Kingdom Rush Frontiers TD Reviews

I absolutely loved the first game. The gameplay, heroes, etc.. Felt it was fair, difficult enough to challenge you to be as efficient or strategic as possible, yet doable eventually.

This game falls short of that in every regard. There is literally no difference between normal, hard, or veteran difficulties. I promise you if you can beat it on normal you can beat it on veteran. There is no difference. Second, the difficulty is so absurd, especially on the final level of the campaign, that it leaves you assuming these devs purposely created it to make you pay for the better heroes. You have to play it to really understand the 0% chance there is of beating it without looking up online exactly step by step how to beat or by using 4 nukes like it did. I mean literally upgrading one tower before the other would mean defeat. There is only one way. It’s particularly impossible to beat, forget 3 star, on your own with the starter heroes and shop items. It’s the least fun, most frustrating, level I have ever played of td.

They really lost touch with the consumer in this game and to be honest I’m not interested anymore in the series. When I finished the first one I thought for sure I’d play through them all. This game changed that for me. No thanks and I’m certain I’m one of many that felt the same way. Idk how this game has 4.9 stars.

I have loved this game for years. It provides a challenge and excitement. Several levels I have redone over and over again to get a good result. I have noticed while playing that it has become impossible to beat unless you spend quite a bit of money on gems. I do not mind buying gems. Gems are not the issue. The issue is that the game is impossible to beat unless you buy quite a bit of them. This money hungry tactic has turned me off. I am tired of buying a game and then it being required that I throw insane amounts of money to win. The “challenge” is no longer even feasible. I am left disgusted by a game I once loved very much. Thank you for that. Good job.

I love this game! It’s a lot of fun and I definitely recommend it. The only issue I have with the game is you can’t save your progress partway through a level. If you pause a level and switch to a different app or lock your phone, sometimes when you go back to the game you can continue your paused game but normally it will restart the game and you have to replay that level all over again. It’s frustrating that you have to complete each level in one sitting or risk having to start over.

I don’t care about saving my progress in a level so I have a checkpoint to return to if I fail - I just want to be able to pause a level and then go back later and continue where I left off.

I’ll admit there are some annoying enemies, but overall it’s a great game.
The final fight just isn’t fun. Both of the new mechanics it introduces (deleting your towers and a multi-phase fight) are very infuriating and make it feel like you are being forced to use abilities.
I’d say either one of these features work well, but both of them together leads to an incredibly infuriating loss unless you play perfectly or use a single ability to skip the entire thing.
Difficult levels are fine, but when the fight before it is a 20-40 minute slog through the exact same stuff as the last 5 levels, it’s not a good idea to throw a brand new and super difficult battle at the player.
It’s just not fun to watch helplessly as your towers are deleted one by one and enemies rush through. You can’t plan for it, you can’t prevent it, you can’t stop it, you just have to sit there and watch.

After finishing the first game, I decided to buy this one. After playing a bit of it I realize that it is on the same step of the first one in regards of level design and types of heroes. However what is different is that the levels are a lot harder in this game and I often found myself having to retry the same mission over and over just to complete it. Playing on casual felt the same as playing on veteran. I hope Ironhide makes this game free because it isn’t good enough of a game to buy unlike the original free game.

I have had this game for like several years now and I love it to bits. I’ve played it over and over and over. I hadn’t updated in a bit, so I recently did and I realized several changes had been made to the gameplay - WHY????! Who asked for it?? From the silly additions to the info cards (why is a broodguard now a SAURIAN BROODGUARD?) …..all the way to the changes in sequence of enemies …..I’m extremely annoyed. And also, now I have to keep adjusting my screen. Why did what wasn’t broken?!

I really wish I could return to the version I had before I updated.

Ironhide please read this. I gave this game a four star and here’s why. I have been a fan of kingdom rush when it first came out. I remember playing and with my older brother on our computer when it was free it was super fun and later when I got it on my phone I loved it. It was a new type of tower defense, super cool. Then ironhide came out with this one, frontiers, for one dollar on the Apple store and two dollars on google play. This game was fun but while I was playing I noticed that some of the enemy’s where pretty much the same as a villain in the first game. Such as the exocutioner is kind of the same as the pillager and the witch doctor was pretty much the exact thing as the shaman. Hopefully you get my point and the last thing I think is not as good is the fact that there is more level in the first game than the second and you have to pay for this one. Otherwise I think this game is good, there’s new bosses and new hero’s that are setup different since they upgrade to their max and stay that way. Please comment back so I know writing this wasn’t a waste of time. Also I know about your Website already.

You see, this game is very good, however they do not stop players when they accidentally press a button. One time, when I was on wave 13, I pressed the pause menu button out of routine, but then I accidentally pressed quit. The game doesn’t give you a “Are you sure about this?” when you press quit. Then I tried to get back into the level, hoping my progress saved. It didn’t. Now I have to go all the way back and do the level all over again (which is excruciatingly long). Other than that, good game.

The best tower defense games on iOS get better with new levels. Ironhide Studios is my favorite iOS game developer, not only do they offer high quality games, but they keep giving us awesome new content years after game release. Kingdom Rush is my favorite game series, and Ironhide is the standard by which developers should be measured. Buy some heroes (in app purchases which are not necessary to enjoy the game progression, but increase your enjoyment) to show support for a developer worthy of patronage.

I stumbled across the original kingdom rush online and became an instant fan of its take on the tower defense game. Not only has it been a favorite past time of mine, but a huge influence on my future being one of a couple games to inspire me to be a computer scientist. A must play for anyone looking to accidentally stay up till 2 am trying to beat a level or looking for a fresh take on tower defense that doesn’t involve monkeys and balloons.

I’m not questioning why all of a sudden kingdom rush is free when back then it was not,but I know why you did what you did,you know,with covid-19 out there outdoors activities are at all-time low so kids have to find other ways to entertain themselves so you took this chance to take your down loads higher than ever,also with the kingdom rush games being 4.99 and what not and how people can’t really work anymore you realized people won’t be able to pay for it (or at least something as trivial as kingdom rush )

This game and the first one immediately sucked me in. The game mechanics are easy to learn and challenging to master, which makes strategic thinking and resource planning feel more rewarding. Each map requires a different plan and different priories, so you're forced to think up new approaches often.

I love the art style. It's colorful and dynamic, but also doesn't feel like there's so much going on on the screen that it's overwhelming to look at.

The in app purchases do not feel at all intrusive or compulsory and you can complete the whole game without having to spend additional $. You earn plenty of in-game currency just by completing levels with 2-3 stars.

Kingdom Rush is one of my favorite tower defense series and one of my favorite iOS games ever. When I started playing Frontiers, I was having a blast until I switched out of KingdomRushFrontiersTD to check something else on my phone, only to find all my current game progress lost. Close to 30 minutes of progress, and I was kicked back to the title screen!

But after doing some digging, I learned the trick: make sure low power mode is turned OFF and that you have Background Refresh for Frontiers turned ON. No issues since then. Probably a rookie mistake on my part, but I was just glad I could get back to enjoying what’s a phenomenal tower defense game. Enjoy!

Hello, it’s me again. I’m here to elaborate on my issue with my restoration purchase. Currently, on Kingdom Rush: Frontiers, I cannot restore my hero's. And why this is odd as I still have the same Apple ID I used to purchase said hero's (all of them) on my old iPad. So clearly, I have no idea what’s going on. I’m not here to restore my origins, nor anything else but my Frontiers hero’s. If that’s not possible, I’d just like to forward this in general to see if I can get a response and see if anything is wrong with the game or myself. Thank you, IronHide Studios.

P.S Can’t wait for your next game! Keep the quality up and I’ll save my money to purchase them eventually!

This game is the best mobile game I will probably ever play. The graphics are amazing and the gameplay is so engaging, especially for a tower defense game. Everything is outstanding, and replayability makes it worth the cost. However, compared to Origins and the first Kingdom Rush, this game is INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT, and the last level with the final boss on iron veteran difficulty took me almost a year to beat, (albeit me being a kid at the time) and don’t even get me started on Dusk Chateau. This game is super addictive, fun and engaging, and at the same time provides a good challenge and great incentive to continue to play. Please play this game. You’ll enjoy it. I have to five entire years, so I think you can trust me. :)

I absolutely love this game and the franchise as I’ve been playing your games on and off and every time I played it was a flood of good memories when I was younger. I would often use my family’s computer to play Kingdom Rush Frontiers which was the first tower defense game I played and really got me into the tower defense genre. The towers in each game felt new and improved with cool ideas like having musketeers and wizards that summon the dead. When I went to check on games to play because I was bored I saw these games were for free. I am truly happy that one of my favorite games is for free and you guys had the kindness to make it free so people like me wouldn’t get bored during the Covid-19 lockdown break.

I don’t normally write reviews, but I have been playing this game on and off for YEARS now and it’s been really fun every time.

The “gems” are not only affordable, but you can get A LOT of them for free by watching adds. They’re not NEEDED, they just make the game a little easier. I’ve gotten so many from adds. There doesn’t seem to be a limit as to how many you can get per day for free. Most games cap this so low that it’s not even worth it. All THREE of these games from this company that I’ve played share this trait, so kids can really get into it without buying anything! (Kingdom Rush and Origins)

The level progression is fun, challenging and makes you really think about the placement of your towers, they level up as you level up, it’s really diverse and interesting. I HIGHLY recommend it.

I am a huge fan of IronHide games and this is my favorite kingdom rush iteration. It has great art, (so do the others but this is my favorite), a great story, great tower builds and great landscapes as well as achievements. However I have some tiny complaints, mainly around the achievement Mua'Dib, which is just infuriating because of the necessity of troops because of dune terrors and reinforcements can't deal with all of them and you can't maneuver them so you must use barracks and have to be on constant lookout even if you are being overwhelmed by immortals and desert thugs, which incidently can be dealed with easier by reinforcements, which we established can't be used. Eeeerrgg😅 The other issues is miner and relates to difficulty scaling in veteran mode with heroic and iron challenges. But either way it is a great game. Thanks IronHide Games for yet another great game.🙃

The original Kingdom Rush is easily the best tower defense game I've ever played. Yes, this game doesn't bring a radically new experience to the table, but nothing really needed to be changed about the first game.

Yes, there are in-app purchases of better heroes. You definitely don't need to buy them to progress. If things are too hard for you and you'd like to progress faster, just lower the difficulty level. I played through the whole first game on Normal without buying anything. Anyone who complains about how much the heroes cost needs to shut up and choose one of the first three heroes (I like the third one the best in this game, but you don't get him until after you beat level 7).

It's a joy to play a game with this much polish and care and attention to detail. Thanks for making a great game!

Frontiers delivers it all with amazing maps and super fun towers, with every tower having its own unique purpose. The levels require some amount of tactical play even on the easiest difficulty. I would say this is the best game in the series but they are all so good in their own unique way (it just depends on which one I’m playing at the time). I’d say this game is definitely worth at least a try. Amazing game!