# Cmd C - An Idle Game — user reviews > 84 indexed App Store user reviews of Cmd C by Andrew Zuo, rated 4.48/5 from 242 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cmd-c-an-idle-game/id1606426386/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cmd-c-an-idle-game/id1606426386.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 179 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Cmd C? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎮 Engaging idle/incremental gameplay mechanics - 📱 Minimal ads and no aggressive monetization - 🎨 Unique level editor feature for custom content - ⚡ Responsive developer who listens to feedback - ♿ Good accessibility support with quick fixes - 🎯 Varied mechanics across different chapters - ⏱️ Good time-killer for casual play - 🔄 Balanced progression without pay-to-win pressure **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent game-breaking bugs and glitches - 💾 Critical save/data loss issues - ⚪ Blank/white screen crashes on launch - 🔄 Progress resets unexpectedly - ⏸️ Extremely slow progression in later chapters - 🎯 Poor game balance requiring months to fix - 📖 Incomplete storyline and unclear mechanics - 🖱️ Repetitive tapping causes physical pain - 🚫 Unplayable for blind users (accessibility bugs) - 📊 Hidden upgrades with no indication system - 🔍 Missing price information in UI - ⏳ Long wait times between content updates - 🎮 Limited content at launch **Commonly reported bugs** - Hard lock when resetting progress without changing difficulty - Auto-scroll to top interferes with blind user navigation - Blank white/grey screen on launch (especially after updates) - Game crashes when accessing level editor - Unexpected progress resets after closing app - Challenge progress not saved before quitting - Data loss after app minimization/restoration - Incompatibility with older devices (iPhone 5) - Scaling and math errors in progression system - Random hidden upgrades with no notification system - Glitches with prestige/reset mechanics **Most requested features** - In-game bug report feature - Confirmation dialog for resetting progress - Manual save option - Leaderboard system - Hold-to-tap alternative for boost mechanic - Theme/dark mode options - Information buttons explaining mechanics - Visual indicators for hidden upgrade progress - Price display for all generators - Website with game information - Accessibility toggle for auto-scroll feature ## Newest reviews (13 of 84) ### 4/5 — Cute premise, not balanced well. *2026-07-20, version 1.12.2* nevermind the second chapter kinda changes this completely. —— The gameplay is not engaging at all, which is theoretically quite easy for an incremental game. An “idle” incremental just means most of your earnings happen when the app is closed. Good idle games still have an engaging gameplay loop while the app is open. This game, instead, intends for you to open, click one button, close—at least that’s what I have found past the career milestone. I am not yet to chapter 2, but reviews make it sound like this problem will only exacerbate. Something I have noticed about this game versus enjoyable incremental games is that the tap function does not actually give any reward or gain after the first 90 seconds of gameplay. You read that right. It’ll never be used again past the first few moments, except to tap once to get the reset going. I really think this game is cute, it’s witty. I would like to see it rebalanced and given a meaningful purpose to tapping/clicking. More complicated or optional buffs usually make these games more enjoyable too (see grimoire, dodecadragons) ### 3/5 — Game is totally messed up for blind people. *2025-12-01, version 1.10.4* Hello, please fix the issue where the stupid game scrolls you to the top every time you scroll past the settings button. I've been waiting for the last 2 updates for this to be fixed. I did purchase the overclock thing. If this is something that helps sighted people then please make an option to turn it off. ### 4/5 — Carpal Tunnel Sim *2023-10-30, version 1.6.3* Honestly this is a pretty good idle game and I play a lot of these types of games. My only issue is that the boost mechanic is tapping as opposed to holding. This game really requires active time to progress in any realistic time frame, and the constant tapping has literally gotten to the point of pain in my right hand. Obviously I set the game down when it causes pain, but why does the app need to cause pain at all? Please update the system to allow press and hold as opposed to hyper tapping. ### 3/5 — Chapter 6 seems rushed *2023-08-23, version 1.6.0* So chapter 6, has no storyline like all the other chapters and so far there’s no (I)nformation buttons to explain what’s going on. This makes Paul Pelosi sad which then makes him want to drink more. It’s a vicious cycle. ### 2/5 — Just lost 3 weeks of progress *2023-07-17* Started chapter 5 3 weeks ago when update was released. Was cruising along nicely, just unlocked generator, generator, generators for the 2nd time after resetting Feature and realizing it wasn’t doing much of anything for me yet. So after 2nd unlocking I exited app for about 15 minutes, when I returned everything was completely reset, like it was when I first downloaded chapter 5 update 3 weeks ago. Disappointing to say the least. ### 4/5 — Fun *2023-06-29, version 1.5.5* but a bit slow at times. ### 3/5 — Great game, updates are wack *2023-04-04, version 1.4.0* Love the game but I have a couple issues with recent updates: 1. The new balancing on Chapter 4 makes it feel like you hit several road blocks that manual gameplay barely seems to speed up if at all 2. The new visual update has some nice features like moving buy buttons away from where you are tapping, but now I can’t know the price of most generators. Knowing that the next upgrade is at 5e10 is necessary for me to make informed gameplay and buying decisions ### 4/5 — good time killer *2023-04-03, version 1.4.0* good time killer, it seems lengthy so far, kinda like multiple idle games in one. please add a theme option, this latest ui seems bland and uninspired compared to the one before it ### 3/5 — Good, Could be Great *2023-03-20, version 1.3.4* I like the theme, I like that mechanics change chapter to chapter, and I like that for the most part it is truly idle. What's not awesome is I'm pretty sure new content isn't play-tested. Chapters eventually gets balanced but not for months and months after the content has been out. If these issues were ironed out before a full release, this would be an amazing idle game. ### 2/5 — Problems saving have returned with chapter 4? *2023-02-02, version 1.2.5* Twice now I have lost significant progress because the game didn’t save. The second time was after several minimizes / restores before closing to try to manually trigger a save. Add a manual save option. I believe after eight years of owning various iPhones this is the only game it’s ever been an issue in. Other than that obviously MAJOR problem I’ve played the heck out of this, but my desire to do so now is basically zero because why bother? It won’t save. ### 2/5 — Stopped working after 1.2.1 update *2022-12-27, version 1.2.1* No problems previously but now after updating a get a blank white screen when launching the app, then it quits after about 12 seconds. Sometimes the screen is grey instead and doesn’t quit but just hangs there until I force quit. I’ve restarted my iPhone 8 latest iOS several times to no avail. Hesitant to delete and reinstall as I don’t want to lose my months of progress. Think I started within a week of initial release so that’s a lot of snacks. Any suggestions? ### 3/5 — I’m stuck *2022-12-21, version 1.2.0* I like this game. It has the idle aspect, so it’s good for when I just need to kill time for a few minutes, but it’s also got good variety between levels, enough so to keep me entertained for longer. I got really excited when I noticed the level editor, because it meant I got to do my own sort of thing with it, however, there was some problems with the actual functionality of it, so I let it sit, and just waited for the developers to update it to be functional. With the new update, I was excited to go back to the level editor again, but as soon as I clicked on it, my game just displayed a gray screen, and I haven’t been able to do anything with the game. I can’t even go back to the main game, because there is just nothing. This feature makes me sad. Please fix it, because I love this game, and don’t want to get rid of it. :( ### 3/5 — General game is fun, but an annoying issue *2022-12-13, version 1.2.0* I was in the middle of doing a challenge, but I decided the challenge was too hard and quit it. For whatever dumb reason, it didn’t save any of my progress before I did the challenge at all (except for career capital). So now I’m back to 0 data and 0 lines. Just great. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Вторая работа *2026-06-07, version 1.12.0* Your completion token multiplier is lower than the recommended for this level. ### 1/5 — Glitches can make game unplayable *2026-02-24, version 1.11.1* Glitch where if you reset your entire progress but didn’t change the difficulty on levels the level will start out normal you’ll return and the difficulty is applied and you get hard locked from progressing. Please fix I love this game but this oversight of a bug is just dumbfounded. I just wanted to play it all over again and now I’m stuck to repeating level 1 till you fix this in however many months. Also add a bug report feature in the future so I don’t have to leave reviews ### 1/5 — Massive lack of effort put into this *2025-09-21, version 1.10.0* Progress is very slow for some reason on chapter 2. The point of an idle/incremental is to well make progress and have number go up quicker than last prestige. When you are dealing with e’s and the insane scaling cost of upgrades means I make almost no progress when I prestige (lose all progress and start again). Also random hidden upgrades. When I leveled up a t3 line production to 25 it made t1 get a 500x boost. But when I upgrade t1 to 50 or t2 to 25 nothing happens or t1 for that matter. I just randomly got a upgrade with no way to tell if I’m close to another one or if there is even another one or when I might get it. Why waste my time with trash made with no love when I can play idle/incremental where people actually put in effort and care. ### 1/5 — NOPE *2025-06-27, version 1.9.1* Within minutes of starting the game it told me to visit a website containing a security scam. ### 1/5 — Bad update *2024-11-20, version 1.8.2* Limits how much you can play the game and took away what made it unique ### 1/5 — Game is broken *2024-04-26, version 1.6.9* Tried to pick back up the game and it loads to a blank white screen. Has for last few patches so yeah one star ### 1/5 — looooooong idle *2022-11-22, version 1.1.4* Very bad feeling of any progress in game. Every new chapter is just new mini-idle game. Just nothing to waste time for, maybe only if you would like to run game for 1 min every few days. Simple but nice UI but really one of worst idle game I've ever played ### 1/5 — Horribly unbalanced with walls that last days for any progress *2022-05-10, version 0.5.5* Needs a lot of balancing work. Days between prestige’s for Act 2 is really poor design. ### 1/5 — Серый экран при запуске *2022-05-02, version 0.5.3* Серый экран при запуске ### 1/5 — Enjoyable idle game though lacks gameplay *2022-04-12, version 0.5.1* Would love to see more acts in the near future, will increase rating if and when new acts are added. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — An idle game *2026-02-19, version 1.11.0* This idle game is torture. It’s pure agony in functionality. The build up to automation, in what I’m assuming is later chapters after playing for years, is excruciating. Yet there it is, I have been playing for years. Not many idle games get that from me, there’s only been Antimatter Dimensions and the original Cookie Clicker. By proxy, and the gratification of figuring out the systems in each chapter, Cmd C has earned its review and rating and was long overdue. ### 5/5 — Or like grandma’s homemade noodles *2025-06-07, version 1.9.1* I’ve played this game since it released and just can stop. I take long breaks, but anytime I redownload it I’m right back at it, grinding away. Let’s face it - iOS is a desert for decent idle/incremental games that aren’t jamming $100 packs on top of ads down your throat. This game is like Seinfeld, or MASH, or Star Trek TNG, back when cable and late-night reruns were a thing, if you can’t find anything else to do there’s always cmd-c. ### 5/5 — I’m Glad the Penalty Was Removed *2024-11-26, version 1.8.2* I’ve been enjoying this game for a couple of years now and appreciate all of the work the dev has put in as well as his responses to feedback on Reddit. Most recently, I’m glad he listened to feedback and removed the Completion Penalty that was recently added. ### 5/5 — Better Than Before *2024-10-24, version 1.7.3* So I previously reviewed the game, back when there was only a couple of chapters available. There have been more added since then, and at times it seems like the balance is too far off, but that's part of what makes it challenging. I previously had it a 3 due to the ease in advancing to the end, but it's much better now. ### 5/5 — 面白い *2024-08-21, version 1.7.3* 無心になってできる ハマりすぎて時間が奪われていく ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2023-10-02, version 1.6.1* You have such a great game, its fun and interesting but the best part is the editor where you make your own levels. I hope to see more! ### 5/5 — Please continue making games *2023-08-03, version 1.5.6* both this game and perceptron are almost perfect i love the simple but also complex progression and i love seeing when you’ve added a new chapter to this game. please update perceptron again too coz i’ve run out of upgrades :) ### 5/5 — Nice game. 1 request. *2023-07-24* Chapter 5, please add a pop box that says: Are you sure? When resetting Feature, it’s to easy to accidentally reset that one and it seems to be a costly mistake if done when it’s not quite time. Otherwise I’ve been enjoying this since release and think I’ll explore making some levels. ### 5/5 — Freeze in level editor *2023-06-24, version 1.5.2* Great idle game with sophisticated design and clear mathematical rules. When I tried level editor and just added prestige, the screen whited out. And I can’t find resolution to go back to normal game. Task killing doesn’t help. How should I do? -> developer immediately had fixed the issue. I got good impressed ### 5/5 — Been playing since release. Please add *2023-06-23* Please add leaderboards! You have them in Perceptron, why not here? Pretty sure I’d be top 3. Great 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 2026-09-01.*