Misleading but, great
The adverts are misleading as it seems the game revolves around puzzle solving when that’s not the case. This game is very similar to games like lords mobile, call of dragons and the grand mafia. It’s server based game with multiple kingdoms and multiple players in each kingdom. Grow your stronghold to increase your power and to train stronger troops. Join alliances to take part in some of the events like oracle reefs (a PvE experience to garner points that allows PvP) or war of waters (a PvP experience between two alliances from any kingdom) joining an alliance will also help you grow quicker. The game is free to play to a certain point (I’ve been playing for about 212 days straight) and I’ve achieved SH 35 and T11 troops without spending a dime. The catch here is, to acquire SH40 you need certain gear on your hero. That gear can only be crafted with premium materials that are only accessible through purchases, and the most expensive purchase at that. Doing the math and breaking it down this way is probably the cheapest way to get SH40 but it’s still expensive and should only be considered by those who truly enjoy the game for what it is. You need 27,000 advanced scrolls. You need to buy a $5 pack, $10 pack, $20 pack and $50 pack before being allowed to buy the $100 pack which has the advanced scrolls but, you can buy it up to 5 times a day. So about $185 will net you 300 scrolls. The game will casually give out double reward coupons and if you buy $50 packs during the weekend, you can get a 2nd double reward coupon. This means if you spent the $85, use your coupon to double the rewards for the $100 pack to get 600 scrolls and use the 2nd coupon to spend another $100 right after making it a total of 1,200 advanced scrolls for $285. Multiply that 22 times (meaning you’d have to wait for the coupons to be issued out for free 22 times) and it comes to about $6,270 for 26,400 scrolls and another $185 (you don’t need to wait for the coupon with the last one as buying the $50 pack with give it to you) totaling $6,455 for all 27,000 scrolls. Now keep in mind the type of game this is, you’ll also acquire very powerful heroes that, for the most part, can only be obtained by purchasing. This means not only will you acquire much more powerful gear but, heroes as well and powerful army buffs like “50% march capacity for 12 hours” or “50% all troop atk for 12 hours.” If you think this is a game you’ll be playing for a long time, and have extra cash to spend, it could