# Empire Survivor: Idle Defense — user reviews

> 79 indexed App Store user reviews of Empire Survivor by Bang Le Hai, rated 4.30/5 from 307 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/empire-survivor-idle-defense/id6444881859/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/empire-survivor-idle-defense/id6444881859.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 199 · 4★ 69 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 25

## What do users think of Empire Survivor?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🎮 Engaging roguelite tower defense mechanics with skill customization
- 🃏 Interesting card system with diverse spell and ability options
- 🦸 Multiple hero selection allowing build variety and synergies
- 💰 Generous free premium currency rewards
- ⚡ Good game pacing with frequent progression rewards
- 🎯 Simple and straightforward gameplay mechanics
- 🌊 Fun wave-based progression system

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes in endless mode around levels 100-160+
- 📺 Excessive ads throughout gameplay experience
- 💳 Aggressive monetization with multiple IAP options
- 💸 Deceptive pricing with multiple similar-looking premium purchases
- 🚫 Broken in-app purchase system causing charges without delivery
- ⚠️ Inappropriate content (half-naked women) for age 4+ rating
- 🔇 Forces game audio over user's music and background audio
- ⏱️ Endless mode takes excessively long (40+ minutes)
- 🎮 Difficulty spikes dramatically in later stages
- 🐌 Severe lag and performance issues with many enemies
- 💔 Lost account data and unresponsive customer support
- 🎯 Range enemy AI stacking causes unfair difficulty

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Endless mode crashes after level 100-160, consuming tickets without rewards
- In-app purchases show 'invalid receipt' error while charging card
- Multiple duplicate charges for single purchase attempts
- Growth funds cannot be purchased despite being offered
- Game force-closes during daily challenges and endless mode
- Account data lost with no support response for over a week
- Auto-upgrade repeatedly purchases maxed-out traits, wasting currency
- Game audio overrides device audio settings even when muted
- Promotional ad freezes and cannot be closed
- Game lags and crashes when too many enemies on screen
- Time-based reward timer stops loading at 43 minutes
- Game takes over phone audio despite sound being turned off

**Most requested features**

- Fix endless mode crash issues and add reconnect functionality
- Allow starting endless mode at higher floors (e.g., highest reached -50)
- Add boss variety including ranged, teleporting, and elemental bosses
- Implement custom card layout presets for different game modes
- Add confirmation dialogs for premium currency spending
- Improve music and sound effects quality
- Speed up endless mode progression significantly
- Allow background music to play while gaming
- Add more elite enemies before boss encounters
- Create elemental defense mechanics for strategic depth
- Implement auto-upgrade fix to prevent maxed trait rebuying
- Remember game speed settings between matches
- Show damage breakdown by skills and heroes
- Add Discord community server

## Newest reviews (13 of 79)

### 4/5 — Bon jeux

*2026-01-17*

Bon jeux pour passez le temps mais ne faite pas le mode challenge sa plante à chaque fois dommage.

### 3/5 — Video not working

*2026-01-13, version 1.0.322*

Pls fix the videos. It’s not working for me

### 3/5 — Обновления

*2025-10-12*

Игру забросили. Отстой.

### 2/5 — Endless mode is broken

*2024-07-27*

Endless mode crashes after level 160. Can’t progress

### 4/5 — Fun

*2024-07-08, version 1.0.322*

Fun but needs something else, not sure what!

### 3/5 — iPhone 12 crash

*2024-07-07*

Нормально. Только в бесконечный режим увы не поиграешь. После 100+ волны выкидывает и ничего не получаешь. До сих пор не исправили и не исправят уже по всей видимости

### 4/5 — Неплохо

*2024-05-11*

Игра радует, но есть 2 бага на iPhone 11 iOS 17.4.1 . 
1) Почему я не могу получить награды в боевом пропуске за пройденный контент, который был пройден до покупки боевого пропуска. 
2) В бесконечных испытаниях игра ломается и закрывается когда идёт 100 волна.

### 4/5 — Вылеты в бесконечном режиме

*2024-05-01*

Пофиксите эту проблему. Много кто с ней сталкивается. В целом неплохой таймкиллер.Спасибо!

### 2/5 — Too many ads

*2024-04-01*

Yet again another game that forces you to watch dozens of ads just to play the game. Yet another ad revenue farm with basic game mechanics.

### 1/5 — Growth funds can’t be purchased

*2024-03-27, version 1.0.289*

This game offers growth funds for you to purchase but for some reason the game won’t let me purchase them

### 1/5 — Lost paid packages and profile. 1 week no response from support

*2024-03-24*

Game is a 4/5. Card system and special abilities are really good but doesn’t stand out too much after that and hero abilities and star ups are very copycat and paste.

Came back because it looks like there might be new content but logged in to a blank account, tried my google account just in case to nothing as well. My account not only was very late game but I bought packages as well in hopes the game would grow so the only support option the game gives is a feedback/ support option but with a week of no responses in-game, through the IOS account or email (spam or otherwise). Losing content I paid for and no response from support is very very bad sign for this game and I can’t recommend spending if a game can’t guarantee their save files or paid content.

**Developer response:** Thank you for sharing your opinion with us. We will take note of your suggestion and look for possible implications as we make improvements to the game.

### 4/5 — Don’t lvl range

*2024-03-13*

Games chill so 4 stars. If you want to run a grinder/blender build do not upgrade range. Get power balls spinning and that should get you pretty far fast. Yall eventually which to a golden tower build with shockwave. Because of this I don’t level my damage with gold as I’m gonna which soon. So you want sceen filled with enemies so make lots of gold pushing them away. Not killing them and gaining more gold when the ultimate is up

### 1/5 — Force-quit in daily challenge

*2024-02-22, version 1.0.281*

Game to keep force-quitting during endless mode
AppStore to block refund request on broken game
Excellent team work guys, cheers!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Cool game, BUT

*2025-01-07*

Daily challenge is crashing at 140+ waves. So not available to farm medals.
Card “Upgrade all” doesn't work at all. 
Card “frostbite” is missing, no card in the game and no card in shop.
Will edit rate after update.

P. S. I would like more improvements in the workshop

### 1/5 — A glorified donation button

*2024-07-30, version 1.0.322*

The game is decent, it is a clone of The Tower on kongregate/steam. My issue with the game is how many in app purchases are immediately pushed upon you as soon as you finish the first level. There are some unique features such as the random card effects offered every few rounds but even those sometimes lock the best option behind watching an ad. Could be promising but you will eventually hit a paywall. I would recommend just playing The Tower instead as it offers the entire game without IAP

### 1/5 — Bon début mais ça bug

*2024-07-06*

Le jeu a l’air sympa pour l’instant je progresse bien.
Je voulais montrer mon soutien aux développeurs en prenant le pack sans pub… mais impossible de l’acheter.
Tant pis.

### 1/5 — Бесперспективно

*2024-05-31*

Нового контента нет. Шанс выбить норм героя 0%.

### 1/5 — Don’t download. Crashes

*2024-05-29, version 1.0.289*

Keep coming back to this every month.
Crashes if you want to progress. They ain’t even trying to fix it

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2024-05-05, version 1.0.289*

Downloaded this game thinking it is a fun tower defense idle game but then when you open the game it has a half naked women on the screen which is terrible seeing as the game is rated ages 4+.

### 1/5 — Насильный показ рекламы прямо во время игры

*2024-04-16*

Больше одной звезды игра не заслуживает

### 1/5 — Too many ads

*2024-04-13*

Full of ads

### 1/5 — Solid ad generator

*2024-04-13*

This game has a tremendous amount of ads. I’ve had it installed 10 minutes and I’ve watched more ads for rewards and skills than I’ve spent playing. If you want to spend your free time watching ads though, great use of phone storage.

### 1/5 — $$$$$

*2024-04-07*

The Micro transactions in this game are very deceiving. There are 6 different premium growth funds that look like they are the same purchase of $20 but those are all separate purchases. Spending any amount of money removes all form of difficulty making the game unbelievably boring. But not spending any money makes the game a long and extremely repetitive grind with no reward. Balance your game better.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Прикольная игра )

*2025-05-15*

Прикольно ,можно поиграть на досуге )

### 5/5 — Залипаю второй день

*2024-10-09*

Оч нравится , классная и занимательная (жаль что купит все нельзя , ибо в России оплата не работает)

### 5/5 — Хочу обновлений!

*2024-09-25*

Я фактически прошел игру, 50/50 локаций, 62/64 карт, 2 не выпадают... Ну ладно; 17/17 персонажей, топовый билд из водяной стихии и 200+левела персов; в прокачке пассивных навыков 6/12 максимального уровня. Да-да, я очень много времени убил на это все. Труднее всего было собрать всех персов. Очень много кристаллов на это ушло и доната.) 

И так о багах: 1. при выбитых персах всех тиров кроме легендарного, в магазине бесплатные коробки пишут, что персонажи уже все есть - «персонаж полон». 
2. Фризы в магазине. При пролистывание вниз начинает фризить. 
3. Не возможность пройти 280+ волн в бесконечном режиме из-за вылета игры. Плюсом при вылете не сохраняется прогресс и награду получить не возможно. 
4. Наличие бага с картой «экономия денег», в бесконечном режиме она работает до 17 волны, вроде как. (если быть точнее работает прирост ~x10, который так же работает в обычном режиме прохождения)
5. Отсутствие корректного перевода на Русский язык. 

Я очень надеюсь на выход новых версий, так как время тратить на эту игру, было приятно.😅

### 5/5 — Waves Waves Waves!!!!

*2024-09-17, version 1.0.322*

More and more fun with each new wave! Highly recommended!

### 5/5 — Nice

*2024-08-16, version 1.0.322*

Nice

### 5/5 — Игра

*2024-06-04*

Неплохая убивалка времени и гриндилка.
В легкую играется без доната, но дольше, хотя спешить некуда.
Очень не хватает кооперативной составляющей.

### 5/5 — Музыка

*2024-04-26*

Хочу играть под свою музыку но игра её выключает не удобно

### 5/5 — Great direction ! TD game with Roguelite

*2024-02-03, version 1.0.265*

I have played several TD game like this. I tried archer defense TD and The Tower.  This game has more interesting ways to upgrade and customize your build with Skill cards that include different Spells.  It offers Roguelite upgrades which I love.  It makes each run more interesting.  I love how we can go for more cool-down builds or more faster attack skills to trigger spells.  Make it more complicated and interesting than just increasing our damage!  

I love how we can have up to 5 heroes.  Again. More ways to customize!  

Things to improve:
Music sucks.  Too peaceful.  There is no boss music.  Sound effect for skills need more love too. 

Monster and boss variety is lacking.  I am on chapter 4 and all the Bosses just walk slowly towards me.  Why don’t you create Range Boss ?  Teleporting Boss ?  

I find way there should be more Elites before the boss because every run is easy to start and then once the Boss shows up, it takes a long time to kill.  Add more variety in bosses.  

I would even create Elemental defense. Range defense. Melee defense.   We need to build our defense against different monsters. Plan ahead !

Keep up the great work. I give 5 stars

### 5/5 — Good

*2023-12-05*

• Cool combinable skills such as:
 Atk, rich atk, rich hp, atk spd., and life drain made differences.
• Good heroes in this game; Adding them makes useful stat boosts and effective.
• It’s too hard to collect points for ultimate skills that they get outshined by everything else useful around.
• Interesting Otherworld chapter and lab stat growths.

### 5/5 — This game is amazing!

*2023-12-04, version 1.0.241*

I love these kind of idle games. This is fun.  I was playing on my iPad first not on my iPhone and I can’t stop playing it. It’s pretty straight forward, so easy.

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