Space Wars User Reviews

Name: Space Wars : Idle Defense
Rating: 4.29555 (247 reviews)

Space Wars : Idle Defense

MagmaByte Corporation

🎮 Games

🎈 Casual

🕹 Simulation

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Could’ve had potential, but appears to be abandoned and a quick cash grab

I hope I’m wrong but you can see from the app history that they made several, frequent updates and then stopped. This game had a bit of potential to only be a month old, as of it’s last update, but so far they’ve shown no signs of adding needed features like Prestiging to the next stage, added buffs and bonuses or even final bug fixes.

What’s more, I’ve tried to email them a couple of times, asking some basic questions, reporting bugs or seeing if they could make a Discord. Ghosted! This is the one reason why I think it was a cash grab. They were quick to respond to customers when this launched but, now, nothing. I recommend steering clear of this one until the developer shows back up. As of now this is a super-basic game and it’s just ok.

If they’ve abandoned this game, I’d give it one-star but I’m hopeful I’m wrong, so I’m giving it two stars with the hopes of it being improved in the future.

rhartness

2 years ago

Kind of fun if simple

Entertaining so far. I tend to let it idle till I blow up a boss then upgrade then let it sit etc. if I pay to disable ads is that all ads or just the daily reward ads? If I can’t disable the 1.5 ad at the end of a run that’s a dealbreaker for me.

Lorkeon

2 years ago

The game is ok but could use a Prestige feature

This game is ok but quickly I capped out. Eventually, even a 2 hour run at 2.5x speed won’t get you enough upgrade coins to make a dent in future rushes. This game needs a way to prestige and hints that a feature like that might be coming. Also, it needs more upgrades for your ship that you can purchase and, last, the Attack upgrade could be, IMHO, tweaked a little. It gives +3ish points with each upgrade which means that as a percent, each upgrade is less and less useful. Either make it a little cheaper to upgrade Attack with coins or make the Attack value get a little bigger after every 25-50 levels so it feels like upgrading the attack 30 times in a run actually does something. Everything else feels reasonably balanced. Sorry, I just went back to the game and I remembered there’s one more blaring need—the ability to purchase 5x, 10x and 100x levels of upgrades while a game is running. If this is an idle running game, you can come back to it with 500k energy and it takes a looooooooong time to spend that much energy in game. If I had a 100x button multiplier, I could run my upgrades quickly and then get back to work.

rhartness

2 years ago

P2W without cloud saves

Look, pay to win is a thing, I get it. What I cannot tolerate is an in app purchase shop WITHOUT cloud saving or account backup. If you change devices, you lose your progress. If you delete the app, you lose your progress. Both are completely unacceptable when you have $10+ “micro” transactions.

The game is fun, but do not spend money on it.

DvDarkman

2 years ago

Response from developer

So sorry for the inconvenience. If you can send your previous User ID to our support email at spacew.help@gmail.com, we will be happy to restore your previous profile!

Pay for play scam

Once you get to level 220, you start doing worse every single run, no matter how much you invest in upgrades.

Jack.stone.9

2 years ago

This is so hard just playing

This is so hard just to play

Maxwell2K9

2 years ago

Response from developer

It's very easy once you get to know the system. When first starting out, try upgrading your health before anything else!

Have fun!

I’ve been looking for a game like this for quite some time. Updates to create further depth to this game will be looked forward too.

The Lordmack75

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the great review. We're a small team but will try to update when we can!

No saved progress

Simple but fun… Really wish your progress saved from round to round.

The dean1773

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for the review. We'll see what can be done about progression saving!

Meh

I’ve only just got it but I really don’t like how slow you get energy and coins its way to slow and the cost to go from 1.00 to 1.01 is just dumb it definitely needs to go up much more or it’s a pointless buy same with a lot of the other stats I don’t like the .01 on them

WELGGaming

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review! Please stick to it and the pace really starts to pick up after a while. You can also use the daily free crystals to speed up the gameplay from the store.

Fun for a day

Great concept but lacks a lot of information and a lot of bugs, like what does the bar that constantly goes up mean? How to get better parts or merge them, I thought after I reached 100 I would get a different level or something

lukewolanski

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and pointing out areas where we can improve. Basic descriptions on each of the skills can be seen by tapping on them. Also check the '?' at the top of each section for additional guides!

Good game

Need something to do with the extra ship pieces and explain what different upgrades does. Other than that it’s a lot of fun.

NinjaElf107

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hey, NinjaElf! Thanks so much for the review. We'll send the suggestion to our dev team. Try tapping on each of the upgrades and you'll be able to see a description.

Not bad

All and all not a bad game for early stages of development. Haven’t played in couple days but already pushing stage 211 last time. Just need some more upgrades to the game

TeeDaMage

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for the feedback. Will send your suggestions to our dev team.

Gets old fast

I actually enjoyed the game for about an hour! It has some potential to be a fun ship building game! However, when it starts to take 10 rounds to just upgrade a ship part to be 5% faster/ more efficient… yeah, I have better uses for my time and money. It’s not an idle game either, you have to play to progress (which I would like if it didn’t take so long)

Jakolicious

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for sharing your initial enjoyment and thoughts on the game's potential! Your feedback on making progress more rewarding and efficient is appreciated as we aim to improve the game experience for all players. A tip is to focus on upgrading your ship's health when first starting out. This should make beating the early waves more easier.

Good game but..

I want to make sure people know what they are getting into. This is a F2P game with strong P2W or P2Advance quicker elements. The game play itself advances too slow and you run into early level stops ie lvl 20,30,40 that keep you locked in for multiverse runs, the one feature I like is that you can watch a video (ad$$$) or pay 5 gems to rez yourself but that basically just gets you to the next stop. That wouldn’t be so bad if you could advance quicker ie 20-30 min to get to round 40 but you only get 1500 gold with a 1.5x modifier(add video $$). $1500 gold only levels up 4-7 items at this point but not enough to make a difference without 3-4 runs. The problem isn’t necessarily the time but that you have to remain active to skill up and select advanced moves. This is not an idle game regardless of what the name bills it. The shop offers an item purchase for $10 and 2x and 3x gold bumps for $10 which would speed you up a bit if purchased. The different skills have up to 5000 level ups so the fact you can only level up 5 or so times at stage 40 after half an hour of gameplay makes it frustrating. Please speed up progression, make a true idle feature so you can step away for a few hours and still progress somewhat.

mpop2627

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the detailed review. We understand your concerns about the pace of progression and the balance between free-to-play and pay-to-win elements. We aim to make the game enjoyable for everyone, regardless of spending. There is an option to speed up the game from the store (which you can purchase using free ad-based crystals). Note that the amount of coins greatly increases as you progress to the later waves!!

there isn't much to it.

it's definitely an idle game, but you can't just let it do its thing; still have to watch it to keep tapping on upgrades or you'll quickly fall behind and fail; your game experience is mostly just starting at your screen and waiting.

I wish that there was some way to let it idle and collect power when I put the phone down, but have more engaging gameplay when I pick the phone up.

Westdw

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback! We're looking into ways to balance idle and active play, aiming for a seamless experience. Your idea for improved idle mechanics and engaging gameplay is on our radar for future updates. Appreciate your input and support!

Tooltips

No tooltips to click that explains what energy does for you or any of the ship parts bonus’s

King snitz

2 years ago

Response from developer

Try tapping on each of the skills or the question mark symbol. They should describe what each of the skills do!

Hi

Like the game but for sum rezin it crashes at levol 62

Lsoshxsinsndkckc

2 years ago

Response from developer

We're sorry to hear about the problem you are having and appreciate you bringing this to our attention. We'll be sure to look into this. Your patience and support are greatly appreciated.

Pretty good.

Something I would recommend is a tracker that tells you the enemy’s health and damage.

allendavis

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for the feedback. I believe we recently included a damage indicator in our latest version (0.1.7). I will be sure to let our dev team know about the enemy health tracker suggestion!

Problems

Honestly playing this I’d boring since credits are hard to get and less of the good parts as no conversions and I think it think it needs to have reviews to have what people want

Vuthy21

2 years ago

Response from developer

Appreciate your honesty! We're looking into making coins easier to earn and improving part variety. Your suggestions are crucial for our updates. Keep them coming!

Really fun

I’ve put a good amount of time into this game already and I think I’m still at an early game stage (about level 80 on stage 1). So far the progress isn’t fast, but it’s fast enough to keep me engaged.

I just wish there was offline progress to make this a truly idle game and a leaderboard to see how my progress compares to other players.

I’m looking forward to seeing where development on this game goes. It could definitely use a bit of polishing up.

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