Bloons Card Storm Reviews

I have never went out of my way to write a bad review about a free mobile game, but because I actually expected better from ninja kiwi I have to say this is quite a disappointing product. Pay to win, terrible balance, terrible unlock system, confusing controls and tutorial downy even teach what the hero power system is. Every game I win by spamming Bloons the towers do minimal damage that is easily negated by saving up one round and rushing with everything. On top of that they have the “storm” to just spawn in extra Bloons and you get hero points (think it’s is called bloonarium) to do more damage the more Bloons you spawn. So every game is won by spamming Bloons, no thought or strategy needed, just your wallet to buy more cards :(.

Every time I am about to win a game, the other person quits the game. It says victory but I don’t get any of the rewards or xp that I have gotten on the few rare times I have actually won a game and finished it. I can understand not handing out rewards when people leave in the first 2 turns of the game, but when I have 600 damage of Bloons ready to hit and they leave the game that is a win that I deserve rewards for. This isn’t a couple games that this happens to me, it is every single game that I am going to win that they leave. Players should have to close BloonsCardStorm to leave the game and the winner should get xp and rewards. It is too easy to just quit the game and make sure the other player doesn’t get their rewards for beating them. I am about ready to quit playing because my progress is limited by the amount of tokens that I get from the daily challenges because I can’t get any rewards from games.

I love both Bloons and the card game PvZ Heroes and have around a thousand hours in both. I really looked forward to this.

But why is everything so small? The cards in this game are less than half the size of the cards in PvZ heroes, and aiming the monkeys is really hard with my fat fingers (no lock on to nearest targets, you have to manually drag and hope the little parabola turns white). This would probably be great on pc but it felt like it was just shrunk down proportionally for the iOS screen and it just doesn’t work. I made it through the tutorial but playing after that was just torture. You can’t even significantly enlarge the cards by clicking on them, just a tiny boost.

This just may be the best, and only card game I have played for more than 20 minutes. The game has controls easy to use so it won’t turn away any non-card game players. But as soon as you start playing more you start to really get into it. After you unlock more cards, build a deck, maybe get enough money to get a new hero, and start to play more, you get more cards, build a better deck, get more heroes. It almost never gets boring because the new cards you get have entirely new mechanics so you get a new experience every time because your opponent is random and they have their own deck with unique cards that you’ve never seen before. Sure the single player content is limited by a pay wall, but you forget that as soon as you fight another opponent in online pvp. This is one of the best mobile games I have played. 10/10

I have already mentioned that the progression system combined with the ranking system that prevents you from ranking down has made me unable to play the game. An easy fix would be to just allow people to rank down from whatever Tier they are on to the one lower. The entire reason that function exists in most ranking systems is to prevent people from getting stuck against people much better than they are.

For context, I have played between 20-30 ranked games when I got into Tier 2. I have lost every single one. I don’t have enough of or any of the cards that would help me win, and I can’t get any of them because I keep losing. Can’t play casual, no one is playing casual. I spent 3 minutes waiting for a casual match, won it easily. And anyone who was played it agrees that the adventure mode is just boring. Ninjakiwi please fix this

Bloons card storm is kinda hard🥵 and I lose alot so that is why it is hard and also I have a suggestion for bt6. Can you transfer exp from one tower to another with 100 monkey money? And if you make that happen can you tell Netflix to add that on theirs to (your Bloons td 6 cost money so I chose the Netflix version). The reason why is because a have ALOT of exp on my darting gunner. I have somewhere near 500'000 xp! I can get one paragon except for money buccaneer and monkey sub I think. So pleaaaaaase can you add that on both versions? And can you make the feature 5 monkey knowledge points?

I can't blame it too much for being NK's first crack at a card game, but theres definitely some issues here. Early game bloons are too effective, healing monkeys (specifically jungle's bounty) is way too good, and theres a lack of variety when it comes to card types. There are some neat ideas but a lot of the monkeys or bloons are just simple stat and cost changes. Right now it feels like the only two viable archetypes are hyper offense and just turtling. I think this game could get better as time goes on but until then I'm looking forward to improvements.

I like the concept it can be really fun BUT it puts you with people who are way better than you. I also dislike how the 2nd person to go gets an extra coin and they get the 1st storm balloon so you’re at a disadvantage if you go first. You also can’t answer messages or turn off your phone without it disconnecting even if for a second. Other online multiplayer games allow or a certain amount of time offline before disconnecting (I can’t even pull down notifications or check my battery life).

This game undoubtedly has potential. Unfortunately, there are some glaring issues (in my opinion) as the game currently stands.

High cost tower cards (especially temple of the sun god which deletes all your other towers) are next to useless since there are a myriad of cards which can steal, delete, and or send them back to hand. I feel like this could be mitigated by scaling the cost of using such a card on a tower by, say, 50% of the tower’s cost.

It is way too easy and cheap to send a few hundred extra damage instantaneously to the opponent. If scaled down by either making it cost more or harder to do, it would be more reasonable while adding a better window of strategy.

Good game good mechanics but I have a few nitpicks 1: you shouldn’t need monkey money for more than 4 deck slots 2: nothing to do in single player unless you pay so as a cheapskate I beat it in 1 hour 3: you can just pay to get literally every card in the game with enough money p.s please make defense good you just get 3 super monkeys 1 reloads each turn and with a few high attack wizards you just you sends zomgs and Moab but your opponent gets jungle’s bounty’s and can’t die

A few changes I would make about it though is making the main menu have more stuff in it because it feels a bit empty, maybe add some more different game modes to spice stuff up, and also make the UI a little more clean because it’s a little hard to see what you have and what turn it is because they’re not very close to each other. But other than that I’m really liking the game, I really hope the devs listen to feedback so that this’ll be an amazing game.

As a card game this seems fun but the mobile interface is a bit rough. All the icons and cards are really small, and picking which balloon to attack is difficult since you have to drag it and you can’t really see the tiny icons under your finger. Also, though this is a problem in the desktop version too, when you try to drag a card onto the battlefield, if you drag over another card, the other card gets selected. So if you try to drag a monkey from the right side of your hand to a specific spot you have to take an awkward path. Or really what happens is I just end up playing the other card and have to totally shift my game plan because it played the wrong card for me.
These are things that can get ironed out though, the game itself seems solid and that’s the important part. So 4 stars

I enjoy this game, I like strategic games that take some thinking like this and so far i’ve played 8 multiplayer matches and only lost once. The only problem in my opinion is the tutorial, it is too easy and too be honest the tutorial didn’t really help me as much, maybe adding an actual game that give more of a hands on experience of why an actual match is like would help. I had to play a couple games before I fully understood everything, otherwise this game is good, it just takes skill.

I’m enjoying the game so far! It’s fun to play learn the new mechanics. It’s really unique!

I know it’s in its early stages and balances will come. It still feels a little raw when it comes to game play, the game looks great though! My biggest critique would be deck structure/balance. I like that you can increase the likelihood of getting a certain card by crafting more of them but it feels cluttered and a really inconsistent. The same deck can come with multiple play styles which is cool, but you don’t get to pick it because of the rng. I wonder if cutting the number of cards down but adding a mechanic similar to the Bloons for all cards, where you can play that card two times. Maybe subsequent plays of the same card cost an extra gold? Just a thought but I’m enjoying the game regardless!

Grinding for things is fine but have players be able to do this more easily by adding new ways to gain monkey money and tokens like a chest system or extra challenges. EXP boosts should also be a thing as well, or just make it easier to obtain EXP over time without the boosts.

Also a few more things: the shop should have more things in stock, you should be able to pause the game in single player, and each round should last a little longer imo.

This game is so fun! I was not until card games, but when I started playing this it was amazing. But it does need more work more game modes and it’s annoying that you only get monkey money when you level up but btd battles 2 you earn monkey money per game that should be added to the game and definitely a rank mode where we can earn rewards like brawl starts where you get rewards per level rank thank you ninja kiwi community if you read this.👊

I love btd5 and btd6 and the battles games, but wasn’t sure how to feel about a card game, especially after the buggy release of battles 2. But I love it. Been playing for hours and don’t want to stop. There’s a good amount of strategy involved, but the tutorial does a great job of explaining the basic concepts everything. No game-breaking bugs encountered so far and the visuals/animations look pretty nice. It seems like a lot of grinding will be needed to unlock all the cards, but that’s half the fun. The gameplay seem fairly balanced, though, for a 1.0 release, so props for that. Looking to be another great Bloons game!

Games take only a few minutes to play, and are quite fun! I like how the gameplay is entirely different from any other “card” game. This uses a card-like system with variable moving parts. The idea is to take down your opponent utilizing Bloons to attack, while also using monkeys to defend against opposing, incoming Bloons.

The learning curve is pretty low, and the tutorial takes about five minutes. There is paywalled content, but that’s how it is these days. Fortunately, you can play against other players or go free play against the AI at no cost.

I love the game. 5/5 for me. I’ll probably be playing this one for quite some time assuming content is rolled out.

I loved it - played in all the early access test and the game looks cool - but it is rather lackluster. I hope to see these things added as time goes:
- Single player campaign. I don't mind waiting for a few months for this but we should have it. Its really boring right now with nothing much to do.
- Card packs. One of the best part of PvZH, a similar game is that it allow both crafting and packs. Have monkeys/bloons/power packs, and maybe some that guarantees certain rarities.
- Ranked/LTMs for multiplayer. I won't fault you for not having ranked as the game has just came out but it should be something on the to-be-added list don't you think?

This game is great! I love the strategy involved with it, and how it is simple yet complex. Great for beginners to card games or those who have been playing them for a while. The monetization is not crazy and overly P2W. F2P players stand a great chance and don’t have to grind the game 24/7 to achieve something. The game is easy to understand and very enjoyable. Tons of variety when it comes to card choices. Keep it up Ninja Kiwi! 👍