# Drum Corps Tycoon — user reviews > 58 indexed App Store user reviews of Drum Corps Tycoon by David Lukens, rated 4.70/5 from 213 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drum-corps-tycoon/id1512444612/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drum-corps-tycoon/id1512444612.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 184 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Drum Corps Tycoon? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Highly addictive and engaging gameplay - 👍 Accurate drum corps historical details and championship records - 💡 Innovative concept combining management sim with drum corps theme - ⭐ Great value for the price ($2-3) - 🎯 Excellent replay value and multiple playthroughs - 📱 Simple, elegant, and intuitive interface design - 🏆 Satisfying progression and achievement system - 😄 Fun and entertaining for drum corps fans and musicians **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues - 📱 Incompatible with older iPhone models (iPhone 5s, iPhone 6) - 🖥️ Game doesn't scale properly on iPad screens - ⏱️ Limited gameplay length (2000-2019 seasons only) - 🎮 Game difficulty feels unbalanced and too challenging - 🔧 Multiple game-breaking bugs preventing progression - 🔊 No sound mute option available - 📊 Score calculation and championship ranking inaccuracies **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on startup (Unity loading screen freeze) - Game freezes at specific seasons (2009, 2012, 2013 reported) - Cannot progress past certain seasons - Cannot purchase new caption heads in later seasons - Stuck on scoreboard screen unable to exit - Championship year/plaque displays incorrect year - Score mixing between different seasons causing ranking errors - Game doesn't resume properly after closing app - iPad screen cutoff prevents button interaction - Game incompatible with iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 devices - Crashes after completing championship - Game fails to boot after initial startup **Most requested features** - Extend playable seasons (start from 1972 DCI founding or custom years) - Update game with 2021, 2022, and 2023 seasons - Remove or significantly increase max level cap - Add ability to design custom show choreography and drill - Implement uniform and color scheme customization - Create custom corps logo design feature - Add visual performance animations/simulations on field - Expand number of competition locations and tour stops - Add more special events and scenario variations - Implement character/tech hiring system similar to GTA 5 - Add ability to manage multiple drum corps simultaneously - Include sound mute/volume control settings - Make game compatible with iPad - Add VoiceOver accessibility support for blind users - Implement longer season with more competitions - Add dynasty mode spanning 60+ years - Create mini-performance sequences for championship shows ## Newest reviews (12 of 58) ### 4/5 — Solid game, bug stopped progress *2020-08-03, version 2020.8.3* Really great, but I left the app and wanted to continue later, and couldn’t get off the scoreboard for the first show :/. I could start a new season I think but don’t wanna lose progress ### 5/5 — Fantastic Game! *2020-07-07, version 2020.6.4* Hello, This game has incredible potential. Here are something I have noticed: I don’t know if this has been brought up but one thing that kept happening for me was the champions didn’t always line up with the correct season. For example, lets say the year was 2016, and my corps scored a 99.05 and got beat out by the 2005 Cadets 99.15. And then, it says the 2016 bluecoats won with their lower score. So basically, older season scores kept getting mixed with the newer ones. That was incredibly strange but I understand the game is early anyway. Last things: The more challenging the game is the better (in my personal opinion). I’m also excited for the possibility of extra modes and such. Thank you for making such a wonderful game and I hope everything turns out beautifully! ### 4/5 — Good game but want more *2020-07-01, version 2020.6.4* This game will be more fun if you can actually design your show like the drill music or color guard choreography and the props and more competitions will be more fun also designed customes ### 4/5 — bruh *2020-06-30, version 2020.6.4* good game but doesn’t work with iphone 5s or ipad ### 5/5 — Volume and Sound *2020-06-30, version 2020.6.4* Love it but please a setting where you can mute sound, thank you😔 ### 4/5 — Super fun! *2020-06-28, version 2020.6.4* This is a really cool game and an awesome idea! In the future if you could add a longer season that would be absolutely awesome ### 5/5 — Love this game *2020-06-28, version 2020.6.4* It’s so much fun and I can’t wait to see where it goes! ### 5/5 — It’s the small things *2020-06-27* Wow at first when I saw the price I was a little bit worried. But it was definitely worth it. This game was really fun to play, I mean I accidentally played this for four hours without noticing the time. Good job to the creators for making a fun and exciting game. However, as I stated in the title there was a few small things. The first being when I got tired of staring at my phone screen. I wanted to get a bigger screen so I downloaded the game on my iPad. Unfortunately the game doesn’t fit on the iPad screen and I couldn’t press a lot of the buttons. The second being the max level. I understand the use of the max level because the game has a season limitation on it, which leads me into my final complaint which is we should be able to go as long as we want and win as many championships as we want. Then when we are done we can restart the game ourselves. Finally I had a few other ideas for this game and these include 1. Being able to buy and run multiple other drum corps 2. As stated earlier more seasons 3. Also stated earlier get rid of the max level 4. Make the game playable on the iPad 5. I’m sure this will take a lot of time but make a 5 second mini show to play at the championship I am sure that I will come up with others in the future. But for now those cover it. Thanks for reading my review! ### 4/5 — Great game but I had a problem *2020-06-27* I thought this was amazing. It was very fun and entertained me. Unfortunatley, I had one problem with the game. I am playing on an Ipad. When I played the game, the edges of the game were cut off. I could not see part of the screen. This made it difficult for me to upgrade and improve. After our first performance, a screen showed up, showing the performance of my drum corps and the ticks. I could not see any exit or close button. So, I was stuck on that screen. I could not continue to play. This game is great, but I wish screen wasnt cut off. ### 5/5 — Great to pass the time *2020-06-26, version 2020.6.3* This is a pretty good way to pass the time. It’s pretty interesting seeing how all the values you change affect how you’ll do during the season. All in all it’s a really fun app to just pass time. ### 4/5 — Great game for Drum Corp fans *2020-06-25, version 2020.6.3* I like this game and can’t wait to see what later updates will bring! It doesn’t have a whole lot to do right now, and is pretty buggy, but hopefully these will change in the future. ### 5/5 — Good Game but *2020-06-25* Great game, but when I had left the screen and when I returned everything was messed up and I couldn’t even resume my game where I had won the DCI championship 2x and now I gotta start all the way over. I would like it where we could design the corps uniforms and maybe see like a visual of them on the field. I would also like to see where we could design a drill for them. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not working *2020-08-04, version 2020.8.4* The game seems really cool but it won’t actually start. ### 1/5 — Game freezes *2020-07-09, version 2020.7.1* I am on an iPhone 6 and it freezes at the loading screen when it says unity ### 1/5 — Crashes constantly *2020-07-04, version 2020.6.4* Can’t even open the app. Love the idea but I can’t play at all ### 1/5 — I can’t even play *2020-06-26, version 2020.6.3* This game looks really fun being in marching band myself... however, I paid for it and every time I click on it, it instantly crashes. I can’t even get into the game... I’ll change my review once this is fixed or I get refunded. Is there anything I’m doing wrong, I’m confused... ### 3/5 — Great game *2021-01-14, version 2020.10.2* I really do enjoy this game but now for months it’s been stuck where I can’t continue on with the group I currently have. I might have to start over to fix this problem. ### 3/5 — Seems great, just wish I could pay... *2020-09-01, version 2020.8.4* I got this game around a couple months ago, and I’ve done everything from re-downloading it, to resetting my phone to try and get it to work, but it just will not work. It shows the lothype.com screen, the unity screen, then goes black and either nothing happens, or it crashes. For reference, I am using an IPhone 6 running iOS12.4.8. ### 3/5 — Seems like fun *2020-06-26, version 2020.6.3* Seems like a lot of fun, but it will not start on my Iphone 6, i get the unity screen, a black screen and then it crashes ### 3/5 — Fun but glitchy *2020-06-24, version 2020.6.1* I love the gameplay and it’s offering me a shred of serotonin in these trying times but it’s prone to getting stuck and crashing. ### 3/5 — Great Idea! *2020-06-22, version 0.8* This app truly is a great idea! Unfortunately I am unable to play it. I downloaded the app but when I open it up, I get the unity logo, then a black screen, then it crashes. This could be due to my phone being old, but I’m not sure. I’m sorry to be the negative nancy. Otherwise, can’t wait to play it! ### 4/5 — Scores *2020-08-23, version 2020.8.4* This is a nice game. Worth the price. Just be sure to fix those score inaccuracies soon ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very Addicting Game! *2023-07-26* I found out about this game from an EMC Productions video, and I thought I’d try it out. I never thought a game like this would be so fun to me, especially the attention to detail about drum corps. Even the corps that won at championships that year, in the game, was accurate too! One thing I’d like to request is to make the game play for longer, or play for as long as you want. You start from the 2000 season and end at the 2019 season. This is fine, but I wish I could play more seasons, like not going into the future but the option to start your corps more in the past. For example, you can have the option to start at the beginning of DCI in 1972, or pick your own year to start from, like 1982 or 1995 or whatever. It would also be great to update this game to make it include the 2021 season, 2022 season, and possibly the 2023 season (depending on when this game is updated). Overall a great game, I just wish more could be added to it! ### 5/5 — Addicting *2020-08-19* I really like the game and got addicted to it from the first time playing. This game has a lot of potential to be something bigger. Though i found a little bug where im in my 7 season and cant buy new caption heads. Hope it gets fixed soon ### 5/5 — Great game! *2020-08-05, version 2020.8.4* If I didn’t know that going from nothing to winning world champs 5 years in a row with millions of dollars in the bank was so easy, I’d understand why the Madison Scouts are out of finals ### 5/5 — Updates have fixed issues *2020-08-02* I had previously left a 3 star review which was heavily critical of the game for it’s difficulty. I’m happy to say that the recent update to the game has fixed the issue! I will happily now give the game 5 stars, and I strongly recommend this to any drum corps fan. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for updating your review! ### 5/5 — Hard to win *2020-07-30* I played this game so many times, but it’s so hard to beat the frickin Madison scouts... the highest score I got was 76. Something, but i want to challenge the big leagues ya know? Please let us have those victories in future updates, thank you very much. ### 5/5 — Great Game! *2020-07-27* Overall, loved the idea & the overall gameplay. Some critiques: 1. Get rid of max level, or create a max level that’s MUCH higher 2. Add some more scenarios for the “Special Events” & the problems you're required to solve. The ones already in there are great! 3. Maybe make a way to hire certain techs & captains. I think making it something like how you hire people for heists in GTA 5 would make it better & also allow for some character development if you were to go that route 4. I would also like to see some way for you to design your own show. Not exactly how you could do that but I think adding elements to give the player more control over the performances would be a nice touch Like I said earlier, it’s already a great game but there’s some improvements I mentioned, along with countless other reviews, that would make the game even better. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Just a question *2020-07-26* For the sheer fact that this is so enticing to me as a drum Corps fan is enough for me to give it five stars off the bat. However, I am blind and would love to know if this game currently is VoiceOver compatible or will be in the future. I appreciate all that you’re doing, and I hope that other blind and visually impaired drum Corps fans will be able to enjoy this game as much as others. Keep up your good work! ### 5/5 — Has a lot of potential just a lot some bugs *2020-07-22* This game is really fun and has huge potential, it does has a bugs like I won a championship but the plaque said the year later like if i won 2016 it would i win 2017 so then it would be in a loop because u can never finish the case since all the space is already taken up when u get too 2018 champs. but overall loving the idea and could be big! ### 5/5 — THIS GAME IS GENUINELY AMAZING *2020-07-13, version 2020.7.1* As a band kid, I saw this game and had to get it. It’s so fun to play!! It’s like Bitlife but you’re a band director. Very fun, do recommend. Gotta love when I end up bearing my favorite corps like Carolina Crown and the Bluecoats. ### 5/5 — My updated thoughts (7-8-20) *2020-07-08* I’m really hyped that the game is starting its launch off of being an amazing app (it already is, but even more amazing) and i love the team putting so much effort into it. I’m also very happy that there will be weekly updates, because games with weekly updates are the games that stay around for a long time, and i can’t wait to see where this app is heading, thank you team :) --- *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.*