# Stack & Defend — user reviews > 135 indexed App Store user reviews of Stack & Defend by 晓莹 黄, rated 4.10/5 from 382 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stack-and-defend/id6741839843/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stack-and-defend/id6741839843.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 243 · 4★ 49 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 24 · 1★ 37 ## What do users think of Stack & Defend? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Satisfying sound effects - 👍 Fun game **Cons** - 🐛 Towers disappear and take crystals - 🐛 Ads too long and can't be skipped - 🐛 Difficulty spike in early stages **Commonly reported bugs** - Towers not placing properly, taking crystals - Unwanted towers appearing on the board **Most requested features** - Remove ad-placed towers that take up space - Improve tower placement and movement controls ## Newest reviews (19 of 135) ### 2/5 — Too many adds, can’t buy out *2026-01-07, version 1.3.2* There’s too many adds, and it kind of ruins playing it, especially in game when upgrading during a match. Sometimes it plays the add and doesn’t pause the game. Make it so you can buy out of watching those stupid adds. ### 2/5 — Updating my old review *2025-12-18, version 1.3.2* The game is fun, but has a lot of issues, all tasks besides watching ads keep their progress which is ironic because of how many ads they make you watch anyways, you have to watch an ad in the middle of a game while your game is still playing which causes you to lose, retry, watch more ads, and also they have ads that take up plots to place your weapons that won’t go away unless you watch the ads for the weapons/plots 😂. Day 7 of the carnival is broken for me as well, there’s a red symbol signifying i can claim rewards from tasks fulfilled but it’s overlapped by a lock symbol and tells me to stay tuned when i try to open it. If you look at the developers games and all the reviews on them, there’s a recurring theme that their games run ads in the background and cause people’s devices to overheat. If they want to take this game more seriously than a quick cheap money trick id support it though. Enough of my super professional rant im gonna try and complete a level without turning my data off ### 3/5 — Ftp Too much ad !! *2025-12-10, version 1.3.1* Too much ad during game experience ### 2/5 — Updating my old review *2025-12-09* The game is fun, but has a lot of issues, all tasks besides watching ads keep their progress which is ironic because of how many ads they make you watch anyways, you have to watch an ad in the middle of a game while your game is still playing which causes you to lose, retry, watch more ads, and also they have ads that take up plots to place your weapons that won’t go away unless you watch the ads for the weapons/plots 😂. Day 7 of the carnival is broken for me as well, there’s a red symbol signifying i can claim rewards from tasks fulfilled but it’s overlapped by a lock symbol and tells me to stay tuned when i try to open it. If you look at the developers games and all the reviews on them, there’s a recurring theme that their games run ads in the background and cause people’s devices to overheat. If they want to take this game more seriously than a quick cheap money trick id support it though. Enough of my super professional rant im gonna try and complete a level without turning my data off ### 2/5 — Fix please *2025-12-07, version 1.3.1* Ads are popping up like crazy, I don’t even need to touch anything and an ad will pop up making me lose a level. And they’re SO LONG please fix or ad a no ads option. ### 3/5 — Ads taking up gun space *2025-12-06, version 1.3.1* Biggest issue in this game so far, only have had it for a day and it’s ruining my game play and mastermind strategizing. It’s fun besides that but bruh come on ### 2/5 — Too many flaws *2025-12-04, version 1.3.1* It’s a game I want to play but too many design flaws. Making the trash can appear above a slot where you can place a tower is dumb. Not being able to remove the “ad” tower means we’re forced to lose slots. The buffs don’t seem to have much effect on the game? ### 4/5 — Yuh *2025-12-01, version 1.3.1* Gg ### 4/5 — Nice *2025-11-24, version 1.3.0* Good game honestly if your into strategy games ### 3/5 — Ads taking up gun space *2025-11-23, version 1.3.0* Biggest issue in this game so far, only have had it for a day and it’s ruining my game play and mastermind strategizing. It’s fun besides that but bruh come on ### 3/5 — Stuck stage *2025-11-22, version 1.3.0* Seems like a fun game but i cant bypass the tutorial stage! Every-time I finish it, it just freezes up and doesn’t let me advance! ### 4/5 — review *2025-11-20, version 1.3.0* fun and has good tension ### 5/5 — Good game fr *2025-11-16, version 1.3.0* Idk just fun ### 4/5 — Great game but needs a little work *2025-11-16, version 1.3.0* Great game jus to much ads and if you don’t watch the ads it seems to glitch the game ### 5/5 — Challenging but fun *2025-11-15, version 1.3.0* Great game. Easy to play but challenging. Lots of ads if you need help or boosts. So far enjoyable. ### 2/5 — Horrible gameplay *2025-11-14, version 1.3.0* The game itself seems cool and all, cool concepts but this is so horribly optimized. I’m on an iPhone 12, a 2D game about blocks should make my phone get hot and drain 9% in 2 minutes. From what I’ve seen in other reviews, the upgrades themselves don’t even work. Not to mention the game just throws you in without warning or saying what to do when you get something new. ### 5/5 — Fun game! *2025-11-13, version 1.3.0* Super fun! ### 4/5 — Great game *2025-11-11, version 1.3.0* Fun ### 5/5 — Very 5 but to many ad *2025-11-10, version 1.3.0* Ad bad game good ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ad City *2025-12-25, version 1.3.2* Small note before the main deal, grammar is not good at all. Says “you are lose” when ad watching screws you over and makes you lose a game. Anywho, all of your weekly tasks will complete no problem with some effort in the game. However, the ad task will reset back so many times that it’s basically pointless to even try to do the weekly event tasks because you can’t actually complete the whole thing without that ad task each week. Crazy because this game is like 95% ads and that’s how they make their money, not like they need to screw players over for a little more ad revenue. Would not recommend feeding into watching ads for this game. I’d just close the game out every time an ad pops up without you intentionally wanting to watch an ad and if you hit a wall in game because you’re not watching ads to actually make progress in game then I’d uninstall it or not even install it in the first place if you don’t want ad simulator. ### 1/5 — Ads to Win *2025-10-24, version 1.2.9* Title says it all. In order to win some levels, you MUST watch ads to complete them. It’s shady, scummy and pathetic. An otherwise great game, ruined by a scummy business practice. ### 1/5 — Only works for one round *2025-09-20, version 1.2.8* Why after they showed how to play the game and then let me do it myself there’s ad after ad so bad that I literally can’t even play the game not even playing or being over dramatic after I exit one ad there’s immediately another ### 1/5 — This game is terrible *2025-09-20, version 1.2.8* This game is terrible you are mostly just watching commercials do not even bother. ### 1/5 — More Ads Than Game Play *2025-09-09, version 1.2.8* I tried to give this game a try and at the beginning it was fun but there are more ads playing than game play. Shame! Bc could be a fun game to continue playing. App deleted. ### 1/5 — Ad Trap *2025-09-04, version 1.2.8* Watch ad to win, do anything. ### 1/5 — Too many bugs and ads *2025-08-25, version 1.2.8* So I downloaded it and it was pretty fun, but they put ads over places to put the weapons so you either have to watch the ad or place it in a different less convenient spot. And then also when I went to open the app later it just kept taking me to an article page with no way out, even after swiping the game out it happened again multiple times so I just deleted it. ### 1/5 — Ads kill you *2025-08-21, version 1.2.8* Game doesn’t pause when ads hit so when you’re on a level with multiple tracks and not guarding where they’re gonna start coming from during the ad good luck. Also super annoying that options to watch ads pop up where you would normally be able to place turrets so that just gets in the way too when there are 5-8 slots taken out at random unless you watch ads ### 1/5 — 0/10 performance *2025-08-20, version 1.2.8* idk what you did but game is unplayable because of performance I boot up the game on a iPhone 12 Pro Max and im at 77% when I open it and after 20 seconds my phone heats up and im at 68% fix it fall off ### 1/5 — Absolutely awful *2025-08-18, version 1.2.8* When I started playing, the game ran at 60 fps and was good, then, I merged the tower and it started lagging bad, from 60 to 50, 50 to 30, then, it ran at like 1 fps and was unplayable, I restarted and it stayed the same, the gameplay is uninspired and the name is a probably poor translation of something else, it’s unplayable and a scam that runs more poorly than black ops 3 on the Xbox 360, do NOT play this game, it’s a cash grab. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-05-26, version 1.3.2* Pretty Addicting Can’t Lie ### 5/5 — Addicting *2025-12-12, version 1.3.2* Fun game! ### 5/5 — Fun *2025-12-09, version 1.3.1* Game ### 5/5 — :/ *2025-12-07, version 1.3.1* :/ ### 5/5 — Late night gaming *2025-11-26, version 1.3.1* Very addictive ### 5/5 — Good *2025-11-20, version 1.3.0* Good ### 5/5 — 5 *2025-11-20, version 1.3.0* Fun ### 5/5 — Woo? *2025-11-19, version 1.3.0* Fun ### 5/5 — Great *2025-11-18, version 1.3.0* Awesome ### 5/5 — Game *2025-11-18, version 1.3.0* I love this game. its a really easy and fun game --- *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 2026-08-24.*