Mercs of Boom App Reviews

Amazing engine (ok, its an xcom clone, but a high-quality one), leveraged to try to nickel-and-dime fans out of money. If you are a turn-based strategy fan who only plays in very short spurts once per day, its fun for a while. If they had a "full unlock" option that lets you fast-forward time like xcom, I would gladly pay a premium price... But as-is, the game is hard to recommend.

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This is hands down the best game I have played yet. Sure it has in app purchases but they are only there if you dont want to grind it out and hunt/kill monsters and mercenaries. This game is a free portable knock off of X-Com with just enough tweaks to make it, its own stand alone game. Same RTS top down view, we all love. Every female character is drawn well endowed ( keep that in mind for kiddos). I love this game, I have been playing it every waking minute since I downloaded it. The best part its free..

I feel as if this is an xcom knock off even so it is still fun I have run into some glitches like for example the upgrading sniper early and I have also seen some misspellings and i feel the story needs a lil bit more but overall its fun.

I would give it a better rating, but its another money hungry game. This turn based game is fun and definitely looks great, but once you get far enough, youre forced to pay or wait and monitor your in-game credit facilities to give you money (no one has the time to keep waiting for credits to build and continue playing). If developers could give a better option to gaining more credits through the game, that would be great. Otherwise, I would just recommend playing this game as far as you can and then uninstall it.

Its a great game, a x-com clone but it has huge shortcomings from rebooting your device to crashing and cant restore unless you delete the game and reinstall. So far i had to delete it twice and had my iphone reboot over 12 times when it did work...

This is an awesome role play strategy game.

Games that cant load past 17% or even fail to start on certain devices leave me no choice but to give them 1 star for failed effort

every time game is crushed,f... this game,waste time. I used iPhone 6s 64 gb. sorry for my English. One mission (false target) I try to finish two months! because you are guys can not fix the bug!!!! DO NOT RECOMMENDED XCOM IS NUMBER ONE.

Fun and exciting. Horribly addictive. Some glitches, but definitely worth it.

Even after todays update, it still hangs and lags far too often. Love the game, but Im done until these recent bugs get fixed. Its just too annoying.

Current update caused app to hang every time on load screen. The progress bar gets to 22% then disappears and the app remains hung on the loading screen.

Man I love this game. I got put on it by a Twitch streamer who is apparently really in touch with the company (Ive even streamed X-Mercs once or twice!), and I cant put it down. That is, until my phone is too hot to hold and I have to put it down. First, the cons; save the best for last. My phone heats up like CRAZY when playing this game. Its super resource intensive apparently. My battery disappears when playing. Maybe thats cause I lose track of time, or maybe its cause the game is brutal on my iPhone 6. Its 1.9 gigs. Thats insane. Plus when the new bug fixing update is 1 gig on its own, I dont have enough room to own this game. Facebook pairing doesnt work for me for some reason. Every time the button pops up, promising a 2500 credit reward, I hit it and Facebook says you have already authorized X-Mercs and my account doesnt link. My top mercs are at rank 9 and 8, and one skull difficulty contracts (as well as most of the story missions and most definitely playing PvP) are almost impossible as a free to play player. The game has been reduced to a slow grind waiting for my Shadow Markets to make money and for my mercs to heal (I cant level my lower mercs cause every mission is impossible for them). Expeditions have also become impossible. With my literal 5 best mercs, a long expedition has around a 60% chance of success, when it used to be easy to hit 95%. Compounded with the fact I can barely beat missions, I dont have enough materials to make better gear to help me beat more missions. The pros: Free to play X-Com. Nuff said. Nanites (the speed things up currency) are super abundant, and I have a stack of 300 of them waiting for when I have enough credits to afford to purchase the item. So much gear and loot! So many customizable options for my mercs! So many strategy options! I went a long time without hitting this rut of get better or get left behind. Its got a ton of great gameplay for a free game. So overall I love it, but Ive hit a pretty massive gameplay wall and may just have to save the 2 gigs on my phone for another game if I cant get past it in the near future.

This game is very fun to play, but I have couple of issues. First money is too hard to get, mission rewards do not scale with difficulty. My biggest problem is the difficulty meter it makes no sense, it says the lvls are easy but still way harder than earlier. I would really like to see difficulty meter that scaled with the selected squad, i.e. If I have all lvl 5 a mission shows harder than if I have a lvl 10 squad. This would make lvling lower troops easier. And greatly reduce frustrations.

Game just hangs on mission load screen, took away all my items when crashed, total bull s**t when it takes so long to get items.......

This was a great game when I could play it. After most recent iOS update, the game wont load past the title screen.

Great 3D turn tactic game. Ive been looking for a tactic game like this for a while. X-mercs does well with rpg element as well as the strategy side. Overall solid game.

It will not open but once u fix it I will give it a 5 star so plz fix

Battle mechanics similar to x-com. More development for troops though. Ive only played for a while but Im looking forward to whats next.

This game is fun and has some dope stuff going on but it cost like a lot of money if you want to really get the best gear or it takes serious time waiting to get the gear you need to move forward. Also when you get new gear or weapons you cant sell or get rid of the old ones?!?! Why? At least let us break them down for materials geez.