Star Wars™: Galaxy of Heroes Reviews

by UD_007

Wallet warriors rejoice!!! Pay2win at it’s worst. If you do not spend money, you will exist in the game for P2W players to defeat you. If you do spend money the rewards are random, or so the game maker say, the claim will be you can win anywhere from 5 to 330 character pieces to advance your character. I’ve spent a lot of money and never had a payout of more than 5. You will have to spend a lot of money on the game to get premium characters maxed out. Crooked casinos will occasionally payout better than this game. Do not spend your money. All I have to say is Mark V Stun Guns. The economy in this game is rigged to part suckers from their money. They actually just made the game economy worse and another level to “max” your characters out. The developers made a few free characters great and then without consideration for every player nerfed Darth Vader, General Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight Luke, and others. Big $$$ spenders were upset because with some strategy and a few good free-to-play characters were beating pay-for-play “Galactic Legends.” The developers did the same to a new game feature Conquest. They initially made it too easy to win decent prizes so they reset the game play so now you won’t get the prizes. DO NOT INVEST YOUR TIME & MONEY unless you love being treated like trash, cheated and hoodwinked. Just when you think you gain some ground, the developers want more of your hard earned cash.

by GridironBeast23

This is currently the only Star Wars game with active support...and it’s a DISASTER. When I look at all the 5 stars this game has, I begin to laugh and wonder whether I am playing the same game. Anyway, this game is great at first...until you figure out just how long it will take you to do anything in this game. My cousin introduced me to the game a few years ago and I played a decent bit for awhile, back when I was innocent to EA’s scams. I dropped the game because I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere with it and I kept getting beat by stronger foes. I picked the game up a few days ago and realized once again why I dropped the game in the first place. If you want to get anywhere in this game, EA and Capital Games expect you to pay to win. I hate pay to win games. Also, about the paying part, where have I heard that again? Oh yeah, from youtubers whose Galaxy of Heroes accounts were worth thousands of dollars, were childishly banned by Capital Games for giving the game a bit of mild criticism. Look it up guys. Star Wars fans shouldn’t have to settle for this game. If you are a reasonable Star Wars gamer, stay away. Just hope and pray that EA’s mercy will extend as far as giving us a Battlefront 3 in the near future (since Disney seems to be set on giving them the license extension). Sorry this was a harsh review but thanks for reading. I hope this will educated some of you to EA’s abuse of Star Wars fans, their wallets, and their time.

by D_DAWG99

This game is not fun. It’s just addictive. Higher ups, either at Capital Games or EA itself, has proven that they don’t give two flying $&@/$ about players; oh unless they dish out thousands of dollars a month on this game. And that is not anywhere close to an understatement, that’s how much people actually spend. It will literally take you YEARS to get some characters unlocked, and then several months after that to even get close to maxing them with gear and relics. It’s been pay 2 win for a long time with a free 2 play option, but you’re basically signing up for a life of frustration and feeling like you’re performing a chore rather than a game. Even after all of that, I didn’t have enough of a problem to write a review. But then the Great Nerf came, and characters we love - specifically for me, Darth Vader - were absolutely pulverized. All to make sure CG’s babies - their GLs - could function the way they wanted so they could milk more money from people whaling to get them. But now, my teams can’t stand up to cake walks that they used to be able to easily handle. Teams that don’t even have a galactic legend. I was by no means a whale before this, but I’m completely done with giving them anymore of my money for this billion dollar game. If you’re looking to play, just know what you’re getting yourself into, and I hope you’re either prepared for years of slow grinding and chores, or you have tens of thousands of dollars burning a hole in your pocket.

by Kabilish666

The game is pretty fun and I have been grinding on it for several months (10 or so). Like all the “free” games, it’s pay-to-win. That aspect isn’t overwhelming, but I have definitely hit a plateau where I really can’t win in the Galactic March or Squad Arena because I don’t have enough firepower. I also can’t advance to some of the Challenges, Events, or Ship battles because there is no way to advance further without buying packages. The jump in difficulty from tier-to-tier or level-to-level is such that you get completely stuck unless you pay. The fact that most of the packs have “chances” to gain shards, ships, and gear means you will likely spend money to get mediocre stuff instead of the things you actually need. The exception, of course, is the Hyperspace Bundle, which guarantees all sorts of cool stuff. There are two catches to that. First, I am afraid that having all of that might make me too overpowered (except against other players who also bought it) and remove some of the fun. Second, the Hyperspace Bundle is $100! That’s a ridiculous amount of money. I might be willing to pay $20 or $30 to get a bunch of guaranteed stuff, but $100 is ludicrous.

Really, the F2P, but P2W (or even have a competitive chance after a certain point) gets frustrating. Apparently, there are enough people willing to shell out that kind of money. For my money, I prefer to buy a large-scale PC game like Civ that I can actually master and play for years.

by Dojason

I have played this game for two years and would not recommend to any new players. Legendary events are hard to obtain the new character if you haven’t wasted time and resources farming characters you won’t use except to obtain a broken OP character, that you only get a week to prepare for. Then, depending on your time zone and the number of players in your arena shard, you could get lucky and not have to share payout with anyone allowing you to get first every day with no contest, OR, like me, you could get stuck in a highly competitive, highly saturated payout time and end up having to pay to keep up with guild mates in other time zones that don’t have to share payout with anyone. Plus top tier arena teams are basically just filled with legendary, hard to obtain, characters, OR new characters that are only obtainable by spending $100’s on. And if you spend enough at the right time, they will award high spending players with an additional 20,000 gems just for taking a new, pay to play, character to 7* once released. If it wasn’t for the brotherhood I have formed with my guild mates traversing over multiple games, I would have quit this long ago. Not to mention, when I opened a support ticket the no-reply email said someone would call within 30 minutes, but 2 hours later when EA finally called me, the foreign rep said he couldn’t hear me, even tho I had full bars, and said he would call right back he never did.

by Nick Everette

The game’s been developed very well, so much so that many attributes deserve 5 stars. However, you also run into a very rigged process that very blatantly sets the player up for failure. It is VERY much the “pay-to-succeed” system, the twin of the “pay-to-play” mentality. And I can appreciate the fact that it’s a product designed to make money and the business needs to generate revenue, but most of the packages cost just as much as console or PC games (many of which you don’t need to pay anything to succeed). And to make matters worse, these expensive packages only promise the off-chance that you might get something useful. It’s a joke if you think anyone would spend that kind of money when they could easily go to Walmart and by literally anything else- particularly a video game this is actually immersive (don’t forget...this game will only ever be a smart phone application).

Sure, there are cheap packages, but these are a complete waste of money. It doesn’t matter how cheap something is: if it doesn’t offer something even remotely useful, it’s a waste of money.

These simple and tremendous flaws completely subvert all of the developers’ efforts to create what would otherwise be a very well-made game (hence the 2-star rating instead of 5-stars), and make all the time spent on StarWars (which can be significant) feel like nothing more than a waste of time.

by Darksome I

I used to love this game and I still play it, but Capital Games has become an evil greedy empire. The grind has always been exhausting but they keep deliberately making it worse by adding more relic levels, which looks like it might become an annual thing. They just made great characters weaker, like Vader who got a great upgrade recently and they made him and a lot of other characters weaker because they can beat galactic legends and the developers sent out a news letter saying they were doing this so that’s good getting a galactic legend is a huge grind. If you are free to play it would take at least a year, probably more. I’ve played this game for years now and I don’t have one. I’ve watched you tube content creators whale for these and spend a few thousand and up.
This game is not fun anymore. Once you get to level 85 it’s grind grind grind grind grind grind and then now and then ad a zeta up a character grind grind grind. It takes months to get a character from zero to level 13. I’m about mid tear in a guild of players who have amazing rosters and none of us have a relic 9 which was just added because the grind wasn’t bad enough.
If you’re not willing to spend your hard earned money in huge amounts or work very hard to stand in place this game won’t be for you. The grind is so bad that this game just isn’t fun anymore and most of the community feels the same way, the Wales seem to love it tho, after all, the game caters to them.

by 3838383838apan

Of course with all free games it's definitely got that pay 2 win aspect going on. Don't get me wrong I haven't spent a dollar on the game so far and I'm level 57, but I do feel like I'm missing out on a lot of aspects, like challenges and special events, because I don't have the characters or resources to do them. In order to get the most out of this game you're going to HAVE to either pay or wait until your maxed, and getting to max without paying is going to take a looooong time. Word of advice for new players or even current players: DO NOT ever buy the data card packs with your gems. They're rigged and I'll share my personal experience with you real quick. Trying to get my mother Talzin character to 4 stars a few weeks ago I bought the clan mother pack which has a chance of dropping anywhere between 5-330 shards for her, I only needed fifteen. I got 7, I was incredibly angry, but I thought it was just bad luck. Today, saving up enough gems again to purchase it, bought it again like an idiot, and this time you know what I got? 5. I got 5 shards for her, the minimum amount you can get. So out of those two data card packs I got 12 out of a possible 660 shards, you tell me that isn't some fishy BS. Oh and those two combined were worth over 2000 gems and I still wasn't able to get my mother talzin to four stars. Like I said the pay 2 win aspect is pretty moderately pressed on you in this game but it's still alright.

by Saal0704

I’ve been playing this game for near three years now. It has been my go to game. However, it’s becoming quite stacked. Beginning game is fun and quick to progress with tons of characters. But, the mid to late game is crap. PVP events are next to hopeless if you don’t spend money on the game in order to obtain gear to match that of other players. The legendary events for “legendary” characters are ridiculously difficult. You need to be in a guild if you want to progress at normal speed to obtain better gear or earn certain “legendary” characters. You shouldn’t be forced to be in a guild if you want to progress. Guilds are touchy and usually led by folks who take this game way too seriously. Guilds requiring use of discord or requiring mandatory participation in all events is absurd. I’ve been in guilds that require you run all incoming “absences” or be kicked. As if this game should require you to call out like you would for a work shift. All characters should be available to be recruited like normal for everyone. And, legendary events should not be as difficult as they have become. If the “legendary” character is that good to begin with then you shouldn’t have to quadruple the attacking rate of the AI team. App games are meant to be casual mini-games. Everything should be equally accessible and leveled starting field for players of all levels. Beginning, mid, late game...it shouldn’t be this stacked against everyone who doesn’t obsess about the game.

by Exel2000

The cash grab is real. It is VERY difficult for ftp players to compete in pvp events. The whales will have the latest new OP toon that is nearly impossible to beat unless you have them too. And, if there is some existing toon that can beat them, the developers nerf them so they can’t. If you have patience, and are willing to accept the fact that you will never be on the top 20 of pvp, then you can still find some enjoyment in this game. I am on this category, but it’s not without frustration. The shard drop rates are actually insulting and should be fixed but they won’t because, you know, $$$$$$$. You can easily do 15 battles and get zero shards. It happens to me and my guild mates regularly. So you’re forced to spend huge amounts of crystals for a pitiful amount of way over priced shards. It really is a slap in the face to the players and tbh will probably be the reason I quit the game. There needs to be a minimum guaranteed amount of shards per attempts, even if it’s 1 in 10! The gear wall is extremely frustrating too, you’ll need 200 or more pieces of a certain type of gear for one toon which are also outrageously overpriced and sometimes may not be available anywhere and also have a horrendous drop rate from battles. AND, you’ll need these for a bunch of characters at the same time too. At any rate, you’ll still enjoy the game if you have a tremendous amount of patience and/or 100’s of $ laying around to dump into the game.

by Zonker808

Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes has all the makings of a great game. Cool graphics filled with key characters of the Star Wars series as well as several new unique ones. It is very challenging gameplay: it is filled with multiple games with daily quests/challenges that is well-designed to peak your interest and capture your desire to continue to play on to attain higher levels. However, there is one glaring problem, the creators make it impossible to advance your characters to attain in adequate level during daily challenges to obtain higher rewards. There is a clear emphasis on having the player continue to spend money to upgrade his army of character. However, upon attaining the highest player levels, the manufacturer has rigged the game play so that you are pitted against factitious other teams that are increasingly higher than your greatest teams’ ability to conquer. Despite advancing your characters to higher levels, each day, you begin knocked down to a lower level and are matched up against other squadrons/units with considerably higher skill sets with advance speeds that destroy your units, thereby hampering your ability to advance. Having read multiple other gamers’ reviews, I am sure that the manufactures are well aware of this, yet have not modified the game accordingly. Unless you are of substantial dispensable financial means, my advice would be to avoid this game.

by Gdhshshd

the game play on this is incredible. you don’t realize it in the beginning but after a while you see how much strategy there is. it may take a while but for me it’s worth it. there are a couple things that i think would make this game better. #1 if you guys could set up a section where you can battle your allies, kinda like championship or squad arena but you can specifically battle allies. #2 I think there are a whole bunch of players who could be added in such as starkiller even though the games are now legends he is an amazing character and could bring a lot to the table by bring other characters to add like general kota. you could also add in jaba he would be a support character that would work well with smugglers or bounty hunters. #3 I think that some characters could use a reboot and be improved now that new information has been seen with these characters such as fulcrum ahsoka, she is not a super powerful character but they have said that at this state she is at about the same power level of count dooku, we have also seen her in mandalorian and she is way more powerful then she is in the game. overall though this is my favorite game i have played, it is fun and doesn’t get boring. thank you for reading my review.

by Bill

While this game is fun it could be better. They need to add a global chat because right now if you want to chat you can only do it if you’re in a guild or if you make a chat with all of your friends in it. They also need to make it easier to find active guilds & players around your level(I’m in a guild myself already but I’m the only officer in the guild still active and most of the players in the guild aren’t active and I’ve been looking for awhile for an active guild to join but it’s hard to find one. You need to be in an active guild to do the raids because otherwise it’ll take awhile to generate enough raid tokens and raids are the only way other than using your gems to get some of the gear you need for your characters and the harder tier raids, which need like an active full guild to do, is the only way to get character shards for certain units. Also if you want to be able to do some of the events and the ship battles than you’ll have to spend money on gems or packs to get enough shards to not only unlock the unit but to get it to a point where you can use them for all levels of the event(this is especially true for the ships because the only other way would to be only buying 4-5 shards at a time every day for the ship you want from the ship arena store and what it offers changes daily so it can take awhile to get enough shards and therefore by the time you might get enough shards the ship event might be over).

by This Sucked Bigtime

Truthfully. THEY... didn't come up with Star Wars. THEY... were given an opportunity to work on something that was imagined by other people. THEY... have such a short attention span and introduce "new" content that they then ignore needs updated and upgraded for over a year and counting. They also have an absolutely definitive and obvious cult love for a single faction in this game. How did this get past any quality control? EA isn't paying enough attention to players feedback and alienating half of the Star Wars fans that existed before they ever had a chance to put their grubby biased hands on it. Everyone remember the game Game Genie for Nintendo? Yeah... they put that in the game as a single REBEL character. R2D2 is so powerful in this game, it's a wonder he didn't just solo the clone wars in the movies. They have no idea how to balance meta and instead have a development strategy like checkers instead of chess. Even in checkers they start one side with all King'd checkers and think that's the equivalent of balance. In Chess different strategies have a counter, but you are able to switch strategies the next time around. In this game one side for a period of time, usually lightside, starts with King'd checkers for months and months. It's idiotic!

by Doctor Melons

I’ve been playing this game for about 6 months now, and I haven’t been able to put it down since. Steady content you can play throughout the day if you’re bored; with deep complexity for long term playing, and a more serious approach if that’s something you’re interested in. Playing with out spending money to advance is definitely possible in this game. All of the pay to win aspects only change the game for you if you’re inpatient. If you want instant gratification this isn’t the game for you.

The only thing I dislike about this game is the character packs you can purchase with crystals. The randomness of possible character shards when buying a character specific pack can be pretty bad, ranging from 5 to unlocking the character max level if you’re lucky. For new players who are unaware of this it can seriously ruin the whole experience and dissuade a desire to play more, and for people who do toss some money to EA; buy more crystals/other content in general.

Overall though this is a very well made mobile game with great developer support, and fresh new content consistently being released. It starts out very simple, and challenges you to get better as you continue playing. The groups you can join are consistently filled with friendly people who are willing to help you learn and play as well. Perfect for all Star Wars fans

by OcassionalPlayer

So fun and addictive. Can spend hours just clicking around. Great to play free or invest in. Sometimes StarWars force closes at times that will cost you an opportunity. EA customer support will have you reinstall the game, saying that should fix the issue, but it doesn't. The limit of characters you can type in chat should be increased by 20% & it shouldn't wipe chat after it's 50 lines old. Having to extensively use Discord to chat is both a blessing and a curse. Minor annoyances in an otherwise great game. Would love to see a new beast to fight. Rancor needs a buddy. Great work. Keep it coming.

Edit: been playing daily for 3+ years now, multiple accounts. So addictive. Always challenges you to learn more about team composition and choose who to level up. Daily grind is fun and also consumes you. Now - the bad stuff. Capital Games has had time and plenty of chances to improve communications but they don’t. They seem to both love and hate their player base. Each new toon fits into too narrow a team selection, cross-faction theory crafting is not broad enough. New toons are too powerful, a very slippery slope that reduces the game more and more to rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. CG does not invest a high ratio of their dollars into hiring enough talent and it shows. While a brilliant engrossing game, there are now enough detractors to make veterans quit.

by DrTroglodyte

They must have lowered the chances of getting shards for characters. I’ve been playing this game since about when it came out and there wasn’t much to do (except for a couple months after Disney bought Star Wars). And earlier this year I was able to get a character unlocked and 7 stars after maybe a week and a half or two if I use my energy on it every day. I was actually able to grind for characters. But at some point, I started only getting maybe 1 or 2 shards a day (even spending saved gems to refresh I won’t get any) so I’ve spent dang near all this entire year of 2019 trying to get 2 characters to 7 star. 2 characters. They have been 5 and 6 stars for longer than I can even remember specifically anymore. And when I try to get support. It’s just send an email or post. Nothing happens. But that’s probably just EA. I love this game and I love playing it. But for months upon months all I can do is use all my energy every day and get 1 or 2 shards sometimes getting none. I’ve started just to play other games and forget to come back. If this can’t get fixed I’m gonna quit and I’d recommend new players stay away. You won’t get anywhere and it’ll be a waste of time.

by Krampusss

I have been playing this game for so many years and it never ceases to amaze me with all of the new updates and content. It is always similar to how I would envision the characters to be. The gameplay is very very fun and makes it seem as if I am actually recreating the battles. The only thing I’d say is unfortunate is that once you get into the higher levels it is difficult to find a fair fight in the squad and flight arenas as you need to have a team to even stand a chance. If it is possible to have opponents based upon your characters you are using them it would be much better in my opinion. However I know that most people in the higher ranks of the arenas are going to have op squads, hence the name squad arena. However the battles are amazing and super fun. The energy seems to dissipate really fast though. Maybe it’s just me. Love the game and hope that it is continued to be updated and have more content coming soon. Loved the Jedi Knight Revan update a whole lot. He is beautiful and his robes were done so well it made me want to get him so bad. It is similar with all of the other legendary characters. Very beautiful and very well done nothing looks to be left out. Thank you so much for this beautiful Star Wars game. It’s amazing please keep up the hard, but beautiful work.

by Someone102015

Hello, first off I would like to start off by say that I really enjoy this game especially the events and new character events. It really adds to the game and keeps it fresh and I always look forward to new ones! One thing I did notice though is that for almost every boss you fight is also a playable character except for the Jedi temple guards. I know there’s Jedi guardians but it’s a little different. It would definitely be cool to have the temple guards as playable characters to your team. They could be tanks, offer support or protection to other Jedi’s.

Another cool character to add would be the grand inquisitor. Attacker, Sith empire, have a spinning lightsaber to block attacks. Some other ones I think would be cool is Ashoka from season 7 of clone wars with her two blue lightsabers, the child from the mandalorian. (He would be with Mando in his beskar armor, similar to how we have Chewie and 3PO. But the child would also be cool by himself.) Hondo Ohnaka, who else is going to score you more credits then him? Okay maybe not a lot for you since he’ll take 80 to 85% of the profits, but how much fun he would be to play as and be put on a team of smugglers. And one more would be Lando from ROTJ and you can have him fly the falcon with Nien Nub in ship battles.

But overall just a fun of the game. And recommend it to any SW fan.

by Zarth The Swordmaster

This game has to be my all time favorite app. It is truly one of the best games I’ve played, definitely the best mobile game I’ve ever played. The game features a satisfyingly plentiful collection of characters from throughout both the canon universe and the Legends universe. The game never gets boring as there’s always something new and always something to work towards. One of the most Interesting things about this game which sets it apart from most games like it, is the fact that you don’t “Have” to pay actual money to progress in the game, though there are many benefits to doing so, either way you’re going to have a really fun time with this game I highly recommend it to not only anyone who loves Star Wars, but to everyone, as this game has something for everyone. This game is also constantly getting new content (i.e. Characters, ships, events, and other features) evolving, growing, adding, and expanding, as Star Wars itself continues to evolve, grow, add, & Expand. I might also add that the game is super addicting in all the best ways, features amazing graphics and most of the gameplay handles like a Pokémon battle, but 100 times cooler, but that’s just the types I’ve Unlocked so far, I am interested to see how ship battles works. In conclusion This game is something everyone should give a try.

by TheJudgeNYC

The game consistently releases updates and new characters, in which the ONLY way to gain them is buy paying for them! There literally is no way to have access to the character at all (and at the very least, quickly) without paying for it. I’m talking up to $300 on avg for a single character. Which doesn’t include the additional $200-ish to upgrade the character to max level and gear. Then occasionally in order to gain a new meta character you have to upgrade 5 characters to max level to receive it. The people that pay (and people do) are benefiting from the rewards they can then receive from having higher characters, but those rewards don’t compare with what needs to be done if you want to STAY competitive. You have buy the next character when it comes out. The top players in this game that I’ve talked to have spent $20,000-$30,000+ on the game since it’s release. I’m NOT joking or exaggerating. Even when they play EVERYday, that’s what they’ve needed to do to stay competitive. If you don’t believe me do a little research. The top guild in the world is called “The Big Wallets”. That should tell you something. It’s like a gambling addiction. Makers of these games work with psychologists to create these models and hook people in this way. It’s a tragedy, dangerous and should be illegal.

Don’t play this game. Stick with games that value skill over the size of your wallet. Don’t even try this technological drug. STAY AWAY!

by EtherWolf

Many characters are impossible to use without buying. Lots of events are impossible to do if you didn’t start playing at the beginning unless you spend piles of money. The amount you have to spend just to get one character properly set up is staggering, hundreds of USD, and there are currently 138 characters. This game takes freemium to a whole new level of greed, always popping ads in your face to try to get you to buy stuff. I got 3 ads today for Boba Fett. I already have him but the game isn’t clever enough to know when it’s notifying you of something useless, like an event that you’ve already completed. The game crashes quite often, as evidenced by the at least monthly “sorry about that” gift they put in your inbox. Considering some have spent thousands on this game they could at least fix a few glitches that have been lurking for ages. It needs an ability to adjust the camera angle, as often the arrangement it chooses obscures crucial information and you have to guess, and sometimes it makes it difficult if not impossible to select certain targets. The chat system is near useless, with the laziest implementation of a language filter I’ve ever seen. The guild management tools are sorely lacking. This game has been out long enough to spend some of the mountains of cash it’s making and invest in fixing the core mechanics.

by Nonow237

First let me start off by saying I’ve been playing for almost 2 years. This game is great and I would recommend this to anybody who is a Star Wars fan and in a heartbeat.

There are some things that could be changed to make it better though. To start some people like me don’t spend there ally points the second they get them. Sometimes I have all my points stacked up to 45,000 and that does not make it very easy when you cannot collect more than one bronzium card pack at a time. It takes me 5 to 10 minutes to open them all which is really Boring. If you added a way to open multiple at a time that would be amazing. Second if there was a way to see all of the special events so that you could know exactly what types of characters you need to level up to able to play certain events. For the longest time I had no idea which characters I needed to get to play the R2-D2 event. I finally found out when the event came around again but had no time to prepare.

These are just some of the things that I think are minor details but could help a lot. If EA read this it would be great to have this in one of the next updates!