# Pocket Politics: Idle Money — user reviews > 287 indexed App Store user reviews of Pocket Politics by Kongregate, rated 4.20/5 from 3,302 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-politics-idle-money/id1106002394/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-politics-idle-money/id1106002394.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,128 · 4★ 504 · 3★ 203 · 2★ 125 · 1★ 342 ## What do users think of Pocket Politics? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Addictive - 🚀 Fun game - 👍 Good way to pass time - 👍 Funny and quirky **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and bugs - 🔋 Battery drain and overheating issues - 🔋 Slow progress - 💰 Microtransactions and pay-to-win elements **Commonly reported bugs** - Events not working or resetting progress - Ads not providing rewards - Purchases not working as intended - Forced updates that break the game **Most requested features** - Update to fix notch/dynamic island support - Improve ad reliability and rewards - Add more content and events - Improve performance and reduce battery drain ## Newest reviews (16 of 287) ### 3/5 — Really??? *2026-03-21, version 1.465* I put actual money into this game and to see no events or updates is so upsetting. This game was one of a kind. I hope they do a huge update soon :( ### 2/5 — Dead game *2025-11-24, version 1.465* Game is one of Kongs betters- but no longer any support. No more side quests. No events to join. There are quests available, but one is to join event, which doesn’t exist. 2 Stars- because event loss. Which means gaining suits is near impossible because it’s very hard to grab coins and gold. ### 3/5 — update the app please *2025-07-10, version 1.465* update the events, add iphone x and beyond support because money behind the notch is annoying ### 3/5 — Almost great game *2025-02-19, version 1.465* The only issue I have is the hacker event ended last year or the year before and every time I play the game it still has the event and won’t let me go to the new events ### 2/5 — Not optimized for notch or Dynamic Island *2025-02-11, version 1.465* Seriously it’s 2025 it’s been over 7 years since the iPhone X was released! We’ve had the X, XS, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, and 16 series of phones and still your app is set up to hide one of the most important things behind the notch or Dynamic Island. Pathetic. ### 2/5 — Offline does not count *2024-11-06, version 1.465* I’ll close out the app and then come back to the game on my lunch break four or five hours later and it will say I gained all this money while I was away, but it does not show in the earnings. For example, it will say I earned 5.378 E 42 but when I go into the game after I click OK it’ll say I only have 1.7 E 31. ### 4/5 — I love this game.. *2024-10-28, version 1.465* Will there be a new mini game anytime soon? This game is a great stress reliever. Please keep it going 😊 ### 3/5 — Fun but problems with ads *2024-03-09, version 1.464* Love this game but when trying to play the bonus/challenge game it completely shuts down the game. Sent an notice to developers but no response. Wish they would fix this issue. ### 2/5 — Fun game but purchases malfunction *2023-12-04, version 1.460* I like this game but tried to make a couple of small purchases. My card was charged but no items (gold and boosts) were granted. Emailed support, no response. Tried to file with Apple and was told my purchases do not qualify for refund. So the game stole about $10 and the support team won’t respond to me. ### 3/5 — Great game on iPad *2023-07-19, version 1.456* Unfortunately iPhone notch obscures game, it is old but I wish they would update it. I’m sure the app would take your money still ### 4/5 — Great Game….Wrong Fit *2023-07-14, version 1.456* I love the game however, it’s much too large for my screen (iPhone 13). This leaves me guessing at how much money I actually have. ### 3/5 — Don't get the cash counter upgrade *2023-01-28, version 1.456* This permanent upgrade does not do what you would expect from the description. Says it will ad the $/sec to all lobbies leading you to believe they will all now be generating whatever level you have them at per second, essentially bypassing the ranking up lobby. But in reality all this "upgrade" does if you can call it that is just mathematically show you how much you are earning off that lobby per second. Complete waste. I want my gold back!!!!! ### 1/5 — Dean *2022-10-30, version 1.456* Asked for help about six times from customer support and now they’ve told me they no longer support this game. Weekly mission stop working about six months ago for me ### 3/5 — Meh *2022-04-19, version 1.456* It takes forever to get to president they have all these silly titles. And the cash system is off you have to start collecting 1.565e7 like what?? It’s was a great game 3-4 years ago not it’s sh$t ### 2/5 — Weekly events *2022-02-15, version 1.456* For some reason they’re not working for me anymore… anyone else experiencing that?!? ### 2/5 — Not great *2022-01-30, version 1.456* Not great have lost events and unable to reinstate them ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — THIS GAME STINKS *2026-07-09, version 1.465* I played 30 minutes of this game to give it a chance and I have never played a more boring game in the world. Honestly would rather watch paint dry ### 1/5 — Cheap game and cheap company they get an ai bot to reply *2026-03-15, version 1.465* Don’t bother your time playing this game or spending any money on it there is a very big bug the value of the collection doesn’t stay constant for example on con news the value was at $1.001e92 I didn’t change any equipment or do anything with the game when I l woke up the value had dropped to $5.714e88 other there are bugs all over so don’t waste time downloading its rubbish ADDITION TO REVIEW I believe the game is deliberately designed this way once you get to a certain level the game automatically reduces the money earned so it takes you longer to earn cash to upgrade either forcing you to buy gold to progress or just wait to upgrade. What would have taken me maybe a few hours to get to lvl 77 now would take several days or even weeks to achieve this goal ALL PLAYERS AND USERS be aware of this before wasting your time and definitely don’t buy gold it’s a scam ### 1/5 — RIP *2026-02-25, version 1.465* 2 ads in place of 1 skip able ad overnight on a game that’s no longer supported is wild ### 1/5 — Seems like developers have abandoned this game *2025-04-24, version 1.465* No response to bugs. No updates for over a year. Nothing works like it should and they dont seem to even attempt to fix it. ### 1/5 — No rewards *2024-12-27, version 1.465* Every time I get a reward it tells me rewards are not available, I also never got my reward for placing in the event. This blows. Love the game but want my rewards. ### 1/5 — Events Crash the Game *2024-03-20, version 1.464* Selecting a politician during an event crashes the game. This means earning epic badges is impossible. ### 1/5 — Steals your money, don’t download *2024-02-02, version 1.461* This app steals my money when I try to buy the in game purchases. They take your money and don’t give you items you paid for. Absolute crooks. Do not use this app. I contacted them in the past about this and they were beyond useless. Clearly it’s been abandoned by the developers but this is a handy little earner, letting people send them money for literally nothing. Scum ### 1/5 — DO NOT PURCHASE ANYTHING *2023-12-12, version 1.460* Purchased the offshore account, didn’t initially receive it. I thought maybe I’d made a mistake while buying it so I went through the process again. I purchased it twice, and haven’t received any of the gold. Made a contact support receipt, and all I received was a email from a robot listing options to “help myself” that none of which applied to me in any way. I’ve been playing this game for years and never had any issues. Extremely disappointed. ### 1/5 — Fraudulent Game *2023-11-14, version 1.460* I paid 15 bucks worth of gold and never got it so i can’t even give this game a 2 star for that alone ### 1/5 — Permanent upgrades don't work as you'd expect *2023-04-23, version 1.456* Cash counter permanent upgrade does not do what you would expect from the description. Says it will ad the $/sec to all lobbies leading you to believe they will all now be generating whatever level you have them at per second, essentially bypassing the ranking up lobby. But in reality all this "upgrade" does if you can call it that is just mathematically show you how much you are earning off that lobby per second. Complete waste. I want my gold back!!!!! Chief of staff increase time is terrible. You still have the exact same amount of time after upgrading it unless you mash the add sec button. Defeats the purpose of upgrading it since you already could just constantly mash it to keep the speed up. Needs to be fixed so that if you hit the button the total time you have upgraded to is what it does. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Please add more candidates *2025-10-08, version 1.465* We need more content also ### 5/5 — Pocket Politics *2024-04-06, version 1.465* What a great little app to take your mind off things! ### 5/5 — Love this game *2023-11-09, version 1.460* I love this game i use to play it a lot in college lost all my progression when I lost my last phone. I forgot about this game for a long time until recently I remembered it. I have come across a few annoying bugs that didn’t exist when I last played it. Bugs like the candidate progression not changing forcing you to reset the app to see what your candidate was elected into. I have also noticed if your phone goes into certain percentages the game will boot you out and disconnect you from the server. I do not remember this ever being a problem in the past. This draws in concerns of battery usage and some fix’s that need to be done there. ### 5/5 — Account lost after update! *2023-11-02, version 1.459* I’ve been playing this stagnant game for over 5 years and now they’ve updated it, my account has reset? I was 135th in the hall of fame. 😢 ### 5/5 — Really good game *2021-04-02, version 1.456* Very good game! ### 5/5 — Don’t listen to the bad reviews *2021-01-30, version 1.456* This game doesn’t take up 2 gigs its only 238.6 megabytes and also it doesn’t reset your progress either and it don’t have advert problems and it didn’t overheat and it didn’t drain my battery or any of the other things that people said about the game I give this game 5 ⭐️ because it is a great game and I hope that the game developers keep up the good work ### 5/5 — GREAT GAME!!👍 *2020-10-29, version 1.456* Better than the other money games ### 5/5 — Events *2020-09-17, version 1.456* Are you not putting out events every Wednesday anymore? Third week in a row I haven’t seen one. Great game otherwise ### 5/5 — Love it *2020-09-07, version 1.456* One of my favorite games, very addictive ### 5/5 — Good game *2020-02-07, version 1.455* Addicting --- *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 2026-09-04.*