Doodle Magic: Wizard vs Slime Reviews

by Crocman1230

I’ve been playing for a few weeks. I don’t do p2w games. Either you pay to get better or the progression in the game is super slow. These levels get harder by a long shot. It takes a couple days of none stop grinding to pass one level. After a while of losing, it makes me want to delete the game itself. If you wanted more player to play and progress, why not have everything else unlocked after level ten/10?

Having everything unlock after level 20, sure it makes players want to get there, but I would guarantee no one wants to spend $20 just to get half of the rewards what they could get from other games. I hope this game makes a few changes, though I doubt it. Seems like the devs are money hungry and don’t really care about the players themselves.

Anyways, if you get this far…thanks for reading this, have a good day/night.

by Mineman047

This game seems really fun at first for a free-to-play so I was really hopeful. Unfortunately turns out they’ll just randomly bam your account one day with no explanation. So instead you have to reach out to them which they’ll take a couple days to answer only for them to still not tell you why, but they will insist that you somehow find the time to get ahold of them during working hours (if you’re EST that’s roughly 11pm to 7am), wait for them to respond, then be able to dedicate the next hour of your life recording yourself playing an arbitrary level to flawlessly complete it with the gear you had when you were banned in 3 tries. They won’t tell you why you need to do this, or what happens to your account if you fail btw. Like I said it seems really good at first if a little buggy (and the ai can be frustrating at times but what ai can’t) so it’s really a shame that whoever interacts with users and flags whatever got flagged for this to happen cares so little about the game…

by Plaid11

The main thing I have found I absolutely HATE about this game doesn’t have anything to do with the gameplay. It’s the notification bar at the top that goes across every time someone get some legendary thing or something along that line. I DO NOT care what others are winning. It gets in the way of stuff I actually care about because it seems to pop up and second or two and is so freaking annoying. Eventually it will make me stop playing. That’s the whole reason for not getting a 4 or 5 star review. There’s a few other things with the game than I’m not the biggest fan of but the notification bar of people winning stuff has to go before any other feedback is given. Whoever’s idea it was to put that up there needs to be fired. That is the stupidest thing ever. If it was something that popped across every 5 minutes or so, not a problem. I don’t care about something that happens every second.

by Sigwaldos

Missing their pre register rewards (Dumbledore skin). Several people have asked about it on their FB with no reply. Looks like a very low supported game.

by CraigNJen

I read the critical reviews first before I downloaded the game, then I checked the privacy settings to see if it was anything unusual. Everything looked OK, so I downloaded it. Initial complaints were after level 3, it was impossible to progress ... I reran level 3 about 5-6 more times until I was able to beat level 4 on one star. That unlocked new features (great!) ... but that's where the fun stopped.

I noticed one of the daily quests was to share the game. Out of curiosity, I clicked it ... WITHOUT PROMPTING ME, IT WAS ALREADY LOGGED INTO MY FACEBOOK *WITHOUT PERMISSION* and was ready to post. Whoa whoa whoa!!!!!!!!!! I never would have even downloaded the game with this type of privacy invasion!!!! Secondly, when I went to delete my account, it literally would not let me. I clicked delete and confirm over 20+ times with no avail.

Immediate deletion for my privacy!

by Jose559

Having somewhat fun with the game, but lots needs to be fixed. How am I earning all these things I can’t use? Rune stone, refining stone, and tomb of inheritance??? They are pointless, and there’s not much explained about what to do with them. Even Reddit seems lost on a lot. They just sit there. If you ask me, they’re trying hard to make a game that only seems worth it when spending money. I’m not going to spend all this money upgrading things to level up. You can already tell you'll have to spend a lot to find out what those things do. It should take this long to find out when I’ve been playing everyday for an hour or 2. I’ve never spend money on a game, but I keep passing levels and I still don’t know what to do with those things I’m earning. Plus, the upgrades while playing the game are too random, and they can make or break a round. I can do really good on a level one round, and completely bomb on the next. It’s not consistent enough. They need to put more thought process I to the game.

by Lawrence Smith 65368

I really like the game and would love to say it’s good bc it is but it has the progression is terrible, at first the levels are challenging but balanced but around level 8 you are simply completely ineffective at doing damage and there is almost no way to upgrade your stats that’s not unbelievably slow, you can play older levels for XP and gyms but the pricing on upgrades goes up way faster than the amount of gold you get and it’s to the point where if I want to even have fun and experience the game I either have to spend a good amount of money so I even have a chance of passing levels or spend hours replying old levels to get enough gold and gems to upgrade. It is such a brick walls and takes all the fun out of what should be a good game so quickly. If you want a fun game you can play for 8 levels then it become completely arbitrary this is it

by DizzyPillow

Launched once and now gets hung up on the log in screen. Cant play

by Stranger -

It’s ok, very slow for everything, takes so long to get through lvls and the little amount of upgrade spoils it. Fun for about 10 lvls but then interest really starts to drops off. They need more to it, no real control and the amount of ads they want you to watch to get the correct ability’s makes the game even less fun, usually skipping them and taking a unwanted ability just to lose, just my opinion though. Ranked pretty low for a lot I’ve played though, mainly cause you have really no control, a lot of the ability’s just throw randomly. Good luck.

by Troywlejf

I’ll start off by saying that I actually do really enjoy this game but here’s a list of what needs to change, Immediately!

1. Stamina is a big issue. I’d say that’s mainly due to the fact that you are limited on how much stamina renewal you can actually get even with a subscription. Secondly it costs way to much to challenge a stage. Needs serious reworking.

2. Too much ambiguity. There’s no sense of direction or guidance and there are multiple features/items that have no actual use in the game with 0 explanation as to why.

3. Awful scaling. The grind can become incredibly redundant. You can spend hours grinding and taking down the same stage over and over (not by choice but because you literally have no chance at taking on the next level) and make almost no progress at all. This is another much needed fix.

4. Hands down the worst targeting of all time. Not much needs to be said here. Fix it!

5. Have some kind of daily message board/news so the players are up to date silly devs.

by Shadowkil338

So. Love playing this game. It’s challenging and fun, but with the Christmas update it has become extremely glitchy. All the graphics are messed up, I can’t go to the store, the castle, or my gems. I’ll play a round even with the glitches, and I’ll complete it, but when the last enemy is defeated, it will say stage failed, idk if I even get the rewards from the round. It is very infuriating to win a round only to be told stage failed, if I complete a new stage it won’t give me the credit for it. I spent money on this game because I love it, but I’m losing rewards and losing time that I purchased. It’s stupid but the glitches is why I’m only giving it two stars. If they get fixed I will rate better, but until then, this money that I’ve spent, it is being wasted by not being able to do everything. It didn’t happen until the Christmas update.

by Azrael Awoken

I’m enjoying the game. But it needs some major improvement. There are some items that have no use such as the Rune Stones and Tome of Improvement. The stamina system is pretty horrible. Costs for new levels scale up, and this brings player engagement way down. It would be much better if the stamina was only used for quick raids, so that players can keep playing new levels. The player build screen is pretty bad, the quick combine function doesn’t account for already equipped gems, so you have to un-equip all your gems to properly combine them. There is no quick un-equip. The multiple builds are useless because the other two build slots don’t give you a fresh start, so the gems on your first build are left there.

Good game. But needs major work.

by HaHaBoiIDK

Im not gonna lie the game is really fun, watching your mage dominate mobs is pretty entertaining. Its a great game to kill some time but its not perfect. A issue is that mobs corner up at the edges and your mage doesn’t target them. I have solution that is to make it so that you can control the spells some way or another, this will introduce more skill to the game. Another issue is the rng aspect, I know you can reroll cards but Its tedious, one match I will get to wave 15 while the next I only reach 5 since I get bad cards. To fix it make it have 5 cards instead of 3, also make it so that re rolls are free and u buy them with coins or something. The next issue is the difficultly, at the start from level 3-4 it gets a lot harder, make it easier. The last issue I have is the ads not working. Thats all the problems I have, Its a great game and I recommend playing but for now its gonna stay at 3 stars until they get fixed.

by Lord_lucifir

the game gets harder not only from having stronger enemies but by unlocking more skill, which is supposed to make players stronger, forces players to spread skills thin and become weaker as they level up. not only that, the bottom of the screen is literally a dead zone. monsters are prioritized based on how close they are to base unless they are hitting the fortress then skills skip them. especially when monsters go to the left or right corner. you can have 5 skills unlocked and not one will hit them. over all, low effort money grabber

the ads are of the actual game which I appreciate. the game itself is fun tower defense. however it's too rough for the price point especially when everything has a price point. Usually $20 would be. good price to set you far enough to feel the game but in this case it's barely enough to get through 1 level. there are items we have but no place to use. challenge is locked till level 20 but trust me, you will be stuck probably after 2 levels if you are f2p.

by Barbercj

I love a good defense game. And this one has a lot of things going for it. But has some MAJOR draw backs. The upgrades are cool, once you FINALLY ever get to them. I have put a lot of time into this game already and still most powers are only level 3 or 4. As others have pointed out it’s soooo slow to do anything. The rounds are slow, upgrading your character is slow because you get so little in the way of gold per round and upgrade pieces. They give loads of stamina but I’ll never use it. I could play this game all day and I’d still wouldn’t make a dent in my energy (currently over 600 stamina) because who has time to play this game for 8 hours to use enough energy. Even getting to the 60 stamina use daily challenge is a grind.

My recommendations would be to increase the speed of the battles, increase the amount of gold and experience earned per battle (18 per round just doesn’t cut it) and add color to the attacks at earlier stages. I get it’s “doodle” but it’s basically a black and white fight until your 600 hours in.

by Caguitar

So the game is for the most part fun to play although needs quite a bit of dev work. The English translation is so bad in some upgrades that you can’t really tell exactly what the upgrade does. Additionally a lot of the upgrades will be to increase something by a percentage however at least for damage this is not being done correctly. I’ve reached level 14 free to play just watching ads and the free to play aspect is great. This game has tons of potential so I will keep playing for a bit but if some updates aren’t done in the near future then I don’t see myself playing it more than another week or so.

by MyChemIsBetterThanIncubus

I’ve been playing for about a month and a half now and I really really like this game. Quick missions, lots of unlocksble abilities, a charming art style, doesn’t feel too ad heavy (all of which are optional also which is nice). The only drawback I have right now is the higher level abilities rarely (if ever) pop. I’ve had the level 5 meteor ability for 3-4 weeks now, the one that sets the ground ablaze. I’ve gotten that ability to pop once ever. EVER. Even when I exclusively upgrade meteor it just does not show up as an option or even as a possibility when you get the defeated boss spin the wheel thing. It’s very frustrating and now I’m seeing this occur with other abilities (pulse laser and laser refractions). So all this time has been input to unlock these options but they never pop up which makes deeper levels especially difficult. If the spawn rate could be tweaked or if there’s some other road map for how to unlock these in game could be shown, please please please add this. I don’t want to stop playing but it’s getting old

by Nomikossirren

Fun and challenging for sure. Does not make you overpowered like other games and suddenly you hit a pay wall which is nice but the main issue I have seen (and reading other reviews) is the targeting system of your attacks. As enemies approach closer your wizard attacks will prioritize enemies that are farther back which makes no sense. It makes no sense cause your completion of the level depends on the health of your wall that is left, so if you are left with 100% health you get the most rewards. For example I like the log that slows and push enemies back, in theory it should deploy on enemies that are close to the wall and then effect the enemies behind the closer enemies giving my attacks more time to kill them, allowing me to stay at full health. Yet my log will spawn on the side to an enemy that is mid map while I got 6 enemies that are at my wall. It’s very frustrating. As you progress the enemies just get strong so the targeting system just screws you over more. Not only that some attacks will target the same enemy resulting in overkill and a waste of attacks if you don’t have penetrating attacks. I think if they fix the targeting system the game will be overall better.

by NoahBerkel

This is one of those games that could be so good, except for the fact that the devs CLEARLY do not even play it. It takes FOREVER to get anywhere in this game. You will never get anywhere near what the ads show unless you play this game as much as a $60 triple A title. And the gameplay loop makes 0 sense. It takes 10 minutes to run a dungeon 1 time, and your rewards are so minimal it’s like you did nothing. And you have to do that endlessly. And they give you so much stamina you will literally never, ever, run out. Like if you’re going to give players stamina, at least don’t cap out the quick runs you can do. Especially since it requires you to watch ads to do them? It’s like the devs hate money or something.

by Leo_Rios

Started this game about a month ago.
Played for a week and was fixated on it. It was nice leveling up and experiencing new spells; seeing how they evolve and compliment each other.

There are a lot of intricacies in the game that will require you to min/max your stats and builds eventually. These challenges and lack of resources eventually get you eyeing the free extras.

The thing about the extras though- you have to watch 30 second ads for them. It’s not so bad if it was 1-2 ads but.. there are about 8-10 freebies to collect in the beginning. Eventually- the energy ad won’t even give you enough juice to play a level.

If you’re like me- you will get the battlepass. Also the weekly & monthly privileges/pass.

Your cost go maintain these things will be about $30 per month.

I enjoyed the month I didn’t have to watch ads and had extra energy plus rewards to collect. It was a blast- but “subscribing” every month.. for $30 to keep these things is just wild.

I dropped the passes and now- I can’t deal with spending 15 minutes a day trying to watch ads just to keep playing.

Uninstalled unfortunately. And just when I unlocked apprentices.

by Edwardjerome

Last update helped a lot. Stamina more available.
Targeting is still frustrating. Mage will be one shot away from killing a mob and switch to another target. Maybe prioritize lower health mobs at wall.

Game is better but would appreciate an option to permanantly remove ads. Watching ads every time I level up in a single round just so the game doesn’t give me weak upgrades feel bad. Still would not recommend spending ANY MONEY. Also would not recommend if you don’t like watching multiple ads every play-through.

by Howdyzydane

The game could be great! Yet it’s not there yet. The scaling of the enemy mobs vastly out paces what you can do for upgrades and attack damage. The scaling of XP you gain is crap, need over 1000 xp after level night which only grows and at max you get 21 xp for a level. How much you need to play vs how much you get or earn even with gold makes it hard to want to keep playing. Even as you get higher the max gold you earn even if your get the monthly bonus is 500 period. Upgrading 1 skill to level 5 costs 2500 so it’s very slow moving. To slow.

by Reaperstone

I think the game is very fun, but certain things need some polishing. Firstly on events, there needs more explanation. There is an event right now saying if you top off you get an epic gem. But then doesn’t explain at all what topping off is. So I have no idea what to do to redeem this as a brand new player or if it’s obtained through game play or not. The other reviewers complaints about the wizard losing focus of what is at the wall attacking it are also very valid and it can really make you lose quick because the wizards programming is not as good once the wall is being beaten on.

by Ginnzerd

The game has potential but gives you very limited upgrade materials so you’ll have much more gold than you’ll ever need really it would definitely help the game with the difficulty uptake and prologue enjoyment of the game but sadly right now it’s gotten very boring having to either choose to spend money for the premium currency or show up every day for the chance to get daily chests for new gear to help you get to the next difficulty ledge

by Tehduffz

The concept of the game is really fun, as it’s essentially a “Rogue-like”. The spells seem fun, the upgrades, while limited in variety, feel rewarding and allow you to come up with some fun combinations.

Unfortunately there are several downsides.

With any rogue-like game, the levels should start out reasonably difficult, but you should never be in a situation that you can’t recover form before you get your first upgrade. The first play through on multiple levels are simply unbeatable, as your base skill damage is a single shot and takes multiple hits to defeat one enemy while 6 or 7 are charging at you. You feel basically forced into only taking any AoE skill buff you’re offered. If you miss an AoE skill at the beginning, you basically lose to the RNG, which feels pretty terrible. Also, for a game like this, marketing “only 1% can pass level (X)” basically tells the consumer that either you’re lying to present a challenge that doesn’t exist; or you’re telling the truth, which means the experience is going to be awful.

TL;DR : Lots of promise, needs a lot of tuning.

by Jbmikal

There are numerous ways to improve this game. I wanna say, firstly that it’s a good game. But there are little things that are annoying.

Now why wouldn’t you make it to where your wizard, focuses on the monsters closest to him? I.e the ONES ATTACKING YOUR RAMPART? Makes no sense to me how the middle of my screen has less monsters and the sides are getting attacked because he doesn’t focus on them.

There should also be a way to heal the rampart on my own button, not on the level up. Especially since he doesn’t target monsters except for (maybe, I’ve only unlocked 1) couple single target spells.

The rewards for each of the rounds are kind of underwhelming. And the fact that I can only increase those rewards three times per day is VERY annoying. It also make it hard to actually make progress or at least FEEL like you’re making character progress.

LASTLY, I think you should include a tutorial to explain what a lot of these little buttons on your main screen are and what they’re for.

If the game improves more at higher levels Ill leave another review but as of now, it’s Ight. 🫤

by Smoshier92

I’ve been playing for a few days and have noticed the intense grinding, which for some players is fine. It isn’t killing me but it does feel it could take longer just to overcome the early stages with the random gems and low income.

The game is sort of misleading from the screenshots, which is always a major issue with me. It feels like false advertising. The spells in the screenshots and video are colored, while in DoodleMagic everything is just black and white—doodled. Even some of the adds show wicked improvements to spells that are maybe not unlocked for me or don’t actually exist.

Like some other reviews, not all spells become as useful as others and it takes a long while to level any of the more useful or focused spells, making the grind even more tedious.

Beside these issues, the game does have a flare for fun and I can see the appeal. It isn’t bad and I think people should give it a shot for themselves if it looks interesting but be warned with their expectations that it might not hit it off right away for them. Looking forward to future updates!

by Chudzley

I agree with other reviewers that as monsters are are getting close, the wizard is focused on a certain enemy. But as they reach the wall, the focus changes to other enemies. What this does is take precious time away and before you know it, the wall crumbles. I’m on stage 10 right now and it seems there is absolutely no way I will pass without more time or more powerful weapons. As I recall, in the earlier walls, like 1 -7, my first weapon would take out an enemy in 3 or 4 shots. Now on level 10, it is taking 9 shots to take an enemy out! I don’t agree with that. I think it would be fair to take out an enemy in 5 shots at the most. Otherwise the wall will come down. The reason I like this game is because it is challenging and not super easy. But it is becoming super hard as I pass each wall. I think the weapons, especially the basic weapon that shoots a “bullet” should be stronger and take out enemies quicker. It’s also difficult to understand the strategy of combining gems so when I have an opportunity to do a “quick combine” I just do that. I would be happy to give the game 5 stars if you could remove my frustration with a wall coming down so quickly. I don’t think it should take between 20 and 50 attempts to take a wall. Thank you for wonderful game.

by Thanetis

I think the game is good, I’ve seen styles similar to this but not as fulfilling as taking on so many hordes of monsters. Something I think could set you apart from other app games is if you did away with the stamina requirement for entering the main game. People who like your game are going to play it regularly and nothing ruins or reminds gamers that you’re just an app game than the loss of immersion because “you’re out of stamina, please wait while it comes back”
When I play games I like I don’t want to put them down to wait for a chance to keep playing, no one does. That’s not to say you can’t have “entry items” for events. And yes I know you can watch an ad for a little bit of stamina, but you have that feature in good places elsewhere.
Next I think you should have more mages, witches, or wizards with different abilities. Maybe have them start with one of the other spells like lightning/fire/ice instead of the arcane bolt. Since I’m going to be grinding away I enjoy getting some variety. Maybe you even let players customize the look of their avatar before the game begins. Just some thoughts on stepping your game up and away from similar games on DoodleMagic Store

by CurlOfAbyss

I’m happy with the game so far. I’ve made it to stage 16 but keep failing due to the targeting system. If we had control, or options to attack the weakest, strongest, furthest, or closest mobs for individual spells it would tremendously improve the game overall. Mobs just eat away at the left, and right sides of the wall in huge clumps without getting attacked (very frustrating). The very low amount of stamina you receive is also saddening. I know there are free in game ways to obtain more but it isn’t enough. I would like to have a way to keep playing without spending money to buy more. To my understanding updates including more options with upgrades to spells, the wall, and your mage are coming already, so I’m happy about that. Overall good game imo these were just reoccurring problems and thoughts I had and would like to see changes to in the future :)

by Squeechl

Just a few small bugs, such as when I pick +80% radius on meteor sometimes it’ll then only hit 1 target instead of the massive range it’s supposed to have. Same situation with the big ice thing. Progress is decent, is a little slow however it’s rewarding when you pass a level. If possible make organizing the gems easier, along with allowing gems already equipped to be slotting in when you’re going into the other presets. Other than that I’m on level 15 and I’m having a really fun time. I’ll let you know if I see any thing else I think can be improved on!

by Fall-fate

I do enjoy a great tower defense game. This is definitely one of them. I love the black-and-white main color, combination contrast and using unique colors for specific effects or items I do think the spells and leveling up system works for this game however, on the downside, I wish there were more heroes to choose from. I think it will get boring using the same one over and over and only having two choices which are hard to get unless you spend money.
I also think possibly not making arcane shot a have to have and takes up a spell slot when we don’t get the choice to take that spell.
Overall great idea and I hope to see it evolve.

by AAIIIDDDAAANNN

(Stage 14) It’s very fun and entertaining, but it needs more? It’s very straight forward with rewards, but needs more rewards… if I win 1 round for coins that takes 4-5 mins and upgrades cost well over 2000 coins. Maybe an endless mode? That would be awesome. Also Gems need new upgrades that would benefit starters more? (It’s also a new game so I understand that). I also don’t understand the chance percentages in the game (could just be a U.S. thing idk) but it never adds up to 100. Other than the small things I love this game and find it very fun 🥳🥳

by RobertShane1016

The game play is fun, lots of customization and upgrading of character from skills, to attributes to clothing/accessory upgrades. It is also challenging enough to keep it interesting. Sometimes it takes me a couple days to beat a level.

My only complaint is sometimes the game is glitchy and I’m defeated without ever being offered the chance to learn a skill to fight back and often multiple games in a row. This is annoying because you only get so much “stamina” in a day without paying and every time you play it uses stamina.

Currently on level 19 and I’ve been trying for several days and can’t get any kind of fair fight in, maybe this is a level glitch?

by Xiantos

The game has been really fun so far, but there is some attacking logic that’s a bit annoying. For example: even if an enemy is almost dead, the same skill will start firing at a new enemy instead of killing the original one to give you rewards to get the next level up. Also, follow up skills will fire at the same enemy as a previous skill, even if the previous skill would kill the enemy first; which means the other spell was just wasted. Doesn’t feel real good when it happens to spells with longer cooldowns. Both scenarios make a big difference in winning or losing a level.

by AceWolf456

A recent update (on Dec 21, 2023) completely broke the game. It’s playable, but I can’t upgrade my spells and it crashes a lot. My current review is 1/5 but I’m rating 4/5 because I’ll probably forget to update the review when the game fixes.

But when it was working, it’s good. Been playing it for like 2 or 3 weeks, on and off. Progression is a challenge and needs you to replay older stages to level up your spells and unlock new ones. It’s rough starting out, but I’m enjoying it.

by WildJackal

The ads don’t work half of the time so you go through and watch the whole ad for no reward. This is kind of annoying since it’s a waste of time. I’ve also noticed the ads sometimes just stay as a black screen and there’s no way to exit unless you restart DoodleMagic . And even doing that you don’t get your reward. Other than this the game is very good and challenging

by Maleficent10152003

I love the game. The graphics are incredible. I just think that there needs to be some sort of clarity regarding gems. It tells you what skill the gem improves and where the gem goes.
However, I wish the game would tell you when you can combine gems even those that are being used. In order for me to know if I can combine them I have to “uninstall” the gems from being active to see if I can combine any. I also think there should be a key for what each set of letters mean. I install the gems but even as a 20 year old I don’t understand what some of the letters mean. Like CD or CH. I think I know but I’m not entirely sure. So an acronym book guide would be helpful.

by Kain442287

I like the fact the gameplay isn’t too easy. They make you work for your progress. On the flip side the amount of energy they offer daily to play without paying anything out of pocket is bit low. I understand they need to make revenue but it seems a bit in the excessive side. All in all a solid game so far.

by Nolan Kocian

I’m having a lot of fun playing this game! Around the 4th stage the difficulty does go way up, but in my opinion the extra challenge helps to keep you engaged. I don’t know if this is something I’m doing wrong or something wrong with the game, but I’ve noticed enemies tend to bunch up in the corners, then almost no skill will aim for them consistently, so they end up causing huge damage to your wall. Otherwise I really enjoy this game!

by ThatKarateGuy001

I love this game and it’s a great time playing, I’ll be honest though the grind is a little crazy. The enemies’ health and damage increases at a percentage base while you’re locked in grinding for weak gems, it can feel unbalanced but with good RNG you can kinda limp your way along. It feels like you’re bound to get hard stuck though because the enemies damage and health dramatically increases while your’s SLIGHTLY does. Otherwise it’s an absolute blast to play and easy to get stuck into.

by Jazevangal

…and I want to love it.

But. There is not much to do in a run, other than picking 1 skill out of 3 (standard rogue-like procedure). If some skills were for auto “cannons”, while others were aimed, then the player would be better motivated to watch and interact during a run.

For a free/cheap player like myself, it’s going to be - well, in honesty - it already has been a grind, and I only have beaten level 20. The gems you get are random, and worse, the skill books drop randomly… so getting ineffective skills in a match is bad enough, but getting material for ineffective skills makes leveling up the better skills impossible… even the gold is doled out in miserly, parsimonious, drips.

I like the art style, though I wish some of the fonts were better. Really, it’s a color AND size issue that makes some text hard to read on a smaller screen.

I wish there were more free gems available, and finer sort methods for the gems - there’s no way to tell what a given gem does without opening it.

Greatness is near… but still not there yet.

by Raremage

Biggest frustration is a “quality of life feature” that previously worked - ‘quick combine’ for gems - now shows a notification as being available, but when you press the button it says “available at level 20”. The problem is, without combining gems, it’s not so easy to make level twenty.

Admittedly it’s an annoyance - overall I love the gameplay, although the nearly constant push for microtransactions does become a bit annoying sometimes. But if you enjoy tower defense and resource management games combines with character development, plus some cute if simple art thrown in - this game is for you.

by Cjtedesco72

I started playing doodle magic about a week ago and I have loved the game it is very original and good mechanics but it feels a bit under developed I would love to see maybe some type of endless mode or a new way progression works besides just adding new enemies and increasing their health like rounds with more stages and faster enemies maybe it would also be cool if there was a guide that told you how to unlock the availability of different skills or a Manuel to tell you about all the gems

by Luke_vidz

I’ve been playing this game for a while now and I love it. It’s a game that I don’t have to be glued to my screen to play. The idea is original and very fun. The ads are all optional and are used to get rewards which is great. I would like to see more added to this game in the future like an endless wave mode or something like that. Overall it’s a fun game with a lot of potential and I would love to see more.

by PMiller816

Doodle Magic is an absolute blast! The gameplay is incredibly fun, offering a delightful mix of creativity and challenge. I love the variety of doodles and the intuitive controls that allow me to play in the background without paying much attention. I love the optional ads feature, allowing uninterrupted gameplay, but still giving rewards if you would like to watch ads. It's a five-star experience that keeps me hooked and entertained for hours! I would love to see an endless mode to see just how crazy the ability combinations can get, but I really love this game!

by Roscoe9998

A recent bug/error leaves players unable to view ads and obtain the “free” (for ad viewing) content in game. Despite reports in the discord of the big there’s been no feedback from devs. The game is a fun time waster and the vailriety affects and graphics is cool and original but I won’t be buying any packs when the “free” content can’t even be obtained. If the bug is fixed this review will be updated.

by Dawn7878

All I have to say about the game is NERF THE STUPID SKELETON BERSERKERS- THEY ARE WAYYYYYY TOO OVERPOWERED! You literally hit them once and they become completely IMMUNE TO ALL DAMAGE AND GET A GIANT SPEED BUFF, so they are at your wall before you can even hit them again and oh wait guess what. THEY BECOME IMMUNE AGAIN THE SECOND YOU HIT THEM AGAIN. Fix your trash enemy.

Ps- (make it so you can socket your gems in everything not only ONE SPOT, it literally makes it worthless to even have 99% of my gems cause I can’t even use them!)

by Wenxuan Zhou

First of all, the targeting is often an issue and there are issues such as enemies piling up in a corner, and no skills are targeting corners after the rampart is damaged beyond a certain point for some reason. For the upgrade menu, there are 3 sets of gems you can equip (3 equipment sets), but when you inlay a gem into one of them it gets used up and can’t be used for the other 2. This defeats the purpose of having multiple selections, as you’re forced to just moves gems around anyway. Instead, make each of the “outfits” separate, so each one has all the gems available. Lastly, there is an option to quick combine, but there seems to not be one to just combine. I’m forced to auto combine all my higher level gems to combine the lowest level gems. Also, there’s a yellow currency used to upgrade the rampart but it seems like there’s no way to use it. These are just the issues, but honestly this is a great game, great concept, and it just needs some tweaks. Edit: got the rampart upgrades. Given that there isn’t a wiki, I think some things (like rewards for challengers) should be explained with a hint at least once. Like “this will be used later when you are level x”. It’s fun to discover things, but not knowing a part of the fundamental mechanics is annoying.

by Dennisl004

I happen to think this game is intensely fun, hence the 4 stars. I just want to warn a new player that this game does not happen over night. You might do great for a good number of the early stages quite early in your experience, but just so that you know, if you do not spend money this game will take you a course of several months to get very far in. There’s some stages that are flat out pay to win difficulty, there’s some stages where you just will not have an answer for them for a week. Then when you know the answer to the stage it’ll take you another week to get good RNG on in game skill level ups to even execute your plan. Otherwise it’s satisfying to watch and fun to get to know some of the combinations you can build on over time. Best of luck if you see this before joining :)

by J. A. Mar.

I like the pacing of the energy you get back to continue playing and the mail the my send you for stamina, this keeps you playing and the amount of times you have to do a level over and over getting more good loot and exp helps like your still moving in the game, the only thing I have an issue with is the black and white art style, it’s a very bright game so playing at night adjust accordingly, I would of like maybe some light color maybe like later in the game you reach levels that become colorful little by little

by Footlicker97

I love the game but it really needs better targeting. I would have won more than half of my stage it wasn’t for it. For example I chose frostnova and enemies are attacking the base. It chooses to hit the FARTHEST enemy possible. Makes me angry when it doesn’t know how to aim, the targeting system it really is bad. Besides that, I think you guys should keep up the good work, but please fix it so it targets enemies closest to the base.

by Ayong1688

越玩越上瘾了，奥数飞弹加强后yyds

by Pootaytoe

👩🏻‍🦲si

by Happy James 101

This game is great and pretty fun to play. There’s no ads which is really nice so watching non-forced ads is perfectly fine. Only thing I would change is that sometimes if the monsters get to the wall, you begin to start shooting different monsters instead of the one you’ve already shot multiple times, so you take a lot more damage. That problem definitely doesn’t effect the rating because it’s a small problem and so overall this is a great game.

by UkuleleJosh

This game has a really fun art style and some
Great options for skills. I particularly love all of the ways you can alter each skill after you choose it, allowing you to create any type of build you want.

I feel like every great wizard should have a loyal cat familiar, so I’m hoping to see pets introduced. An owl or a raven would be cool too 😉

by Ssjbkaiokenx10goku

This game is very fun, but it definitely needs some work. Very little information is given to the players, such as which power ups are available for each card. There is also very very little exp gain from later levels, level 15 only gives a few more exp than level 1.

by Awdrg1234

It’s a great game and fun to play. Sure you gotta grind a bit but that gives you time to also level up the skills that aren’t your go to ones. Which, you will need occasionally because the skill choices are randomized for every level.
I like playing it but each battle takes about 5 minutes. That may not sound long but you gotta realize that you are only tapping the screen 1 time per round. You aren’t in control of what skills you get, when you fire, where you fire, basically nothing. So you just watch it play itself for 5 minutes or so..
The kicker is that they just slowed it down with the last update. It is life draining to play and just watch a slow motion battle. I just read a post on Reddit where it said a bunch of people are quitting because of the slow play.
I think if they are going to have it that slow, then they should at least make the player more involved. Like tapping for the basic firing, the arcane missile.. or have the player actually choose the skills they want. Because being as slow and monotonous as it is, when you are given 3 bad choices and have to pick junk then know you’re going to lose because of that…. Waiting and watching for over 5 minutes is reason to just stop playing.
All in all, I love the concept, the enemies, the different skills you get, I see that 1 or 2 are even combinable (wish it was more or that we could have a workshop for that too) but the speed of play is just god awful..