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Awakening of Guardians

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78%Game Brain Score
gameplay, graphics
monetization, story
78% User Score Based on 2,854 reviews

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Awakening of Guardians is a single player casual role playing game with fantasy, anime, medieval and historical themes. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

A fantastic idle RPG where you lead heroes to defend the kingdom.

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78%
Audience ScoreBased on 2,854 reviews
gameplay27 positive mentions
monetization245 negative mentions

  • Engaging and fun gameplay with a good mix of tower defense and RPG elements.
  • Fair to play without mandatory spending; players can progress without paying money.
  • Graphics and animations are decent and the game offers offline play and auto-play features.
  • Excessive, forced and unskippable ads disrupt play experience, even after purchasing ad removal.
  • Numerous bugs including disappearing heroes/items, resets in progression and inconsistent ally upgrades.
  • Game balance and progression difficulty become frustratingly steep; gems and crafting materials are hard to obtain making it feel pay to win or grind heavy.
  • monetization
    269 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Monetization is overwhelmingly focused on frequent, often forced ads that disrupt gameplay, with many users frustrated by intrusive pop-ups and unskippable videos. Although some ads are optional and provide rewards, purchasing ad removal frequently fails to eliminate all ads, leading to perceptions of deceptive practices. Heavy emphasis on in-app purchases and paywalls further detracts from the experience, making the monetization feel aggressive and intrusive.

    • “In-game purchases are very reasonably priced as well.”
    • “Even if you're willing to put up with ads to play for free, it's good.”
    • “Even the in-app purchases aren't greedy.”
    • “The gameplay is decent but holy moly the constant obnoxious popups and forced ads after every few levels absolutely ground what little fun I was having to a halt.”
    • “This game is play spend around $200 bucks to get the game's best player and features, not including the ad removal. Do not buy the ad removal, it doesn't remove the video ads that's used for doubling your loot rewards (which are desperately needed) and you have to watch an ad for every win spell.”
    • “Bought no ad pack still have ads, what a scam.”
  • gameplay
    46 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is generally described as enjoyable, balanced, and addictive with good mechanics and smooth performance, particularly for an idle game. However, many users criticize the heavy reliance on ads, paywalls, and excessive grind, which disrupt the experience and can make progression feel slow or convoluted. Overall, while gameplay has its strengths, intrusive ads and monetization strategies diminish long-term engagement for many players.

    • “I really enjoy the gameplay; it's fair and I can excel without having to pay money.”
    • “Good game mechanics and upgrade system.”
    • “Easy to pick up, balanced gameplay, and fun all around.”
    • “The gameplay itself is okay, but the processes that lead to advancement are too convoluted, grind-heavy, and reliant on premium currency for every single step.”
    • “Gameplay was terrible, auto ads after every 2nd level with no benefit, most powerful characters are hidden behind pay walls, just bill yourself as premium or trial based if you want to insist on selling upgrades, items and 90% of playable characters. Crummy system mechanics waste powerful moves with no control, and auto locking can't be overridden by tapping (as suggested). Would give less than 1 star.”
    • “Repetitive gameplay, coupled with mechanics that don't really get you very invested in either heroes or their helpers make this a pretty bland experience.”
  • story
    41 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story aspect is largely seen as lacking depth and engagement, with players describing it as minimal or boring, resembling more of a passive setup than an interactive narrative. Additionally, numerous bugs and issues with daily quests, rewards, and progression disrupt the experience, leading to frustration and diminishing motivation to continue the storyline.

    • “I almost accomplished the entire story line and have nothing to do any more.”
    • “Started out well, however now there are so many added daily quests it's impossible to do them all as a free to play game.”
    • “Story line levels have bugs (boss is invulnerable), you need to relaunch the game to remove bug and start a new progress.”
    • “Interesting premise to tower defense, lack of storyline is a little boring.”
    • “Pretty solid experience, but lacks a story.”
    • “Storyline levels are bugged (boss is invulnerable), you need to relaunch the game to remove bug and start a new progress.”
  • grinding
    37 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is a significant and recurring aspect, often described as tedious, time-consuming, and reliant on repetitive farming for materials, gold, and upgrades. While some players find it fun and rewarding, especially appreciating the non-pay-to-win approach, many express frustration over the lack of convenient features like a replay level button and the excessive grinding needed at higher levels. Overall, grinding is central to progression but can feel overly grindy and repetitive for an idle-style game.

    • “Honestly though, I've spent most of my time in this game grinding the wheel of fortune rather than actually playing the stages.”
    • “The removal of the replay button is such an inconvenience especially since the game is a grindy game.”
    • “I can't recommend this game, it's very grindy and now exhaustingly time consuming.”
  • graphics
    29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    User reviews on graphics are mixed, with many praising the artwork as beautiful, brilliant, and well-done, contributing to an enjoyable visual experience. However, some users criticize the graphics for being low quality, inconsistent, blurry, and lacking cohesion. Overall, the graphics are generally regarded as good to excellent, though a few find them disappointing.

    • “The details and graphics are phenomenal.”
    • “Awesome game... graphics are on point... I've literally played this game for hours.”
    • “Enjoying idle game with beautiful graphics and music!”
    • “Artwork, monsters, animations very low quality, sound are annoying and level progression slow and not fun.”
    • “Everything looks too different from each other, things are blurry when they shouldn't be, there's just no cohesion in the graphics at this stage.”
    • “Graphics are inconsistent.”
  • stability
    24 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's stability is generally poor, with frequent bugs, freezes, and crashes reported, particularly during key gameplay moments like crafting, equipping, and boss fights. Users also mention game-breaking glitches, missing features, and frustrating random commercials, leading to a lack of polish and a disruptive experience. While a few note smooth gameplay without glitches, the majority highlight significant stability issues.

    • “No glitches and smooth gameplay.”
    • “Fun game, no glitches or lagging, what's not to like?!?”
    • “Game breaking glitches, rollbacks, and account deletion with no notifications or attempt to fix.”
    • “Can't get past tutorial; at the equipment part, equipping something freezes the game. Tried reinstalling and waiting; neither worked. Since it's a a game-breaking bug in the tutorial, it's safe to assume there are many in the game itself.”
    • “Game freezes and crashes every time I craft anything.”
  • music
    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users consistently report frustrating issues with the game's music, noting it forcibly overrides and mutes their own music without a functional option to disable in-game sound or music. While some appreciate the game's original music and graphics, the inability to control or mute sound detracts significantly from the experience.

    • “Enjoying idle game with beautiful graphics and music!”
    • “So far, I fell for it and really enjoyed the game. Best art and gameplay. Nice work, guys! The theme song is kinda relaxing for an epic game.”
    • “The theme song is kinda relaxing and fits the epic game atmosphere.”
    • “It overrides the music/sound by default, switching off your own music for some rather poor in-game music - you cannot switch off the music/sound in the options menu, despite there being an option.”
    • “The sole fact that I couldn't turn the music and sound off due to some weird bug annoyed me to the point of uninstalling. Very loud and obnoxious noises; I just wanted something mindless to play while listening to my audiobook.”
    • “No way to change settings in game, cannot mute music or sound effects.”
  • replayability
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Replayability is limited due to a lack of engaging content and additional modes; adding features like leaderboards and endless challenges could improve it.

  • optimization
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users find the game's optimization generally smooth, with good performance and graphics, but note that crafting could be better optimized and translated.

    • “Everything runs smoothly and has great graphics. Keep up the good work.”
    • “Then took a look at crafting and it's so unoptimized.”
    • “Could be better optimized and translated.”
  • humor
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users find the humor in the game to be lighthearted and amusing, with some describing it as idle but funny, contributing to an enjoyable and entertaining experience.

    • “Idle and funny”
    • “Very funny game”
  • character development
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users feel that character development is progressing too slowly, hindering the overall pacing of the game.

    • “Progression and character development are too slow.”
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Awakening of Guardians is a casual role playing game with fantasy, anime, medieval and historical themes.

Awakening of Guardians is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

Awakening of Guardians was developed by TDCGames Global.

Awakening of Guardians has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Awakening of Guardians for its gameplay but disliked it for its monetization.

Awakening of Guardians is a single player game.

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