# El Patrón - Idle Cartel — user reviews > 107 indexed App Store user reviews of El Patrón by Big Wolf Company, rated 4.90/5 from 3,774 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/el-patron-idle-cartel/id1475282740/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/el-patron-idle-cartel/id1475282740.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,614 · 4★ 71 · 3★ 27 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 53 ## What do users think of El Patrón? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Realistic gameplay - 👍 Engaging story and characters - 💡 Interesting cartel theme - 🕹️ Addictive idle gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔍 Difficult to navigate menus and find inventory - 💰 Excessive ads and monetization - 🕰️ Repetitive tutorial and cutscenes **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes on loading screen - Ads fail to load or reward properly - Progress resets or gets lost during events - Crashes when trying to upgrade to new chapters **Most requested features** - Ability to manually save progress - Option to disable story/tutorial - Improved event stability and rewards - More content and new chapters ## Newest reviews (11 of 107) ### 4/5 — Good but has an annoying bug *2024-08-14* I’ve been playing this game since I got my new phone, and I’ve enjoyed it! I’m a person who has pretty severe ADHD so I lose interest in things quick, but I’ve been playing this game for weeks now and that’s unheard for me lol. Something that would improve the game alottttt is that the ads will glitch and you can’t X out of them to go back to the game. I have to completely restart the game and will have to watch the ad over again to get the original prize. It’s gotten very annoying especially when I don’t have much free time and lose all chance of making progress due to this ad issue. Please fix this bug!!! ### 3/5 — Good game, but… *2023-01-18* I really like this game. I’m an idle game player. Have downloaded many games like this. My only problem is that you have to constantly watch ads if you want anything extra in the game. The x2 when return to game. The x2 for in game play. Pickup cards in store through ads. I had one that was 15 ads to get card. That’s a lot. It would be great if you would sell an ad blocker in game. I know many people don’t like spending real money, me either, but this is the only thing I ever spend money on. Something to think about. **Developer response:** Hey Lizzyian, thanks for your feedback it is appreciated. Our team is working around the clock to improve your experience. If you would be so kind to check out the following article which articulates the benefits of VIP membership http://bit.ly/3HjRiZm it may prove helpful (VIP members can enjoy the game ad free). If you have any more thoughts on what you feel could be improved to make things better for you please reach out to us at narcos-support@bigwolf.com as we would be incredibly grateful. Thanks. ### 4/5 — Froze *2022-09-05, version 4.1.0* It’s fun until I gotten to the second stage and it froze and I closed it still froze.sad just started it ### 3/5 — Game won’t get past loading screen *2022-06-23* I’ve played this game before but along time ago so I wanted to get back into it but I can never make it past the loading screen it just stays on the loading screen **Developer response:** Hey d0ughb0oy, thank you for your feedback it is appreciated. That said, please send an image of the loading screen via email - support@bigwolf.zendesk.com or through the game https://bit.ly/narcoshelp so that we may better see what is going on with your game and troubleshoot your issue in as efficient a manner as possible. Thank you very much! ### 4/5 — Good game *2022-06-05, version 4.0.6* I love this game but need new chapters asap ### 4/5 — Awesome game except for one thing that’s REALLY ANNOYING *2022-04-19* I normally don’t write reviews but I see that the developers pay attention so I felt like I should return the favor because this is one of my all time favorite games! I’m not having any trouble and my game progress is such that I enjoy advancing and it keeps me interested. The story line is good and I like the numerous events. My ONLY complaint is that the tutorial plays on EVERY event!! I can probably recite it from memory and I dread logging in to each new event because of that tutorial!! I saw it once, I could even understand twice, and that’s enough I don’t need it again!!! **Developer response:** Hey Jandee J, thank you for your feedback it is sincerely appreciated. That said, please send an image of the loading screen via email - support@bigwolf.zendesk.com or through the game https://bit.ly/narcoshelp so that we may better see what is going on with your game and troubleshoot your issue in as efficient a manner as possible. Thank you very much again! ### 3/5 — Black screen *2022-03-11, version 4.0.5* Same problem as Tjacob2004, game wont open and load and just ack screens. Sometimes redownloading doesn’t even work. ### 3/5 — Notifications *2022-03-03, version 4.0.5* I’m just gonna stop playing this until you remove the notification badges from the boost and mini ops (and whatever else with any other menu prompting for users to watch ads) ### 3/5 — Problem in game *2022-02-16* Love the game but there’s a glitch where when you start the app up it stays processing stays there like a black screen and to play you have to delete then download it again and start a new wait till it realizes that there are tho same account and let you chose to go to other account pliss solve this **Developer response:** Hey TJacob2004, thank you for your feedback it is appreciated. That said, please send an image of the loading screen via email - support@bigwolf.zendesk.com or through the game https://bit.ly/narcoshelp so that we may better see what is going on and troubleshoot your issue in as efficient a manner as possible. Thank you very much! ### 5/5 — Question *2022-02-06* For your next update, can you put production to make product old to ruby and on events? **Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback Noahipad1. We tweak our game based on player feedback to ensure we deliver a top gaming experience so I passed your feedback to our design team for consideration. That said, if you have any more thoughts on what you feel could be improved to make things better for you please reach out to us at narcos-support@bigwolf.com we would be incredibly grateful. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Your the best game *2021-11-11, version 3.6.5* My son loves this game and I love it to so please keep on uploading new things ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Pauses music *2024-08-21, version 5.5.5* Every time I go to play and I’m listening to a podcast or music the game opening pauses music. I then start the music again just to go back to the game and it pauses it again. ### 1/5 — It’s Colombia not Columbia *2024-06-28, version 5.5.5* Fix your typo mistakes in the story dialogue. ### 1/5 — Ad trap! *2024-06-04* Don’t bother. You’ll spend half the time watching ads! Forced ads that you can’t skip, mid game. ### 1/5 — Game won’t load *2024-05-10, version 5.4.4* Won’t get past loading screen ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2022-11-01, version 4.1.0* The game crashes like every 5 seconds or when I press something ### 1/5 — bunmer *2022-03-27, version 4.0.5* for about an hour i played and it was great. and then i closed the app to go do some things. around two hours later every time i open the app my phone goes grey and then closes the app. i deleted the app and redownloaded it which seemed to work well. and then it did the same thing ### 1/5 — Stupid Update *2022-02-18, version 4.0.5* Everytime I watch an Ad for a boost I wait until the end for the X to quit to ad after it has finished and still not getting the boost. I had to redownload the game since the update and it worked for a few minutes now it won’t open once again. The new update looks awful the old design/colours was way better. The blue looks weird ### 1/5 — Greedy scam game *2021-11-02, version 3.6.5* Who in their right mind would pay $100 of real money for some fake money. Insane. Scam, scam, scam. These games are harmfully addictive. All they do is waste a lot of time and keep people inching along for hours to just repeat the same thing they just wasted hours doing. ### 1/5 — Constantly crashes, cheap rewards *2021-10-28, version 3.6.5* Crashes every time I try to watch an ad to get boosts or rewards. Rewards are super chintsy. Takes forever to get upgrades. Unimaginative, uninspiring storyline. Uninstalling. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2021-10-25, version 3.6.5* Won’t even go past the loading screen. Waste of space on any device. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — DOPE *2025-06-11, version 5.5.5* Pure uncut Dope game. ### 5/5 — Satisfaction *2024-11-25* I love this game, it’s so realistic when it comes to building a cartel militia and fight your rivals in slummed impoverished neighborhoods or in the rural areas of villages, hills mountain woods jungles, border cities, coastal cities, and river or lake cities. Rural cities too. Love this game ### 5/5 — Good game *2024-03-08, version 5.4.4* Best game ever I’m not a bot I promise ### 5/5 — Great *2023-10-22, version 5.2.4* Great ### 5/5 — Almighty Pablo *2023-10-14, version 5.1.8* I like the game just not the story plot knowing the history back story but I like the game ### 5/5 — Good game *2023-07-14, version 5.1.2* I’m lazy and don’t do reviews that much but this game is great ### 5/5 — This is the best game ever. *2022-10-27, version 4.1.0* I would sell my family to play this game. ### 5/5 — the office but cartel *2022-07-19, version 4.0.6* if you love the office like me this game does it justice! fun play and mini games in between are enjoyable 🥹good job devs 👍 ### 5/5 — Cool *2022-07-06, version 4.0.6* Super great game ### 5/5 — More *2022-04-10, version 4.0.6* Need more levals good game tho --- *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.*