# Idle War Merchant — user reviews > 39 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle War Merchant by Qibei Network Technology Co., Ltd., rated 4.60/5 from 84 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-war-merchant/id6747242057/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-war-merchant/id6747242057.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 68 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of Idle War Merchant? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Good decent game - 👍 Nice idle game **Cons** - 🐛 Gets worse the longer you play - 🔋 Game uses battery quite fast - ⏱️ Offline rewards are 1 hour max - 🔧 Needs balancing **Commonly reported bugs** - Soldiers and archers not wearing gear - Renes don't take aggro - Unclear what X/2500 building limit means **Most requested features** - More maps and content - Ability to toggle quality to save battery - Zoom out more ## Newest reviews (14 of 39) ### 1/5 — Gets worse the longer you play *2025-10-22, version 1.2* Worst game I've ever played. There's too much to cover in a review. I will say, it never ceases to amaze me how they can release a game like this. The graphics are good, it moves well. It seems like some thought went into this. Reality is, it's half an idea for a game, very poorly executed. It's been 6 weeks now and we still don't have chapter 2. Offline rewards are 2h max, they want you to login every 1-2h when there's nothing to do. Sit around and wait for the next ad popup. Keep getting Renés and Leah fragments even though they're maxed and have been 5* for 3 weeks now. If you finish chapter 1, you messed up because now you can't upgrade shop or down scene monsters for dailies. 😂🤦🏻‍♂️ so stupid. Just added 4000 points to a random in arena. Takes -0 points when beaten and only gives 74? When you thought it couldn't get any worse they do the dumbest thing. Rip rank one from you and put it months out of reach. Great. Instead of chapter 2? Ridiculous ### 2/5 — No updates! Don’t spend money! *2025-10-14* As of October, still no updates. Don’t spend money…they don’t update the game. There is only one level, that’s it. Complete waste of money. Also, don’t download if you want something to last awhile. ### 1/5 — No update *2025-09-23, version 1.2* Only has 1 level. Don’t spend $$ ### 1/5 — Not finished *2025-09-22* Only 2 hour offline, no 2nd level, constant ads, limited earnings if the game isn’t running. ### 1/5 — Just don’t. *2025-09-19* Intriguing at first, enjoyable throughout, and extremely irritating after the short time that it takes to complete. First off money wise, the monthly VIP pack doesn’t work at all. DO NOT WASTE THE $5. You can tell the game is a quick money grab. You can finish chapter 1 within 4-5 hours with no problem. After that though, there’s literally no progressive plus side in continuing to play. It says chapter 2 is coming soon but clearly it’s been saying that for a while according to other reviews. I fully believe this was a pump and dump money grab. ### 2/5 — Abandoned Game *2025-09-14* Only the first level has been created. The second level has been “coming soon” for months. I should not have spent money on this game. ### 1/5 — When the next update?? *2025-09-06* I’ve been playing this game for a few days now, and I’ve spent over $30. I’m currently the top player, but there’s no competition, which is getting boring. I don’t know what else to do. I feel like I might need a refund if the update doesn’t come soon. 🙄🙄 ### 1/5 — Wth *2025-09-03, version 1.2* It was a mistake to spend money on this. Can’t even get to stage 2. ### 1/5 — Chapter 2? *2025-08-31* Love the game so far. Just a mindless upgrade and move on with your day type of game but very unpolished and definitely unfinished. I just wanted to keep going with the chapters but i guess not! Good luck! ### 1/5 — Game was fun *2025-08-27* Game was fun but I spent money and now I’m still waiting for chapter 2… been awhile and can’t do much offline only for 2hrs and it’s just been a drag waiting for chapter 2 I can’t do anything else it seems ### 2/5 — Chapter 2 still not here. *2025-08-24* How long could it possibly take to issue chapter 2? I spent $10 for ads free and got one chapter out of it. SMH ### 1/5 — Cool but no content after a week *2025-08-23, version 1.2* End game happens fast and nothing else to do ### 1/5 — Gets worse the longer you play *2025-08-18, version 1.2* Worst game I've ever played. There's too much to cover in a review. I will say, it never ceases to amaze me how they can release a game like this. The graphics are good, it moves well. It seems like some thought went into this. Reality is, it's half an idea for a game, very poorly executed. It's been 6 weeks now and we still don't have chapter 2. Offline rewards are 2h max, they want you to login every 1-2h when there's nothing to do. Sit around and wait for the next ad popup. Keep getting Renés and Leah fragments even though they're maxed and have been 5* for 3 weeks now. If you finish chapter 1, you messed up because now you can't upgrade shop or down scene monsters for dailies. 😂🤦🏻‍♂️ so stupid. ### 1/5 — Gets worse the longer you play *2025-08-15* You might enjoy it, but they're never coming out with chapter two. While you're waiting a few things are going to make you give up on this one. Wasted chests. After maxing a character star lvl, you still get shards for them. More than ever actually. When you should be getting for purple and even yellow quality heroes. When you beat the first map, that's it. It's been a month or more waiting for the next chapter. During which time you can no longer upgrade any shops, or complete the daily challenges (defeat scene monster, upgrade shop) which leads to not reaching the monthly reward without wasting diamonds. It just seems really I'll planned. The game uses battery quite fast. I play a couple other games and in comparison, just having this open for 10 minutes uses 10-15%. That's not good. What is X/2500? I've maxed everything and stuck at 2145/2500 buildings. Renes don't take agro, so whoever stands next to him is two hit dead, making your party permanently 4/5. In tower, soldiers and archers aren't wearing the gear I made for them? That's all I got. I would hope the soldiers have more purpose in chapter 2+(if we ever see it). UPDATE: it's even worse today. They're never going to fix or add anything. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Do Not Download *2025-11-28* Game is a scam. Been waiting for months for the 2nd map to release. Limited game play. Next to impossible to get the legendary warriors. I save up my gems and do the 10 pull for increased chance of legendary character, the game promises at least 1 in 10. Never get them. Game has potential. But until the release of another map do not download. ### 1/5 — Seems abandoned, monthly updates and now 4 months silence *2025-11-25, version 1.2* Posted 11/3/2025 Update 1 11/15/2025: There has been no response from the devs, and the leaderboard is growing more skewed by the day. I no longer gain points for PVP, instead when I win, players lose 250+ points. How is anyone supposed to compete with that? I’m not even hacking or cheating, just upgrading things strategically and logging in 2-3 times a day. I will continue my grind until the devs respond or fix this. If you are reading this and considering the game, do yourself a favor: don’t. PVP is cursed. Update 2 11/22/2025 - congrats devs, it took me less than a month to break the scoreboard. I now have a 300 point lead in PVP and when I defeat someone they lose 1500 points. 2nd place has about 1300 points. I now 0 people out. My power score is in the 90k range and the average next closest is 50k. No hacks, no cheats, just fully optimized and upgraded heroes. At this point idk if anyone can knock me down? Update 3 11/25 - I now reduce scores by either 2250 or 4500. Mg own score is 1603. I don’t know if people zero out or go negative. Going to keep going until I run out of targets or the game changes. Well this game was interesting at first and the art style is great, but after sitting at the top of the leaderboard for 2 weeks now and steadily increasing the gap between first and 2nd, it seems pretty clear that the game is abandoned and not going to get anymore updates. Don’t bother trying to play if you intend to participate in PVP. I have no idea how but I have never lost a single fight— I had 30k heroes fighting 55k teams, now I’m up to 55k+. Each day, 5 people get their scores reduced by 50 through me. I’m not sure if this is a glitch, something the entire playerbase has overlooked, or just poor balance, but the game isn’t actually playable after about 3-4 days of focused play, let alone 1-2 weeks. I have my entire location 1 town fully upgraded, and my attack research is also maxed now. Devs, if you’re out there, please don’t give up. You’ve got the making of a really great game and I’d assume it could earn you more still if properly developed. If the devs respond and the game isn’t abandoned, I’ll post a guide for how I became so strong— for free. ### 1/5 — Seems abandoned, monthly updates and now 4 months silence *2025-11-22, version 1.2* Posted 11/3/2025 Update 1 11/15/2025: There has been no response from the devs, and the leaderboard is growing more skewed by the day. I no longer gain points for PVP, instead when I win, players lose 250+ points. How is anyone supposed to compete with that? I’m not even hacking or cheating, just upgrading things strategically and logging in 2-3 times a day. I will continue my grind until the devs respond or fix this. If you are reading this and considering the game, do yourself a favor: don’t. PVP is cursed. Update 2 11/22/2025 - congrats devs, it took me less than a month to break the scoreboard. I now have a 300 point lead in PVP and when I defeat someone they lose 1500 points. 2nd place has about 1300 points. I now 0 people out. My power score is in the 90k range and the average next closest is 50k. No hacks, no cheats, just fully optimized and upgraded heroes. At this point idk if anyone can knock me down? Well this game was interesting at first and the art style is great, but after sitting at the top of the leaderboard for 2 weeks now and steadily increasing the gap between first and 2nd, it seems pretty clear that the game is abandoned and not going to get anymore updates. Don’t bother trying to play if you intend to participate in PVP. I have no idea how but I have never lost a single fight— I had 30k heroes fighting 55k teams, now I’m up to 55k+. Each day, 5 people get their scores reduced by 50 through me. I’m not sure if this is a glitch, something the entire playerbase has overlooked, or just poor balance, but the game isn’t actually playable after about 3-4 days of focused play, let alone 1-2 weeks. I have my entire location 1 town fully upgraded, and my attack research is also maxed now. Devs, if you’re out there, please don’t give up. You’ve got the making of a really great game and I’d assume it could earn you more still if properly developed. If the devs respond and the game isn’t abandoned, I’ll post a guide for how I became so strong— for free. ### 1/5 — Seems abandoned, monthly updates and now 4 months silence *2025-11-15, version 1.2* Posted 11/3/2025 Update 1 11/15/2025: There has been no response from the devs, and the leaderboard is growing more skewed by the day. I no longer gain points for PVP, instead when I win, players lose 250+ points. How is anyone supposed to compete with that? I’m not even hacking or cheating, just upgrading things strategically and logging in 2-3 times a day. I will continue my grind until the devs respond or fix this. If you are reading this and considering the game, do yourself a favor: don’t. PVP is cursed. Well this game was interesting at first and the art style is great, but after sitting at the top of the leaderboard for 2 weeks now and steadily increasing the gap between first and 2nd, it seems pretty clear that the game is abandoned and not going to get anymore updates. Don’t bother trying to play if you intend to participate in PVP. I have no idea how but I have never lost a single fight— I had 30k heroes fighting 55k teams, now I’m up to 55k+. Each day, 5 people get their scores reduced by 50 through me. I’m not sure if this is a glitch, something the entire playerbase has overlooked, or just poor balance, but the game isn’t actually playable after about 3-4 days of focused play, let alone 1-2 weeks. I have my entire location 1 town fully upgraded, and my attack research is also maxed now. Devs, if you’re out there, please don’t give up. You’ve got the making of a really great game and I’d assume it could earn you more still if properly developed. If the devs respond and the game isn’t abandoned, I’ll post a guide for how I became so strong— for free. ### 1/5 — No updates! Don’t spend money! Game DELETED! *2025-11-13* As of November, still no updates. Don’t spend money…they don’t update the game. There is only one level, that’s it. Complete waste of money. Also, don’t download if you want something to last awhile. I think I broke the game. I was bumped down to 2nd place and lose points winning. lol this game is trash. I give up, GAME DELETED!!! ### 1/5 — Junk *2025-11-09* 4-5 months with no update for chapter two. Instead they crippled the arena - wins = +-11. So I lose points when I beat first place. And first place take --9, +9. Ripped first place and made it completely impossible to retake it. Been a month since they did that. Changed the daily wheel spins out of favor because I noticed verbally. Rare heroes maxed, wasting summons for x450+ useless shards for both Renes and Leah. It seems like they'd rather everyone quit the game. I got the ad removal but I can honestly say it isn't worth it to play this game. Request refund. ### 1/5 — Junk *2025-11-08* 4-5 months with no update for chapter two. Instead they crippled the arena. Changed the daily wheel spins out of favor. It seems like they'd rather everyone quit the game. I got the ad removal but I can honestly say it isn't worth it to play this game. ### 1/5 — No updates! Don’t spend money! *2025-11-05* As of November, still no updates. Don’t spend money…they don’t update the game. There is only one level, that’s it. Complete waste of money. Also, don’t download if you want something to last awhile. ### 1/5 — Seems abandoned, monthly updates and now 4 months silence *2025-11-03* Well this game was interesting at first and the art style is great, but after sitting at the top of the leaderboard for 2 weeks now and steadily increasing the gap between first and 2nd, it seems pretty clear that the game is abandoned and not going to get anymore updates. Don’t bother trying to play if you intend to participate in PVP. I have no idea how but I have never lost a single fight— I had 30k heroes fighting 55k teams, now I’m up to 55k+. Each day, 5 people get their scores reduced by 50 through me. I’m not sure if this is a glitch, something the entire playerbase has overlooked, or just poor balance, but the game isn’t actually playable after about 3-4 days of focused play, let alone 1-2 weeks. I have my entire location 1 town fully upgraded, and my attack research is also maxed now. Devs, if you’re out there, please don’t give up. You’ve got the making of a really great game and I’d assume it could earn you more still if properly developed. If the devs respond and the game isn’t abandoned, I’ll post a guide for how I became so strong— for free. ### 1/5 — Abandoned *2025-11-02, version 1.2* Don’t spend money on this the game is abandoned and you can’t get to stage 2 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun idle game but needs levels *2025-09-15* It’s a pretty fun game and pretty. The concept is cool too. However, we need to have access to the other levels. ### 5/5 — Good idle game *2025-07-09* Basically, warriors come to your town and you sell equipment to fight monsters in your area. Goes at a reasonable pace. It would be nice if you could zoom out more. Also, if you could toggle the quality in order to save on battery **Developer response:** Thank you for your likes and suggestions ### 4/5 — Good Game, Needs Expansion *2025-09-02* Not sure if the expansion is coming soon but overall not a bad game. A good toilet game until the expansion comes out. ### 4/5 — Good decent game *2025-08-13* Game is fun and well made although seems unfinished. After the first area the second one just says coming soon with no time table so it’s just a waiting game. ### 4/5 — It’s ok *2025-07-20* Fun time killer, but there is only one main level. Even just doing this once twice a day I was done with the main mission in a few days, number 1 on the pvp board and number 1 on the raid section. It’s ok, but they need a lot more if they want any cash out of me. ### 4/5 — Good game but.. *2025-07-14* The game was fun I enjoyed it problem is there is only one map I expected a lot more it’s very unfinished. Wish I knew when the next map gets added. ### 4/5 — Nice idle game *2025-07-04* Nice idle game minus a few bugs. The bugs are why I don’t give it 5 stars. **Developer response:** Thank you for your love, we will optimize it ### 3/5 — Needs Development *2025-10-10* I like the pacing of the game. Pretty idle, but there does need to be a more rapid chapter development. There should be auto completed daily task for when you are no longer able to kill monsters… because you killed them all in the chapter. Would love to see more done with maxed out hero shards. ### 3/5 — No updates! Don’t spend money! *2025-09-30, version 1.2* Don’t spend money…they don’t update the game. There is only one level, that’s it. Complete waste of money. Also, don’t download if you want something to last awhile. ### 3/5 — Only 1 Map so far *2025-08-30* The game is what you would expect from an idle game. Now I like idle games so I will usually spend the $$ for the add removal, which I did. Now had I known that once I beat the first map I couldn’t progress anymore, I would have not spent that money. Be warned wait for updates before spending any $$. --- *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 2026-08-05.*