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Thunderdogs – Action Game Review
Thunderdogs is a Action/Casual game from Lucky Kat Studios, first launched in 15th August 2018.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 5,013+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Thunderdogs Stand Out
Thunderdogs is a competitive online battle game where you amass bones to climb the leaderboards. Use a variety of awesome weapons to smash other players and steal their bones!
Be careful – the bigger your haul, the bigger a target you’ll become! Survive by dashing and out-maneuvering a hail of bullets to fight back.
Start each session as the underdog, climb the charts to become the top dog!
FEATURES:
- Intense real-time multiplayer battles
- Use a variety of power-ups and weapons
- Unlock more than 30 aircrafts and dogs
- Different arenas
- Offline mode available
- 80s inspired music by Maxo
Thunderdogs is an .io styled multiplayer game and requires internet connection to play online.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS
VIP MEMBERSHIP offers a weekly subscription, you will have a 3-days FREE trial period, after this period you will be charged $6.99. After buying this subscription you will unlock all VIP Aircraft, get 20 gems every day, get 100 coins every day, and removes forced ads. This is an Auto-renewable subscription. The payment is charged to your account after confirmation. The subscription is renewed unless you turn it off 24 hours before the period ends. Your account will be charged for renewal as well.
End of trial and subscription renewal:
• This price is for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence.
• Payment will also be charged to iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
• Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
• The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period and identify the cost of the renewal.
• Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase.
Any unused portion of the free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
Canceling trial or subscription:
You can turn off the auto-renew for the subscription whenever you want to through iTunes account. Check https://support.apple.com/HT202039. When your current trial/subscription period expires, you will be unsubscribed. The current active subscription period cannot be canceled. After your subscription expires, you will no longer be able to use elements offered in your chosen Subscription Option.
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Thunderdogs is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd October 2018
Recent improvements include:
- Korean localization fixes
Download & Availability
Thunderdogs is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
We just love these games lucky cat makes they got good characters good gameplay and overall a great game thunder dogs is a fun quick action packed game that has different weapons and characters with planes this game is great if you think of downloading it do it.
THIS GAME IS MY FAVORITE it is actually amazing we do not have anything else to say because it was a very fun experience. Anyone who reads this needs to take a break from all their best games and get thunder dogs NOW.
We were playing this on Poki, but trust us its better here. 10/10 would get, highly recommended! The reviews arent wrong.
Fun game, we play it every where. Needs no WiFi. Perfect game.
Please add more stuff to the game thats all im asking.
We love this game so much, no problems at all with it for us, but why does the VIP membership cost 6.99 per WEEK??? You have to be crazy to buy that. Otherwise this game is so good give it a chance and youll love it.
We love this game! Its very simple and well made. Theres a few bugs in it though. 1. After about 3 ads, the game glitches and we cant hear the music. 2. After we play a game sometimes it doesnt give us the coins. But overall this is a good game. Also in your Grumpy Cats Worst Game Ever, it wont let us play it.
This game is seriously amazing! The art style is awesome and the gameplay is great too.
We absolutely adore this game, but we have this one small issue. Certain ads freeze the game and you have to restart the app in order to escape them. Its specifically a magic:the gathering arena ad thats been doing it to us. If you could fix it, thatd be great thx.
This game is so much fun! We havent been able to stop playing this! The games are fun and we dont have to deal with bugs or glitches, getting new planes is fairly easy, and doing well in games and getting downs feels very rewarding. We highly recommend this game.
Originally we went into this not expecting too much, but this is probably the most fun Ive ever had with a mobile game. We honestly think if they built just a bit more on what they have here it would even be a great fit on console. The controls are super polished and feel great, the combat is fast-paced and chaotic, and the artstyle has a ton of charm- we especially love the portraits of each dog and how they pop up on the screen whenever you get a kill. All the weapons apart from the missile feel great (the missile is just a bit useless since its so easy to avoid) and the shotgun, minigun,and laser are especially satisfying. Its got some microtransactions and gacha elements but theyre not a big deal at all, mostly just cosmetic stuff, plus its a free game so we get why theyre there. The one thing we really wish they would add is a stats screen where you can see your total kills and deaths- other than that this game is incredible. Ive downloaded and deleted so many mobile games because we just get bored of them so fast but this has stayed on our phone for about 3 years now and we always end up coming back to it.
Best game we ever played.Could you possibly add tournaments to win small amounts of money.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
We played this when it first came out and we loved it! Its a shame that there are currently only 5 players now.
We love it because it is a best game! Play it for free.
Its characters are well designed and its music is even better, the controls are easy to use, and the diversity in the characters makes sure that you will constantly have to change strategy to master them all. Our only problem is the game is riddled with ads, however this is removed by any in app purchases. So, overall we think this is a incredible game that you should definitely play.
Dear Lucky Kat, MAKE MORE GAMES LIKE THIS INSTEAD OF THE CRAP YOU PUT OUT NOWADAYS.
We enjoy this game play it all the time easy enough but very fun you can play it forever get it nowAnd we better get sponsored.
We miss this. The games with effort.
Another great game produced by lucky cat studios.
Only game we play on our phone really.
Its a good game but it doesnt let you have any friends and we dont think they are going to fix it… So its okay but we would not recommend.
THIS GAME ROCKS!!!!! You should play its AMAZING and so fun.we love how you get free coins to buy aircrafts! We first found out about it on the computer and we wondered if we could get it on iPads YOU CAN and its so awesome we love the dog Zephyr and his aircraft Golden wings its so fun playing with our friends when we FaceTime them and sometimes we see them!!! One thing we think they should add is being able to have friends and invite them to a world! But we still love the game so much.
This game is so good we play every day it is so cool we also like how the dogs use what there owners would use to teach them tricks.
We cant stop playing we play on the toilet in the shower we havent slept in a week because of this game.
This game is absolutely mesmerizing and lovable to bits, this has seriously sparked an idea for possibly a game Im the future. Ours was possibly based around the theme of tanks perhaps to explore somewhere else? Or even battleships as the graphics and character designs sell it for us. Even so if you branch off to tanks or ships you have a wide array of animals to choose from, then draw into this cartooned style like this game! We absolutely adore it and want to throw that out for you guys.
This game is perfect for those who want a real multi player challenge you get blown to pieces if your on the bottom and your being chased if your on top an action filled game of excitement.
Fun game with great audio and nostalgic feeling.
This game is very addicting, we cant put it down!! Its quick, easy, and fun, simple controls and well put together. It is NOT pay to win, you will get plenty of planes just from playing. The artwork and music are very nice, we would highly recommend this game. We usually do not write reviews but we enjoy this so much we felt it was necessary.
We literally like this game. But you should add Star Wars maps.
This game is so good so fun they should make another game like this.
Super awesome and fun game! Love the music, graphics, and the them of dogs as fighter pilots is brilliant.
This game is really fun. The gameplay is creative and engaging. But we realized you can still play even if you have no internet/data. All of the players have the most generic nicknames ever. Am we really playing an online game.
This game has the best soundtrack of any game on iOS.
Y did really gud jub on this game really cool game but pls put voice lines on the doggos deaths and kills but the awesome doggo game bark bark doggos are cool.
We love the style of the game, very fun to play. Doggies are cute too. :3.
This is an amazing game we love it and our dog loves it too, it has great gameplay, relatively short rounds, and the doggos are so cute.
We love this game its so good it isnt very hard progressing at all and everything is done so well. The music is good and the art style is amazing. This reminds us a lot of Ace Combat and its just great. We love this game.
This game has an adorable art style,fun gameplay,and it's super fun. Lucky Kat could make a lot if they put this on the Nintendo Switch. It's perfect for it.
Nothing bad to say about the game the art style and soundtrack is great and the gameplay feels unique and fresh every time you go into a game.
This game reminds us of being horrible at call of duty ……. Nuff said but we will say This game has helped us with our anger problems we only snap maybe once a month tho.
This is a fun game! Its a playful, competitive twist on .io with lots of colorful characters and arenas. This game has potential and could benefit with more ways to play (squad battles, raiding parties, on and offline campaigns etc.). A training duel with a skilled cpu would also be entertaining and helpful. We appreciate that ads can be skipped after a few seconds and that a free vip trial is offered. We think the vip subscription would be successful with more content in the game and adjusted subscription prices. Great job.
Us and our freind found this and right from the start we knew it was going to be a good fun game and we hope it will get more attention and we think a large amount of people will like this game too.
Fun to play great way to waste time.
Okay- this is a great looking game! It was kinda hard at first but then we got the hang of things. We recommend it to people who may like star fox (as it said- although star fox has not looked as good as this game until the newest generation, which we dont think is even a main star fox game lol) great game.
Ive been playing this game for a little while, and its really fun! We really like its controls and the design! Its just the VIP membership, and theres two things we dont like about it. 1: its really expensive to have it for a while, and two, why cant we just buy the VIP planes and keep them forever. Its a really great game, but that VIP thing dulls it down.
Simple, yet complex controls. Easy to use and understand UI. Fun and engaging gameplay where your skill will entirely determine how the game goes. The music feels like its coming straight out of Starfox. Fighting is intense, but calculating every move will make or break you. Usually, all the dogfighting games Ive played are determined by who can hit who first. In this game, its who can outmaneuver the other, and surprise them when least expected. We love this gameplay and we wish for much more content in the future! (Also go check out the Subreddit we made for this game on Reddit! R/Thunderdogs!).
Its a great game when we first played it we kept playing the game its really fun a crazy we be taken them down all the so mfs gotta work as a team to beat lol but they still fall lol but when you guys making another update we feel it needs one like make it look real.
We absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE THUNDERDOGS! The fan art section is pretty neat to see what others make. A really cool addition to the game could be an interesting backstory to some of the pilots (ie Douglas or Calico) maybe even faction wars of sorts.
This game is probably the best mobile game out there. Ads are at a minimum, and isnt P2W. Its super fun and action packed, and it couldnt be better, Id love to see new game modes though.
Its really fun to play! It would be really awesome if you could play with friends… Like… On real time and not just only online. We have a lot of friends whod really like that and some arent really interested that much cause you cant play with friends.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.9
- Size: 122.39 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Lucky Kat Studios]()
Last updated: 23rd October 2018 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Lucky Kat Studios