I’m not a fast paced, FPS or role playing gamer. This game does take some planning. I only have the Apple Arcade when I get a free trial period for buying an Apple device. This is a self paced game. Who doesn’t like to pretend to blow stuff up LOL? Some of the levels and challenges are hard, for me anyway. You simply don’t get enough weapons. I have found some bugs or are they deliberately placed? I’ve found places that are obviously an open doorway or window that one can toss a fuse bomb or whatever into, but it just bounces off. You can see the flooring or ground in the doorway or window, but your weapon just bounces off anyway, no matter the angle or wherever it hits. Also, I’ve had numerous times while using my thumb to rotate the screen only to have one of the weapons fire upon the place my thumb is on, thereby completely wasting ammo. I’ve had it place a magnet on the side of a mountain because my thumb is rotating the screen. If you accidentally place a magnet, you cannot undo that. This is very frustrating when wasting ammo, especially in the challenges where you have to clear 7 multiple castle layouts. All in all, it’s still fun. I don’t say that about apps normally. I normally don’t rate them, at least not worded reviews. Thanks for some fun, Devs.

This was my favorite game. Knocked it out in two weeks (it’s a easy game). Was happy with it. But then they recently came out with more levels. At first I was stoked because this game is/was quite fun. However, the game is practically back to alpha stage. Buildings hang in the air where you have to expend more ammo to destroy them. Shots just disappear, wasting ammo. Balloons will just spin in the air. I even had one ballon where after I hit it the dynamite shot straight up in the air and disappeared. And often when I’ve destroyed every building the app doesn’t acknowledge it and I realize I just wasted ten minutes on a challenge. It’s frustrating and has changed my favorite game to my least favorite game. Steer clear of this until the developers fix it and save yourself some frustration. I updated this from 1 star to 4 stars. It appears the developers has addressed all the bugs I had issue with (or those bugs were in the levels before Crystal Vale. Since I got to this level the gameplay has been great). My only complaint before all the glitches was that the game was too easy. Not anymore lol. This level is hard!! Really loving this game again, strongly recommend it. After I best this level I’ll probably change my review to five stars, but I want to make sure the bugs are fixed first

What an incredibly addictive game! As other shave noted, the difficulty is SPOT ON—you do have to think your way through most puzzles, but you don’t have to be pixel-perfect every time, and there’s usually more than one approach that’ll get the job done. I’ve only run across a half-dozen levels where I got less than 3 stars, and I’ll definitely be revisiting those at some point. The fun of watching castles crumble, without having to bang your head against their walls and get frustrated, has made this one of the most enjoyable Arcade games yet.DEVELOPERS: PLEASE consider making an app, or an expansion, that lets us build our own castles and share them! I don’t know if you’re familiar with the old “Incredible Machine” series, but Castle Crumble has a lot of those same vibes, and being able to build our own levels (and share them) would be SO much fun, and add so much play time to the game!

Upfront: making castles go boom fun. K? The aesthetic of the game is clean and cute, and the physics of the castles crumbling feel realistic and tactile.However. You would hope that this would be a sort of architectural Angry Birds, where each tool you were given was specifically intended for an element of the level. Specifically, I figured I would need to place the TNT perfectly so as to create a chain reaction. When this happens, it’s extremely satisfying. But more often than not, if you see X number of towers, you hurl X cannonballs at them and provided you place them correctly, the towers fall. Oftentimes you don’t even need to use most of the tools you’ve been given. (You might think that this would imply the use of strategy but it usually doesn’t.) Other times there will be, for example, two floating TNT balloons, and you’ll be able to complete the level only using one of them. In general, the level design feels lazy and haphazard. And any challenge comes from a fast-moving hardening creep, which is cheap and doesn’t require strategy. The story element of the story is completely superfluous.Overall, a game with tremendous promise and a great aesthetic that falls short in execution. Bummer.