# Pocket Ants: Colony Simulator — user reviews > 1,487 indexed App Store user reviews of Pocket Ants by Ariel Villafane, rated 4.30/5 from 4,998 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-ants-colony-simulator/id1532712160/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-ants-colony-simulator/id1532712160.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,543 · 4★ 595 · 3★ 279 · 2★ 143 · 1★ 438 ## What do users think of Pocket Ants? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Best ant game ever created - 👍 Great game, no bugs - 👍 Excellent game - 👍 Amazing game - 👍 Very fun and addicting - 👍 Love the game, no ads! - 👍 Best ant game - 👍 Quality game - 👍 Intuitive, well designed and very addictive - 👍 Great concept and overall well executed **Cons** - 🐛 Freezes when pressing start - 🐛 Connection errors, crashes - 🐛 Glitches with creature spawns - 🔍 Repetitive, lacking content - 🔍 Grindy, slow progression - 🔍 Imbalanced matchmaking, overpowered opponents - 🔍 Resource gathering is too difficult - 🔍 Creature abilities are overpowered - 🔍 Expensive in-app purchases **Commonly reported bugs** - Creature spawn timer resets on pheromone use - Inability to attack queen ant in PvP - Ants getting stuck in walls - Freezing during battles - Losing progress on connection errors **Most requested features** - Add more enemy ant colonies to fight - Implement offline resource gathering - Add more creature types and abilities - Improve PvP matchmaking and balancing - Reduce upgrade/respawn timers - Allow customization of ants and base - Add social features like clans and friends - Expand the map and exploration - Introduce new game modes and challenges - Improve resource gathering efficiency ## Newest reviews (17 of 1,487) ### 3/5 — Accessibility *2026-08-05, version 0.1147* It would be very good if we could access the termite’s nest or if they didn’t have unlimited soldiers. I know you do it because you want us to not be able to have much resin so that we can’t easily buy the thing that keeps you safe from Beas. And that’s the next problem. Why do we only have 6:30 minutes to solve a maze, grab something, and run back out? It would be much better if we had 10 minutes. But overall it’s a good game. But id rather having a tiny ad playing on the bottom part of the screen than having to go with micro-transactions ### 4/5 — Floods *2026-08-02, version 0.1146* Add floods, And just like in real life, the ants form a raft to survive the flood ### 5/5 — very fun without ads *2026-07-28, version 0.1146* i love how theres no ads being put in my face every 30 seconds,AND it’s really fun, i also recommend pocket bees that’s pretty fun too ### 5/5 — 2nd review 😃‼️please read *2026-07-24, version 0.1146* 1my first review is called Ariel you out did yourself (all caps) 2 Ariel you set me up for my entomology career in this game you have my support! Also plz add in a variant of frog or crab ( king crab lobster dart frog treefrog ) also all of the 1 star rating you get those people did 2 years ago so I think they changed their mind also one day i hope that you add back in the shop where you can use gems to purchase critters! Also if you do add that back make SURE that people can buy critters with abilities bye!!! ### 3/5 — People mean *2026-07-18, version 0.1143* People are being mean for no reason people say the f word to me but it’s a good game and I will keep playing ### 5/5 — Why do I find this funny? *2026-07-17* I love pocket, but I’m just I have no idea how to login so please help me login the developer someone but why do I find this funny so there’s like this water pile where you can like grab the water you just need the storage so you can grab the water apparently yeah that’s weird and you can walk on it but maybe it should be a feature where you drown maybe maybe not OK whatever OK so anything AnyWho I meant basically the title says why do I find it funny next to the source of the water, there is a log it may be one what’s so funny about that you can move it. It just makes no sense. Why can you move it? The soldiers and the soldiers can’t push it and you can as well, but I’m not sure about the workers yeah so that’s still a mystery. Maybe you can find that out but it’s like Ragnarok so you can just like push it anywhere and basically you know how we said it can be pushed basically what I mean by being pushed is it can be a wall yeah basically it can. You can just drag it. You can just but it’s hard moving it, but you can just grab it. Not really grab it. Just push it to your colony and boom you got a wall. ### 5/5 — Игра хорошая уже очень давно играю с 23 августа 2020 года *2026-07-17, version 0.1143* Игра для меня просто лучшая спасибо что вы ее сделали ### 4/5 — Muito bom *2026-07-12* Achei muito massa a simulação praticamente realista de ataques, lutas e o progresso em sua colônia, porém não vou avaliar em 5 estrelas pq deveria vim mais coisas no mapa, por exemplo uma colônia de baratas como se fosse a das formigas vermelhas, só que mais fortes e obviamente dando uma recompensa maior pra derrotar. ### 5/5 — 2nd review *2026-07-12, version 0.1143* 1my first review is called Ariel you out did yourself (all caps) 2 Ariel you set me up for my entomology career in this game you have my support! Also plz add in a variant of frog or crab ( king crab lobster dart frog treefrog ) ### 2/5 — ehhh *2026-07-06, version 0.1143* before it was a good game but now, it won’t even download ### 5/5 — 2nd review *2026-07-05, version 0.1143* 1my first review is called Ariel you out did yourself (all caps) 2 Ariel you set me up for my entomology career in this game you have my support! ### 5/5 — I liked it please respond *2026-07-02, version 0.1143* I really liked this game and it was 5 stars ### 5/5 — Thanks *2026-06-30, version 0.1138* I rate it actually 7.8 ### 5/5 — Игра Тайкун *2026-06-29, version 0.1138* Игра Крутая очень много активности свой топ по кубкам играть можно почти вечна! ### 5/5 — ARIEL YOU OUT DID YOURSELF *2026-06-26, version 0.1138* Best game ever I LOVE it my personal recommendations new skins add a new co op mode(perhaps a snake or lobster or king crab) next add super clans multiple clans can go in a super clan to trade chat fight and coparate (idk how to spell 😅) next add in a new type of battle (miss zany anyone?) next and finally add in micro colonies players can place them on the map to offer better strategy so they can place workers or solders at micro colonies and how ever they can be attacked by thing near by them…also make it to where there can be up to 2 soces at once fo 1 resource also this is a BIG ask but add traits theses are my ideas great game LOVE IT bye!!! ps if vinagroon cold be captured that wold be cool special ability spray and swipe main kills ants and creatures 🐜 🕷️also TRANSLATIONS STAT these are my ideas bye! ### 4/5 — Really good, maybe more features. *2026-06-26, version 0.1138* This game is amazing, it takes long to make decent progress but when you do you start zooming past progress, maybe and a bigger map. Once’s you kill the frog you can go into a lake that leads to a forest and so on I really like it, I hope you add more features. ### 4/5 — Good *2026-06-25, version 0.1138* Pretty good but would be better if you could breed creatures to make more. Another thing is to buff the ants to make them a little stronger otherwise all good on the game 😄😄 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Glitchy *2026-08-03, version 0.1146* Glitches make it unplayable ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2026-08-01, version 0.1146* If you’re fine with every day being wiped without ever attacking another player and being forced to rebuild every day. I feel like it’s not worth playing if you don’t want to play pvp to be forced into it I thought at first it was great but once pvp was forced on there is no way to recover from it the shield needs to be lengthened into days not like 2-4 hours ### 1/5 — Mission Impossible *2026-07-12, version 0.1143* Started to colony. Found couple resources, battled against red ants. Left few of them with their queen. Then completed couple quest. Professor told me press battle button to battle with other players so I did. People has tons of creatures. Its impossible matchup. You can’t reach them with your couple soldier ants or just one spider. ### 1/5 — Gem lon *2026-06-21, version 0.1137* Gem như lồn ### 1/5 — If you buy gems they will take your money and run with it without giving you anything. *2026-06-01, version 0.1131* The developers added a feature letting you purchase micro transactions without giving you what was advertised in game. ### 1/5 — My opinion has now changed… *2026-05-25, version 0.1126* Theres a bug where when you finish a battle it freezes your game on the loading screen for a few seconds then crashes [Edit:] the game doesn’t even open anymore… sad😞 I hope this gets patched! ### 1/5 — account issues *2026-05-13, version 0.1121* it physically does not let me make an account to save my progress. Unplayable. ### 1/5 — Supports AI *2026-04-06, version 0.1109* I liked this game a couple years ago but the community was just so rancid I had to leave. Full of racists and homophobes. Join clans at your own risk, but joining a clan is lowkey required in some parts of the game. Additionally Arielgames (the dev) has used generative AI for content related to this game and that instantly repulses me from any chance of getting back into this game. I’m thankful I never went through with submitting skins for the skin contests and I feel sorry for all the artists that put effort into this game 💔💔💔 ### 1/5 — Очень плохая игра потому что очень очень долго качаться и много времени занимает очень очень много *2026-04-04, version 0.1109* Особенно с пчелиным ульем когда ты покупаешь эссенцию пчелы даются 6:30 минут из-за это время ты просто бьешься об стенке и не можешь пройти уровень нет бы чтобы дать 7 минут или больше они дают просто шесть и ты не можешь никак это пройти потому что тебя ещё убьют капельки и ты бьешься об стенке и время просто уменьшается каждый раз не советую эту игру никому ### 1/5 — Ads Not Working *2026-02-17, version 0.1094* The game was fun for the first hour but once you start needing pheromones to progress, issues begin. The only way to get pheromones is to battle and to battle you need battle tokens and to get battle tokens you have to watch an ad. The ad button greys out every time I click it but no ad appears meaning I cannot progress because I cannot get battle tokens. I even joined the discord and attempted their steps to fix it but to no avail. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing but terrible *2026-08-15, version 0.1150* The game’s amazing but one day it thought how about I completely freeze the screen the second they press start and show an error message and make any attempt to fix it useless. If you couldn’t tell I can’t access my account and I was doing quite well I invested a lot of time so please could someone fix this ### 5/5 — Fun game!! *2026-08-11, version 0.1150* Been playing for a while now I can say this game does not get boring even after years of playing. the only thing that could be better is more updates but other than that five stars!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Sequel *2026-08-08, version 0.1149* The game is perfect and constantly has me at a loss for words but I recently had a idea for a sequel just like this game. Well basically the sequel of this game is a remix of it but more about termites as well as to that game and this game something like the ability to become different roles in your colony like becoming the queen or in case of the termite become the queen king worker soldier soldiers etc. Would be really nice as well as maybe a free build system where you build your own nest as a custom but besides that the game is perfect. ### 5/5 — A bit boring at the start *2026-08-06, version 0.1148* I was playing for a while till a really good bug appeared and I got stuck for like 3 months ### 5/5 — Is it more orrr? *2026-08-06, version 0.1148* The bad thing is it’s not on pc add it to like steam then more people will play good game though ### 5/5 — AWESOME *2026-08-06, version 0.1148* yo this game is gen so peak, i dont have any important information to say but i just LOVE this game so much, i remember when i first saw it on the app store when i was 8 years old AND I WAS AMAZED, this game blessed my eyes ### 5/5 — THIS IS THE ANT GAME *2026-08-06, version 0.1148* Best way to ant! ### 5/5 — AWSSSSSOSMMEME GAMMEEEEEEEEE *2026-08-06, version 0.1148* THIS GAME IS SO GOODD FIRED HIGHLY SUGGEST PLAYYING although they should add a gift card lol ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-08-03, version 0.1146* This is really cool game and should be on peoples devices ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2026-08-02, version 0.1146* No regrets, no money loss, no scams, and unlimited happiness --- *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 2026-09-10.*