Rush Royale: Tower Defense TD 4+

When I initially saw this game, I thought it was one of THOSE games

Rush Royale might not look too spectacular in its adds or on its store page, but it’s a game that makes smart decisions where many other games lack. It’s progression systems are very rewarding to regular players (although a little bit dépendant on watching a couple ads each time you play) but the ads are not forced upon the player which is great! The game has very unique gameplay that is extremely replayable, both for coop modes or pvp. While there are certain aspects of the game that are heavily reliant on RNG, and this can make certain matches feel totally unfair sometimes, it’s part of the challenge of balancing a game like this where the units auto target, randomly spawn in, and randomly change when merging. There are many other things I could point out about the game that I enjoy, but really I think the frequency of updates and development by the devs (for the time being at least) show that this game has much room to grow and a community of devs and players that are totally engaged and enjoying playing Rush Royale. If there was slightly less frustrating RNG I would easily give the game five stars, but as it stands almost all of the systems of combat rely on RNG, which just is not as fun to interact with as the game could be.

Has potential

I’ve been enjoying this game since I downloaded it a few months ago. However, recently more and more bugs keep coming up and none of them are getting fixed while they keep releasing new versions of a battle pass so that you don’t have just one battle pass to buy but 2 or 3! Everything is being over monetized. I have no issue with a company making money. That’s how they stay a business! But when the only new content seems to be pay to win content and tons of monetization while game breaking issues such as the connection bugs are still an issue it makes me wonder why I open the app. I’ve had plenty of games recently where I’m about to win then randomly my screen pops up “the connection can’t be restored” and it gives me a loss. I have great internet so there is no reason that should be happening. Another issue is that players with bad internet actually gain an advantage when running a shaman deck because the way the servers are set up the player with great internet will still lag massively due to the slow internet player meaning you can’t defend against shaman. Many of these bugs cause me to want to stop playing instantly after one happens because it’s demoralizing losing a game that you should have won.

If these bugs are fixed and some balance changes happen then I would likely change my review to a 4 or 5 star. I believe this is a fun game but recently has been going in the wrong direction.

Developer Response ,

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TLDR: Pretty looking predatory P2W money sink.

I do not recommend getting into this game if you have any intentions of it being anything more than just something you play for fun waiting at the doctors office. The game developers are shockingly greedy and with every new update it adds a new system or mechanic or legendary card to break the game for a season or two before nerfing to oblivion to make way for the next busted and blatant money grab. This game has 5 different *passes* you can buy each month with one of those passes literally progressing by spending money. They don’t do anything to further the viability of existing cards and in fact update the game to be harsher for F2P such as removing unlimited coop and putting that behind a paywall as well. Beyond that, they removed opportunities to get legendary cards and made clan battles a simple business transaction where you buy more chances to battle a day, if you lose you pay to ignore the loss so your streak doesn’t break which coincidentally recently updated so you have to win your battles consecutively to get any worthwhile points for your clan. Also in case you were worried about my last point they will ensure you get several impossible matchups you can’t win no matter what to ensure crystals get spent. Essentially this is a game where you slap the opponent with your credit card and whoever fell for this scam worse and spent more money gets the win.