# Ghost TD : Merge Defense — user reviews > 14 indexed App Store user reviews of Ghost TD by 泳坚 陈, rated 2.71/5 from 24 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ghost-td-merge-defense/id6738767598/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ghost-td-merge-defense/id6738767598.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Ghost TD? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Lag seems fixed - 👍 Fun game **Cons** - 🐛 Very long tutorial - 🐛 Game restarted progress and has ads - 🐛 Optimization issues - 🐛 Lag issues - 🐛 Lag kills the game **Commonly reported bugs** - Lag issues - Optimization problems **Most requested features** - Improve animation - Optimize performance ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Restarted my game and ads *2025-03-09* The game restarted my progress and there’s ads unacceptable ### 1/5 — Optimization issues *2025-02-28* A game this simple has no reason to cause my phone to rapidly heat up and deplete my battery so quickly. Massive lag after a few rounds once you have a few items deployed. There are glaring optimization issues that make this unplayable. The constant ads and subscriptions to remove them is hilarious considering the state of the game. ### 1/5 — Super laggy *2025-02-14* It is almost unplayable and un fun because of the constant lag I can’t play the game without spending twenty minutes a level waiting for the lag to go away I had to delete it from all the lag DO NOT RECOMMEND ### 1/5 — Horrible performance *2025-02-12* The game may be good, but the performance lags out so badly it turns into a slide show to the point it’s nearly unplayable. ### 1/5 — Lag *2025-02-05* game lags too much, unplayable. ### 1/5 — Laggy *2025-01-21* Game is so laggy and slow. ### 2/5 — Very long tutorial *2025-03-12* Can’t get a pack that my mom said I’m allowed because I am on a really long tutorial. ### 2/5 — Lag *2025-02-22* Its a great game but it’s way to laggy ### 3/5 — Lag kills it *2025-02-13* Love the game, I’ll get that out of the way first. Merge is great, TD is great, and I love the fact that past tier 4 you can merge two completely different things and make hybrids!? Great concept love it. The problem? It’s unplayable. I understand it’s a new game so it’s still going to be worked on but man, the lag hits you chapter one wave 4 and at wave 6 or 7? Unplayable. This needs serious optimization. I recommend making the weapons bulge or pulse instead of sending out visible projectiles or making the enemies less in number or a lot more spread out. Hope this helps. ### 4/5 — Lag seems fixed *2025-03-18* So my one major complaint seems to have been fixed, the lag that was present before is now gone. ## Most praised reviews (4 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Needs animation *2025-01-24* This game is generally fun and I like it all you need to do is work on animation ### 4/5 — Lag but fun *2025-03-05* If you have a lot of time on your hand play this but if you don’t then wait because this game takes lots of patience but it is fun just fix the lag. ### 4/5 — Lag *2025-01-31* It’s a fun game, however a lot of the time there is serious lag which can sometimes cause the objects to glitch out before they can hit the target. I also think that the item levels and the hardness of the game don’t properly line up as you go up, as it just gets harder and harder until it’s nearly impossible to continue without insane lucky pulls. ### 4/5 — Good game, but *2025-01-22* Pretty solid spin on these kind of merge defense games, but what I have ran into is that going into the later rounds, I experience lag and the game runs slow, presumably because of how many assets are on the screen. Real solid game, just fix a couple of performance issues and it will be great. --- *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.*