# Blacksmith Lab Idle — user reviews > 76 indexed App Store user reviews of Blacksmith Lab Idle by Dominick Bruno, rated 3.94/5 from 112 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blacksmith-lab-idle/id1064226995/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blacksmith-lab-idle/id1064226995.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 61 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Blacksmith Lab Idle? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Addictive gameplay - 👍 Fun time killer - 👍 Nostalgic childhood game - 👍 Unique idle game features - 👍 Good UI and sounds - 👍 Free to play **Cons** - 🐛 Progress loss on exit - 🐛 Game too short - 🐛 Lack of endgame content - 🐛 Stock market imbalance - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🐛 Logic flaws (iron worse than stone) - 🐛 Not truly idle (doesn't progress when closed) - 🐛 Upgrade system bugged (worse effects) **Commonly reported bugs** - Lost all progress after closing app - Game crashes frequently - Orders screen goes blank - Investments disappear - Upgrade effects are worse - Quest not popping up (Cinderella stage) - Cash amount resets to zero or shows 'test' after large sums - Stock market trades not giving money back - Game progress not saved **Most requested features** - More content and levels - Add new items (crystals, diamonds, titanium, brass) - Add new enchantments (ice, lightning) - Add new weapons (battle axe, crossbow, spear) - Add new armor (gauntlets, chest plates) - Add new accessories (nunchucks) - Add prestige system - Add offline earnings - Make game endless - Improve stock market risk/balance - Allow choosing investment amount - Add more events - Add population/hiring system - Add more upgrade types - Fix cash cap/large number display ## Newest reviews (14 of 76) ### 4/5 — Crashes way too much *2020-10-15, version 1.02* I don’t know if it’s my phone but it crashes WAY TOO MUCH .like every 2 minutes or so it will crash. ### 3/5 — Good but a couple of flaws. *2020-09-15, version 1.02* The game had bad logic like how iron is worse than stone or wood being better than multiple metals. Second it doesn’t really give you enough time on tasks. Overall it’s a good game. ### 3/5 — Fine game, not too much content *2020-02-15, version 1.02* Beat the game in under a day, once you beat order 47, there are no more, and level 30 is max for all upgrades. ### 3/5 — Cinderella Stage *2019-09-21, version 1.02* I have made it to the Cinderella stage and the quest has not popped up for me. It is a glitch that needs fixing. ### 3/5 — Game over? *2019-08-24, version 1.02* Maxed out the game, and what? There no more content. Sorry, but I’m deleting it after waiting 2 years for an update. ### 3/5 — Only If *2019-05-05, version 1.02* This is a good game. But it would be great if you can collect money while you’re away from the game. ### 4/5 — EGGHEAD *2017-01-26, version 1.02* RICHARD DO YOU SENSE MY RATING???? NOTIC-I MEAN SENSE ME ### 3/5 — Great, but short. *2017-01-06, version 1.02* This one really sucked me in for about two days, but after that I was completely done with everything. If more was added on, this could really make an impact in the idle games niche. ### 3/5 — FAR too short *2016-12-27, version 1.02* I completed it in less than 24 hours, very addictive, but far too short ### 5/5 — Game *2016-11-17, version 1.02* Love it ### 5/5 — Unique *2016-11-05, version 1.02* This game has all the features of an idle game, but with a level system and a basic stock market type mini bit. Kept me more involved than other clicker games. Over all, really fun. ### 2/5 — Game bugs *2016-10-13, version 1.02* This game is fun when it works properly. First, there's a bug that causes the order portion of the screen to go blank so you can't see what order you need to fill. Second, it's an idle game so shouldn't you still progress when the app is closed? I mean, what's the point in upgrading auto-mining when you have to have the app open to earn anything? If you've got the app open you might as well be tapping. Lastly, I've noticed that investments in apples or wine can disappear after having the app closed for a while. I invested in wine and closed the app. An hour later my shares in wine were gone, as was the money from the initial investment. I thought that maybe the game auto-sells the shares after a while but nope, everything was just gone! ### 5/5 — 5 Stars *2016-10-07, version 1.02* Legendary. So fun and addicting easy way to kill time ### 3/5 — No more requests? *2016-09-15* I think I completed the game when I stopped getting requests to build items for anyone. To be honest, the game didn't take too long to complete too. (20 hours max) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Lose progress when you leave the game for a few seconds *2020-05-04, version 1.02* I've noticed other people touching on this problem and their reviews are from 3 years ago which shows how poor the company cares about it's players but I got off the game to text back my friends and got back on not even 5 minutes later and I come back to see all my progress was gone and since the game in my opinion is pretty slow and it's such a grind to progress kinda got me mad ### 1/5 — Doesn't Save *2016-05-30, version 1.02* Simple, fun tap/idle game except my progress was never saved after multiple tries. ### 1/5 — Eh. *2016-02-25, version 1.01* Sold a billion in wine stock and it just disappeared. Upgrades max at 30 and after that the game got old so I just deleted it. Of your looking for an hour or two to kill it'll do the job. ### 1/5 — Stock glitch *2016-02-23, version 1.01* I loved the game, and I was at about 5 billion dollars, but then I invested in apples, and I sold at +20, but got no money back! I had to basically start over my game, and then when I got to about 1 billion, it happened again! I loved the game before, but I probably won't be playing it until this is fixed ### 1/5 — Game ruining bug *2016-02-21, version 1.01* Sometimes I will stockpile a lot of money through the stock market and then sometimes you try to sell your stocks it won't give you your money and you have nothing and what's worse is you are forced to invest all your money which I'm fine with but only if you don't lose all your money when you do it please fix ### 2/5 — Lost everything *2023-04-17, version 1.02* Game was fun, played it for about 4 hours, made some really good progress, next morning I go back to it and everything has reset, is this supposed to happen or is your game just bad ### 2/5 — Over quick *2022-06-08, version 1.02* Gameplay was pretty good, finished in only a few hours total though ### 2/5 — Upgrades *2017-12-30, version 1.02* The upgrade system seems to be bugged. I upgraded but the effect is worse when upgrading profit I went from 20% to 17% ### 2/5 — Not An Idle Game *2017-05-03, version 1.02* Too bad. It looked interesting. ### 2/5 — Great games with great problems *2017-03-23, version 1.02* I had progressed to have everything unlocked, I leave the game for a while and open it later, only for all of my progress to be completely gone. I was back at square one. There's no cloud save either so it wasn't like I could download my progress to get back to where I was before. The other problem is that it's a pretty pointless incremental game. Once you unlock everything and make a ton of money, there's nothing to do and nowhere to go. It's a great game but I think it needs some major work. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love this game!! *2025-12-13, version 1.02* I remember playing this game as a kid! I had to re-download it to beat it again! ### 5/5 — Yes *2020-12-27, version 1.02* This game is one of the best game on flash in my opinion and I think it needs more support ### 5/5 — A game of my childhood *2020-08-09, version 1.02* Found this game in an ICT lesson in Y6 with my mates, as soon as the lesson finished we all downloaded it on our phones, always been the best idle, at least for me ### 5/5 — update please *2019-12-08, version 1.02* i have only recently found this game, but i’m already almost done with it! i really like this game and want you to add to it! i even have some ideas: you can make after crystals make diamonds and add titanium and brass and make a ice and lightning enchantment, also make a battle axe, crossbow, spear, as well as gauntlets, chest plates, and nunchucks! ### 5/5 — I loved it until the orders stopped *2019-07-07, version 1.02* Cool game. Nice and simple time waster. But it seemed like as soon as I maxed all my upgrades I didn’t need them anymore because there were no more orders all of a sudden. Game over? Would love more! Thank you! ### 5/5 — It would have been 1 star this is why *2018-05-29, version 1.02* My IOS goes up to 7.1.9 and this is below and now this won't glitch! Thanks so much for making it 5.1.1 IOS. It's really helpful ### 5/5 — Great game but... *2018-05-23, version 1.02* It is a great game but I maxed out all of my upgrades and items, please add some more features like prestiging, starting over and getting a boost. Because of this lack of extra content I deleted the game, I hope you add more ### 5/5 — Entertaining *2017-11-22, version 1.02* It's a great game to cure boredom. If you have nothing to do and and you feel lazy, this is the game to play. ### 5/5 — Not idle *2017-09-27, version 1.02* Not idle ### 5/5 — Awesome *2016-12-28, version 1.02* So FUN GET THIS GAME IF YOU LIKE TAPING 👍🏻😀 --- *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.*