Raid Rush: Tower Defense TD Reviews

I see a lot of coming soon things as I progress through the levels, I hope we get an update soon with a few things on my wish list: Skill trees as you level things that give you small buffs to your troops, towers such as buff ice or fire damage or snare percentage or larger buffs such as attack bonuses or speed increases or cooldowns on the troops and wall. Make like two or three trees with a nice large buff or skill towards the end such as a fortress heal on a defense side, a large area nuke option and the third to give you another try if your fortress gets knocked out. ( if anyone is curious you can contact me). A few other things I would love added to just make ad removal a single thing to purchase not in a package, ads are the single thing worst thing about any ftp game but most have a monthly option that automatically renews. Another thing I would love is a way to fix a pathway placement, not a huge deal but I’ve screwed myself enough times I’d love to burn a turn on that similar to move tower. I wouldn’t mind the option to play with fewer than 6 cards, I pay some money to be able to use only 5 cards, even if only a few times a day to get past hard levels.

This game is ok. It could be far, far better. In the beginning it’s fun but then it deteriorates into frustration. As you progress through the chapters and face more and more waves of stronger enemies in each chapter you are not rewarded with more weapon towers or even upgrades to your current towers. Oh you get towers and upgrades during the first few waves but then you mostly get expansion of your territory rewards or expansion of your path rewards. Which does nothing to strengthen your base. Meanwhile your enemies get stronger while the player expands their territory. 🙄. When there are 50 waves of enemies per level and you might get an upgrade (forget another weapon) for every 10 waves after about number 15, well you see where this is going. Your weapons just can’t keep up. It boils down to just another money grab. You can get better weapon choices or upgrades if you fork out the cash. But the devs still need to make weapons and upgrades more available in the latter part of each level. Not just territory and path expansion.

I have spent days on this game I love it so much!! That being said, the bugs in the game indicates poor QA standards. If I am finding these, either this game is hardly tested or they just don’t care too much to fix before release.

Last release of content this week saw new contests which are super fun! However the game crashed and crashed I contest 1… so much that everyone but me and another in my tourney figured out the secret to getting your score recognized before the crash after wave 23… delete all your towers and fall on your sword! You lose but you get credited for the kills accumulated! If you wait for the crash, you get nuffin. I finished second… at times you couldn’t even click the tourney without crash.

The current tourney is kill totals… and is lots of fun until you kill more than like 2.4K in a game… then at the end of the game… your internet doesn’t work mysteriously… though the whole time I am streaming live music from Sirius. And… you guessed it… you lose your kills.

Latest content saw your portable wall become buggy… stuff just passes thru it to wreck your fort… just dumb.

As I said… love the game… but the bugs…. And CS crediting me 100 gems toward an event that costs 37.5 gems per game to play… WHAT?!?

I play lots of tower defense games and I really liked this game, and played it for a long while. The levels became more challenging and harder, which was fine and I enjoyed it because I eventually got closer to beating them, and then eventually beat them, and then moving on. But….. Then came chapter 20-wave 12. That level is ABSOLUTELY impossible to beat. Went at it with all maxed out towers, tried different combos, and never even got close to competing that level. Probably tried 200 plus times and never got any closer to completing the level. There’s a boss after every 3 or 4 waves, and you can do nothing to stop them. The second boss at level 7 wipes out half your towers, and then your done. Just not any fun any more, so I think I’m out now. No fun when it’s an impossible challenge.

Usually pay to win games have a lot lower quality than this and I will tip my hat to the developers that the game does have fairly high-quality BUT the pay to win portion of this is so horrendous that it borderlines on absurdity. Level 14 you are going to die by the boss, no matter how well you’re set up. You’re going to lose. Lower level units attack the base all of the sudden they have substantially more power than they should.

The BOSS situation is even more ridiculous. I’ve played multiple and multiple games where I can get through 39 levels, and the boss shows up and knocks out my base in five swipes.

Kingdoms does not need this and it is a fantastic game. This is just greed what a miserable gaming experience on a game that should be very very good but it ruins everything about the game.

I love the game! I hope to see more levels but I understand that it takes time to make new ones so you could add an endless level which gives rewards. You could also add different campaign modes because right now even if I play the old levels again I don’t get anything new from it. I would really like to see the game grow maybe have a mode where you get points for killing the minions and bosses which you can use to buy paths or towers instead of having to choose at random like it is right now this could be added as a game mode to allow more creativity and keep it fun. Again I love the game!!

I love the game! I have an issue though . How do I get the new towers, I’m two levels away from completing current version, however all these towers I’m supposed to be unlocking I have not received. Am I doing something wrong or are they not implemented yet? I’m not going to complain but it would be nice to try out some the new towers because they look really cool. Please respond devs and let me know. Thank you for your time.

Enjoyed this game, even if the difficulty exponentially increases compared to the linear ramp up of tower dmg, abilities, etc.

The usual options to watch ads for gems, coins, rewards are there and are great to use when needed (like if they reach your base and you need to reset), but now all of a sudden there are unprompted ads just appearing in the midst of gameplay. They are so abrupt that usually you accidentally end up clicking in bc you’re in the middle of moving a tower in place or etc. it’s completely off putting and frustrating me to the point where it’s invasive and just not worth it to play anymore

Please, make money off of your games, but do it in ways that don’t completely ruin the user experience

It is fun but luck has a huge impact on if you win or lose. Especially with path types. You cant really plan a path when u dont know what u will get. Its neat but change one thing-let roads overlap! If u need a one square road and get a two square, just let us put it over the other road as long as they match up. It would make sense and relieve frustration when u cant get that one specific piece!

A fun and new concept to the TD Games genre….however, not fun and EASY enough to wanna continue playing. I have played almost every TD game out there, and I maybe win a level a fourth of the time???? The devs have the enemies set up to be WAYS too strong…taking off WAY too much health/life/power from your base with each of their hits!?! You can literally be FILLED with 8,000 health points, but then LOSE THEM ALL on just ONE LEVEL!?!? NOT FUN!!! I wanna play a game that is challenging yes, but that you can easily win at least 80% of the time, ya know? This game is not it! Fun to play…..when they allow you to.

But the only problem is when I try to open chess or get something from the shop it won’t. It just says no Internet connection like I have my Internet turned on now I know if I have to delete the game or reinstall it. I’m gonna try to if it doesn’t work then I think it’s a bug and you guys need to fix it please but I like your game it’s a good game.

This game is fun for about 2 to 3 weeks and then the levels get so hard that you can’t move forward. It can take 20 tries to get past one of the levels on epic or normal mode. I’ve done all the upgrades and even purchased a few things. also, the levels having 50 rounds is just a little too much. 40 works and 30 is better, but 50 rounds is ridiculous. I’m done with this game as I’m on level 22 in normal mode and level 18 in epic mode, and I have no idea how many levels are left or how long it’s gonna take me to even progress to the next level.

High quality pay to win game. Really fun at first but you soon see that you need to pay if you want to go anywhere. As mentioned in many other reviews, this is done by not giving you the towers needed the later the level gets. You get lots of roads and land expansion cards but not the damage dealing towers you need. So you need to get those early towers as powerful as you can thru upgrades and base upgrades.

I paid for a few packages and enjoyed the early levels but not paying anymore. Progress slowing and app will probably be deleted soon.

There is an issue with certain types of ads (such as for Whiteout Survivor) where the ad dos not clear after the reward is granted. If my fortress is destroyed and I want to continue and not lose 20 minutes of gameplay, the ad will stop me from playing or clearing it so I must close RaidRush and restart from an earlier checkpoint or begin the stage again.

If I’m paying the price of watching the ad, I should earn the reward. This bug is holding this game back. Please release an update ASAP.

I’ve played many tower defense games. This one I would rank up there with the top games. The only issue I have so far is what was stated in a previous review I read. The energy doesn’t recharge when RaidRush is closed. I receive a notification that my energy is full, but when I open the game the timer just continues where it left off hours ago. I would play the game more often and rank it 5 stars if this would get fixed.

I gave this game a chance since I’m a fan of defense games, it starts off fine and the system is built well enough, but after playing for a while and going through the stages, at some point, I realized that all you get as upgrades or your “cards” for defending is just land, no tower upgrades, no towers either, just land extensions for the pathways. It’s really annoying and I’ve completely lost interest cause on the wave 40 stages for like 10 rounds in a row I didn’t get a single tower card, or upgrade. Just pathways and land extensions, hate it wouldn’t recommend.

Game is fun and addicting, I work overnights, my entire shift I’m playing this game. One thing I would like to add though to the developers, I don’t like where I go 20 rounds without being able to add any weapons, I’m always getting floors, floors, floors and more floors, I shouldn’t have to waste 400 diamonds just to add a weapon card. Please fix this one issue.

I enjoy the game a lot but im having problems with the energy recharging if the game is closed the energy won’t recharge so If I have no energy the next time I open it hours or days later I will still have no energy even having RaidRush running in the background doesn’t change it I’d have to be in RaidRush for the additional time for the timer to work and that doesn’t work very well if I don’t have energy so that’s my problem other then that I enjoy the game.

I truly can't say enough good about this game! It's well made and maintained, there isn't forced ads every time you die or something, and there's a lot of content to explore and unlock as the game progresses. This definitely brings back nostalgia from older phone games that were made for fun, not for a profit incentive.

The game has a tendency to not reload energy. Several hours may pass, but the energy would be the same as when RaidRush was closed the night before. I do like the fact there aren’t 10,000 ads going off after every match. Which is why I kept the rating higher. Please fix the energy bug, though! It would be greatly appreciated

I really enjoy this game but what gets me is the really dumb tower targeting system. So sniper towers are hitting low hit point bad guys. When there is someone next to them they could one shot with half or more life. Towers need to have a priority list or changer to help with this. The other thing is the game challenges are just hard enough to make you have to use up all your replays to force you to buy more which is too much to replay. And my last thing is the trying to find a new tower when re-rolling. If I roll for new cards I shouldn’t get the same cards. I want new ones, that’s why I’m rolling again. You can roll 6-7+ times and still have the same junk from the first hand you have. No ideal. Good potential but needs tweeking.

Tower defense games have always been fun. However, this one isn’t the normal classic tower defense game you would be use to. Normally you gain gold/money to buy your various towers and upgrades and you get to choose where you want to place them. With this game they only give you 3 different types out of many and only at various times and not at your choosing. If you don’t like the options they give you to choose from then you have to spent gems to re-row to get 3 different options, it is a hindrance but that is the catch. There is much better tower defense games out there than this one. Oh, and if you have ever played Clash Royal by SuperCell they copied it.

Really well done game. Great graphics and game play. The randomization paired with the lane building keeps things fresh so replaying the same level as you try to beat it is different each time. However, the game gets really stingy with tower cards making it EXTREMELY (and then downright impossible) difficult to beat levels even with everything maxed out.

I’m on Epic 22 and there’s simply not enough towers available to beat it. Same with Normal 17.

Obviously the devs want you to spend gems to insta-kill to overcome the extreme difficulty. They have to encourage players to spend money somehow. But the game is ruined for me at this point and I’ve simply stopped playing it.

So close to one of the best tower defense games up there with Kingdom Rush, Creeps, Sentinel, and the original TowerMadness but it’s ruined with the cash grab via impossible difficulty.

I have been playing this game for several weeks and mechanics and game structure are great, unique and quite fun. Tower developments are nice and I’ve actually gotten several towers up to a pretty high-level. Now after this update, when they introduced a whole bunch of new features, there are a couple things that in my opinion got worse instead of better. 1-Tesla tower. The Tesla tower used to work against both ground and air units, now it’s just ground units. This makes the maps that are heavy in both types of units too difficult as you just can’t get enough towers to cover both ground and air with any kind of effective fire power. 2-Tower Card Merging too confusing. They changed the way you merge lower level cards to get higher level towers. I have not quite figured out the best way yet but in doing so I’ve lost several of my cards trying to experiment how the new merging works. Hoping the developers respond with some better explanation on merging cards. 3-Existing maps default units changed. The types of units that are sent on each map also got changed. There used to be some maps with only ground units and some maps with only are units. This was very helpful when trying to upgrade specific types of towers. I no longer see these maps so once again difficult to get enough tower power to match the incoming units.

I love the game mechanics, the idea of building the map as you go is really cool! And the towers are cool too, I like the chance aspect of drawing cards to level up. Only problem is it seems like at some point you just get path or land expansion cards and then get stomped cuz you needed more towers… and my biggest problem with this game is it doesn’t save my complete progress!! I leveled all my towers up to lvl 12 last time playing, then I went back this morning and they’re all lvl 7??!? And I don’t have a support tower anymore?? It just straight up didn’t save my progress so what’s the point ?

Hello, this game was really fun but challenging as many people have pointed out which is fine. However, the new update is awful. I’m curious to see how many other people feel this way. Here are my complaints:

1. The new Hero Vault is cool, however it shouldn’t be part of the upgrades during the battle since it takes away from upgrading the towers which were already difficult to upgrade since it is chosen at random during battle.

2. All of the tower damages have changed making everything confusing. You should have left the damage,hp, etc all the same as before.

3. The new classes for each tower is poorly designed. For example, the fireworks shouldn’t have less impact against the drone bombers. The air targets are already hard enough to destroy. Why make towers stronger against specific targets. It makes it that much harder.

4. The Tesla is no longer ground and air which was the dumbest change. Change that back asap.

5. You can only choose 2 of the 3 skills now since the Hero takes up a spot. Change that back to the original way so you can have all 3 like before.

6. Go back to the old interface with the old look of the towers. Everything is smaller now which is annoying.

So yeah quite a few things you guys should change back otherwise I probably won’t be playing again like a lot of other people. I get it that games need to be updated but don’t make such a dramatic change that causes all these issues. Game is brutal now

Been playing for a few weeks and is a challenging but fun game. Most recent updates made the game a little tough to follow. The upgrades are confusing and the options provided to select builds do not make sense. STOP giving me options to build road when I haven’t opened up more maps spots. Also, I shouldn’t have to wait till wave 45 of 50 for a specific tower. I’m not going to spend 500 gems just to scroll through and maybe get the option to build a tower in my deck. Lastly, the most recent update, not sure of the version but downloaded 2/23 6:00 am est, freezes in the middle of battles all the time. You have to exit and restart app, and then items you have set are not in same spots. Aggravating!

This game used to be really good. Overall it was one of the better games out there in this genre. This last update ruined it and I probably won’t be playing it anymore. While the addition of heroes is interesting, why on earth did the developers go and change items that didn’t need to be messed with? Tesla towers now can’t attack air targets? Really? The shield wall you can activate now only lasts for a short amount of time? The recharge times for abilities take longer? Honestly, whoever the developer or developers were that came up with these changes should lose their jobs. Completely terrible. The game now is terrible to play unless you buy things which I suppose is their business model but honestly, the game isn’t worth spending money on in its current state. Only way to fix this is to remove the last update.

I use to love this game. It was simple, yet had enough depth to keep me entertained and coming back every day. Plus the animation was perfect. But now with the new update everything is different, old strategies don’t work at all because towers and power up don’t work the same. I personally think the new animation just looks kinda cheap like they’re trying to do too much, which is how I feel about the entire new updated version. It all is just kind of a confusing mess in my opinion now and for that I’m now giving this game 2 stars. Definitely was a 5 star game before. But for all of you that like the more intricate in depth tower defense style game then this game is now for you. Unfortunately for myself it is just not what I am looking for.

Thank you devs! This game is wonderfully addicting! It rapidly revealed itself to be one of my favorite games in general and clearly one of the greatest tower defense games available.

Unlike others of the genre: the play area is rendered perfectly; with detail where it matters and lack where it should be (as opposed to having too much going on paired with a horribly chosen color scheme making strategy non-existent and difficulty lie in tasks as simple as keeping track of the enemy).

If you’re a Tower Defense veteran you will not be disappointed! As for those just discovering the genre, Raid Rush is the perfect game for you! For Raid Rush has it all, and plenty of it!

I urge you all to give this F2P masterpiece a try and see that you are quickly drawn by its glorious graphics, simple to master mechanics, and the game changing innovation found in its “randomized” trail/tower system which gives the player more control on the map than ever!!

I have been playing for a while. I don’t mind the recent update an I see the devs are changing some of the complaints. I have the hardest time on dual roads an bosses. Not sure if you have to be p2w to beat them. It wouldn’t be so bad is the chance to get towers are greater than the other things. I wish I can lay down a dream strategy but some games I get useless roads to pick way more then towers. Other than that I just play to grind since I can’t advance any higher due to dual roads an bosses. I just play the events as they are way easier.

This game is amazing. Much more is improved upon from before the revamp, and I must say I am thoroughly enjoying this game. Currently on an 8 day login streak, the daily rewards could use some more exponential increase since 10 gems or a few thousand gold isn’t much when upgrades are tens of thousands each. The towers are awesome, and the roguelike type of gameplay just adds to the challenge. I’m on stage 8 normal mode and stage 4 in epic mode. Definitely recommend if you like tower defenses and/or roguelikes.

I’ve played just about every TD out there, this game stands out mainly due to the track building mechanic. The basic idea that you have random cards to use for towers, including track pieces so you get to design your path on an open grid, gives the player tons of options and a sense of strategy. The devs also know how to expand the gameplay with events and upgrades with a steady difficulty ramping. The major downside is poor stability from all the ad loading. Basically after 2 or 3 ads on an ipad5 you’re getting a crash/ reboot.

UPDATE: Thank you for the last patch, the game is much more playable again.

I really like the game and think the graphics with the last update are an improvement. However, I can now only get about of a third of the way through a level I completed the day before the upgrade. Not sure if you intended to do that or want to make it a PtW game, but it’s very disappointing. Hopefully you will address this quickly or I will have to move on.

All your towers were nerfed not matter how far you leveled them up

Tesla was the best item and now it only damages ground targets and can attack maybe 3 or 4 targets

All weapons rate of fire was slowed down big time

Damage output for all weapons took an insane low

New heroes are terrible, they won't even a track bosses and have terrible range. They ignore enemies half the time. They replaced the ability to deploy troops which was way better. And now you have to level them up from scratch when you already wasted resources on troops. Thornes special attack? He screams and pumps himself up to increase damage while letting enemies walk by.

You have to level up your abilities all over again.
Then you have to level them up mid-game. Making it harder for you to survive waves because now you have to a lower chance to get a tower card, and get random almost useless abiltly power up.
Rocket strike duration was increased but damage makes it near useless. Wall ability is a joke.

Just undo the update and take away heroes. All our progress was for nothing it's lame

Do not waste your time with RaidRush. It calls itself a strategy tower defense but with your drops being completely random, you invariably almost never get what you need or want. I think they program it this way on purpose so you spend money buying gems to get redraws. It takes forever(without money) to upgrade your towers and initial hero. Not to mention, I have been playing for 2 weeks and I am only a 1/3 of the way to unlocking the 2nd hero (which can fight both land and air enemies) with no end insight. The initial hero can only really hurt land enemies. There are also random enemies and sometimes they even switch the bosses so you don’t even know how to set up your deck to improve your already slim odds of getting the appropriate towers.

This game is fun. Can enjoy it without pay to win. There aren’t tons of ads, and the benefits from them are reasonable. No forced ads (just for some small buffs here and there).

I like that the levels change each time you play them, since there is random drops. I also like that you can pick the towers and how the roads are placed.

Hey developers, your special events are too tough to get anything decent no matter how hard you play, but I suspect that is your income from the game. Also it seems that the smaller boxes don’t have a bunch less stuff than the longer to unlock boxes. Weird.

Game is pretty good generally.
I like the concept of the game and the gameplay mostly. I wish they could have the troops and heroes stay on hold as where it was deployed rather than run up to fight the incoming waves. Its not like garrison troops or summoned units can take out a wave, everyone uses them to hold the wave for just a little longer for towers to do damages, but they run up way ahead and die and not hold anything for towers,
Also RNG on towers and roads are bit too off. When im in wave 40/50 and i cant even update my main towers to purple and i just spent 500 gems to refresh its bit annoying, I mean by wave 40 i already got like 50 spins plus however many refreshes i spent gem on I should be able to get towers to a decent minimal upgrade and not fully upgrade garrison troops that doesnt do any damage.
Other than these issues the concept is great, gameplay is good.
8/10

I love this game. I have spent countless hours and a lot of money happily. But I might rage quit.
Several bosses are so OP that you can stop 39 rounds with no problem but die in a few seconds.
The one that is making me about to quit is Riftwalker. Hard to fight when half your towers got vaporized.
I love the devs. They seem to listen to players. They have rolled out a few great QOL updates recently. You can play without spending money (though ranking up is hard) and you can play spending a little money.
Would have given 2 stars due to boss rage but couldn't give a game I love that low a rating for any reason.

Started playing right before the big changes. Once the updates came though I was really surprised on how everything changed for the better! The updates brought a whole new level of game play, which I love! I give 5 stars because of how well the developers listen to the players, and going above and beyond my expectations. Good fun game, easy to follow and play, challenging enough to keep people from getting bored, great layout on every part, and of course ANYONE can enjoy it (any age)

So the developers of this game recently made some pretty sweeping changes, many of which their fanbase was not at all happy with. Some examples of these include Nerfing, the Tesla towers, changing some of the boards that used to be for ground only for example, to now having multiple units. And they also made some sweeping changes to the game mechanics. After they made these changes, there were a wave of negative reviews on RaidRush Store and for the first time I can honestly say I’ve seen developers that actually listen to their fanbase and made changes back to the things that we all love almost overnight. I know some people aren’t crazy about the mechanics and I get that, I don’t really have a problem with them and actually, I think it adds a interesting level of play to the game. More importantly, kudos to these developers for listening to their fanbase like they have, and putting things that we loved back to the way they are. Well done and changing my review to five stars!

The thing I love most about this game compared to other tower defense games is that there is no “energy” or “power” that gets used up where you have to wait or buy more of to continue playing. I can literally play this game all day if I wanted to and don’t have to wait. This makes the player more willing to buy some of the other perks because they aren’t paying money just to play a round that they may or may not win. It is challenging enough to keep your interest, but not so challenging that it makes you want to quit playing. I rarely write reviews, but this game made me want to speak out because there are just so few games these days that actually let you play the game as much as you want without buying something. Great job developers. Please don’t ever change that feature, because this is what sets you apart.

Love this game! Very fun. Not too easy but not too hard where I don’t want to play anymore for awhile or get sick of it. I’ve played basically every day since downloading! This game is awesome. Once you figure out the strats it’s even better. And I love how they change up so the same strats don’t always work. Also love the events, which ever one they just had (don’t know the name) it was so addicting! I couldn’t stop to play the main game (no offense to the main, that event was just dope) there’s another event in 2 days and I’m excited! Awesome game! 10/10 would recommend. Can’t think of a single complaint honestly! I’m sure there has to be ONE thing I’ve had an issue with but I can’t even think of it if there was.
Edit right after: maybe the only MINOR complaint is the money. It’s so hard to upgrade your base AND cards, but being as you can play endlessly it doesn’t really matter. (As opposed to games that give you lives and then it takes HOURS to refill)

Really simple to learn and fun. Have played for quite some time now and am impressed at the developers reading reviews and feedback. A while ago they made changes that adversely impacted the towers that could be used against air troops. Comments were made by many and the developers reverted that one component…awesome!

No real complaints here…really cool game🤙🏾

Wishlist items: 1) find a way to give us more control over tower selection in play from wave to wave….maybe randomize the class of tower then let us select from all towers within that class. 2) let us use the “move” feature on roads and / or allow us to deconstruct

Awesome gameplay, and very challenging, which I love. It really takes a long time to beat the harder levels which is fun. however, Severe ads, quantity and length. There are ads during the game which are way longer than 30 seconds takes about about 1min (including transition time) and there are ads after you finish a game, which is severely annoying.
Also, there 1 MAJOR GUG. When you ‘early call’ the next wave, the repair % increase correctly give you the time allocated equivalent HP regen, BUT the skills cooldown time does not give you equivalent boost to skill cooldown. What this equates to, is terrible, you have to literally just wait for the timer to count down to zero each time. Meaning at higher levels each match can take 30mins. My wife be yelling! Pls fix