Age of Origins:Tower Defense Ratings and Reviews

I love this game. But wish for a few changes

I’ve never spent so much money on a game. But I just can’t stop. I love this game. And I love the players here especially in my alliance OOH-RAH STN from 305. But what I would like to see is maybe the SOS cool down being 12 hours vice 24. That would make teaching that goal so much more appealing. The small mineral tiles should carry more minerals 24,000 in a lvl 5 mineral tile is ridiculous no one can move up on that. Let’s shoot for 40,000 give an incentive for gathering. For instance bogo Gather 300k get 300k once in a while. I maybe wrong but I think KE is wayyyyy to long. Maybe throw in another event in Strongest Commander and reduce Kill event to two days. Officer’s I’ve been playing for 3 months now and I can’t get an officer to level 5. I’m even buying all the officer packs when they come out. Granted you guys got to make a profit but shoot does it have to take so long. How about more higher level officer fragments on the officer recruiting more often. Well that’s all I can think of for now. But this game is the ish. Anyone looking for something entertaining to take up a little of your time in the day check out AOZ. It’s the best game ever.

The game is fun but

So the game started out as really fun. However, there are these alliances with members that are around 30-60 years old. They would talk rude to any player who are either not wanting to join their alliance, or not wanting to be in the 1 alliance rank, and pretty much start wars with others in the nation chat. They would call people worthless, insignificant, and useless if they don’t want to join or voice out how very toxic they’ve become. They don’t like it and so they tell those people that they are insignificant and to go away. Which cause a massive new players to leave the game. Another problem is how the alliance leader doesn’t try to stop these people from acting out. They encourage the player’s behavior. No one is really playing the game but instead making wars and conflict. I still love this game and will continue. But these people I suggest those that aren’t 18+ to be careful. These people and their words with action can cause anyone to feel depressed.

Also, the alliance leaders would ask you to make like 5 other accounts. It’s impossible to keep up and they claim that they aren’t asking much. But the account can only hold 2. So you’ll have to download the game and go through the tutorial 5 more times! It’s ridiculous. Also, lost so much money cause of this game. Many of the alliance players don’t really care if you are trying to save. They pressure you to buy more in app purchases. If you don’t have a high paying job don’t get this game

Developer Response ,

Commander,
Thank you for your feedback.
We will continue to pay attention to the issues you mentioned. Please rest assured that we will pay attention to the development of the game and the ecology, and strive to improve the gameplay, to bring players a better game experience.
Also, we hope that you can contact us by aoz@camel4u.com or through the in-game Help system to get more feedback from you. We are always happy to help you with any questions that you may have.

Not like ads...very pay to win

I'm tired of ads showing games that are not even remotely like the videos they advertise, so now I write reviews every time I see this, detracting one star from the rating I would otherwise give, and explain a bit about what the game is actually like. If you're going to show ads with gameplay, show gameplay that is actually in the game, and which makes up most of the game, and is available within the first day or two of playing, at least.
In the case of this one, all the ads I've seen show impossible situations that noone could ever win. This is another really stupid thing about these ads. It really gets old. *None* of these situations are actually in the game, at least not for the first month or so. I've been playing it about a month, and I have yet to see even one thing that is anywhere in *any* of the ads for the game. What it actually is, it's another post-apocalyptic civilization building game in a zombie infested world. There is a traditional tower defense game element for you to play, this gives you rewards for the rest of game. The storyline is not great, but it's not horrible, either.
The game does really try to push you to purchase stuff, and you will have trouble without purchasing anything.
All in all, if you like civilization building games, *and* you like tower defense type games, you *might* like this one, otherwise, you won't like it.

Developer Response ,

We are sincerely sorry for any bad game experience. We will feedback this problem as soon as possible and believe that it will be improved in the future.
We hope to bring players a better game experience, the team is planning new game play and content, we hope you can continue to pay attention to the game.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us in the game or via email (aoz@camel4u.com). We look forward to your letter and hope to give you some help.

Fun and Can Expensive

CMD777, Nation 1098. This is an alright application. It’s a 100% sever based game with many events built into the game that make it interesting. You get to play with people all over the world and it is fun to interact. A lot of time is spent attacking other cities, killing mutant zombies, and doing other daily quests. The one thing to beware of is it can be very costly, if you want to stay competitive. Many players will spend lavishly to upgrade and build very strong cities quickly. Unless you’re willing to spend to keep up, you will end up just slowly building and being destroyed by stronger opponents. It takes a fair amount of time (or money) to rebuild and begin fighting again. Because of this I removed my links to accounts and deleted the application. I found no meaning in spending so much time to rebuild something that can be destroyed so easily. I also wasn’t willing to spend hundreds to thousand of dollars to maintain with the big spenders. I joined all of the events regularly and did get many items to help build. I never missed them each week. I tried to help out my alliance as much as possible by joining alliance events. These also brought in items to help build and develop. However, the events and alliance activities were still not enough to keep up with the big spenders.

Developer Response ,

Thank you very much for choosing our game. We recommend that you follow our events page and actively join our events. We will prepare rich rewards for players who actively join events. These rewards will help you become stronger and also reduce your expenses. We hope this suggestion can help you.

It’s a money pit

Update: Camel games’ use of pay to play has gotten so extreme that players in War and Order are on strike. We are not spending on game until Camel makes wholesale changes to make the game less expensive to grow a castle and play is fun again. Camel produced some low hanging fruit changes and offered some better packs to entice spending. We are holding firm on our commitment to not spend. There are strike breakers but majority of the big spenders are holding firm. If you’re playing any camel games consider joining the spending strike. You’ll be helping yourself in the long run. June 2024. #FixWAO.

Build up your castle for free until you grow impatient and start spending. You think you’re not going to spend much and then you see your cc bill. Working against you is tapping all the freebies. It’s subtle training for spending. Don’t believe me? Good luck. BTW, I’m a USA player and the pack prices are different by country. The WaO packs cost a lot less than they do in the AtoZ game for USA players. The chinese players pay the least. That’s not fair at all. I was contacted to update my review because developer responded. The response is cookie cutter PR garbage. I changed my review from 2 stars to 1 and frankly think this is a zero star ripoff game. Reverse the sort feature so you can read all the 1 star reviews. They say the same things I have. This game is rigged to entice you to play and make you spend. If you’re easily addicted, run!

Developer Response ,

We are very grateful for your support! We are also very grateful for your suggestions.We recommend that you follow our events page and actively join our events. We will prepare rich rewards for players who actively join events. These rewards will help you become stronger and also reduce your expenses.We set up our packs with flat price, which means the price is the same all over the world . However, the final price may be effected by the local exchange rate and local tax rate depends on your region. For the further information and details, please contract local Apple services for advise.

Lies, prevarications, and half truths

Can’t recommend. 1. Extremely pay-to-play. Sure, you CAN play free… but you will lose battle after battle and you’ll keep hitting difficulty walls which require significant improvement. 2. Little to no customer support. 3. Toxic players. 4. Rude, toxic players. 5. The ads keep claiming it’s a “Tower Defense” (TD) game. Not entirely a lie… you can do 2 whole TD runs a day. The vast majority of the game has absolutely NOTHING to do with ANY of the ads. Bait and Switch. I can share one tip - the base garage can upgrade units built in one of the barracks/factories. So, if you build entry level units, then shift them to the garage, you can then build current top tier units in the barracks & factories while the garage converts the garbage units into primo ones! It’s a way of indirectly adding another development pipeline. There just isn’t much to recommend re: a game that is just a standard zombie-themed mobile RTS. Especially if you are free/cheap -to-play. There are other RTS games with a similar theme… as well as actual TD elements.
UPDATE: They continue to spawn various ads years later, all showing supposed gameplay… yet all different. Be warned: this game is one of the kings of the fake game ad market. Thanks for reading. If you agree that this trend has no place in gaming, please mark this a helpful, then leave your own one star rating! It only happens because we let it!

Developer Response ,

We are sincerely sorry for any bad game experience. We will convey your comment to the dev team for future reference. We will continue to work hard and improve our game to provide you with a better gaming experience. If you encounter any problems, please contact us by email: aoz@camel4u.com. We will help you solve this problem as soon as possible.

Not worth your time

I have played AoZ for 2 years now. In the beginning, it was an incredibly fun and addicting game. But overtime, it becomes quite the opposite. Rewards, updates, and new events are the main problem in this game.
Rewards: To build a strong city and army in this game, rewards and bonuses are paramount. But the developers in this game continue to cut them, sometimes removing them completely. Because of this, it takes an insane amount of time and effort to grow. It takes real money investments very important to become even slightly competitive.
Updates: the developers of this game continue to update graphics of non active game related troops and officers. Why? It does nothing for the game.
Events: The new events they added might be fun, but their server can’t support them. You’ll find your game freeze for several minutes at a time. Any effort and time you spend to organize your world for one of these mass events will simply become a waste.
AoZ makers need to start investing back into the game, for the player. Not just strictly for profit. It’s literally all they care about. “How can we make more money? O yeah, let’s cut rewards and invest in crappy events that make people spend more money. We will add some useless graphics on the side to Kee everyone happy”! What a joke. I’m sick of the game but 2 years invested in it. Praying they fix themselves. Waiting.

Developer Response ,

Thank you very much for your suggestions and feedback. We will bring your issue to the relevant team for further consideration. Thanks again for your support!

Not tower defense

This is a strategy game; not a tower defense game. Most of the gameplay revolves around waiting on upgrade timers or paying with real/in-game currency. Only about 15% of the gameplay is actually tower defense. Plenty to do in early levels but mostly a waiting game by level 12. Look elsewhere if you want a game that you can pick up, play, and level up at any time. This is just a cash grab by all the gambling they’ve embedded in the game.

1 year update: I’ve quit the game. It has some decent gameplay but it’s literally PAY TO WIN. Every nation is going to have a rich jerk join and will spend his way to the top and ruin the fun for everyone. You can try changing nations but you’re always going to run into those types. The game has steered harder since I’ve joined to have people pay for anything as shortcuts and it’s gives them an advantage over you. You literally can’t do anything about it; even if multiple alliances try to fight it. You can’t even take a break from the game because you’ll get zeroed and have to rebuild your army and farms from scratch, which can take months….unless you pay. It punishes you for trying to have a life outside of the game. Don’t get this game. If you have, uninstall.

Developer Response ,

We are sincerely sorry for resulting any bad game experience.There are many gameplays in our game, tower defense is just one of them. Looking forward to your participation~Every of your advice can help us do it better and gives us directions :)

Pay to play

This game could be fun, but there is no avenue for people to compete unless they want to pay a lot of cash (think thousands of dollars). The game is structured in a way that the big spenders are exponentially stronger and better than even the medium spenders. And if you want a truly free game, well good luck. If you grind it out and put in the time you will then find when you are close the developers will just add another layer on top for the big spenders to keep spending. We saw this with the recent additions of the 6th star for officers and the Titan. It is super hard and takes a long time trading to even get 5 stars, now the big spenders can just buy that 6th star and you will not be able to compete. Everything in the game is just a way for the developers to get more money, and if you want to not get wiped to zero you will have to pay lots of money. One guy boasts of spending tens of thousands of dollars a month, and when you look at his city you can believe it. But how are you going to compete against that? How do the makers of this game expect to have a playing field where a free player or even a player spending a few bucks a day is to compete with someone spending almost a thousand on some days? It’s sad, because this really could be a fun game. But the fact it is a war game and you just get crushed by the big spenders takes the joy out of it.

Developer Response ,

We are sincerely sorry for resulting any bad game experience. Every of your advice can help us do it better and gives us directions :)

Gameplay and Advancement

I’ve done a few reviews on other games and it sounds like a lot of complaining on my end. But the truth is, players download and take part in these games as a way to enjoy themselves and for the fun of it. Developers such as “Camel Games” has done what other developers are doing, receiving funds for made-up items, in other words, providing small packs for and unfair price. The packs are small, the speed-ups aren’t enough to accomplish any type of advancement and the timers on upgrades are extremely long, this entail, leaves us the purchaser having to spend more “real” money. I’ve been playing GOW for years and they have finally listened to the players and responded, they increased the number of items in their packs to even out what you spend for them. Camel games could do the same, but the fact still remains, they’re going to bleed you before they act. Now, why continue to play you ask, bc of the alliance and the friends I’ve made, but buying packs has come to a crawl. You pay 4.99 for a very small pack and then if you scroll down to their $49-99 packs, well let’s just say, you’d be a fool to hit the “buy” button. Compared to GOW, we’ll there’s no comparison, the developers at Camel games are going to control this to their benefit and the players will be forced to spend large sums to advance. Great game but steer clear of purchasing packs!