Galaxiga - Classic 80s Arcade 12+

I am currently in world three after abstaining from making a VIP purchase. As others have mentioned, the coins are virtually useless. The games main currency is gems which help in upgrading your ships. Yet having 4 ships (2 @ 54k + power), various drones(11k-19k power), and stones, it is still a challenge progressing through world three.

For a regular level you can earn 2 gems on easy, 3 on normal, and 5 on hard. For boss levels you can earn 5 gems on easy, 9 on normal, and 15 on hard. This totals 414 gems across one world (30 levels total with 6 boss levels). Now this was plenty while getting through the first world, but made it challenging getting through the second and now exhausting getting through the third.

The problem is the rewards are exactly the same across the worlds, yet the difficulty goes up significantly. I love the game and I enjoy a challenge, but I am not inclined to make a purchase to simply complete the story mode. I will no doubt continue playing, and will enjoy what I can while I trudge along this world. If you’re willing to invest in their VIP starter packs, I think the game should be fairly more do-able and enjoyable.

Great game and a lot of fun. But, once u hit a certain point in the game, u won’t get past that without spending some money - serious money. Not just 20, 30 bucks. Probably bout 100. Without doing that, ur left with no option but to watch ads - a BUNCH of ads. They limit u on how many u can watch each day but, at MINIMUM, it’s like 50 ads per day. So, if u wanna do well in this game, open ur wallet or watch ads for the next 5 years. U can progress and enjoy the game for about a week before ur left with those 2 choices. Plus, this game is TOTALLY rigged. They have a PvP option and it’s obvious the winner is chosen before the match even begins. I’ve been defeated by players whose ships are NOWHERE near as strong as my mine and I’ve beaten people who ships are 10 times stronger. How does that make sense? If this only happened on occasion, I’d think nothing of it. But it happens ALL DAY, EVERYDAY. Just like in sports, the better team USUALLY wins but, of course, upsets do happen. It only stands to reason, if we’re fighting the same battle, the stronger ships SHOULD WIN - MOST OF THE TIME.

Update, now the problem is you can’t even get the game to connect to the internet. They have an internal chat room to speak with other game players and EVERYONE has said, basically, the same thing - U can’t play or do most of the daily activities, challenges, etc cause every time you try you’re told “ No internet connection.” It’s ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE!!

So, I’ve been playing this game for a couple of months and I have some specific thoughts. This game could have been great, except for some bad design flaws & the ridiculous amount of ads you have to watch.

It’s not out of the ordinary to watch 30+ ads in an hour of playing. Crazy! Add to that fact that a lot of the ads hang the game causing you to reboot. Ads have gotten progressively longer with some being up to 90 seconds in length. That’s nuts!!! You can earn free stuff, but that can take weeks. Greed? Yes! If you choose to make in-game purchases, you can proceed more quickly, but EVERYTHING is seriously overpriced - by a LOT. When you start playing (and trying to earn power) be prepared to get crushed by stronger players. The designers made ZERO effort to balance out the gameplay between the weak & the strong. This can get VERY frustrating at times because you’ll start to ask yourself why are you bothering to play when you have no chance of winning? Finally, on my iPad, the game seems to hang up in the evenings during times of heavy use by players. For goodness sake, invest in some faster servers!!!

Like I said, this game could have been great. It’s too bad the designers were more interested in squeezing money out of their players then actually developing a great gaming platform. SAD