MARVEL Strike Force: Squad RPG Reviews

by Raji108

After playing this for a very long time it’s almost become annoyingly tedious. The game used to make you want to unlock special big name characters like magneto. Now anytime they release some new barely known character they are so amped up in power that it’s lost any appeal. They are trying to force all long term players into buying crappy new characters rather than understanding why people wanted the game to begin with. The game started with fair moderation and now seems like everything has a new money aspect instead. They even handed out millions of in game currency which I thought was a nice surprise because to level up any character can bankrupt you just to find out it’s an error and they reset the game. Which I’m not going to hold against them if it’s an error so be it however making 8 nobody cares to know characters every month as opposed to a new rare occasion is getting silly. Only because they decide to change the dynamics of all the set ups you already had. I have no issues with keeping things interesting but it should make sense and a character with only a gun or sword shouldn’t be stronger than one of the most powerful mutants. If every new characters beats out every old one it’s a slap in the face of all the people that put time and money into your game for years. So long as they make more cash they sure don’t seem to care though

by Kingryan1995

Game is great when you first start out very intoxicating but once the newbie free stuff runs out it’s bottleneck bottleneck bottleneck the devs don’t test new content and when updates come game is always buggy and freezes when new characters are given boosted chances red stars orbs which is a type of boost even if they are listed as there they are potentially not there and to put into perspective the game only gives you 7 orbs a week and each and with this system you are likey to pull duplicate pulls, on tops of bugs and the stupid red star system you have to fight the devs they purposely move legendary characters around so you don’t have time to farm required toons for said legendary and they manipulate the drops so certain toons don’t show up in in game currency stores and the drop rates on campaign are manipulated as well and last but certainly not least, THE OFFERS I’ve never played a more pay2win game in my entire life no you don’t have to pay to play but if your not bottlenecked on training mats red stars or gold they will sell you it to you for there “90% off” please don’t fall for the game like I did I’ve played it for almost 3 years now and I’ve just barely scratched the surface of crap that players complain about every week get out while you can. Oh yea I forgot to mention he fanbase is currently in talks of going on a spending strike FOR THE SECOND TIME NOW

by Vestigial Tail

This is a game that requires spending quite a bit of money if you want to keep up. I really enjoy this game, but their customer support is callous in their attitude as they rip you off. Their new web portal has opened up, giving you a new venue to spend money with them. They charge on their own website with this method which allows them to charge you directly without having to go through ApplePay or AndroidPay. This maximizes their profit. Their enticement to get you to spend this way is in giving you vast bonuses by using the web portal. I decided to drop $50 on this silly little free game because of the amount of extras offered when spending in this new manner. Their system glitched and told me that I needed to purchase the offer I wanted in-game. I contacted customer “support” several times to tell them that I wanted to purchase my offer vie the web portal for the extra bonuses, not in-game. They repeatedly told me I’d have to purchase it in-game first. I did, then asked if I could be compensated the extras “Web UPCs” that I was promised for dropping $50. They simply kept repeating “purchase it in-game first”. When I informed them that I had and that I just needed the extras, they promptly told me that they gave me all the advice that they were going to give me. They already told me to make the purchase in-game and we’re not prepared to address the matter any further. The long and short if it is this, MSF will not support its players who spend money.

by Geoheegan

This game was amazingly fun and utterly addicting and enticed you to spend money on the offers, probably more than your wallet really allowed fore. But they just implemented a new patch to the gameplay where the camera zooms in on every characters movements at 3x speed. This in turn, causes the camera to jump around the screen at high speed and inducing motion sockness rather quickly, making the game nearly unplayable. This xoom to emphasize the characters abilities and attack CGI was originally only during normal speed gameplay, but now it’s on ALL speeds. Not only does it induce nausea and motion sickness, but now it’s also incredibly hard to track what’s actually happening with the progression of the battle or change to a different priority target. You can’t play at normal speed when playing Arena, Raid, or War modes because you only get 5 minutes to complete the matchup or you’ll timeout, so you’re forced to play at 3x speed, but this new system wrecked it. They took an amazing game and literally ruined it, by trying to improve something that wasn’t broken and was already performing beyond well. I spent quite a bit of money on the offers and would’ve continued, but now I can’t play or enjoy the game anymore. Way to ruin a good thing devs. At least give us the option in settings to tuen that ridiculousness off. I mean, it’d only be the sensible thing to do. You gave us the option to turn off alliance invites... good bye fun time waster.

by BBAmencorner

I’ve played MSF for just over 2 years now and I feel like the gameplay and art is fantastic, but unfortunately that is ruined by the money hungry company that believes that it should only be played by those who have an absurd amount of disposable income. In order to even barely keep pace with the constant stream of new characters, you’ll need to dig deep into your wallet, as any event Scopely releases will not be enough to unlock them as a free to play player. This would be fine if new characters weren’t essential to progression, but as the power creep is very real, you’ll find yourself falling far behind to the whales who throw thousands of dollars at this game. Whales control the game in every aspect outside of raids. Want to get character shards out of Blitz? Well, expect to get about 25-30 max, since the whales will always be in the top 10%. What to be #1 in Arena? Best be busting out that credit card! If your alliance isn’t a group of whales, don’t even think about a rating beyond the lowest levels of Platinum. The events are a joke for FTP players, and the offers are so grossly overpriced that you’d be a fool (or rich) to buy them. In the end, the game is pretty fun if you play it casually, but if you have any interest in seeing end game content, you’ll be spending a ton of money or a lot of years grinding away. By the time you grind out a “meta” team to usefulness, that meta has been long dead for months.

by Another IPhone Gamer

Due to this game always being super buggy, and since the last update that keeps me from using WiFi. I am going to have to give this (1 Star). I’ve been playing this game for almost a year. I’m almost at max level with almost the whole roster of characters unlocked. So yes I’ve enjoyed it. Can this be fun? Absolutely it can be, and super addicting too. But the devs are lazy and greedy. Also the lack of customer support is frustrating and disappointing, as they will often ignore most issues.

This game will mess up any character development with serious lag issues that will cause the game to do things that you may not want to. And resources are very scarce, unless you decide to pay the overpriced pay to win offers. Even if you decide to pay for stuff. Beware as this game seems to bait you into using your resources without you wanting to. When there are sales, drop rates become nonexistent.

So if you don’t mind using up all your data due to game breaking bugs that (won’t let you use WiFi) on a data hungry app. This game may be for you. If you don’t mind losing valuable resources due to buggy issues that don’t get addressed, then play, it’s a lot of fun. If you like making in app purchases that have no value. Then by all means you won’t have any issues. Until this game becomes stable, and has the game breaking bugs fixed. I will give it the 5 stars it deserves. Sad to say it has to get 1 star.

by King Steverino

I just want to begin by saying that this game could be amazing and that I started out so hopeful it was going to be everything I ever was looking for in a Marvel game. The character design is absolutely amazing. The character kits aren’t always the way I would make them, but that’s totally to be expected; different people have different ideas and that’s okay too. But the way the treat their consumer is the worst out of any game I’ve ever played and it’s not even close (and as a gamer, I’ve played a ton of games). If you don’t shell out thousands of dollars a month they literally could not care less about your opinion. They recently had two bugs, both of which accomplished the same thing: they made a challenging piece of content, that granted daily rewards, significantly easier. For one, they said people could keep their progress and, for the other, they said they’re rolling it back (you lose your progress). The only difference? The first one required you to buy several offers for their newest character to exploit, the other one didn’t. Countless examples just like this. It is the worst relationship I’ve ever had with a developer and it’s a shame because I want to like this game so badly. If you’re thinking of playing, please, please don’t. It’s not worth the hours of frustration over some of the most petty decision making I’ve ever witnessed. Save yourself the headache and play literally any other game.

by MackOX

No seriously. This game is a pure cash grab. There is no balance or strategy to move up the leaderboards. Want to know the secret. Spend, spend, spend! New character coming out that will upset and replace the current meta? Better get a head start on farming that character by paying for the two $50 packs that net you a portion of the shards to unlock and a bunch of orbs with a “chance” to hit a big one and get the other half. And that’s just for 2-4 stars. You have to max them out to 7 stars because at some point, that character will be a requirement to unlock the next meta-must-have. And then you have to gear them up. But you probably don’t have the materials and/or gold to max them out. No worries, you can spend some more money to fill in the gaps.

This cycle never ends. Free to play players? Sorry, you’re drop fed stuff over months to years unless you’re really lucky and manage to get some great shards from orb openings. Bottom line, you have to Pay to Win in this game. Arena (PVP) is dominated by the exact same team comps. And you probably don’t have Black Bolt, Phoenix, Mister Sinister and Ultron because that would require you to have bought into a ton of other characters that were all low drop rate events that required money to get the characters to the 7 stars needed to max out the next set of required characters to get to the ones you really wanted.

by Grumpy275

I’ve been playing this game for almost a year and have have spent some money on the game, maybe $100, because I was really enjoying the game. But right now I would take back that money if I could. Right now the game is in a bad spot and the devs don’t really seem to care. There are multiple bottlenecks that stop free to play players from progressing quickly unless they spend money. For one of the game modes, blitz, new players are pitted against people that have been playing this game since it first came out and there is no way to compete. In that game new characters will come out and unless you are a top player or spend thousands of dollars to get ahead it’s almost not even worth playing. Gear and training materials are difficult to get so you hoard those materials and can’t level up your whole roster like you want to. Any time a bug comes out that benefits the player it is fixed within hours but bugs that mess up the game or hinder the player are left unchecked for multiple months or longer. There are countess other issues currently and the entire player base really wants this game to be good but the devs really need to step it up. If you are interested in learning more before playing this game check out the marvel strike force subreddit or watch some of the youtubers that play this game. We just want it to be fun again.

by Wrekeets

I’ve had this game for quite some time and always enjoyed it. You failed to product test the newest ISO-8 update however. After downloading the new patch, I attempted to open your app no less than five times and was met with the exact same result. Upon loading to roughly ninety percent at the start screen, the game attempts to do its typical download of updated content (something which I fail to understand why it could never be included with the downloaded update). I am unable to move around the normal menus while it is downloading and mid download it opens the completely unavoidable iso-8 tutorial which shoehorns players into that menu. After being forced to continue, the downloading of updates freezes indefinitely and then the load screen is stuck in a forever loop while trying to open the iso-8 tutorial which is literally the very content downloading. This persists assuredly indefinitely but for sure more than five to ten minutes. There are always quirks with your app and any other apps after an update and this should’ve been tested for and should be addressed. Beyond that, there are the obligatory issues that never seem to be addressed or fixed at each update. From simplistic changes such as the level cap randomly dictating that some players can not progress beyond a particular level and others can. The level max is pointless if I can’t even reach it because I’ve maxed out at a point that is obviously not the true max level.

by Honest Abe 23

They constantly bring new content, yet they never seem to fix this base issue of difficulty loading and navigating the game. It seems that they are not able to handle so many people playing at once. So you get stuck in a loop loading the game for several minutes, then having to restart your phone. Then it will load. Or reload MARVELStrikeForce then wait for ten minutes to load the game. If they could just get this thing where it would load and not crash every few minutes. I mean I’m addicted and I’m not going anywhere. I’ve wasted forty bucks on the game. Just please get the game to load quickly/instantly and to quit freezing when I try and do stuff in the game. I’d give five stars if they would make the game smoothly playable. I just went to write a review. Realised I had already written this one. Wow!!! I totally agree with what I wrote back then. They still keep adding more content. Yet I can’t reliably load the game. Today they added three more characters, and buffed some old classic characters. You know what we can’t do though. Log on..... I went to review again and still the same stupid stuff. I’ve spent well over a hundred dollars in this free game and it crashed 13 times in the last half hour. I do everything their techs say. And nothing works. I delete the game and reload it every few months to make sure it’s not a fragmented file. I’ve upgraded my phone. Yet they can’t keep the game from crashing. Day 1440 still having loading issues.

by Brebre316271515

So my biggest complaint is the whole Magic stats in battle, my gear 12 Black Spider; 33k stronger than my opponents tier 10 at best was slower than theirs?! Makes no sense. Most team compositions make no sense. The Blitz Sim should be available at 55 at best; Due to the mass amounts of XP needed to level up. How about Finishing some of the incomplete teams. Characters with an event story should have their shards only available through events and they should do 1 event story on the 2nd week of every month. Bring back Character specific Raids. Either lower the gold and level module cost or give out more... because you are sucking the life out of your community. Alliance Donation points should allow you to upgrade war rooms and effects and even hold more members in alliance.
If Iron Man is a legendary; Captain America should be. He should summon 1 missing Avenger as an Ultimate Skill and Taunt as a second Skill and Shield Throw as his other. Passively He should Inspire(Give Energy to Non-Summoned Avenger Allies every turn) and gain more block as his HP decreases. Bring more Synergies(Team Attacks) like the avengers have none.
Now the good, they have dumbed down the offer spam thank god, the story is fairly original and has a lot of comedy(Scientist Supreme is Roast Master lol), constantly releasing new Characters( which is kinda a double edged sword cause older 1s get ignored like the Hand). Real Time arena is kinda nice.

by Blijagow

BUT, there are a lot of problems. The game itself is awesome. The problems the game likes to present are not. The small amount of almost any resource in the game makes it very hard to build up more than a few characters. The bugs are constant. I don’t think this game has had a moment in the almost year I’ve been playing where it has been bug free. If you want to actually play all of the material in a reasonable amount of time. I’ve spent more on this game than I have any other game in my life. I still can’t enjoy all the content because of silly rules for raids like 100% completion before you can unlock the next Ultimus raid difficulty. This really should be a 30% but give extra rewards for 60 and 90%. A lot of alliances are more casual like mine. Make the game more player friendly. Not just for the people that are in the best alliances. Long term everyday players should be who you are catering to. We love the game, why make us question that. I left another similar game because when I started the pricing on some deals were cheap and worthwhile. Meanwhile I spend 20 dollars on the Magneto gold deal and all I can do is take my Ultron from 76 to 80 and have a little left over. That is one of the best deals they offer but the value of what I got out of roughly 3 million gold isn’t worth it. I’ll keep playing, but don’t keep making it more difficult to love the game.

by Jon9041

This is likely to be one of the most fun I’ve had in a mobile game ever. However, I have been forced to start spending money due to the grind and the rapid release. The characters keep becoming more OG. And you can’t skip any because some are needed to unlock others down the road. Which leads to new toons being released in a super fast calendar and the players being very resource poor. You’re either out of gold, training mats, or catalysts. It’s the worst when you are out of catalysts for gear, because they have the worst drop rate of anything in the game, so farming them is a waste, and you need like a billion.

What this game needs is inter-alliance gear donation. Each member could request a needed resource every 24 or 48 hour period. And members of the alliance could donate excess. And there would be limits, you could only ask for 5 pieces of superior, 10 advanced, catalysts would be like 20. They could do the same for training mats and gold. And when donating you could only donate up to 3 as a member or something. It wouldn’t eliminate scarcity of resources, but would reduce the headache of the grind, which is the biggest complaint players have in Star Wars Galaxy of heroes which is arguably this games biggest competition.

All in all the game is amazing. But when there’s nothing to do, it makes you wanna look for other games to play instead.

by THEDESTROYEROFBERF

Developers: Don’t listen to all these bad reviews. You made, and are maintaining a great game with a lot of potential. Most of them are complaining do to the fact that they aren’t any good at the game, because they don’t take the time to work out the math on what makes a team good. That said; they do make reasonable complaints about your strategy for paying the bills. Most of your players are marvel fans, not free to play game fans, so you can keep your player base more easily than other games like yours. Maybe, you could add a feature to allow your players to watch commercials in place of spending money for currency, equipment, and character shards. This way you can take some pressure off of your ‘direct purchase’ dependency, allowing you to give more for less, without effecting your bottom line. We (your players) are willing to make you money, and be loyal customers, but most of us do not have enough to justify spending ANY amount of money on a ftp game. Even those that do, can’t afford what o asking. It seems like a small few are paying an arm and a leg fo all of s to play. No fair. Maybe, give a monthly subscription option that gives more frugal players an appealing option. Give hem all the characters, while still forcing them to level like everyone else or something. SOMETHING BESIDES DIRECT PURCHASE REVENUE PLEASE. Thank you for your time. Take care.

by The A Dude

Seriously. You take an awesome game and concept and monetize it to the point of unethical exploitation of those with gambling addictions and ignorant youth. At every turn are various loot boxes. There are dozens if not hundreds of loot boxes. The pinnacle of gameplay, raids, drop currency to, you guessed it, open more loot boxes. But of course, you have to spend premium currency to even get that far.

Let’s take the latest raid, Thanos. Timely because of the movie. Tier 1 is level 25. Now you’d think that level 40+ characters would tread through the content. They do everywhere else. But no, even though the power level, which is a combination of hero level, gear, and ability level, is thousands of points higher, you’ll wipe. And it’s not even close. The numbers mean nothing. Why? Because to continue in with the raid, FoxNet wants you to use premium currency to heal. You were threading a line before in most of the game, now you are blatant in the cash grab.

And that’s what it’s all about. It’s a game about money for investors. Not the customers. I have no problems purchasing a game or generally finding a fun game. I will not support an unethical corporate greed game.

by Kimmijan

I have to say that this may be the best game I’ve ever played on a smart phone. I have never consistently and for this long logged into another game to play something so phenomenal. While there are options to purchase different character shards, orbs, and other fun things, I’ve never felt pressured to do this. And I think it’s a good trade off considering that I’ve never seen an ad displayed on this game. The artwork is awe-inspiring and the sound effects are on point. 👌🏻 There is a brilliant team of talented people who work on this game to bring new events and creative game play that feels very cinematic.

I only have one complaint and that is that over the last two days when the game is loading it gets stuck at 42%. I have to restart several times to get in. I have confidence that this will hopefully be worked out, but I have to admit that I’m rather sad. I’ve made this game part of my daily routine especially since COVID-19 has put everything else on hold.

Overall, brilliant game and I would happily recommend it to anyone else (and have) to make room for on their phone. I just hope that the loading issue can be resolved quickly. 😊

by CaptainItachi

I’ve been playing this game since the beta phase. And I’m still playing it because they are always putting out new characters and events. I love building teams in raid and Blitz. There is always a top meta game/meta team but I find lots of enjoyment in using my whole roster in blitz, raid and Wars! I’m free to play and may be one of the few grateful for all the whales and other pay-to-play players. They mean I can play this game for free. Am I a few steps behind them, yes. But I’m cool with that, they spent lots of money because they can’t wait. I do all my daily achievements and play in events and know what Base point I need for good rewards in blitz so I honestly am in great shape. If you want to be free to play and are incapable of planning and doing resource management, the. This game is not for you. But most of my guild mates are F2P like me and loooove this game. The only complaint I have is the the red star promotions which seem arbitrary. I’ve seen some reviews crying a river about money, bugs, or devs not caring. Bunch of crybabies that are self-entitled. The devs are working and listening to the community, since I started they have made so many good changes. I have no issue with the money end side of things, and bugs get sorted out. Love marvel comics, love this game that portrays them so well.

by Joshuadwll

First off, I absolutely love this game! I grew up with these heroes, and not I enjoy sharing that love with my children. The rare characters often are only available through purchase, or require an outrageous prerequisite to aquire. While I completely understand that it’s a fantastic way to make TONS of profit from fans who spend money to play (like myself), I would be much happier with the experience if the developer’s were more forgiving with the timetable for which the character events are available. Give us paying customers a chance to make it through a pay period so we can have the funds to accomplish the tasks required. Maybe give us a way to reserve promotions for a Later time, like a raincheck, otherwise it can be incredibly frustrating! I NEVER spent money on mobile games before, and now I have invested more money in this game than every other form of gaming media I own combined, and that speaks volumes for how amazing I find what they have created. That having been said, when I can’t take advantage of a promotion because of it’s short availability, I feel unappreciated as a customer. The game deserves a review that ends on a positive note, so I’ll say this. Hands down my favorite game that has ever been created for the mobile platform. Amazing!

by Masamoy

My dad actually introduced me to strike force because we are both big marvel fans and once I got it I was addicted! The start can be a little slow at first but once you get to level 20 the action starts and the leveling up gets slower, right now I man currently level 67 and It’s super hard to level up, but that’s what’s fun about it! The in game purchases are SUPER pricey so I would recommend only buying them on a special occasion but I understand why they made them pricey, it’s a free game they need to earn some money some how. Another thing I love about this game is that each character is so unique, like literally every character feels like so much time was spent on them and it makes the game so much better! And the characters give you different abilities so it’s not just a different looking person with the same exact strength and powers! That was probably my favorite feature. They also update this game constantly! For example I used to hate this game mode called real time arena because I either fought people way weaker than me or way stronger, but now they fixed that so it’s WAY more evenly matched! Well overall I think this game is definitely worth a try and I can almost guarantee you’ll get hooked

by Tyler Vedo

The game became much more enjoyable as the rate of pop ups to buy offers with irl money has decreased, at least for me. The problem is (and I don’t use irl money, just f2p) the packages to buy with irl money are extremely underwhelming for the price. I hope people really don’t pour money because the deals are extreme ripoffs. I would possibly buy something once a month simply to support the developers and the game because I do enjoy playing this, especially with the alliance I’m in who are really hands on and play everyday. But I can’t buy any offers because it’s really not worth the prices. All and all, the game is really enjoyable for a mobile game. There is a lot to do, and it does take a grind to get up there in level but it’s a game to pass time when bored. For me it’s a 9/10 for content and longevity. Plus the developers update the game often so there’s always something to look forward to.

Update!!: So as I updated my last review to say they decreased the amount of pop ups, it is at an all time high again. Constantly throwing micro transaction offers in your face every single time you open MARVELStrikeForce . The problem is, it isn’t just one or two, it’s like four or five back to back and it’s mildly annoying. You close one, try to collect your rewards, boom... another one before you can, collect, try to open an orb, boom, another one. And it continues.... pretty much the only annoying thing about playing this game. Other then that, I love the game.