# Idle Hero Defense — user reviews > 35 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Hero Defense by Swell Games LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 136 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-hero-defense/id1404480807/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-hero-defense/id1404480807.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 104 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 7 ## Newest reviews (11 of 35) ### 4/5 — Question *2020-01-27* Hello I have made a purchase and wish to refund it as I purchased it accidentally. ### 4/5 — Ok game *2018-10-11, version 1.15* It’s ok ### 4/5 — Fun game *2018-08-10* Seems like it’ll be great fun a few times a day. However, putting a buffer frame around the edges of iPhone X release would be awesome, maybe make it a toggle option in the settings menu. ### 5/5 — Норм *2018-08-09, version 1.12* Норм ### 5/5 — It’s so freakin good *2018-08-05* This game, I can’t put it down...It’s the perfect mix of endless RPG and incremental games. And it just came out a couple weeks ago, so it’s only going to get better. My only gripe is that the “action log” at the bottom of the screen doesn’t have a way to go back and read messages that have disappeared...it would be nice to see what equipments dropped and which heroes got them for more than ten seconds. I could go on and on about how dope this game is but I gotta get back to the sunday tournament. Just download it and see for yourself. — Vil ### 5/5 — One of the best *2018-07-27* I simply love this game: the graphics, the endless upgrades. Finding that cool loot and getting stronger and you’re always feeling like you’re improving. Personally, I like an all-archer team. Very much recommended for any idle battle fan!! ### 5/5 — Wow!! *2018-07-26* I'm an idle addict... This game is a gem! Cute graphic, very nice system. I'm so happy I have found it! No p2w what so ever. Download it you gonna have fun for sure! ### 5/5 — If you are not playing *2018-07-25* Something is wrong with you ### 5/5 — Great fun *2018-07-24* Only thing I would like improved is if you tap the chat bar at the bottom, it expands to the last 10 items or so. Tap again to close. I keep catching glimpses but have no clue half the time to who gained what or which items were received. Keep up the great work though. Can’t wait to see what ideas unfold down the road. ### 5/5 — A little buggy *2018-07-18* Well, I’m not sure if the developers actually look at the ratings or not, but I’ll write about this bug anyway. So here I am playing mid tournament, and the game lags and I can’t see my progress, so I’m like, alright, I’ll exit out and reload the game. Then when I get back on about a minute later, it says I’ve been gone for over 2,000 days. Apparently time goes by very fast when you’re offline? Well, thought I’d at least say something so maybe they’d figure out what happened, or if it was a simple bug or something. In conclusion, it isn’t my fault the game glitched and all, and I wasn’t purposely doing anything, but it’s a great game, and I love it! ### 5/5 — Great game *2018-07-17* It’s pretty fun and the progression is pretty steady, Ive not noticed anything having a p2w aspect yet but then again the tournaments haven’t started yet ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t restore purchases *2025-12-06* I can’t restore my purchases, every time I go and try to restore them it just says purchase failed. Is there a fix to this ### 1/5 — I lost all mi progress *2020-04-08* This is the worst game in the world do not buy what ever you do do not buy I lost all mi progress I did not press the one button that resets your progress or delete and download it I press the torment witch I did mean to and I lost all mi progress completely this game is the worst I hate it SO MUCH so don’t download ### 1/5 — .... *2018-07-19, version 1.0* It’s not new game! In top players with big levels ### 1/5 — Ohne Internet kein Gold *2018-07-19* Ohne Internetverbindung bekommt man keine offline Gold ### 1/5 — No... *2018-07-17* ...have no idea what to do or what not to do. All the characters look the same. Idle it may be, confusing it is. This game is abstruse. Too idle to type anything else... ### 2/5 — Broken saves, slow combat *2018-12-28* If something happens to your device you’re out of luck, Cloud Saves don’t work. Tried loading it on my tablet as it as better battery life and it says it’s loaded; however everything is completely reset. Gameplay is extremely slow. After playing for awhile you’ll be able to 1 hit monsters until round 150. However, despite dealing so much damage so quickly you won’t actually get anywhere any farther; as it’s nearly impossible to increase your attack speed enough to make a difference. Instead, you can pay a whopping $9.99 so you can attack x2 as fast, which is still bad. You’re also limited to only using 5 Heroes at a time despite there being (36?), so still can’t increase your speed there. Other than that, there’s a lot of content in it, prestige’s, leader boards, weekly tournaments, etc. However it’s also not a clicker, you’re simply sitting there idle with your phone on doing nothing for sometimes 40-50 minutes at a time as there’s practically no way to increase speed of gameplay and you’re 1 hitting everything without Level 1 Heroes. Hope to see saves fixed and maybe implement tapping to increase speed of gameplay. ### 2/5 — Fun but dead *2018-12-27* I enjoyed this game a lot. I even bought all the extras. Everything seemed fair with both balance and cost. (Real money purchases do not give any real advantages, just allows you to grind a bit quicker). It’s a shame the developer has kind of abandoned the game since it’s “not that profitable anymore”... ### 2/5 — Boring skills *2018-07-17* Seems the devs tried to be too safe here, the artefacts and skills are very basic, could have been so much more exciting. The game itself looks nice and plays smooth, but boring stats, lets add 25% more damage, or hp, or 1% crit... Meh ### 3/5 — No XS version? *2018-10-13* Latest update didn’t fix the aspect ratio for iPhone XS versions. No new Changes that involve the gameplay content, every new change they come out with is a way to give them more money. Pretty lame if you ask me. Seems like they are trying to make the most money off a dying game before it croaks ### 3/5 — Ok *2018-09-30* Ok ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good Idle Game *2026-07-27* Fun game, helps pass the time. ### 5/5 — Update *2023-10-02, version 1.18* Pls update new wave ### 5/5 — New update idea *2020-02-25* So I’m pretty sure that this idea was already posted but my idea is pvp arenas. In here 5 randomly selected heroes fight other players around the world and there would be ranks for the players because.. You know. And winning the better you are, the higher rank you would be. It would also reset on prestige. The Rewards So when you win, you would get crowns (the currency for the ranks) and the loser would lose crowns ### 5/5 — Good *2019-03-25, version 1.17* Good game but need more update ### 5/5 — Awesome *2018-12-14* Amazing Game loved it. ### 5/5 — Slow to Start, Hard to Put Down *2018-11-29* I’ve been playing this game for a week now and it’s exactly what I love about clicker games without extra novelties or annoying features. It’s different than other clicker games in many ways, especially since it feels like you do make progress even when the game is off, but I’ve been so addicted to it that I’m never compelled to turn it off. The variety in characters and monsters is great. Being able to get equipment is a great feature too which makes me want to keep playing and going up the ladder. The music is fantastic and varied as well, not just the same song looping forever. There’s also always something to do from the weekly tournaments to the mini games, so you may find yourself clicking around more than actually letting the game play itself. ### 5/5 — Great! *2018-11-27* It’s a very satisfying incremental game. No mass clicking! That’s a huge plus in my book. ### 5/5 — Best Idle Game *2018-11-05, version 1.16* This is the best idle game I’ve ever played so far. Tons of content, tons of ways to upgrade, tons of wanting more and more! Haven’t got bored of it, there’re just so many ways to upgrade and the upgrades aren’t even stressed. Upgrades are easy to obtain, you don’t NEED to spend money on gems. You obtain the gems (premium currency) rather easily and the prices for the gems are rather low. It’s refreshing playing a game that doesn’t force spending real money in your face. I’d recommend this game to anyone who appreciates idle games. For the dev: Please implement an option to join clans/teams. Like how your tournaments are multiplayer. Could you maybe work on a tournament option that is for teams versing each other? Much like the single players versing each other in the tournaments now... but have team names show and the mechanic could work like each member of that team, competing in the tournament. Which ever wave that member gets to, a percentage of their wave gets contributed to the overall waves completed of that team. The balancing mechanic could work like the more members in a team, will be pared with teams that have the same number of members. This way one team of X member, can’t beat the other team of X members only because they have more members. That would just be unfair. Make it like 100 Gems to create a team and then later on add upgrades that team members can contribute gems so ONLY that teams creator can purchase upgrades that will benefit their teammates in the tournaments and even out of the tournaments! Be sure to include that team creators can not kick members out of their team unless if they’re inactive for more than 30 days. This will help keep it fair, so you don’t just contribute gems to be kicked out after doing so... I have a lot of ideas for this. I give my consent for you to obtain information to reach out to me about my idea. I think it would be an amazing idea to implement in to your already great game! I know I and many others would defiantly be interested! :D ### 5/5 — Good *2018-08-22, version 1.12* Good idle game ### 5/5 — Love the HD version *2018-08-18* I spent so much time and money playing the old one it's great to see a updated version. I'm quite happy with this please keep up with the updates. Can't wait to see where you go with this game. --- *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 2026-08-13.*