# Battle Simulator: Idle Warfare — user reviews > 298 indexed App Store user reviews of Battle Simulator by PlaySide, rated 4.70/5 from 25,472 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/battle-simulator-idle-warfare/id1564386657/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/battle-simulator-idle-warfare/id1564386657.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 21,254 · 4★ 2,687 · 3★ 952 · 2★ 252 · 1★ 327 ## What do users think of Battle Simulator? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay - 👍 Satisfying progression and upgrades - 🎨 Decent graphics and visuals - 💰 Reasonably fair monetization (optional ads) **Cons** - 🔍 Repetitive and grindy gameplay at higher levels - 🐛 Bugs and glitches (freezing, crashing, etc.) - 🕰️ Slow progression and difficulty spikes - 💸 Excessive ads and pay-to-win elements **Commonly reported bugs** - Ads not registering properly - Units getting stuck or behaving erratically - Progress/data loss after updates **Most requested features** - More varied and challenging levels - Sandbox/custom mode - Improved unit AI and pathfinding - Increased rewards for boss battles ## Newest reviews (13 of 298) ### 3/5 — Ads broken can’t sign in *2026-09-06, version 1.3.337* Anytime I try to watch an ad to gain a reward it does not let me exit the ad. Only choice is to close the app so I don’t get my reward. It also won’t let me sign in using Apple ### 4/5 — Great but *2026-06-20, version 1.3.337* I really really want a sandbox mode where you can have all the units you want to put in the battle and select the map you want ### 2/5 — Brick wall *2026-02-01, version 1.3.118* Played this game all night. The only way to progress at any decent rate is to constantly watch adds. Ok, fine. I can play while doing other things. Then I hit a brick wall. After doing the math, I would have to fail 37 times in a row to even summon 2 more units. That’s without ads, but why would I be motivated to watch ads if it will still take over a dozen guaranteed fails just to get 2 units.. a fraction of what I need to progress past ONE level. Those 2 units have virtually no chance of changing the outcome. These ads btw, are longer than the battles.. you know.. the thing we downloaded the game for… All this after paying to get rid of the mandatory ads. I highly recommend avoiding this game ### 3/5 — Good but needs work *2025-09-02, version 1.3.118* It has a lot of good features but I don’t like the lack of control I have in the beginning. This is something I feel has plagued the mobile gaming industry for a while by not providing an access to setting, volume, etc…. In the beginning and only guiding buttons so it feels more like I’m looking at a click and slide show instead of a game. I enjoy the light grind but it definitely needs to give a little more control to the player. ### 4/5 — NEED MORE LEVELS *2025-07-24, version 1.3.118* I have recently finished all of the levels and now what it’s the point of playing anymore? Please add more levels. Please please please ### 3/5 — Restore purchases doesn’t work *2025-07-14, version 1.3.118* Bought micro-transactions awhile back on this game and it won’t let me restore purchases even though there’s a giant button for it, button is broke, will change rating if I actually get my purchases restored ! ### 4/5 — ? *2025-06-06, version 1.3.118* How do i shoot fire balls? ### 4/5 — how many levels are in this game *2025-04-01, version 1.3.118* hi, i’m currently on level 2454 and i am wondering how many levels are in the game so i have a number to aim for. i assumed the end was level 2500 but it looks like there will be levels after that thanks! ### 4/5 — 播放完廣告，遊戲沒有聲音 *2025-03-28, version 1.3.118* 謝謝更救 ### 3/5 — Silly *2025-01-21, version 1.3.118* DORKY ### 3/5 — OK!!👌 *2024-12-02, version 1.3.118* A ok game, could use some more stuff but honestly, every game could use more. Um, great game theme but again, not enough stuff in it.🙏🏻😇 ### 2/5 — Ok game *2024-11-06, version 1.3.118* These are the pro and cons of the game having played it for a few hours on two devices. Pro Simple design, multiple characters, not a pay to win.slightly enjoyable….well to a degree. Con To many ads, forced to watch ads even when not selected and some even just start in there own with no choice, very slow game even when vip is activated, some character’s needs fixing just wonder off now and then, not enough reward system, company making fake reviews with five stars (ridiculous), game needs a lot of work still. Overall I’m deleting the game. ### 5/5 — 嗚嗚 *2024-10-31, version 1.3.118* 超好玩遊戲 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 買了免廣告沒有功能 呃錢 *2025-08-21, version 1.3.118* 買了免廣告沒有功能 呃錢 ### 1/5 — Don’t play *2025-07-19, version 1.3.118* The ad system is broken and I have watched 6 ads just to get one reward that it never gave. Also the gold characters (the best) are nearly impossible to get because there is no way to receive the green gems besides doing an insane amount of time on passing levels. So if you wanna play a game where you can only get a fraction of the characters and watch 6 ads every level, you’ll love this game! ### 1/5 — The more you play, the more you watch ads for no benefit *2025-03-11, version 1.3.118* I like idle games, just kinda throw them on and have no problem with the ads. Part of these games and I will absolutely watch ads while doing other things. The more you play though, the more you get ads that do not give any rewards. Thoroughly enjoyed the afk progression until every time I hit “watch an ad” it gives me one that will not give rewards. @Developer, yes I am talking about that ones that give the “close” button 5 seconds in. You can leave the ad open for minutes on end and get nothing. Just for giggles I left one open for 15 minutes and same result lol. Thoroughly glad I made you some money while I got to enjoy an idle game for a couple months. Not super glad about the fact you will give me the same ad 10+ times in a row that doesn’t give rewards. Appreciate the couple months of entertainment nonetheless 🫡 but if I knew it would be like that once I progressed I wouldn’t have downloaded ### 1/5 — Fun if you like watching ads more than playing the game *2025-03-05, version 1.3.118* This is a cool concept for a game. It gets repetitive, but it’s fun to merge up your fighters and progress. You won’t play the game for very long though unless you’re spending more time watching ads than actually playing the game. I even made an in app purchase to get rid of the in game ads and it’s still impossible to progress without watching ads nonstop. Not really sure how this game has a 4.7 star review in the App Store, but I would suggest saving your time and leaving this game there. ### 1/5 — One issue *2025-02-19, version 1.3.118* I can’t recover my account and signing in with Apple ID is glitched ### 1/5 — Ads *2024-11-22, version 1.3.118* I used to play this game alot but the problem is there are literally a bunch of ads every time I win battles there would always be ads just remove Ads cuz it just waste people times instead of enjoying the game ### 1/5 — So many ads *2024-11-04, version 1.3.118* Ads ### 1/5 — Ads too long *2024-10-02, version 1.3.118* 1 min ads too long, cant stay engaged with the game ### 1/5 — Complaint *2024-09-21, version 1.3.118* The ballistas were too op.remove their stun ability ### 1/5 — samuraiが日本の装束ではない *2024-09-03* 日本の装束を知らないのか、歴史改竄したいのか、samuraiが日本ではないアジアの国っぼい。 ボスとして弥助も出てきた。 日本の歴史への理解がなさすぎる。 他にどんな間違いがあるか気になるので、もう少し続けよう。 ゲーム自体はなかなか面白いのだが、残念。 **Developer response:** Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We'll take this onboard and notify our developers so they can look into this issue further. It was never an intention to make you feel uncomfortable with how the game is designed. We appreciate your continued support! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ty *2026-07-21, version 1.3.337* I played this game since I was 7 years old and this game is the best ever ### 5/5 — Decent *2026-02-24, version 1.3.118* I prefer add free though ### 5/5 — Battle simulated is *2025-10-04, version 1.3.118* Best game ever ### 5/5 — This game is great! *2025-07-08, version 1.3.118* From the moment I started playing this game i Was super into it I recommend this game to everyone who has good taste in games ### 5/5 — I am anoyed *2025-06-02, version 1.3.118* Why can’t you give and get coins and hems from over players ### 5/5 — Falta que se pueda iniciar sesion *2025-03-09, version 1.3.118* Poned que se pueda iniciar sesion para mantener el proceso si cambio de movil por favor ### 5/5 — Want to keep playing *2025-02-16, version 1.3.118* Anymore levels coming? I love this game! It WAS helping me quit smoking.. but then it just stopped at level 3000 when I was thinking it would have 15000 like the scape games. Please add more. This game is really cool! Bam!!! Also, I have spent maybe $175.00 for the game to just end??? ### 5/5 — Very fun *2024-12-26, version 1.3.118* I like how you can progress through levels and get bonus rewards and I like how the units get different looks it just the ads but I understand it’s a free game still very fun game just can you add more units after space age and more to the modern age ### 5/5 — Andy *2024-11-24, version 1.3.118* This game is really fun and I’m at 600 something and the boss is so hard to beat I have a lot of slivers but I still can’t beat it so pls make the bosses easier they take me so long to beat them all ### 5/5 — Chill lil game *2024-11-15, version 1.3.118* Nun crazy the lower level is slow but once u get going it picks up --- *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 2026-09-12.*