Very greedy – Skyforce Unite! Review

Almost always, I have to sit through a 5 second ad when I open the app. There’s also always a banner ad at the bottom of the screen. There’s no way to disable these - I have the $12 pass, but they’d be there even if you buy the $23 one. To progress in the game, you have to gamble. It gets so difficult that you will run out of resources recovering from your failures that you can’t grow. You have to gamble on planes and parts, but also sometimes on the action cards you get. There is so much waiting. Research starts reasonable (a few hours) but then becomes days as you grow. Attaching parts and upgrading items also takes hours. The game is also difficult, but you can’t really learn from it. Planes are more or less effective against sky or ground enemies, but enemies also have resistance to some weapon types and some elements. You don’t know going in and you would have to wait hours and use items to adjust your elemental damage anyway. If a plane is shot down, you have to spend both free currencies to retrieve and repair it, and it permanently has less health unless you use a rare item. Some of my planes became basically useless after a rough level, and they’re setting you up to fail. The devs set you up to fail so you spend more money on the game. And it’s not even worth it. When you win, the game isn’t fun. You probably won’t measure up to the next challenge, or it won’t be available until you run a mission five times. And TapJoy, who they’ve paired with for free premium currency offers, is a borderline scam. I reached out to their support for an offer a little over two weeks ago and haven’t heard back. That will probably be the nail in the coffin, because the only way I saw myself being able to beat the game was gamble on good planes and parts, but I can’t bring myself to spend real money. This dev used to make good games but greed got to them.
Review by Youthless on Skyforce Unite!.

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