# Darkstar: Idle RPG — user reviews > 90 indexed App Store user reviews of Darkstar by Neptune Company, rated 4.20/5 from 256 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/darkstar-idle-rpg/id6612023856/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/darkstar-idle-rpg/id6612023856.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 177 · 4★ 30 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 32 ## What do users think of Darkstar? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🤩 Nostalgic starship theme - 💰 Generous with free rewards - 👍 Respectable monetization model **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and overheats device - 🐛 Buggy tutorial and unplayable - 🕹️ Limited gameplay and content - 💰 Pay-to-win mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - Game doesn't exist in the updated version - Frequent crashes and performance issues - Coupon code functionality not obvious **Most requested features** - Combine idle gameplay with roguelite or shmup elements - Add in-app language translation - Provide a clear purpose and progression ## Newest reviews (14 of 90) ### 2/5 — Finally quit *2026-07-21* It’s a fun game to play but there are so many issues that the devs have to correct. Balancing: This is the worst thing since there’s no way to determine when you’re not powerful enough to fight the boss. Damage numbers don’t make any sense and the bosses are spongy. There needs to be an indication that the player can read to show the power level of the boss. Also the combat has to be rebalanced so players don’t get stuck for days. Gacha drops: It actually works since it benefits the player even when merging lesser abilities, equipment, and personnel. There’s no reason to spend money on this since the game is generous with tickets and diamonds. However, it doesn’t help you damage output enough anyways. Bugs: One of the event login rewards keeps saying there’s an error with the server connection when there isn’t one. There’s also a high chance of the player’s ship taking damage from no one and this is across all combat. The interface has issues where it will activate the wrong menu. Obviously it needs a lot of work with quality of life features, bug fixes, combat balancing, and general fun level. I got sick of waiting for any fixes and quit. Best to avoid this trash. ### 2/5 — Getting annoyed quickly *2026-07-16, version 1.1.92* It’s a fun game to play but there are so many issues that the devs have to correct. Balancing: This is the worst thing since there’s no way to determine when you’re not powerful enough to fight the boss. Damage numbers don’t make any sense and the bosses are spongy. There needs to be an indication that the player can read to show the power level of the boss. Also the combat has to be rebalanced so players don’t get stuck for days. Gacha drops: It actually works since it benefits the player even when merging lesser abilities, equipment, and personnel. There’s no reason to spend money on this since the game is generous with tickets and diamonds Bugs: One of the event login rewards keeps saying there’s an error with the server connection when there isn’t one. There’s also a high chance of the player’s ship taking damage from no one and this is across all combat. The interface has issues where it will activate the wrong menu. Obviously it needs a lot of work with quality of life features, bug fixes, combat balancing, and general fun level. Hopefully the devs will listen or there’s no reason to play. ### 3/5 — Fun but a bit of a grind for idle *2026-02-13, version 1.1.81* Great visuals, fun progression, lots of satisfying jumps in power. Only draw back, and it is in my view a big one, is about a week or so in, you will find you are waiting longer and longer to get enough materials to level up and upgrade, you hit a wall, it is then a case of every day logging in and gathering resources enough to level up tech/craft/etc. Despite this I have played it every day since I got it. ### 3/5 — Good game but *2026-02-07* Was pretty good but the rock paper scissors event is awful. If that's all the creativity the devs have left then I'm not long to continue playing the game. ### 2/5 — Just Okay *2025-10-11* Repetitive grind after a while. Too long between new stuff, with the curve of effort and time being far too steep. ### 1/5 — Донат на все *2025-10-01, version 1.1.64* Донатная помойка ### 3/5 — Pay-to-play *2025-09-19* Pay to play - plan on spending tons of cash. Seems like devs are always nerfing the combat attack system. You’ll get to a high level on Cronos battle and then the next day you’ll battle and be at a lower level. High ranking admirals have a ridiculous low drop rate at .0001 percent. - good graphics though but pointless for PVP. ### 3/5 — 優化很糟 *2025-09-17, version 1.1.62* 很耐玩的遊戲，也一直有在更新新內容 但是優化極其糟糕，畫面卡頓，三不五時的斷線，極為誇張的耗電速度與發燙程度 請不要讓糟糕的後台狀況糟蹋了一個好遊戲 ### 2/5 — Too many bugs *2025-09-15, version 1.1.62* This game has potential but too many bugs. Developer also doesn’t seem to actively fixing bugs and listens to community ### 1/5 — Die App sieht nicht fertig aus *2025-09-05* So zuerst einmal mein Urteil: Ein Stern ist noch zu viel. Das Spiel sieht zusammen geschustert aus viele Module die irgendwie miteinander harmonieren sollen, tun sie aber nicht. Das Balancing, sprich das sich der Schwierigkeisgrad langsam aufbaut, und man sehen kann warum man eine Stufe nicht schafft ist nicht gut gelöst. Es steht einfach nirgendwo was was bewirkt. Dazu kommen die ständigen Spielabbrüche, wegen angeblicher Netzwerkprobleme. Sein wir ehrlich, das Spiel läuft instabil. Dann habe ich den Eindruck, das der Entwickler nie selbst das Spiel gespielt hat, einige Dinge funktionieren gar nicht und das wäre bei einem ordentlichen Test aufgefallen. Aber ICH mache euch nicht den Betatester, sicher nicht. Hinzu kommt das wieder einmal das Pay to win im Vordergrund steht. Ohne massives Werbung schauen und/oder Euro investieren, ist es irgendwann nicht mehr möglich auch nur annähernd weiter zu kommen. Also insgesamt ist das Spiel großer Dreck, Schlecht gemacht und nur auf Kommerz aus. Entwickler schämt euch! ### 1/5 — Not a real idle game *2025-08-16* Online rewards are more than offline rewards. It’s 2025 and they can’t even implement the tried and true standard of real idle games where offline rewards is the same as online rewards so you can close the game and not get fomo’d by having to leave your game running for more rewards. Bugs and unfair practice of not caring if you don’t know about the bargain 50k skill draws package that you will miss out on which should’ve been fixed or doesn’t expire will result in the player having a HUGE disadvantage. ### 3/5 — Im Prinzip gut, aber... *2025-08-13* ...wie auch andere hier schon geschrieben geben, sehr viele verschachtelte Menüs, an diversen Stellen können Belohnungen gesammelt werden, teilweise kann man da schon mal welche vergessen. Außerdem täglich mehrmals Login-Fehler oder mitten im Spiel Verbindungsfehler, teilweise bleibt dann das ganze Spiel hängen, oder manche Funktionen gehen dann nicht (mehr). Könnte ansonsten richtig Laune machen, wenn das mal behoben wird. ### 3/5 — Good game but buggy in IOS *2025-08-13* Although I like the concept and you really can progress or play endlessly without a financial commitment. It crashes almost every 10 minutes on my iPad. That and getting higher level drones (Purple or above) also seems to Chris’s the game after you install them in the drones tab. Add those together and it’s almost “almost” too annoying to play in apple. But I’m still playing and hoping for a fix because without the constant power increase of new tech you basically get stuck at levels and can’t advance. ### 1/5 — Très bon Idle *2025-08-02* Une étoile car sur iPhone 13 Pro , à partir de trois drones je ne peux plus les échanger ou en ajouter un quatrième. Cela déclenche un code erreur # . Je suis obligé de couper le jeu et de relancer. Les trois drones toujours à la même place et pas de quatrième drones dans l’emplacement quatre. J’arrive à avancer dans les niveaux mais cela va vite devenir problématique. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Work in progress *2026-05-12* So far the “tutorial” seems incomplete and the HUD and overall layout isn’t very intuitive for beginner gamers. Lots of room for improvement. Just don’t do any “in-game” purchases just yet. ### 1/5 — P2P(pay to Pay!) *2026-05-07* Another game that has no end and no real benefit to the paying. Gave it the obligatory three weeks, spent some money and ended up with a Nerf account basically. DON’t GET THE LASERs!!! there are many little pitfalls that having to either pay your way out of or sit at the same level for eternity. Was ok at first has good graphics quick gameplay, if you pay the few bucks to lose the ads. But there is a constant need to fork out money to continue to the next great thing until the lasers…. ### 1/5 — The game crashes a lot *2026-04-03, version 1.1.85* I like the game but it begun to crash a lot on IOS ### 1/5 — You almost had me. *2025-12-07* I started the game and it was decent. Decent graphics and a good feel. Never mind the several small bugs and graphical glitches like your cursor flashing an inch away from your finger when you tap. I played for a few days. A new event popped up. It was giving me the summon currency readily for the event. Then suddenly I realized I was stuck at around 29k for a bit. What do you know? I need 30k to summon. Then, I’m going along and do the raids up to about 16. Your typical “raid” content. Suddenly I realized the auto advance thing had turned off. I expected a new feature to open like it had done previously. WRONG. Now every time I want to do a raid I get to watch an add. It takes about 8 seconds to do a raid and the max is 45 seconds or you fail. One of the ads was at least 2 minutes. So you’ll be watching ads MORE than playing the game. Unless you buy the pass to not watch ads which is readily available lol. Speaking of passes, this game has more battle passes than I’ve ever seen in a game. I could probably buy 5 or 6 passes right now. It’s crazy. This game seems very predatory and tempts you with $1 packs so you’ll spend at least something. There is so much more I could write. I was hoping this was going to be a good game. It’s not. Also, the new update made everything way too hard. It becomes a slog too early. A shame. ### 1/5 — Sexual *2025-11-29, version 1.1.73* looked like a cool game until a scandals female character was put on the screen. Why????? ### 1/5 — Too many errors and lost money *2025-11-10* I really enjoyed this game. I wanted to keep going with it, but the constant errors with connections has just upset me to the point of deleting my account and filing a refund request with Apple for the undelivered items (a couple of hundred dollars worth). I have filed customer support requests with zero response from the developer. For the amount of money I am sure this game has taken in they can afford better servers and customer support. ### 1/5 — colony *2025-11-02, version 1.1.68* had to go and paywall colony. good job. Game has been crashing for months and no fix. bug flop ### 1/5 — It had potential and then fell flat *2025-10-25* I installed this game several months ago and enjoyed playing it. I love the fact that you were getting idle rewards and leveling up didn’t require a major financial commitment. However, there must’ve been a recent update to where now it is impossible to defeat a boss level. I’ve upgraded weapons and several other things and now I barely put a scratch in the boss. I have now been stuck on the same boss that I’ve been unable to defeat for several weeks. Also, now it no longer does idle rewards. So the whole time you’re off-line, you’re not gaining anything to earn more money. Some other parts of the game are fine, but with these two things that just were changed I’m definitely going to be removing this app. ### 1/5 — Pay-to-play *2025-10-12, version 1.1.65* Pay to play - plan on spending tons of cash. Seems like devs are always nerfing the combat attack system. This game refuses to award top tier skills. ### 1/5 — colony *2025-10-10, version 1.1.65* had to go and paywall colony. good job. Game has been crashing for months and no fix ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 殖民地中的建筑不能建造 *2026-07-16, version 1.1.92* 殖民地中的几个建筑放到空地上面后、没有出现建造的动作，一返回就没有了。这个需要什么操作技巧吗？还是有什么其他条件？ ### 5/5 — No forced ads *2026-02-27, version 1.1.83* Not sure why the other review said there’s forced ads? There’s none. My only suggestion is to make all the shops accessible from one menu. ### 5/5 — Mon avis *2026-01-24* C’est sympa, un peu frénétique Nice game, a bit fast ### 5/5 — Fun *2025-11-26, version 1.1.73* Fun way to kill the time in soace battles ### 5/5 — 1 star soon *2025-10-04* was going good until they paywalled colony. will be a one star if they dont change it soon ### 5/5 — Great app realy so cool download it NOW!!! *2025-09-02* ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Super Addictive! I love Darkstar Idle RPG! 🚀 The graphics are amazing, the battles feel epic, and the game is so addictive I can’t stop playing now lol 😅. It’s really fun building my fleet and watching it grow even when I’m offline. One of the best space idle RPGs I’ve tried! ### 5/5 — Pretty good! *2025-07-17, version 1.0.48* Pretty good game so far ### 5/5 — Mas batallas en mapas *2025-07-03, version 1.0.46* En planetas(mas ataques) ### 5/5 — À télécharger d'urgence ! *2025-06-26* Très agréable à jouer pas prise de tête, CB facultative sauf pour virer les pub OBLIGATOIRE sinon c'est une plaie à jouer se sera la seule dépense a prévoir avant de kiffer !! ### 5/5 — Good at what it does *2025-05-09* It is an inflation idle game. There is no deep strategy and tedious min maxing, you simply make progress every day. Good if that is what you are looking for. --- *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 2026-08-30.*