# Auto Defense — user reviews > 52 indexed App Store user reviews of Auto Defense by Gameloft, rated 4.47/5 from 5,530 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/auto-defense/id1488589379/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/auto-defense/id1488589379.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,146 · 4★ 610 · 3★ 321 · 2★ 137 · 1★ 315 ## What do users think of Auto Defense? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fun gameplay - 🎨 Great graphics - 💡 Unique tower defense mechanics **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent bugs and crashes - 💰 Excessive monetization through ads - 🕰️ Progression gated by pay-to-win mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - Towers getting stuck or disappearing - Ads not registering properly - Progression resets and lost progress - Compatibility issues on newer devices **Most requested features** - Offline mode - More level variety - Improved co-op experience - PvP mode ## Newest reviews (14 of 52) ### 3/5 — Still haven’t fixed any problems and don’t care to *2023-06-07* Good game but the stupidity level the devs greed makes it unenjoyable. I put this game down for a year because it was almost impossible to play unless you paid a lot of money right off the bat and the amount of ads that you have to watch regularly just to continue playing is still absolutely stupid. I won’t pay money until the developers prove to me that they’re not just trying to grab money but actually provide a quality product… this is not it. Goodbye once again and probably for the last time. ### 3/5 — Great Game… Ads are worse than most *2022-10-04, version 1.3.2* Ive played many a great game with ads and paid to remove them at most. I paid to remove ads on this one. Only to be hit with 1 min + adds for rewards(after download this game screen time). While I understand making money to support updates and the developers, making the game more advance-able to players that don’t want to pay for everything=more players. Great game, but ads after paying to remove the super annoying ones still take the fun away. ### 3/5 — Great game *2022-07-27, version 1.3.2* This game is super fun good graphics, good game play. There are some glitches with grabbing your tower to place it and it disappears. In the duo play really fun, could be great fun if it really was a real player, it feels like your playing with an auto bot. Reason for saying that is because the other player in duo never merges towers above 1 or 2 stars and always gets rid of purple and gold towers. Fun game but would be great if you played with real players and in a alliance or something. If it had these two factors I would give it a 5 star rating. ### 3/5 — Great till world 8 *2022-06-22, version 1.3.2* I’ve been playing the game for a min now and everything was going good till I got to world 8. Ever since then if the game starts glitching out. It freezes randomly and at times when I’m really close to beating the world. I still keep playing hoping that it won’t freeze on me and have to start over. If you coils take a look at it and help figure out why it’s doing this; that’s be great. ### 3/5 — Having fun but bugs ruined the game *2022-04-08, version 1.3.2* I was enjoying this take on tower defense. I made it to the end but then it got crazy with bugs. Progress of the last two levels reset twice. Cards from chests disappear. I’ve lost 2700gems and the cards for the good towers are still at level one. Support did respond but the gift of 80gems was tiny compared to my lost 2700gems. Reinstalled but no luck. The game is just full of bugs. ### 4/5 — Fun but flawed *2022-03-02, version 1.3.1* The game play is fun and engaging, but the game freezes often. I am stuck on level 7 and today I thought was my day to get past that hurdle only to have it freeze on me. I was on level 47/50 and it froze. Bums me out, but it is fun so I keep coming back. Seriously though, the game freezes on me way more than it should. ### 4/5 — Compatibility *2022-01-22, version 1.3.0* On here, the information states that the game is compatible on iPhone with iOS 11 and up. However, when I open the game to try and play it. It states that it does not support the device. Is there anyway that can be fixed? I’ve been having issues with it ever since iOS 14. ### 4/5 — Bugs *2022-01-21, version 1.3.0* It’s a fun game, levels 4-5-6 I passed in the same day but I spent maybe a week on 3. Lots of bugs, something will get stuck and the “Sell” bar will cover my new items and wont go away while also causing moving the guns to glitch. I’ll have to reupgrade the same gun several times because of the bugs. But all in all it’s fun ### 3/5 — Lots of fun.. lots of bugs *2022-01-21, version 1.3.0* Super fun game, great progression but also quite a good challenge. Several bugs. Not able to unlock world 10 rewards even tho I cleared world 9. Can’t seem to unlock Piggy Bank turret which is required to complete world 10 place and merge challenge (maybe that’s why I can’t complete the other world 10 challenges?). New season started but it keeps telling me to collect my rewards from last season in order to go to the next season but I have already collected all of them. Customer support isn’t helpful either. They say to just “keep playing” and gave me a measly 80 gems to keep me happy. Overall I’ll keep playing but really hope these bugs get fixed soon or I’ll probably quit ### 3/5 — Good game *2022-01-18, version 1.3.0* The game is good, very entertaining, but many things are wrong with it. It constantly freezes, so I close the app and re-start it, when i re-open the app all towers are at the centered, not to mention start back at level 5 or below, which some towers shows u cannot move them cause it was removed when it froze. Just yesterday alone it froze around 7 times in 1 hour and a half, then called it a night Rare cases towers will downgrade by 1 star (4 stars max.) during the play. Which I did sent an email about this roughly 2-3 months ago and yet not one response. For the bonuses u need to watch one ad, cool, but at times u need to watch a couple of them just for the game to recognize that u watched it to allow u to spin the bonus **Developer response:** Hello! We are sorry to hear about the issue you experienced in-game, we are currently working on a fix for that! You can also contact us, the developers, directly on Discord: https://discord.gg/wJWy5WfYZn ### 3/5 — Love the concept but LOTS of bugs *2022-01-09, version 1.3.0* It’s really fun game play, let me start with that! The bugs in the game make for frustrating levels, however. No matter what level I’m playing I always start with the same ‘random’ weapons, when I watch a video for extra HP or after beating a boss, I will actually lose HP on my castle, or lose stars on my weapons. At times, cumulative dmg points will fluctuate without warning, weapons will suddenly stop firing, and I keep getting a message that my castle is leveling up, but my base HP never increases. Like I said, I love the concept! And I will continue to play because it’s one of the more fun TD games I’ve discovered, please fix the bugs! ### 4/5 — Great game, very unique, MAJOR balancing issue. *2022-01-05, version 1.3.0* This a great new game with unfamiliar, yet exciting characteristics. The potential makes me happy considering every other game on the App Store was duplicated or just became boring. The thing is once you get up to world 5 and so forth you almost need to pay real life money to either get more legendary cards, or more of any cards to upgrade the everliving life force out of them (which can be very pricy pretty much eliminating the free nature of the game). So far I’ve had to buy my way through world 5, 6, and soon to be 7 because of how frustrating it is to play them tens, possibly hundreds of times over, and over again. Other than the waste of time and money, the concept is unique, immersive, and very entertaining when I can actually get far into a world/level. ### 3/5 — Fun game. Way too many ads and buggy. *2022-01-05, version 1.3.0* This game is fun, but way too many ads to make daily and weekly goals. The game is suuuupeer buggy. So many times I have tried to place a turret and it disappears. Also, cool, I will watch a stupid ad to get extra health or coins. No, I watch the ad and I don’t get the bonus for watching the ad. “Weird, I will watch it again”. Nope same thing. Glitch-y. I super enjoy playing the game, but these cheesers are more concerned about making money on ads than having a stable game. ### 3/5 — Could be great but it definitely isn’t as is. *2021-12-16, version 1.2.2* Could be five star but none of the concerns are being addressed. There are definitely bots in the duo mode and it’s so frustrating. There’s also random times when my turrets damage is randomly cut in half and can’t destroy anything. I used to love playing this game but now there’s no way to progress and it’s losing bc of all the buggy issues. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Should have read more reviews *2024-03-07* I spent money. Still got ads. The ads are at a painful level in this game. They also interrupt gameplay, which has to be the dumbest choice I’ve seen in a mobile game. Level 5 is where the game truly starts to break down. The more towers you unlock, the more painful it is to keep up on upgrades. The more towers you unlock, the more painful that random 3-tower choice becomes, especially after you level a few times during the gameplay. World 5 indicates the money tower is important, but I don’t see how. It’s a terrible attack tower and it does not generate enough extra coins to counteract the boss’ star-eating ability. Unless you got lucky on some random chest you will only have the base level money tower when you get to this world. World 5 wins and I quit. ### 1/5 — This game is for you if… *2022-09-12, version 1.3.2* If you love ads… I don’t mean just ‘like’ them, I mean really really LOVE them…. Like you want to watch an ad for 60 seconds and then 15 seconds later you are just itching to watch another, then this is the game for you! Decline an ad for a reward only to be immediately forced to watch one for no rewards? YES! Desire more ad time than game time? They’ve got you boo! No 15 second ads here either, oh no.. this game has all the 60-90 minute ads you’ve been looking for. Look no further! Auto-ad… er I mean defense is the best ad streaming app on the market! ### 1/5 — Change name to AD Defense! *2022-08-16, version 1.3.2* I’ve never seen so many forced ads in a FTP game in my life. Post level bonuses or ways to get in-game revenue without spending real money are fine, but this game literally interrupts you 4-5 times throughout the first non-tutorial level!!!! And that’s not including the 3 ad opportunities that I turned down - It made the game utterly unplayable which is a shame because I was enjoying the concept if it weren’t for the company greed. Guess I’ll be deleting it and know now to stay away from “unity games” in the future…. ### 1/5 — Stuffed Full of Forced Ads *2022-01-16, version 1.3.0* In a F2P game like this from a big company GameLoft, forced ads are just ridiculous. Games that have rewarded ads are perfectly fine, this game has tons of rewarded ads which is good. But on top of that they also have tons of forced ads. Multiple ads per level, ads randomly on the home screen, just loaded with forced ads. Yes, you can pay real money to get rid of ads but why would I spend money on a game that I’ve played for about 30 minutes and been forced to watch 10-15 forced ads along with a few rewarded ads. ### 1/5 — Issue with towers sticking *2022-01-11, version 1.3.0* Updating my review. Suddenly there are ads everywhere. Middle of a battle, watch an ad. Was excited that they fixed the issue below. Support was great. But with all the ads the game has become unenjoyable to play. Deleting this game. Too many times I have towers that get stuck to the board. I can’t move them and can’t sell them so I am stuck with them. Sometimes I can merge them and they will become unstuck, but mostly they become a burden on the game play. This is happening a lot in duo battles. Frustrating experience. Would give this 5 stars if this issue weren’t occurring. ### 1/5 — Game WAS worth playing *2021-11-19, version 1.2.2* My game accidentally got deleted and tried to get with customer service. Tried to link the game to Game Center but it wouldn’t link, and I don’t have a Facebook account so all progress was lost. Refused to refund money spend on one of their summer packs, but Apple did. After redownloading I started to play through the levels again only to be interrupted every single time I started a game with freaking ads. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF GAMEPLAY. Very uncool. Game is trash now. I wouldn’t waste my time or money to play this game. Find somewhere else to spend your money. ### 2/5 — Very fun but suffers from painful ad experience *2022-06-15, version 1.3.2* This game is really fun in my limited experience. I was able to complete several levels and things started to click. The towers are interesting and diverse and the flow seems pretty entertaining as a whole. The problem is the ads.I had to watch three before I was able to complete two levels. Plus the option to watch ads to increase certain stats. Which is understandable as they need money to develop, but it becomes too distracting to be able to enjoy the game. I’d happily pay several dollars for this outright in order to appreciate the hard work put into developing this game however I can’t stomach it while having to waste 25% of the game time on watching advertisements. I really wish publishers would move away from this free to play economy it does no favors for the game and the hard work put into them. ### 2/5 — Needs work *2022-03-26, version 1.3.2* Standard tower defense game, with a few unique features. Easy to pick up and play. Overall extreme monetization and bugs make this game not worthy of keeping Major issues: -Duos can’t choose partner -Occasional issue where towers can not be moved have to force quit often lose progress -Ads during game ruin flow, make me quit -Pay to win, very difficult at world 5 -Can’t listen to audio outside of the app while playing, why can’t I listen to my music or podcasts? -If you quit game mid round, can’t update level anymore stuck with number of turrets, turrets typically aren’t where you left them either. Lots of weird bugs they need to fix ### 2/5 — No offline??? *2022-02-11, version 1.3.1* Crashes randomly. Drops towers out of play area. Reloading make you replace towers locations and some time makes locks a tower not in a playable area and doesn’t work. Can’t play sound over the app or other app in background (audiable) huge time waster so it has that but slow advancing / upgrading. Has made me more frustrated than enjoyed Oh and the ads…. Let’s just say they aren’t good, some times loud even when I have my phone on silent mode. ### 2/5 — Good but not great *2021-12-28, version 1.3.0* I love this style of game and honestly will continue to play but this game regularly crashes. I’m talking about if you played consistently for an hour probably 4-6 times. Sometimes it lets you pick back up, other times it does not and you lose it your place or your time. Just frustrating. Every time I click to purchase the 600 coin awesome present - game is frozen. I tried 12 times. Let me open the box once. Just a ton of little bug fixes that honestly have been there since day 1 in the game. So can’t complain too bad, but it just doesn’t seem to get much better. There needs to be more levels, I have been stuck playing world 10 for the past idk how long. Just doesn’t seem to keep up with adding new content. Ik you update due to the new events that came through so keep adding new levels. Now with the addition of ads mid game play, not sure if I want to continue on with this game I’ve had for over a year. They just pop up randomly at will now which was totally not the case before. At least wait until the game is finished to make me watch a 5-15 second ad. Is there any news on when these bugs are going to be fixed?? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Pretty Good. Can’t lie. *2022-05-27, version 1.3.2* This game’s amazing! I have some suggestions to make it better though (not that it really needs it) Artillery: A tower that looks like a railroad gun (WW2 Era long range artillery weapon. It usually was put on a large support area on a railroad, hence the name) It has very long range with its explosive shells and is absolutely punishing when it connects. However, it is quite slow at firing. The synergy could be either exploding shots or longer range. Pressure Blaster (The devs can come up with a design for this one): It squirts out highly pressurized water that is absolutely devastating to be hit with. It’s short range (Does more damage the closer you are to the tower), does plenty of damage, and slows down and knocks enemies back. The closer you are to the tower, the more knockback you receive, and same for the slowing. The synergies could be either knockback shot or slowing shot. Thanks for this incredible game, and keep doin what you do Gameloft! From, KingGhidorahKaiju ### 5/5 — This game definitely deserves some time *2022-02-26, version 1.3.1* Take your time play it often do the dailies make a few purchases save your gems rinse and repeat this game is dope and now I was being sarcastic this game is dope and fun out your time in it I’m gonna share this game on my stream on twitch so people can download it and play it Thanks TheRotatingGamer ### 5/5 — Unlimited gem glitch *2022-01-09, version 1.3.0* Hello. I wanted to make the developers aware of an unlimited gem glitch in the game. Basically, after competing the daily event fully, you are able to redeem the 20 gem reward as many times as you can click the “collect” button. I love this game so hopefully it gets fixed! Sorry if me posting this made people abuse the glitch, but I’m sure your team will get to it first! ### 5/5 — A little bug I always get *2022-01-09, version 1.3.0* I don’t know of anyone else gets this bug but whenever I start a world I always get stuck with the same three cards; Pistolero, Eagle Rifle, Eagle rifle. Whenever I try to reset by restarting the world it doesn’t work and I still get stuck with those three. If you could check this bug out im sure I and others would be very grateful. ### 5/5 — It’s pretty cool *2021-12-15, version 1.2.2* I can’t complain cause I understand that it’s new and takes time to develop. I’ve played it for two weeks and love the field runners vibe you get from it. I feel like if you were to improve on one thing, it would have to be the placement glitch. Once in a while you may notice that your turrets won’t merge, the game will take your money and turrets before placing them, and then to fix it you have to reset the game. Again I thank you for the time to make this game and I hope that it can be fixed over time; please and thank you. ### 5/5 — Great game. *2021-10-24, version 1.1.2* Great game. Its not pay to win and really fun. I’m currently waiting on world 10 and have just been doing duo and events. I wish there was a way to have infinite waves without going into duo, but that doesn’t stop me from still replaying maps. Like I said, it is fun and worth the download. ### 5/5 — It’s a good game *2021-09-17, version 1.1.2* I will say I made it to world 8 and well I have spent 10$ on it but that was like 5 mins ago lol this game is not a pay to win nor is it a boring game the only flaw I have it the bot system on duo, I have notice they randomly sell turrets and replace them with lower tier turrets and I get some may be working on the battle pass but other you can tell are bots because they will be on world 2 and have the same turrets I have and some will be exclusive turrets and stuff like from events from the first event to now haha I personally feel like one day the devs can do away with the duo bot system and allow players to connect to players more frequently then now however it’s still a great time passer and my wife hates when I play it so it’s a 10/10 for me ### 5/5 — IGNORE Bad Reviews! (they noob) *2021-09-11, version 1.1.1* I’ve just downloaded this game a week ago, mind you I haven’t spent a single penny on this game and reached “World 9”. It’s not so easy but also not too hard for those wanting a fun game to kill time. So ignore all these “pay to win” reviews. There are ads in the game but it shouldn’t bother you much if your good enough you won’t have to rely on ads to revive a lot. Ads just help fund game development in the long run. Which brings me to my last point. This game has so much potential, I can’t wait for new features to be added, maybe new types of synergies/towers/events. Overall, judging that this game is relatively new with many different tower defense games out there, this exceeded my expectations. Keep it up!!! ### 4/5 — Great game, weird mechanics *2022-10-18, version 1.3.2* So far I’ve gotten to world 7 and the game has been great! Except that some of the pomps have WAY to much health like the purple ones that usually come from the balloons. I’m not sure if they require a certain element to kill so maybe you guys can add a category where you can review monsters you’ve fought and their weaknesses. Great game tho ### 4/5 — One thing *2022-05-16, version 1.3.2* I love this game and the ads and buggy-ness I haven’t seen too much of. But one fixable thing that I hope is coming is that once you unlock enough towers to don’t get what you want and the takes some strategy and fun from the game. What I’m getting at is that if there was a way to make a load-out with (just spitballing) 10-20 towers then it would make the game more fun and with more strategy and personality in the game. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*