Idle Siege Reviews

Not a true idle game, not even close. They want to charge you $16/month to not see ads $4/week, $10-$20 “battle passes” every few weeks $5 for another pass, daily missions demand you watch ads, there are **dark patterns** for ads and spending money absolutely everywhere. This game needs to be subjected to another background check, no for malware or spyware, but dark patterns which rides the fence of illegal and legal while outright illegal in some countries.
I have already spent a few hours and $15 to get absolutely nowhere as the game artificially slows your progress down, no matter how powerful your troops are. Advertisements are frequent and 2min long. Gameloft are disgusting, I didn’t realize things have gotten this bad. The owner and publishers are parasites. It’s not even pay to win, it’s pay and still get screwed over. If you’re a whale, you won’t be happy. I’m no whale, and I’m salty about misleading me into these purchases.

I love this game, it’s easy to play, enjoyable and it doesn’t take much of your time to level up. I had zero problems with IdleSiege until this new update. Now after the update anytime I use the gold bonuses they don’t work and it tells me there’s an online issue but still takes my items. Same thing with my diamonds. Anytime I use them on anything it steals my diamonds with nothing in return. Very frustrating right now tbh

Update: issues still continuing, I had 35 time freeze relics never used one now I only have 5, my relics in general keep getting taken away and there’s nothing I can do about it. All I know is I’ll not be playing any longer until a new update is presented.

Can I have my relics back? I lost 30 sands of time relics and 25 green pyre relics from the previous app update.

The game you see in the ads isn’t the game you’ll be playing - instead, imagine your screen filled with nothing but clickable in-app purchases and freemium garbage rewards. Imagine as well that you can skip sections of the game with watchable ads, only to have them “trick” the player into opening IdleSiege Store to download whatever garbage game you just watched an ad for instead of closing the ad video because of a malicious video overlay - truly scummy practices.

This game would be fun if it weren’t for the devs and monetization - which is, surprise! - the entire game. Skip this, not a dime-a-dozen type game, but a dime-a-million type game on IdleSiege Store you’ve already seen and tried to play a thousand times before.

Games like this could be fun but they never will because of the drastic amount of overmonetization in them. Truly garbage.

Absolute worst game I’ve ever played in my life. The graphics and stuff look so promising. Then you get in and see the variety of soldiers and thing “wow a lot of strategy must go into this”. But then you realize there is no strategy to the game. Every level just costs more gold to unlock so it takes longer while you wait for gold to accumulate. What soldiers you use don’t change the game in any way. They all die just the same. You’ll never win a level unless you have hours to sit and wait for gold or unless you do what the game is intended to make you do. What is the game intended for you to do? GET SO DESPERATELY IMPATIENT THAT YOULL SPEND THE MONEY TO SPEED IT UP. I refused to spend a penny and that’s why I was bored out of my mind. Stay away from this god forsaken game. It seems so good at first but within the first couple zones you’ll realize how good they are at wasting your time.

So the game is “free” to play but it costs about $30 a week to get all of the season passes to win all the extra prizes. The game itself is fun enough to play but as a top 10 player in every weeks challenge and having beaten 96% of the game, I have come across so many glitches and crashes it’s ridiculous.

The game provides speed ups and health boosts. Use too many and the game crashes and you lose all your active troops attacking.

Abe Lincoln won’t attack bosses. He will just stand there looking away from the bosses.

If you want a high score on boss fights just use giants because all of the other troops will die and not get points.

In the arena, you can have higher power troops and officers and still lose to a lower player even when using the exact same troops and set up. I have confirmed this many times because you can go in and rematch players you lose to for free. Something in the programming makes you lose anyway so they can advertise for you to buy another hero.

I could sit here all day and list off glitches and issues the developer is too lazy to fix but the developer gets paid for that, not me.

As someone who has spent a few hundred dollars playing the game I can assure you that you’re better off saving your money. The glitches will ruin the game for you.

I have been following Idle Siege for a while now. The game as is now is not worth playing. It has turned into a mockery adding elements. I think the games mechanics of using different hero's and troops was a phenomenal game idea. Instead of reworking troops and adding more hero's, Elements were added. It truly limits the game because all this time I spent upgrading hero's was for virtually nothing when you can only have one activate on element at a time. To put into perspective, I have submitted countless bug reports and ideas whenever I spotted one to help improve the game and that feature is now gone.

My biggest flaw with this game is the fact that they changed the price for Ad-Free. 3.99$ used to buy you two weeks and now it only lasts one week. Seeing the game is nearing completion, its a shame seeing this element feature added. It just doesn’t make sense. I can get behind it if it was done properly but it’s just not balanced. All in all, what used to be a neat concept and fun game turned into a cash grab where the Dev’s will try and siphon money any chance they get. I am all for buying in-app purchases but only for games that are worth them. This is not one of them.

The game is good but I can’t recommend if you’re new. The recent update put level requirements on hero placement and removed their health and attack buffs from the units. I was annoyed with this but I could still use some of my hero so it was ok (even with the greatly reduced health and damage) but then the event came around it’s cool and fun. However the only way to get the hero Leonidas is to pay for him….. I’ve spent like $10 on this game felt like It’s all been fair prices and deals but to get the Leo I have to spend $10 and then play the event… I spent like $3 each and got Odin, Blackbeard and the dragon queen. Now I I have to spend triple AND play to get a similar thing. Atleast give us one for maxing out the event for free or let him drop from the chests just make it a low chance. This and I was on the last keep of the desert are and when I finished it put me back in the middle of the desert area pretty annoyed with that

Downloaded the game from social media bugging me to and I’m a sucker for siege games. I played this game for a couple of days now and overall I have to rate this a 5/10. Bad news first. Basically you either have to pay to win or watch ads until you bleed to win or else you’re just gonna watch your troops die over and over again. Upgrading troop barely feels like an upgrade, I wish you could set your troops for targeting to make the gameplay feel a lot better. Hero’s don’t feel like a hero character when they get one shot every time. Good news artifacts feel like to use, I like the hero ability’s, events are fun but again pay to win. Overall I would like to see this game succeed to be bigger then clash of clans but it still has aloooooot of work to do.

I have now played this game for one week and I am finding the game kinda fun. The fact that you need to think about what the enemy has and switching out your troops accordingly is makes it so that the game is not totally idle.

The issue that I have run across takes place in Arena, and I just temporarily got to Silver I and I ran into a very major flaw. When a player, either someone that has been playing for a long time, or more likely a whale, stops playing area for a very long time, they end up falling from the arena league that would be more appropriate for their power level, into a lower level, into a group of players that usually can’t possibly defeat them, while you can see how powerful the force is in the preview, this is happening in bulk so you have large amounts of powerful offline players diluting the lower rank, but more appropriate players, out of the rank’s matchmaker. I know this because I saw that a couple of the high level players have a higher rank profile frame. The game doesn’t account for when a player has stopped playing the game or stopped going to arena for soo long that the cat’s among the pidgins.

TLDR: Fun idle game mechanics that are overshadowed by mechanics that are designed to make money on a quick player turn around.

I have sank way too much time into this game. It’s overall design is addicting and a great time passer. It’s major flaw is how it goes about micro transactions. I don’t think there is anything wrong with micro transactions in a free mobile game but the are extremely under valuing in game. This biggest example is the ability to pay for no ads. You pay $4 for TWO WEEKS of no ads. Why not just raise the price to $10 and make it last forever. It’s specifically punishes players who don’t drop the game after a couple weeks. So let’s say you pay your precious real life money and buy the no ads subscription. The amount of ads you get to skip are ridiculously low for the price. It seems worth it until you get to world stage 4 and the amount of “free upgrades” your getting are so minimal. Please developers, reward your consistent players with a system that isn’t so pushed towards making a quick buck off of new players.

Game is enjoyable with the concept as an idle game and progressing a little everyday. I have bought the ad free 4 or 5 times now and put some money In here and there. 1st event was cool completed and got everything, 2 weeks ago I finished the main map thinking on to the next.. no I’m just going back to older stuff I finished and progressing nowhere except a few extra items.. not to mention the cool 1st event has been the same event like 5 times now.. i mean come on man, you expect me to pay you every 15 days for no ads to do the same ol crap I’ve already completed over and over?? Nah forget that your game is growing stale I understand it’s fairly new but releasing same ol content events over and over. Than not being able to progress anywhere else after first map.. Game needs to devs need to be quicker about releasing content, and stop doing the same events.. not getting any more of my money until you work on the content.. 3 stars if something changes I’ll update it..

Overall I have a great time playing this game. I can’t give it more than 3 stars because of how the developers went about the “idle” part of this game. There’s a 2 hour cap on the money gathering and damage dealing for this game, opposed to nearly every other game in this genre having no cap. This isn’t a problem in the first few levels, it’s when you get beyond those few levels it becomes apparent. The little amount of gold you earn per minute combined with the 2 hour cap leads to spending multiple days to get through parts of stages, not even the whole thing. For some people who are able to get on every 2 hours this may not pose a problem but for people like me who work and play these games because I get to see the progress it’s made while in my pocket over the 8+ hours, it’s frustrating and almost a deal breaker. Compounded on that issue is the fact that you can pay to increase the offline time but it’s $4 for only 3 extra hours. Anyone doing simple math can see that buying that 7 times will only get you to 23/24 hours so for the last purchase of another $4 you’d only get 1 hour. $32 for 22 more hours is a ridiculous amount.

TLDR: fun for a bit but be prepared to be frustrated by the extremely slow progress in later stages and the expensive micro transactions.

Sure, you have a great idea. That is step number 1 of creating a game. Now when you executed this idea… it did not turn out great. Small battles, lack of castle building/defense, and lack of variety are just a few reasons this game is NOT worth it.
First off, the design looks good, however the gameplay’s lacking. It gets very repetitive and is only fun for a few games. It has small battles rather than ones where there are dozens of troops on each side.
Secondly, I would like to see some defensive aspects. More specifically, a castle of your own. You could have an online mode where you can raid other people’s castles while people raid yours. To make this really fun you could add a fully customized system in building your own castle.
Finally, add more units. That is all I have to say.

This game is amazing I’ve loved playing it sense it was relatively new. It offers so much to it and is a great game overall. The only thing about it is that y’all advertise giant battles on the pictures when u look at IdleSiege and what you do in it, but when you load the game see what it is, it’s underwhelming. What I mean by this is, we need bigger battles, I feel like we don’t have enough of a big army. I’m sure you can just make the siege maps bigger to compromise this, but i feel like if you made it possible to somewhat have big army’s that could make the game a lot more enjoyable. This could also give more troop slots and maybe even more variety to troops. Instead of just your regular axe wielding infantry, you could add sword and shield troops or even spear troops which could make a phalanx. Another idea is related to the one of the newer features, the base, it’s pretty useless. Maybe for the base it could actually be a base, you could build you’re own castle to how you want it. And maybe make a new currency for the base called base coins or something. This currency would be for the base only. This would allow us to be limited to building our base but make it a challenge and more likely to stay hooked to the game. You could use any defense or decor that is in any other castle but you would be limited based on how much castle money you would have. Obviously these are just suggestions, but it would be really cool if some of this could be added.

After playing a bit since the last update, the artifact system changes are unfortunately for the negative. With that being said, a fair number of the new “burn card” style artifacts are provided by the battlepass, including the free track. I would love to see a return to the old artifact system, which provided a good long term goal as well as better choice of when to strategically deploy artifacts. If sufficient quantity of the cards are available without absurd prices, the new system isn’t irredeemable. I hope this game will get ongoing support as it has a good base - the gameplay itself is fun. Please keep it up and take things in a direction benefiting gameplay over a short term cash machine.

This is a very fun strategy base game that allows you to level up your commanders and become a stronger player overall. There’s also options for PVP through the arena which can help you unlock different commander cards to upgrade your commander. It’s overall very fun, and I like how you can see, the troops battling live. The two biggest issues I have is that I frequently am unable to connect to the arena to play PVP. It seems to only be an issue with IdleSiege and not others. Secondly, when doing bounties with the commanders some of them show that there are zero commanders available even though no other bounty is active. Once these get fixed, it’ll be much better user experience apart from the lag.

Like I said the game is good and really fun but personally, I think it’d be nice to see targeting controls to better strategize your attacks. There’s been a number of times when some of my troops went back and forth between two targets and were stuck there in the crossfire of projectiles or an enemies weapon. I also noticed when I’m upgrading my siege camp, it says, at certain levels, that I’m unlocking a cannon unit but I don’t have enough barracks slots. I’m not necessarily asking for more slots as the way to fix that, but maybe something like you have that set amount of barracks you can build and you decide which ones you want to use as another way to increase strategizing options. Overall I enjoy the game and look forward to updates! <3

This game is definitely interesting and somewhat fun to watch what goes on and is definitely a great idle army game, it is mainly about strategy on formations as well as level spamming them up
Only negative so far I’ve noticed is enemy troops spawn faster then your own by significant amount of time and there are generally more of them then your own even with heroes they aren’t too much stronger then troops, so if there was an update for extra upgrades for us, for example formation troop/hero speed boost, troop spawning speed, and even just a couple extra troops for us to spawn
With that happening it be a bit easier for us just as an example but still a great game overall

This game is really fun and entertaining and I don’t have anything bad to say about it except for the notifications because when notifications are turned on all it notifies you of is when you have a free chest available and when it occasionally tells you to get on the game but since it’s an idle game you still siege the castle while your not playing so I think it should notify you everything you destroy a structure because it makes a lot more sense then to just get notified of the free chest. Other than that this game is great!

Keep making it better and also what if we had infinite cash
Flow and we could just buy a new thing’s and then buy another new item that would give you money and we would just get it and you can get the other one that we could get for you if that makes it a good price to pay it back or we just don’t know if we could just pay you the extra amount that would give it away or if it just goes for you for free like I don’t really want it I really just need a little more time I really need a good time I want it for a long weekend so I’m gonna have some fun I want it and I’m going back up there I don’t have any