# Fortress of Gears — user reviews > 441 indexed App Store user reviews of Fortress of Gears by Solid Games, rated 4.60/5 from 3,845 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fortress-of-gears/id6744057668/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fortress-of-gears/id6744057668.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,087 · 4★ 356 · 3★ 172 · 2★ 62 · 1★ 168 ## What do users think of Fortress of Gears? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🤩 Interesting game - 👍 Really good game **Cons** - 🐛 Can't make progress - 🐛 Progress lost - 🐛 Need to fix - 🐛 Lost ALL my progress, huge fail - 🐛 Random Reset - 🐛 Can't see most of screen - 🐛 UI issue - 🐛 1 Star. - 🐛 Fix it!!!!!!!! - 🐛 The game is good but - 🐛 Wipes progress. **Commonly reported bugs** - Game doesn't save my progress - Can only access first three units - Zoomed in too much on the iPad - Can't buy anything - Everything is wiped when I reopen the game - Can't scroll down in the barracks **Most requested features** - Fix the issue and I'll give 5 stars - Unlock more units ## Newest reviews (17 of 441) ### 2/5 — まあまあ *2026-08-07* オモローですね ### 3/5 — Реклама ломает игру *2026-06-30* Бесячая реклама лиги ставок не закрывается, из-за этого приходится перезапускать игру, а то сулит потерями энергии и награды за видео. Нехорошо ### 2/5 — Выходит из боя при сворачивания игры *2026-02-27* Если сворачиваешь игру то она заканчивает бой вообще и приходится заново все начинать это бесит ### 2/5 — Becomes Impossible To Progress *2026-02-23, version 2.3.8* I’m at chapter 14. It’s now impossible to progress. Even when purchasing coins. The amount needed to upgrade your units makes it impossible to progress. I’ll watch adds all day for the rewards. Instead now I’ll stop playing the game due to the exponential increase in coins needed to progress. Keep in linear ### 3/5 — Adds *2026-02-21, version 2.3.8* Great game but how come I watch the fact that you put thos frozen gears just bug me it decreases the speed and ruins you experience. ### 4/5 — Fun but glitchy *2026-02-19, version 2.3.8* The game is fun, but it has a bad habit of resetting the level I'm on when I switch apps, and it doesn't let me pick up where I left off. It also makes my audio stop when I switch back to it, which it shouldn't do. ### 2/5 — Not enough ads to win *2026-01-26, version 2.3.8* I enjoy these games, but forcing ads in order to win kind of is a bad long term business model. You get to a point where there are not enough ads to beat the first few waves. The bad guys hit once and kill 3 of your guys, where you need to hit them 3-5 times. I deleted it today because that’s just not worth it, especially when the ads are 60-90 seconds a piece. You have the second star because it was fun while it lasted. ### 2/5 — DISGUSTING ADS!!! *2026-01-06, version 2.3.8* This app supports pedophilia! The ads they accept money from Swift small anime GIRLS, not women twerking and being sexual. ON AN APP FOR CHILDREN! Absolutely disgusting and inappropriate! Parents do not let your children download this game! I’m an adult and I’m uncomfortable now. These developers need toto seriously rethink who they sell ad time to! ### 2/5 — Moyen *2025-12-25, version 2.3.8* Le jeu est sympa, le seul problème qui lui est vraiment problématique, le jeu impose des vidéos à certains niveau sans quoi il est quasi impossible de le passer. Dommage ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2025-12-18, version 2.3.8* The game is really fun, a good time killer, but as you progress there are way way way too many ad unlocks. I understand that you’ve got to pay your people, but putting frozen gears on the map unlocked only by ads or round selection gears as ad unlock only is really annoying. I bought the mid-tier ad ticket option (I think it was 50) but as I progressed it seemed like I was getting fed even more ad blocked items! I would love to be able to get a pass or something that would permanently remove ads or not have so many ads locked items pop up in the game. Hopefully you take the $8 I gave you and make a game that’s not just a money grab. ### 1/5 — Very fun game but can’t listen to music while playing *2025-12-05* I‘d give the game in of itself a solid 4-5/5 BUT can’t listen to music or videos while playing So I always end up not playing anymore, which has brought me into a position where I frankly quit altogether Fix that and it’s a 5/5 ### 1/5 — Watch Ads to Win! *2025-12-05, version 2.3.8* Seriously. You want X thing to clear the wave, you better unlock this thing watching an ad. To add insult to injury, if you background the app for over a minute, it will delete your progress of a level. Just. Do something, anything better than this to kill time ### 1/5 — No good *2025-11-27, version 2.3.8* To many advertisers ### 3/5 — Lack of documentation and or training *2025-11-24, version 2.3.8* The game seems fun. I’m only a little bit into it. There doesn’t seem to be any documentation, pop-ups, or much of any training mode. It’s sort of hard to figure out what the different gears do. ### 1/5 — Game resets on ads……. *2025-11-22, version 2.3.8* Game is normally great but everytime, well maybe every third time I use an ad the game resets and I have wasted 15 minutes watching videos and playing to level 8/9 whatever to have it washed away by an ad playing that for some reason, requires the game to restart once I get back to the screen. Fix this immediately. ### 1/5 — Unnecessary ads. *2025-11-19, version 2.3.8* I get ads are sometimes required for some developers. But it’s infuriating when I’m trying to play the game and the slot directly to the left of my starter yellow gear is blocked off by a gear that needs an ad to be watched to be “unfrozen” or unlocked. This quite literally impedes how good I can do on the level unless I watch an ad. It’s really unacceptable. ### 1/5 — Birim Çeşitliliği sorunu *2025-11-19, version 2.3.8* En başta hangi birimi seçerseniz bölüm sonuna kadar aynı birimle oynamak zorunda kalıyorsunuz bölüm sonlarında hep dişli seçeneği sunuyor sadece iki ayrı birimle oynayabildiğim oyun sayısı çok çok az.Eğlencesi yok siliyorum ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Honestly *2026-08-07, version 2.3.8* Honestly this game is very boring. Ngl ### 1/5 — More ads than gameplay. Also crashes. *2026-07-26, version 2.3.8* Game forces you to view ads in order to win rounds, but the ads will crash and reset progress, forcing more ads to get back to where you were. ### 1/5 — Cash grab *2026-07-25, version 2.3.8* If you don’t watch ads in this game, you lose. ### 1/5 — Locked behind ads *2026-03-04, version 2.3.8* I played a few levels and liked the concept. Except they begin putting gears down that you have to unlock with ads. If you don’t? You lose. I tried over and over but you can’t win. They force you to watch ads and it’s ridiculous. The little spinning thing that spins the gears also slows down as it goes over it and it’s a complete disadvantage ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-01-26, version 2.3.8* Can even play one game without it, trash game any how ### 1/5 — Good to a point *2026-01-14, version 2.3.8* After you get to around 6/1 it sets it up so it’s impossible on the units given also your opponent gets massive upgrade if I was a cynic I would say it’s so you spend money on upgrades I doubt I will be playing again I will randomly try it just to see but not getting money to advance Adding to review game now uninstalled as pay wall can’t progress at all DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME great game ruined by greed ### 1/5 — Ads are bad! *2026-01-07, version 2.3.8* Just constant ads to do anything…the premise of the game is fine and is kinda fun…but you just spend all your time watching ads to do anything! ### 1/5 — Rigged Game *2025-12-28, version 2.3.8* After level 3/4 you can only win games by watching all the adds ### 1/5 — Plagiat rentable ? *2025-12-28* Qu’on copie un jeu (pour éventuellement l’améliorer), c’est moyen mais pourquoi pas… Qu’on force à regarder des pubs dans le game play, ça c’est claqué au sol ! ### 1/5 — จอก *2025-12-18, version 2.3.8* อัพก็เยอะเเต่ตัวนิ่มอย่างกับขี้ ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cool game *2026-08-02, version 2.3.8* I need the $5 from TikTok ### 5/5 — Ts Is PEAKK🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭😭🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🫂🫂🫂🫂 *2026-01-05, version 2.3.8* 1. The Ad Is Real 2. Music Is Fire 3. Mechanics Is Cool 4. Its Just.. 5. PEAK🥺😭😭 ### 5/5 — Оказалось все врут *2025-11-19* Игра самая лучшая смотри не смотри тут как хочешь ### 5/5 — ดีคับ *2025-11-14, version 2.3.8* ดีคับ ### 5/5 — Great game *2025-11-05, version 2.3.8* Such a relief to have a good game that doesn’t bombard you with ads ### 5/5 — A app game where the add are actually optional *2025-10-15, version 2.3.8* It’s blows my mind ### 5/5 — Very fun already *2025-10-04, version 2.3.8* I’ve only played the first two levels and it’s already a very unique and fun game ### 5/5 — Nice game dev *2025-10-02, version 2.3.8* Just like the ads and doesn’t bombard u in ads ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2025-09-29, version 2.3.8* This game is very ### 5/5 — FORTRESS OF GEARS *2025-09-22, version 2.3.8* Really fun it’s a make you think also I like saying the game name it a deep voice like FORTRESS OF GEARS --- *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 2026-08-31.*