Still, as I would like to note, Supercell is Supercell and that means Brawl Stars shoves microtransactions at you quite often, with several different phycological tactics to get you to buy. However, since all players earn a free $5 worth of gems per season, this means that as long as you save your gems, every other season you can get the premium pass for free without spending a dime! Not too shabby. Finally, there is a “Brawl Pass” purchasable every two months which gives special rewards to those who purchase the premium version for about $10 worth of “gems” (a virtual currency). They are counted individually for each brawler which determines your matchmaking but also add up to a total trophy count, which pretty much does nothing aside from earn you rewards in the “trophy road”. Yes, just like in Clash of Clans and Clash Royale you earn trophies for winning battles. First of all, the things you upgrade with resources in this game are your characters, aka “brawlers” (I will talk about the resources themselves later on.) You only play with one brawler at a time which means if you focus spending your resources on a few specific brawlers you can get them maxed out relatively easily and be able use them on an even playing field with everyone else at the highest trophy level.
Now, while I wouldn’t use the word “fair” to describe it I do have to say the free-to-play route is aright. The rewards are usually small enough to encourage players to spend real money in order to obtain them faster but big enough that players feel they are getting something useful each time they play. For those that aren’t aware, free-to-play games usually involve the player earning small amounts of resources through whatever gameplay is present, which is then in turn used to upgrade whatever sorts of things you use in the game, such as increasing the damage output of your character or weapon.
However, what sparked my interest in the game the most was a review on the App Store praising the game for it’s “fair” free-to-play progression.
As expected from Supercell, it is free to download but contains in-app purchases. I have been playing Brawl Stars about daily after it’s global release back in December of 2018. While Supercell’s most popular game is likely Clash of Clans, which I have been playing on and off since 2013, the one I am going to be reviewing today is their most recently released game, Brawl Stars. Although that doesn’t mean a 1/7th of the world’s population has played their games when accounting for redownloads and people playing several of their 5 titles, it is still clear that hundreds of millions of people have been impacted by the work of this 300-employee company. In fact, their games have been downloaded over a BILLION times in the past decade.
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