# Idle Sand Tycoon — user reviews > 74 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Sand Tycoon by Solid Games, rated 4.70/5 from 2,519 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-sand-tycoon/id6446575926/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-sand-tycoon/id6446575926.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,058 · 4★ 235 · 3★ 139 · 2★ 36 · 1★ 51 ## What do users think of Idle Sand Tycoon? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🤑 Awesome game - 🎮 Fun gameplay - 🎨 Nice graphics **Cons** - 🤖 Forced ads - 💰 Expensive to remove ads - 🐛 Bugs and glitches **Commonly reported bugs** - Excavator menu gets stuck - Crashes and freezes - Upgrade screen issues **Most requested features** - Add music option - Improve excavator menu navigation - Reduce frequency of ads ## Newest reviews (19 of 74) ### 2/5 — Muita propaganda *2025-11-13* Mesmo desligando a internet a propaganda é forcada. Fica chato às vezes cada ação te leva a uma propagando e não tem como cancelar , estava gostando no começo mas aí essas propagandas se tornaram chata e não quero mais voltar ### 3/5 — Star tester *2025-08-16, version 1.9.3* I saw this game on a add and I love the game when I started this game ### 1/5 — Slow to play *2025-05-27, version 1.9.3* Very slow to get going and upgrade cost. Also now all freebies stopped working and so will be deleting shortly ### 1/5 — Just no *2025-04-07, version 1.9.3* If you love an advert every time you press anything then this is the game for you. Press up grade….advert, press speed button….. advert, by something ……. Advert played for about 5 mins then deleted after having about 10 forced ads no thanks ### 1/5 — Zu viel Werbung *2025-04-05* Nicht Spielbar ### 1/5 — Werbung *2025-04-05* Werbung ### 1/5 — Add simulator more like it *2025-04-04, version 1.9.3* This game is literally all adds you open to an add, upgrade=straight to an add, level up anything= straight to an add, I literally had 5 adds within 2-3 minutes. Only way to avoid is to turn off all data an go into airplane mode. For a free game I’ll just move on an delete the game, if i had payed for it I’d be irate. But still straight trash with all the adds. Im not adjusting my phone settings to cater to your game. Have yourself a great life. Bye. ### 1/5 — So many forced ads *2024-12-27, version 1.9.3* Literally never seen a game with this many forced ads. I got it about 2 seconds after opening the game. About 50% of the things you press will trigger a forced ad. It’s barely a game ### 2/5 — Ads *2024-11-27, version 1.9.3* Could be a great game. Except for all the forced ads. Every time I upgrade...ad. ### 3/5 — Interesting premise. Could use a little work. *2024-10-10, version 1.9.3* This is another one of this ideal “maximize production out out games” I liked that it was free with paid option. I do normally pay to have the random ads taken out of these games if they give the option and was a little dismayed to see that it was 10 dollars. But I went ahead and bought it. I regretted it almost immediately. It made the game way too quick and easy because it got rid of all ads. Not just the ones that were random pop ups. I would have gladly paid less then 10 to have just the pop up ads I didn’t ask for removed but still have the option to watch ads for ingame rewards. That is my biggest complaint. I know it sounds silly “who doesn’t want less ads?” But the balance of the game was really thrown off when you got rid of ads completely. I should have just kept doing my work around for these games a left my internet off while playing so I didn’t get pop up ads. ### 1/5 — Großer Müll *2024-10-05* Müll game mit ads schon nach dem Starten ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2024-09-08, version 1.9.3* Way too many ads can’t even play 20 secs without and add ### 2/5 — To many forced ads *2024-08-21, version 1.9.3* In gamely it automatically pops up and forces you to watch ads. If I want to watch an ad for extra money or something that’s one thing but don’t force them ### 1/5 — Bien mais *2024-06-19* Pour l’es pub c est pas gênant tu mais 10€ et tu a plus de pub le gros problème c est que les jeux sauvegarde même pas ta progression donc si tu désinstalle ou changer de téléphone tablette etc tu perds tout moi c et plus pour ça que je les désinstalle ### 1/5 — Good game just needs work *2024-05-22, version 1.8.3* Love the game just that next to the upgrade next to the ocean once you go in it doesn’t let you out there is no X ### 1/5 — Não melhora as maquinas e operações *2024-05-16* Por mais que a gente sempre melhore a operação e a velocidade das maquinas, sempre continua o mesmo! O negócio não vai mais rápido! Ta na mesma velocidade desde o inicio do jogo!!! 😡 ### 1/5 — Реклама, баги *2024-05-09* При прокачке карьера нельзя закрыть окно. Надо перезапускать. Реклама - без спроса запускается + после 4 домов времени за заказ дается процентов 70 от необходимого - нужно или пинать транспорт, что уже не расслабление или смотреть рекламу чтобы добавило 5 минут ### 3/5 — Bugged rig *2024-04-26, version 1.8.3* When you click on the rig, window with upgrades pops up but you’re unable to close it as it comes all the way to the top of the screen. ### 2/5 — Ok *2024-04-25, version 1.8.3* Game is ok for a few days, but gets pretty repetitive and once you finish upgrades there is no more point playing ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Sympa mais *2026-05-12* Beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup trop de pubs. On est pas loin de 1 pub toutes les 15s. Faut arrêter d'abuser autant ### 1/5 — Ai Slop *2026-05-06, version 1.9.3* Full of ads, low effort, runs terribly, clearly botted reviews. ### 1/5 — No subject *2026-01-02, version 1.9.3* Back to back ads not worth playing just ads for this game. Whoever made this game sucks balls ### 1/5 — Unspielbar *2026-01-02* Ich frage mich wer sowas zulässt, permanent Werbung ### 1/5 — Pub *2025-12-31* Pub à chaque toucher sur l’écran vraiment abusé ### 1/5 — Forced ads *2025-10-16* I’m all for ads being in games, I get it it’s how y’all get paid. But a forced ad every few minutes disguised as a “break” is pathetic. ### 1/5 — Pouco jogo *2025-09-17* Zerei o jogo em apenas 4 dias :/ o jogo é muito curto e viciante , é ótimo , mais tem que ser bem mais longo … com 4 dias , já tinha dinheiro e não tinha como comprar mais nada 🙄 ### 1/5 — Forced ads? Hell no. *2025-08-26, version 1.9.3* I don’t mind too much if you want to put optional ads for small boosts or resource bundles but any game dev that forces unavoidable ads on their users during gameplay, unless they pay to remove ads, should be banned from making games and forced to work retail. Good thing they’re really easy to skip immediately but I still won’t give any more of my time to this game, at least until this abysmal decision to add forced ads is overturned. ### 1/5 — 🥲 *2025-08-01* Много рекламы ### 1/5 — Horrible *2025-06-06, version 1.9.3* Literally ADs every 15sec. Don’t bother ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — It’s pretty darn good *2024-04-25, version 1.8.3* Honestly so far the game is fun if you don’t like game where there’s a lot of processing then I would tell you that it might be a little boring or annoying. ### 5/5 — Five Stars rating *2024-01-12, version 1.8.2* Awesome job on this app ### 5/5 — Great game *2023-12-31, version 1.8.1* Great game ads ofc but very annoying of the forced break ads.theres also a bug where the second sand machine on the first map has no exit button so you have to close the app and reopen to get out of the upgrade menu ### 5/5 — Thank you *2023-06-14, version 1.5.2* Thank you ### 5/5 — Balances needs beautifully *2023-04-30, version 1.5.2* Ads are no surprise. There is ample warning before a forced ad comes up. The forced ads are not overly long or are skippable and I don’t end up with ad fatigue. The game itself is simple yet fun. ### 5/5 — Y si *2023-04-08* Y el presidente de ### 4/5 — Not bad! *2025-02-11, version 1.9.3* I think all my minutes will be spent here! ### 4/5 — Bug fix *2024-03-20, version 1.8.2* I love the game I think it’s grate but the only thing that would fix is the quarry excavation site next to the income upgrade building when you go to access it, it will bring up the screen to upgrade it but it won’t let you leave the menu there is no (X) to press to exit ### 4/5 — The excavator *2023-12-20, version 1.8.1* It’ll let you pull up the screen but it won’t let you close it you have to close out the game and restart it losing all progress please fix other than that the game is a great time killer I have pictures if you need to know what I’m talking about ### 4/5 — I like the game *2023-11-30, version 1.8.1* Just a request to fix a bug with the excavator machine thats to the right of the office. Once you're around level 35+ and you go in to upgrade it will jam and doesn't let you leave the screen unless you close the game and you lose the progress. Please fix --- *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 2026-09-03.*