Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Rise of Castles: Fire and War – Roleplaying Game Review
Rise of Castles: Fire and War is a Roleplaying/Entertainment/Strategy game from LONG TECH NETWORK LIMITED, first launched in 20th October 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 19,334+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rise of Castles: Fire and War Stand Out
One World, One Server
-Real-Time Nation vs. Nation medieval strategy war game. Join now! Your Country needs you!
[Rise of Castles], also known as ROCs, is a Massive Multi-Player, Real-Time strategy war game. The player will take on the role of a leader of a small town devastated by the invasion of the Eastern Dynasty. Build your castle once again from the ruins, train your troops, recruit legendary heroes and join your allies in the non-ending war. To befriend or to plunder, the choice is yours!
Unique Features
-World Wide War
Real-time combat against players across the world, lead your country to greatness
-Realistic Graphics
The Map, The World, Your City, The Units, The Heroes, Everything just seems, REAL
-Build Your Castle
Absolute Freedom in City Building, upgrade your facilities, research your technologies, train your troops and recruit powerful heroes to strengthen your castle!
-Hero System
Whether you like to engage your enemies at a distance, take them on at close quarters, or you enjoy developing your base at home, there are TONS of heroes that can help you with just that!
-Strategic Gameplay
One set of units just simply cannot dominate, Fighters, Shooters and Vehicles, You have to know your enemy and yourself to walk the battlefield of this world.
-Alliance Warfare
Whether it’s going against different servers or fighting for the title of the president at home, your alliance will always be backing you up, as long as you find the right people of course.
[Real Reviews]
“The game is really just a platform to meet people from all over the world.”
“Ever joined a group of Turks and waged war against entire Europe? I’m American!”
“Joined a Spanish alliance, learned how to speak Spanish, got raided by Germans, and Canadians came and helped us, 9/10 would play again.”
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This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rise of Castles: Fire and War is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Version 25.1204.1 Out Now
Optimizations
Optimized performance
Bug fixes
Some bug fixes
Download & Availability
Rise of Castles: Fire and War is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Rise of Castles: Fire and War on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Game is very slow unless you spent a lot of money to get supplies.
We are not a spender and love playing this game. Granted it takes longer to accomplish your goals but we stil get a lot of satisfaction when we reach an objective. We have been playing for about 3 years and have multiple castles and have reached level c31. This game is what you make of it. If you cry and whine about what others are doing, this game is probably not for you.
Like most of these games, the ads are much more exciting than the game. It really is not remarkable, and of course, they constantly offer you ways to spend between $2 and $100 on additions. We play it. It passes some time. But mostly we wait for the resources to build up so we can do the next thing.
Soy un jugador viejo comenc en el estado 129 y fui migrando y creciendo fui uno de los ms fuertes de 119-125-37 Agon y invert ms de 200k dlares en mi castillo y no pudieron ayudarme a recuperarlo de una estafa una trampa.
There is nothing in this game that can be won without paying. Literally nothing. Top players spend over $2,000/month on this game. Paid heroes dominate free heroes in large numbers. You have been warned.
They update every week it seems but there's still bugs that never seem to be fixed. We haven't been able to get in game all day with a never ending loading screen and we know it's not our phone service! For the amount of money we spend on this game there shouldn't be these insane issues! FIX YOUR SERVER & Make a better way to submit complaints or talk to developers without needing to be in game to do so.
Really enjoying the graphics and gameplay! P2P is so far pretty good! 1 thing we really wish was that this game could be played in landscape mode.
This game is very fun to play at first but then get boring. It is a pay2win even if you are in the best alliances you will only be able to build roads after a while. You will be too weak for combat no matter how hard you try. We once had 300million kills but after about 1 year our armies were too weak to fight. We were able to capture tiles only if unguarded. Stay away unless you want to pay2win. In that case youll need to spend $300 plus weekly. Focus on purchasing hero cards because you will need to draw over and over as legendary heros rarely occur and more often than not you will recieve many duplicates before you get a hero combination that is effective.
Hice unos reclamos por unos consumos que no hice y lamentablemente sin fijarme reclam por unos gastos que si hice con ustedes pero ya los reconoc y an us siguen cobrando y dejndome sin mis gemas y sin mi dinero porque ya se los reembolse. Hasta cuando debo esperar para que us devuelvan mis gemas y mi cuenta de juego funcione bien.
You have absolutely zero chance without spending big bucks. If you dont spend, youre basically playing farmville. The game doesnt give any real powerful characters unless you buy them. Im sorry we started this.
Graphics are not even close to as pictured or described. Buildings cannot be rotated & castle cannot be moved from set position. Absolutely none of the gameplay is as in the descriptive photos.
Ive met people from all over the world playing this game who will probably be our friends for life.
They are more interested in making sure the play to pay parts function well.
The game relies on a lot of money being spent in it, its free to play but with new additions its getting too tiring and complicated! Also it takes a lot of money and time, so before you start playing do you want to get caught up in a game where the main event lasts 7 weeks and is 24/7 fighting? If you have a life and want to live it, think before you download. Its more fun making friends than most the stuff, but good luck and have fun.
We loose too much resources when attacked by other players. Level 50 heroes constantly win over lower level heroes and lower castle levels. Town shield can be three days not long enough a seven or five day town shield would make for better game play.Often as soon as the town shield goes down we are attacked by other more powerful players.
This game is very challenging on a long term,the longer you play the more you love it.
They really should test more before they release a new version.
You need to spend a few thousand a month to compete in this game. Been playing for 3 years and love it. Get on the right team and participate for enjoyment. The pictures on the screen shot isnt really what them game is. It is better and a fast pace war game.
We are really enjoying ourselves on here we love being in full control of the wellbeing of our people and its resources very good game.
When you first load into the game you see the amazing graphics and think that you wont have to spend a dime, well think again. We have wasted at least 500 bucks trying to buy more materials but once you get to the bigger levels like level 20 you suddenly start to buy more things but the higher your level the more you spend. We have bought at least 500,000 of each material trying to get more materials because you try to get more walls to reach the material farms but you need more materials so you end up spending way more then you expect.
The tutorial was WAY to long! It tells us what to do all the time and we cannot get a single inch of independence.
Our game looks nothing like the previews.
Pay no attention to the game preview images. The game doesn't look like that at all. It's a great game. If you don't mind spending thousands in real money's you can be slightly competitive. One of the best aura in the game is purchased and is roughly 3k us dollars. The store packs are extremely expensive. And thats an understatement. Learn to speed tile and tile as fast as possible once you're past season 0-1. Make sure you are on the newest server when you start. Its not easy catching up veteran accounts. In fact, you probably cannot.
Been playing for a couple weeks now and just amazed by the glitches. Want to tap on a tile, nope not gonna work today. Tomorrow is a new day with a new glitch.
As title says, you have to spend 1000s to win*. You can play for free but you wont be able to compete with anyone with spending. Game developers will make you face china states several seasons past you and gives them cheaper packs so they are always stronger. Its addictive but would recommend staying away unless your rich.
Everything is fun we enjoy playing.
We love this game please make more games like this we are so glad there is no ads thank you so much for making this game.
Im giving you a four star because we have played it and its fun. Our problem is at the advertising even in the App Store, the pictures on what you can do is a different game from how it actually is. If you could have a medieval version of the game, Township, that would be awesome. Im not a big fan of joining a group in a big open world type game but its still a fun game. Most games we find that look like your advertising look really fun but are never the stuff that is advertised and its very disappointing.
Its alright, it wasnt what we were looking for but it wasnt bad bad.
This game is fantastic in many ways. The graphics are superb. However, once you begin to play there are necessary resources that you must have, to advance. You can purchase them, just attach a credit card. Then, it takes thousands to play. In two years we have racked up over four thousand dollars (USD)! It becomes a freakish desire to better your castle. Then, it was suggested to have a farm castle you can harvest for more resources. Then it requires dollars to advance to have sufficient resources to harvest. More castles, more money! Then, you are a level 13 castle and somebody comes along with a level 29 castle, obviously no contest, and they burn you down when you are not online to defend yourself. Start rebuilding and do you have more money on that credit card? Again, great graphics, the heroes you recruit are phenomenal, the dragon incorporates some great graphics. Overall we like it but have decided no more purchases, and the game now has slowed to a crawl, and when your castle is destroyed while you are not online, well, struggle as best you can and soldier on. If it werent for the low lifes burning down all your stuff while you are not online, we would give this game 5 stars.
We picked up this game at the early days of the pandemic shut-down (early April 2020) and finally stopped playing April of 2024. It has been a great run with many fun and exciting battles. For our personality, it just started taking up too much time, and yes; we did spend money. Thats another thing; depending on what you want to do and how you want to play, you may end up spending a lot. It is possible to be very good with only around $20 USD a month, but impossible to be competitive if you dont spend any. To be anyone of consequence, you will need to spend big, like how in the world did you just spend what a nice car would have cost on a game? Kind of money, and more than once! Great game; but go in knowing your limits on money and time and stick to them.
We were playing it for a while but it just tells you what to do and you cant make your own decisions maybe we just didnt play long enough but idk.
Updating our initial review and giving it 4 stars. We were able to find a decent alliance that is not run by scammers and so far the game is fun. Im not paying a dime for it and have leveled our Castle to 16, which isnt bad for the time Ive been here. The terminology and event play is still confusing since Im new, but there are YouTubers out there that have instructional videos. WATCH out for the scams, find an alliance run by average gamers, and you will do fine. Original Review: 2/5 stars. This game looks fun at first, but its really just a money grab and rife with scammers. You get rushed into joining an alliance because you cant survive solo, and then the alliance leaders all follow the same script: Are you a bot? Where are you from? Do you have Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord? They try to push you off the game into outside chats, where the pressure starts to download other apps or spend money. Some try crypto scamming. They tried it with us. If you dont play along, youll get kicked and raided. Bottom line: the game is designed to make you spend and funnels you toward scammy groups. Not worth the time unless you like being pressured to pay or join shady side apps.
Game is using AI to deal with game tech issues and nothing gets resolved. They close threads before they are resolved. Essentially there is no customer support.
We love this game but the decorations are a little sketchy. You could improve on this. Can we make it an option to not decorate? The rest of this game is great.
Not a single pic above is this game. Game is a china game who charges you more than its chinese players so you will never win. You canNOT win at all in this game without spending thousands.
We love this game! Been playing it for a long time, since it was Rise of Empires and then they changed it to Rise of Castles. Our only issue is the preview doesnt match the game. Otherwise we LOVE THE GAME.
Played the game for almost 4 years before finally quitting. Its really fun and you build great game friendships, but if you dont have atleast 5 hours a day and $1k a month to devote to it, you will simply be a farm for large castles.
This is an addictive game. But beware its a money sink. You cannot succeed without spending a ton of money. The game is set up to make you gamble and spend money. If you dont spend money you dont stand a chance.
Just to give you a good idea 1000 dollars will give you nothing .Play only is you have money to put for nothing or is your loosing ego dont border you .This game dont have the right opportunity balance to obtain good heros and others important items . You have more chances to win in Las Vegas casino vs this game .if we like the game YES but developers is taking to much advantage , they are to greedy they dont think in the fun in your smile in the felling of made people happy the just think in this $$$$$$$$$ and we dont like that cause we are gamers we are a families from the developers to the players we feel the game inside of us ,they know how we think cause developer are players but they dont think about us only in them . Thanksss.
Very enjoyable game. Way too much dependent on spending money to play and participate in events. Without spending $1000 a week you are a farm for big spenders.
We have been addicted to this game for way over a year now, and there are not really heroes of color in it. It is kind of disappointing. Other than that, the ads are a little overwhelming at the beginningway too many. It takes out the fun.
Need clearer instructions on how game works.
We like everything of this game, but it took 15 days to load.
Been playing on and off for a few years. This game has evolved, but hasn't gone full monty-haul. Community is fun with plenty of cooperative and competitive events. A few too many mini-games within the main app for our taste and you will never beat the spenders.
Stop with the fake animation in the advertisement. We have been playing for five years and you still show a misrepresentation of the game to this day.
Some of the writing is in English some in Chinese.
It was pretty fun only takes like a day to be a high level.
The pictures and videos in the preview are not anything like what actual images are when playing the game highly disappointing.
If you are not willing to spend $1000/ month to be somehow competitive, dont waste your time. You are forced to spend on everything and as games continues, it gets worse. We still casually play to support our teammates with farm account but we are glad we quit. It was sad since we made a lot of friends but we are happy we did it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 25.1204.1
- Size: 1,441.23 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Loot Boxes
- Developer: LONG TECH NETWORK LIMITED
Last updated: 23rd December 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Entertainment | Developer: LONG TECH NETWORK LIMITED