# Idle Hero TD — user reviews

> 195 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Hero TD by Swell Games LLC, rated 4.70/5 from 1,151 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-hero-td/id1453373123/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-hero-td/id1453373123.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 880 · 4★ 213 · 3★ 31 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 18

## What do users think of Idle Hero TD?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Fun, rewarding game
- 🚀 Minimal ads and no required purchases
- 💡 Unique mix of tower defense and idle gameplay
- 👍 Satisfying progression and upgrades

**Cons**

- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
- ⏱️ Slow progression without paying
- 🔧 Limited customization options

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Ads not always working as intended
- Challenges not always rewarding correctly
- Crashes when restarting after losing a wave

**Most requested features**

- Add a daily login reward system
- Implement a faster game speed option
- Allow more tower placement flexibility
- Improve offline progression and gold earning

## Newest reviews (15 of 195)

### 3/5 — Monetization is ridiculous

*2024-10-18, version 1.21*

I have and do spend money on in app purchases, but this one is so far off the mark in terms of how they monetized the app and broke things into such high prices.  I could buy 5 AAA games for the price just to unlock the speed and damage boosts.

Look at games like Egg, Inc. and go for volume over individual purchases.  This game will never get a cent from me because they don't know how to properly price mobile games.

Game itself is fine, could use some polishing... certainly no BloonsTD.  Doing pvp tournaments and being smart about how you play, you can certainly get everything without paying... but it'll take ages.  Lack of maps is disappointing, lack of choosing where I put my towers is disappointing (you have pre selected slots).  Lack of targeting options is disappointing.

### 4/5 — Ok game

*2023-12-11, version 1.21*

Mainly ok but the rewards for watching Ads has stopped working again.

### 4/5 — Idle, yes but fun

*2021-06-29, version 1.21*

I find it comforting to see the progress of my heroes. 

Recommend it highly for times when you want to give your brain a bit of a rest but still needs planning to get further.

### 5/5 — Please

*2021-06-27, version 1.21*

Добавьте Русский язык пожалуйста 🙏

### 5/5 — Hay

*2021-06-17, version 1.21*

Game hay

### 5/5 — Good

*2021-06-13, version 1.21*

Good

### 5/5 — Solid Tower Defense

*2021-05-15, version 1.21*

It's what you expect but has good an idle game twist. Fun with plenty of progression

### 5/5 — Not bad

*2021-05-12, version 1.21*

Good

### 2/5 — Fun but

*2021-03-12, version 1.21*

This game makes you put your phone down (with the game open and running) for long periods of time (1hr or more) just to get back to the wave you’re stuck on... don’t really get the point of forcing players into doing that. Other than that’s it’s a decent game for short play times

### 2/5 — A worst version of Idle Monster td

*2021-03-06, version 1.21*

These are the same devs as the game Idle Monster TD. I cant tell which one actually came out first, but this one is a failure compared to monster td. Ill explain why this game is inferior as well as why i recommend trying monster td if you actually like this one.

First of all, the ads are not “optional” as many people say. Albeit they are not pop up ads and do not interrupt you, but they offer a reward that ultimately makes it foolish to not watch an ad. So watching ads essentially becomes part of the game. In monster td, its a pretty good model, as these ads are only offered once every ten minutes or so, and no extra ads are snuck in anywhere. But in this game, you also have to watch an ad everytime you die, just to avoid having to start completely over. In monster td you do not have to watch one to start back at the previous checkpoint. Due to the model of gameplay, you often have to play the same ten stages many times before buying enough upgrades to progress, so it goes without saying that you will be watching a lot of ads in a short period of time.

Also in monster td, all of the premiums can be bought with freely obtained diamonds. They ditched that in this game, and now there is very little incentive to even collect diamonds.

One thing i do like about the game, is the graphics. They are cute and minimalistic. But overall, i will be deleting this one for now.

### 4/5 — Gets slow

*2020-11-30, version 1.21*

Hey I get that the times 5 waves button is to speed things up but you lose a lot of rewards doing that so seems better to just play it through but gets really dull when you only get 1-2 coins per kill- needs a way to get coins faster when you progress in the game otherwise it gets dull and I’m getting less and less interested

### 5/5 — nice

*2020-10-16, version 1.20*

We need chinese language pls

### 4/5 — .

*2020-08-13, version 1.18*

.

### 5/5 — Hacker problems

*2020-08-12, version 1.18*

When playing the pvp you have a hacker ruining the game for the rest of us

### 4/5 — Fun but could use some tweaks

*2020-08-07, version 1.18*

My only gripe is how much everything scales based on your highest wave.  For instance, my challenge map earns lower rewards than it did when my heroes were level 1,000 and they are all over 4000 now. Unfortunately, if you add the increased aura cost I am progressing slower.  Same goes for the bounties. It’s like getting punished for progressing in the game and encourages bagging.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — I

*2021-11-20, version 1.21*

Le

### 1/5 — Forgotten

*2021-10-31, version 1.21*

Clearly abandon ware now. Don’t bother

### 1/5 — 中文

*2021-06-14, version 1.21*

不增加中文
就是垃圾

### 1/5 — Idle hero td

*2020-12-13, version 1.21*

It’s now the second time this has happened. I join the pvp tournament and I get no rewards at all. Time sync is off all the time. Their has to be programer error because this is happening more. I’m not getting the new day rewards as well. Can I talk to a programmer about this???

### 1/5 — Awesome but ridiculously overpriced

*2020-07-25, version 1.18*

4.99 to remove ads 9.99×2 speed

### 1/5 — Bad game design overall

*2020-07-21, version 1.18*

1. Higher tier chars are exactly the same as lower tier ones. Only the skill has slightly higher numbers
2. All archers, warriors, and mages are the same
3. Abysmal scroll and gold gain
4. 0 strategy involved. Just level and pick the high number version of the 3 classes and that’s the whole game
5. Step backwards from their original game in many ways

### 1/5 — Won’t let you build.

*2020-06-07, version 1.18*

Just downloaded it, and I’m limited to one tower each? What kinda croc of sht is that. Played till the mini boss and still couldn’t build more. Uninstalled and forgot about.

### 1/5 — Yikes

*2020-05-17, version 1.17*

Not a very compelling game by itself, but the fact that the enemies' character models are from another game on the app store (Archero) made this feel just wrong to play.

### 1/5 — Bug

*2020-04-23, version 1.17*

Spiel hat toll funktioniert aber nach 1 Tag spielzeit funktionieren alle online Dienste sprich pvp und Events nicht mehr 
Und es gibt keine Hilfe vom Support

### 1/5 — Store

*2020-04-16, version 1.17*

Purchased a pack from the store and I was charged but never received the pack.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Great game

*2025-06-10, version 1.21*

Nice to finally play another game where I don’t feel bombarded with ads or required to buy a $25+ a month battle pass. Just a fun, rewarding time waster. Keep up the good work, devs!

### 5/5 — 👍

*2025-05-06, version 1.21*

Awesome game

### 5/5 — Great game

*2025-03-05, version 1.21*

Great game

### 5/5 — Nice

*2024-03-12, version 1.21*

Very nice

### 5/5 — Great game

*2023-11-06, version 1.21*

I the pro mannnnn yeh yeh boy! 👁👄👁👁👄👁

### 5/5 — Дмитрий

*2022-05-30, version 1.21*

Отличная игра,можно играть без доната,добавьте русский язык

### 5/5 — Nice

*2021-09-11, version 1.21*

Super

### 5/5 — Awsome

*2021-08-31, version 1.21*

Awsome game

### 5/5 — فنانه

*2021-08-20, version 1.21*

👍🏻

### 5/5 — Supi

*2021-07-04, version 1.21*

Auch ohne Geld machbar

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