# Idle Monster Frontier — user reviews > 36 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Monster Frontier by Iron Horse Games LLC, rated 4.72/5 from 837 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-monster-frontier/id1523328443/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-monster-frontier/id1523328443.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 689 · 4★ 101 · 3★ 23 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Idle Monster Frontier? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Solid overall game - 👍 Deep customization and frequent events - 👍 Satisfying gameplay and engaging mechanics - 👍 Great art style - 👍 Optional ads - 👍 Responsive developer **Cons** - 🐛 Ads crashing the game - 💰 Progression gated behind paywalls - 🔍 Lack of quality of life features - 🔍 Unclear monster stats and skills - 🔍 Small font size - 🐛 Buggy save feature **Commonly reported bugs** - Ads crashing the game - Buggy save feature **Most requested features** - Sticker/peeling mechanics - Faster healer attack speed - Larger font size - Public Discord server ## Newest reviews (11 of 36) ### 4/5 — STICKERS?!?!! *2023-07-17* Genuinely haven’t spent any money (yet) and am already enjoying the game a ton. The aesthetic, dungeon crawling vibe and over all vibes of the game are awesome! I really wish there were more sticker adjacent aspects to the overall experience. even if they were just visual enhancements or gimmicks that held very. Peel an apple here and there, but what if I peeled away the tree revealing a new path, chests, rare mob ect. Other than that pretty solid game for the busy gamer. ### 3/5 — Game buggy *2022-06-12, version 2.2.0* I can’t click anything ### 3/5 — FIX THE ADS *2021-12-02* I love this game, it's fun & addictive, but like any other free to play game most of the progress & rewards come from watching short ads. Which doesn't bother me, but what does bother me is that you might get 1/20 ads that doesn't crash the game. The best part is it'll get all the way near the end, then crash, so you don't get any reward for wasting ~20 seconds. I keep playing hoping one day it won't crash every opportunity, but I've been waiting on that for 2 months. Hopefully the developers will fix this so people can enjoy their game, but I doubt it. ### 4/5 — Font size *2021-11-28* Font is very small making the game unplayable for me, seemed fun though IPhone 12 ### 2/5 — Ads a bit much *2021-01-06* Turns out all the upgrades for the monsters used to be cheaper and they didn’t have an ad button. That’s a pretty bad way to get us to watch ads think 😕 Edit: at level 30 ish and each upgrades needs 10k more gold next time 😒. Note that this is for a common. ### 5/5 — The “AETHER” *2020-12-04, version 1.8.6* The game is pretty much a 5 star. I love the game quite frankly. The only problem is the recent update. The “AETHER Tickets” after beating a level in the AETHER is now 3 tickets per level. The ticket used to be 10 per level beaten. The problem is that the AETHER shop prices are high. 40 tickets for cheapest pack. Then 100 tickets for the medium pack but the last pack is 500 tickets. The lowest pack gives 2 common, 1 rare and 1 epic monster. Medium pack gives 1 common, rare, epic, and legendary. The highest pack gives 2 epic, 1 legendary and master. The other problem is that the aether level are difficult. Plus only try per day. The player has to play 13 aether levels to get enough for the first pack. Then 33 levels for the medium pack but lo and behold 166 levels for the highest pack. The player can only play 50 levels. Granted you do get a master monster for completing all 50 levels. REMINDER!!! I do not spend money. The game is extremely hard at first but gets easy until the game gets difficult around normal levels 80-100+. My main point is that I think the Aether shop should be cheaper considering the player only gets 3 per level. Thank you for reading ### 5/5 — Very Addictive - F2P - Great Depth *2020-11-26* Hands down, this has been one of the best phone games I have ever played. With the nuances of giving different skills, leveling up monsters, leveling up skills and trying to get rare legendary/master monsters (and creating different teams off of what you get) this game has me hooked. Although a bit grindy as a f2p game, you get good money when you leave the game (and a couple of monsters to) so you don’t have to over commit to just playing this. The rpg elements of this game combined with this ease of play and flexibility for me to live life, well, this is definitely worth a look at (if you don’t already have it installed. Great game. ### 5/5 — Best Idle game I’ve ever held. *2020-09-30* I am obsessed with this game, it’s in such a good state as is. I can’t wait to see where you guys take it in the future. It definitely has a lot of potential to do some really cool things! ### 5/5 — Great game *2020-09-26, version 1.8.0* Needs a public Discord Server ### 5/5 — Fun *2020-09-24, version 1.7.7* Great game! Love it ### 5/5 — Best idle game I’ve experienced *2020-09-22* Played a vast majority of idle mobile games and they usually fall into one of 3 categories. 1 Tap heavy, where u sit there mindlessly and tap away your soul for progression. 2 Ad revenue centered, where at every corner your hit by an advertisement stopping you from using the app. Or 3 micro transaction hell, where at first the game will hold your hand and make it seem like your very strong but at some point you hit a progression wall and they attempt to make micro transactions very appealing and almost the solution to continue playing. This game on the other hand is the most balanced and enjoyable idle game I’ve played. All supported by the unique pixel art style that reminds me of Pokémon. The ads are completely option and despite the occasional pop up wanting you to buy a bundle or what not (only happens when your squad dies sometimes) the game is fun and is one of the top tier idle games out there. Would it keep me coming back? Sure for a while but all idle games for me become stale and are eventually uninstalled but I’m happy to support the devs by watching a few ads here and there because it’s obvious this isn’t ran by a giant Corp and the wholesomeness of the game is still intact. Hope it stays that way ! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — It says “offline earnings” *2023-04-26, version 2.3.0* Yet I can’t get no idle rewards when I’m walking to work such a trash game don’t download unless you want ti waste cellular on this dumb game that claims to be offline ### 1/5 — No such thing as free gems *2021-11-08* Bunch of ads they say do stuff for free gems. Waste of time they’ll never give them to you, even with valid proof it’s not enough because the advertiser has to say I did it even if I have proof. What’s the point of proof then. Stupid system, Stupid developers ### 1/5 — Worst Idle game I’ve ever played *2021-09-26* I honestly love playing idle games. They are always games you can play to pass time. I’ve played it for a week now and this game had so much potential, but fell short at the very beginning. The thing that this game lacks is that you reach a progress wall really fast, constantly shoving ads in your face, basic and useful amplifiers hidden behind a pay wall, drop rate extremely low even for common monsters, can’t tell what the boss stats are in the guide after defeating them, overly pricy game purchases that basically give you nothing in the grand scheme of things. You have to cough up a large quantity of gems just to progress. This game had me in the beginning with it’s amazing art style and combat system, but quickly turns into a “how quickly can we make the users spend money on this game and waste their time with ad bombs.” Just a cash grab game, so avoid it and don’t waste your time. ### 1/5 — Unprofessional *2020-10-27, version 1.8.3* Customer support called me special ed lmao funny but kinda messed up ### 1/5 — Good game but.. *2020-09-11, version 1.7.7* Good game but the save feature is not working in iOS, lost like 5 hrs of progress only to realize upon reinstalling the game i had to start from zero again. ### 2/5 — Cash-Grab Siralim *2022-12-19* Core gameplay being decent baited me into a purchase I regretted once I saw how the entire game is centered around making you pay to remove intentional inconveniences. Go play Siralim ultimate instead and support a dev who sells a product instead of turning you into one. ### 2/5 — Cheeky P2W *2022-06-17* I’ll start off saying that this game’s overall construction is good. If you just want to mindlessly play, it works. But, if you actually want to optimize a team, you are never going to get anywhere. For some reason, they decided attack order should be based on a randomly generated and assigned attack speed, so a monster could be everything you’re looking for but juuuuuuuust not have a low or high enough attack speed so it doesn’t actually work with your team. Tanks won’t attack so they won’t heal themselves, or your DPS can’t get last hits, etc. Turns the game into a huge grindfest to get a perfect stat empty epic or master monster at the one frontier you’ve been grinding, just to progress a little and do it all over again. Not to mention the myriad of absent quality of life additions. I see now why this game really doesn’t have a following ### 2/5 — Shame *2021-02-24, version 1.9.0* Beautiful game whose play consists of watching ads for 10 min before playing something else. What a waste. ### 2/5 — Pretty good, uninstalled *2021-02-15* Nice looking idle game. Core is pretty good, but there were several issues that led me to uninstall. 1) text is very small and hard to read 2) hit a progression wall pretty quickly 3) hard to compare skills and strengths, needed paper and pen to keep notes about what skills were better and what icons meant what 4) just didn’t feel like I was getting any reward for the effort that I was putting into game ### 2/5 — Too much *2021-01-26, version 1.8.9* I’ve played idle games for years and I’m no stranger to grinders. Few are worth the time. Many are full of shameful pay to progress IAPs, and forgettable/simple mechanics that fail to have any depth. This one is a mix of both. It’s interesting, maybe not the most original, but interesting. The concept is simple, the monsters you collect are much less. The progress though, is absolutely staggeringly slow. The cost to level your monsters become almost unreasonable, eventually becoming so expensive, it takes hours to raise them up one level. That, included with amount of progress needed to improve your buildings is jaw dropping once you realize how long it took to just get to the half way point. The game seriously lacks the feeling of progress and balance. What really grinds my gears is the IAPs. The cost alone is insanity. It should not cost $10 for three monsters plus a small amount of gems, and yet $20 for slightly rarer monsters?? Absurd. Any app that has even one purchase costing $100 (sorry, $99.99) or more instantly loses my respect. No purchase should ever be that much because there is nothing worth that much. If you want a great idle grinder game that has balance, purposeful progression, and won’t try to rip you off, go play Realm Grinder. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Really good *2024-06-16, version 2.3.0* Should get more attention, solid overall, has deep customization and frequent events ### 5/5 — Great Idle Game Overall *2022-11-25* Very good game for the easy idle player. Easy to play and has a decent diversity and units and typing. One issue I’ve had is with the healer unit, it never attacks in time to activate the heal so my units ahead of it never benefit from having the healer. Maybe make it not attack activated or make the healers attack speed faster overall. That’s my only issue. Good game! ### 5/5 — Really outstanding - keep up the updates! *2022-09-03* Super cute, really good graphics. I’m absolutely HOOKED. I can’t wait for future updates and more content. ❤️ ### 5/5 — Very enjoyable way to burn half a day! *2022-08-31, version 2.2.0* Fun with party building mechanics. ### 5/5 — Fun game, thanks Nox *2022-05-19* Great art style, very satisfying gameplay and engaging mechanics. I’m not a huge fan of most “idle” games as they’re mostly pretty simple with little complexity beyond “number get bigger,” but this game has a very engaging level of micromanagement and complex interactions that keep the player invested. There are a staggering number of possible teams and I personally get a lot out of theorizing different builds and monsters. Also, I deleted my save file like a moron and contacted support, got my account back first thing the next morning. Thanks Nox! In conclusion, fun game, great customer support. ### 5/5 — Definitely an idle game, definitely going to play for years *2021-10-16* A lot of people in reviews (mainly steam) like to say this game “isn’t an idle experience” first of all I’m a late game player who hardly touches the game while it’s running. So that’s pretty idle. Second besides clicking and scrapping the game has such little human interaction after a certain point you’d be foolish telling me otherwise. Besides that, this game has been beautifully coded, and being a player for less than half the year, I can confidently say this game still receives minor QoL patches (user submitted) here and there despite talking with the dev personally to see that the game itself is considered complete. At this point I’d like to say if you have any interest checking this game out, just do it. You can strive being F2P, and if you join the community discord (that the dev literally sits in sometimes and talks to absolutely everyone) you won’t ever have to worry about a thing. Download this game. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2021-06-28* One of my favorite games recently. Simple and clear yet enough depth to keep me planning new teams and reasons to keep farming. This sort of game works well with my busy lifestyle - work a bit, come back to the game and manage my newly gained resources - then back to work again :) Don’t forget to visit the discord channel for help and a friendly community experience! ### 5/5 — Charming *2021-01-17* A very good game blending several genres into one. Just a shame I missed the codes at xmas. Five Stars. ### 5/5 — That BEAT! *2021-01-12, version 1.8.8* Five stars for the music. That slaps, yo! ### 5/5 — A great game with great dev *2021-01-07* Very fun game either as f2p or p2w. Also the dev is very responsive. Emailed the dev for some game issue and I got reply in a few hours. Give it a try! --- *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 2026-06-10.*