3 stars: Way too grindy and pay-to-win. Sure, you can play for free, but progression is painfully slow at higher town hall levels if you don't buy anything with real money. Not only that, but as usual with mobile games, everything is ridiculously overpriced. I get that Supercell needs to make some sort of profit, but paying $10 at town hall 8 or 9 gets you like one upgrade. Seriously?
5 stars: This is a great game. It is a f2w (fight to win) game, but spendin' dough definitely speeds up gameplay. CoC was released years ago, so about every bug is fixed. You'll form strong bonds with other players once you join a clan. There's a lot of variety in the player levels and their native countries. Each clan is different; some accept anybody and fight ferociously in clan war, while some are more private and mostly made up of \
4 stars: Love the game, but one huge downfall. Heroes need to be fixed. They walk all the way across a base when there are open walls right next to them. Battle machine will walk pass multiple defenses while getting hit for no reason. It's so frustrating to see an attack completely fail from the beginning bc the heroes do whatever they want.
5 stars: Great game. I don't remember getting any ads. Some in game purchases and mostly pay to win. The game is fully playable without paying. Pretty long gameplay time and has plenty of scheduled and holiday updates. Lots of different troop types and players. Graphics aren't really good. But original. The game ...