Every aspect of this game lures you back daily, and keeps you around with plenty of interesting storyline gameplay and events. Join an alliance and make friends as you battle other alliances with your most powerful team on a battlefield that challenges your strategic skills. There are daily login bonuses and optional in-game purchases you can make, but they are not mandatory to be competitive and advance in the game. The game is put together very well, with colorful graphics and beautiful characters, each with unique background stories.I would like to see an option to try out team arrangements on other players' teams before committing to a battle, and the ability to see what heroes your alliance members have in their inventory in order to help them strategize their teams. This would help alliances find their full potential and also give everyone something to discuss. Another idea would be to have an enemy boss (maybe a dragon,) that allows your alliance to cooperatively battle daily for team rewards. Helping your alliance by seeing what heroes they have would definitely come in handy on something like that as well.Overall, it is a fun game that doesn't force you to be glued to your device, spend a ton of money, and allows you to play in your own time. I will be recommending CoA to several friends.

This is a great game with lots to do. Follow the story (or don’t), do the campaign, challenge others in battle, join an alliance, go on treasure quests, try to get a perfect score in every level, upgrade heroes, collect weapons…this game has it all!! The match 3 model is fun too!There are a lot of different kinds of currency, items, factions, etc. which gets a bit confusing but it’s fine. I also don’t quite understand how upgrading and equipping weapons works but the game is really intuitive and clearly indicates if there’s an action you can take to upgrade a hero or a weapon. Also I wish you could “dismantle” unwanted heroes because I have so many that I never use and I’ll never get enough coins and XP to upgrade and ascend them all.Some people complain about the “energy” model of the game. Personally, I’ve never been hindered by running out of energy and can always play as much as I want in a session. For me that’s typically 20-30 minutes or so. If you want to play for hours at a time for free, that will probably be an issue for you. I’ve not yet spent a penny but am planning to buy something eventually to support the developers of this great game!

Love this game so far! Saw an ad for it, knowing I like the match 3 puzzle type rpgs, decided to try and do not regret it! Very addicting and a favorite app for me. Enjoy the story and pretty much everything about it! Just a few nit-picky things that aren’t necessary to change but would be great to consider. I agree with other reviewers about the energy running out quick but as a person who spends way too much time on the iPad it is best that I give it a break for a bit. At least it doesn’t seem too difficult to regain exp, gold, and stone. I’ve already upgraded multiple heroes in the past few days and I have at least 30 total. Though part of me would like it if you could exchange unwanted heroes for possible ascension materials or get gold and exp potions back. Much like you can already do with the weapons at the blacksmith. I see why the game is how it is though! Each character is unique and has a special story to them so collecting them to see that is cool. The only reason I want that changed is because I want to keep my hero list more organized and I’d hate to just have unused heroes sitting there. But overall a fantastic game and I hope to play more!

Very fun match 3 game with great art and an interesting enough storyline. Like others have said it suffers for the fact that it uses the usual energy mechanic to entice players into spending money. I’d be more interested in spending money if I could play the game for more than 10 to 15 minutes at a time with hours of waiting in between. With all of the microtransactions already available in the game it seems self defeating to limit energy and active play time just to make a little more. There’s a battle pass that starts at 9.99 with a premium version as well, and plenty of different bundles for currencies and summons so the energy mechanics on top of it makes me lean away from spending anything at all. I mentioned in the survey that it also seems odd to extend play time through energy when I’ve already hit a difficulty/power barrier 3 stages in. That feels completely appropriate as a slowdown so adding energy on top of it feels like too much. I’d love to see a change to energy recovery at some point, it would be a pretty substantial improvement in my opinion.