# Idle Defense: Dark Forest — user reviews > 162 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Defense by 键富 何, rated 4.64/5 from 2,511 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-defense-dark-forest/id1470022987/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-defense-dark-forest/id1470022987.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,055 · 4★ 262 · 3★ 52 · 2★ 36 · 1★ 106 ## What do users think of Idle Defense? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fun game - 👍 Good game mechanics - 🚀 Great for passing time - 👍 Addictive gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes - 🐛 Glitches and bugs - 💰 Too many ads - 🐛 Progress loss issues - 🐛 Broken features (demons, summoning) **Commonly reported bugs** - Black screen on restart - Demons tab glitched - Rewards not granted after ads - Game freezes during upgrades **Most requested features** - Increase max upgrade level - Add auto-upgrade option - Improve UI/UX - Reduce ad frequency - Restore lost progress and features ## Newest reviews (16 of 162) ### 2/5 — Glitch *2023-08-26, version 1.1.31* Really good game and I absolutely love it, the mechanics are cool and the game overall is brilliant, unfortunately there is a glitch where if you close the app then it won’t restart so close to unplayable ### 4/5 — Don’t play until updated *2023-07-17, version 1.1.31* The black screen glitch after trying to reload game is still an issue. Good game, but this is the only issue and the developers seem to have given up on the game. ### 3/5 — crash *2022-11-15, version 1.1.31* i enjoy playing the game but once i close it down i can’t play it again it’s on a constant black screen turning my phone on and off doesn’t work and don’t wanna delete and re-download everytime to get my progress reset ### 4/5 — Found a glitch *2022-07-08, version 1.1.31* The glitch gives you unlimited gems so if you buy coins with gems you can get unlimited coins ### 3/5 — To many adds *2022-05-05, version 1.1.31* How tf is this game so laggy? ### 4/5 — hey *2021-09-26, version 1.1.31* The game is cool, i encountered some kind of bug where while checking out ingame stuff the tutorial popped out telling me to press a button which was behind the window i was currently browsing and since then after i restart the game it just stays black screen without loading, i need to restart my phone to play it everytime ^^ just letting you guys know that might be an issue for more people not just me. Game is very good and fun, i believe once all problems fixed it might even be top in the genre! (*-*)/ ### 4/5 — Been playing for a bit and love it. *2021-08-12, version 1.1.31* I’m a huge fan of idle games and tower defense games and I think is a pretty good combination of the 2, my single problem is that there needs that be more features like clans and like clan boss fights for huge rewards, and you could have a clan leaderboard with leaderboard rewards but I wouldn’t want it to be many micro transactions that could boost your clan to the top. ### 4/5 — Great game but please fix this... *2021-04-17, version 1.1.31* First of all I just want to say this is a great game and thank you for giving this game to us. I love collecting new towers to add to my team and because of that I need lots of gold to level up towers. My problem is that whenever my Alchemy furnaces create gold, (literally every two seconds) my game gets really laggy and by the time it fixes itself I get more gold. Over all it is a great game and this lag doesn’t happen all the time so I still play this game quite a lot and... TO ANYONE THINKING OF DOWNLOADING: You should! Over all this is a great game for if you love merging games, idle games, or tower defence games. ### 3/5 — Not bad but background miner? *2021-02-09, version 1.1.31* This isn’t a bad game, massive focus on watching 30 second advert videos and uses a lot of battery power making me think that it’s running a background Bitcoin miner or something on my phone. Not even 3D so suspicious of its power use. ### 3/5 — Demons stopped working *2020-10-24, version 1.1.31* Game started fun, but demons just won’t spawn, and I can’t summon anymore. ### 4/5 — Great but... *2020-10-03, version 1.1.30* The game is great and honestly helps me pass the time at work but there could be a few quality of life changes. The biggest problem for me is the multi-step process of upgrading each tower. Starting a tower, level it up, start another tower, level it up, remove it, evolve, open your bag, select the tower. Repeat. Another thing that bugs me is how the game stops while your in the upgrade/build menu. It really brings down the pace. But yeah that’s all I got to say. It’s a great game otherwise ### 4/5 — UI hard to use *2020-09-17, version 1.1.30* Packing up a tower needs a confirmation. It’s very easy to click away and have your tower disappear into your bag. ### 4/5 — It has bugs *2020-09-09, version 1.1.30* Can’t summon and the button is glitched please fix .but other then that the game is great ### 1/5 — Lost Purchases *2020-09-07, version 1.1.30* After a recent update I found a bug when attempting to summon demons, up to this point I had made a few purchases but the bug made the game impossible to play correctly. After a few days of no improvement I decided to reinstall the game to see if it would correct the bug but to my surprise there is no way to restore my purchases. I will change my rating if I get my money back or progress restored Edit: I don’t use Facebook so “please send us a message on Facebook” won’t work for me ( I have no interest in creating an account there) I sent an email the same day I made this review. no response 🤨 .... Hello, first allow me to say it has been several days since I posted my review of your game Idle defense. No response was ever made to my review instead I see it had been removed. I’m not sure where the problem occurred but as a consumer this is pretty disheartening. I play your game and enjoy myself, I decided hey why not support these guys and pay for a few things only to find an update removed my purchases and the game itself is basically broken. This is my last attempt to request you make good on your product. I’d expect you to reply to my mail if you need additional information seeing as how there is no (obvious) way to submit a proper request form. Thanks ### 2/5 — Pretty fun but unable to use demons of any kind *2020-09-03, version 1.1.30* Through the latest update I haven’t been able to summon any demons for my the entire demon tab doesn’t work i cant even close it if i open it so im missing an entire aspect of the game ### 2/5 — Crashes *2020-09-02, version 1.1.30* I used to play but it is broken I can’t play because it crashes every time I get a bit into the loading screen ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — trash *2022-03-27, version 1.1.31* A full AD game ### 1/5 — Really unhappy *2022-03-22, version 1.1.31* I spent around 2 hours nonstop playing and watched around 30 ads then I came of the game tried going back on on it would just stay black screen wouldn’t load tried everything including restarting phone didn’t work had to delete and reinstall now i have to restart so frustrating EDIT: I started again and it’s done it again i closed the app went to open and just endless black screen ### 1/5 — Summoning broken, developers don’t care *2021-04-18, version 1.1.31* The summoning demons function is broken and the developers have been told in multiple places but they won’t do anything to fix it. They moved on to their next game and are ignoring this one. It was a really good game and they abandoned it. I’ll update this if and when the summoning is fixed. ### 1/5 — It’s meh *2021-01-05, version 1.1.31* The game itself is okay, nice atmosphere, decent art design, and simple to play, however the latest update completely busted the demons in a way that makes them unobtainable and unusable if you previously had any. The game is also incredibly ad heavy and has poor translation, not to the point where you can’t understand it, but it’s still pretty bad. I don’t like that you have to merge demons now in order to upgrade their tier, where previously you just had to use level up crystals. It just makes me want to quit the game, not play it more. And I will not be contacted through Facebook or my email, just fix the game. So it’s been eight months since the last update completely broke the game and all of the update feed is just full of “bug fixes” but the biggest bug that broke the game still isn’t fixed. Clearly the devs don’t give a crap about their game anymore so don’t even bother playing it ### 1/5 — Doesn’t even let you on on small iPads *2021-01-01, version 1.1.31* I’m on a iPad mini 2 it didn’t let me in for some reason now Hate this game forever but the loading screen looks cool but it can kicked you from the game for no damn reason that’s why I’m rating this 1 star because of the way that they don’t work on small iPads like mine :( 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎 ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2020-12-25, version 1.1.31* Game no longer works on iOS 13 very sad used to be fun ### 1/5 — Save disappeared? *2020-10-22, version 1.1.31* Game was great, upgraded phone, all progress is gone 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ 0/10 ### 1/5 — Ad spam trash *2020-10-20, version 1.1.31* The entire “game” is just one giant ad. Every single key press prompts for watching an ad or using paid diamonds. Don’t bother. Deleted ### 1/5 — Update breaks game *2020-09-24, version 1.1.30* Do not update the game, lost progress unable to summon demons I had unlocked already. UI/UX display issues, rewards not being given correctly, etc. ruins the game. Developer might be more focused on their sequel game than supporting their actual product. ### 1/5 — Bummer *2020-09-12, version 1.1.30* The update erased various things i had such as all my demons and a mega crystal... ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Needs updates, last was 3 years ago?! *2024-04-03, version 1.1.31* Love this game. But it really needs updating! I can’t evolve Demon Devil Favor at all. Plus I’m using the VIP No Ads which I love for 3 months now! Also would Love an auto upgrade for skills, my fingers get tired of tapping for upgrading! Please update the game. If not next month uninstalling the game Which I really don’t want too- ### 5/5 — Fix *2021-02-02, version 1.1.31* It won’t let me play! ### 5/5 — If you use gaming to release the pressures of the day *2020-10-23, version 1.1.31* I’ve been searching for a game that allows me to release my angst, while being very simple in its design. I LOVE THIS GAME!!!! Once I started I couldn’t put it down! ### 5/5 — Looove iiiiit! *2020-09-08, version 1.1.30* This game is an AMAZING pass timer, and not only that but it’s pretty easy to excel in! 😁😁 of course the new update had a HUGE bug in it that made me incapable of doing many things, buuuut the developers helped me out a looooooot! Highly recommended for those who love idle as much as I do! 💖💘💝💕💞💗💜💙❤️🧡💛💚 ### 5/5 — Good, but small issue *2020-08-31, version 1.1.29* The new update caused the demons to screw up, I can’t select any to bring out and can’t summon any... ### 5/5 — It’s amazing *2020-08-28, version 1.1.28* The gameplay is fun and a bit challenging, I like the artsyle ### 5/5 — Liltop_Tomaiz *2020-08-11, version 1.1.26* This game is soooooooooooo fun ### 5/5 — 4 days and progress +glitch *2020-07-30, version 1.1.26* I am much better at this game than before because I played for longer this time (18-10fail)but there is a glitch that deleted my lvl2044 meteor and didn’t even give me 1k coins so please give me a lvl2044 meteor tower for free out of the limited time turrets and 50 diamonds (it is going to be 50 diamonds offer in limited time turrets ### 5/5 — Omg da best *2020-06-09, version 1.1.25* 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😜😜😜😜😜😜🤯🤯😜🤯🤯🤯😜🤯😜😜😜😜🤯😜😜🤯😜🤯😜😜😜😜🤯😜🤯😜🤯😜😜🤯😜😜😜😜😜🤯🤯😜😜😜🤯🤯🤯 ### 5/5 — Cool game *2020-06-06, version 1.1.25* I like it, so maybe you will. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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