# Elemental Sands — user reviews > 30 indexed App Store user reviews of Elemental Sands by TapTide Interactive, rated 4.20/5 from 65 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elemental-sands/id6474100439/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elemental-sands/id6474100439.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 47 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 9 ## Newest reviews (10 of 30) ### 2/5 — Not Fully Developed *2026-06-26* It's got a good look to it but there are so few options that it got boring quickly. There is talk of future development but it seems like this game should be farther along than it is for a very basic idler. Recommend looking elsewhere. ### 4/5 — Fun, but slows down drastically *2025-12-19* Overall, I really enjoyed this game. I have played a lot of idle games, and I did greatly enjoy what I got out of this one. The two currencies, sand and money, which are used to upgrade and unlock other items, is fairly unique. I enjoy how much being active pays off compared to a lot of other idle games, while being idle also provides lots of sand once you progress to a certain point. However, I found that after only a few thousand product upgrades, things seem to be slowing down drastically. While I have everything maxed out for additional upgrades, from prestige to prestige the prestige currency is hardly keeping up with what I need to get much out of each prestige. In addition, the other two worlds progress are also incredibly slow at first and have been a bit hard to pick up and play. Overall, I have really enjoyed this game, but it seems like I’ve hit a bit of a wall. I’ll keep playing for a bit, and if that wall is surmounted I will update my review. ### 4/5 — Soundtrack Slaps *2025-08-07* The gameplay isn’t bad, but not ground breaking. I like that exporting gives you a profit multiplier. But the music.. dang dude. That is SO well done. It’s just like one long track with how all the movements seamlessly come together. A+ Music B+ Gameplay B Graphics/Art Style ### 3/5 — Game was great until the new patch ruined months of progress *2025-06-21* The newest update that added 10 more levels and revamped upgrades was fantastic and made progression a lot more streamlined but the new patch that reset sand capacity and spawn rate ruined any semblance of progression I once had. Every time I reset I barely get any more upgrade currency and it’s stalemated my progress to a point where I don’t think I can recover my current game that I’ve worked on for 3 months now. The game is probably fantastic now for new players but I feel completely stuck at my current rates now and even 5-day fast forwards don’t do anything to boost my rates or currency amounts. **Developer response:** Hello and thanks for the review. 1.3.1 was our bad. The issue you had was the result of a bug that is now fixed. And progress should feel faster again. If you have any other feedback feel free to let us know and we’re sorry for the inconvenience! ### 3/5 — Very slow *2025-05-31* I love idle games don’t get me wrong but there is no sense of progression I’ve been playing for a couple days and am level 9 and I don’t feel any different from when I started. Solid game to start with but this one is super slow and lacking features atm ### 2/5 — Weird progression, not enough fun *2025-03-12* Just not that rewarding and the valuations for different tiers of upgrades were weird as they didn’t lead to progress you would expect for the time allotment. ### 3/5 — good game *2025-03-10, version 1.1.4* good game but as the other review says uses up battery fast and overheats phone ### 3/5 — Interesting *2025-03-09, version 1.1.4* If I export I seem to get more red vials. What do they do? ### 3/5 — Solid idle game but terribly optimised *2025-03-07, version 1.1.4* Been enjoying the game thus far, though I have only played for around 2 hours. In this time, iv used 60% of my battery with my phone getting very warm in the process. Performance definitely needs addressing. ### 3/5 — A lot of crashing *2025-02-28* I enjoy the game and the narrative is funny. I haven’t really gotten further than a few exports because the game is constantly crashing. Usually around when I export. It seems to mostly crash if I’m exporting and interact with anything else while it’s doing it but this last crash was a couple seconds after it was done. Fix this and I’ll immediately switch my review to 5 stars. Just currently unplayable for myself **Developer response:** Hello! Sorry about stability problems. Stability should be much better in the newest updates. Thanks for the patience we are a team of two and are constantly working to improve the experience. If you run into any other issues please let us know at https://taptideinteractive.com/feedback ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Broken app *2025-11-09* Downloaded, waited 10 minutes with the screen just loading with a “tuning transmission frequencies” message, uninstalled. ### 1/5 — Updates bricked my progress *2025-10-17* Thanks for pushing sweeping updates to the calculation tables- your new maths bricked my progress and I can’t hit the same prestige markers I was hitting previously by a long shot. Greedy dev just wants people to pay for more progress speed I guess. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-07-16* This game wastes more time than adding a second coat of paint. ### 1/5 — Sick Update *2025-06-24, version 1.3.1* broke the game with rebalancing, alot of currency wasted and a complete standstill in progress ### 1/5 — Game broken? *2025-05-07* Started and everything is locked, completely locked and then the screen is just question marks? The in game tutorial tells you to follow the glowing buttons essentially and uh my glowing buttons didn’t work I guess **Developer response:** Hello! We’re so sorry for the inconvenience. We’d love to know more about the issue you were having. At the start of the game the top right details button should be glowing. We’d love to know what you were seeing so we can fix the issue. If you wouldn’t mind could you provide more info on our bug tracker? https://taptideinteractive.com/bug_report. Thanks! ### 1/5 — AI art *2025-04-27, version 1.2.0* has ai art developer’s must hate humans ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2025-04-19* The peak of what I mean is the new daily login. You need to log in every day for a week to get .5% better rewards. Just play something that actually rewards you time spent. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for the review. We will try to make to tooltip clearer but the multiplier boost increases the bonus by an additional 50% so you should get 1.5x after the first week 2x then 2.5x and so on. We are team of two so it can be difficult to make sure everything is as clear as we would like but we’re constantly working on the app so If you have additional feedback please let us know at taptideinteractive.com/feedback ### 1/5 — Game doesn’t work *2025-03-15, version 1.1.5* After loading and going through the tutorial I couldn’t press any buttons or really do anything ### 1/5 — Good game but keep getting error codes *2025-03-08* I keep getting error Exception: Failed to get server time Please fix and I’ll update review **Developer response:** Hello! So sorry about that error. We have been looking into these issues and have made targeted changes at reducing the occurrence of them. Let us know if this issue still persists and if you run into anything else feel free to let us know at https://taptideinteractive.com/bug_report We are constantly working on the app and improving the experience so thanks for the help! ### 1/5 — Crashes and overheats phone *2025-02-27, version 1.1.3* I just can’t say anything nice about this game or recommend it. I tried to play it but apart from crashing every 2 minutes, losing all my progress, draining my battery at an insane level and overheat the phone, I didn’t experience anything else. How is this possible for an idle clicker where there is nothing crazy going on. You tap, a number increases and that’s it. If these issues are solved I might revise my review but in the state it’s in, it’s just unplayable and could even hurt your phone… ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Super solid *2025-05-22* Very chill game with a really beautiful esthetic. The system them have is excellent and i like everythibg they are doing. They seems to be good devs with a well thought out plan of attack and i beleiev they will make this a really interesting game in the future with more mechanics in future updates. Its pretty bare bones rn but its enjoyable ### 5/5 — Good game 🤝 *2025-04-23* on track to have carpel tunnel in both hands soon (from tapping) . great game. ### 5/5 — Its aight *2025-04-09* Its basically adventure capitalist but with some unique twists. ### 5/5 — Class *2025-03-27, version 1.1.5* Good game 👍🏻 ### 5/5 — Can’t stop *2025-03-24, version 1.1.5* It’s hard to grasp at first but I love it, please update ### 5/5 — Great idle game *2025-03-08* Awesome and worth your time. I would please ask developers to increase level cap because I hit it kind of quick and there’s not really an end goal. It started with a cool story and dialogue it would be nice to see that through a little more ### 5/5 — Cool tapping game *2025-03-05* Game is a battery killer right now. Needs more optimization ### 5/5 — Good game. *2025-03-03* I just had a few suggestions/ questions and did not know where to put them. So first, I would like to say it’s a really good game. It is different than what I was expecting, but welcome. I think the only big suggestion I have is music. And I’m sure you are working on it, but without it, I can also just listen to what I want anyway. As for my Question, do you guys have a formal way to give suggestions? Like a discord or something. Thanks for the game! **Developer response:** Thanks for the response! We do have a discord and you can submit feedback and bugs in the app on the Settings page or directly in the discord. We are also working on music and sounds and they will be added when we think they are quality enough! Thanks for the feedback! ### 5/5 — Simple game; great bones *2025-03-02* The game is still in its early stages but it’s got a great start. Gameplay loop is satisfying and I am eager to see more content added! ### 5/5 — I alone shall conquer the sands!!! *2025-02-08* Ye behold the might of my sand company! Tremble before my keys and mighty sea of saaaaaanddddd!!! TAP TAP TAP!!!! Corporate feudalism is the only way to lead these poor wretches and peasants from their squaller homes and lives to the riches that is the sweetest of nectar… SAND!!!!! Saaaaandddd….. saaanndd… sand… snd…… --- *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 2026-08-24.*