# Essential Popstar Life Sim — user reviews > 85 indexed App Store user reviews of Essential Popstar Life Sim by Fortune Ewuru, rated 4.70/5 from 700 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/essential-popstar-life-sim/id6744975376/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/essential-popstar-life-sim/id6744975376.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 591 · 4★ 53 · 3★ 34 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Essential Popstar Life Sim? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fun game concept - 👍 Easy to play - 💡 Potential for growth **Cons** - 🐛 Save slot not working - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🔒 Lack of free options **Commonly reported bugs** - Save slot not working - Game crashes when clicking on saved games - Insta bug **Most requested features** - Add back/return buttons to UI - Allow users to view their own awards/certifications ## Newest reviews (18 of 85) ### 3/5 — Ai features not working/bugs *2026-06-26, version 2.1.0* Every ai event i do fail, i can’t see Ai comments under any posts the game has a lot of bugs that needs to be fixed ### 3/5 — Needs a little bit of work *2026-06-23* The game is good I wouldn't lie but there are bugs which are in the game. First of all, after creating a song I find it hard to click button “<-” which takes me back to the full menu. Secondly trying to upgrade my level on Twitter has seemed impossible and this has made it undable to connect with other artists. Third the game energy sometimes reduces on its own without me even creating a song or doing anything. So far the game is still incredible ### 3/5 — good, But *2026-06-16* The game keeps crashing. I’ve been downloading and uninstalling it for over a year trying to fix the issue. Also, please change the release feature back. When I check my album stats, I can’t click out of the screen. Another issue is with the AI features—I can’t see or leave comments even when I have full energy. When I tap the comment section, it doesn’t load, and it still takes all of my energy. ### 3/5 — 7/10 *2026-06-16* Precisa melhoras as seguintes coisas: 1• Traduzir o jogo 100% em português BR, 2• arrumar e colocar pra funcionar a IA de forma correta, porque ela não funciona nem 1%. 3• deve arrumar urgentemente a parte de “Agendar evento IA”, pois ela funciona uma única vez e trava no primeiro npc que seleciono e agora aparece “Error; user verification failed” ### 4/5 — It won’t let me Scroll on some parts of the game *2026-06-05* 3.5 ### 3/5 — Streams *2026-06-01* I love the update where you can see the daily streams and all and i’m happy the negative song hype is gone, however, the game is. is unfair to people who don’t have god mode or premium. The streams you get without these things are so bad after having a successful album. Also, the streams are not consistent and what i mean by this is one week my song could be doing like 12M+ streams then drop to doing 1M or less. ### 3/5 — Bug *2026-05-19* Le jeu est vraiment bien mais je dois relancer le jeu casi tout le temps car je suis bloqué a chaque fois dans une app ou autres🫠 ### 3/5 — A bug that makes the game way harder. *2026-05-12, version 2.0.2* The game is great, but one big bug ruins it. If you open something there is a 1 in 3 chance you can’t close it. If you change album cover, you can’t leave that song anymore. Please fix this. Also PLEASE ADD ROCK ### 4/5 — Not very good *2026-04-24* Well, the whole experience overall was good but the only problem was that every time I went off of game and I came back my social media was logged out and then it won’t let me move on from a week so I’m stuck on March and it won’t let me and something keeps popping up, so it was good, but please fix that ### 3/5 — Chi… *2026-02-17, version 1.3.0* The game is good I can play it for hours, but what takes away from it are these three things: 1. You cannot get popular without having a plethora of features. We don’t wanna be lady collabga.. 2. When you try to promote your song it gives you a negative.. LIKE WHY WAS THAT ADDED???? It legit makes no sense.. also why are we able to get million**s** of views on our promos but get 10k-100 song hype? it literally makes zero sense. 3. This one is personal but I dislike the fact the same is sales based. I wish there was a mode where you can choose whether you want it to be sales or stream based because why am I getting 20M sales on my debut album with 5B streams… other than these problems the game is good. ### 3/5 — Premuim *2026-02-13* I paid 2 time and i dont got it ### 4/5 — . *2026-02-11* Jogo muito bom, mas não estou mais conseguindo criar albuns ### 3/5 — Great game bad crashes *2026-01-30, version 1.3.0* The game is great but has so many crashes! very hard to be enjoyable ### 2/5 — Tab *2026-01-23, version 1.3.0* Game is good, but I can’t press tab most of the time and have to close the game Please update the game it’s unplayable right now ### 4/5 — More music awards shows *2025-12-25, version 1.3.0* I want to more music award show ### 3/5 — Such a fun game with a small issue *2025-12-06* Such a fun game, I like all of the things your able to do like festivals, concerts, collabs, promotions, marketing. But there’s an annoying bug that won’t let you back out of something then you have to close the app to fix it, but then your progress gets lost ### 4/5 — Tab *2025-12-06, version 1.3.0* Game is good, but I can’t press tab most of the time and have to close the game ### 4/5 — Great game but *2025-11-17* You should make it easier to do certain things , like promoting an album is just annoying you have to click everything one by one and it takes a lot of time , there should be optimization to do things faster and simpler ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Rating *2026-08-10* I really like to play this game so much so many months. But i paused playing it because if always broke down at like 10-30 minutes into the game. Would be great of u to fix that quitting errors. To fix the bug. Because i also payed a lot of real money to have everything in this game. Thx. But great gameplay ### 1/5 — STILL STREAMING ISSUES! *2026-06-06, version 2.1.0* everytime there’s an update something goes wrong, after 40 weeks of a song releases it never grows and slowly declines which doesn’t make the game fun anymore! It keeps happening! EVEN WITH THE UPDATES IT NEVER GOES BACK TO HOW IT USED TO BE! ### 1/5 — Not optimized at all *2026-05-25* The game is not optimized and make my phone hot, even games like efootball don’t. I recommend to not install it. ### 1/5 — Not a good game *2026-05-11, version 2.0.2* When you play you get streams and listeners but then it goes to zero so all the work goes to nothing ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-04-20, version 1.3.0* SO I PUT PHOTOS OF EVERYTHING RIGHT SO I PUT THEM ON THERE I HAD TO LOG OUT I LOG OUT ITS NOT THERE MAYBE THEY WOMT TAKE THOSES OK SO I CHSTMIZE A CHARACTER RIGHT ON THERE APP LOG I TO ALL THE APPPS LOG OUT AGAIN WELL LIKE NOT LOG OUT BUT AND I SAVED FHR DLSOT THAYS ANOTHER REAON IM KIKE YOU KNOW RHEN I COME BACK THATS GONE LIKE NOOOOO NOW WHAT IF I START A REAL CAREER THEN I HAVR TO STOP PLAYING COME BACK ALLL MY PROGRESS KS GONE ### 1/5 — About the new update and supposed *bug fixes* *2025-10-25* Basically everytime I try and make a meeting I could have 20 energy soon as I try and respond back to a AI artist it says I have no energy basically saying I have to pay to get more energy even though I waited all the time then the festivals doesn’t restart every year on my screen it still says 2017 and I have moved onto the year 2019 and still no festival all it says is announcement in 1w. ### 1/5 — NEEDS WORK/TOO BUGGY *2025-07-20* The app it’s good idea however there’s no options for skin tones or variety in characters, doesn’t allow you to upload your own photo like other Music Star apps and every time I click on something it brings me back to my home screen. The app is very glitchy. That being said the overall concept of the app is a great idea. You get to choose where you want to start in life, social media comments are real, making songs are easy to understand and emails feel real. Just please fix the app. ### 1/5 — Glitch Update ASAP *2025-07-16* Game keep crashing and exiting app everytime i try to promote my song on TikTok ### 1/5 — Horrible game *2025-06-08, version 1.0* I’ve spent MY MONEY ON TWO SAVES AND EVERYTIME I CLICK PLAY ON THEM THE GAME CLOSES WHAT IS GOING ON! ### 2/5 — Wtf *2026-03-16, version 1.3.0* I paid for premium, still getting invisible ads, which breaks the game and freezes the screen, that's another thing, it's always getting stuck or freezing! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — READ *2026-04-25* Either become too big or small artist ### 5/5 — SO MUCH FUN *2026-04-17, version 1.3.0* I love everything this game offers!? ### 5/5 — To you all *2026-02-07, version 1.3.0* Where’s the update ### 5/5 — Great game overall *2026-01-03* The game is amazing but I think they should add where you can pick your birthday, like in trying to play as myself or something. Another is having to be hired by gigs like mini concerts to get quick cash. ### 5/5 — It seems that you don't care about the game anymore! *2025-12-16, version 1.3.0* You need to fix the nominations in the other prizes! Only their first-year works are named. And inside the movies the awards are repeating themselves for several years even without having made movies. ### 5/5 — Bugs *2025-11-15* Could you please fix the game buttons a lot of time I can’t back out of certain menus the interface get stuck and I have to close app, thankyou other than that game is amazing ### 5/5 — Je conseille *2025-11-01* Jeu super, j’ai beaucoup apprécié mes premières heures sur le jeu. ### 5/5 — Very fun game *2025-10-29* This game is very enjoyable! I love it a lot and can’t stop playing it. One thing I have noticed though is that on “X”, some AI posts keep saying that I have no releases or chart appearances yet when I have done both. Also sometimes the screen gets stuck so I have to close the app. Other than that, this game is fun! ### 5/5 — Love this game *2025-10-27, version 1.2.7* This game is so amazing and fun to play ### 5/5 — Good *2025-10-26, version 1.2.7* I think we should be able to make our own record label and invest in the stock market --- *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 2026-09-07.*