# Idle Cult Empire - Evil Tycoon — user reviews > 749 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Cult Empire by Lion Studios Plus, rated 4.60/5 from 3,921 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-cult-empire-evil-tycoon/id6453469520/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-cult-empire-evil-tycoon/id6453469520.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,183 · 4★ 371 · 3★ 112 · 2★ 77 · 1★ 178 ## What do users think of Idle Cult Empire? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Fun game - 🚀 No mandatory ads **Cons** - 🐛 Scaling issues with resource requirements - 👎 Repetitive tapping/clicking required - 🔋 Vibration cannot be turned off **Commonly reported bugs** - Impossible to progress due to excessive resource requirements - Game progression stops after maxing certain stages **Most requested features** - Add ability to hold button to buy/craft multiple items - Implement auto-gathering/merging for resources - Add auto-upgrade option for buildings ## Newest reviews (16 of 749) ### 3/5 — Decent but No Ads purchase does not mean No Ads *2026-09-08, version 3.26.1* Game is a reasonable Idle genre game, quite engaging but the No Ads purchase does not mean No Ads. It is only a small percentage of the ads in the game. 98% of the ads remain and it is a waste of £9.99. ### 3/5 — Не производятся ресурсы *2026-09-08* В библиотеке и в Архиве не производятся ресурсы, сколько бы культистов там не было. Если вы отправите меня вновь писать в поддержку через настройки игры - напишите, куда именно мне нужно нажать и какую тему выбрать. Потому что все темы на английском, от себя ничего написать нельзя. **Developer response:** Спасибо за подробный отзыв и за то, что играете в Idle Cult Empire! Мы ценим ваши вопросы и понимаем, что автоматическая реклама может сильно раздражать. Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с нами через кнопку Настройки в игре, чтобы мы могли подробнее рассмотреть ваши вопросы и передать их команде разработчиков. ### 3/5 — Newest update *2026-09-05* Unfortunately the newest update made the game worse once again - also why is it forcing tutorials for absolutely everything down my throat?? ### 2/5 — Yet another ad game *2026-09-05, version 3.26.1* Don’t get me wrong it’s a fun game but they recently started pushing ads after every little action and ngl having your no ads purchase be 10$ is ridiculous. Compared to any other game that normally does around 1-2$ it’s becoming more and more aggravating even considering I just swipe out of the game and open it back up but havin to do it every 2 seconds is putting me off the game enough to come on here and write this ### 4/5 — Watching it grow *2026-08-29* A fun game with many aspects. Reasonable amount of ads you can pay to get rid of. Sounds like I was getting to the end of it, chapter 18, before this recent update appears to have relayered everything to make it take a little longer which is fine. As my gameplay catches up I am stuck waiting for everything to upgrade. Can you fix the timers so they say day:hour:min:sec ? Or have the hours go past 24? Very frustrating when you think it is close to leveling up but you find out you still have another 20hours and potentially another 24 after that. **Developer response:** Thank you for your thoughtful review and great suggestion about the timer format! We really appreciate your feedback and would love it if you considered rating us even higher as we keep improving. Please feel free to share more ideas with us anytime! ### 1/5 — Over a year to complete next chapter, after waiting what feels like the same for its release *2026-08-27* It took a day to get the 2ag mushrooms, so it’s about 50 days to get 1ah, and 200 days to get 4.41ah that is required so that I can get ANY of the resource required for the chapter. And that was using x3 gems for the day, as well as having the x2 purchase. So realistically without gems it’s closer to 600 days, and without the x2 paid feature it would be 1200 days. You broke the game. After waiting forever for any content, you changed everything to make it unplayable. ### 1/5 — Ruined *2026-08-27, version 3.25* This was a fun game at first. I was fairly new to it but really enjoyed it. Whatever happened with this latest update has completely ruined my enjoyment. I do not understand why my resources, even days later are still insufficient and I can’t progress. The game should be hard and I understand I can’t do things instantly but at this rate I will never progress so whats the point in even playing? ### 2/5 — Bugged *2026-08-27, version 3.25* It was a fun game, but for the past several days my laboratory has not been producing any inventory. I have reset everything including reinstalling the game. Nothing is helping and there has been zero response from the devs. I’m now unable to continue progressing. Very disappointing. ### 1/5 — Bug *2026-08-27, version 3.25* Love it but for some reason my wood disappeared I can’t figure out what happened! ### 1/5 — Buggy *2026-08-27, version 3.25* Upgrade on a station keeps resetting the clock after I close the app, losing all progress on upgrade timer. ### 3/5 — Not the game *2026-08-26, version 3.25* What this ad shows is NOT what the game is ### 1/5 — Total trash lags *2026-08-26, version 3.25* Total lags every single moment and movement ### 1/5 — Hard to play now *2026-08-25, version 3.25* I have played this game a LOT. It’s very silly and addictive and cute but after these last updates, my progress feels pointless. They pretty much made each milestone further and further away but astronomically which made my progress that I had already made, pointless. My levels purchased were not adding up to what they needed to be and rank upgrades on each little area now required MUCH more time. Like days more. I enjoyed playing this game multiple times a day and now cannot even play once a day. Go back to the old style, please. I’m so close to uninstalling. ### 4/5 — Level 18 is MAX *2026-08-22* I like the game, but it finished on level 18. Are you going to add the new chapter? It’s been many months now… Should I delete the game then? But your idea is cool - I hope Kraken gets out of that mess safely :) **Developer response:** Спасибо за отзыв и за то, что вам нравится игра! Мы рады, что вам понравилась история про Kraken, и работаем над новым контентом. Если вам не сложно, будем благодарны за более высокую оценку, пока вы ждете новых глав! ### 4/5 — Keep the ads simple and clear *2026-08-21, version 3.25* thankfully the ad was pretty much accurate to what this game is but it made me very suspicious that this game was another fake game. Oh and the fact I’ve encountered no forced ads makes me happy and I will be playing this game more. ### 1/5 — 1 étoile pour les bug *2026-08-21* Bloqué au chapitre 11. Depuis le début du chapitre le bois ne s’accumule plus dans la scierie. Problème connu depuis plusieurs mois et toujours là. Donc maintenant je ne peux plus progresser. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Was Great Until It Broke *2026-09-08, version 3.26.1* Ch. 18, 11-05 in the dungeon, lvl 57 in the merge mini game and recently my laboratory produces NOTHING no matter how many are assigned, my manager produces nothing no matter how many times the circle completes. Can’t progress in the game any further so it’s pretty much broken. ### 1/5 — Ads everywhere *2026-09-07, version 3.26.1* In addition to the expected ads to get more resources or to cut timers down, there’s also random ads forced on your while navigating the game. That’s a bit of a bridge too far for me, uninstalled. ### 1/5 — Карьер с костями *2026-09-07* Игра хорошая, залипательная, но перестал работать карьер с костями, вечно 0, невозможно развиваться из-за этого дальше, исправьте пожалуйста ### 1/5 — Поддержка не помогает *2026-09-06* Игра супер, но у меня лесопилка перестала производить дерево. Переустановил игру не помогло. Написал в поддержку ответа нет ### 1/5 — Игра дно *2026-09-05* На 12 айфоне лагает каждую секунду, тел нагревается сильно, стала вылетать часто, дно полное, только зря время убиваешь ### 1/5 — Fun little game *2026-09-05, version 3.26.1* Update: devs are nice, sorry about calling you trash, but I disagree completely with “ad generator” games instead of games like this that are fun that should be made to play instead of watching ads to get ahead tenfold. Ads are predatory and 1* will remain. Hopefully you change it in the future. I thought this was a cool take on idle. It actually had you do stuff to level up, and there was plenty to do by the time you caught up. Optional ads were always skipped, but I could see how it would entice somebody. Then I realized this is an ad generator game where optional ads are better to watch as you’d waste time playing the game as ads give you multiples more for less time. Then the forced ad came about and I uninstalled immediately. Greedy developers get 1*. Absolutely disgusting behavior ### 1/5 — 1 étoile pour les bug *2026-09-05* Bloqué au chapitre 11. Depuis le début du chapitre le bois ne s’accumule plus dans la scierie. Problème connu depuis plusieurs mois et toujours là. Donc maintenant je ne peux plus progresser. Edit : Même avec la mise à jour le problème n’a pas été résolu. Et je vous ai déjà contacté sur le jeu. **Developer response:** Merci d avoir pris le temps de laisser un avis. Nous sommes vraiment désolés pour ce problème rencontré avec votre progression. Nous vous invitons à nous contacter via le bouton Paramètres dans l application pour nous faire part de votre expérience. ### 1/5 — Recent updates ruined game *2026-09-02, version 3.25* Downloaded this game a while back, was an enjoyable idle game that felt decently balanced but once I hit chapter 15 and the recent string of updates (adding Igor’s event) it’s made the game unplayable. I had unlocked all resource productions plants surrounding the kraken but after the most recent update I am now locked from upgrading one of my production plants I had already unlocked previously. The new requirement now is that I hit chapter 16 but the resource required for me to make it to the next chapter is the one I’m now locked out of!Not only that but it’s very unbalanced where it will take 4.72ah of one resource just to produce 3.32b. That’s just unrealistic. Way to break your own game and make it unplayable ### 1/5 — Angry *2026-09-01, version 3.25* I was liking this game until I opened it today to 4 cultist taken, I get one but 4. No if this is how your game works I’m done and will be deleting ### 1/5 — Once Fun. Now I’ll Be in a Retirement Home Before the Next Chapter *2026-08-30* I started playing this game a few months ago and enjoyed it immensely, despite the large number of forced ads. Unfortunately, a recent update has turned what was a genuinely fun game into a complete and utter disaster. Idle resource generation has suddenly increased by an insane degree, but instead of that being a good thing, the amount of resources required to actually do anything has increased along with it. Idol upgrades now take days to complete, and eventually the main idols become completely locked from further upgrades until you reach a certain chapter. I went from really enjoying the resource-management aspect of the game to being unable to make meaningful progress with over half of my idols. I simply cannot generate enough resources to use the secondary idols, while the main idols are locked behind chapter progression, so my progress has completely stagnated. At this point, progression feels artificially dragged out rather than rewarding. Unfortunately, I can no longer recommend this game unless you’re willing to wait weeks, potentially months, to make meaningful progress — logging in each day just to check whether your idols have finally finished levelling up. There are plenty of other idle games that are more rewarding and far less frustrating to play. I genuinely enjoyed this game before the update, and I really hope the developers reconsider these changes, because they’ve taken a game I would have happily recommended and made it incredibly tedious to play. **Developer response:** Thank you for the detailed feedback, we are sorry the recent update has impacted your progression experience. We understand how frustrating this can be and take your comments seriously. Please reach out to us via the Settings button in the app to share more details. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I like that it has a story *2026-09-06, version 3.26.1* Yes ### 5/5 — Sawmill *2026-09-05, version 3.26.1* When will the sawmill glitch be fixed i camt continue on the game with out wood I do really enjoy the game but this is kinda making me want to delete it Update the saw mill is still not collecting wood ☹️☹️☹️ Update ( decided to delete it saw mill still didnt work it was a good game but no fixes ### 5/5 — Very fun & support is helpful *2026-09-05* I didn’t think I’d be having this much fun when I first downloaded this game. I love the stories between leveling up, the battles, the kraken, and the general gameplay. I finally found a game that doesn’t absolutely bombard me with ads every few seconds. I read other reviews from a few months ago stating issues with freezing, but that all seems to be resolved now. I had a minor glitch & reached out to support, and they were immediately on it. 10/10 would recommend to anyone!!! ### 5/5 — What happened to the game? *2026-08-25, version 3.25* I was playing a couple days ago and really enjoying it but now im completely lost: resources are always scarce, updates take ages, and completing chapter tasks requires a massive amount of resources. Why artificially stretch out of game? It’s becoming unpleasant and boring to play. ### 5/5 — Awesome Game *2026-08-12, version 3.25* I LOVE this game I love the monster feeding idea! ### 5/5 — i love this game but *2026-08-08, version 3.25* i wish yall would add an auto summon for loot in the dungeons. having to summon manually 500+ loot items is annoying. ### 5/5 — Needs auto opener *2026-07-19, version 3.24* So I absolutely love this game but the dungeon orb opening needs a auto opener like I have hundreds of orbs and my finger hurts from opening them and you can upgrade your luck on the orbs but it takes like 4 hours to upgrade one time and you use coins to upgrade it but I have 1000s of coins i say when you upgrade it immediately upgrades ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2026-07-18, version 3.24* 100 out of 10 ### 5/5 — ПОДЗЕМЕЛЬЕ!! *2026-07-15* Игра супер, но тяжело в подземелье открывать добычу по одной, сделайте пожалуйста чтобы можно было открывать хотя бы по 5 добычи, так реально будет легче **Developer response:** Спасибо огромное за вашу оценку и тёплые слова об игре! Мы рады, что вам нравится Idle Cult Empire, и обязательно передадим ваше предложение об открытии нескольких добыч сразу нашей команде разработчиков! ### 5/5 — Could you please develop a Chinese version? *2026-07-01, version 3.23.1* I really love this game, but it's not very comfortable to play without the Chinese version. I hope you can develop a version with Chinese. Thank you. --- *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 2026-09-15.*