| Game name | Clash Royale |
| Company | Supercell |
| Initial Release | January 6, 2016 |
| Review Date | April 6, 2016 |
| Time Spent | 10 hours |
| Reviewer | DiamondJack |
Clash Royale is basically a Tower Defense game with some elements from Clash of Clans and Collectible Card games. By collecting and upgrading cards you can compose an improved card deck that will determine your troops, spells and buildings that can be used in one-on-one Tower Defense battles.
| Base and Resource Management | <10% (opening your chests, and managing your gold resources to make sure you upgrade only the most useful cards, claiming achievement rewards, trading cards with clan members) |
| Strategy | 30% (composing your decks and trying out new decks and tactics with the AI training engine or clan members) |
| Tactical | 60% (playing the Tower Defense battle against other players to get new chests with cards and crowns) |
| Other |
The Tower Defense battle, although simple in its premise, offers great variation based on opponents card decks and tactics.
| Feature Availability for Non-Spenders | Full features are available for non-spenders, although spenders will be able to get more cards and upgrade cards faster. There is no restriction to the amount of battles you can do. |
| Competitiveness | Without a doubt people who spend lots of money on this game will have much more and better cards, giving them the opportunity to compose decks that are so superior to a non-spender so that a good/bad tactic will make no difference, however the game engine seems to do an excellent job at matching up players of similar strength. There were relatively few battles that were easily won or lost, most were a fair fight. |
| Repetitiveness | Most time is spent on actually battling, for real or to try out strategies and because both your own decks and tactics as well as opponents decks and tactics are ever changing, there is little repetitiveness. |
| Uniqueness | The various elements that exist in this game are not new, but they are combined in a fresh way. |
| Overall Score | 4 out of 5 Death Stars |