Every Challenge is a Scam for Money – Castle Story™ Review

Castle Story entices players by having new "challenges" regularly (sometimes weekly): "Successfully fulfill these 10 stages and win THIS!!" But the individual stages are impossible to get through without eventually spending money. They get progressively harder, as they should, but so hard they're impossible to beat. Progressive stages ask you to collect certain items by performing tasks around your village. Fine. Except, when you perform those tasks...you aren't awarded the promised items! Example: I currently need to collect fur from a particular creature. To find that creature, a "shattered tuftkin," I have to fish in ponds. I have 8 ponds in my village. Over the last 2 days, I've "fished" in them 7 times. That's a total of 56 chances to find the creature. How many shattered tuftkins do you think I've found? NONE! Not. A. Single. One. Instead, the game gave me FORTY-EIGHT boars. (Note: It's extremely out of the ordinary to get so many creatures when fishing from ponds. But that's exactly what happened. Instead of giving me even one of the creatures I needed, it gave me TONS of a creature I didn't, in almost EVERY pond I fished in.) The only way I'll be able to collect the items I need to fulfill this challenge is by spending money...which is where the scam comes in. But I'm done. Every single challenge is exactly the same. "Do this task to get this item...but maaaaaybe get that item every 10 or 12 or 15th time you do the task." It's a little hard to collect dozens of items when the tasks rarely ever award them. I've tried dozens of challenges, with the same result every time. Total scam. I'm done, and this app is gone from my iPad in 3...2...
Review by Editrix17 on Castle Story™.