This game became one of the mostly played Freemium games on smartphones during past few years. Developed by SuperCell, it is considered as a standard for successful action and strategy game combination in mobile world.

Overall gameplay

Game is fun and attractive, has helpful hints inside. Graphic assets are beautiful – adopted even to big tablet screens. Animations are pretty much general, however – look good and “alive”. Gaming principles are ballanced, and – even more often – too strict and limited for advanced players (example, you can’t send a private message to a specific player, or attack his village, unless he attacks you); from the other hand, they make game quite unique in techniques and strategies possible.

In long term, game misses the bullet – unless you want to rank yourself in “Top Players” list, just because of the numbers, there’s not much what to do there. You can still upgrade your village, research new warriors, advance their level – but, as it should be, higher levels take a fortune to reach if you are tend to be a peaceful “simcity” type player. Only aggressive attacking may speed things up – however, it also may push you down if you attack wrong players because of their “farming” strategies.

We rank overall gameplay as 7 out of 10.

Freemium Eligibility criteria

Without spending money, you may be stuck in very first levels with “click and wait” principle. “Gems” – virtual money – are slowly gathered; however, developers have increased amounts you can find in surrounding obstacles slightly, which may have boosted new players to advance more quickly. One special quest gives you a bunch of gems, which allows you to purchuase additional builder and speed things up.

Gems is the only thing you can buy in a game. Using them, you get all things faster, may purchuase a shield for protection, and etc. There are no “special” items, which are available for purchuase only, which is good for overall evaluation.

There are no general player lists, so you can actualy identify your possition amongst others. However, game has quite interesting ranking (league) system, as well as clans, where you can quickly understand your progress. Only problem is, that actualy higher possition does not give you any real benefit – morewise it will mean stronger opponents. Players are even tend to move their rank down – which is possible – to save their resources from attacking players, as weaker opponents usualy will have weaker armies.

We rank Eligibility criteria 7 out of 10.

Actual cost

Without buying at least smallest amount of gems, which ends up with nearly €5, you may end up with 2 times slower envolnment. We consider this as an “crucial” investment for normal gameplay.

After half of the year of play, you will end with huge requirements for resources, and long waiting lists (3, 4 days and above). So either you have to spend your whole time in there by attacking other players, either spend quite big money for gem bundles.

We rank Actual cost 7 out of 10 – just because small investment at the beginning gives you good boost to progress for quite a long time.

Conclusion

Overall rating: 7/10.
Recommended for: all players.

You can download this game from Google Play Store or Apple iTunes.