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Swagbucks: Arknights

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This game is a big download at 1.56GB and 1.74GB in updates at first boot. The offer is small at only 500 SB, and you have to complete over 32 missions in the campaign. You are given 7 days to complete chapters 2-10 and it should be pending for 7 days.

A small hiccup

The install said it was finished but the game crashed at the load screen and then said it wasn’t installed. I went back to the Play Store and sure enough, it said “Install” even though I could clearly see the game in my installed apps list.

Terms from Swagbucks:

  1. Does not require a purchase.
  2. Must complete chapters 2-10 within 7 days to earn the award.
  3. The award should be Pending for 7 days after completing Chapter 2.10

An all-new strategy game – Arknights, is available now! Start your new journey with new allies! Complete chapter 2-10 to earn 500 SB.*

Game Launcher Panel

There is a large Arknights community on Reddit where you can find lots of helpful information, and some unhelpful information as well.

Background Music

I think the first thing I did was mute the game. The music is cool but repetitive I was looking for the mute option pretty fast.

The whole game is just a top-down view with tiles where you try to block mobs from entering your goal area. Best not to overthink these types of games.

Heavyweight Design

It’s absurd that it takes 3.4GB to handle such a basic functioning game. Really most of that data is all the artwork and endless mind-numbing dialog that is included.

Gameplay

Once you finish some of the tutorials the Auto-Deploy function becomes available to repeat a mission on autopilot to grind out rewards.

You still have to watch the battle play out but you won’t need to interact with it. The game includes Daily, Weekly, and Event objectives to complete to get Experience items and money.

Once the tutorial is complete you get access to the Base building, which is a sort of mini-economic zone with factories, workshops, and break rooms. The resources for upgrading stuff are all either made here or gained from missions.

You should be able to just grind through the campaign so long as you don’t get distracted by the other missions that show up.

To upgrade your Operators (heroes) there are materials you get from doing side missions for Chips, Ore, and Sugar. But you don’t need to do these to complete the Main Campaign objectives.

Just use your Experience items to max out the level of 8 Operators. You can choose 12 to include in a squad but only 6-8 will actually get used in a battle. You’ll run out of money fast doing this so be warned.

Operators for hire
Daily Login Bonus
Operators for recruitment
Daily Missions
Recruitment option
Campaign trail
Side Missions
Base Construction
Lineup Suggestions

I’d suggest including a Debuffing (Slow) operator like Orchid on the team and matching her with a good caster like Amiya.

  • Gravel is an easy starter and can be improved using duplicate copies to lower her deployment costs.
  • Cardigan is a good tank that can block 3 units and she heals herself.
  • Beanstalk has a summon that halts mobs while she shoots them, she also adds DP points over time.
  • Zima can block 2 enemies and she fills your DP bar.
  • Gummy is another good tank and she heals herself or a wounded ally in range.
Final Thoughts

This offer takes a really long time to finish. The Chapter progression is not set, it’s not 12 missions per section. The first part (Tutorial) is 18 missions, then 15 parts for chapter 1.

There could be up to 4 side missions before 2-04 moves to 2-05. So reaching Chapters 2-10 takes a whole lot more activity than you might expect, especially for only 500 SB.

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Swagbucks: Conflict of Nations WWIII

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I found this one in my mailbox at the Swagbucks website. The offer is simple you only need to make a purchase to get the reward. After finishing the short tutorial I went straight to the shop and checked out the packages offered. The cheapest one is priced at $1.99. I used $1.50 in Google Play credit and the rest on my PayPal Business Debit, which I use for most Swagbucks offers/redemptions. This offer is a $3 money maker.

Install the Android app or play on your desktop and complete your first in-app purchase to earn 500 SB.

The game sends you a handy in-game mail that lists the transaction number. This should be helpful if you have any trouble getting credit from Swagbucks for completing the offer terms. The game itself wasn’t very visually appealing for me. I have played other war games and I much prefer real-time strategy types over this tabletop experience. The narration was good; except, you never hear the names of any of the places mentioned in the text. I don’t know why they omitted them when the voice acting is in clear American English.

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Swagbucks: Crossfire Warzone

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Update 2024: I am sad to report that the developer has pulled the game from the Play Store and shut down the game. No idea if it will come back.

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This took 3 days to complete. Requirements were to reach the level 18 command post in 25 days.

I got to level 15 on the first day by spamming my speedup items.

You get 1000 gold for joining your first alliance, which is nice. In this game, you can buy your way up through the VIP ranks using in-game gold.

The Honor/VIP ranks give various discounts and bonuses. I would suggest going up to rank 7 at the most.

I found it was not necessary to make a farm City for this game. Killing monsters or terrorists provided more than enough resources to complete upgrades.

There are 4 things you can attack, and 3 of them use different types of stamina.

You have resource buildings in town, and animals in the woods can be killed for food. You can harvest resources from buildings on the world map.

Attacking Terrorists or Scavengers will give resources. Fighting the M.O.W.s gets you crafting supplies for commander gear.

Your units are infantry, tanks, and helicopters. The tanks and helicopters don’t cost food to build.

I found that the resource-carrying capacity was reliant on the Hero assigned rather than the number of troops deployed.

Sending just 1 unit and 4 Heroes did better than 1 hero with max troops.

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Swagbucks: Pirate Kings

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Well, this was a failure.

The listed time limit was 7 days and I gave up on the 5th day as I had become quite stuck on Island 7.

The offer terms require you to reach Island 11.

I found that the free spin codes I found online were only valid for a few days. Many sites were offering old codes that were invalid, but claiming them to be new.

Also getting my friend list filled up took forever.

I was reticent to link my Facebook account to the game which limited my ability to add friends.

If I had maybe 14 days or if I had gotten a full friend list on the first day I may have been able to make it.

This was going to earn me 766 SB from OfferToro on a 2x special.

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Swagbucks – myVEGAS Bingo

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Swagbucks Offer Terms: Have a Bingo party with your friends as you daub your way through the Las Vegas strip! Play free bingo and other casino games in real casinos like the MGM Grand and Bellagio! Unlock the Mirage Casino and reach Level 20 within 10 days to receive 2,000 SB*, and don’t forget to have fun while doing it.

  • 1. You Must install the app and reach the level to earn a reward.
  • 2. The award will pend for 14 days.
  • 3. Must be a new user of the app.

The key point with this offer is that it completes when you unlock the Mirage Casino at level 15. The offer may either be coded improperly or the offer terms are incorrect.

The offer is pretty straightforward though the time limit is short. A Reddit user had posted that it took 2.5 hours to complete the offer so I jumped in. I’m sitting at 9 hours played and still only at level 12. I get maybe 175-200 experience points per game while playing the 4-card bingo at the Excalibur location. That is 15% of the level-up bar on experience points. It will probably take a few days to complete the offer so long as the numbers don’t change.

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Reddit user MrCrxzy said: Easiest 20$ of my life! Took me about 2 and a half hours. Highly recommend! Also credited at level 15 instead of 20.

As you play, you will get Silver Tickets which can be used to play the Rapid Diamonds slot game. This will earn you Diamonds which can be used to buy Power Up cards. You won’t be able to win any games without power cards, so don’t bother trying to play without them. You also get diamonds for completing the Daily, Weekly, and Event Tasks. At level 10 you will be prompted to join a Club (Alliance/Guild) which will get you a few more diamonds each day by playing more bingo.

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Collections

I had the best return on tickets using the Double option on the Rapid Diamond Slots. You get rewards for completing Collections from Present tiles on the bingo board as you play rounds. Once you reach the 3rd star it unlocks the High Roller table for the Location you are playing at. I really don’t suggest doing the High Roller as it will wipe out your chips right away. Stay on the normal bingo and just play the 4-card game and use the 100 Diamonds option for power-up cards.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War

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Update 01/09/25: New Terms and competing offers from FreeCash and Swagbucks.

  1. FreeCash Terms
    1. Main Goals
    2. Daily Rewards
  2. Swagbucks Terms
    1. Offer Goals
  3. Game Strategy
    1. Gathering Resources vs Production at Island
    2. Monster Hunting
    3. Alliances
    4. VIP System

FreeCash Terms

This offer is available on FreeCash for $357 with a 90-Day time limit.

Main Goals

Meet the following milestones within the 90 day offer period to receive corresponding cash rewards.

Limited Reward: Reach Castle Level 26 in first 7 days to earn $87 prize.

RewardGoal
$0.00Install and open the game
$0.17Complete Castle Level 3
$0.43Complete Castle Level 5
$0.90Complete Castle Level 8
$1.73Complete Castle Level 12
$3.45Complete Castle Level 16
$6.97Complete Castle Level 20
$12.75Complete Castle Level 24
$30.75Complete Castle Level 27
$60.75Complete Castle Level 29
$130.50Complete Castle Level 31

Daily Rewards

Log in and play for each of the 90 days of this offer to receive the following cash rewards.

RewardGoal
$0.90Play on 15 Different Days
$2.63Play on 30 Different Days
$6.08Play on 60 Different Days
$12.75Play on 90 Different Days

Alternatively, the offer is available on Swagbucks at a reduced value and with restricted time limits.

Swagbucks Terms

Play Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War and complete Castle Level 30 to earn 5,215 SB! There is a 30-Day time limit for this offer.

  • Must be installing Pirates of the Caribbean for the first time to receive SB.
  • In-app purchases and upgrades are available.
  • BONUS REWARD – Complete Castle Level 25 Within 7 Days
  • Award will pend for 10 days

SB Offer Link: https://www.swagbucks.com/games/apps/1672713/pirates-of-the-caribbean?rb=69384823

Offer Goals

GoalReward
Install–
Complete Castle Level 5$0.10
Complete Castle Level 8$0.20
Complete Castle Level 13$0.35
Complete Castle Level 16$0.50
Complete Castle Level 18$1.00
Complete Castle Level 21$2.00
Complete Castle Level 23$4.00
BONUS REWARD: Complete Castle Level 25 within 7 Days.$10.00
Complete Castle Level 27$8.00
Complete Castle Level 29$10.00
Complete Castle Level 30$15.00
Make First Purchase$1.00

Game Strategy

The game runs top-down like similar games in the genre. Your town is located on a small island and you will use Ships to battle monsters, gather resources, and complete storyline missions.

Your ships will be crewed by pirates that you train at the Pub. You’ll need to make weapons for the pirates, and cannons for any ships you build as well as cannons for upgrades to your Gate (town wall).

You will be limited in the number of ships you can have in your harbor depending on the level of your Dock. Ships are built at the Shipyard and then launched into the port.

I wouldn’t suggest replacing your ships with higher-tier ones unless a mission objective requires it. You will get upgrade parchments later on that can be used with Gold to tier up your ships to Galleons.

Every day you can speed up any construction timer by 100 minutes, up to 10 times by watching a short 20-second advertisement.

You also get similar advertisement speedup options available when healing pirates, upgrading ships, crafting gear, and the Free Daily Rewards.

The daily rewards have 10 stages that will reward you with 100 Gold each on the first 9 and then 1,000 Gold on the last one for a total of 1,900 Gold each day.

Sink attacking ships at your Gate (Wall) to earn speed-up items

Gathering Resources vs Production at Island

The basic resources in the game are Food, Lumber, and Silver.

The silver mostly gets used to upgrade ships and gear until the later stages of the game.

I found gathering resources to be incredibly slow, the same can be said for Producing resources in your town. The skill boosts you get from leveling up barely make a difference in the speed.

If you look below, you can see that a level 10 Farm produces much more resources than the upgraded Lumber Mill and the Silver Mine.

Resource Production on the island

I would suggest only building Farms. You can build a single Lumber Mill and Silver Mine to complete the corresponding missions.

You can handle most of your early game Food needs this way and then you only need to focus on Gathering Lumber from islands. You should get plenty of Silver from mission rewards and Events.

When your power level sparkles tap on it to get chests with loot

Monster Hunting

The best way I found to get resources was by using the Monster Hunting function.

You can send out your ships to hunt critters or merchant ships and you will get good rewards when you win. Better yet, you can turn on the Hunting Streak which sets your ships on auto-pilot, they will keep hunting monsters of a set level until you either run out of Stamina or use Auto-mode.

Some Events run weekly and require you to hunt monsters using Tacticians of set Elements like Fire or Wind. I received a chest with 100,000 Gold from this Event.

I was able to skip a couple levels with all the Gold I got.

Use stamina refills whenever you utilize the Auto-Hunt function

Alliances

Alliance: Your guild or clan will be able to help with speed-ups and boosts to gathering within the territory of the alliance fortress.

You will also receive Chests every time someone completes various tasks in the game or buys something from the Store. It’s also good to keep plunderers away if you are in an active Alliance.

VIP System

VIP: You will start the game at VIP level 1.

At the basic level, you get a 5-minute free speed-up to complete buildings. At level 2, this speed increases to 7 minutes. It’s not particularly appealing.

A good thing though is that you will get all of the Gold rewards from the previous tier that were unclaimed. So about 3,000 Gold, which can be very useful in the early game for upgrading your Castle.

In addition, you will be able to use the “Claim All” function on Alliance chests so that you are not tapping forever claiming them.

To reach VIP 2, you will need to acquire 50 VIP Points.

When I first checked my VIP level it said I had 30 Points accrued, although I couldn’t remember how I got the first 30 points.

You will get 45 Gems as part of the Tutorial which can be spent on a Shop item that gets you 10 VIP points.

Theoretically, this would mean that you would only need to spend $1 on a basic pack in the Shop to level up your VIP ranking.

For just a dollar you can raise your VIP level and get 3,000 gold

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FreeCash: The Grand Mafia

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Offer: Multiple Objectives to collect 10 Enforcers and upgrade them to higher Color tiers.

You need 5 Greens, 10 Blues, and 2 Golds.

The Upgrades go Gray>Green>Blue>Purple>Gold.

The Grand Mafia

The offer on FreeCash rewards 142,494 Coins. 3 objectives require purchases which I will skip in this guide. The total reward without the spending comes to 117,142 Coins or USD 117.

There is no posted time limit, however, generally, you can expect 30 days allowance for most offer walls unless otherwise noted…

The terms for this offer are quite good and will not require you to grind very much or collect obscene amounts of resources.

The Lootably offer wall can be commonly found on the FreeCash platform. Other permutations of the Grand Mafia offer are available on RevU, AdGem, and Offertoro.

You will start with a single Enforcer (Hero/General) Mike Reynolds.

During the tutorial you will receive Belladonna and the Questline will reward you with some additional Enforcers (Doxxy, Vinny).

The Daily Login will get you Sparrow and the Campaign (Monument) will get you BigShot and Tony.

That makes 7 Enforcers with 2 (optional) ones available through your First Purchase which gets you Killer Queen and Onryo.

Free Enforcers

You’ll need 10 Enforcers total to complete the offer. Additional Enforcers can be acquired through the Campaign, Events, and Chapter Objectives.

The rest is simple. You can get the fragments to upgrade your Enforcers by completing “Sweeps” of the Campaign on Elite mode which is unlocked after clearing the first page.

You get a certain amount of Stamina each day and you can only Sweep a set number of times on each stage every day.

Campaign Mission
Campaign Map Page
Belladonna Fragments

There are 5 blocks to each Tier (Plain 1-5), It will take 4 fragments for each block upgrade.

So 20 fragments total to move from Gray to Green.

On the Green tier, the cost goes up to 10 fragments per block, so then you will need 50 fragments.

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Game Guide: King of Avalon

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2024: This guide was written for older offer terms. The new offer is $295.80.

Most game functions remain the same. Notably, level 18 was the previous final goal. The new requirement is level 32, which is unachievable within the available time.

I would suggest going for the level 22 reward and completing all spending requirements. This should earn you $18.80.

Offer Link: https://www.swagbucks.com/offer?oid=24749&rb=69384823

It’s a fairly generic medieval city simulator. Lots of resource collecting, mini events, both friendly P2P interactions and PVP. Everything is time based and you get items to speed through the boring bits.

The walkthrough though wasn’t quite accurate. The fellow was on an earlier version of the game that had functions that are no longer available for strictly free play.

You’ve got a (Green) Stamina bar which lets you take actions like attacking monsters or barbarian camps. Other actions like gathering resources or attacking other players is free. You also get a (yellow) Stamina bar for a mini game where you lead your dragon knight through a dungeon.

Your Stamina will regenerate slowly over time. The bar is Full at 100 points and you get 1 point back every 5 minutes, it take 8.5 hours to completely refill from zero.

In the Skill Tree “Balance” you can put Lord skill points into Stamina Recovery 1 (5% Max), and Tier 2 (20% Max). In the VIP perks there is a Lord Stamina recovery boost that will speed up the recovery rate. One of the Blue Heroes you can get “Sir Gaheris” has a talent that will boost your Stamina Recovery Rate.

For the resources I would strongly suggest starting a farm town and placing it next to your main city. You can raid it for resources that you need. Alternatively you can attack other players, abandoned towns, or ask your Alliance members to send you resources.

The high level Alliances get lots of Gifts that may include Gold or big resource items. You can use Gold to pay for anything you are missing.

All actions give you experience for your Lord and add to your Power rating. Certain game functions like equipping much needed armor are not available until you reach higher Lord levels.

The Swagbucks offer says you need to reach a level of 16 but doesn’t specify if this is Lord level or Stronghold level to get the points. The resource requirements go up tremendously each level, far beyond what you city can produce. You are expected to buy your way there or go crazy on PVP. Ransacking nearby cities will get you the resources you need but takes a long time.

Right so, at Stronghold level 16 you get access to the vault which help out as you can boost your Gold for premium purchases (pay-wall) and the Marketplace where you can buy speed boosts and more resources. If your Lord level is 16 at this point you can wear equipment which will add like 1.5 million to your power rating per piece.

To move from stronghold level 16 to 18 you need around 18 million of food/wood and 4-8 million Iron/Silver. The most I could gather at this point was 600k resources and even that took 1-2 hours per run.

Most of the videos I watched said to make another city and then raid it for resources which I did naturally. With a farm account parked right next to my city I was able to attack it and got around 4 million wood in 30 minutes. I had do lots of missions on the other account to replenish those stores for the next attack but it was much mote efficient than doing Gathering or real PVP.

During the tutorial you are prompted to join an Alliance which is where most player to player interactions occur. I didn’t want a lot of pressure and so opted to make my own alliance at this stage. However when I woke up the next day the guild was full to capacity. The open enrollment option is on by default so I had a bunch of teammates suddenly. Pressure.

If I had to do it all over again I would definitely pay the dollar to get the First Recharge pack. The hero included gives major bonuses to construction that would make the 4-5 day completion possible. Having the right Economic heroes set in your Council makes the game playable. The Military heroes are of less use if you are just going for the point reward.