Archery Go - Bow&Arrow King Reviews

Was a great app. Would have given 5 stars a month ago. However in a relatively short amount of time I've gone through the 100 levels under both modes and nothing further seems to be being developed (prob had app for 2-3 months-guessing). Additionally, you can no longer collect daily rewards for opening app... It shows the ARCHERY GO letters but it simply states you can't receive until tomorrow... Been like this for about 2 weeks. I really enjoyed this particular app and have purchased upgrades... Unfortunately, it appears I'll have to find a different app with more consistent development. Or perhaps that's all they wanted... Base game, get users, pay for no adds, but equipment upgrades and not develop app further, just let it ride as is. Don't know.

Update to developer response - your response doesn't address my review. I understand the necessity of ads, paying to remove, etc.. The purchased upgrades I was referring to were gem purchases to upgrade equipment... But now theres no new levels to use said equipment. Had I known that I would have spent that money within a different Archery app that has more freq level updates, improvements and app enhancements. ArcheryGo seems like it hit a wall and is stagnant. I hope that's not the case as I really enjoyed playing, but have run out of anything additional to play in ArcheryGo due to no new levels and just being "under construction" or "coming soon" for such an extended period of time.

There are various issues with the game. While the creators have done a decent job, and for an app I am impressed, I feel it could be better. One MAIN thing is the ads. While I know we have to have them because of y’all’s greedy backsides, I should be able to mute them in the way I do the game. An ad should not be able to yell at me! Yes my settings are on a mute all and the phone is on vibrate.
The move is too great when I move the bow. No real archer is going to overkill the shot like ArcheryGo makes one do. And while I can move a little in a shot, I can hold steady fairly well and hit dead on almost every time. Keep in mind I’ve only played a few days so these are the major issues I see right now. It could be worse down the road. Like many of your other games, once you start tweaking and trying to make greater graphics and such I end up deleting ArcheryGo so just make it work so I can enjoy it realistically, please.
Really? Your reply is “...in app purchases.” I would like to not hear the ads blare when I have all sound off and muted! I should not have to pay more to not have an app control my phone and ruin my personal experience, especially when I’ve already paid out the backside for the phone!

ArcheryGo itself is good. Nothing to complain about as far as functionality or graphics. No noticeable glitches or bugs. However it is missing the one thing no product should be without: iNSTRUCTiONS!! Directions, a how-to section, he’ll even a FAQ wld b better than nothing! I mean, NOTHiNG? Really??? I don’t even consider Those tidbits u offer when u first start ArcheryGo that boil down to “hold&release and watch out for that wind” cover the basics, thanks, but almost insulting when u realize there is no where to get more in-depth information. I coulda figured out how to utilize the bow with very little trial and error, what I need to know is where to aim n a high wind match, or details about whatever the hell the “rental fee” is? What am I renting? Why am I renting it? Does it come out of my prize or my entry fee?

I’m sure u guys thought providing a contact link wld suffice but if no one has said it before let me be the first, it doesn’t. In a world where we hv become accustomed to getting answers in a Google min or less.

So even tho ArcheryGo is easily worthy of all 5 for this I give u 3 stars . And I am being generous. I wanted to give u 1 for leaving out something u probably figured out during the brainstorming session. why leave it out of the final product?

I’ve played through most of the levels. My biggest problem with this game is the physics. It takes forever for the shooter to aim and often times faster moves result in wildly over adjusting. On timed levels this costs valuable time. Also, after making a shot it takes several second to reset which also costs valuable seconds on the clock. The developers should make the necessary adjustments. It doesn’t take that long to reset. And aiming should be much faster and more accurate. There’s a lot of extraneous movements besides the wind. All in all it’s fun game play but the higher you go, the more these issues will cost you and keep you from advancing.

After hearing from the developer they suggested: “Dear user, sorry to hear that you have uncomfortable experience, you can remove ads by in-app purchase. Please continue to support Archery Go, it will be improved in future updates, thank you!"

I appreciate the response but clearly, that’s not a relevant solution to any of the issues in my review. But I’ll stoke them at their word and hope they make improvements in the future.

As far as play mechanics and archery challenges, I think this is definitely one of the better Archery games I’ve played. I particularly like the visual cue of the slo-mo arrow when you’ve hit the 3 star goal.

However, I only give ArcheryGo 2 stars because of the developer pushing a paid subscription of ArcheryGo . I would have no problem paying $2-3 to be ad free, but the only option is a ridiculously expensive subscription.

The other reason for a low rating is that you don’t seem to be able to purchase anything in the non-subscription version. I’m accumulating a great number of coins and gems, but have no way to spend them on equipment upgrades. You are reliant on getting surprises from the Daily rewards. Also, this lack of spending ability defeats the purpose of watching ads to gain more coins – why would I purposefully watch an ad, when I can’t spend the money?

I understand having ads for the non-paid version, but the developer needs to find a way to keep people interested. I would recommend having a single fee option to end the ads between challenges, and allow spending of money on equipment. That would give me a reason to watch the other ads for boosting my coins/gems. The developers could also have 2 cost levels for equipment, with VIP subscribers paying less (to give an incentive for that option), while still allowing us to upgrade equipment without having to to spend $20/month (!) for an app.

I really like archery games, I’ve played most, if not all of the archery games in ArcheryGo Store. This one definitely is fun and can hold it’s own against any of the other games. It starts out super easy (as expected) and after the first few levels progresses into challenging. There is a nice mix of ‘classic’ archery challenges as well as unique challenges. The interface is pretty standard archery game stuff and responds about the way you would expect, maybe a tad sluggish.

It is a fun game. Unfortunately a lot of the fun is squashed by the ridiculous amount of ads. I understand that free games must have ads, I get it and I expect it. This game has an obscene number of ads. Plan on waiting after every round. EVERY round!! Shoot five arrows (sometimes six) and wait for an ad. Shoot five. Ad. Five. Ad. It’s ridiculous. If you are patient, this is a pretty fun and enjoyable game. If you are not patient, keep looking. There are similar games without as much wait time.

The game is fun to play and well put together, however, the constant ads after every event you win or lose does wear on you very quickly and gets very annoying. That is the reason for 1 stars otherwise I would have given it a 5 star rating. If I don’t win a match I just exit the game and restart until I win, much better than watching a worthless ad every time. Constant ads like this game forces you to watch after every event actually pushes me away from what the ad is about no matter what it’s advertising. It is also pushing me away from the game. I’d rather play thumb wars with myself than deal with the constant ads after a quick round of 5 arrows. Fix the advertising agenda if you want 5 stars. I’ll check the game in a week and see, if not it’s deleted from my devices. Btw telling me to give you money to get rid of ads is not appropriate either. Your ads are the problem and you aren’t doing the advertisers any favors either with the constant spamming after every round. Sometimes they even freeze up and you lose everything you earned.

First let me tell you, I rarely ever leave negative reviews, except when I feel I really need to speak out. At first the game seems awesome specially when competing online. Then as you get better you start realizing the flaws in it, and it is most frustrating when you lose because of them! The main two problems are the shots that are 7 points or more but somehow the arrow goes thru the target and it says “Miss” and I’m like, what?!
The second one is worse as it happens very often during play-offs, when my arrow is closer to the bullseye than my opponent’s it almost always give him 0cm even if he is in the outer yellow “10” ring and I am inside the bullseye. So even if my distance is right, his distance is farther anyway, this is just wrong!
At this point I’m fed up and do not plan to continue playing the game with such unfair results!
By the way, the online multiplayer is obviously not live, it actually is prerecorded games, this isn’t my biggest problem though since it may be recorded from real people it seems or so I assumed.

Fun game. Progresses well. Adds different elements effectively. Keeps your attention. However, developers responses to reviews are generic and either ask you to resubmit a review to a stated email or cut and paste response saying that you can remove ads buy purchasing in app.

Numerous reviews are the same. There are a lot of ads. And I can play thru ads usually. But ArcheryGo is consistently causing ads to not allow you to finish them. Causing you to close app then reopen which in turn causes you to lose your last levels progress. It seems purposeful. Not only do they run ads but they add the frustration of losing progress in the same process. Let those who want to play a free game go through the ad process. I am certain you are losing more users than retaining but using this tactic. I’ll help you all out.

Development-

We are sorry you are unhappy with Archery go and the ads. You can remove them with in-app purchase. We will improve the game in the future. Could you tell us what the issues are and send them to another platform instead of this review. We utilize ads to pay for developers to make other games better. We noticed that if we have a decent game, we can make money through ads and have it remain free but we can make more money if you make in app purchases. So we are gonna make every attempt to get to to spent direct. Have a great day

This game has a multiplayer feature. You can shoot targets taking turns or just rapid fire and who ever gets the highest score wins. Sounds fun right? Wrong. You don’t actually play against real players you play against bots. Here’s my recent experience. Player got a 1 and a 3on the first round. I got two tens. Second round arrived we both got two tens tie. Third round arrived he got two tens and I got a nine and a ten. The game went to a tie breaker which is who ever is closest to dead center. He got exactly dead center. Then I noticed something. His target had three arrows. One in the one ring one in the three ring and one dead center. This player hit five shots exactly dead center on a moving target with 8+ wind speed at 100 yards on a phone. No, it’s a bot designed to make you pay for coins. You can also tell that it’s a bot because there is a player base of around 6. Overall the multiplayer is just a way to force you to not go to airplane mode and skip ads and to make you spend money on coins that the game cheated you out of.

This game has a lot of potential, unfortunately the developers are super greedy. Everything in game costs so much money! And you can’t use any other bow, sight, or arrows without purchasing the VIP which is an outrageous price! You can’t even buy anything with the coins you earn. Also there’s these “life’s” that you use up as you play and if u use all of them (there is only 3) you can’t play any more! It’s so annoying and you can’t get more unless you wait an hour or pay more money! It’s so frustrating because the actual gameplay is really fun! If the developers weren’t just shooting for cash, this game would be amazing. Unfortunately it’s overpriced and limited were it could be better! Bows/items should cost coins, not the entire VIP! The whole life thing should be completely removed. Until then, this game is just okay.

Gameplay is great, however there are several major issues. As many have mentioned, the multiplayer mode is super annoying with the tie breakers. AI ALWAYS gets 0.00 cm perfect bullseyes so if you tie, you lose. Every time. It’s a clear bug and it’s frustrating that the developers have been aware yet have not fixed it. Also, I’ve been waiting a long time for additional single player levels. I’ve done all 100 of both Classic and adventure modes (completed in a couple weeks of sporadic playing) and so I can’t play much anymore. Last thing, coins are essentially useless once you get average equipment as it takes gems (which are way overpriced) to get the good stuff. So there’s no incentive to play multiplayer against a glitched AI to win coins. This game could be 5 star with some future updates. As of now, it’s an average experience.

I hate the fact that it talks when you get points. I get ten points every level and I just get tired of hearing it. I think it would be better without the talking when you score points and it would also be better if you had no wind and some inside rounds. I like Archery world tour better. I am in real archery and it is better with no talking or clapping and no shouting out of points. So I would give this more stars if it didn’t have the voice. And it doesn’t give you instructions on how to shoot. No tutorials or anything it is not good. When I first got this game I liked it until I started experiencing some issues with that voice. And it could have less ads. If you are in a high wind round it makes it harder which I like a challenge but it makes me frustrated at that sometimes. And that is all I have to say. Bye.

I loved this game, but can no longer receive gems under the daily challenge area. I have plenty of money but cannot receive any gems to upgrade which I used to do daily. I will delete this game and sorry to see the developers just do not care...no updates that I have seen since I joined. Glad I am not paying monthly. The developer doesn’t even answer, the response to this was about ads but clearly this has nothing to do with what I am talking about. I quit playing because without gems I can no longer update equipment. Quit getting daily challenge gems &cash when I reached 100 on single player, to bad was a good game. People complain about ads and the developer says they are necessary but I have not seen any updates or app support and finally deleted the game. Just checked to see if there have been any changes and sorry to say none. BTW I paid for no ads so that definitely is not my issue!

Overall, I have enjoyed the game. However, the problem with the playoffs is very difficult to tolerate. As mentioned by others, it appears the ‘distance from bullseye’ is measured differently for the player and the opponent. For the player the distance seems to be from the center point of the target. This will always result in some distance. The opponent’s distance seems to be measured from the edge of the bull. If the opponent’s arrow lands anywhere on the bull then its distance is 0.0cm. The only way to win a playoff is if the opponent hits outside the bull farther than the player’s distance from the center point. This is uncommon as often the reason you’re in a playoff is because you’re trading 19’s & 20’s.
I’ve only had an arrow pass through the target resulting in a ‘miss’ once. Other people have mentioned this as a bigger problem. Definitely a bug.
I am also concerned, as others have said, that a significant amount of equipment is not available in some fashion other then payment. Usually there is *some* way to collect gems/diamonds/crystals/whatever, even if it’s very slow.
So, please...
1. fix the playoff measuring criteria,
2. fix the arrow pass-thru ‘misses’ bug, and
3. provide an avenue to earn gems to acquire additional equipment.

This is a really fun game, it’s very interactive and lets you buy upgraded bows and arrows and has different levels with different challenges that are extremely unique. My only issue is that the ads from vungle DO NOT CLOSE, I have had to close out ArcheryGo numerous times just to be able to get the ad to go away. Otherwise the ad just keeps playing and won’t close so you end up losing progress by having to force quit ArcheryGo and then you have to restart your level. I have played the same level 4 times over because of this. It’s extremely annoying and some people can’t afford to spend money to remove the ads so if you’re one of those people then don’t download ArcheryGo because it will be very frustrating for you.

I have sent multiple emails to the admins of this game they ArcheryGo because it robs you of coins! After winning matches, you are sometimes forced to watch an ad. Sometimes that ad freezes and ArcheryGo closes itself. When that happens, you lose any coins you bet to play someone even if you won! Sometimes the ad doesn’t appear and you have no choice but to force close ArcheryGo . When that happens you also lose any coins you won and the coins you bet. I have the strongest WiFi signal available thru my provider so it’s not that! My first email was simply to let the admins know and to ask how they would reimburse me for the coins I lost. No response. The second email, after it happened 6 more times, was to let them know it happened again and to ask how they would handle this situation. No responses! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON ArcheryGo.

I’ve been playing this game about a week now. Over all a decent game, fun game modes, obvious pay to win scheme, but it’s fun and the competition modes are great but on that note, on the ‘original’ competition mode, when it comes down to a play off on the high dollar matches ( it’s all about who’s closer to an absolute bullseye) no matter what my opponent shot gets a 0.0cm. Every time without fail even if their arrow is actually off on the edge, still comes up 0.0 for them. I’ve even had an actual shot at 0.7cm. And their shot on the outer line comes up 0.0. This has cost me countless matches already and millions in coins. Please fix this in an update, it’s the only reason I’m taking off two stars, cuz that’s really frustrating. I know if it comes to a shoot off I lost no matter what.

Garbage company that makes a game to force you to watch adds, it won’t function without cellular data or WiFi even though it’s not needed to play the core part of the game, companies like this make a game that’s specifically made it be very easy to get you to watch an add no matter what..

Edit:
After developer contacted me they gave me a blanket response of just buy add free version, as if we don’t know already that that’s the main reason you blast the user with adds that don’t even go back to the game is your original plan, to make it so frustrating that your ads don’t even bring us back to the game that we are “forced” to just purchase things to make the game even function normally, what kind of developer is allowed to create games like that. You can’t make a free game that you have to pay later on to even function, what a joke of a company

It’s a fun game but obviously the multiplayer is a little broken, you play about three matches and the other person which is obviously AI is complete trash but then you play the next one and it’s an absolute god. Along with the shootout tie breaker when no matter how close you get you are always going to loose because the AI always gets 0.00cm, the multiplayer is broke, and needs to be fixed. Along with that the ads are a little over done. I get that you have to have ads and that it’s a free game but it’s honestly after every round in single player, and every round in multiplayer. Maybe tone it down a bit to where it’s maybe every three rounds or so.

I enjoy the single player a lot, mainly all I play. It’s honestly more enjoyable to ply the single player than multiplayer.