When comparing Combat Monsters vs Deck Heroes, the Slant community recommends Deck Heroes for most people. In the question“What are the best card battle games on Android similar to Hearthstone?” Deck Heroes is ranked 12th while Combat Monsters is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Deck Heroes is:
The art gets its inspiration from WoW and HoMM and is quite high quality. Definitely a pleasure to look at.
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Pros
Pro Over 2000 different cards
The card collection is huge. As of August 2015, the game has more than 2000 cards. Of them 1152 are monster cards. The rest are runes, spells, shields, armor types and weapons. There are 16 different races of monsters and 24 special abilities. The variety offers a great bit of deck building options.
Pro Looks good
For an Android game, Combat Monsters has beautiful 3D graphics and animations.
Pro Good single player campaign
Pro Lots of different modes
There is 5 deck mode: standard, horde (monsters only), tribal (one race only), single 50 (no duplicated cards) and pauper (only common and uncommoncards). There is a single player campaign for each deck mode. You can also play online real time or asynchronous games versus other players. You can also play versus the AI, up to 5 of them! And there is adaily challenge that reward you some cards upon victory
Pro Highly strategic
Playing on an actual board game, positioning the monsters and combining their special abilities is key to a victory. You summon cards using mojo that your hero provide each turn, but that you can get as well through a bunch of other means (abilities, special board tile, runes, spells, ...)
Pro High quality art
The art gets its inspiration from WoW and HoMM and is quite high quality. Definitely a pleasure to look at.
Pro Different game modes
There's so much to do in the game - Mazes for farming, Arena for PVP and rankings, Raids for stealing other players' currency, and more.
Pro Four different factions
There are four different factions the player can build their decks with, Faen, Humans, Neanders and Mortii. Though most factions work best when using them and them only.
Pro Shuffled deck allows for more strategy
By forcing the player to use a shuffled deck the most powerful cards may not be able to be used at first. This means the deck needs to me more balanced overall as well as the player needs to be more watchful of the opponent's plays to counter adequately.
Cons
Con The game is unplayable without spending crazy amounts of money
The only way is to invest in an event which costs thousands of gems and will give you back the same amount plus an extra, and some premium random cards. Having in mind that there are a LOT of premium cards and that you need several copies to make them worth it, it is pretty impossible to make a decent deck, even if you try hard.
Con Some cards too difficult to obtain without paying
Even though the game is free to play, some cards are pretty much locked behind a paywal, forcing serious players to eventually spend real money on the game if they want to compete.