# Idle Restaurant Tycoon: Empire — user reviews > 615 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Restaurant Tycoon by Kolibri Games GmbH, rated 4.70/5 from 17,529 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-restaurant-tycoon-empire/id1530534938/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-restaurant-tycoon-empire/id1530534938.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 14,432 · 4★ 1,847 · 3★ 787 · 2★ 172 · 1★ 291 ## What do users think of Idle Restaurant Tycoon? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Fun and addictive game - 👍 Visually appealing - 🚀 Steady restaurant upgrade pace - 👍 Relaxing gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Glitches and crashes - 💰 Expensive upgrades and in-app purchases - 📺 Too many ads required for progress - 🕰️ Slow money-making progression - 🐛 Buggy staff/customer pathing **Commonly reported bugs** - Game resets progress after updates - Ads not working as intended - Offline earnings not properly credited - Certain features/missions not functioning **Most requested features** - Add more restaurants and content - Improve event rewards and accessibility - Allow transferring funds between restaurants - Add mass upgrade options - Improve customer/staff AI and pathfinding ## Newest reviews (12 of 615) ### 4/5 — Great game needs some small tweaks *2026-08-07, version 1.52.0* Great game. I love the minimal ads. But hate how expensive tables are. Events are the same theme over and over again. Needs realistic updates. I think you should make a cooking contest where players are the chefs. I love it. One of my favorite games. ### 4/5 — Great game needs some small tweaks *2026-05-18, version 1.51.0* Great game. I love the minimal ads. But hate how expensive tables are. Events are the same theme over and over again. Needs realistic updates. I think you should make a cooking contest where players are the chefs. I love it. One of my favorite games. ### 2/5 — It sucks *2026-05-01, version 1.50.0* I don’t like the new update it is very frustrating and it doesn’t work that well please fix it or I will just have to play a different game and if you don’t fix it I will report this game to the President and he will have to shut or game down. Please fix it or I will have to tell the president and I I’m going to tell Him and he will shut the game down and no one will be able to play or game so please fix it or I will have to tell the president. And he will have to shut or game down and please fix it or I will tell him and please fix it by a week or I will tell him. Good luck fixing it and I will tell him on Sunday and or game and you will be cooked!. ### 2/5 — Pop up tycoon *2025-11-28, version 1.48.0* I spent probably 3 minutes total playing this game and 27 minutes closing pop ups ### 3/5 — Not enough money after renovations *2025-11-23, version 1.47.0* I renovated my restaurant a week ago but only have one extra star as the upgrades are expensive and my restaurant only makes a mill a day but upgrading costs 7mil or similar Please reduce upgrading costs or increase income to make it balanced Great game just wish offline time was Ps. I wish it didn’t cost money to increase offline earnings ### 4/5 — Good game, is it abandoned? *2025-10-21, version 1.47.0* Are the restaurants marked ‚Coming soon’ going to be released? In the last year, only updates were minor bug fixes and it seems the game has been abandoned. But of course paid events are still running every week. ### 3/5 — D *2025-07-20, version 1.47.0* Bardzo wolno się zarabia pieniądze ### 4/5 — Great game *2025-04-17, version 1.47.0* I was looking for a restaurant game to get into to since I own a restaurant. I was liking the first play through of the first restaurant build then the second one. But once I got to third start I couldn't even build it up without ads. The simulation just never gave me enough sales to create income without ads even tho I tried a few more adds to get cutting edge I couldn't get enough money to build it up ironic 😭😭😭 ### 5/5 — Good *2025-04-10, version 1.47.0* Free to play, slow, but nice and good ### 2/5 — What In The Ads!!! *2025-03-23, version 1.47.0* Good game BUT EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING requires an ad to even move in the game. Ad to clean tables. Ad to get 2x (IN EVERY SINGLE WORLD). Ad to get SLIGHTLY more money. Ad for more customers. Ad for night to morning. Ad for literally everything. Good Game, ruined by ads. ### 3/5 — very mid *2025-03-17, version 1.47.0* It’s alright. Shame that no more renovations or restaurants haven’t been added, since it’s now became stale. ### 2/5 — 95 Percent Advertisements, 5 Percent Fun *2025-03-11, version 1.47.0* This game could really be fun, but it’s all advertising. The game will take a year to level up half of your stuff if you don’t do advertisements. Also, you play for about 7 minutes and it’s night time. You can skip this pointless time when there is nothing to do by, you guessed it, watching a 3 minute advertisement. This game is impossible to play if your phone is not actively charging. The game is decently fun if you have watched videos to get 2x profits and watch all the videos to get extra money in game. But you are watching 9 minutes of videos videos for every 1 minute you play it. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Data issue 😡 *2026-09-05, version 1.53.0* When transferred everything to my new iPhone, it literally went me back to beginning. Even though my Game Center is signed in and ON, it went me from halfway max out to beginning, period. ### 1/5 — Bugs *2026-07-18, version 1.52.0* Some of the restaurants don’t have the watching ads option. This is especially annoying in the events kitchen. Don’t have the events then. ### 1/5 — Still seeing ads after buying no ads package *2025-11-26, version 1.48.0* I’m still seeing ads after buying the no ads package. I thought it would go through after playing a little but I still see ads. 😔 ### 1/5 — Суть игры-смотреть рекламу *2025-10-10* Без просмотра рекламных роликов за халявную прибыль развить ничего невозможно. Результат в НЕигры сохраняется только час. **Developer response:** Спасибо за ваш отзыв! Надеемся, что вы сможете насладиться другими аспектами игры. Ваш опыт важен для нас! ~IdleBot ### 1/5 — Horrible *2025-08-02, version 1.47.0* Don’t count on moving to the next level they never update it ### 1/5 — Ads *2025-07-13, version 1.47.0* I paid the 12.99 to not have to watch ads for money and it’s still making me watch the ads I want my money back 😐 ### 1/5 — Boring *2025-05-28, version 1.47.0* Very boring the money come slow ### 1/5 — Keeps on crashing i cant play the game *2025-04-20, version 1.47.0* Pls fix crashing ### 1/5 — Don’t pay to remove ads!! *2025-03-05, version 1.47.0* Alright game. I love idle games. However, I don’t like ads. So I pay to remove them. This game took my money and I’m still having to watch ads. Total rip off! ### 1/5 — Mehr Werbung als Spiel *2025-02-21, version 1.47.0* ständig Werbung ansonsten ist das Spiel im Schneckentempo ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The best game *2026-05-20, version 1.51.0* I love it. no mistakes that I noticed and it is just good a teaching people ways to spend their money ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2026-02-28, version 1.49.0* This truly is a great game I love it ### 5/5 — Two stars *2026-02-16, version 1.49.0* five stars ### 5/5 — Juego bien hecho *2025-12-21, version 1.49.0* Está bueno no lo e jugado mucho pero está peak ### 5/5 — First weeks awesome *2025-12-18, version 1.49.0* Been playing & loving it so far ### 5/5 — pretty cool give me something to do. *2025-08-04, version 1.47.0* The best part is it actually earns money while you’re gone. ### 5/5 — just a little sentiments *2025-07-18, version 1.47.0* More update. Thank you. The game was good and I like the style. I’m a fan of idle miner tycoon, so it’s i definitely download this game. I love restaurant! ### 5/5 — フレンドが追加できない *2025-06-15* ゲーム自体はすごく楽しいです！ ただ、フレンドが追加できないのでフレンドブーストが使えません、、 **Developer response:** こんにちは！あなたのご心配に少しでもお役に立ちたいと思いますので、community@idlerestauranttycoon.com まで詳しい情報をお送りいただけないでしょうか。よろしくお願いします！ (自動翻訳) ### 5/5 — good *2025-05-08, version 1.47.0* good ### 5/5 — Sooooo! 👍🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️ *2025-04-18, version 1.47.0* So good to many ads every single second --- *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 2026-09-11.*