# Space Takeover - Defense.io — user reviews > 307 indexed App Store user reviews of Space Takeover by LIAO WENYAO, rated 4.80/5 from 4,859 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/space-takeover-defenseio/id1589591729/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/space-takeover-defenseio/id1589591729.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,401 · 4★ 191 · 3★ 76 · 2★ 46 · 1★ 145 ## What do users think of Space Takeover? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fun gameplay - 🚀 Engaging strategy - 👍 Enjoyable for casual players **Cons** - 💰 Aggressive monetization - 🔋 Battery draining - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🤖 Unfair AI difficulty - 📺 Excessive ads - 💰 Pay-to-win mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - Offline bonus not working as intended - Assassin unit not appearing in Auto Chess - Screen freezing and app crashes - Incorrect timer display for some items **Most requested features** - Improved offline rewards system - Better explanations for game mechanics - Option to disable ads completely ## Newest reviews (19 of 307) ### 2/5 — Terrific - but… *2026-07-02, version 3.8* Ads in the game. Not the way you’d expect, but ads playing in the top corner *while you play*, some you can mute, some you can’t. And dear god they’re annoying, looping, and they don’t stop. I get that developers need to make money but screw this attitude. ### 2/5 — Can be fun but overrun with ads. Had to delete. *2026-06-06, version 3.8* Had to remove- wasn’t worth having it take up space on my phone when I can’t use it when also listening to podcasts or music. I enjoyed the game and understand having ads at some points, including between levels or for enhancements, but the ads started blasting while playing levels, making it impossible to listen to other things. ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2026-05-07, version 3.6* While I like the strategic gameplay, I don’t like all the ads. Good games would either let you progress normally through gameplay play and then have an ad after every couple of levels or just have you watch an ad to progress and not have any other ads. This game has both. So you need to watch ads to progress and you’re forced to watch other ads between each level. Not only that, it has Amazon ads that you have to click on the X very precisely or else it will open up a website for Amazon. Sometimes it takes me 10 attempts to close the ad. Overall, it’s not worth it the hassle unless you have a lot of money to waste playing this game. ### 4/5 — Question!!!??? *2026-05-06, version 3.6* What does the “voyage” attribute do? The text is cut off and we can’t read it on iPhone. ### 1/5 — 広告しかない *2026-04-25* 1プレイごとに広告が出るカスゲーム ### 1/5 — 似た様なゲームはあるよ *2026-04-21* 他のレビューでは他にはないゲームとあるがタワー系のゲームで同じ様なものはある。やるだけ無駄。 ### 2/5 — Pay to play or watch ads *2026-04-11, version 3.6* Game is fun and addictive but after an hour of playing, must pay to play or watch ads to get bonuses in able to beat current level. ### 4/5 — Good game/ horrible bugs *2026-04-04, version 3.6* Every time I start the game, I keep getting freeze ups before battle which prevents me from playing. I have to restart the game every single time to play. ### 1/5 — 長すぎる *2026-04-03, version 3.6* ゲーム自体は面白いけど 結果まで時間がかかりすぎる げんなり ### 2/5 — 面白いですが広告が操作不能になることあり *2026-03-23* ゲーム自体は面白いと思います。 線を引いて星を制圧していくのはパズルとしても戦略ゲームとしてもいい具合と思います。 ただ、私の環境では広告が画面真っ黒で操作不能になりアプリを再起動し直すしかなくなる事が意外と多い頻度で発生しました。 その場合やり直すしかなく、再び広告が入り今度は大丈夫かと思いながらプレイする事になるのでプレイ意欲を大きく削がれました。 最悪再起動時に広告を見る直前にまで遷移するかどうか選べると良いと思いました。 その点が今後改善すると信じてもう少し遊んでみます。 ### 1/5 — Boooooo *2026-03-22, version 3.5* It suck’s every thing is so bad it’s sad ### 1/5 — Would be great if you weren’t bombarded by long ads. *2026-03-15, version 3.5* More time forced watching ads than playing the actual game ### 3/5 — cm多い *2026-03-10, version 3.5* 無料だから仕方ないのか。 テンポが悪いと感じた。 ### 1/5 — Bel gioco MA… *2026-03-09, version 3.5* Gioco stupendo, veramente intrigante e ottimo come passatempo, però pubblicità eccessiva, tossica … era uno dei miei preferiti ma toccherà disinstallarlo! 7€ eccessivi per no AD! ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-02-21, version 3.5* Paid to remove ads, but they’re still everywhere. Also have to watch ads to do anything in the game as you advance. What’s the point of paying $7+ to keep playing. Game has potential to be great, but the ad experience is so terrible it takes it to a 1/5. ### 1/5 — PVPがイライラする *2026-02-19* どんだけレベル上げてもPVPの間違いなくBOTがアイテム使い過ぎて楽にならない 相手のカードが全部緑が出たらBOTなので勝率激減する レベル上げと良いカードをゲットしても意味ないくらいアイテムで凌駕してくる まー負けたらCM見なくていいからいいけどw ### 3/5 — Forced ADS *2026-02-15, version 3.5* They forced you to watch an ad every time you finish a game. If not, your progress won’t be counted. It’s fun and challenging but it’s really annoying ### 1/5 — Paying extra for no ads doesn’t work. *2026-02-11, version 3.5* See title. Scam or bug, I don’t know. ### 2/5 — 広告を見る事が条件‼️ *2026-02-05* レベル５０くらいからクリアすると先ず広告を見せられる‼️見ずに消すと又同じレベルのゲームに、クリアすると必ず広告を見ないと先に進めてません‼️内容はそんなに悪くもないが広告が長くそして評価の悪いゲームの広告が多く不快になる、他のゲームでも広告はあるが、見ないでもレベルクリアになっているのにこれは必ず広告を見ないと次に進めず‼️だから時間があまり無い時は出来ません‼️ ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Fun Game but Designed to be a Money Grab/Ad Farm *2026-08-03, version 3.9* The game is fun, and it’s engaging, until about level 180. Up until this point, the isn’t too difficult, though I had to use plenty of freezes and shields along the way. However, once I hit level 180, I’m hard blocked from progressing. To get through this level, you would have to have an extremely powerful fleet, or you would a ton of special skills, both of which would require either a ton of [real] money, or a ton of [real] money and watching a ton of ads. Additionally, the challenges get to the point where you can beat the early levels just fine, but then quickly become the same exact scenario of being impossible without power-ups and/or a strong fleet. Then you have PVP. In the beginning, PVP isn’t too bad; I was able to win almost every match, but then it got to the point where I hardly ever win a match, wasting what few attempts you get (without watching ads, of course). And, to top it off, paying to remove ads only removes the forced ads; if you want extra power-ups or extra PVP attempts, you still have to watch “optional” ads. I say “optional,” because even though they are considered optional, they are entirely necessary to get through levels, which I’m certain these devs understand. It seems they want the best of both worlds; people pay to remove the forced ads, but the game is intentionally designed to be impossible to progress without watching “optional” ads. This to me is very scummy. Preemptive response to developer’s responses of “we value your feedback,” or whatever other canned response they like to give: I don’t believe you. You CHOSE how to develop your game, and it was a conscious decision to design your game to be impossible without ads, even AFTER paying to turn them off, or without spending money, thereby making your game Pay-to-win. Do better! ### 1/5 — Bugs *2026-07-19, version 3.9* I very much enjoyed this game until I came across what could only be bugs or hacking that have frustrated me to no end. During the PvP there have been opponents that have spaceship lvls of 999 and the screen freezes wasting one of the very few chances you get for PvP. There have also been instances where the opponents spaceships were of lesser quality and lvl than mine and still seem to be able to overpower my ships. I don’t recommend playing this game with so many inconsistencies and bugs. Especially since I’ve reported the first problem and there seems to be nothing the developers are doing to stop it. ### 1/5 — Fun but ads ruin it. *2026-07-19, version 3.9* Imagine a great game. Almost perfect in the design but you are forced to watch ads. Forced the I actually complete a level you have to watch an ad. I thought I clicked something so I closed the app because I hate ads and the level didn’t finish because the ad was apart of completing the level. Update. At level 60 it goes from every so often getting an ad to at the end of every level. If you make the mistake of thinking you accidentally watched a bonus and close the game, you will have to redo the level. I’m deleting this game as I hate watching videos after every level. ### 1/5 — Mandatory ads *2026-06-15, version 3.8* If I could give less than one star, I would. From the very beginning, you have ads playing audio throughout every single level. Kill the ad, start a new level, more ads. Inescapable. If I wanted to listen to ads, I'd open YouTube. ### 1/5 — Кошмар кошмарный, ужас ужасный *2026-06-10* Сама игра ненапряжная и в нее можно было бы поиграть, если бы не реклама после каждого уровня… проходишь уровень ща минуту и две минуты втыкаешь в рекламу. Хочу ли я так играть? Нет, рекомендовать такое я бы тоже никому не стал, пока это не пофиксят, я бы не заходил в эту игру вообще. На странице приложения написано, что это стратегия, но по факту симулятор просмотра рекламы. ### 1/5 — These ads are too much *2026-06-06, version 3.8* Autoplay, no way to mute audio ads ruin this otherwise promising game ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-06-03, version 3.8* There are way way way too many ads, and no way to make them go away. It’s an ad machine designed as a game. ### 1/5 — Pay to play *2026-05-31, version 3.8* Too many ads and quickly becomes pay to play. ### 1/5 — ADS *2026-05-23, version 3.7* Literally playing audio ads during gameplay is a wild choice. I thought maybe it was just a glitch at first but there is a timer telling you how much longer the ad will play for. You’re trying to play the game while hearing about Lowe’s ### 1/5 — Unplayable *2026-05-07, version 3.6* Ignore the paid reviews. This game is unplayable. An ad prevents you from finishing the level. Which prevents you from advancing the game. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great *2026-02-21, version 3.5* No adds the less adds the better this one didn’t have any ### 5/5 — Simple fun *2025-10-26, version 3.3* game doesn’t bomb you with ads and is pretty simple and fun. I have gone through quite a few levels and no ads yet ### 5/5 — Fun Puzzle Game *2025-05-23, version 3.3* Finally… a game that’s like the ads. Highly recommend this app. I’ve sunk many hours into it and regret nothing. Good puzzle game for anyone bored easily by other takeover games and keeps me entertained for a long while. ### 5/5 — 簡単操作で *2025-01-25, version 3.2* メチャハマる！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！ ### 5/5 — Great game. Miss auto chess though *2025-01-05, version 3.2* Bring auto chess back please ### 5/5 — 재밌습니다 10분만 해보세요 *2024-12-05* 흠 ### 5/5 — I like this so much I love it. *2024-11-21, version 3.2* This one has ships and planets has battle I love it ### 5/5 — Enjoy the game *2024-10-04, version 3.1* I am enjoying the game but would like to remove the ads but it won’t let me purchase the no ads bundle. ### 5/5 — 暇人向けかな *2024-09-29* 今のところ単純だけどそこがいい笑 ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2024-08-17, version 3.0* This is the best game ever --- *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 2026-08-31.*