# Hardwood Empire — user reviews > 95 indexed App Store user reviews of Hardwood Empire by Finn keating, rated 4.80/5 from 851 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hardwood-empire/id6760374401/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hardwood-empire/id6760374401.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 776 · 4★ 33 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 15 ## Newest reviews (13 of 95) ### 4/5 — Crashes *2026-08-11, version 3.5.12* Really fun game but keeps randomly refreshing and bringing me back to the main menu which makes me lose everything i did the past 3 minutes ### 4/5 — Love the game BUT *2026-07-17, version 3.5.10* Love the game but after the latest update it won’t let me start or sim a game. Really frustrating because I’ve put years into this specific dynasty and now it’s stuck on game four. Appears to be a little glitchy. ### 3/5 — Every update lately makes it worse *2026-07-13, version 3.5.7* Game used to be awesome now every update breaks 5 things that take months to get fixed. After the latest update nil doesn’t work right, red shirts start playing in the conference tournament and lose their redshirts, players play an extra year for no reason. I loved this game but I’m done into the devs fix it. Stop updating the game before fixing the current issues!!!! ### 3/5 — Devs care *2026-07-12, version 3.5.7* Played this game pretty soon after release, many updates and it’s been nice to see as the game progresses, that being said occasionally i’ll sim an entire season, and the game will crash and restart the season, had this problem when leaving the game during off-season. without some of these pretty annoying mishaps the games very fun ### 3/5 — Please fix this… *2026-07-12, version 3.5.7* Good game but I can’t even a play a full 10 minutes without it crashing and I think there should be a separate history tab added with all time records that stays and doesn’t change every season but the biggest issue is the game crashing ### 5/5 — Great game but stopped working *2026-06-30, version 3.4.1* This game deserves 5 stars because it’s one of the best I’ve ever played and I love that it’s only going to progress! I follow along for all the updates and a huge fan!!! However, what is going on recently? It’s not playable anymore it crashes upon opening my dynasty. Please fix!! ### 4/5 — Game *2026-06-24, version 3.4.1* The games great just through all my times of playing 50+ years, I have never had a guy make all American or score more than 20 points, I have had the best players in country’s, changed schemes, maxed out coaches but still no avail. ### 5/5 — Love the game *2026-06-18, version 3.4.1* I absolutely love the game. It is addictive. I play it almost every day. I wish that something can be done to improve the recruiting process maybe adding some more points as your recruiting skills goes up or more points when your developmental skill goes up,but overall it is a good game! Make an NBA version! ### 5/5 — Great Game, *2026-06-16, version 3.3* I love the game. It’s like an improvement on Campus Dynasty. Would love if I could report bugs that I find to help improve the game. ### 4/5 — Fun but Flawed *2026-06-15, version 3.3* This is the best college basketball sim you will find outside of emulating an old PS3 or Xbox college basketball game. With the pastebin link to add real teams names, it is like you are playing an official product, and the dev is responsive to feedback and reviews. The game still has some bugs and crashes, especially if you play it for a long period of time, but the dev is working on it and if your save breaks or anything he will respond if you ask him to fix it. ### 3/5 — Fun but Flawed *2026-06-09* The game is fun, and with the ability to add in real team names, it is the best college basketball game you can access without emulating an old console game. That being said, it is far from perfect. The app crashes a lot if you play it for long periods of time. There are some checks and saves to prevent it from destroying your data, but you can break your save and make it glitchy. Another problem is that even if you buy ad-free, you sometimes get ads. Even after reinstalling the app and restoring purchases, the second chance button in the tournament will still serve ads instead of just letting me do the second chance. (I did try reaching out to the creator via email, but I never heard from him). ### 5/5 — Awesome game! *2026-06-09, version 3.3* Big fan of sports simulation dynasty style game have tried them all! This one is top tier! Would love to see a college baseball version. ### 5/5 — Great game! *2026-05-28, version 3.2.2* The games is really fun to play, and you can tell the developers really care because they constantly release new updates that never fail to impress. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Currently Unplayable *2026-07-14, version 3.5.7* Crashed every 30 seconds or so once past the first season. Unplayable game as it stands. ### 1/5 — Update bad *2026-07-11, version 3.5.7* After the update I can’t get past the conference tournament without it crashing. Sends me to the offseason and then next season with all the same recruits I just signed. Lame. Was a 5 star before the update. ### 1/5 — Simulation/Ratings are horrible *2026-05-27, version 3.2.2* I get it upsets happen, but it’s a little ridiculous when I get upset nearly EVERY time but when I play someone even just 1 ovr better than me I get blown out of the water. I mean there’s no way shape or form I should be losing to a team I’m 7ovr better than, especially getting blown out by them. Other than that bs the game is great. Please fix it bc it’s a little stupid and I’m on the edge of uninstalling ### 1/5 — Does not save *2026-05-06, version 3.0.1* Every time I close app and re-enter, my team is 0-0 again ### 1/5 — Recruiting is broken *2026-04-22, version 2.6* Unless it says 100% chance your recruit will commit, he probably won’t. Anytime i have a 75% chance to land a commit he just commits somewhere else. DON’T SAY THERE’S A HIGH PERCENTAGE TO LAND A COMMIT IF HE NEVER WILL!! Broken app ### 2/5 — A lot of bugs keep popping up *2026-08-20, version 3.5.12* I really enjoy the game! Awesome concept, however over the past 2 weeks really intense bugs have popped up and it’s making the game almost unplayable. Until these bugs are fixed I won’t be playing. ### 2/5 — Love the game but it skips my seasons. *2026-07-10, version 3.5.7* I paid to remove ads and paid for god mode but still, i will have 2 seasons in a row where i make the tournament, the app crashes, and it sims my whole offseason not letting me get new players. I love the game but this is making it unplayable ### 2/5 — When It Works… *2026-06-18, version 3.4.1* It’s great. But it doesn’t work very often. So far within one week of playing I’ve been stuck twice in a never-ending loop of playing the same team in an invitational tournament so I couldn’t progress my season. I deleted that and started with a new team and now my recruits are frozen with the two targets that I signed and I can’t recruit at all and it’s been three years so I’m kind of interested to see what’s gonna happen with the rest of a team when they graduate assuming that they do. Clean up the bugs in this will be a wonderful game, but right now it’s very nearly unemployable for longer periods of time. ### 2/5 — Constant Crashing *2026-06-01, version 3.3* Fun game but it crashes almost once per season ### 2/5 — Bugs need fixed!!!! *2026-05-24, version 3.2.2* Great game and great gameplay however when I play it just randomly kicks me of back to the main menu also sometimes when you leave a school it doesn’t count your last season. Also sometimes the national championship winner are blank. Also I deleted the game because it kept bugging and now it took away my god mode ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thoughtful game, i love this! *2026-09-02, version 3.5.12* this game is a real time consumer. it’s pretty well made and in depth. Love how it’s constantly updated and evolving. i know nothing about baseball but im slowly learning the baseball one. please make a cfb version, you’d be the best dev ever! 🙏🏽 ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-09-01, version 3.5.12* I would never write a review on the App Store. That’s ridiculous thing to me but this game is that good ### 5/5 — Greatest Developers Ever? *2026-08-28, version 3.5.12* The game was already fun, and I’ve been playing since its first few weeks. But the continuous progress that’s made in the game to make it even better and more enjoyable is remarkable. ### 5/5 — . *2026-08-23, version 3.5.12* Great and fun simulation game overall. However, a major issue is recruiting players. Almost 90% of the time when you have a favorable recruitment (50%+), you almost never actually win the recruitment which does not make any sense. The sim engine is also very funky. A ton of upsets happen in march madness and it seems like it’s almost more favorable for a lower seed to win which is just unrealistic most of the time. ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2026-08-23, version 3.5.12* Love the game one small gripe is that I wish in God mode you could edit other teams and their names or edit conferences. But overall very good game ### 5/5 — I love this game! But one issue… *2026-08-08, version 3.5.12* This game is amazing probably the best and most in depth college basketball game ive played on mobile my only problem is i was at Year 5 rebuilding Navy got them to a 70 ovr and had 2 stud players when suddenly for like the 10th time i crashed and i used to get put back at this one spot where i was 9-4 back when i would crash in Year 4 and i figured no way that happens again but the game crashed and when i loaded up my save i was back in Year 4 and had to re-recruit my players and redo a whole nother season i was also upset about it cause in the year 5 season i was 18-3 and we were looking like a lock for march. Amazing game though! ### 5/5 — Need a Football Game *2026-07-28, version 3.5.11* Great game all around. The best mobile style you’re gonna get. Would absolutely love a college football game of this style next. ### 5/5 — Quality game, created with care *2026-07-19, version 3.5.10* I rarely write reviews, so i hope that speaks to how strongly I recommend the game. I’ve been playing this game and the sister game Home Run Empire since launch, off and on. Not just a money grab, lazily thrown together game. Regular updates on Twitter too. Definitely try it out. ### 5/5 — Amazing devs *2026-07-09, version 3.5.6* love how in depth this game is along with how committed they are to making this game better with constant updates. ### 5/5 — thank you *2026-07-06, version 3.4.1* this is such a awesome game i hope you can take this concept and flip it so we can play the career of our own player --- *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 2026-09-08.*