Heroes and Castles 2 Reviews

Good game overall IF we can advance past waves on our main castle and defend our outposts. It’s just endless waves of impenetrable skeleton knights who have 2x100 more health than our strongest units and you can barely get past halfway when they start pushing you back to your gates. The enemy has every advantage we don’t have with sending the strongest units every second while we wait about 30sec for a not so counter unit which is really an unfair difference soon after you begin the game your just crushed and can do nothing about it. It seems the only way to have even a slight advantage is to use real money for crystals, which would seem not to help much I would think. Its a good game but all this impossible disadvantage just ruins it, it’s only fun for a little while (about +-10 hours), my thought, not worth the storage use and money.

There are some brutal waves that require certain units. The wave I can’t get past covers the field in goblin rifles. They bring down your character in one or two volleys. The easy answer is use anti ranged defenses. The reality is that goblin rifles aren’t counted as ranged by the game. No normal means of handling them work. And you can’t charge into the field to take them on yourself. You’ll get shot down. If you survive long enough, you end up inundated with spiders. Your character CANNOT survive outside the walls at this point. Then they drop rocketeers. Frickin brilliant. This isn’t the only wave that’s this bad. A lot of waves feel like a dev said, "You know what would be really frickin unfair?" And then did it. That combined with some coding bugs and always overpriced units make the main waves a slog that hangs over you head all the time. This game can be really fun, but the levels are so cruelly designed it simply becomes exhausting at times. PLEASE REWORK IT.

The game is great by all means but there are two things that will take players away from the game. One, the error that pops up when you take a land or defend a land and you receive a message to get new equipment. It loads and loads and then says there’s an error. I used to play the game and it worked fine but now there suddenly is an error which makes the game even harder. Speaking of harder, the second issue is the difficulty. Normal is expected to be a much more challenging experience than easy but normal is completely overpowered. Especially in terms of the how quickly and at the rate at which the enemy puts out units is literally SPAM. You would think easy would change this but it is virtually the same and practically makes the game unplayable when you can not even get command points before you are swarmed by numbers or by units that are charging you instantly or spawning in the middle of the field next to your wall.

In this game, there are no building that can sit behind walls somewhat protected. Your bannerman get slaughtered because they are basically dark cultists without a shield. Lost the move stick, and you can't attack while running or moving for that matter. Only 3 races for as far as I've gotten? Only three classes? Not very much versatility there. No siege? Not very easy to run on older devices, I'd love to upgrade my hardware but I don't want to spend more than 600$. Also, no free way to get more content? In H & C, you just had to accumulate 30-35 crystals for new heroes, in the free version of this game, there is only three classes and races. Not much versatility as I mentioned earlier. Dwarven firing squad strategy sadly doesn't work because of fragile bannerman. At least make it so bannerman have invulnerability while a certain condition is met. Loved gold and the Midas achievement, gave me a good laugh.

I’m not going to lie, this has been a very fun game. I’ve been playing for a while now, but there are, with this and every game, some flaws. First of all, in the settings, the only way to turn off the sound of the voice that provides information is by turning all sound off aside from music. His nagging voice every time something happens gets to me, but I like playing with sound on, so that’s one thing. There is also the endless waves of undead. They always attack your castle, and I understand that they are supposed to resemble an unrelenting enemy, but attacking your castle every few minutes (well, days) is really excessive. Not to mention, you only have a few days before you are forced to defend your castle. I don’t have a problem with a time limit to get things done, but the most I’ve seen is 3 days to defend on a castles whereas your outposts give you up to 10 days. Speaking of outposts, the undead can somehow attack anywhere. Logically, if you have a boundary between your territory and your enemy’s territory, your enemy would have to cross your boundary to attack, so they are limited to the outlying outposts, but in this game, the undead ignore boundaries altogether and appear where they please.

This is an interesting game. I’ve played this before on my phone and after getting an iPad I decided to download it again. The screen on my phone was small and I was looking forward to playing on a larger one. Unfortunately, I am having a couple of problems. I get notifications after a battle that I’ve found a piece of equipment. However, when I try to pick it up, I get an error saying, “an unknown error has occurred.” This prevents me from picking the stuff up.
It’s still a fun game. Even though I now have to farm 20% more to level stuff up.

The game is pretty good but your always having like hordes of enemys attacking 5 forts at once and every time i would get on it would make me stay at the home castle and defend against and impossible hord i cant defeatand no other way to level up or i would have to go to another fort and i got to where i couldnt even take out forts when they had just popped up and you cant control the units like in nobleman so if anything the next update needs to have an alternative way to level up and get better weapons and armor instead of trying to get better stuff by trying to pass a level way beyond your experience

When I started this game I was really impressed with the graphics and gameplay. I like the unit system in the number of units you can have I also like the different classes times along with the different weapons that each class has. I like the campaign and the skirmish mode. But the thing I do not like and I mean do not like is when you die with a class that is not your standard beginning lowdown you cannot use that class again for a whole hour. I think that is dumb. Just because I am enjoying the game and happen to die once means that I cannot use any separate load out for a whole hour and less I spent Gold. If they could fix this to wear just because you die does not mean you cannot play exciting class this game would be almost perfect.

if you have another hero like it here with a shield you can use heroes to do many things like siege towers and have them help you in battle but out of everything even the units don’t have this ability everybody on your side will have a shield well most of them they can’t even use them. Shoes are useless at that point the enemy team knows how to use one handed sword to block shields to block for some reason our team does not possess the knowledge to even lift up the shield to block a singular arrow it ruins strategic planning sometimes even great losses

Game is great. It’s fun. I have started this game years ago. I’ve played it for a while then deleted it because I’ve gotten bored. it’s been a long time since work has been done on it. In fact every time I try to do an online session I can wait for an hour and nothing happens. The graphics could be worked on a little more. The grind for loot and currency to upgrade is pretty hard but it’s not too hard. But after a while it becomes boring. It would be nice if an update or a least a part three came out to give us more.

This games mean a lot to me but there are something’s I wish where in the game such a small structures that summon unit such a like a farm house that will summon the peons from heroes and castles 1 and a small little would be to give skeletons warriors and footman different weapons such as a mace, axe, club, etc it would also be nice that the higher rarity of an item would be a little bit more expensive and finally it would be nice if there was a pet system that will act like the red guard but do not need to be summoned will attack your target and can only have at a time and do not take up population so if some of this stuff is added then I will put in 5 stars thank you

Love the game. It’s really fun to play and I like the concept. Also very smooth. But when it tells me a piece of equipments been found and do I want it when I click yes it takes me to an add which is fine. But the ad is a dominations add and it just sits there no video just a background of it a play button (which does nothing) and a mute and unmute button (which also does nothing). Only way to fix it is to leave the game and start it back up again. Which isn’t all too horrible but I can’t get the equipment now. Please fix this.

I was headed here a few days ago to write a negative review about the error and never receiving loot when found which is linked to the ad system that is no longer functioning then I saw the premium for 1.99 version.

No ads and lots of extra loot which can be sold or used for diamonds makes it a pretty fun game. I’m about half way thru and some waves are very hard but there always other lands to capture in between waves to acquire more xp and loot/diamonds.

This version is broken and I wouldn’t spend money on it. If you enjoy it on here you’ll like the premium version a lot better.

Okay you know how you can get a bow and everything right? Good, I think it would be cool if they made multiple themes for a game with the same concept like for example the American military VS oh I don't know like how about some zombies or bad guys of some sort.
And maybe the Romans fighting Greeks or something But an FPS in this game style I would love and this game I've played from the beginning ever since it came out in the first version. It's great, definitely a new kind of defense game.

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Well it's been a year and my opinion hasn't changed one bit but the game just needs some bug fixes and we're all good! Also the game is hard by nature even the easy mode is hard but that's what makes the game worthwhile. Also be sure to check out Nobleman 1896 it's another great game by the awesome devs at Foursaken Media!

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For some reason the game seems darker than usual. Some places in the game world which were detailed seem lack luster in color and shine. The detail of the enemies is a lot worse and the overall look of the game has gone down. Devs I need help here can you guys fix this?

I love the game it’s just when you get a higher level xp is harder to earn and I get that that is supposed to happen but it got to hard to earn xp like if you could tell me how xp is awarded that would be nice or something because I battled for a solid 20m and got almost nothing out of it but I do love playing and when attacking an outpost I don’t think creatures should be allowed to spawn wherever they want since my characters can’t do that unless summoning dryads but that’s similar to what Necromancers do so they makes it even but other enemies should have to spawn in the outpost. Also the number of large characters on the enemy compares to what you have is pretty pathetic. I understand however the difficulty of making a game as complex as this so I’m not mad about it it’s just something to think about. And weaker units should cost less weaker meaning low hp.

I’ve put in some hours on this one! Haven’t been able to play the online features but have had a good amount time in with the single player campaign. I absolutely LOVE that you can create different characters (races and classes) and have them all fight in the battle with the character you choose to play as out of the lot of them.

Cheers to the devs and keep it coming!

Huge replay value (especially since its free). You customize different character classes from different races to give unique abilities in the fight. What I found to work for advanced levels included the knights juggernaut, paladins heal and holy shield, With mage arcane magic and high mana level. Surround yourself with cheap soldiers, make them invincible with holy shield, refill your Nana with the arcane magic by Draining some of their life, heal them with paladins heal, Make yourself invincible with Juggernaut. Repeat. Add some high damage dealing and magic dealing units to the mix, and it will carry you pretty much through the entire game. Only downside to this strategy is you have to have a high level Character to get all the skills. But once you do, you roll easy.

I have to say this game is amazing some people are driven away because of the darkness of the screen and the not so good graphics. But this game makes up for it in how good the gameplay is you get into it and it’s essentially a 3rd person tower defense. You build your army to counter the enemy like you would in a Rock Paper Scissors format. But it’s not just Calvert beat infantry it’s each unit has about 3-4 ideal counters then a handful do well and the rest don’t do well against the unit. If you just play this game you will find that it is one of the unique games you will play and is done better than a paid version that I’ve seen like this I hope the developers will update or make a heroes and castles 3 but I know it’s not likely.

I will say right that this game isn't perfect, I know it has flaws, but let me tell you this game is not money hungry like almost every other game on HeroesandCastles2 Store. I honestly hate most of the games HeroesandCastles2 Store provides, but this is a great exception. I will not lie you can buy more currency, but there is no true in game currency that you HAVE to buy and this game is really fun even if on the hard side. You want a great game that doesn't take everything you own, well here you go.

The only thing I would change, is I would have liked to see the co-op mode from the first game that saw you having the option of either playing as the hero or playing as the monsters. That was a load of fun and I think there’s a lot of interesting increase gameplay gameplay elements that could be derived from that in any future titles; such as somethings so audacious as being able to go through an entirely monster focus campaign with monster races like, The mummy barbarian, dark elf archer, or even a Lich necromancer. I’d pay good money for that. Regardless this game as it is stands as the paragon of a fully fledged complete mobile experience the likes of which were not used to seeing, and that I have enjoyed for many years. Thank you for always making such quality games.