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Real Time Shields – Action Game Review
Real Time Shields is a Action/Strategy game from Lion Studios LLC, first launched in 13th January 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 20,271+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Real Time Shields Stand Out
Invaders have one goal in mind; to take your castle down. You must draw and scribble down your formations in order to protect your base! Your troops will follow your command. You must react quickly in real time so they do not reach the tower. The horde will keep coming from different angles. Defend wave after wave until you reach ultimate glory. Can you draw fast enough?
Let your fingers guide you In this unique real time strategy io battle simulation. Draw circles, hearts, curves – whatever it takes to keep your base from harm's way. Enemies will not be deterred. You can stop them once, but a new wave will come. Power up with upgrades to keep the battle in your favor. Can you hold the power of Xerxes?
New units will come to your aid. Progress as far as you can with upgrades, power ups, unique equipment and by skill. Only the fast drawers can withstand the enemy forces. Use shields, javelins, spears and more to take down the opponents. Watch them shatter into pixie dust as they go down.
Survival is the name of the game. How far can you get?
Game Features:
1.Simple but addicting mechanics
Control is at your fingertips. Draw your formations and your troops will follow
2.Amazing physics
Clean movement and sharp control. Feel the amazement has enemies explode into dust.
3.Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade
Advance your army battle by battle. Equip new items and gain awesome new powers. There is no limit to how much your power can grow!
4.Real Time Action
You have to be quick on your feet, or hands! No time to rest – the troops will keep on coming!
5.New content
New maps, new units, new upgrades. Many new additions continuously get added
6.Epic Boss Fights
Take on daunting bosses that will test your merits. Only true warriors can survive!
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Real Time Shields is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th August 2021
Recent improvements include:
Bug Fixes & Minor Improvements
Download & Availability
Real Time Shields is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Real Time Shields 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:
How do we change the look of the shields.
Scatter Slots ad is blown out so we cant escape it without having closing the game to reopen it to that ad again on the XSmax.
Interesting concept but the ads are completely absurd an X doesnt even pop up to close the ad most of the time.
The game is okay over all but a lot of in games purchases and when we first saw it we though we guess. When we began to download it, it took awhile and it wasnt interesting it fun.
We enjoy this game as a quick time waster when youre looking for a distraction. Our two complaints are the overly linear aspect of progression, as well as there being one ad that consistently comes up thats impossible to exit out of. It forces us to force quit the app, restart, then watch a different ad in order to get the report. Super frustrating.
We rated 2 star because of certain in game purchases up to $100! Game is ok but that has to be a joke.
Im on iPhone 8+, and this game doesnt open it is broken. No load screen, nothing.
We got a pay for freaking boxes and there 6.99 and up.
This game has an amazing concept, but once you get to a certain point its impossible to win more than a single round, making the whole thing unpleasant and frustrating.
Some scatter slots ad pops up and never allows us to close it out then when we go back to the game all our data is erased and we have to do the tutorial again. Very very irritating.
Even when you tell the stupid game no ads, it still posts an ad. They make lots of money from the pay to win crowd, yet force ads down our throats. Hate greedy corporations. Uninstalled and forgotten.
Not a huge fan of endless mode. Game was really fun up until this. Ranged units are annoying, rounds are short and upgrades are meh. None of that was a problem before. Also kept crashing the whole way through on iPhone X. Kept playing through that because thats how much we were enjoying it but now its not worth it.
Have read some reviews, and decided the game seemed like a great choice. We get it, then for the next 12 times that we try to open the app, it crashes immediately. Ill be sure to change the review to something that fits the game, once we can actually play it.
Forced to watch ads that dont exit, deleting this game.
When you click the pause button during a round and turn the sound off, it goes off. But then not even 30 seconds later the sound comes back on. Quite annoying when Im trying to listen to music while playing.
We never write reviews Why is this game allowed on the store? For 5 secs of play time, there is 30 sec ad. Decent game otherwise with potential. Please remove from the store if they dont remove ads Reply to your reply Those are some crazy words which have a goal to mislead. The game again is 5 seconds of play, followed by 30 sec ad. That is exactly what is happening, that is far from fluent and completely not playable.
We dont know if the devs have controls over this, but whenever an add plays there is no visible close buttons? Very scummy tactics. Not sure whos issue this is, apples, the devs or maybe just the people who put out the add but anyway its VERY ANOYING.
In a ad of this game it showed this game defeating enemy armys we saw that you add soldiers to your army when you defeat enemy ones but in reality you dont do that and we always lose because you need more soldiers to defeat emery armys. Please add that if you can Thank you.
Beat whole game in one sitting. Four levels? Thats it.
Ads control everything. We cant click out of an ad. You cant do anything or get any bonuses for watching ads cause you have to swipe out of the app and close it cause the ad doesnt go away after watching it. F*** this game.
Got the game and purchased the add free version and it still plays ads constantly. Wouldnt recommend.
As far as we know the game is decent but is completely ruined by them shoving ads and the option to watch a video for a few more coins. We couldnt play more than 30 seconds without pop ups ruining the game. This isnt worth your time save yourself the hassle.
This Game Has Become very good we played since day 1 it is amazing.
This is a solid game start, very entertaining and simple enough to be fun for anyone. The only drawbacks (currently) are that theres only about 15 minutes of content before replaying the same levels. If there was an endless wave mode where the more waves you lasted against the higher the reward, it would tide everyone over until the next location is released. That being said, it seems like the developers are very involved and we expect theyre already working on more levels.
Pls add sand box mode pls pls pls pls.
We love this game so much we think of some of it as like a defense/army game and we love both of those things! So we really appreciate this game and the devs creators and everyone who put this game together you are truly amazing and again we love this game with ads that are ok because sometimes we download a game and it gives our the same add over and over again but in this case this game is truly amazing and we think its awesome and you should try it too! But thats the end of the review so thanks for reading and try this game out also we dont normally post review this long but its because this game is awesome so yeah bye, and have a great life.
We loved this game the developer should consider putting multiplayer in it.
Was really fun played it on a road trip. We thought the troop movement was cool we didnt experience any lag really cool game.
Know your busy workin away on it but it you could ad an option to change the color of our units(in particularly to green) it would be the best game Ive ever played on a tablet. Aw who am we kidding, it already is the best.
Would like a settings option to turn off the game music/sound.
As far as the minimalist arcade games go on the app store, this one is pretty good. We respect that the developers respond to so many reviews, too. A couple flaws: – It is VERY difficult to beat the first chapter without watching ads to get upgrades; you dont need to spend any money, but there is a difficulty spike to get you to click on ad videos. After that it was pretty easy. – Lack of content. Theres only 3 chapters and they can be beat in about 20 minutes. Otherwise we really liked this game and would keep playing if there was more to do. Theres a fun variety of enemies and allies and your shield formations actually matter (tip: maximize surface area and engulf the enemy). Theres clearly some effort put into it – unlike most Voodoo apps, among others. Thanks devs, please add more.
This game is so fun and unique to us. We love organizing troops and adding buffs to them after each level. The new update makes it much better, BUT it also makes the game somewhat boring because it forces so many ads of the player. Extra buffs require 30 second ads, finishing a level will sometimes throw an ad at you, to upgrade your troops at the home menu requires you to watch ads (normally you upgrade with gems but now our menu is saying that ever upgrade for them requires us to watch a 30 second ad). Sadly this a great game lost in greed due to the constant ads. Developers if you see this, please please reduce the amount of ads in your game. The game has become unbearable to play due to them.
Amazing concept and execution of a game. We enjoyed playing it and its really fun. Unfortunately there is way too many ads. Changing them to only appear after every battle would help out the player feel more immersed into the game, since the frequency of ads really takes away the experience of the game. Otherwise it is a really good game and best of luck for the future.
Game is fun at first but quickly grown out of. Only 3 levels available so quickly played out.
We give this 2 stars ONLY because it is genuinely a fun game. However, we will be deleting it as it quite literally forces you to watch ads if you wish to progress in the game. So our 2 cents- play something else that isnt an absolute cash grab.
We understand the devs need to make money, really we do. But even if we could go two levels without an ad we would love this game. But every single level…ad ad ad.
We didnt even played it and it shows us to rate get this rate then.
Game play has change a little (it is fun) – but faster for sure as well as the music. Not sure we would waste our money on this game….love Gladiator stuff.
Every 20 seconds you have an ad and unlike other games you cant exit for 30 seconds.
May as well be a virus, this game is all ADs. Spam of ADs.
Ok first things first of you added a pvp that would be amazing. You should add a infinite mode were the rounds dont end that would be fun. Please fix the tanks they alwas die in late game. Also the dune boss is way to hard whenever we spawn in he just goes strait after our base and we die. But keep up the good work devs.
Can you guys add a thing where you could place any troops you want Edit: we finished the game in one day lol it was pretty fun because of the cool formations.
Could we get enhanced clarity in game? Like stats for units and abilities, just how much stronger our units are getting with specific stat buffs, stuff like that. Nothing better than feeling like youre making informed yet variable decisions in a strategy game. So glad you guys are listening to reviews, honestly means so much. Cheers.
Really enjoy the game but there are a lot of ad walls you have to watch ads just to continue upgrading units and base. We really hope to see this game keep growing its going in the right direction but we should only have to watch an ad for extra gems or after we play a match! Just to get rid of all ads you have to pay 10 dollars! But on the other hand you can get duplicate gear (chest plates, etc.) we would like to see something where you could dismantle or combine them to upgrade the ones you want! We play this game a long time ago and there wasnt much but now there is a lot more potential to be sought out.
You have it to where you can buy two types of ad removals. First off let us say this is unorthodox. Usually ad removal comes as a single package but what makes this a rip off is that the ad rewards arent free. We pay TWICE to remove ads and we still have to watch ads to get the ad rewards. As Ive said, other games have this all in one package for far far cheaper than what you charge.
One of those games that forces you to wait if you dont want to watch their ads. Dont bother.
Ads every time you do anything. Would have gone along with it, but they made us watch an ad for a bonus. We didn't have enough coins to buy the bonus so we played a round. Came back and the bonus was gone – that's another ad.
This game has a TON of potential! The graphics are not extensive but PERFECT for this kind of game. We hope that you all continue to update this game and add many more features to it as its already addicting, just doesnt have a whole lot at this time. Great work to everyone involved in the making of this game and keep it up.
Ive had this game for awhile and Im still waiting on an update we love this game very much but its taking up space in our phone and Id hate to delete it. Can we get a date or maybe even a month or a hint to when the next update is coming out ? Im tired of waiting haha Im looking forward to what you guys have in store.
Its a great game that we hope to see continued. There is some lag when new enemies spawn, especially on the later tiers, and it can get frustrating sometimes when you try move your units to react and the line gets messed up. Then again our 4-5 year old IPad probably doesnt help either. So we guess our two only real problem that havent been said before are that 1. The arrow showing where the enemies are coming from can be a bit buggy? We guess: e.g. One moment the arrow is showing one direction and the next its 5-10 degrees offset of where it was. Not game breaking just sorta annoying. Maybe have a mini map somewhere that shows a bit of the surrounding area with where the enemies on it or something. Up to you guys. And 2. There is no way to move the camera and if there is we couldnt figure it out. Its just that its annoying because if you deploy too far to one side then have to move to the other side you cant actually see the other side very well. Maybe add a zoom feature or something like that to fix this as making a way to move camera with like a joystick might interfere with deploying troops. Either way great game and we hope to see more from you guys.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.14.5
- Size: 222.72 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Lion Studios LLC
Last updated: 12th August 2021 | Genre: Action, Strategy | Developer: Lion Studios LLC