Summoners War Reviews

by Risingson05

The game itself I think is well done. Battle system is ok, a little strategy is involved (with one big caveat). The amount and variety of content is great. But that’s where it stops. The game is just one big grindfest. You need to grind to get the monsters you want, then you need to grind to level them up, then you need to grind to “awaken” them, then you need to grind to equip them (with runes), then you need to grind to level up the runes. All of this requires no skill whatsoever, just mind numbing tedious grinding. And the payoffs are so little. A week at best for one decent monster fully powered. A year for a few great monsters. Of course there is the constant enticement to make in-app purchases. Every time something significant happens in the game your presented with a “special” offer to purchase something. The only strategy involved is composing your teams and runing your monsters. Fighting strategy doesn’t really play a big role (except some may argue until the later game which is literally like a year down the road). The rest of the game is just auto pilot. So what’s the point? It requires too much time investment to be considered a game for killing some time when you have a little to spare and provides very little in terms of rewards for so much work put into it. I’ve struggled to let go. I wanted to enjoy the game so much. But eventually I had to part ways. I couldn’t deal with the repetitiveness any longer.

by MrsGibson84

I downloaded this game like 3 years ago I think and have played it off and on (mostly on) but I’m leaning toward uninstalling for good. I have complained about the game’s flaws to anyone who would listen (hint: nobody does) and I’m just tired of it. The events are bountiful but unoriginal, the rewards don’t get any better. The grinding starts to feel like work with very little payoff. The insanely unbalanced algorithms used to determine ‘rng’ things like proc rates for skills (violent runes) and scroll summons are so unfair to players who don’t spend a lot it forces new players to spend or quit. When confronted with a mountain of evidence the developers insist everything is “working as designed” but they won’t disclose the design because it will spoil their money-grabbing strategy. They continue to patch the game like they care about its success but don’t make any changes for the better. Just stupid stuff like changing the wording of skills for summons nobody ever uses. Oh and good luck playing PVP when you don’t know whether your enemy will be at your skill level or way below or way above because rune info isn’t disclosed. A large majority of my battles are not fought by similarly skilled players so one side will have an obvious advantage after the first turn. I’ve just had enough of this abusive relationship after three years and can’t wait to move on to something better.

by Despin6402

I recently looked at my own profile and I’ve been playing this game since June 2014. So this game is fun it amusing and you can have a great time playing for how ever long you want because believe me with as much as you can strive to get it won’t end and you will be better or worse than someone else or just play computer grind forever.
However if you take this game at all serious and if you even try to pay occasionally you won’t really make a great difference.
Put it this way me and my brother have played this game since 2014 and occasionally put in some money about $100 a year since we play it more than some store bought game but $400 down the road we are average players.
To the point this game isn’t free to play, pay to play it’s for those who spend above hundreds maybe thousands. The players who are above average complete things faster and get more prizes basically the more you play you can do good but those in the top 10 % they just get more and more because they do so well especially in new content like the labyrinth that no one can beat. You can save up on this game for months I saved for five months and spent money got nothing. I’m about to rage quit but I’ve spent more than a game system over time. Just look at the world tournaments this game has online mist of the people could have bought houses for what they say they put into this game and announcers seem to take pride in this during the tournaments

by S. Flecher

Only some players get good drop rate on the best mons... others only get сrap, and l the only way to find out which group you’re in is to play. You can start playing at the same time as someone else and they will always stay at 2x the number of n5* as you... consistently... not all accounts are created equal no matter what c2u says. Few have a primary focus on getting the n5* that are actually any good. Most get only crap, dupes, and fakes. And fewer still ever get anything good from l/d n4 or 5*... account security is rubbish so if you do get something good you better pray nobody wants it... because hackers can and will take it from you even if you never give your account information to anyone, ever... and c2u will not give you your account back.. it has happened to me...

But all that out the window the game is actually fun and strategy is a very important part of game play if you are one of the unlucky players who never gets the good mons/runes. If a game can make you mad then it has to be good right? Give it a few months and don’t expect to get any n5* before your first 6 months but, hey, if you do... Gz.

And turning that mega horn chat spam green has made it worse than it was when it was orange... then at least you could try to ignore it... now if it slips by it tricks you into checking if someone has said something in the guild chat... mega horn is a good idea, we just need to be able to filter it or toggle it on/off. Please o~o

by Dreadlord159

It's really fun to play games competitively and to strive to be the best. But that's not really the case for this game. It tries to be that way, but in reality it's just money hungry. Also it relies too much on luck. It's only really a ton of strategy that you have to figure out yourself late game. I know that spending money won't increase your chances of getting a 5 star which seems required for late game, but it makes it so you can have more chances at getting one. See, to do anything you need a nat 5 after necro and toa. Multiple, actually. And it's what, 6 percent chance in legendary scrolls? Less than 1 percent in mysticals? Bull. You should really raise the chances to 6 percent in mysticals like most games usually have. Legendarys to like 15 percent. This game relies on luck too much unless you spend money. And if you reply saying that spending money won't increase your chances, what about all those level 20s in chat with LD nat 5s? Those people obviously spent money. If they didn't and just rushed faimon that would take countless hours because of how trash those rates are. This game is so fun but you just ruin it with the requirement of nat 5s you have late game and how you never get one anyway without spending money. Help some poor people out. This game can really cheer people up with how fun it is especially if they are poor and need something to take away their mind. Don't ruin your game more. Fix it.

by Rafferio

First off I wanna state that the game is fantastic and well developed, even when things can get frustrating in game it still is fun and can provide a challenge to those who have played for a while. Great game over all, however even then I still have my issues, by the time I am writing this review I have returned to the game again after a decent period of time because it always catches my eye however I have had to restart my game, luckily I never made it to far as to say pro tier of anything like that, but due to the difficulty for returning players to login to there old accounts I find myself in this place again, I went through the tutorial, created another new name and tried to login to my old account connected to my Facebook but it didn’t work, and I can’t choose old names cause they still exist even though you can’t access them. So I delete and download SummonersWar again and try to log in from there and yet still I can’t access my old account. Though I got a option to sign in with Facebook and after it downloaded and I entered the world it wasn’t the same one I remembered having, it was a clean slate again, I just want to say please try and make it easier to login to old accounts cause it’s very infuriating that I have to start again. Otherwise I love the game and would definitely recommend it to others to play

by Nana Kouhai

I’ve been playing Summoners War for 3 years now. Unfortunately, it took two years to get my first nat 5. I didn’t even fuse before then. My account has some sort of bad luck, and I don’t know why. It’s frustrating, especially being a level 50 because when you’re that level, all you can do is build monsters and do better in raids or arena or maybe guild. But I can’t seem to summon a chasun or galleon or theomars or lushen or any form of a “game-changing” monster, so I can’t do much stuff. As a f2p player, it’s difficult to keep up with the p2p players. But asides from this, I wouldn’t be playing summoners for 4 years if I wasn’t obsessed. I even got my mom, brother, boyfriend, and another friend into the game (unfortunately it wasn’t through Facebook or any programmed method so I got no rewards for it, which I believe that I deserve). It’s a great game. A little unfair, but that’s what keeps you coming back. My suggestion is that summoners adds more things for f2p players so we can get advantages like the p2pers have such as rune packs or scroll packs you can buy with like a ton of mana or something. Also, there should be an event where the rates of wishes and rune power ups and summons are a little more fair for like a day. That would be really sweet. Keep on adding new monsters. Hopefully in the next new monster release, a new 5* will come. Thanks for reading my review.

by GREE Hater

I love a lot about the game. I found it while at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con and I’ve played every day since. Only it needs some additional controls/settings that haven’t been added yet, like turning down the power consumption. Even on the “saver” setting, this game kills my battery. And fast. I play for and hour and it kills 25-35% of the charge. It’s a brand new phone! Sheesh! Help me out! I love the graphics, but not the drainage necessary to show it.
And another thing is the intro/setup process. There is no (obvious) way to stop it. I have four alts! Not by choice either. Every time I set up the game on a new device I was FORCED to create another alt! Feh! But I still play. Because it’s fun. And beautiful.
And even though it seems like the posted “drop-rates” are completely BULL-Hockey and the one in a thousand chance for a natural 5-star monster is purely fictitious, I have a few. But I play a lot!
And I appreciate the events that provide opportunities to get scrolls and jewels, but the ads are relentless! Seriously, if I say no to an ad, at least stop showing it until the daily reset. Not EVERY fricking time I’m in the general vicinity.
Anyways, I’m still playing. Even playing most of the alts every day. It’s a good game. Just need a power cord and a lot of patience.

by EsaLee98

I have been playing summoners war for... I wanna say 4 or 5 years? I have my main level 50 account and a lower level alt account. I play solely on my original with the hopes of progression. I have found though, that my drop rates are very low when it comes to acquiring Nat 5 mons. I collect scrolls, and often will do 20+ at a time and it seems I’m lucky to get one or two 4 star mons. I understand the odds in general are low and it wouldn’t be much fun if we were all guaranteed a Nat 5 regularly, but to put it into perspective, I have ONLY 3 nat five mons, and a ton of 4 stars. Despite the fact that I utilize and build what I have, I just feel with all the time and effort I’ve put into this game, I would have more. That isn’t even one per year. For this reason, I have gotten frustrated throughout the years and stopped playing for certain periods of time. I’ve also noticed that the drop rates on my alt account seem to have better odds? I love this game and in my busy schedule I do my best to set aside time to play. Com2us, could these odds be because the rates were lower when I started my account? I love the diversity of the game, the visuals, and the fact that it’s always changing to keep it exciting. I’m just hoping there is some kind of solution to my issue, and it’s not just purely bad luck.

by Mmmmphmmm

I have been playing for well over two years. That’s how enjoyable and addictive the game is! Depth of gameplay with continued development is wonderful and helps me to forget the obvious frustrations mentioned in other reviews with nat 4/5 drop rates and defensive violent/proc blatant inequalities.

However, the recent glitches are becoming so prevalent they cast an unavoidable cloud over an otherwise fun gaming experience. A few month ago I had the same problem another reviewer mentioned of additional content downloads daily taking 15-20 minutes each. That finally resolved by unloading and reloading game. No for the last four or five updates at least my iPad Air will be unable to update locking me out of the game. SummonersWar Store only gives you an ‘open’ instead of update button. I have tried every suggestion online and suggestion from fellow players but the only fix is completely reinstall which also resets much of your existing team builds for dungeons. I have reinstalled this game at least four times in less than two months! Most frustrating is that I have never seen anyone from Com2Us even acknowledge the problem let alone provide some hope of remedy. There are only so many reinstalls I can take!!!

by HonestGuyIsMe

I have played for a solid year and a half. I love everything. I even understand that grinding is part of the game. But sometimes the rng seems off. I literally put more hours in a day then I could count into grinding for runes. I run gb10 and db10 from the moment I wake up to when I go to sleep and can very rarely complete an AVERAGE quality 5/6 star rune set with specific stats needed for a monster. I don’t even believe 6th slot Attack% and Health% runes exist anymore as well as 4th slot CritDmg%. Thousands upon thousands of runs and I have broken rune sets for only a pool of 20 or less 6 star monsters. I don’t even want legendary grade runes. Just give me basic 6 star runes that have my needed stat for a monster so I can complete the set. I don’t even bother runing my 5 star maxed lvl monsters bc I simply don’t get the right drops ever. I get 700 of slot 3 energy rune but 1 of slot 6 ANY type of rune to put on a monster. It makes it hard for my monsters to have the proper stats to move forward in starting the grind for other parts of the game which I happily look forward to. LOVE LOVE LOVE the game. Just wish I could put slot 6 Health% on 5 of my 6 starred monsters that have been patiently sitting unused because they do not have the stats to be of use in any aspect of the game. Thank you for reading com2us.

by Zenaflex

When I first heard of this game I was skeptical because it didn't look fun and the ads made it seemed like one of those fake pay to win games. Summoners war, in my opinion, is very well developed and it's easy to tell the devs put a lot of thought into it. There are hundreds of monsters and each individual one has their own unique skills. The monsters themselves look very detailed as well, with lots of thought put into their appearance as well as their attacks. Keeping my attention is something I look for in games and summoners war does just that. You never get bored in this game as there is literally always something to do. Don't even get me started on the community. I think SW has one of the best gaming community's I've seen out of the hundreds of games I've played. The people are very helpful when your just starting out and competitive when your a higher level. The only issue I have with this game are the luck rates. Summoning good monsters can be a pain as Natural 5 stars monsters only have a summon rate of about 0.4%. Although it takes 100 years to summon a nat 5 there are plenty of lower level monsters than can be just as good if not better than some natural 5 stars. Overall, VERY GREAT GAME 👍🏼

by Hdsjskajzjjsjsjsjxjsjdj

This is a game I always end up coming back to, it’s a very welcoming and well developed for a mobile game. The events are wonderful and seem to take into account newer players into account when they release them, so they aren’t left out of great rewards. It contains a wide variety of monsters to use and deep strategy to building the right team for each of the modes. Definitely something I would recommend at-least trying for a while before you make a decision on the game for it can take a second to really get started a get a sense of what you are doing. But afterwards you really start to take on the challenge of building a strong team and improving you monsters. There are many guilds and helpful players in the community though which is a very fascinating, because it can be very hard to Find a healthy community in games. There are a couple of negatives I find with the game and developers though, as the micro transactions are insanely expensive and you’ll get them flashed on your screen quite a bit while you navigate the menus, you can easily just click them away though. And rising in pvp ranks can be quite a hassle as there are many lvl 50 players who just sit in the lower ranks with max lvl monsters as their defense, which makes it very frustrating for newer and mid level players to climb. All in all I am very satisfied with this game and will always come back it. 😀

by Mоchi

i’ve been playing since 2017, and what’s keeping me around for this long is the rng. personally, i like how the game doesn’t just hand out super rare monsters unlike other gacha games where you just pull and get multiple rares. in my opinion, handouts are what makes a game stale. pulling a 5 star monster in this game doesn’t necessarily require in-game purchases, and all that you could do to pull a 5 star monster as a free-to-play is log in everyday, do the events, and farm dungeons. the daily missions also give you 2/300 pieces of a transcendence scroll, which is a scroll that gives you a 5 star monster. another aspect i like about this game is the rng in guild content such as siege and guild battles. in my opinion, sw wouldn’t be as fun without extra turns from violent runed monsters (funny! because it’s a turn-based game). why? because it makes me anticipate what’s going to happen whenever i enter a battle. fighting higher ranked guilds inspires me to make my monsters stronger by farming more runes. one more thing i like about this game is the island decorating system. i personally love designing things, and that’s one of the things that kept me playing. although there aren’t many colors to choose from, i was still able to decorate my whole island and make it look cute :) lol. though, there should be more island decorations such as benches, pathways, and maybe themed terrain layouts instead of just G R E E N. that is all, and thank you for coming to my TED talk.

by Brigadier93

This game is phenomenal, in ALMOST every way. The largest problem people have is with violent, but that’s not an issue. When you can actively counter a team using common sense, the only way to balance the odds of a team being countered, and with the AI “smarts” that team will use, is to increase the odds of it’s rune procs. That all makes perfect sense, otherwise things would be too easy.

The true issue is the “Glancing hit” system this game has. My go-to monster for pvp is a Katarina team I’ve been using since the start and making incredibly strong. My Katarina has a 100% critical strike chance. That means that 100% of the time, EVERY hit, is going to land as a critical unless it glances. YET, when I hit a fire monster with Katarina (a wind monster), she will glance all three times, I reset with the wind dragon/gany and do the combo again immediately... and glance.... THREE MORE TIMES. Please, explain to me what the point is in critical chance, if the chance to glance is so high. This doesn’t happen all of the time of course, but I would say on average I glance 80% of the time on off element, and that is WAY too much. Glancing, unless you are stacking separate glancing effects, needs to be much weaker than it currently is.

by Satisfied Casual User

I have sunk countless hours into this game. The depth is absurd. I like a game with lots of grindy content that rewards players for sticking around and persisting in that grind. This is that kind of game. I love love love that you can’t just get whatever monsters you want. It sound like a bad thing but its what makes the game fresh and fun. I have 4 non fusion light/dark nat 5 monsters (the rarest types in the game) and because they are so rare I have to figure out how to use them best. The online guides for this game are awesome, but its way harder to find them for the ultra rare stuff and that makes playing with it more fun! Additionally each account feels unique. The way I play and the way my friends play is different because we have different monsters.

The content is a real challenge and there is always something you can build towards - which makes it easy to find a goal and feel like your progressing towards it. I say that and I haven’t even gotten into the player verses player stuff - which is absurdly difficult.

10/10 fun and complex game. Its challenging, it rewards you for playing it, they aren’t stingy with their premium currency, and it has felt fun and fresh as I’ve played it on and off for seven years.

by KentNgo

I have to say, I really love this game and enjoy it to the fullest, the graphics, scenario, and introduction to the game made me hooked right away. It took me several months to get my first nat 5, even I know the rates are bad but the fact of this game is that it takes dedication and you need to stick with it to win, people who complain about wasting money are the ones who brought it open themselves, as you are the one who completes the transaction, if you spend money don’t expect to get an instant nat 5 which is a game changer instantly, just because your dissatisfied doesn’t mean you can get your money back and trial and error until you are satisfied. I stick to this game because to me in my opinion, com2us has made a very well rounded design to the game that makes it fair to the other players, this makes it enjoyable knowing also the depth of gameplay, the fact that you can multitask by grinding while doing your homework makes it all the better ^_^. I came to write a real review on the game, not a review based on people being frustrated on the rates because they spent money. This game is f2p and it is so very much possible, I have gotten all my nat 5’s without money (I have 3) I spent money on a legendary scroll pack and got Ludo and even though I don’t use him much or find value, I won’t complain.

by Get_boob

I’ve been playing this game for about a year and a half now and it is my favorite game on SummonersWar Store, and before you say that this game has bad drop rates and it’s pay to win these things aren’t true whatsoever. If you actually put in the amount of time that it takes to become a good player you wouldn’t be complaining about bad drop rates and that the game is pay to win. Yes most packs cost $30+ but if they didn’t cost a lot of money and the prices weren’t outrageous people would be buying packs left and right and the game would go from skill based to how much your wallet is gonna feel that later. And if all the drop rates were good like 5% on a nat 5 the game would be easy and it would just be another mobile game you delete in a few days. All of the things you guys think are wrong with the game I think were calculated perfectly so people who enjoy the challenge this game presents will be better players and people that would just prefer to play $3 and have everything would learn to have fun with games that present a challenge instead of just handing endgame to you on a solver platter. This is the most well thought out game I have ever played and I won’t quit playing anytime soon, so devs if you ever think about giving up on this game, don’t.

by Lahdd

So I’ve started playing the game about a year and a half after launch, seeing youtubers and such playing I decided to download. I deleted it and just redownloaded it about a week ago. The game is very challenging in many aspects, with many things to do. Many complain the game is very p2w or want the nat 5 rates buffed, but just because you don’t have a nat 5 doesn’t mean you can’t get good monsters. Most people just don’t want to farm or want the easy way out. The game is definitely one you need to strategize more as you get to higher tiers, but most don’t have the intellect for it and just want to plow through with power/ speed. And once you start the game it’s very f2w, just as you level on and progress into late game many start investing money so players in that caliber feel as they have to do so too. But that isn’t the case, all you need to do is farm. There’s always events to do and that’s a really big plus for me, I barely pay for mobile games but I felt the need to support this company. Only pack that I see really worth the money is the growth pack, everything else is more meh. The only things I’d have adjusted is the matchmaking system in arena, to get rid of ghost accounts, and to buff the rates for 5* and 6* runes in gb8/9, I’m still really only getting four star runes from them (but I also just have bad luck). Other than that my favorite game :)

by My Name Is Zuziko In SW

Don’t rate this game a one star because you spent money on the game and didn’t get something you wanted don’t rate it a one star if your game crashes a lot don’t rate it a one star because the game inconveniences you at times don’t rate it a one star because you feel as though you’ve wasted your time playing the game ... I’ve been playing the game for about four years now and I can honestly say every review that is a one star is either a cry baby or is now invalid and are no longer relevant to the game that being said the game is amazing I’m a free to play person on this game and I can honestly say I have gotten somewhere on this game this is a strategy based game at its core and no amount of money or time can change that it’s about smarts and delicate planning to be able to get end game in SW if you are struggling on the game DONT resort to paying money watch videos of the people who’ve been playing for longer then you and get vital info on how you can improve your experience and be able to overcome the thing you find that’s making the game more difficult for you ... that is my Profesional opinion of this game and I hope that this helps people for the future of summoners war thank you

by Jaden3829

First off I want to say I love this game. It’s a satisfying game and extremely addicting. I easily have spent hours at a time playing this game. This is a perfect game to play on a long car ride or if your just bored because it provides hours of entertainment.i love the visual effects of the game and how it runs. Now here are my suggestions, please up the rates for nat 5 monsters. They are extremely rare to get which makes it frustrating if you spend money on this game because most of the time you drop a hundred bucks and can either get something great(which hardly ever happens) or just get bad four stars or three stars.(which happens most of the time) I think if someone spends money on a game you should get reward for it. I would say keep the same rates for light and dark though as they are extremely rare and should be really hard to get because of how good they are. But increase it a bit for mystic scrolls so every can enjoy a nat 5 or two. Or what I would say is make an item in the game that greatly increases the chance of receiving them from scrolls for like 10 minutes at a time. That way people still have to farm a bit to get the item but it helps increase the odds of receiving a nat 5. Thanks for a great game

by T-boy18

This game is by far the best that I’ve ever played on mobile. The graphics are top notch and this has the best system that allows for relatively fair play between pay-to-win players and players who are in it for a good grind. I’ve played quite a few games that have a mostly pay-to-win fan base, however this one is different in a lot of good ways. I’ve never spent even a single dollar on this game and I have a few nat 5* monsters, and I’m up to almost 10 6* monsters. Also, speaking of monsters, there is such a wide variety of monsters that you can summon. Every single monster, from the nat 1* to the nat 5*, have their own unique skills. Finding a great combination of active, passive and leader skills can be very easy if you summon the right monsters. Furthermore, with all the different game modes, there are so many reasons for changing up your teams. From ToA to PvP to raids, it’s hard to find one team that can be useful in every situation, which is really what makes this a fun and long-term game for grinding players like myself. The only issue I seem to have with this game is my inability to connect when I’m not within range of my WiFi, then again that may just be an issue with my device so it still gets a 5/5 from me.