Could be a great game.... runs smooth, graphics are great. But after a few months of playing it's just not much fun because there is almost nothing you can do against the big spenders. Even with monthly card and occasional pack purchase, the high Castle levels just keep getting stronger and more overpowered. There's little strategy or skill, just a numbers ($$$) game.
I installed the app because of the advertising. Based on what I expected to see, the game was nothing like it. The actual game itself is very narrow and funnels you into doing the exact same 5 thing everyday. If you skip a day, you are penalized. Over time, it becomes a huge time suck and aggravating. That is of course if you play for free, because like all other Camel games (which are all the same btw), it is very pay-to-play.
I intially downloaded this game to get to the gameplay showed in the Ad. After three plus weeks I never experienced it, even after exhausting other goals in the game. Other aspects were enjoyable. The graphics and interface are wonderfully designed however, it did frustrate me to discover that simple mechanics like upgrading buildings were locked behind a paywall. You could advanced this with in game currency (gems) but they were hard to come by in the numbers needed. I gave up.
I have never been so happy to uninstall a game. I have been playing this game for about 6 weeks. They male it so you need to pay to get anywjere in a reasonable ammount of time, then allow other players t come and take items you have paid for. That is literal stealing. Also, there is so many complicated extras I couldn't understand it all, and I am pretty experienced at games. Stay away. Its a $ scam, big time.
I loved the game but then I kept getting attacked. It was impossible to get enough resources, even with farms, to upgrade. This game became pay to win and the there is no cooldown on attacks on your castle. Others will just go wave after wave and take everything. Went from one of my favorite games to the worst game I have ever played on my phone once i reached a higher level where everyone wants everything you have.
I'm liking so far but the advertisement for the game was misleading. Very in depth for a phone game... but I'm slightly addicted right now. Ok... couple months now. I'm getting into the mid-range levels but the highest level players just keep attacking everyone... no fun when all you do is repair/ heal. Uninstalled. They could do something to limit the attacking/defending levels ...2 up / 2 down or something... bunch of bullies, lol.
The game overall is fun. Until you realise how focused on pay to win it is. For the most part they advertise things as costing very little, but when you do the Math to determine how many packs you actually need to do anything it's a small fortune. One prime example of this is an Item. that can only be acquired by spending IRL moneys. To fully upgrade this item costs in the ball park of $12000.
Edit to my original review. This game started out really fun and relationships were built. This game is very pay to play. Once you hit a certain point you need a resource (Azurite) that is impossible to farm. You literally need to wait for your mine to fill or buy with real $. Everything will require this resource after a certain castle level. If you cannot afford to spend hundreds to thousands of $ on this game don't start. I've invested 5 years and can no longer progress for free.
Tha fact that the the one and only "advertisement" I've seen about this game is a video of Age of Empires stolen and put into their marketing campaign says a lot. If you have to take another games video, without editing it and call it yours instead of real gameplay, then rethink your game or make one that doesn't already have thousands of copy and pasted features like every other mobile game out there. PS. This is not intended as hate, just disappointment.
If you downloaded this because of the adverts showing it to be a dedicated real-time strategy game, I'm sorry for your wasted time. The adverts on YouTube show gameplay that is absolutely not a part of this game. War and Order is not a real-time strategy game, but a standard and very boring base builder that gets old incredibly fast. False advertising is somehow ok now, what is up with that?
