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Trench Assault

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39%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, story
39% User Score Based on 1,180 reviews

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Trench Assault is a multiplayer strategy game. It received negative reviews from players.

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39%Audience ScoreBased on 1,180 reviews
gameplay45 positive mentions
monetization132 negative mentions
  • Challenging, strategic gameplay that is simple to understand and addictive.
  • Enjoyable graphics and sound design that provide an immersive experience.
  • Fairly balanced for early to mid levels with a large variety of troop and card options.
  • Highly unbalanced multiplayer with opponents frequently having significantly higher level and more powerful cards or units, often due to pay-to-win elements or bots.
  • Excessive wait times to open loot boxes/crates that severely hinder progression unless spending premium currency or watching ads.
  • Frequent server errors and connectivity problems causing crashes and loss of progress/money, leading to player frustration.
  • The drastic overhaul removed the original pixel art retro trench warfare style and replaced it with a generic 3-lane card-based strategy game, alienating longtime fans.
  • Game is repetitive with minimal variety in opponents and meta decks making multiplayer stale and frustrating.
  • Obtrusive unskippable and frequent ads disrupt gameplay experience and are a turnoff for many players.

  • monetization

    152 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The monetization of this game is widely criticized for excessive, mandatory, and lengthy ads—often unskippable 30-second videos after every match—that severely disrupt gameplay and diminish enjoyment. Progress heavily relies on watching numerous ads to open loot boxes or purchase in-game currency, fostering a pay-to-win environment with frustrating mechanics and frequent glitches. Many users lament the shift from a previously ad-light, tactically engaging game to a greedy, cash-grab model dominated by microtransactions and intrusive advertisements.

    • “Interesting, simple and no ads at all.”
    • “Shame ps: the good old game had one in game purchase.”
    • “Am I against in-app purchases?”
    • “The main form of progress is opening loot boxes. The basic ones take 3 hours to open or 15 gold; you get 5 gold by watching 30-second ads. The decent ones casually ask for 120 gold.”
    • “Considering the 3+ hours timer can work on only one box, that means after every win you have to watch at least 3 ads (if you got the worst crate) or if you get a silver crate you can either wait a day or watch 24 ads (12 minutes worth of ads). Ask yourself if it's worth your time.”
    • “Once I opened it, I realized after jokingly playing that game that felt like the stereotypical interactive mobile ads, that I was playing the game itself, completely different from what I used to love playing.”

  • gameplay

    105 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay initially offered a unique, challenging, and addictive WWI trench assault experience with simple pixel art and offline play, but recent updates shifted it to an online, card-based, multiplayer format with pay-to-win mechanics, repetitive matches, and balance issues. Many long-time players express disappointment over the loss of original mechanics and charm, citing unfair gameplay, slow progression, and excessive monetization, while some appreciate the improved graphics and strategic elements despite these drawbacks. Overall, the overhaul divided the community, favoring new features but alienating fans of the classic gameplay.

    • “Besides that, the gameplay is amazing and straightforward yet addictive.”
    • “Very intuitive yet impossible to master gameplay, keeps you playing for hours.”
    • “Engaging gameplay and an upgrade system to help your troops and machines to kill their to victory!”
    • “The gameplay has been changed drastically to unoriginal, boring, and redundant.”
    • “The new update has trashed this game and forced it into a box; while it expands gameplay in a certain way, it also kneecapped a lot of players.”
    • “The card-based gameplay and 3D graphics along with a huge change of formula completely ruined it.”

  • graphics

    101 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's graphics have undergone a drastic transformation, moving from charming, simplistic 8-bit pixel art with a WWI trench warfare theme to more detailed, modern 3D visuals that many find generic and less appealing. While some praise the improved graphical quality and effort, most long-time players lament the loss of the original retro aesthetic and feel it undermines the game's unique charm, making it resemble typical pay-to-win mobile war games. Overall, the update's graphics are better technically but have sparked significant dissatisfaction due to departing from the original style.

    • “The 3 row battlefield style of game is not original but this is a well done version with detailed graphics and real world vehicles.”
    • “Game is awesome with excellent graphics and good sound.”
    • “A jump forward in graphics, gameplay and strategy!”
    • “The pixelated art style was completely replaced by this poor excuse of an 'update'.”
    • “The charming 8/16 bit graphics have been done away with entirely, the single lane WW1 trench warfare has been entirely done away with and frankly there's no reason for me to play this game now.”
    • “Well... basically, before this 'update' this game was innovative, had ambition, potential, but now it's just a clone rip off of all the pay to win, card games amalgamated into one mess wrapped in 'graphics' that look like they tried to be a PS4 game but ended up in a PS2.”

  • story

    15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story initially engages with medium-paced battles and a clear progression through missions and campaigns, but recent updates have disrupted this flow by locking content behind additional campaign levels and introducing unbalanced enemy challenges. Players find the evolving storyline and mission structure increasingly frustrating due to difficulty spikes and forced replaying, detracting from the game's original appeal. Additionally, intrusive ads and lack of new narrative content diminish overall enjoyment.

    • “Simple medium paced battles to pass the time, quests, missions, recruiting, and promotions for your army!”
    • “The tutorial is just a dozen missions with each one showing you that you can add units.”
    • “I got to the sixth mission because it was fun, but too many ads...”
    • “I was enjoying this game when on day 4 half the content, i.e. some of the mission types that I had been running, was removed from me unless I clear an additional 3 campaign levels.”
    • “In fact, it's a whole new game altogether and I exited after the first tutorial mission.”
    • “What kind of update changes the whole gameplay and story?”

  • grinding

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The grinding experience is widely criticized for being frustrating and unrewarding, with high loss rates and frequent server errors causing progress loss. Additionally, the game has shifted towards aggressive ad interruptions and monetization, diminishing the enjoyment compared to its original, more player-friendly form.

    • “Grinding to get level ups doesn't work as your loss rate is astronomical.”
    • “It feels grindy right off the bat because of that.”
    • “Now it's just made for grinding money out of the consumer and is nothing like its original form which was actually entertaining.”

  • stability

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game has notable stability issues, with frequent bugs affecting gameplay such as AI glitches and troop placement errors. While some users report it runs smoothly, most experience frustrating glitches that impact the overall experience.

    • “Game is totally buggy.”
    • “Good concept, but extremely buggy.”
    • “This is a good game but buggy; when placing troops, sometimes they don't go where you want, and opposing team troops pop into other lanes, causing frequent losses.”

  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users have mixed feelings about the music: some appreciate its simplicity and enjoy the sounds, while others feel the new epic music in recent updates detracts from the game's original charm and distinctive style.

    • “Otherwise, I like it for its simplicity and music.”
    • “I like the sounds and the music in this game.”
    • “I liked the original version a whole lot better. The simple little squared graphics I thought were cool and gave the game a distinctive look, and now this update with the more realistic look and epic music took all that charm away from the game; now it feels to me like just another war game.”

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The optimization strikes a good balance, delivering decent graphics without compromising performance.

    • “Pretty decent graphics while preserving performance.”

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users find the humor in the game to be genuinely hilarious and very entertaining.

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's atmosphere is generally relaxed, creating a laid-back experience, though some users find certain elements or usability within it to be somewhat problematic.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Trench Assault is a strategy game.

Trench Assault is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

On average players spend around 2 hours playing Trench Assault.

Trench Assault was developed by Idearift Games.

Trench Assault has received negative reviews from players. Most players liked Trench Assault for its gameplay but disliked it for its monetization.

Trench Assault is a multiplayer game.

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