are working ok fixing it but don’t. If that’s the case give us alternative methods of obtaining legendary items efficiently and not force me to spend ridiculous amounts of money to obtain them. 2 stars for this game.

Firstly, the game is enjoyable and has a lot of potential to be great. There are however a few issues that I have been running into. These issues are annoying enough to make me want to delete the game.
In the PVP arena, I believe that I have only had a hand full of matches that were fairly ranked since I’ve started playing. Currently I’m around 200k power rating and I’m being placed against opponents that are over 2.5 times mine. Which would not be so terrible if it didn’t take over 5 mins to complete one arena. The amount of time it take and the matchmaking is ridiculous.
Now this winter event that is taking place currently. I’ve put thousands of gems and dozens of free spins with nothing really to show for it. Even had the same exact reward (like a poison spell) over and over again. I don’t just mean getting it the majority of the time. I’m talking about spinning three times and each spin was the same reward. In my opinion it’s horrible odds and infuriating, especially using gems.
As a side note, the Angry Birds advertisement needs to be fixed. After watching it kicks me out of the game and locks me from watching another video to get the reward.

Great game, I just wish I didn’t get rekt by all the pay to win plebs. As a game designer myself, I know there are ways to make money on a free to play game, pay to win has to be the sleaziest way of doing it. It reeks of laziness and poor business ethics, I will continue playing this game because I genuinely enjoy it and if you’re looking for a game that’s highly addictive and don’t mind grinding for days give this one a try. All things considered, it’s a great game concept, it’s easy to play, has a goofy storyline, it’s pay to win AF, and it’s highly addictive . . . if you’re into Fallout Shelter clones. Please studio nords or my com if you’re reading this consider reworking the pay to win system it’s just not fair or competitive. Yes it’s fun but I have 46 tournament tickets because I can’t win any of my tournaments against all the people that bought their legendary gear so why should I even bother with doing tournaments. Why can’t you just be happy with your $5 a month from premium players? At least let me buy those legendary item pieces with diamonds. So far the only thing in this game that seems fair is the portals and even then only the people that have been playing the longest and buying the best gear can truly benefit from that.

First and foremost I do enjoy the game I seriously do however the event were you get to spin and use the 100 snowflakes to spin and see what kind of prize you get is completely not worth it, it’s simply ment for you to think you have a chance to win something big and trust I have checked with my alliance members and none of them have posted any big wins that’s insane !! You have a great app why do push people away by making these stupid excuses for a great game?? Why!!!! We are loyal customer and you by far treating this like this nothing also the time it takes to get support from you is almost impossible seriously a reply to my iCloud would be nice. By the this reminds me of the 2accounts I have lost so far! YES YES YES 2 !!! 2 flipping accounts on this one device. What is the point of linking it with Game Center if it won’t remember you if HustleCastleMedievalKingdom was deleted by accident or cleared ? My account is still the same with Game Center so was my data not saved or was this just left behind I do make purchases with my games and I do want to buy some stuff here but how can feel secure that if I lose my app or phone again I will also get the investment I put into the game back well because I won’t that’s why. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.

Been playing for over two years now. The game is fun when you first start, but you will quickly get to the point where you have to spend money in order to be competitive. Even if you do spend money on diamonds or special offers, the arena matches will almost never be fair. Most of the time I am matched with one or two people below my rank, maybe one at the same rank as me and the rest of the players will have squad points well over a million higher than my own. This seems to be the case no matter how high my own squad points get.
Most of the time the special offers and diamonds you can spend money on are no where near worth the price. They are asking $30, $50… sometimes even close to $100 for in game gear or diamonds. It’s ridiculous.
If they made it so you could get a competitive boost here and there for under $5 I would actually probably pay the money from time to time to make the game fun again.
As it is, I will maybe log in, poke around for a few minutes and see if the portal is open (that’s really the only fun part at this point) and then log off for a few weeks.

The game can be addictive and is enjoyable for a while, but like everyone else has mentioned, you eventually reach a wall where you absolutely have to spend money to compete or progress in the story. Arena tournaments are the most notorious for this. I’m almost always the weakest army in the tournament, sometimes getting matched up with other players who are three or four times my strength. Usually I have no chance which is no fun, and fun is the point of playing. I grind on this game so much. Been playing daily for over a year now and haven’t won a tournament or came even close to it after maybe the first week or so of playing. You need five star players to compete, and you can watch ads to get diamonds to upgrade your characters but the ads only give you 5 diamonds per ad with a limit of how many you can watch at a time. You can get more in the portal when it’s open but it’s unlikely you’ll get more than 100 before the portal shuts. You need 2,000 diamonds to get your character to 5 stars. That’s on top of the diamonds you’ve likely spent to get them from three stars to a four. Please update to where the tournaments are more even. Matching me with several players in a tournament that are over A MILLION squad points higher than my own is dumb and unfair. If as many people play this game as you all claim, the grouping certainly can’t come from a lack of online players. I know this company wants to make money, but gee-wiz. Cut us some slack.

Awesome game, I check in to collect and build resources multiple times a day in order to make sure I'm giving myself (f2p) the best chance I have against p2p, the devs have made this game manageable to play for free unlike some other games with in-app purchases. One downer though, RECENT UPDATE LOOT CHESTS ARE HORRIBLE. Chests from fighting off invasions used to give decent rewards such as mid-level cooking, alchemist, woodworking treasury, mining an sometimes fighter gear as well as coins and wood usually. I fought off 10 invasions earlier and 8 out of the 10 basic loot chests gave out only coins. The reason I do the invasions is to get uncommon gear through loot chests to be able to craft rare and eventually epic weapons/armor. If the devs are going to start being greedy with what they allow loot chests to provide I will cease to continue playing this game. P2p don't need even more of an advantage against f2p, they can already be much lower levels than you and come to your castle and defeat you. Other than that I do really enjoy this game and hope this issue can be resolved

this game is ALMOST perfect. I’m really into the build and manage a neighborhood-type games, and usually the idea is good but in practice it’s clunky and relies too heavily on timed energy or in-app purchases. This game has enough going on that if you’re waiting on one task, you have a few more to do in the meantime. and it’s completely playable without spending any money. and it’s legitimately fun, I like the level of customization it provides.

BUT!!!

almost every time I watch an ad in exchange for a game gift (resources, unlocking one of the ad-fueled chests, etc) it’ll play the entire ad and then freeze and force me to restart, losing the reward, or just go back to the main screen like normal yet still not dole out the reward. it’s super annoying and is an unnecessary handicap! and I can’t access the chest unlocked with ads because they refuse to log! please fix this :(