Pill Fortress Reviews

So, I’ve already unlocked a couple ultimate cards, but in order to use them I have to watch an ad, EVERY time?

As for the quests, I have so many that i can’t claim without watching an ad, quests I’ve already completed.

Also, I’m bombarded with like 3-4 ads per game, and the games are only 4-5 mins.

I’d be fine with the ads if they were optional for boosts, or if they’re just at the end of every few games, but for them to be this persistent and deeply rooted into the game, it’s ridiculous and unenjoyable.

I’m assuming maybe this is due to the devs wanting to continually make the same revenue off PillFortress , so they have to push more and more ads for an ever decreasing player base.

Gonna have to agree with the majority of people on here and say it does make PillFortress unplayable. It’s like a 30/70 split between watching ads and gameplay, which is crazy.

This game was fun, but super ad heavy. Ad to get an extra card off the start, ad to get all 3 cards one chance, ad to re-roll cards three chances, ad to revive one chance…all of which levels are basically unbeatable without. And on top of all those “watch ad for reward,” intrusive 30+ second ads every 30 seconds of game play. The ones with the 10-15 second timer but then you need to close out of multiple screens to get back to game play.

In the last update, now you need to watch an ad to get the joker card, and watching ads now has an infrequent bug where you don’t even get the reward you watched for (happens most on get all 3 cards).

“Purchase ad block” is supposed to be a feature that makes a fun game more fun. For this game, it’s almost a necessity to make the game even playable anymore. A real shame the devs got this greedy because the base game is pretty fun

12 yrs in game development, I regularly spend hundreds on mobile games, I spend it on starter packs, battle passes, extras, bonuses, and the occasional ad removal if the game is worth it. I set myself one rule: No spending until I’ve played for 3 consecutive days.
That said….Yikes. There are games with ads then there is this. Don’t be fooled. That first day of playing is great. You’ll go far and have a good time. Second day? It feels like it gives your phone cancer with so many ads. 3 forced ads to finish one match. Want to select one of the 3 options to upgrade your pills? Watch an ad. Want to mildly speed up the gameplay for a very short period of time? Watch an ad,. Want to get rid of ads? You have two options. Eff and That. You spend more time watching ads than playing the game so you can’t tell if there is a good game behind all the ads.

There are games with ads, then there are ads with games loosely put behind them. This is the latter and it’s awful.

Bang. Survivor and Ninja Defenders are the same game but built with far less ads and give you a very enjoyable experience worth spending money on. I can’t, in good conscience, recommend this to anyone.

This game has more ads than any other game I’ve seen and I’ve seen a LOT, all for the game to be physically impossible WITHOUT optional ads. Over 60% of the levels I beat past level 15 FORCED me to watch ads, and saying “forced” is generous, I HAD ZERO CHOICE if I wanted more gameplay. This isn’t pill fortress, this is an interrogation method, like I’m talking if I had the option to either reveal my darkest secret ever possible or to play this game, I would share four separate dark secrets

Nothing of value comes from this game, only anger, rage, and a sense of being used because this stupid game thinks I’m down to watch 5000 ads to get past level 17

This game has so much potential and the company has squandered it. Simple, fun, fast-paced brain rot gameplay—good for car rides and such, but the ads make the game unplayable… literally, at times. In a 5 minute game, you’ll get 3-4 forced ads. It’s even more ridiculous if you apply a 2x speed buff (which you also have to watch a full ad to get), considering you’ll still get those 3-4 ads in a condensed 2 minute game.

To make that worse, every 5th or 6th ad isn’t able to be closed, so you lose all your progress for that game and have to restart PillFortress . You lose a ton of time with that issue recurring. I can’t give the game any higher rating until that is fixed at least.

I really liked this game when I first downloaded it. I had been playing for a few weeks and even paid to remove random ads. There were still ads for bonuses and I was aware and fine with that. Now they’ve added ads for power ups that were just part of the game before. Such as special attacks that you have to earn in game. If I earned the card, why should I have to watch an ad to use it?
Given I’ve already paid to reduce ads, I find it incredibly frustrating. Won’t be playing this game anymore. You spend more time watching ads than playing.

I really enjoyed the game, when I first started playing it a few weeks ago. However, I’ve upgraded my experience to the point that I max out pill abilities before the end of the board, and the game “freezes”. It asks to select an ability to upgrade, but there isn’t anything to choose from. I end up have to leave the board to fix the issue and I end up not getting rewards.
I tried looking for ways to contact customer support, but I haven’t been able to find any information.

Sure the game is fun but the constant change of how things work ruins all the progress you’ve made and takes away the ability to build how you’d like.
Also the ads are getting crazy they used to show up every so often and then it was once a battle and then it was multiple times a battle so I bought the ad free version and now you have to watch an ad to get some upgrades that were previously not linked to ads. In short the the devs do not care about making a great game, instead the focus is on you watching ads.

This game is pretty decent. Avoiding how bland the game generally is, it’s pretty fun. However, there is a point in the game where battles become IMPOSSIBLE unless you watch an ad. Unless you want to lose over, and over, and over until you somehow get lucky enough to win, which makes this game so much less fun. The fact that to unlock some abilities for a pill during a match makes you watch an ad to gain it for only that battle, that really ticks me off because no one wants to watch an ad just to unlock something for a battle that they will end up losing anyways… Something’s that need to be unlock, like the points to upgrade your pills can only be collected from beating new levels, the ranking system, and quests. Beating new levels is the only real efficient way to unlock those points, so when beating new stages becomes impossible, what do you think happens? This game has really good potential… It truly does. But the ad system that this game uses greedily really does a number on how fun this game is. At the very least, make waves in battles go one at a time, instead of just constantly goin thorough the waves, practically suffocating the player. This would make the game less dependent on ads, and more fun. (But the developers wouldn’t want that, would they. They want the money)

Game is super fun at first, then the forced ads come. Not one, not 2, but rather 3 or 4 in a 2 minute battle. I had already voluntarily watched over 50 ads in less than 2 hours, now they forcing me to watch i. The middle of a battle. Un acceptble. To think i almost spent money on the game.

Also, game wouldnt load after my ipad died. Deleted game and reloaded it to see if it would work after that, it loads but even thoguh i had the account bound to game center, i still have no progress and no option to load from cloud. Another wasted night, and waste of time.

Unless you like advertisements, and losing hours or days of progress, skip this one.

When you accumulate a lot of capsules, nucleases, and keys it takes an unnecessary amount of effort to use them all.

For example, I ran out of keys but I have a surplus of nucleases and I can use them to purchase keys. However, I can only do this one time because I need to use the 30 keys I just purchased before I can do it again. The process goes like this
Purchase Keys > Use Keys > Open Boxes

Then, this cycle repeats until I run out of nucleases. Since I can accumulate over tens of thousands of nucleases, it will take me more than 20 minutes to burn through all of them.

I am requesting for a similar purchasing function like invoking. I wanna be able to purchase the maximum amount of items based on the available currency I have.

This needs to be applied to purchasing equipment as I have over 6000 keys and I can only use them 30 at a time. I cannot burn through them fast enough.

I do like this game. I play it from time to time but what really stops me from giving it beyond 3 stars are the ads they require you to watch for specific pill card upgrades. It really irks me that they require you to watch ads to use specific card upgrades while playing. You have to unlock them to use them but you can’t really use them without watching an ad mid game once you start unlocking them. You have to watch an ad every time you see one of these specific upgrade cards. Kind of scummy to show someone an upgrade that you can unlock but you can’t really use it without watching an ad or require you to pay for it. I get they need money for a free to play game but there’s literally several other opportunities to watch ads all over this game. Don’t lock upgrade path cards behind ads that you have to spend premium current on to unlock.

Love to play this. Love how there are multiple upgrades for each pill and how the upgrades work together to defeat the viruses
There are a few things I would like to point out. First, small equipment box quests are not registering for me. I’ve opened multiple small boxes to receive nothing from the quest.
Also, ads in the middle of gameplay are annoying. Maybe just put them at the start and end of rounds? I get in a groove, get ready to pick an upgrade, then all of a sudden I’m taken to PillFortress Store because I clicked the ad and not the upgrade.

I have the electric pill, buckshot and all but the one purchased with money unlocked but several of the avatar pictures are still locked even though I have met the conditions. If your freeze or stun cooldown is faster than its duration the virus will still proceed forth after being knocked back and sometimes other conditions that I havent quite figured out. it’s annoying when i watch a video to save my wall just to watch the same boss ignore both the fact that it is frozened and stunned.

Pretty great game! Some minors buffs to the elite and boss bacteria would be nice as the “final bosses” can be cheesed pretty easily. I’d suggest making the bosses and elites resistant to knockback, stun, and freezing.
The pills themselves could use some QOL changes like unique sounds (the laser pill and buckshot pill sound too similar). Also, the buckshot pill’s firing audio completely muffles the sound of the other pills.
Besides all of that, I have been enjoying my time while playing! (I paid to remove ads)

Pretty fun gameplay, the two bugs I’ve ran into have kinda siphoned the fun a little bit though. Sometimes when an ad pops up it freezes PillFortress and I have to shut it down, losing the progress. There’s also a bug with the precision laser pill, if you get the fire more shots card and a bunch of lower cooldown cards sometimes the pill will act like it’s constantly firing but won’t actually be doing anything.

This is a game that is currently keeping me entertained during down time at work and at home and it’s pretty fun. PLEASE make it to where if you have a pill actively shooting something, it won’t switch targets before what it’s locked onto is dead. I’ve had so many instances where I lost because a collection of things was left on low health and they kept piling up dealing a lot of collective damage. Main gripe honestly.

This game is a ton of fun ignore the other reviews it doesn't have that much ads however the pills never hit where you want then to so I feel like the devs should make it so that you can customize what enemies the pills hit. Good game though would recommend for decompressing and overall fun because at least for me you don't feel mad when you lose but you feel victorious when you win did I say the games fun?

Love the game! I do wish that when spending nucleus for pill shards you had an option for something other than 50 or 100 nucleus at a time. Once higher levels are achieved, you get thousands of nucleus at a time and spending them for pill shards is quite tiring and redundant when only able to spend 100 at a time!

I used to love playing this game but then they decided to make it so you must watch an ad for the joker card. they always had ad rewards and junk but wasting one of our card slots with an advertisement is just cruel