Last Shelter: Survival Reviews

by Nirettzy

I got this game a week or two ago and it’s been keeping me mildly entertained since then. First, the trailers are very misleading. Your buildings don’t change in appearance unless you get the one item that makes them look a little better for a bunch of irl money. Second, this is a war game very much like GoT: Conquest, which means that unless you throw a bunch of money at this game, you’ll likely end up being attacked over and over from folks who are P2W. These weren’t the reason for the negative review.

This morning I logged on and started my normal thing to make more troops, upgrade my buildings and gather resources. As I am looking at the world map to find a food node that I can gather, a notification popped up that My account has been suspended. In this notification box, there was a space for the a reason...and it was blank. The only other options I had were to exit the game or start a new one. I had just started my upgrade to Base level 11 when this happened. A never used any third party programs out anything as I strictly played on my mobile device. I have contacted their tech support but have yet to receive any reply. This is extremely shady business. I would not use another app from this developer and I suggest to others they do the same. They seem to be only interested in the revenue. The entire time I only purchased one pack that was 5 bucks. Maybe I didn’t purchase enough packs and that’s why I was banned.

by Fishbait17

This game used to be fun. I’ve been playing for a couple of years, almost 3 years. There was a certain pay-to-win element in the beginning, but you could enjoy the game without paying. As I progressed, I found that the game was dominated by those paying SSSSS to advance. I have spent my fair share on this game, well into the 4 digits. But lately, the metrics are getting worse and worse. Our active and fairly advanced alliance has been mostly together since the inception when we all started together. But we are being matched against huge obnoxious, bullying states, that have everything money can buy and don’t allow us to even play. It’s ridiculous. There is no balance to our matches in Doomsday. And the developers seem to have changed the metrics to make it even harder to advance (ie get good heroes, develop parts, etc) so that you need to spend even more $$ to even HOPE to advance, and are almost always let down. Our entire state has been commenting about it, it’s a tangible change. I’m done putting any money into this game until they change the metrics. It’s a shame, this could be a great game, and after 3 years I’m pretty invested in it. I’d be willing to spend a few hundred dollars to guarantee a decent hero, but to spend it and get nothing over and over, that’s a fools errand. STAY AWAY!

by This Is A Idiot Game 15.0

In the adds, it show somebody making a castle, sliding stone bricks and I’ve wanted a build-your-own-castle game for 4-5 years. So I downloaded right away I spawn in, and the game guides me I literally was trying to build a castle for 3 hours straight.
I was so aggravated I almost deleted the game right after that but I thought it couldn’t be so bad, I’ll level up and build a castle! ;) then here I am 2 years later, finding LastShelter on my iPad going on it and realizing how much of a dissatisfying moment and how so disappointed I was 3 years ago. I’m still trying to find a builder castle type game and this game, this game is one of the worst games I’ve had in the years I’ve been alive. So I instantly deleted it and searched for a castle game and while searching I just remembered the moments when my mom would ask me to go to the park, my favorite park and I would say, first can you help me figure out this game? She helped me, and the specific time I’m talking about it was about 11 am and legit tried to figure out until 10 pm and I asked if we could go to the park, she obviously said too late and since then, I’ve never been to that park, my mom always has excuses and all those bad memories brung me to here I had to put a bad review. DONT DOWNLOAD LastShelter PLEASE. If you wanna have bad memories go ahead.

by CL Norris

This is a garbage game with more glitches and broken crap than what works ( anything related to using your CC always works ). It’s about who’s willing to spend the most, and live to play this game, yet still broken and glitched out for all. The only way players that don’t waste tons of money can get decent heroes is from the rewards received from DoomsDay seasons, but the devs allow any alliance to destroy another alliance’s AC and honor buildings (needed to play DD) even outside of DD duels. This leads to the alliance &/or state that spends the most being able to bully the rest by destroying their AC and honor buildings when an alliance is dueling another alliance or anytime, and repeatedly, just to keep them from playing & improving their score in DD. My team ran into this a few seasons back and we all submitted tickets to the devs, but were told this is allowed. I quit spending any money until the many glitches were fixed and this bullying issue was as well, and we went a few seasons without running into it again until now. The glitches stayed and were only added to. Now I’m done and hope this is a warning that will be heeded by gamers thinking about trying this game or any of these “free” phone/tablet games.

by [Miss Demeanor]

This game just takes your money. 🤦🏼‍♀️Basically if you are Chinese you will pay FAR LESS than anyone else and this will allow you to advance much faster. War activities are terribly unbalanced and Chinese alliances will always have far better heroes and parts and there is no hope of winning when they gang up hundreds of other players in other alliances against your alliance. Doomsday is THE WORST. Your decent alliance in silver league will get paired against massive Chinese alliances in Legendary league and you’ll be bullied EVERY SINGLE DAY. Players quit the game every single day out of frustration. The developers do not even care, and when you email support with recommendations on how to make the game more balanced, they will respond with sarcasm things like “we’ve reviewed your suggestion and find that the platform is already well-balanced. I recommend purchasing the XYZ game package to help you in your endeavors. Have a nice life.” Then they stop responding to ANY issue you have, even those involving payment and $$$. Please do yourself a favor and just don’t download this game. You’ll get more bang for your buck in Candy Crush or buying Oreos.

by Bodybags

The game is decent overall but the devs continue to change things to make it more difficult to play for free. Recently was changing commercial hub which you used to be able to get vehicle parts from. They changed it to be much cheaper parts at best. Not to mention they changed doomsday quite a bit. The most significant loss here was being able to keep all your materials to build with after a season, it was changed to only materials you have bought which is quite a bit less unless you are rich.

Customer service has always been horrible at best. Majority of times you do get a response it’s just an automated apology and nothing done. I actually had a chat ban for two days recently when I hadn’t even chatted in the game period for several days. I inquired about it and they simply said I was reported for violating their rules. I asked for the screenshots showing I did something wrong and they just never responded. They are a complete joke.

Honest review is I’ve been in too long to not play it but I suggest no one starts this now because it’s strictly based on being a money pit which increasingly becomes worse. Run away while you still can.

by Huddiezilla

Let me just start by saying when I first downloaded this game I was impressed with the amount of stuff you could build and do but the pvp in this game is weak and beyond frustrating you can work hard to collect resources then close the game and attend real life (just as an example) then return to find that one guy attacked your base 8 time and another attacked your base 7 times your army is in the hospital and you have to heal them for them to even be of any use but of course that can sometimes take 30min in itself and while they are healing you get attacked another 8 times etc etc and all the mean while all the resources you collect are now gone and you yet again can’t build anything new because of it leaving you stuck sure they have shield you can put on your base to prevent people from attacking you but those are hard to get unless you spend real money or try to get crystals to buy them with it’s just kinda dumb for a new player to grow when high level players can just spam attack you until you have nothing to build with so take it from a newer player trying to get into the game who is just fed up with the pvp disadvantage you will always be at its not worth the time and effort to play unless something is done about high level people spam attacking you needs to be a cap of how many times in a day you can be spammed and how many times 1 person can spam you as well as a level cap on how high a level is to attack you “PAY to WIN”

by Jax-Jackson

First I feel the developers are greedy, ridiculous amount of resources to upgrade so you buy packs. Game is super glitchy for the amount of money that is spent. If you don’t pay big money you will be bullied as this is a pay to play game. Players abuse the refund and get there money back just to pay again and grow bigger nothing is done. When you need to report a bug, developers do not get back to you. For iOS users not very compatible, I tried to report an issue then had to load a picture and was unable to. I get they wanna make money however I feel more money could be made n more people would pay if it was more fair I’m sorry I can spend a few hundred a month I can’t compete with these players who drop 500 get a refund and spend another 500. I’m not spending anymore money as what am I spending money on so I can buy resources and then get constantly attacked by higher paying players to just steal my resources so ultimately I’m spending money to make these players bigger not for myself. I do not recommend this game at all. Also the events if you don’t pay the events are hard to open the boxes the amount of points needed are ridiculously high so again if you pay and are big this game benefits you as you unlock boxes and gets more resources to get bigger. The developers are making it hard for steal everyone is hurting for steal therefore all bases are being attacked and plundered by the huge players to get bigger.

by Azmp

Been playing for over a year. The game is lots of fun, but because a next level if you’re a social person. After a while this game becomes more of a hang out social platform than just a game. Beware though, in order to stay safe competitive you have to spend $$$. If you don’t you will be very weak and it’s no fun, unless you never want to fight. Now, you don’t have to spend big (though some), but still will have to some. The reason I gave 4 stars and 5 if that this game isn’t made to reward long time players, on the contrary, the longer you play, the less chances you have to get good heroes for free, all devs wants is for you to spend more and more. I get it, this game is made to make money, but I also believe you should reward players who’ve stuck with the game for a long time. Throw a bone once in a while... don’t be so greedy!

UPDATE::: Hahahaha, I just read the dev response to my review. I’ve played this game for 3 years. Never, with any game I saw the level of greed and pettiness exhibited by the developers of this game. Free to play???? Don’t make me laugh. If you want to be at all, any competitive , you have to spend money and I mean A LOT OF MONEY!!! In light of that idiotic, patronizing and outright laughable response from the developer, I’m now changing my review to 1 star. Enjoy.

by UnknownPlayer568354

Best way to waste money . This game has become ridiculous to play with the amount required . It is 100% a pay to play game . The developers have been told for the past couple years that their constant release of new technologies, equipment , heros, parts , etc has been to fast and overwhelming to keep up . And all these require spending , and lots of it. Even to the point several states went on strike and refused to spend. That only stopped the developers long enough to offer to hold off 1 month of releasing new stuff . After that it got worst . They do not fix things you pay for when it is not right . If they double charge people and they ask for a refund, your account gets banned . The currency is not set to be fair for all, as the Chinese have their packs much cheaper and are not equivalent to other currency. Therefore you will encounter many Chinese players with extremely strong bases that you can not compete against . And the developers have not cared to correct the match making process . If you are looking for a game to waste your money on, this will be great. If not , it will not be right for you .

by Drewski 10

Last Shelter is mildly enjoyable through the beginning stages- just enough to keep you gaining interest as you level up and strengthen your army. But the further you progress, the more time you have to spend playing as well as there being an increased need to spend money.

Just as I got to the point where I had a well functioning city that produced a lot and was capable of sustaining a rapidly growing army, significantly overmatched opponents who had likely paid a bunch of money to get a special “city transport” ability were able to move their city within a 2 minute attack range and demolish my army and farm my resources. All I was able to do was produce enough food to constantly heal my army before being attacked again and start the process over. I’ve basically hit a stalemate and can’t continue construction in order to grow and ever defend myself or alliance members against them. The whole city transport thing is 100% asinine and makes me want to give the developers my money even less than I did originally.

So yeah, unless you have unlimited time and a minimum of $25 you’d like to spend on a simple game on your phone, don’t waste your time. And if you do have those things, just go play Tribal Wars- same concept, better strategy and more straightforward.

by Masterofdisaster235

Against my better judgement, I downloaded the game following an ad where it very clearly showed that this was a tower defense game where your city grows into a thriving metropolis. It is decidedly NOT tower defense, and the buildings you start with will not change in appearance whatsoever. I played for a couple weeks anyway; because it was fine. However, I happened to be parked right next to a “neighbor” who either lives on LastShelter or is shelling out a ton of money to buy all the add-ons, and he decided to attack me no fewer than 10 times a day, often several times in a few minutes. My soldiers were killed as quickly as I could build them and I struggled to keep a reasonable amount of resources to expand. I definitely did not have enough to protect myself. My “neighbor” is several levels above me and I stood no chance at defense except to move. Unfortunately it takes an absolute ton of effort to gain 2,000 diamonds (assuming you have better things to spend actual money on), so I couldn’t get around to it. The alliances are largely pointless and not worth the effort because only a couple of the hundred people are ever active, and it’s not often at the same time. Basically if you have a job, boyfriend/girlfriend, kids, or a realization that our time on this earth is finite and you can never get your time back, then this game is not worth your time. Deleted.

by Basksuzj

I feel like they take your money on the hero’s. When they did an update they said if you do 10 hero’s it guaranteed a new hero that is incorrect. I’ve even paid for the hero’s and special hero’s I get the same regular hero’s when spending money for a special hero. What sense does it make to purchase the special hero if your gonna give me a regular hero. What sense does it make to have 3 hero section if you save up to press 10x just to get the regular hero and the same one at that u see advance hero. You have normal advance and super. No matter which one you pick you still get regular. So why have an advance and super when I click under advance I still get a regular hero or when I pick under special I still get a regular hero. Why when I buy the package for special hero’s I still get regular hero’s. That doesn’t make sense that’s taking ppl money. You have us pay for super knowing we are gonna get regular. If that’s not how it is suppose to work than the system need to be fixed. If we clicked on special or bought the package we should get special hero’s not regular hero’s. If we purchase to get seasonal hero’s that’s what we should get not regular hero’s. That needs to be fixed.

by Angelo7474

This game is very addicting and very fun but my issue with this game is the customer service is absolutely horrible. They have no problem taking your money but whenever there is a glitch or an issue where you lose resources such as diamonds their answer is sorry we can’t do anything about it. When you can’t get back into your account it’s sorry we can’t help you. They have a button that says recover lost account which you click and still you get no help no resolution to the issue. I’ve spent a crazy amount of my own hard cash on this game and the game froze and it took over 4000 diamonds for me to which the response was sorry we can’t do anything about that but we want to help you. Well I got no help. So again the game is great it’s fun to play but try not to spend your money because if something happens you’re losing it. Oh and before I forget if you are upgrading a resource from level eight to level nine it takes Minimalresources and about an hour but when you upgrade from 16-17 it takes a day and a half and about 4 million of each resource. So the game starts to get a little ridiculous. You also have bullies who have so much power they bully other groups to become their henchmen and before you know it they take over a state because other groups aren’t big enough to fight them. They shouldn’t be able to have unlimited subgroups and or too much power

by Roctiger

You can play this game in both way, (1)pay to win... get you grow fast and stronger, but there’s always someone who’s stronger than you, even pay to win guys still have lot of challenge too cuz they are not the only one . Pay to win - will get all bonus points and even way stronger than normal players and when you max the game ...you’ll get bored of it cuz game developers don’t unlock the T10 yet and you got nothing to do. And leave the game, (2) play normally with zero money ...in order to grow fast and stronger. ....you need so many farms for fast resources and for your main account. You really need to learn to game and understand it really well too Or elase you’ll miss free good stuffs too, the players with no farms accounts are grow really slow and weak , whnen you are weak and get beat by stronger players. No money -It’ll take a little longer too but don’t worry ...when people buy items on store you will get free gifts every times ( totally worth it). It hard to to get stronger but time will pay off. Save lof of gold tickets in order to get good heros too or else you will get nothing when you spend 70 golds tickets. ( terrible part of the game). Al least 300 golds is best.

by TR Shadow

you can do a lot of cool things in this game like research nearly 1000things that cost 1mil of each resource once you get into the higher levels of researching and they take at least 5-19 hours for one fighting in this game is absolutely broken and annoying if you don’t put on a peace shield you are guaranteed to be attacked at least 6 times by the same loser trying to get clash of zones points one attack from someone can make you unsuccessful for a few days and trying to heal your troops cost high in millions for resources and normally take a day to heal (12hrs) it is very fun at first but then everything turns highly expensive to upgrade and do anything people in this game don’t care about others only about themselves joining alliances can be very annoying because they don’t respond half the time but so give warnings if an event is going to happen and put on a peace shield so you don’t get destroyed other than that this game has MANY flaws that are irreversible and totally broken players ruin the game with there over powered APC units with a commander dealing 1000times damage with 100k tier 10+ units. If you ask me don’t get this game it gets really annoying unless you want to spend money on it.

by Jimboredwing

I’ve been playing this game for a while now and I have mixed emotions. On one hand there a lot to build and create but that’s it. You never have enough resources even if you save up, outside of building stuff you just sit and wait for available resources most the time. While there’s a lot to build most of it is so unnecessary and you never use after it’s built. Worst part is how often you get attacked. I exited LastShelter for 20 minutes and got attacked 2 times in that time span. You never have enough troops because if you aren’t on LastShelter for a day they all get killed. You’re restricted on where you can expand to because you have to go around the perimeter of camp, you can’t just build out east or any other direction, always a square. All in all I enjoy the game but it requires such constant attention you can’t put it down or it knocks you down so much that it’s hard to do much. At first I thought I was just bad (which is possible) but then I realized I was advancing through all the missions and achievements so that means I’m doing what the games asking. Hopefully it gets fixed

by Fix It Or Loose A Gamer

I played the game till BULLYING became a huge problem when a gamer is 3 or more base levels above you it’s like a lightweight trying to beat a heavyweight and then on top of it they’ll gang up on you so you have 3 or more bases attacking . No fair. . Cost 2000 diamonds to move and I wasn’t paying REAL CASH for them. ALSO DIAMONDS don’t go far and why not have gold and other precious medals to spend. ATTACKS:The same persons would hit you even when you had nothing to take over an over. Wipe out your soldiers and by the time you healed some they hit again an again. Meanwhile you loose soldiers permanently and you have no resources to replace them. After you reach a certain level above 10 the game isn’t playable with shelling out real cash and bullying becomes a SERIOUS ISSUE. Game could be a 5 Star game if they fixed issues. And you can’t retaliate when the guy who hammers you over an over is 3 or more levels above your city. At least make it a equal battle. I’m sure they won’t fix it while they’re making money off people. I would’ve stayed playing if they fix the real issues

by NotFootballSavvy

This game is not a pay to win. The further you progress, the more time you will need to put in to stay on top. If you keep it up everyday and spend more time everyday, you will be rewarded, aside from that,
So I forget how long I’ve had this game but I’ve played it at least 5-10 minutes or more almost everyday since I got it. If you’re into rts and Age of Empires, this game is really good. I give it four stars for a few reasons. The main one is that after all this time, I had no idea I wasn’t allowed to change states. I’m stuck in 313 and my brother is in 341. I introduced him to this game and within half the time I’ve been playing, he’s surpassed me. It took awhile for us to acquire advanced teleports, but it’s been so long, we can’t team up together. It’d be nice if I could bring my camp next to his and send him reinforcements and vice versa. Maybe like one state teleport per player? Idk it’s disappointing tho.
Aside from that it’s a great game that you can be rewarded on based how in depth you get. I typically research and upgrade things and that’s about it, but if you do more you will be rewarded.
Please let me change my state just once!
Overall, great game.

by EODWIFE1

I’ve been playing this game for about two years and finally made it to level 25 about six months ago. I have never spent a dollar on the game. The most important thing I found in the game was to find a good strong alliance. That helps a lot with keeping from getting attacked constantly when your base is in the lower digits. Also most of the presidents of the different states have put a moratorium on attacking within your own state. This has also helped a lot. One problem that I have found with the game is that the directions on how to do certain things or fix certain problems are extremely lacking. You can find some help with certain things by communicating with members in your alliance, but a lot of it is trial and error. That being said the game is pretty enjoyable and does keep me occupied about 30 minutes a day.

by Erikkis25

The devs will block you if you have any complaints and real questions. I can no longer send an error message to the developers because it now always says network error. I spend $50 to $100 per week on this game and they still do not answer me. You must be a big spender to get any attention($1000’s per week) They will also change the rules on plan you purchase. Such as project hero( they finally upgraded it which is amazing!!!) when I purchased it the final reward was a
s1 OR S2 hero but they updated it a few weeks later to only S1 hero’s. I would not have bought as I do not need one. I sent an error message got an unprofessional message and now I can no longer send messages. DO NOT Spend your money on this game! Been playing it for almost 3 years. I love this game but the developers are greedy and no longer care about the average player and not at all for the free player. The only way to get this game to change is to stop spending money on it. Then it will change for the better.

by Hoh KingArden

I’ve been playing this game for a few years now and I notice that a lot of people leave the game due to bullies picking on the weak but I’ve played in 3 different states now and I’ve had nothing but good experience going around guilds acting as an ambassador for my main guild and building friendships this game has also helped make friends in other countries in real life. I love how at first things seem difficult and slow but as you build things become faster to get, besides base development which I understand, but getting diamonds is simple and all the tech you can invest in makes for a different experience depending on how you go about it. I went with more base development rather than troop development where as some others in my alliance maxed out troop but in the end we all built up our base with putting little to no money into it so we could show that you don’t have to pay to win. I love this game and I play it a lot and when I can I have friends who are willing to keep my base going when RL hits