# IdleX: Galaxy Wanderer — user reviews > 41 indexed App Store user reviews of IdleX by hcm, rated 4.47/5 from 148 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idlex-galaxy-wanderer/id1457584332/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idlex-galaxy-wanderer/id1457584332.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 110 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 9 ## Newest reviews (13 of 41) ### 4/5 — GREAT GAME *2023-05-18, version 1.4.7* Nice game keep up the good work! ### 4/5 — Good fun for most of the game *2020-01-28, version 1.4.7* I’ve had a lot of fun with this game, playing around with the build order each time I go through the wormhole. Getting a start-up fund from the goal/tier system was a great addition that complements the wormhole mechanic extremely well. I also appreciate the additional technologies that were added to the initial system. Note: the rest of this review deals with bits of the game that I think could be improved, and how that might look. Please don’t let its comparative wordiness discourage you from trying this excellent game! One quality I have found frustrating is the way the game seems to stall out once the costs of further upgrades begin to exceed ~$10AD. I encountered this phenomenon my past three times through the wormhole, each time about halfway through exploring System 3. Essentially, the increasing costs of upgrades too far outpace the corresponding income boosts by this point: I find I have to wait multiple days saving up money between each individual purchase. Beyond tweaking the costs and benefits of late-game upgrades, I have a few suggestions that I think would improve gameplay overall: -Make the improvements from the Space Gems & Wormhole mechanic combine multiplicatively over successive trips. If I get a 5% increase my first trip through the wormhole, it would be much more intuitive to have another 5% increase be represented as +5% of my current situation. As it stands, however, it would be indicated by a +10.25% increase from initial conditions, and I would have to compare multiple figures to determine the fractional boost I would *actually* get. -Tapping the Earth for money is only relevant in the very beginning of the game, leading to enforced passivity once the player’s income and/or expenditure hits the $1AA level. Including upgrades to tapping income in every system (perhaps one for every tier of research upgrades for the system’s planets) would address the feeling of profound futility that emerges while tapping for $100B when one’s income is a trillion times that much each second. -Relatedly, it would be nice if upgrades in the initial system continued to be available (at appropriately scaled costs, with similarly scaled benefits) throughout the game. This might be a viable way to decrease the price bump between available upgrades: the player would be able to go back and make marginal improvements to earlier systems to gear up for exploring the next planet in the latest system. Like other players I have noticed that the long-promised additional systems have yet to appear. However, I think that type of expansion is not urgently needed. Instead, being able to play through all the currently available solar systems without having to take week-long breaks to accumulate the funds for individual research upgrades should be a higher priority. I’d rather always be having fun while exploring the existing systems than have new but effectively-inaccessible systems to explore ‘eventually.’ So I hope the app-makers can devote time to polishing these gameplay elements without feeling any particular urgency to develop additional solar systems. ### 3/5 — Update was hit or miss *2019-11-14, version 1.4.1.4* Tap and hold to spend gems was a good idea, but it’s not necessary now that the cost in gems to upgrade skyrocketed. Not really a point in having the wormhole now. ### 4/5 — Need a faster way to spend space gems *2019-10-25, version 1.4.0* I already read that you intend to change the pricing of the wormhole to streamline purchasing but may I also suggest a push and hold feature so I’m not tapping so darn much. ### 4/5 — New sectors? *2019-09-18, version 1.3.6* The game has been fun and all, but just wondering when the new sectors are coming out. Seems like it’s been saying “coming soon” for ages now. I’ve been getting kind of bored with just 2 that are on there right now that sometimes I go days without opening the game. ### 2/5 — Good game annoying setting *2019-08-22* The game itself is good. It’s just dam annoying that you can turn off vibrate but when you reload the game it’s back on again. It doesn’t stop game play though. Would re-rate a 5 once it’s fixed. **Developer response:** We've fixed this issue in our latest update. Thanks for your feedback and thanks for sticking by us :) ### 3/5 — Vibrate issues *2019-08-06, version 1.3.6* Hello! I like the game, it’s simple and laid back. There’s just two things, the “Turn Vibrate On/Off” keeps changing back to on even though I always turn it off. When I leave the game, not even closing it, and come back to it a few hours later with the vibration turned back on. Please fix this. Also, ads are annoying and SHOULD be either toned down or removed. I don’t care if they are there to make money off of. They. Drive. Me. Up. A. Wall. It just bugs me that app developers spend so much time on there app making it look fun and awesome. Adding cool features, playing with other people, but what’s the point when you’re just going to put ads in there anyway. They ruin the user experience for me and I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks this. Please fix both of these. I don’t want to have to keep turning off the vibration feature. And I shouldn’t be thrown an ad every 5-10 seconds. I’m NOT paying anything over $1 to remove ads. ### 4/5 — Gains and consequences *2019-06-18, version 1.3.2* Like the game, so far. A few issues need to be fixed. Map seems to have no purpose. Wormhole does nothing positive ‘for’ you to make the game more interesting. I believe the wormhole should deliver you to a newer destination for a cost, not just send you back to start (don’t pass go, don’t collect $). ### 2/5 — Income bugs *2019-06-15, version 1.3.2* If you try to collect the income from being away from the app, sometimes it will just close the screen and you won’t get the money. Can’t progress if you can’t collect money. ### 4/5 — Pluto *2019-06-03, version 1.3.2* Great game but Pluto isn’t a planet they said Pluto isn’t a planet years ago. Other than the game is great:) ### 4/5 — Good start, needs some work *2019-06-01, version 1.3.2* I love idle games, and had played around with making a very similar game, so it was nice to find one already done. I’ve found a few little issues, like whatever currency is in the upper left corner has no icon and doesn’t do anything when tapped. Whatever it is, I have 7 of them so far... also, when I open the map, tapping anything closes it, so I can’t open the info that I’m assuming would open when I tap the question mark, and tapping other sectors does nothing but close the map. Overall, a great start to what looks like will be a fun idle game. ### 4/5 — Great game just needs some tweaking. *2019-05-31, version 1.3.2* Needs more multipliers and planet upgrades could stand to be less expensive in the lower level end. One or the other would be great, but still a great time killer. ### 4/5 — Update soon? *2019-05-21, version 1.3.2* Really fun and a good time killer. My only issues are that when I load up the game and it offers to double my money by watching a video, I have to press it several times and wait a little for it to actually work. Also I’m really hoping the last two sectors are added very soon. I like this game and don’t want to get bored of it yet ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Last 2 updates broke the game *2020-02-23, version 1.4.7* No longer gather gems to be able space warp and offline no longer allows you to earn any income. The game was fun because it was possible to advance, but now it’s next to impossible to advance, won’t let me gain enough to unlock the pilots of the last to planets in sector 3 or upgrade the income of any of my other planets ### 1/5 — TO SLOW *2020-02-03, version 1.4.7* I give it one star because you have it throttled down to much. If I can’t get one research done in any one of the four sections in a days time it is way to slow for my blood. I will put on my back page and check back in once a week. ### 1/5 — Ads *2019-12-05, version 1.4.5* There’s still ads after the purchase to remove ads. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2019-10-11, version 1.4.0* I downloaded this game a couple of months ago I was able to play for all of 10 mins and it never worked for me again I was hoping they would update the game and fix the crash at the start up menu but they never did I recommend you skip over this game 🤦‍♂️ ### 1/5 — Mandatory ads are bad. *2019-08-27, version 1.3.6* The initial release had a lot of potential but the latest update added mandatory interstitial ads triggered by normal gameplay actions. I don’t mind opt-in ads you can choose to view for bonuses, but mandatory ads are a mandatory one star review. ### 1/5 — Looks fun but..... *2019-04-22, version 1.2.3* App crashes when you try to open it. Hopefully that can get fixed and I can change my stars ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2019-04-22, version 1.2.3* Download app uninstalled and reinstalled and just closes after opening app on newest iOS update. ### 1/5 — Problem *2019-04-22, version 1.2.3* I’m in the same boat. IOS 12.2 and game closes after opening. Please fix I want to play the game ### 2/5 — No endgame depth *2019-12-03, version 1.4.5* The game has stagnated for me for a while now, but I’d at least been able to make some progress until this last update. Now I can’t go into the wormhole at all—it costs 86 billion just to restart once, and I’m nowhere close to that. But again, that would be to just increase income ONCE. ### 2/5 — Updated version crashes *2019-10-15, version 1.4.0* Fun game, but trying to launch a ship from Libertas or purchase auto pilot on Libertas totally crashes the game. :( ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great game *2022-04-09, version 1.4.7* Great game add this stuff: 1. Mercury and Venus here are technologies: heat resistant gear (mercury and Venus) hot cold resistant gear (mercury) acid rain protection (Venus) 2. Ceres here are technologies for ceres: rotators (for gravity) ### 5/5 — Great game played over a year but having problems with gems *2019-11-18, version 1.4.1.4* I’m currently really far in the game but my space gems are not gathering anymore staying at zero don’t know if I broke it but currently making AE coins and both coins and speed is at 200000 % but can’t get any further idk what’s happening but I’m having trouble upgrading it more so I can get the other AE coin upgrades idk if it’s a bug and u should add x100 on the gem spending to make it faster to upgrade it gets annoying holding down the upgrade button for long times but even tho I can’t do it anymore ### 5/5 — Great *2019-10-25, version 1.4.0* It is a great game. Love playing when I want and being able to get so menu upgrades. I would love it even more if there was a multi buy button for the wormhole like you have for the planets. I have 509 million to spend and it takes like 30 minutes just tapping both with two fingers to get it all done. ### 5/5 — Nice game *2019-10-21, version 1.4.0* I really like playing and I finally got enough money to automate libertas and every time I click the button my game crashes. ### 5/5 — Good game *2019-10-19, version 1.4.0* It’s a good game not impossible to level up which is nice. Can you please add an ability to speed up the wormhole process I have 165M points and leveling it up takes for ever, an individual click for 10% takes forever. ### 5/5 — Wild *2019-09-18, version 1.3.6* Never had a game that played itself before. I think it’s wild ### 5/5 — Idle *2019-09-13, version 1.3.6* Good game ### 5/5 — Nice game *2019-08-21, version 1.3.6* Great time killer.fun little game ### 5/5 — Huge Potential *2019-06-15, version 1.3.2* This game right now is pretty fun, and I see that there are a lot new things coming out. I can’t wait to try them. ### 5/5 — Interesting *2019-06-12, version 1.3.2* Love the game! I hope update on new sector come out soon. --- *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 2026-08-06.*