# Idle Idle GameDev — user reviews > 94 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Idle GameDev by Lutz Schoenfelder, rated 4.80/5 from 817 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-idle-gamedev/id1512956685/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-idle-gamedev/id1512956685.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 684 · 4★ 106 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Idle Idle GameDev? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Fun gameplay - 🚀 Engaging progression - 💡 Unique concept - 🎮 Great for casual play **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🕹️ Unresponsive controls - 📊 Imbalanced economy - 🔋 Performance issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Skill points not updating correctly - Game quality fluctuations - Player count cap issue - Data loss on app crashes **Most requested features** - In-game tutorial - More content updates - Improved save/export system - Better UI/UX ## Newest reviews (16 of 94) ### 4/5 — Good game, but... *2026-06-11, version 1.0.114* I have gotten many hours of enjoyment from this game but after the most recent update (v1.0.114 update released June 9, 2026) all my progress was factory reset. I have since learned that there is a backup feature that I wish I had used. ### 3/5 — Very buggy *2026-04-03, version 1.0.113* The game itself is very fun and is a fantastic idle game. Unfortunately the mobile version is insanely buggy to the point where, as you progress more it becomes almost unplayable. From numbers not updating to unstructured code causing the programming to hiccup to employee power not updating entirely sometimes without a full restart of the game. The concept and mechanics are a five star game, but I can’t give that to something so buggy ### 4/5 — Good game *2026-02-18, version 1.0.113* It is a great game but I can not get the retention up when I get far so I have to recursion and start again ### 2/5 — Buggy *2025-08-30* This is a great idle game, played it a ton on the web version. However this version is very buggy. Numbers dont update often, especially in the upgrade skill tab. Bug count, the progress bar to a quality game, among other things. Great game but desperately needs an update to fix bugs. ### 2/5 — Kind of broken *2025-07-16* Despite the settings the game continues to run in the background and that sadly takes the fun from the game away ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2025-07-12, version 1.0.113* Started this game up for some time. Doesn’t push hard with micro transactions. The gameplays fun. I’ve been enjoying the gameplay loop. 4/5 ### 4/5 — Great but need fixes *2025-03-09* Really enjoyed the game overall, but PLEASE fix your UI. The numbers keep jumping up an down a line when the text length changes. Other than that, I'm really hooked into the game, good work! ### 5/5 — Great game, plus suggestion! *2024-12-15, version 1.0.113* Love idle games and honestly this has been my jam so far. I like how everything is connected. But something I think would really help flesh it out, especially for new players would be some kind of in game Wiki on the top left info button. Just something explaining again what effects the idea has, marketing, how research works etc. Thanks again for a fun idle game!!! ### 5/5 — Very good *2024-12-07, version 1.0.113* Very fun would recommend ### 5/5 — Great casual idle game *2024-12-06, version 1.0.113* Don't let the start overwhelm you. It's very simple and enjoyable ### 5/5 — Fun! *2024-12-05, version 1.0.113* Very fun! ### 5/5 — Amazing amazing *2024-11-02, version 1.0.113* Best game download it I would recommend it ### 5/5 — game making game *2024-09-15, version 1.0.113* I make game ### 4/5 — Awesome game *2024-08-14, version 1.0.113* It’s a really good game, but eventually making progress can be slow. ### 5/5 — How does this company have the best free apps!? *2024-07-22, version 1.0.113* I loved your previous game the dice one and this one might even be better. ### 5/5 — Fun game *2024-07-01, version 1.0.113* Fun little incremental about game creation no fluff to it very simple rewards great for ads that are optional. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No landscape, ads broken *2026-02-25, version 1.0.113* No landscape on iPad, and ads just freeze. Text is tiny, not at all compatible with iPad. ### 1/5 — Lost data *2022-03-21, version 1.0.113* The game is good, but it doesn’t inform you that you need to keep a key to export your data so when the app has a bug and deletes your data you can get it back. ### 1/5 — Bug *2022-03-14, version 1.0.113* The game was ok spent a few days on it and was fine. Then I got on and Avery thing went from 1000+ power to single digit. So I deleted the game plz fix bug and add a place to submit bugs ### 1/5 — Good game, horrible menu response time *2022-03-13, version 1.0.113* After a few days, it has become so much of a nuisance I have stopped playing. ### 1/5 — Brick wall… *2021-07-30* …nach einem Tag Spielzeit. ### 1/5 — Release games *2020-06-15* Waaaay to easy to release a game. The button is right under the notifications. I’ve released too many games before I wanted to. The game is barely worth playing. First off it’s too easy to release games when you don’t want to. Second the buttons seem broken. If I spend all the experience on something sometimes the buttons will make it look like I can spend more. ### 1/5 — It looks fun refreshing however.. *2020-06-07* Have you tested this on at least iphone x. You can hardly see the text. When you can hardly make put anything it's difficult to play the game no matter how good it is. If you can fix the assets on the game and make full use of the screen. I'll replay and review again **Developer response:** Hello, I don't have an iphone x so maybe can you send me a screenshot to lutz.schoenfelder@gmail.com so I see how it looks? ### 2/5 — Fun until.. *2026-07-03, version 1.0.114* The sheer amount of repeating and grinding between bugs and multi cpm challenges. It completely ruined any chance I would see this game to the end. Also there’s a bug where no matter how much structure employees you have it will pulse you to zero production over and over making it 3 times slower than it needs to be at higher production levels. Another bug is when you go offline and literally get zero progress because your bugs and code jump to impossibly high levels and you spend 10 minutes fixing them when you return to zero progress. Not worth a 4.8 at all. ### 2/5 — Reset? *2026-06-10, version 1.0.114* Everything was fine, was enjoying the game had rebirthed multiple times and got my rebirth points to the millions per upgrade, woke up and it’s all back to Zero. Restarted my phone and it’s still back to zero…. So a month and a half of progress just gone… not a fan of that. ### 2/5 — Buggy. Cant “beat” the game. *2025-09-03, version 1.0.113* This is a great idle game, played it a ton on the web version. However this version is very buggy. Numbers dont update often, especially in the upgrade skill tab. Bug count, the progress bar to a quality game, among other things. Great game but desperately needs an update to fix bugs. I also have like 1e300 fans, yet the final achievement for 1e21 fans hasnt proced yet. So sadly its so buggy you cant complete it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — good *2026-03-17, version 1.0.113* it’s good ### 5/5 — Pretty fun ig *2026-02-14, version 1.0.113* It’s fun ### 5/5 — Yea *2026-02-05, version 1.0.113* Peak game ### 5/5 — Underrated *2025-11-21* Personally I find this game really under rated and after finding it on computer I’m happy to know it was on phone too :) ### 5/5 — It’s fun *2025-11-20, version 1.0.113* It’s fun ### 5/5 — bug *2025-09-08, version 1.0.113* Games pretty good but if you butcher your employees, save the set, and then load it after rebirthing, it just deletes your employees😔😔 ### 5/5 — Finally I can Relax *2025-08-13, version 1.0.113* This is the game I have been needing for a while. It’s laid back, easy to understand, and the ads are choice instead of being on a 1 minute timer. This is like when games weren’t all just shovel wear. Top notch people, thank you! ### 5/5 — It’s actually good! *2025-08-08, version 1.0.113* I used to play this on crazy games ### 5/5 — Хорошая игра *2025-07-19* Здравствуйте мне очень понравилась игра,можете сделать побольше таких idle игр пожалуйста? ### 5/5 — Really fun *2025-01-16, version 1.0.113* There’s some mechanics I don’t understand and there’s no legend or reference to understand, but for an incremental game it’s really engaging and it’s decently simple enough for anyone to pick up and throw time at. --- *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 2026-09-17.*