Super cute design, lackluster mechanics

This game is adorable and I really like that it lets you choose to customize your experience. I chose to keep the story obviously, though I haven’t played it yet. The game’s design is super cute and I love the heroes, however the actual gameplay is extremely boring and normal. The units are cute at least, but it’s the same: send units here, research this, fight that. Once you’ve done one game like this, you've done them all. There’s no strategy to it. I would’ve preferred a game set up like Dislyte, where there’s at least some sort of strategy to the heroes. I don’t think I’ll continue playing because I don’t think the storyline and the artwork are enough to overcome the game’s actual play. Which is a shame, because I’d love to hang around. Catsith is so cute!!

Don’t Do It (I’m quitting after a year…)

I’ve been playing for almost a year and I’m done. The game started out fun but the PvP toxic bullies who are mostly whales who pay to win make this game near impossible to enjoy if you aren’t prepared to spend a ton of money…and I mean a TON (think hundreds to thousands). Which is sad because the game would be amazing if ATA wouldn’t be so greedy and if they’d actually fix the issues that players have identified for them. ATA says they pride themselves on creating social communities in free to play games, but they’ve strayed from that vision. They also don’t listen to their player feedback (yes even on Discord which their replies will say to do). I don’t even know where to begin: cluttered UI, numerous typos, impossible raids, outrageously priced items/heroes, poor communication, icky devs (Jordan), no opt-out of PvP, toxic chat with no support even after “report”, inconsistency with design, poor event descriptions, etc. I’m done. I only stayed this long because I liked my club. But I’m moving on. Do better ATA. And if you’ve read this long gamer…don’t do it. There are better free to play or affordable game options with less toxic communities and more responsive devs.

Fun

I’m redoing my review of this game. The company is called thinking ape. I don’t understand why they need to insult primates. These developers are about as intelligent as what comes out the south end of a north bound ape. I have never in my life seen a game cater to bullying. The bullying is out of control. Unless you are able to get into the top 3-4 clubs you can expect daily hits and rallies from people who individually are many times more powerful than you. There’s this stupid realm wrath, what a flipping joke. It prohibits you from putting up a shield for awhile. Awesome, the bullies honestly care since nobody is able to stand up to them. They don’t need to fear a lack of a shield. When you teleport away to hide there are nice blue dashed lines leading the bullies right to where you’re going, how convenient for them. I cannot figure out how to give this game 0 stars. It started out really fun. My guess is that the developers know as much about ethics as the bullies. I seriously hope this game goes bust and the company loses a fortune on it. I seriously recommend passing this game over.

Bait and Switch: Boycott Spending with ATA

Played this game because it looked like fun. Love the community. However, like all ATA games, they’re excellent at getting people to pay for certain features, and then completely changing it so the gameplay is garbage. Shame on ATA. In my opinion, the fact that the heroes “passive” bonuses/buffs were added directly to your stats indicates, to me at least, that these were in fact passive abilities that were supposed to apply to all heroes, regardless of who is in your march. It’s in the coding itself, and ATA coming in saying that their changes were *always* meant to be is a lie. They’re trying to scam the players into believing what they did was for the greater good of the game, when in fact it was not. They’re completely out of touch with their player base. They clearly don’t understand how their game works else there’d be an actual forum for it, and they wouldn’t be relying on their player base to test each and every feature and combo so that those players can then share with the class. This is something that should’ve been completed in the beta stage. They should not have taken it out of beta stage and allowed purchases to happen prior to major “fixes.” Major fixes that completely change the way a game functions to such a degree should never happen TWO YEARS outside of beta testing.

money grabber

the game moving away from the dust heroes is one of the worst things it could’ve done. originally, different characters of different rankings could be bought with different color dust. the dust could be won by competing in the events/challenges every day, and this was a really fun system! it allowed people who didn’t want to pay to still obtain their favorite heroes! however, now heroes are only purchased through gems. you can only get the gems through ads, challenges like downloading other apps (which the links don’t work for btw), or paying for them. you only get 100 gems a day, and some of the better heroes cost 2K gems a day to get 1 shard. maybe two if you’re lucky. it costs 100 shards to unlock the character. so, it takes you 20 days to do ONE pull for a character. if you only get one shard at a time, you multiply that by 100. which means. it would take 2,000 days to unlock one character. which is absolutely ridiculous. that’s literally insane. this game used to be so much more fun with the dust heroes. it made me actually want to compete in the challenges and tournaments. it pushed me to play this game more often. now, it’s just boring and the only reason i’m still here is for my club mates. even then i’m barely active. do better.

The PvP is element is unnecessary

I downloaded the game expecting a fun school building game, which it is but it’s also PVP which is pointless. The add I downloaded from made no mention of PVP. So we are all rebuilding the same school with the same name and the same heroes and then we attack each other which is basically attacking ourselves since we are all the same school. It doesn’t make sense from a story perspective. Like maybe if they were different individuals schools ? Anyway it detracts from the experience and enjoyment of the game. I do like helping my clan members out but really wish we could rally against PVE enemies like the Furys. I really enjoy the base elements of the game but wish there were PVP free realms or something for those of us not interested. The majority of our clan has no interest in PvP but we are stuck participating.

Don’t waste your time.

I’ve been playing this game since it came out of beta. I’ve invested a lot of money into it at this point. The game play is nothing like you see in the ads, so don’t come expecting that. The entire game is a cash grab, it’s impossible to be f2p and get anywhere. The devs don’t care about their player base AT ALL, because they constantly release broken features or “fixes” that completely change how your hero’s work after two years of things being “broken”. This game never should have come out of beta. Not to mention the rampant doxxing, stalking, and harassment from some members of their player base. They won’t do anything about these kinds of players so don’t even try! Unless you’re willing to spend hundreds of dollars a month on this game, the devs won’t listen to your feedback and you won’t get anywhere easily.

Cute, but unplayable…

The designs and setup are very cute & I honestly love the idea very much, but the whole leveling situation with PVP vs. materials (wood especially) makes leveling practically impossible; especially when compared to similar games (ATA’s Single City, for example). The Crossover Event they’ve started with (even after being lowered a little) is still impossible to finish without spending an obscene amount of money. If something isn’t done to fix it VERY soon, I expect most players won’t continue at all. Everyone in my guild is stressed out over it & stressing over a game does not make it fun. At least SC was reasonable to do with time. I’ll give them until the Crossover Event is done and if changes haven’t been made then I will be uninstalling it (for reference, I’m still playing SC). As it is now, it is TOO stressful and that’s not what a game should be.

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