Watcher of Realms 12+

A really fun TD game with lots of game modes and good graphics. I enjoy the game modes the most.

This game is amazing in terms of the visuals and sound but the actual game sucks. Right from the start it becomes very obvious that everything in this game depends on random events which are all not in your favour in the slightest. If you wish to progress in the game you will need upgraded here’s equipped with good gear as you might expect, however, every aspect of obtaining said hero’s and gear is pure RNG.

If you plan on being F2P do NOT get this game. It will praise you at the start, give you all these materials, free items, and bake it seem like you have really good luck but it is all scripted and a way to make you eventually get really invested in the game and spend a ton of money.

Want a really good hero? Either hope you get the one you want which is usually below 0.4% or pay $40 for one that is good but isn’t the one you wanted. Or you can buy summons for a loot box that has a 75% of handing you actual useless garbage.

This game has something called an Auto Battle. How this works is after you beat a stage you can have the game repeat exactly what you did for you. This means it can grind for you. However, for no reason besides profit the developers made it so instead of just running it once or twice and then giving you all of the rewards how it works is if you set it to play 50 times, it will redo everything 50 times. A huge waste of time, energy, and processing power. Auto Battles cost points to use and can be sped up if you pay up.

Want good gear? Good luck, spend hours leaving the game idle as it plays itself for you, recalculating the exact same battle with the exact same results, wasting battery and energy just so you can get garbage again. Once you finally get that good gear guess what, all the stats on the gear are RNG. Each gear comes with a primary stat and up to four secondary stats. If they aren’t as strong or good as you wanted all your time is wasted. In the global chat people are always sharing their gear and usually complaining about it.

Want hero upgrades? Again, recalculate the same battles again and again. In order to upgrade your heros you will do “Promotion Raids” but don’t let the nabe fool you, these are just regular levels leaning into using the tower type it gives materials for. In order to do any good and progress in these raids you need the good hero’s so good luck. Once you do get the heros you will notice how a raid will give you X-Y of a material. Let’s say a raid gives you 3-7 of an item and you need 35 of it. Nine times out of ten you will get the lowest possible roll and get 3 each time, early getting 4 or more per raid. Oh and ALL your heros need 35 multiple times, have fun Auto Battling.

Events, events are huge in this game. Everyday there are at least three ongoing events. In the events where you compete against other players the P2W players always come out on top as the events are “Summon as much as possible” and “Auto Battle as much as Possible” and also revolve around the best loot from doing said things. The rewards if you don’t pay your way to victory are crap. Most of the events aren’t even worth competing in as a F2P user as you will get destroyed by anyone how has cash.

This game has so many micro transactions it makes my head hurt. Sometimes I’ll finish a single round and get six pop up’s all asking me to pay somewhere between $15-$60 on something. Although yes, you can get decently far without them, how far you can go is dependent on all the above things listed.

Finally is the main story line of quests. So many of these are just “Get the 0.4 thing out of the loot box”, “Use 100 Auto Battles and hope you get the item to progress”, and who can forget “Beat this level which for you is impossible because you haven’t paid us yet”.

All in all, the game boils down to the developers having an amazing idea for a game, making the game as visually and audibly as nice as possible, ruining the idea by making every aspect of it pay to win and a multiple hour grind through every small step, and then making cures to their poison in the forms of micro transactions and various anti consumer practices.

It’s a TD game with a lot longevity to keep you playing.