The Army Reviews

by Sir Amelius

The game is incredibly grindy. You spend hours sometimes even days grinding away just to progress to the next “episode” (it’s what the levels are called). However, it is very addictive and has a ton of potential.

There is a discord they have (which is advertised in game) that has tips and tricks but be careful not to ask a question. You will be greeted with toxic, snarky and condescending comments. The moderators don’t investigate anything and will just ban anyone based on how they feel rather than investigating the facts. Definitely watch out for “TheSpark” he is one of the moderators on there who does exactly as in the aforementioned. The community is definitely something to avoid as it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and really misrepresents this game.

I think if the game works out episode progression to be a little quicker by boosting the rate at which stats increase and making other stats more impactful rather than just funneling all your leveling into Block Damage, it could be a lot more enjoying to play. It also needs a change in unit A.I as your units priority for attacking is definitely not efficient. You will see units being actively attacked but instead of attacking back, they attack the blocks in their environment first (blocks in environment are non-aggressive, resource yielding objects). This game has a ton of potential and I hope it actualizes that full potential.

by Eli Garske

Game is fun but you can’t really do anything unless you watch an ad. Can’t make money, can’t play faster, can’t progress in the game. I’m all for watching ads to get ahead, but when ads become “required” to progress is insane. I timed it. In 30 minutes, if I watch every available ad, I spend 50% of that time watching ads. If I don’t watch any ads, I make maybe 10ish% of the progress in that time. This game is a choice: have no fun and watch no ads, or watch so many ads, you forgot what the fun is supposed to be.

by Bruh.Why

The very beginning of this game is so miserable I didn’t continue. The little dot is automatic. So he just runs into death repeatedly. First thing I thought was “this needs to have a 3x speed” then saw they sell 1.5 speed. But you literally can’t earn anything or do anything except watch, then male purchases, and watching takes forever. Not fun watching a dot die 15 times at the slowest p
Speed possible in the same exact way to be able to buy a power upgrade so that I can do the same thing 25 more times before .1 power upgrade

by Urdadcamebacklol

Game is fun before episode two then your units somehow get even dumber they already attack walls instead of enemies and now they let ranged attackers hit them while they go for the harmless wall. You can barely even tell if your upgrades actually do anything and their pretty much useless for the first couple of episodes. Most of the other units you can unlock are appalling to actually see fight or heal. Game is slow and it drags on as long as possible then has the audacity to ask if you want to pay to speed it up. Purely a money grab built on a interesting premise a shame.

by Waldom2

This game feels like a truly impressive passion project with an astonishing amount of work. The only problem is that you will never see most of that work. There are an astonishing amount of units but you’ll never use any of them because of the absurdly high price, the permanent progression seems like a great idea but it gives you such small boosts it feels like a sick joke, the decimals with the upgrades are plain asinine and the only way to progress is to waste either your time or your money on adds or gems. This game can be great with just a few tweaks to the design but at the time, I can’t recommend it.

by Kylerutherford

It’s a great basic premise ruined by the company’s seemingly feral need to make you either watch ads or pay large sums of money for moderate improvements that still don’t make the game playable.

The AI is trained to hunt your soldiers down, commonly getting off multiple attacks before yours return a strike. Why? Because while they are hyper aggressive and organized, you are not allowed to command your own army, leaving you to watch them walk around aimlessly and ignore the actual threats until they are half dead.

Absolutely maddening. The gameplay boils down to “every once and awhile click an upgrade while watching a several minutes long cutscene you have little control over that’s somehow supposed to make you interested in continuing to play.”

No thanks.

by Fjanr Cn

You could graduate high school, get your master’s, have your firstborn, get a house, and settle down for retirement before a battle in this game is at its halfway point. They do it intentionally just to make you pay money for the battle speed to be increased, which is a truly effective speedrun for making people hate your game. 10/10 game if you wanted to annoy your players devs, otherwise get those lonely and dusty neurons firing and actually make a game that is ENJOYABLE

by A Dang Zebra

The concept of the game is good, but the only way you are ever gonna progress is if you spend tons of money on the game, or watch tons of ads. You start out with only 1 unit available, and it’s practically impossible to clear the first level with just the 1 unit. To be able to clear it, you are going to need to watch ads, and I suspect that will be the case for every other stage as well. It’s just a massive money grab of a game, do not waste your time.

by PE.OW.

I’m just going to list things as they come to my mind:
1. The updates on TheArmy Store don’t even say what’s changed, it’s just the same message, so has anything actually changed?
2. Their discord link in game settings doesn’t work.
3. They intentionally slow down the pace of the game to get people to watch ads to make it what it should be like.
4. TheArmy somehow costs almost 200mb so it’s probably hiding/mining something.
5. The ads for this game aren’t 100% representative of what this game is.
6. You have to watch ads in this game to make any meaningful progress or it’ll take 10x as long to do something.
7. This is the worst of the all, and something I’ve never seen on any other mobile game. I’ve seen games force you to keep connection so you have to watch ads but not this. I’m putting this in all caps because of how insane this is. YOU HAVE TO LET THEM TRACK YOUR INFORMATION IN ORDER TO WATCH ADS. YOU HAVE TO LET THEM TRACK YOU ACROSS OTHER APPS AND WEBSITES TO MAKE ANY PROGRESS IN THIS GAME.

Delete this information farming game instantly.

by Zodianlol

The gameplay loop is addicting, unfortunately there is no paid version to remove ads. About every 4 minutes an ad pops up during gameplay that you must watch for power spike. You can ignore these ads, effectively playing the game at a 10x disadvantage —and still win by cheesing the “block damage” upgrade, which will carry your units further and further every round.

So you either grind the block damage upgrade and play the game where your choices don’t matter at all. Or you play the game balanced around actual problem solving and watch a 60s ad every few minutes.

by ShadowSlayer0417

Game had potential to be great. Targeting system is genuinely horrific. Your army would rather mine blocks instead of defending themselves from the people attacking them. On top of that, the actual leveling system with the upgrades takes so long to even get one of them up that it’s only marginally better with the upgrades. Disappointed in this game because it seemed fun. But their targeting, leveling system, etc. is just so bad. If they make a change to prioritize the enemy instead of the blocks I might consider replaying, but it’s impossible to win past level 10 unless you’re sitting there playing for hours just fully grinding the upgrades and MAYBE you’ll reach past it if the RNG in how your troops attack works in your favor. The actual money system in game is also horrible. Every time you buy an upgrade past like 7-8 times, it becomes exponentially more expensive and impossible to upgrade. Once again, this game needs major balance and targeting changes. But I doubt these developers will do anything about it as always.

by A-very-smart-person

I’ve replayed 5 or 6 times and can’t get past levels 5-7, it’s sooo slow and just too hard for how much time it takes. I’m not going to sit here and watch an ad every five minutes for 1.5x speed (still too slow) just to stare at my screen and get nowhere. Also, y’all need to reevaluate how much you’re worth, no one is putting $10 into each one of many purchases just for a tiny difference in one game on their phone 😬🤷‍♂️ good looking game with sm potential, this seems like a hate review but I’d play again if they made it faster and/or easier it’s pretty fun Lol.

by Big

This game is not ready for prime time.

I’m a regular gamer and I also love to play passive Idle Games when I don’t have the energy for the PS5.

While this game initially showed promise with a simple style and rewarding gameplay loop it unfortunately falls short in a number of areas.

First, the AD watching system is absolutely barbaric. Long, frequent ads are pretty much necessary to make even the most basic progress. Even more frustrating is the game’s blatant omission to pay for AD removal via any in app purchases. Why on earth would they make this decision??

Second, the AI of your troops is nothing short of abysmal. They’ll expose themselves to enemy attacks and yet ignore those enemies in favor of attacking non threatening walls, dragging progress to a crawl on anything but the first level.

I suggest adding a reasonable charge to remove ads (while keeping the rewards that would be offered) as well as improving AI. Some suggestions that could improve the gameplay loop regarding troop behavior could have an upgrade tab that allows players to prioritize their troop’s aggro and or targeting system (for example, setting Archer troops to attack enemies before walls or having healers target their healing spells on your lowest HP units).

Outside of any of these improvements, this game is positively dead on arrival. One bonus stat because I genuinely think the gameplay would be fun if either improvement were actually implemented.

by Therustynail69

The ads are the only real way to progress in the game. Only way to make it play at any reasonable speed, as well as it only lasting about half a match. Only way to win most levels is with all the extra money from ads, upgrades are so expensive that if you don’t double your crowns after every match you gotta do another 7-10 min where you likely watch another 6 ads. Only ways to get any amount of diamonds is ads and the cards you buy from them are bugged anyway so that no matter how many duplicates you get it never counts towards the progression of the card. Game isn’t the worst but definitely needs a better way to at least speed up gameplay

by NateWiz

I like the game a lot except that in order to keep playing I have to watch an ad every couple of mins. There absolutely no way to make enough coin to keep playing unless I click on the briefcase and I only get 5 mins of sped up time with the add. It’s unfortunate that this is what games have devolved into. I love their other game tower it has a nice balance between ads and game play but this is just ridiculous. It get 2 stars for having a great concept and fun gameplay

by Nicholas Vedros

By the time you spend $10-$30, there is no reason they should still be bending you over for ads that are integral to being able to progress in the game.

More specifically, you have to do these stupid ads that lasts about a minute each every 1.5 minutes.

They have the foundation of a fun game, but they’re greed is getting in the way of authentic gameplay

by PSmoove00

Great concept for a game and could’ve been fun but it’s ruined by numerous ads trying to get you to buy essentially the same game with a different theme. You basically have to watch ads to progress at all.

AI is idiotic and will attack nonthreats while getting killed. It’s obviously intentionally done because enemy ai has no issue.

Do not download. It’s not a game. It’s an ad watching simulator

by Omarion65

It’s fun, i play it for a few hours every other day. The developers need to solve an really annoying issue. Often the soldiers will ignore and walk away from what’s attacking them and it’s the worst feeling in the world. I think healers should be able to heal more than just one soldier at a time. It would also be more satisfying if upgrades did more, spend thousands just to 1 extra damage

by Nvanalfen

It has the potential to be a really fun game. But you lose that when your units have been given the absolute worst targeting logic (your entire mass of units decides it's more worthwhile to attack the stationary blocks that don't hurt you while the enemy range units leisurely wipe out all of your attackers), and when which new unit you get is mostly random (seriously, you save up, spin a wheel and hope you get the unit you need for your strategy instead of the one that attacks too slowly, dies too quickly, and is too expensive to upgrade). I understand needing an element of randomness, but it feels like that has been put in all the wrong places.

by Yo-Knee

I would like to say that I do like the game but I feel like you can’t progress through the game without spending half of your time watching ads. In order to upgrade my stats faster I did spend $10 to double my crowns but I’ve only seen double them twice. I would like a refund if nothing is going to be done about that. There needs to be an update where they fix some issues or improve the game or else it’s going to be come of those games I delete or just dont open TheArmy anymore

by Michael DeWitt

After episode 1 is obviously episode 2 and that’s when the insane level of stupidity of friendly Ai is made so absurdly clear. Your soldiers will sit there and just get shot and keep hitting the walls. It’s impossible to keep pace with the cost of replacing your mindless servants with these circumstances. Soldiers should prioritize exposed enemies as soon as they’re not behind a wall. This is a drastic design flaw I don’t even understand how you guys missed this if you did any testing of your own game at all. Fun at first simple idea enjoyable gameplay nice and grindy. Also purchasing a second soldier variant is also almost worthless with how much they cost to upgrade basically no point unless you’ve earned and invested at least 250k diamonds into upgrades.

by Thomas90541

Here’s the problem, I was at level 27 on the first episode and lost and there was no add to keep doing the level and do you know hard it is, to even finish it? It’s a nightmare! Now I can’t even go back and finish it! So if you see this please just add something to keep doing the level and something to go back to it as how did at the time, please. And easier. Now can I say something please, now imagine this your the game your at level 27 on episode 1 and your having overpowered units like the archer that once you upgrade its power to like 158 or something and your archers don’t even try to run and all die, how would you feel. Now also the upgrade thingy when your not in the match like didn’t really even affect the units. Now please can you also at least do something about all this. Thank you.

by CosmicBreadBox

I actually enjoy playing the game quiet a bit, but the issue is that you spend more time watching ads then actually playing.

For example, new troop cost at the first level cost around 2.5k, but it’s near impossible to free farm that without watching an ad to get the bonus to get there.

My suggestion is to lower the cost of new troops as a start. This would help make the game more enjoyable rather than having to farm ads.

by Review Of KNT

Game is fun at first, but quickly turns very grindy. Especially if you don’t put money into it. Theres apparently a discord but the link is expired in game so it doesn’t take you there. The card upgrade system has bugs in it as I have several 2/3 cards that are still registering as level 1. The crowns upgrades are really expensive for what appear to be minor increases. I think the potion upgrades for your army should be much lower than 4000 for the first one since it’s taken me more than a week and I still haven’t gotten one. All in all, decent game but I won’t spend money until the bugs are worked out.

by Joshdv

So, fun game mechanics and leveling system. Very slow progression early, then feels like a slingshot. Getting through level 50 felt like climbing the face of a mountain and I’m almost to level 400 and it’s felt like stepping on ants. Zero challenge to the levels. Also the same two events never change and never scale difficulty to your own level, started impossible and now present no challenge.

This game has a lot of potential but isn’t made for long rewarding play. Definitely don’t spend money on upgrades, you’ll be disappointed after level 50.

by Mckay123456789

I really enjoy the gameplay! In order to succeed I have to watch almost every ad. This gets really exhausting and there should be different mechanics so you can spend more time actually playing the game. I can imagine this game being really great with better graphics and characters! Like clash royal good. Reduce the necessity of watching the ads, so players can advance quicker. I’m stuck playing the same two levels and spending 50% of my time watching the same four ads.

by Abdiel-rkd

First off, I love this game. It takes the small incremental improvement gameplay of The Tower and uses it well.
The problem comes with the regular “tournaments” the game holds. It’s endless waves of enemies until you die. But once you’ve turned your permanent defense up to a high enough level, you pretty much cease to take damage at higher levels of the tournament. But at that point, the game bogs down and frame rate drops to about 1 frame/minute. On my iPhone XS, that can happen as early as level 200. You can delay it by reducing the number of units you spawn, but I’ve never had the game able to handle it past level 400. I’ve turned fx off and dropped game speed to 1.0x, but the game still bogs down and tries its hardest to overheat my phone.

by Lego’$

It’s a nice and calming game very calm and probably grate for long car rides. It’s just one thing that I might want is probably like new shapes and maybe a new one like triangles as enemies and maybe even some other shapes and maybe there can be a new circle type like a tamer but takes 10 seconds is the cool down and if it strikes and enemy they become your ally

by Afterkaze

I’ve had a lot of fun with this game. Some purchases were made for 3x speed and 3x crown multiplier. I haven’t purchased diamonds but was able to grind Dungeons for free to gain 11 slots worth of cards. I am wondering if I need to buy diamonds for the remaining 9, as I grinded up to 1500 diamonds worth of dungeons and only received common cards the entire way through. Anyone unlock any of the 9 afterward?

Currently on episode 649 which feels like a huge plateau, as workshop upgrades now cost about 300 million for a 0.05x increase, and I get ~34mill Crowns per episode which increases only 0.05mill per episode. All my Workshop upgrades are ~80+ out of 99 to 6000 completion depending on the power up, with some maxed out.

Overall a fun game, and I’ve put in some $ and a lot of grind, but I’m wondering if anyone’s been able to unlock any other cards than the initial 11! Please let me know.

by Anon_.06

Started playing a few days ago. Really fun. Very good usage of ads; doesn’t force you to watch them, but they’re there if you want a bonus.

There is a massive problem though. Your units target whatever is closest to them, which usually results in them taking unnecessary damage. The unit AI should be coded so that it prioritizes attacking enemy units before destroying blocks.

by Starwes

I really like the game it’s simple to the point and will probably keep me busy through school, though I would like some type of music or some sounds because it is a bit quiet but either way it’s a nice game, so good job

by GammaWzrd

Great addicting game, very simple in concept. However, I feel like I'm spending more time watching ads than actually playing the game. I would love to see an ad skip feature implemented, maybe included in the battle pass if not a stand alone paid option. Overall a solid grind, upgrade, repeat idler.

by Skazty

In my opinion, I find this game really addicting.
I’ve already maxed out everything, (beside the 6000 upgrades.) I can’t really describe what more updates I would like however this game is so addicting. As your progress though it’s just the same pattern of beating the army in less then a minute and gets boring. Maybe add bosses or an infinite mode? Best yet, a rebirth system. Keep all your crowns/or don’t, (up to devs) allow to start over to grind up. I’ve also gotten to the point I don’t need diamonds, so would be nice to make them more of a necessity. Game still gets a 5 stars. Huge W!

by CannibalBunnies

Instead of other tower defense game where you focus buffing one or more stationary towers this game has you focus on getting strong troops and building their stats up and recruit more to attack the enemy troops for a unique take.
If your a fan on the genre it’s definitely worth a try but other than the unique take I wish there was more to it. Such as for now it seems you get one strong troop and you just invest everything in them and their seems to be no benefit to diversify your troops (at least so far). The permanent buffs so far also seem to be the standard fare of offense, defense and money buffs.
Ads are pretty light and progression is hugely boosted by so I’m surprised it is the one thing they chose not to monetize as their is no ad removal pack but there are double and triple basic currency ones.
There’s definitely more to this game so I’m surprised it promotes rating this game so early and hopefully I’ll update this soon with more details as I hope there is more to enjoy but it is pretty interesting so far.

by ThatOneSpirit

At first I was waiting for ads to start popping up randomly here and there. To my greatest surprise, the game only gives you ads if you want them. If you want extra rewards, you can watch an ad. I praise the developers for this, and for that reason I cannot recommend this game more. It’s fun, interesting and not annoying with ads every 3rd click!

by Orange__69

I belive the game is fun and its obvious this is a rip of "The tower." Regardless, really fun and a nice take on the game. In update descriptions i recommend you write whats new and I hope you don't move onto the next game because it could be fun if you consistently kept updating this game.
I wish you good luck on your game making journey!

by Paxash17

Basically like the ad I watched amazing gets difficult early so for me that’s so fun and definitely recommend playing it, may not be for everyone but it is for me.

by Kinholee

The cards when I bought it then if I got the same exact one still says 0 out of 3

by Lcjwnfux

It’s the perfect game for me. No forced ads, actually a legit game that matches the ads about it. Some people won’t like it because it takes a long time to get anywhere, but that’s the only thing, and I like that about the game.