Our Rating for Summoner’s Greed
Summoner’s Greed, while a decent idle game at its surface, kept us wishing for something to happen and change up the gameplay. It was incredibly slow to progress through and the constant interruptions by the travelling merchant or the optional ads ended up slowing the game even further. But despite all its flaws, the game delivers exactly what it promises; a consistent idle experience with a sprinkle of TD.
Gameplay
Monetization
Content
Despite its shortcomings, we recommend you give Summoner’s Greed a try. It is a decent idle tower defense game, one that idle veterans might not enjoy due to the slow pace, but still one that is worth trying. It features cute monsters, each with their own unique abilities, and it does not really push the microtransactions as heavily as other Gacha titles on the app store.
Gameplay
Roles are reversed in Summoner’s Greed, you will be putting monsters on guard in this Idle Tower Defense game as enemies make their way through from the top of the screen down towards your treasure chest. Every monster is unique, some have high single-target damage while others do area damage or slow enemies down.
With 87 different monsters to unlock, upgrade, and experiment with, there are endless combinations and arrangements that you can place them in. Every time you clear a wave for the first time, you will get a summoning stone. These summoning stones are used to pull monsters, just hope that you get lucky!
Monetization
Something that we noticed over and over is that the advertisements may not seem worth watching as the rewards offered are often not enticing enough to justify the time spent. But the advertisements, while “optional” are just as bad as forced advertisements because of how they are introduced.
At the same time, the game’s Gacha mechanics, where players use summoning stones to acquire monsters is very unpredictable in nature, as you are never sure about your rewards. Players may find themselves spending real money in hopes of obtaining rare or powerful monsters, without any guarantee.
Content
As far as content is concerned, we have different maps, plenty of monsters, and quite a few charms. Players who do not get bored of the slow grind will love Summoner’s Greed as it provides a somewhat linear progression with the occasional wall you need to break past.
Depending on how active of a player you are, it might take you months to finish all the maps in Summoner’s Greed, there are seasonal events as well, with monsters that can only be unlocked during their event.
Summoner’s Greed is a great pick for players who want to keep the game running alongside their routine work, the slow progress makes it a fun title to Pomodoro your way through chores and to-do lists.
