Watcher of Realms 12+

A tower defence, character collection game, but unlike the usual the characters are the towers. I have been playing since global release, and haven’t missed a day since, nearly finished with end game gear raids, completely ftp. Will take a lot of patience, some preparation before for the events each week which are shown before hand. You will open a lot of crystals, and they give them out rather generously. Sometimes you will get very lucky, sometimes you’ll get the same terrible character 4 times in a row (wish I was exaggerating) or nothing useful at all, but that’s just how these games are, and I have a lot of fun either way. There are many characters, incredibly well designed, with different voices/personalities, and abilities, used for the steadily growing content, like story campaign, gear dungeons, arena, limited time events and other modes. It is a strategy game, and can be difficult to understand at first but if you take the time to learn the mechanics and how gear works (there are some good Content creators to help), you can get very far without spending but it does help to progress faster. With that said the developers are incredibly generous, and I think it would be worth it to support the game if you enjoy its type, and will start to do so myself soon. It won’t let me rate the star thing so here - 5*

Only very rarely do I find a game I want to play every day. I’m a regular player of Marvel Contest of Champions for 3 years…. This is my new addition.
It’s Tower defence genre, but that’s like comparing a Ford Focus to a Ferrari EVO 399. This is like no tower defence game, ever.
Yes, you place your heroes on a map to block the advance of hordes of enemies intent on plundering your crystal reserves. That’s were the similarity ends.
Your heroes are tiered in value, quality and abilities. The rarest have history, personalities and godlike attributes. Your heroes are summoned using special crystals you can win or buy. But the ultras are so rare, you’d be wasting your money trying to get one. You can win them in special events, or just randomly with a crystal. Their drop rate is ridiculously low… this deters buying hundreds of dollars worth of crystals , you only get a 0.2% drop rate on one of them, that’s 500 to 1 .
5 crystals cost $10+ , yet I just won a major 5* with one crystal.
You can upgrade all your heroes, gaining spells and attacks. There are raids, guild bosses to defeat, and a whole shedload of quests and side quests.
The graphics are stunning, the game runs as smooth as you like on a basic iPad , music and voices are top quality.
And it’s free to play …I mean… HUH? 🤷🏻‍♂️
If this had cost $10 plus in game purchases? I’d still play, it’s that good.

The graphics are amazing, genuinely impressive and the mechanics are fun, but be warned that it is F2P friendly in a way, you will enjoy it and have some fun for maybe a week and then you’re stuck (can’t progress) and need to spend money on the insanely priced packs which pop up every day to remind you about how you need to spend, if you don’t spend just be mindful that you’ll play for maybe 20 minutes a day and it’ll become a chore not a fun game or a release to play. Stamina doesn’t last long at all, gear to upgrade to make it possible to compete with the heroes you have costs millions of gold at a time, but it’s okay you can spend lots of $ to buy this.

The heroes are great, skins look amazing and the attention to detail is second to none.

If you’re into playing a game and becoming bored or feeling like it’s a chore OR have loads of money to spend with the insane drop rates so you can compete with other players then you’ll love this game, honestly you’ll love this game for about a week if you’re a normal person who can’t afford to spend thousands of $ a week.