Rival Kingdoms: Ruination App Reviews

Warning. Warning. Warning New players. Make sure you play the 10 packs of free 5 stones prior to upgrading your stronghold to level 6. I had been saving mine and found they vanished. After contacting the company I found this was intentional and they would not replace them. ---------------- Editors Choice? Did the editor play this game for more than a day? This game is all about dealing with failure. Once in the arena people will pound your base to the tune of 10x attacks per hour, and you will lose them all. Failure. In raids the war matches have nothing to do with equality of teams, and you must attack each base in sequence to finally conquer the king, no picking and choosing. Some are maxed out while you may be a simple sh7. Failure. This game is expensive and they allow you absolutely no control in your matching or your looting. You will only face opponents worth zero in the very beginning and then it will suddenly change to opponents you have no chance to beat, because you are not in control of your opponent. You fight who they give you. Pvp matching is done by space apes. You cannot skip an opponent and the matching is a mess. Pvp works on streaks starting easy and getting harder. The premise is interesting. The execution is not good though. After 5000 points you join the arena. No other points honor) can be gained in pvp after 5000. In the arena you are given 3 choices, Easy, Medium and Hard, and 3 minutes to pick or they are reset with new choices. Trouble is, those names mean nothing. They have nothing to do with difficulty vs you. Its all about your honor points vs theirs. Since people artificially keep points way below where they should be the strongest bases are often in Easy. Its like the endorsement of a bully system of picking on the little guy over and over. There are no shields in the arena. I have been attacked 35-40 x a day. My base is decent for my level. Problem is I never see my level base. Only ones 3-5 levels higher...and they see me. If they adjusted this and had the SH factored into matching than the Arena setup would be pretty good. But as it is now, with my brand new SH12, I see only SH15-16 for the most part. Its not fun waiting and waiting for someone appropriate to play against. I can wait sometimes 30 minutes cycling through opponents every 3 minutes. I could intentionally lower my points but Ive never done that in any game Ive played and I want the better prizes my higher points bring me. At the least the categories should be renamed. Rings as well as gold are needed for all upgrades after a point and finding these rings is no small feat. Kingdom events are mainly only doable by large high level kingdoms. New kingdoms or smaller kingdoms have no chance to win anything. Technically the game has been pretty stable for iOS. There are events every weekend so they do keep interest going. Its a pretty expensive game to buy things for. There is no 1-star, 2-star, 3-star system. Its stronghold or nothing. You can take down an entire kingdom but if the stronghold remains you lose. The game is based on using Ancients. (Heroes). There are about 60 of them and each has their own unique set of abilities. You level up these ancients using Primus, which of course also needs gold too. Each has their own level limit depending on their rating. ---------------- Also...one of the defenses, Insanity Potion Spell Tower, is unbelievably overpowered and will wipe out all your troops as it causes them to fight each other temporarily. The radius for this special tower is far to wide for the power it has. Game needs a rebalance. Support-wise game has been poor. The reps answer reports about 50% of the time but in those 50% they offer no assistance. My advice: the company controls EVERYTHING. They decide when your pvp streak will end. How much gold youll see. How ridiculous your matching will be, and believe me, this games main shortfall is in the matching. Trying to play the Arena there are times when you can waste 30 minutes waiting for each set of 3 poor matches to expire. If you want to select your own opponent choose another pvp game that allows you that freedom and doesnt force you into fighting who they present to you. If they adjust the matching in this game it would certainly be worthwhile. If you choose to play this one I suggest you keep your honor points down so you face easier opponents. Your SH level matters nothing in your matchmaking. Many leave their SH out to keep honor down. Ive always felt a fair match put players against their peers, not pick on lesser players with their monstrous kingdoms as they artificially keep points down...but thats the system here.

Lots of fun.

Fun play and you can succeed with spending tons of cash. However, it is so graphic intensive that it doesnt play well on older, slower devices - juttering motion.

So much fun

After this last update ur game crashes all the time! ipad air Not worth playing now...

This is fun

Great game, chats above average. Game play is awesome in individual and kingdom level b

The game is fun to play and you can generally do well in most events without spending a lot. I would give 5 stars but there have been some crash issues and issues with ancients which havent been fixed in a long time

Love it! Fun and addictive

Excellent

I really like the game. I have just realized, though, it ate up my data pack for the month. Its still very good, though...

Thats it

Top!!!

Top

Makes a lot of fun, fair in app purchases! Outstanding graphics

Mit hohem Motivationsfaktor!

Und hohes Suchtpotential

Cool!

I love it, every day, 24 hours!!! Sehr gutes Spiel :) Love it, love it .....

Very nice