The Best Ways to Gather Tokens Without Spending Money - Free-to-play Warcodes Guide

Warcodes is a free-to-play mobile game. It is not pay-to-win but we would say it is pay-to-survive. Warcodes in game currency can be seen as an interpretation of time. The more tokens you have the longer you can compete in the KOTH (King of the Hill) challenge. This is largely due to the cost of healing your creatures. It’s a good idea to always have a creature reviving in your Healing Chamber. When you’re low on tokens the battle portion of the game comes to a halt. Luckily, there are many ways to gather tokens other than paying with real money. 

These are the Best Ways to Gather Tokens

Daily Reward - The Daily Reward is a 50 token top up you’ll receive twice a day. You can find this reward in the Marketplace. 

Scanning - Scanning for new barcodes to create your perfect team of battle creatures is not the only thing the scanner can do. Randomly, you will find items along your scanning journey. You will also receive up to 12 tokens every time you scan a new barcode. Scanning the same barcodes has the opposite effect and charges you 5 tokens to use the barcode again. This is a great way to get back into the game if you’re running low on tokens.

Entering Warcodes Contest - The developers of Warcodes hold weekly creature creation challenges. How to enter can be found on their Instagram (@warcodesapp) • Instagram photos and videos or on the warcodes reddit . Each contest has a different theme and 4 winners. 2 from Instagram and 2 from Reddit. Winners are not based on popularity, the developer chooses the ones they like the most for each theme. The prizes are:

1st Place: 10000 Tokens

2nd Place: 5000 Tokens 

3rd Place: 2500 Tokens

4th Place: 1000 Tokens 

This is a great way to make Tokens and show off your creations. 

Daily Challenge - The Daily Challenge can earn you up to 75 tokens. You’ll get 25 guaranteed tokens from the first battle and 50 tokens from the second battle. Sometimes you’ll receive an item instead of 50 tokens for the second battle.

For more about the Daily Challenge check out this article: Warcodes Daily Challenge Breakdown - Before the Update

Private Games - Private KOTH games also pay out tokens. Although this method isn’t very profitable and somewhat unreliable. It requires friends or strangers to be active in a private lobby but the creatures you use in private games  of KOTH cannot be used in the original KOTH challenge. The prize pot of tokens in private games will not get as high as the original KOTH challenge.       

Winning Battles - Winning battles is the best way to start stacking up tokens. For every battle you win you are rewarded a different amount of tokens based on which Location you are trying to conquer. Location 1 will reward you with the minimum 10 Tokens and Location 5 will reward you with the maximum 65 Tokens. As you level up your account you will enter KOTH challenges with 7 Locations. All locations after Location 5 reward 65 Tokens each. 

The downside to this method of gathering tokens is healing your defeated creatures. If you heal a creature for the maximum 50 tokens and lose the battle, you will start to lose tokens quickly. For the best token to healing ratio it’s best to battle at Locations 2 and 3. These Locations are typically easier to win at due to the restrictions on how many items can be equipped to a creature for each level they advance to. You will be able to use lower level creatures to win at these Locations which will cost you less tokens to heal. Level 1 creatures typically cost less than 10 Tokens to heal and can win at these higher Locations with the right secondary attack type.

For more on Secondary Attack Types read this article: Warcodes Build Advice and Secondary Weapon Suggestions

These are the rewarded tokens at each Location:

Location 1 - 10 Tokens

Location 2 - 20 Tokens

Location 3 - 35 Tokens

Location 4 - 50 Tokens

Location 5 - 65 Tokens

Location 6 - 65 Tokens

Location 7 - 65 Tokens    

In the coming update this May 2025, there may be even more ways to gather tokens or increase your chances of finding tokens with the scanner. More on the May 2025 update here:Warcodes May 2025 Update Breakdown

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