Name: Puzzles & Survival
Rating: 4.43035 (48303 reviews)

User Reviews for Puzzles & Survival

4.43 out of 5

48.3K Ratings

4 years ago, jwizmo

Hybrid Game

This game is combining elements from different types of games with the puzzle matching and the base building components. It does provide a unique feel to the game play unlike others I've played. But it is essentially a joining of those genres. As far as the interface, the coloring scheme is muted and that sometimes makes shades difficult to distinguish. Such as the coins used to exchange for Heroes. That could be improved a little too make it clearer. In general, I feel like I don't have any idea how much of various resources I have when I'm making purchases. At the lower level I am, it hasn't mattered yet. Being able to join a Guild almost immediately was refreshing, that doesn't typically happen in other games into you've figured out the mechanics. As soon as the Tutorial is done here, you can essentially join a Guild, which makes speeding up the building etc a bonus.

1 year ago, MNdad2

Beware of Poor Customer Support

This is fundamentally a good social game, but those with the most might can dominate this game and the only way to build that kind of might is to spend obscene amounts of money. Customer support for this game is simply the worst of any game I have ever played. There is significant lag in the game and you will tap actions you did not intend too because of the lag. Asking customer support to undo that is like sending a message into a black hole. The first response almost always shows no understanding of the issue you raised. I almost think they do it on purpose to get you off their backs. When you persist and clarify, they will send you a canned response that doesn’t address your issue. I have never dealt with customer support for a game that is this poor. I think part of the issue is that many of the support agents do not have a strong grasp of the English language. Not a fan of app developer and don’t think anyone should support them or this game. This is an update a year later. I have stopped spending money on this game because the customer support is horrendous. They won’t answer your questions and blame you for their poor game design. They publish no guides on how new features work and expect players to figure it out for themselves and share with the community. If you haven’t started playing this game yet, please avoid the headache - it isn’t worth it.

4 years ago, litfuse293

An hour of gameplay

Literally an entire hour of it telling you where to tap. An hour of it telling you to spend resources and speed ups you probably don’t even want to use literally non stop. Honestly i completely lost any interest in the story because i just want to PLAY, i actually want to experience the game, and an hour of tutorial didn’t even cover other stuff- you literally need to cover a whole CHAPTER to learn anything else. What is this resource? What are these boosts? How do i get them? What does this mean? How do i do this thing? I don’t know, but it’s telling me to use them. It’s so frustrating, i literally said out load “oh my god, just let me play the game”. I hate apps which tutorials FORCES you to spend materials i would love to save for later, and if you think the same way then this app isn’t for you. If you love sitting through an hour+ of the game constantly telling you what to do literally non stop, and spending resources you could save up for better choices. if you love them waving five star characters in your face by letting you use their abilities that insta kill bosses and then tell you “you need to pay for this”. If you love gathering resources without even knowing what they do because the tutorial literally covers everything except what you want to know, then you bet this app is for you. It’s been frustrating, confusing, irritating and all around a terrible experience right out the gate.

6 months ago, Mobile Expert.

Beware.

I’ve spent hundreds of dollars regularly playing this game. I got a fraud alert from my bank and it showed several purchases that I in fact did not make and had to get a new card. This fraudulent charges were coming from this app. After it was disputed and I got my new card I went to update and play the game. When I went to go make an actual purchase (one I am making) they take my money and state that it’s because of a balance that was due because of a refund. I’ve spent so much time trying to explain how those charges were not from me and I have no got any help at all. No app should be allowed to advertise a feature for sale then take your money because they feel you owe them when you never should have had a balance from fraudulent charges to begin with. Until they do right by me and stop the shady practices I will not be playing this game. The glitches in the app that charge you multiple times are insane. Stay away from this app over $70 was taken along with multiple amounts of $30 and as of lately I have tried to buy things only for them to take the money and not give any reward. Terrible customer service and this app should not legally allowed to do that. This isn’t because I’m angry this is VERY CONCERNING. Don’t purchase and if you do don’t say I didn’t warn people with this review! Terrible!

6 months ago, Tiaroseh

Biggest binding/binding and deletion of account scam there is

If you are having any account issues such as wanting to bind/unbind an account, you can’t . If you want to delete an account—good luck, you can’t. This game makes it so your account will be “active” forever. Deleting the application will not delete your account. The developers have made it so unreasonably difficult for you to request to delete an account. The developers have made getting help a struggle. When you input the information needed to delete an account, the game tells you that you can’t submit your ticket request due to “submit too frequently” or it will prompt you to input information that has nothing to do with the deletion of the account such as a purchase order number (again, I want to delete an account, I am not purchasing anything). Binding and unbinding an account is a nightmare. The developers have made it incredibly complex to unbind or bind an account. With the amount of money this game makes, their customer service is trash. Their technical support has went downhill and this game is not what it used to be a few years ago. Greed is why this game is still standing. Everything is focused on getting consumers to spend money and the customer service and technical support is last priority.

1 year ago, HazelHealer_

Please don’t install this game.

This mobile game does many sponsorships with small creators to actively take advantage of the viewer base of those streamers, setting unrealistic goals for them all with the intention of free marketing and gaining temporary players to boost their numbers, one of the goals that at first sight may not seem unreasonable until you actually play the game is “collect 50 5 star heroes” while this may seem easy without know what the game entails, it is only possible to get 5 stars in 1 gacha and it’s almost impossible to get the rolls you would need to reach that goal. This game takes advantage of its players, it’s content creators, and you. It has “sales” that are used to get people to spend obscene amounts of money for upgrades by advertising it as something that would normally cost a lot more such as one of the “deals” being 30 dollars for something that would normally cost 600ish. This game is a rip off and it should be held to a higher standard then it is. I can’t fault streamers for getting into deals that will not provide anything for them but if you are a small streamer that is planning on taking this company as a sponsor I urge you to think twice about it, you will most likely be scammed for free advertising and lose out on a worth while sponsor as a result.

2 years ago, jbeastt

Do not spend money on this game.

Don’t spend money on this game unless you want to waste it. If another player attacks you in your state, you can lose MONTHS of progress as well as 100s of dollars. Money you spend on this game can be taken away in mere seconds. The only way to get back all your work is to spend 100s of more dollars. Yeah no thanks. It is impossible to grow. You will waste much of your time just to get to the exact same level you were at. That ruins the fun and makes it more like a task. I really think that they need to not allow troops to get “killed” because it doesn’t make me want to spend money to get them back—it makes me want to spend my money elsewhere and not support the game any further. I will not be buying ANYTHING else on this game because of this aspect of it. 4 months of work and money got sent down the drain in one hit. Not okay. All this game does is try to steal your money for the same thing multiple times over. Other people got attacked when I did and multiple of them stopped playing the game because of how difficult it would be to get back their progress (and expensive). Get a clue, this doesn’t make people want to spend money on your game. Wish I never downloaded this game.

3 years ago, SleepyFairy

Inevitable waste of time

I’ve played this game for awhile now. A year maybe. I enjoyed it at first. Match 3 puzzle is fun but there were lots of other fun things to partake in to earn resources and other rewards. Hero duels were fun too. At first. It’s clear that money has to be spent to be mildly successful in this game. I know. I’ve made plenty of purchases to help me out. But what is the point? My headquarters is level 18 my commander level 30, my top heroes 226 down to 210. So why am I always matched against players with heroes 100+ above mine? And why do all their heroes get to attack one after another after every move while mine have to wait for jewel build up? Today was the final straw. A level 50 commander attacked my headquarters 21 times in a row. I put shields up as often as I can but you can’t earn those so easily and I don’t turn on notifications because I don’t want notified of stupid things like my troop is done training. If there were some way I could retaliate even though they’re higher level or if there was a limit to the number of attacks! 19 million food resources gone! 5 days for my troops to heal! It’s B. S. really. All the stupid researching, gear, chips, modules mean nothing. I just wish it were a more fair matchup system.

2 years ago, lvleteor

Tap Your Screen and kill Zombies mmmkaay

The game takes you into a compound where you try and build defences and earn materials to strengthen your characters. Strategic Bejeweled-like Zombie killing combat mechanics with an “easy button” auto-play feature. For some reason this company censors the word/has in their word list to be censored with asterisks: Covid/Co-vid which I found to be interesting. This game is fun if you like the sound effects of guns. Working together in an alliance is easily done with communication and at first the game makes little sense. THE TRUTH: The game makes no sense at all, but that’s okay! Grind away!! TRUTH #2: The Advertisements are ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE THE GAME. FALSE ADVERTISING - THERE IS NO 3D 1st PERSON ZZzzzzzzzZzzzz.. You can spend hours on this game and time flies. I’d say it’s worth playing, but keep your wallet or purse tucked. There needs to be an option to slap away every monetizing advertisement. That goes for all freemium games which could be much more fun to grind without a stupid money grabbing gacha pop-up. Pretty sure this is an old game so here’s a +1 review from an OG gamer. Cheers and Beers!

1 year ago, mr.Delimeat

Not for free play

***Look at my star rating and read this carefully before considering this game: I have played and been in an alliance for about 2 years on pretty steady, the one thing I noted is while you are spending cash the rewards are pretty good, but if you try and free play, your day to day activity will be slow and boring, and probably have other players not want you around. Count on spending at least $4.99 a day and if there are "parties", it will be another $4.99. Also, if you don't have at least 3 hours per day, nobody will want you around because you wont be able to participate or complete daily tasks that are available different times throughout the day. Another thing, the game has group clicks, and if you don't get along in one group, you can try another, or you may suffer or experience types of bullying and exclusions by the members. Some members are helpful but many are not. Overall, there is a lot to do, its pretty fun, graphics are okay, but leaving individuals to decide your rewards and positions can be another real frustration.

3 years ago, martin09101957

OK but could be better!

This is an ok game but the ratings just don’t reflect the game very well. It can appear initially to have a steep learning curve, but once mastered it gets a little boring. You can end up spending more time building your account than actually fighting…isn’t this a war game?! It’s options are very limited when compared to Final Fantasy for example. You cannot send any gifts to your friends other than resources, and even then, only within the same alliance. There is also no option in the settings menu to log in and out of multiple accounts like in most other games! Should you want farm accounts supporting your main account with resources to grow you may find achieving this a little challenging as they really need to be in the same alliance. The main options only allow for one account in each State, there are ways around this, but it’s a pain to do! One last thing, you are encouraged to bind your accounts to google, twitter, or facebook, but be warned, if you do that there is no obvious way to unbind them later!

2 years ago, Bowsta

Don’t play unless you can spend a ton of money

I thought the game was fun at first but then when you upgrade your HQ to ten, you face a never ending onslaught of attacks. Super high levels can move their base right next to your alliance and wipe out your whole alliance easily. Over and over. When this happens they take almost all your resources, and they kill all of your troops, every single one of them! You can’t even play the game without your troops for several days while they heal. So two days later you get your troops back. Then bang! You get razed again by a level 30. It’s a never ending in cycle of getting smashed and waiting for them to heal then getting decimated again. This game developer should make it so such an awful mismatched higher level can’t constantly destroy your base and take all your resources and kill all your troops. It literally takes all the fun out of it. Even if you pay money, that just helps heal your troops faster for the high level to come kill you again as soon as your healed. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME UNTIL THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT HIGH LEVELS CONSTANTLY DECIMATING LOW LEVEL PLAYERS BASES. Unless your rich and don’t mind getting destroyed over and over and over.

4 years ago, Keagan Turner

Fun game, but needs fixes

I’ve been playing for a few weeks, currently level 7, and I have a decent amount of resources... or so I thought until a level 30 decided to attack my town 10 times within 30 minutes and take everything from me. Literally, I have no resources left and I had about 10 million food and close to the same in wood. This is completely unfair as I don’t have a lot of money to buy shields and I’m being attacked non stop by someone who is more than 20 levels above me. The puzzle games are fun, but seriously. If it was a one time thing, fine. So be it. But it’s multiple times the exact same person. It’s like playing clash of clans, being a town hall 4, and being attacked by a town hall 12 multiple times over and over until you have nothing left. My advice, if you don’t want your phone to blow up because you are being attacked over and over again or you don’t have a lot of money to rank up fast, stay away from the game. If this continues, I will be deleting the game tonight. Game creator, fix your game. Nobody wants this bs.

2 years ago, HelloCaity

Devs seem to hate their own players

Even the screenshots are not really what’s in the game. I played for about a year and a half. It’s started as a decent game, and there are plenty of nice people to meet. But the updates just feel so hostile to players. If you are free-to-play, you stand no chance. I played this way, and was able to do fairly well by optimizing everything around events, saving up for the best rewards. This game used to reward patience & planning. There will always be whales who just buy their wins in these games, and that was okay…I don’t care about being on top. But now, events regularly get replaced by “special holiday events”…they’re just reskins of the regular events, except the items you have to save up get replaced by holiday-specific items. This means you can no longer save these items up for better rewards…you have to pay money to finish the event. And of course, there’s a made-up holiday every month. The biggest problem with this, is that they’ve killed any sense of long-term goals…there’s really no point in playing anymore.

2 years ago, WabnitzPhoto

Your ADs are disgusting

You have an ad where a half naked guy keeps moving over on a bench so that a young woman keeps sitting on his lap, even though she is obviously uncomfortable. So that would be an act of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Why are you using that as a way to try to get us to download your game? Yeah I get it. It’s a cartoon so it’s not actually showing a sexual assault but the fact that it’s a game ad and that youth are going to see that and think that it’s funny to do that to other people. Not only that, but in the end, the woman ends up dying, and the dude who was sexually assaulting her, survives. If you want to use that because you think it’s funny, then at least have the guy die at the end because that’s kind of what he deserves after sexually harassing an innocent woman. Your ad team has almost unlimited concepts that are available to promote your game and the fact that out of a team of people, y’all sat around and went. “Yeah, this is the ad the one that clearly shows a disgusting act that actually happens to women in person every day across the world, but yeah, let’s use that for a zombie game.”

2 years ago, Danflip9

New pits settings are terrible

Games is fun and addictive, but the new updated pits are the pits. You can’t harvest more than a couple of hours before getting attacked by bigger enemies. There are now about 10% of the fields available to mine and steal from and are never able to find a lower level pit. Where there was higher number of pits before, it gave lower might people the ability to get and even hold a pit through completion at various mining rates, but now the only option is to do the lowest and attack and then be attacked. This was the dumbest update I’ve seen and absolutely hate, hate hate their settings that make it so easy for bigger players to beat up on anyone smaller. There are no feasible options for beginners and this change was the worst. They need to bring back the old settings or they will likely lose players or prevent people from being able to grow. The rich get richer, while the poor get poorer, and the game developers keep getting more greedy making it harder to grow and play without having to pay. Shame, shame shame, as this game was super fun and addictive to play.

10 months ago, Mfa2900

Use to be Great

Want a game where there is a lot to do? This is that game. You build hero’s, build a city, research, and build an army. You get some action, in ways of reservoir war and wasteland king, where your alliance or state battles other alliances or states. The best part of this game is the people you meet or interact with. Pretty good community. The problem with the game is that the developers have turned it into a pay to play game. It has micro transactions for everything, when I mean everything I mean everything! Which is sad because the game also has grand events where you need to pay to even complete the event. In the beginning of this game, these grand events could be completed without spending money, but if you spent you got better stuff. Now that you can’t even complete them makes it very sad. I like playing the game but soon may stop because the paying for everything is putting me off. Maybe they will fix the content, but for some reason I don’t think they will.

2 years ago, JadaxForbes

OBSESSED!

I’ve been playing this game for a few months now & not a day goes by that I don’t get on at least once (but most likely a-lot more than just once lol). It’s become apart of my daily routine, literally. I love the fact that you can always be working towards getting stronger. Also, i’ve become really close to the people in my alliance. That’s also one of the things I really love about this game. If you can find a good alliance, that actually interacts with each-other, does all the events & works as a team.. it makes the game 100x more fun to play. If you’re on the verge of getting it but you’re just not sure, take my word for it.. you won’t regret it. This is a game that doesn’t get boring. You can always be working towards something. There’s always something to do on this game so you’ll never find yourself bored while playing.

1 year ago, kenziemehl

Too much of a hassle

This game is a pay to play game and way too time consuming. Resources are slow to accumulate and you have to be on every 3 hours or so to collect enough to advance a small piece of your base. If you are trying to accumulate a large amount of resources and do not shield up, someone will attack you and you’ll lose all of your resources it took weeks to collect or buy. If you do have resources left over, everything will go to healing troops which also takes days. The fastest way to advance is through in-game purchases. It gives people who spend more an advantage over everyone else. There is no way to defend yourself (other than a shield) if a high level/might player comes along to attack you. You must also join an alliance with other online members and participate in many different events to advance at a decent speed. If you do decide to play, expect to be on throughout the day for multiple hours, have money to spare, and be prepared to potentially lose everything you’ve bought/worked for when your shield expires.

11 months ago, Earthshire

Puzzles and Survivors

I have played this game since the first month it came in line and I am strong and compete well. However, more and more the changes and additions to the game favor the big spenders. It’s hard to get hero frags for the newly introduced heroes which can only be obtained through special events. Resources are obtainable if you collect so you can build no problem. Just heroes, special nano weapons, really advancing your chips gear modules etc, takes years if you don’t spend decent money. When I started it wasn’t that way, but they game is now broken into the elites who are unbeatable unless you are one, and the rest of us. I still love the game but feel less competitive and rather stuck because of the direction the devs have taken it. They want money and from the top echelon they get it. The rest of us will never reach those levels because there is no in game way to get there unless you are willing to wait years!

2 years ago, Kturgeon1

So many things

Where do I even begin with my complaints with this game? 1. It’s one big money grab. Everything is set up to cost you money to get anywhere in this game, or it will take you forever to get anywhere. It can be done, but it WILL take forever. 2. Updates are just ways to try to force you to spend more money. Like the new feasts. Now you can actually get into them, but they really aren’t worth the trouble now that they don’t give you hero frags. Or how they have reduced the amount of pits to force you to attacks other players to get into one. The arena is a joke. Your opponent is always a way higher level than you. 3. It is absolutely nothing like the game they show you in the ads. Definitely a bait and switch situation. 4. Customer service is a joke. And they are blatantly sexist again female players. Honestly, I hate this game. I would give this game zero stars if it was an option. The only reason I am still playing is because of the other players in my alliance. I will truly miss them when I quit playing And I will quit playing.

3 years ago, Kingmasterdom

Mediocre at best

The game doesn’t do what a lot of games of this type does while also promoting fake ads. It’s a terrible combination that’s plaguing mobile games. This game isn’t worth your time nor your money. I have absolutely no idea how the rating is so high for a game that demands a lot of time for barely anything in return. I like it when games make you feel like you’re making progress with your heroes/characters but this game’s RNG isn’t RNG in the beginning, it’s all scripted and that makes it worse. Why ask players to pay for heroes if you’re being stingy with the low level heroes? On top of that, their abilities usually stink or is barely useful as you progress. I also don’t appreciate that this game has a paywall while also being stingy with LOW level heroes. If you’re looking for a game to build a strong team, stay away from this garbage. It promotes fake ads, it sells s3x in order to attract players, its stingy with lowest tier heroes. Not even the base building aspect of it can redeem it. It’s all bad.

11 months ago, Bigbooter

Money hungry

I gave this a 3 star. 1 star for some of the folks I met over the year + I played. 1 star for the content, events and the fact there is always something to do. And 1 star as an overall. I subtracted 2 stars because of the ways they get you to buy. It’s quite ingenious really lol. I made it to HQ31 with t10’s. Millions of them. I spent waaaay more money on this game than I care to admit. And for what, nothing. It’s a game of constantly being on and checking in. But in order to advance you have to be in a “FarmVille” type state and under NAP (no aggression pact). To me that get boring but if you are in a state that there is war, you get creamed by people with billions of might. If you think you are strong at 300, 400 or even 800 million, hulk over there would like to show you how weak you are. If you have 1000’s of dollars laying around for a game, this is the game for you! Seriously. If you have a job, home, kids and/or animals, just skip this one.

3 years ago, Nopenopetoo

Game constantly glitches & has to be worked on.

There’s always issues with the games. It’s always glitching in someway, valiant weekend I put on a three day shield, a few HOURS after putting on the THEEE DAY shield the game had glitched and my shield was gone so I was attacked and everything was gone. I had over 100 million in food and wood, 5 million in steel and 1 million in gas that I had been saving all week to upgrade my troops to t9. Obviously upset because it’s 5,000 diamonds for a 3 day shield I contacted customer service where they continued to try to gaslight me about the situation. At first they said there was never a shield purchased and then when I kept pressing the issue, they changed their story and said that one was purchased two days before and that it expired right before the attacks which was also a lie, because I put one on that day. The CS person helping me also tricked me into closing out our chat as problem solved so they didn’t have to deal with the issue anymore. HORRIBLE customer service and buggy game. I don’t recommend to anyone.

1 year ago, Jane Doe DOA

Become a transparent money grab

I started playing 15 months ago when moderate and free to play players could still grow and enjoy the game. In the last 8 months the game has transitioned into a naked money grab. To get a specialty skin or march from an event expect to pay literally between $300 and $1000. There are chance event where you can spend 200k diamonds and get nothing but crap. The new timed tavern requires you to buy coins and you’ll spend $15 for 10 coins and not even get a hero. The new heroes are pay to play only in the timed tavern, so you may pay and still not get them. There has been a boycott but the lure of new digital crap wins out. You come for the fake advertising and stay for the people. If you like to spend $1000+ a month on a game to show you are the best, this is the game for you. If you are a free to play player or moderate spender, this is not the game for you. You will be very frustrated and disappointed. A good 60% of the benefits for free to play players have been removed. All I can say is download at the peril of your wallet.

4 years ago, Evanbaker1134

Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I really enjoy this game. there are powerful and complex characters you gain throughout the world, and it also has a interesting way of keeping you entertained, you can match shapes and colors while in battle to get powerful attacks, and they also include raiding or aiding other online players with their camps, and you can build multiple camps after you’ve reached level 8 Or higher on your HQ. you can also add friends and form alliances, which is a good way to keep your camps protected from being raided or attacked by other players or stray zombies. I’m also impressed that they included some of the main characters to have voice acted commentary, Most RPG Mobil games don’t provide that, and I’d like to see more of that in the future. I really can’t think of any negative things to say about this game, the only thing I could suggest would be adding more storylines, and to add more areas to explore, some new characters from familiar franchises would look nice in the game as well, and would be a good way to bring in more players. I would definitely recommend this to friends who enjoy puzzles and strategy, or Just RPG zombie mobile games in general, because if they like games like that, I guarantee they will enjoy this one too.

3 years ago, 1stSgtElvis

Nothing like the ad you watch

There are some simple puzzles to solve but this game is more like a far more cancerous clash of clans. Mine/find resources, attack random zombies to get other resources. Build your base, keep up the same boring, crap. But why this gets 1 star is the other players toxicity. You start as a weak sanctuary. Immediately after you reach level 5 ish more powerful players begin to attack you, destroy your base, and steal your stuff. It costs huge resources to repair yourself forcing you to spend real money if you want to repair yourself in a reasonable amount of time. Then after you join an alliance to help you grow the attacks intensify. The strongest alliances in your state randomly attack the weaker alliances at will. If you don’t have a defense shield up 24/7 you will be attacked and ravaged by stronger players. Each state’s governor is supposed to discourage the attack of weaker players but those doing the attacking belong to the governors alliance; so he does nothing. This game is just an infuriating, cancerous money grab. Avoid it at all costs.

1 year ago, chuk_it

Amazing bias, designed addiction and BULLYING

I played for more than 2 years. It is a dying game because of the constant changes in rules without addressing the core - specific countries (and people that VPN from advantaged countries) have designed advantages for upgrades and concentration of power before main wars allows for those same advantaged players to grab even more from the servant states. e.g. - you are not allowed to participate in events for 72 hours when you join an alliance BUT all the biggest players can collect in one alliance for state vs state events, take all the rewards and never send any of the "loot" to other players. If you do not play the way you are told then they burn down your fort, demolish all of your guidl and WILL NOT LET YOPU PLAY ANYMORE. As has been said in other reviewe - the upgrades are outrageously expensive and specific countries have BUILT IN ADVANTAGES. The hugfe bias and money grab makes this "planned" war without any good competition and basically a farm game and tyrants run amock. stay away and spend your money elsewhere!

3 years ago, Jjmmss

Spend money or lose!

Need to defend yourself? Spend money. Need to get stronger? Spend money. Want to earn it for free? You’re “matched” to fight against someone ten times more powerful than you. Free rewards? Here are free things that you can use when you reach level 20; but you’re on level eight, and it will take months and hundreds of $$$ to be able to access those rewards. But hey, they’re free! And we’ll even give you the option of converting them to something ten thousand percent less valuable. The ads are nothing like the game. There’s no walking through a maze. Just a match three puzzle that never seems to work in your favor. Events are so disproportionate; randomly get chests and keys to open them, but I got 43 chests before I got my first key. If you want the rewards inside the chests, chests that you’ve wasted your daily allotted energy to collect, you have to buy them. And if you don’t spend money keeping yourself shielded 24/7, you will constantly be attacked and stripped of your troops and resources.

1 year ago, brikz

I thought loot boxes were banned!

If you don’t want to spend thousands of dollars just to barely be relevant, don’t play this game. Even the big players like Ichi who spent tens if not hundreds of thousands have left. First, I was misled by an ad on what the game was (where you at Apple?). 2nd , if you don’t find a top alliance or good state; you are just cannon fodder for pirates. 3rd, every “special” event reward is only achievable if you spend LOTS of cash. And the RNG is so rigged you have better luck at the lottery. If you don’t spend the devs don’t reward you; it’s that simple. Plus, it’s the same monotony every week/day they don’t even try to hide their laziness with repeat events; but not rewards so you have to start over. If you don’t have multiple accounts to farm growing is impossible. Plus, they don’t care about their players as they frequently screw up events only to make up for it with the bare minimum. So, unless you want to buy your way to the top; and then, what’s the point: pass on this game

2 years ago, FedUpDerby

Avoid like the plague!

The game starts out fun but then your state is invaded with what appears to be nothing more than 37 games sending alliances around to drive sales. I have played many war type games and 37 games packs are below par for the price you pay. Other games give you much greater quantities of useful materials compared to 37 games. It is obvious 37 games does not care about the players as they are complicit in driving players away from the game. They try to act like they are giving you some huge discount with their pack prices, but that is utter bull crap. They make the game and provide the packs through programming. I promise you their profit margin is way too high compared to similar games out on the market. I started out enjoying the game but after XxX in 414 and OVO in 403 it just isn’t fun anymore. XxX is now in 485 and heard OVO is in 400. Do not buy their overpriced packs. You can play other games and get greater quantities of useful materials for what 37 games is charging. It’s pirating at its finest if you will. Avoid!!!!

4 years ago, Parenting Young Adults

This could be fun IF you enjoy alliances

This game doesn’t appear to be one you can solo play. I wish that had been in the description BEFORE I downloaded it. They want you to join alliances and you will be subject to people from all over the world & different time zones raiding your site. So, if you put a lot of effort in the beginning...know that it’s easy for strong unscrupulous players to take advantage of new players lack of experience and raid you site for everything. Unless you pay for “shields” that protect you when you’re not on; kiss your supplies good bye. If you don’t have so much free time on your hands to constantly be on playing and fighting off raiders it is discouraging. Ask questions of what the alliances expect from you as a player before joining. If they demand more time and ability than you can give choose another alliance.

2 years ago, D.E. Davenport

Exactly what you think it is. Money grab.

It’s another pay to win, sorry you joined late game. The game rules rewarded someone 15 levels over me with most of my resources then greeted me with a “recovery” deal for sale before I knew I had been attacked 56 times in two hours. I’ve never attacked anyone. Then the rules punished me for being low level with days of fire and days of rebuilding unless I bought thousands and thousands of diamonds (one of the in game currencies). The leveling heroes and killing zombies with puzzles is fun. Until the game rules decide you’ve gone far enough, fast enough and you go from straight rolling 3 waves of zombies to the next level where you can’t make it out of the first wave without 3 of your heroes dying. Mostly because the puzzle pieces won’t line up so your healer can’t heal and combos don’t go. I’m going to start checking into game publishers and their place of operation before I give them any of my money next time.

2 years ago, Orignal AlejandroOne

A mediocre game with a mediocre support team

Don’t spend money in this game support team might take away your account This game is like every other in its category except for the fact that there’s the match 3 mechanic which just adds more paywalls to the game you need “Combat Manuals” From 1 to 6 to get your heroes upgrade to get these you need to play the campaign which is just Candy Crush but with zombies, and don’t get me started on the store one of my alliance members spends a ton of money in this game only to have his account taken away from him by the games developers because he contact them for not receiving an item he bought, My alliance is in war with another alliance and the alliance is reporting our strong members just so they cannot play due to this marvelous games support team I have no idea how this game is supposed to be played if you run the risk of losing an account because the support team was feeling cute and took away your account, I’d give it 0 stars if possible don’t recommend

3 years ago, Mike Wilke

Play at your own risk

This game can be very fun. The ads are very misleading but you’ll notice that right away. These style of games can be fun and the people in them tend to be very nice. Joining an alliance is usually best. The reason for my review is a lot of the wording in the game is misleading. I spent a small amount of money in the game and after a few weeks began running into major issues. Too many to list. Sometimes you would get rewards from the game for them. Most the time they are nothing. The support is not helpful at all. They will apologize but tell you there’s nothing they can do. I finally asked for my account to be closed. They asked if I wanted a refund and really wanted my account to be closed. When I said yes they told me they couldn’t do that because it would be unfair to other players. What does my account and the money I spent on the game have to do with other players? Idk but it was unfair to offer something that can’t be delivered on. I hope this doesn’t happen to anyone else.

1 year ago, Writergrl20052009

Impossible to advance once you get into it

You can advance and level up for a while (I got to level 16) but then it takes an insane amount of resources to level up and just in case you get hopeful because you’re getting close to the resources you need for that next level you’ll get attacked and your resources will disappear. For reference, to level up my headquarters to level 17 I need: Food: 7,812,131 Wood: 6,754,343 Steel: 793,037 I had the steel and nearly all the food (but not wood) and got attacked and I was knocked down to about 200,000 of everything (yes that’s the correct number of zeros). Did it again. Got to all steel and half food (not nearly enough wood) and again got attacked and knocked down to about 200,000 of everything. Getting the resources is a hassle too. You can’t get enough of each from your resource ‘factories’ at a time so it can take weeks to get even to where I was and I didn’t have enough even after all that long. Then it takes literal days (level up from 16 to 17 on my headquarters says it takes 2 days, 19 hours, 12 minutes, 4 seconds) to actually complete the level up once you get the resources. (Oh, but you can purchase the resources with money of course). Definitely a scam. Refuses to allow you to level up without spending money on resources (which I won’t do). Gets real old to try to get the same thing over and over and then get knocked back down to start over.

3 years ago, etrueheart

Hope you like base building

Maybe like me you were attracted to this game by an ad showing a prison escape game where you solved small puzzles to open doors and gain allies as you fled a pack of zombies. I'm a week into this game, and that hasn't shown up once. Or maybe you were looking for that "candy crush with zombies" clip you may have seen. Yeah, that's in there. For about 15% of it. But the vast majority of this game is base building. LOTS of base building. Lots of click here to upgrade, wait for two hours unless you want to spend these diamonds you can earn... Oh, out of diamonds? Would you like to pay cash for some? Lots of collecting resources. Lots of upgrading structures. And of course, you can't upgrade one structure before you've upgraded two more that are barely related to it. And so, so, so many different kinds of currency. Some to upgrade your heroes, others to "enhance" your heroes, some to speed up build times, others to speed up training times, some to raise your gear, others you can trade for things at the "Alliance Store." I still can't keep track of all of them. So if you like base building games, I suppose this one does it pretty well. And while I can't say I'm "enjoying" it, I'm finding it to be an occasionally fun distraction to chill out my brain. But if you were lured in expecting ANYTHING else, turn around now and walk away.

1 year ago, cemicacle bro

Basically a good game

I’ve been playing this game for about 628months and have had a lot of fun. I’ve only spent about 50 usd and have done well. There are two tricks to be fairly successful at this game. One, find a good alliance on a good server. Your teammates are generous and willing to teach you what you need to know. No horror stories of being farmed by higher level players here. Overall, it’s a playable game. Two, be patient. I’ve found the game gives a lot of free stuff if you participate. Another thing, find a good state to play in. My state have naps with one another except for some activities were it a controlled free for all. Anybody that breaks a nap is severely punished by the other game players. It doesn’t s an intricate game with lots to learn, but overall, it’s really fun.

2 years ago, TheBeastMode28

Kool but not Kool

My Alliance that I join is the only reason I’ve stay this long which probably has been about 4-5 months and has spent over a thousand because everything’s seem like a setup to just spend money, I’m always in situations of training troops and building might the game isn’t much like it’s advertised with the puzzles only in the beginning maybe first couple wks depending on how much your active on it. But like I say my alliance and our relationships keeps me active on here, no matter how much money you spend you gifts and rewards don’t get any better nor anything else in the game. For example if you pick 10 gifts and place on a wheel chart that’s spins and randomly select it’s going to pick in order of the least valuable and your going to run out of chips to spend of course and force u to buy more if you care to get what’s on the wheel that much

4 years ago, redwolfarine

Don’t understand the haters

I’ve been playing for months now. I would say just about 2 months after it came out. I don’t understand why these people are complaining about getting attacked, losing resources etc. the game is generous with giving out diamonds to buy shields and you can gain a shield everyday. Yes the tutorial in the beginning maybe long and annoying but you get over it. You can do what ya want in the game and protect yourself if you actually pay attention. I’ve only spent $10 and up to level 28 hq almost level 29. They have events to win heroes as well as other stuff. Yes you can spend lots of money if ya want but don’t have too. I also have a farm at level 23 and spent no money which helps build my main account. So try it out.

4 years ago, silvereagle2664

Meh...More for Pay to Play

Started alone based on an advertisement in another game. Pretty complicated at start with lots of things going on - build your base, build your heroes, heroes attack zombies and other players, build your army, attack zombies with your army, attack other players with your army, get allies, participate in challenges, etc. You only get one builder, so have to constantly be online to keep it busy upgrading the myriad of buildings in your base. I followed the suggested course of action diligently and once I felt I was getting the hang of it, two other well-advanced players attacked me and wiped my army out. I wasn’t too interested in starting again, so will uninstall it. I think this is a game meant to be all-consuming and allies are important. Pay to play gets you a second builder, plus other perks like better heroes. Bottom line, if you have a lot of time and only want to play one game, this might be it. For a casual player, I wouldn’t recommend it.

2 years ago, Bloodsuker

Need changes

I understand the app is to make money from…but it has gotten ridiculous. You only reward the players who spent a lot of money. The pit since update stinks. Only the people who have spent a lot of money can farm there. In Nuka you have players with level 23 hq but over 1 million plus might not fair to players who are at same hq level or lower with much less might (just because we don’t spend as much). Nuka needs revamped. Should be based off might and even gear factory (gear, module, chips, etc..) not just hq. arena is another area that needs to be revamped. Can never win, everyone might is 13,000 plus. Again another area where you should encounter equal might but don’t.Right now the only thing that keeps me playing is my alliance and I am not alone in this. You make everything so hard to get resources and long to upgrade unless you spend money. Not sure how much longer I will play.

3 years ago, Kannan Fodder

Basic information would be nice

I saw this game repeatedly advertised in another game, and the Escape The Prison challenge looked interesting. But that’s not what this game is. Apparently this is a PVP MMORPG, yet nowhere is that made clear in the description. Barely into the tutorial, I’m prompted to join an alliance - another requirement deliberately left out of the description. I wanted a fun single player game to pass time, which this game apparently is not. Also, there is absolutely no information about gameplay, resources, or what exactly anything is, so I end up tapping random things without knowing what I’m doing and never knowing what the outcome is. I have notifications that something is important, but again, there is absolutely nothing to tell me what it is or how/why to use it. Oh, and don’t forget the endless prompts to make in app purchases, again with no information about what they are selling and why I need it.

3 years ago, Arnetron

Greed

The bad part of this game is predominantly how the developers attempt to cash in with every update, in many cases with little to no warning. The final straw for this review was the immigration ticket prices. They gave 18 hours notice (and no specifics) that immigration cost was going to change and left many alliances stranded in two states, in many cases where the one they were leaving is hostile to them. As of now, they have not done the decent thing and rolled back the update to allow for proper warning or provided reimbursement/compensation to the many people who were bilked out of their money (by the way the ticket increase for me went from 20 to 52 which is insane with less than a day of notice). If they do the right thing and reverse this terrible decision if only for a couple weeks to give the notice THEY SHOULD HAVE GIVEN IN THE FIRST PLACE, I may see fit to amend this review. But for now it stays a one star do to developer greed and lack of empathy for their customers.

3 years ago, Jen Duncan

Very glitchy

Great game if enjoy building more than actual playing. The puzzle portion is based on energy points so once you’ve used it all up, all that is left is building or attacking. It’s fun! The game offers LOTS of freebies in the beginning to help you grow fast but beware, you’ll be constantly bombarded to purchase in game chests etc. However, you can still grow and enjoy the game without spending money. This is reminiscent of other building games so you can grow fairly fast in the beginning. My biggest complaint and frustration? Too glitchy! I play on my iPad and the game will shut down at random times. A LOT. I’m writing this because it just shut down on me…again. The game recognizes if you shut down in the middle of a puzzle battle and will take you right back but still. Very frustrating. I’ve spent real money on this game but am considering quitting because it shuts down on me so much.

3 months ago, JustGo!!

Fake Ratings, False Advertising, Trash

All these 1 and 2 line generic reviews are fake. Even the photos on app page are fake. This company spams ads on other games showing gameplay that isn't anywhere in their games. I decided to at least look at the game since I had already been tricked into downloading it. It's nothing but yet another "Stamina" game where there's nothing to do while you wait for Stamina regen 💤. Puzzles? Matching simple colored tiles isn't puzzling. The only thing puzzling is the fact they overwhelm players with too many events going on at one time. Mediocre event rewards are locked behind a payment. Don't forget about the unoriginal characters and enemies (Silent Hill, Marvel, Resident Evil, DC, etc.) 37games should be sued and ashamed of themselves. This trash shouldn't be in the App Store. Hands down the worst game I’ve had the unfortunate experience checking out. This is the perfect example of why App Store games aren’t taken seriously. Deleted.

7 months ago, Panrak

Game has gone from moderately unfair to terrible

This game is fun but you have to expect that the chances of crafting / chance stuff is less than what they say. It used to be 5 to 10 points on average less than they say but last half year they don’t even try to pretend any more. It is impossible any more to get any good stuff without spending big bucks. I used to get Apex nano about once every 6 months crafting all the time which was not terribly off from supposed percent but now only get rare or epic about that often without rare designs. It seems like they’ve nuked the game unless you spend big money. It’s gone from lying and moderate deceit to borderline fraud. If I hadn’t spent so much on this game and friends I’ve made I would quit and find another game. I’ll probably just slow up on the game and quit spending for a while since every time I try to get a little something from spending they just stick it to you.

2 years ago, DonnaTB

Puzzles&Games ad showing animal abuse is DISGUSTING

Your original ads made your game look interesting, but as stated all through your reviews, the ads are nothing like the game and even after giving it a try, I quickly got bored and deleted it. That’s not what made me decide to write this review though. I’m writing it, and I’d give zero stars…NEGATIVE stars if I could, because of your latest ad depicting animal abuse. A man kicking and hitting a puppy is the FARTHEST thing from entertainment that I can imagine. It’s disgusting and it made me so angry that I couldn’t just ignore it. I had to at least speak my mind. Because when that kind of thing starts to be used as a form of entertainment, it only makes people numb to it and eventually they’ll this it’s okay. THIS IS NOT OKAY. it’s appalling and it’s not the way ANYONE should want to bring attention to a freaking GAME. I’m, personally, disgusted and because of that I will never consider your game or ANY games developed by 37games.

4 years ago, State150

Must Pay to Thrive

Let me start by saying I liked the game when I started. It has a lot to do and the alliance feature is nice when you find the right one. Now, here is the issue, unless you are willing to pay (in large amounts) you could be on a server (state) that has someone who will. The one I am in has a player who has obviously spent tens of thousands of dollars. He is at least 4 times bigger than the next player and is unstoppable. The problem is, the game has no checks and balances. He can attack any player over and over and over again until everything they have and built up is gone. He will teleport his sanctuary into your alliance, attack anyone who does not have a shield on for days. He typically brings a couple others from his alliance. They will attack generally lower players relentlessly and if a higher player tries to help. He attacks them and with the money he spent, there is no stopping him or defending. Other games I have played had limits on size of player you could attack or a cool down period so if you have to work like most people, you are not designated when you get home. For normal people who need to sleep and work and don’t have thousands to spend, this is disheartening and no longer enjoyable. If you are looking for a game to relax and play, spend some money to help you grow and develop, THIS IS NOT IT.

1 year ago, Sir Reale

Don’t bother with this game

I’ll start with why I ended up hating this game. Other players can attack your base as many times as they want. Players that have been playing long enough or early enough or paid enough to reach higher levels are allowed to attack weaker players repeatedly. At only level 16, I’ve had my forces assaulted by players at level 45 and higher multiple times, damaging the camp defenses badly and killing off my troops. It takes days to rebuild the fortress defenses. The final straw was when I got attack by some idiot at level 65. He attacked my forces, not once, not twice, but 12 times.. The clown wiped out all my troops and decimated my fortress so badly that it would take weeks or months for my encampment to recover. Moreover it would take weeks to rebuild enough troups before I could go outside the camp to fight zombies. My only solution was to delete the game. There are other problems with the game. After building enough troops, you an go into the surrounding countryside to fight zombies. While you can select the heroes, troop types & numbers, and which zombie to attack, the system then takes over and does all the fighting. BORING! One of the buildings is a Trap factory. While a player can select different traps to build, there is no mechanism to deploy the traps. What good are the traps? This game turned out to be a drag. DELETE!

Description

My goodness...What the hell is that!? Keep quiet, idiot! Arrrrgh, the zombie's coming at us!!! The outbreak of a deadly virus swept over the world. Almost all of humanity have turned into zombies. Lead your followers to survive the apocalypse: that is your quest. Match-3 Puzzle meets Strategy! Solve the mysteries and build an impenetrable sanctuary. The future of humanity is in your hands. Tip: Use your brain to defend your brain! ——APOCALYPTIC FEATURES—— ※ STRATEGY + MATCH-3 - Solve puzzles to kill zombies - Arm yourself with strategy and tactics - A combination of a tactical wargame and casual puzzle gameplay - An innovative post-apocalyptic experience ※ BUILD A SANCTUARY - Lead survivors in the last bastion of humanity - Craft cutting-edge equipment to smash your enemies ※ FORMIDABLE HEROES - Superhuman powers emerged alongside the zombie virus - Recruit Heroes from the notorious Noah\'s Tavern - Heroes improve your military and economical strength ※ FRIENDS OR FOES - No one can survive alone, fight alongside your allies - Watch out for potential threats, be they zombies or humans Official Facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/PnS.37Games [Notes] Puzzles & Survival is a free-to-play mobile game with in-app purchases. According to 37GAMES\' Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, this application is not intended for use by users under the age of 12. A device with internet access is required. [Subscription Intro] Puzzles & Survival provides subscription services. Become a subscriber to enjoy exclusive boosts and rewards! 1. Content: Subscribe to claim heaps of rewards on a daily basis and unlock various remarkable boosts. 2. Subscription duration: 1 month 3. Subscription price: $19.99 4. Payment: Via your iTunes account 5. If you are a subscriber, within 24 hours before your monthly subscription expires, the subscription will be automatically renewed UNLESS you manually cancel it before then. 6. To manage and cancel subscriptions, please head to Settings - iTunes Store & App Store - Check Apple ID - Account Settings - Subscription. [Help] Do you need help? Feel free to contact us via the in-game Customer Service or send us an Email at: [email protected] Privacy Policy: https://gpassport.37games.com/center/servicePrivicy/privicy Terms of Use: https://gpassport.37games.com/center/servicePrivicy/service