Watcher of Realms 12+

A tower defence, character collection game, but unlike the usual the characters are the towers. I have been playing since global release, and haven’t missed a day since, nearly finished with end game gear raids, completely ftp. Will take a lot of patience, some preparation before for the events each week which are shown before hand. You will open a lot of crystals, and they give them out rather generously. Sometimes you will get very lucky, sometimes you’ll get the same terrible character 4 times in a row (wish I was exaggerating) or nothing useful at all, but that’s just how these games are, and I have a lot of fun either way. There are many characters, incredibly well designed, with different voices/personalities, and abilities, used for the steadily growing content, like story campaign, gear dungeons, arena, limited time events and other modes. It is a strategy game, and can be difficult to understand at first but if you take the time to learn the mechanics and how gear works (there are some good Content creators to help), you can get very far without spending but it does help to progress faster. With that said the developers are incredibly generous, and I think it would be worth it to support the game if you enjoy its type, and will start to do so myself soon. It won’t let me rate the star thing so here - 5*

Only very rarely do I find a game I want to play every day. I’m a regular player of Marvel Contest of Champions for 3 years…. This is my new addition.
It’s Tower defence genre, but that’s like comparing a Ford Focus to a Ferrari EVO 399. This is like no tower defence game, ever.
Yes, you place your heroes on a map to block the advance of hordes of enemies intent on plundering your crystal reserves. That’s were the similarity ends.
Your heroes are tiered in value, quality and abilities. The rarest have history, personalities and godlike attributes. Your heroes are summoned using special crystals you can win or buy. But the ultras are so rare, you’d be wasting your money trying to get one. You can win them in special events, or just randomly with a crystal. Their drop rate is ridiculously low… this deters buying hundreds of dollars worth of crystals , you only get a 0.2% drop rate on one of them, that’s 500 to 1 .
5 crystals cost $10+ , yet I just won a major 5* with one crystal.
You can upgrade all your heroes, gaining spells and attacks. There are raids, guild bosses to defeat, and a whole shedload of quests and side quests.
The graphics are stunning, the game runs as smooth as you like on a basic iPad , music and voices are top quality.
And it’s free to play …I mean… HUH? 🤷🏻‍♂️
If this had cost $10 plus in game purchases? I’d still play, it’s that good.

Firstly, the game has improved many aspects of RSL which just got so predatory. This is a reskin of RSL but still in its early days and so is more generous with energy(stamina) to do daily tasks and farm gear.
Farming gear takes forever to actually get anything barely useable, with ancient drop rates ( best gear which rolls good stats) at about 1/500 chance so you might get one piece per week if you are lucky. Game is 80% gear 20% heroes tbh. But then that 20% on the heroes still has a big impact.
There are several heroes that are so far ahead of the rest that they become almost essential for progression. Unfortunately the great heroes (not lords) have been given a very low drop rate even though they are in the same ‘bucket’ of heroes. So basically they state that a Lego hero is about 0.5% ish and there’s about 40-50 legendary heroes all in that category, BUT it simply isn’t true, the top 5 heroes have a lot lower chance of being obtained so the same trash legendary heroes keep being found. This is the issue with the game. Manipulated rates, and the fact really that they don’t balance the heroes, you wouldn’t mind so much if all heroes could be used and maybe a 10% power diff between them, but as I said the top 5 are literally game breaking. So really my advice, don’t spend on this game, it’s just a con, even though it has potential to be better than RSL the shady rates are a big put off.