This is one of my longest running games I’ve played and am still largely active on. I would rate this a 5-star even with the seemingly low summon rates because they do have convenient events for getting good mons but I still put it as a 4 star because of the longest running problem that affects the game in the worst way. That problem is the violent runes. If you play it you will quickly come to realize they are your best friend and your pest enemy all at once. The rate at which they will screw you over will astound you. Imagine a fight starts and you are by far outclassing the other team. Two of your monsters go first and you have killed one monster easily and almost killed another. There’s only a total of three in this fight so you’re almost at a win. Now on their first turn they get three attacks in a row and suddenly you have one monster left and all because of a random chance that is supposed to be pretty rare but seems to happen quite often. Violent runes are one of the most frustrating things in this game because they really should have a cap of one activation during a turn cycle but instead they have multiple chances and having a skill based combat system that is thrown into chaos by random chance is not a good way to compare skill level of players accurately. Please god cap this and I’ll change my review to a 5 in a heartbeat but until then I will never rate this above a 4 and I even hesitantly considered giving it a 3 over this.

I’ve been playing this game for a long time, and normally I don’t have any complaints, I do like how rare mons are not handed out easily, but there is a point in which it gets rediculous, since this newest update, I have used around 10 legendary scrolls, over 1,000 stones, and 300 mystical scrolls and have gotten nothing but junk all useless mons that are duplicates at that, and I can tell you that if you spend money on the game, it does nothing to help you so don’t spend money, pay to play is a false statement, bought the $50 event pack and got nothing but junk so I wasted my money, I would like to know how I see certain summoners who seem to be able to summon nat 5 at a good rate, but others like me and my friends never seem to get them even when the chances of summoning a new Mon is “increased”. I have probably dropped over $1,000 into this game with very little return if any, that does not encourage loyalty or optimism, please make this better com2us I am on the verge of quitting the game because I have not hardly progressed in the last year, especially when I see other players with a bunch of amazing legendary Runes that seem impossible to achieve, I am one of many who feel this way, so please balance the game so those of us who seem to have no luck can one day compete with those who do. Now that I have that out of the way, I love the content, the many different quests and missions and achievements is awesome, the graphics are top notch. Only game I have played for this long. Great job.

Before anything else, if you’ve not played in a long time (say, from around or before the Assassin’s creed event), then the Quality of Life changes are insane since then. Auto 30 runs, runes no longer fail upgrading, evolving monsters doesn’t reset them to level 1, your stat towers are no longer something you have to grind—instead being tied to your level. It’s ridiculous how much more user friendly the game is, and with such a great core gameplay loop, being more user friendly is enormous. Summoners War is probably the best gacha game on mobile, and quite frankly, now that these QoL improvements are in place (and more keep coming—the day I’m writing this review, they’ve updated the game to let you save a rune set from one monster and load it on another!) it’s not really all that close. This is the one game I always end up coming back too, and I think they know it, since each time I do so, I’m inundated with rewards to help me plunge straight back into the game with no time wasted.Only complaint is that Natural 5* rates are still hilariously bad, but these days they have enough events to slightly offset this. L/D rates are not even worth mentioning. With how infrequent L/D summons are, it feels even worse on that end, though it seems the intent is to keep L/D 5* monsters very rare.9/10. Addicting, but in a good way. Get your friends addicted too and it’s even more fun.

Been playing sw for over 800+ days I love the game. This game suits my daily life and adds so many challenges and goals to accomplish. I’m so grateful for Com2us replying to my request I never thought they would say Yes to for making a major mistake in my rune (LOL). Congrats to the Com2us for the recent 100+ Mil downloads it’s been a great journey and I’m proud to have been apart of it. I will say that even though I love this game so much it has been hard to deal with sometimes. I wanna love the game more than I do currently. For instance I see people who have been playing less as a free2play and have like 10-20 more summoned nat 5’s than I have. As someone who has played sw for so long it’s harder to say I still love the game so much than others because I don’t have the luxury of having content that others have with so many 5 star summoned units. Progression is hard but the end result always wants me to keep playing. It’s hard to see the rates when I play consisting of endless rune grinding and slow content of no new units for me to try. Still the game is great to me and will forever be. I just wish I can reach the point of endgame even from 800+ days of playing cause that’s what motivates me and keeps me playing and grinding. Still despite this Com2us you have done an amazing job and I wish the best for the route you guys take down in SW and the rest of your games. This is Ch0wt and I am glad to be apart of the Summoners War community. Btw (great animation for 100 mil) 👌🏼