# Steel Mill Manager — user reviews > 72 indexed App Store user reviews of Steel Mill Manager by Chengdu Warrior Tech Limited, rated 4.80/5 from 867 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/steel-mill-manager/id1615782277/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/steel-mill-manager/id1615782277.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 806 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 28 ## What do users think of Steel Mill Manager? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Addictive gameplay - 👍 Enjoyable experience - 💡 Innovative features **Cons** - 🐛 Glitches and bugs - 🔧 Needs fixing and improvements - 💰 Excessive microtransactions **Commonly reported bugs** - Glitches and freezes during events - Progression blockers due to missing/broken features - Paid features not working as intended **Most requested features** - More content and locations - Offline progress tracking improvements - Better event and quest design ## Newest reviews (13 of 72) ### 3/5 — Needs fixing *2025-05-08* I played this game and most of the time the game was glitching and wouldn’t have the workers on the table cutting the steel or the forklifts wouldn’t take the steel to the destination where it’s supposed to go. I had to restart the game over and over for it to work right. ### 3/5 — Fun game but LOADED with micro transactions *2024-11-28, version 1.32.0* Pretty fun game. My question is how do you get managers without purchasing them? ### 3/5 — Objective is not feasible *2023-08-25, version 1.31.0* In the Vidal section one of the objectives is to upgrade the 4 garbage truck to lv.3 and that truck doesn’t exist in the game. ### 2/5 — Glitch *2023-02-11, version 1.27.0* Game just keeps saying event is over- each time I hit the continue button it reloads the screen. I can’t do anything. Please fix! ### 2/5 — Payment *2023-02-09, version 1.27.0* Payed for the no ads perk and its said that the payment went through but its not giving me the perk ### 2/5 — Game is locked up or broken. *2023-02-04* Every time I log onto the game, it says event is over and it just loops over and over and over again. There’s no way to get back into the game at all. Hopefully somebody will look into it and fix it or say something about the game is no longer being administered to. **Developer response:** This issue has been fixed.You can reinstall this game. ### 2/5 — Only three levels *2023-01-24* Not worth the money paid to be ad free if there’s only three factories. It’s a good game, but it really needs to be expanded. Once it’s expanded I’ll change my star rating, but until then it’s really not worth the money paid. **Developer response:** We will add more gamepalys in later versions.Please stay tuned. ### 2/5 — Help stuck in event loop *2023-01-06, version 1.27.0* Can’t leave the event after it ended. The game says click confirm and it does nothing. Help ### 2/5 — If the gameplay was balanced… *2022-12-05* The first impression was good until I got a bunch of inconsistencies about the price and proportion of the upgrades across the board like the first manufacture for example: The training room have a item that cost 67k to build but the limit of money in this situation is 50k! How could you have this one happening? Please review the entire thing and fix it please! **Developer response:** You can upgrade the safe in the research room. ### 1/5 — Stalled *2022-10-10* I have stalled out on my second factory due to all my quests being the same thing that I can’t make in either factory. I can’t move to the 3rd factory because of this. I have even lost out on the paid “tycoon pass” that I could have finished. I have paid for other things that are basically useless now. Please fix this. It was a fun game until this. **Developer response:** Sorry for any inocnevenience.This issue has been sent to departments. ### 3/5 — Vidal won’t open *2022-10-03, version 1.14.0* Fun game but even though I have completed the requirements to open the Vidal steel mill I cannot access it. ### 4/5 — Sehr guter Zeitvertreib, aber schlechte Übersetzung. *2022-08-07* Steel Mill Manager an sich finde ich sehr toll und je mehr man spielt, desto mehr Spaß macht es einem.👍Aber die Übersetzung ins Deutsche von dem Spiel ist teilweise echt komisch. Zum Beispiel die Medallien heißen einfach Mal „Wesen“ 😂😂😂 Ich hätte noch viele weitere Beispiele, aber ihr Erfinder solltet mal selber gucken. Die Übersetzung hat mich manchmal echt verwirrt und ich konnte für manche Zeitpunkte kurz nicht weiterkommen, war echt nervig. Bitte behebt es!🙏Das ist aber auch meine einzige Kritik, macht weiter so mit dem Spiel, bis jetzt ist es euch sehr gelungen 😀👌 **Developer response:** Hi,Sorry for any inconvenience.Could you contact us about the wrong German translation at service@warriorgame.mobi .We would correct it.Thanks. ### 1/5 — Forced tutorial *2022-07-28* Stop shoving tutorial down my throat and let me play the game. Stop forcing me to hire workers. Stop forcing me to manually drive truck after hiring a worker to drive the truck. Stop with the annoying blinking hand trying to get me to follow quest guide. Stop forcing me to hire a manager. Stop forcing me to activate manager. Stop forcing me to manually collect trash to unlock game features. Stop forcing me to do research. Stop forcing me to go to events. Stop forcing me to claim rewards. Stop forcing me to claim training manual. Stop forcing me to ho to the stupid space plant and going through long winded explanation of it and forcing me yo upgrade it. How do I destroy the stupid space plant you shoved down my throat? **Developer response:** Sorry for any inconvenience.We will recommend them to the related department. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Müll *2026-07-19* Gerade mal 10 Minuten gespielt und 2 mal abgestürzt. Zudem kommt sehr schlechte Spiel Mechanik ### 1/5 — So many polyps *2026-04-23, version 1.32.0* There are so many popups asking you to buy stuff for a weak game with poor progression. It’s not worth playing. ### 1/5 — ! *2025-09-11* Прикольно но не на русском ### 1/5 — A buggy waiting game *2023-09-26* There is not a lot that is fun here. If you are really bored, it is some busy work in the way that the activity boards you might attach to a toddlers crib will keep you pushing buttons and honking horns, all for nothing. The game is quite buggy. For example in the second factory, if you upgrade all three ships all the way, it will eventually give you a quest to update a fourth ship which doesn’t exist. This will effectively lock you out of further progression in the quest queue. Another problem is that layout of the conveyor belts is infuriatingly inefficient and bad. There is no option to redesign the factory unlike factories or the half dozen games of that ilk. You are stuck with the ill conceived factory layout which leaves your workers starved for raw materials and largely wasting time until the next break. When they do have raw materials, they likely aren’t working anyway, because their machinery is broken. The AI which powers the repairmen is similarly inexcusably horrible. There is no attempt to take multiple jobs near one another. They will often walk past six broken machines in order to fix one on the opposite side of the map. If they have enough supplies for multiple fixes, often they will go back to their home room to restock anyway, walking past a half dozen broken machines on the way. After about the first hour of gameplay, the game becomes utterly stingy with new workers. I have factories with workrooms that have never had a manager because not enough spawn. Likewise once your initial quota of 30 or so workers runs out. You never get any more and have to hire temp workers who never advance. This is in the end one of those pay to win, waiting games designed to leave you frustrated. In short, it is a pay to wait game. Do yourself a favor and pick something else that is actually well designed and fun. ### 1/5 — Schade *2023-03-27* Hab mir für 23€ was gekauft hab das Spiel dann geschlossen und mein Kauf war weg kann man ich nicht mehr wiederherstellen Wurde zurückgestuft auf den Anfang Würde gerne mein Geld wieder haben **Developer response:** Sorry for any inconvenience. Could you please provide the screenshot of your receipt with order ID to service@warriorgame.mobi? After verification, we would love to compensate as soon as possible. ### 1/5 — Nein! *2023-02-17* Um voranzukommen, muss man entweder € investieren oder ständig Werbevideos schauen. Ohne dem dauert es eine gefühlte Ewigkeit, bis das nächste Upgrade verfügbar ist. Ab Level 4 bräuchte man sogar 5-7 Werbevideos für ein Upgrade. Die Videos gehen mindestens 40 Sek, so dass man in Summe länger in der Werbeschleife hängen würde als im Spiel selbst. Wer hier mehr als einen Stern vergibt, braucht einen Arzttermin! **Developer response:** Hi, you can remove Ads by in-app purchase. ### 1/5 — Need to fix *2023-02-14, version 1.27.0* After the event I was not able to get in the game ### 1/5 — Quality issues *2023-02-04, version 1.27.0* You can’t use the map, switching factory locations is impossible, UI is cut off on modern devices so you play a guessing game at what the app wants or trying to do anything. ### 1/5 — Glitch *2023-01-28, version 1.27.0* The event is over but I can’t go back to the regular game play. It’s been stuck on the space event. I enjoyed the game til this happened ### 1/5 — Was good…until the update *2022-11-09* I was really enjoying the game until the update. I hate that the production rooms lose power. If a worker is mad they leave the floor and go to the break room. The upgrade tree now has four different tiers to upgrade. The best part about the game before the update was how fun and simple it was to play. So unfortunately with the update and the path the game is going down I am deleting it. Thanks for the fun I had before the changes. **Developer response:** This issue has been fixed.You can upgrade the game to the latest version. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Addictive *2023-10-10, version 1.31.0* Too addictive 10/10 ### 5/5 — Don’t try *2022-08-09* This is a China company can’t trust them they will steal all your info **Developer response:** Thank you for your five stars and then do not spread rumors about us. ### 5/5 — Top game *2022-06-17, version 1.5.1* Absolute brilliant game, steel mill manager!! So life like and detailed! Recommended, can’t put my phone down. 10/10 💯💯💯🤩🤩🤩 ### 5/5 — Gutes Spiel bis auf *2022-06-07* Das spiel ist gut aber bei der Stimmung der Mitarbeiter macht einer es um 5 runter und meint er braucht einen Manager und wenn er nur elementar ist aber er ist Gabelstapler Fahrer wo man keinen manager hintuen kann wäre gut wenn das gefixt werden würde sonst top spiel **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We will recommend them to the related department. ### 5/5 — Great app *2022-05-07, version 1.1.0* Love tycoons great app ### 4/5 — Absolutely love this game.. *2023-07-29* So at a certain point of progress in the game there is an task in multiple factories to upgrade scrap truck 4 to level 3. There’s 4 slots for trucks, but only 3 trucks to unlock. Wish that would get fixed. ### 4/5 — Substance *2023-03-22* I truly enjoyed this game however this game severely lacks substance for the amount they charge to remove ads. If I had known that the game didn’t actually go anywhere I wouldn’t have paid for ad removal. ### 4/5 — More options and updates *2023-03-12* Gives more locations and options allow us to be more free and do more stuff **Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback.We will consider this, ### 4/5 — Fun, but doesn’t always progress while offline *2023-01-12* This is a fun game. I like this type of game, and of the ones I’ve played, I like this one the best. However, there is a BIG bug that gets really annoying. I’ll play for a bit, upgrade as much as much as I can afford, etc., then switch over to other games for a while, and when I come back to this one after about 20 or 30 minutes, my factory has made ZERO money, ZERO progress. If I leave for several hours, or overnight, I get a window when I come back where I can see my offline earnings. Also mildly annoying is the music. It doesn’t really loop well. **Developer response:** Sorry for any inconvenience.This issue has been sent to departments. ### 4/5 — Quest challenges *2022-11-05* The quest have been locked up for days now. Is there a fix for this? **Developer response:** You can upgrade this game to the latest verion. --- *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.*