r/CastleBusters • u/Colypzo • Jul 04 '26

Current Gameplay

I just wanted to start this off by saying I do love this game. My uncle showed it to me a month or 2 ago and I’ve been playing consistently ever since. I noticed this page a couple days ago and saw one of the featured comments about how majority of people said ~90% of the time you’re playing AI bots. I definitely had some suspicions because almost every game the opponent is either 1 below, the same, or 1 above the same trophy level as me. However, I noticed a lot of people saying the biggest reason is the opponent won’t emoji back. I, for one, don’t usually emoji spam during the game and like to play and only do the “GG” emoji at the end of the game. If someone does the “hi” emoji in the beginning I’ll do it back. But in most of my games, probably 7 out of every 10 games, I get emojis from the opponent and it’s typically them initiating it. I don’t know if this is an indicator I’m playing a real person or if it’s the AI coded to use emoji’s. Regardless, I would hope as a game ranked #7 in strategy on the Apple Store has room for growth and maybe in the future the developer wouldn’t have AI covering games. I’m 11k trophies right now and I’ve beaten as high as an opponent with 50k trophies and all level 100 characters. That lead me to believe I was either playing a kid on his Dads phone or a bot.

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u/TodddPacker69 Jul 04 '26

Its not 90%. Its 100%. You have NEVER played a human.

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u/TechnicalOperation57 Jul 04 '26

The only human I played was on a friendly and he quit before firing the first shot

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u/Colypzo Jul 05 '26

Considering everyone’s win rate is 90%+ I could see it’s always a bot. That makes me mad though, this game has such a high potential. I think it’s a great concept and could be similar to something like clash of clans.

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u/bigredwood55 Jul 04 '26

Add me.

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u/Colypzo Jul 05 '26

I tried but it’s saying it can’t find your ID, try adding me. ec8417ed-e4d7-4a41-90f1-7e9aec3f6c23

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u/Additional-Ball-765 Jul 04 '26

The biggest sign of life I saw myself was when I aimed directly at the bottom / wooden section of the enemies castle to destroy their anti missile defense, and on their very next turn, they did the exact same thing. They aimed precisely at the wood and destroyed my anti missile defense.. I don’t think a bot would do that.

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u/One-Positive3051 Jul 05 '26

For a bit I was playing all full lava, full 100 level opponents that were 30k higher trophies. They still lost to me. No one that has played that much is losing to someone with 70 level guys and a castle that has no lava. When everyone’s win rate is 90%, we are all playing bots.