# Universal Paperclips™ — user reviews > 274 indexed App Store user reviews of Universal Paperclips™ by Everybody House Games, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 303 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/universal-paperclips/id1300634274/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/universal-paperclips/id1300634274.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 240 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Universal Paperclips™? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Simple but addictive gameplay - 👍 Engaging and clever concept - 💡 Interesting philosophical elements - 🚀 Surprisingly deep and replayable **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches, especially in later stages - 🔋 High battery consumption - 😞 Lack of offline progress or background play - 😞 Poorly optimized for iPad **Commonly reported bugs** - Drones gifts getting stuck at NaN - Inability to progress past certain stages due to bugs - Inconsistent behavior when closing and reopening the app - Resets or loss of progress after updates **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Ability to save and resume progress across devices - Offline/background progress - Better iPad optimization with multi-column layout ## Newest reviews (18 of 274) ### 2/5 — No way to save the game *2026-07-02, version 2.3* The fact that you cannot save the game is a problem and leads to lost progress. ### 4/5 — Great Incremental *2026-07-01, version 2.3* This is one of the first incremental games I ever played and I still come back to it every so often. “Simple” number-go-up game where you press buttons to make numbers go up with the purpose of making the game press the old buttons for you while giving you new buttons to press instead. As simply a layout as it is, I do wish the game had a dark-mode (I find the all-white screen quite bright) and a save-backup system so I could etch away at the artifact screen rather than be presented with a clean slate every few years when I redownload it. ### 3/5 — Great, but I was let down *2026-06-09, version 2.3* I was having a blast playing this. Slowly making my way through the universe and discovering artifacts. Then because I chose to go to the bottom right corner, the game ended. I spent a lot of time getting there and was excited for the artifact, only to find that is the one square that ends the game. I could teleport away to keep playing, but I couldn’t keep the artifact. I played for days looking forward to this goal only to be disappointed. ### 4/5 — Génial mais *2026-05-17* Quelques défauts comme le fait qu’elle ne tourne pas en tâche de fond, elle n’est pas très bien désignée pour iPhone et enfin, passé un certain moment, il faut un système pour acheter plusieurs drones d’un coup, même en +1000 c’est trop long. J’ai fini le jeux plusieurs fois et je n’ai jamais vu les étapes en photo sur l’App Store??! Svp répondez moi :’) ### 3/5 — screen reader support *2026-05-11* I've played the game and almost completed it before it got ported to the new engine using Unity. I'm totally blind, I was playing it perfectly on the old web version. please add screen reader support to the new version, I'm sure it can be done! ### 4/5 — Simple maybe too simple it’s great *2025-12-12, version 2.1* I really wish there was a buy max and sell 1 button 😭 also I have no idea what to do once I get to space 🤷 ### 4/5 — Simple maybe too simple *2025-12-07, version 2.1* I really wish there was a buy max and sell 1 button 😭 ### 3/5 — Bugged at space age *2025-11-11, version 2.1* Game seems to be bugged when you try to get to space age. Don’t have enough clips or don’t have enough energy when you disable everything but the solar panels. When you disable everything you have 6 oct. but when you build power to have 10 million mw/s it drops to 3.23 oct. ### 3/5 — It’s much older *2025-10-26, version 2.1* This game I played in 2004. Not sure why it says 2017, unless someone deleted the traces of it. I play this game every 10 years, I am surprised that its history has been erased of the PC days, that was the only way to play this. ### 5/5 — Simple and addicting game *2025-09-29, version 2.1* Simple and addicting. Would be good if progress is saved automatically in cloud as sometimes the progress is accidentally deleted and have to start all over again. ### 2/5 — Bug: unused Trust are removed after full auto mode! *2025-09-05, version 2.1* I am stuck at 10 processor and 70 memory, it really sucks, the 20 trust points that i didnt assign just disappeared ### 5/5 — Fun game *2025-08-21, version 2.1* Good replayability ### 5/5 — S+ semi-idle IOS game *2025-06-19, version 2.1* Best $2 purchase ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2025-05-04* Best game ever but pls some updates ### 5/5 — Parfait mais une grosse incompréhension *2025-04-23* J’ai fini le jeux deux fois et je n’ai jamais vu les artefacts, quelqu’un pour éclairé ma lanterne ? ### 4/5 — Please make changes! *2025-04-18, version 2.1* I love this game, but... I simply cannot stand (nor use) the app version! In the browser, you can freely resize the screen, zoom in and out, and play in landscape or portrait, however you prefer. The app cannot do any of these things! Also, IDK how it is in the app, but the browser version uses so much computing power, I cannot charge the battery *and* play the game simultaneously! Very few other apps even come close to taxing my iDevice like this. Please make these changes! I, like so many others, plunked down my $2 dollars -- but I have not used the app since, and this is why. It's time for an upgrade! ### 5/5 — Played this game years ago, still holds up. *2025-04-07, version 2.1* As title reads, i played this game 5+ years ago and after searching for decent idle/clicker games, this one still stands as the best one ive ever played on mobile and even beats out most ive played on pc. 10/10 masterpiece ### 3/5 — It would be great to have an update. *2025-03-28, version 2.1* A good update would be the best. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Игра Сломана *2025-09-13* Играл в эту игру лет 10 назад, проходил все было класно. Сейчас игра застревает ближе к концу, нет прогресса нечего развивать, ты переробатываешь всю доступную материю и игра «кончается» пробовал несколько оаз результат одинаковый ### 1/5 — boring *2025-07-14, version 2.1* I reset the game by buying a progress and I have to start from scratch?! No save, nothing. Does not run in background? So just waste of energy and time. ### 1/5 — Jeu très bon mais… *2025-02-03* Un détail casse tout, j’en étais à l’étape où il me fallait 10 millions de mégawatts et sur iPhone, il est très difficile de cliquer en boucle sur l’augmentation des usines de production d’énergie solaire, sans cliquer sur tous désassembler sans le faire exprès, cela m’est arrivé deux fois après avoir cliqué comme un acharné pour atteindre les 10 millions, à la deuxième, j’ai immédiatement désinstallé l’appli, dommage je ne rejouerai plus jamais à ce jeu, frustrant, finalement, vous étiez proche du but, mais vous avez tout gâché ### 1/5 — Lost progress. *2024-12-06, version 2.1* If you change universes you loose progress. ### 1/5 — Website game in app *2024-10-23, version 2.1* It’s a less usable frame version of the website game. Doesn’t allow UI zoom out or changing orientation ### 1/5 — Huge font *2024-06-16, version 2.1* can't resize window, can't scroll. So can't see anythign below 'buy wire' ### 1/5 — Not accessible for the blind *2024-05-14, version 2.1* I was recommended this game, because I really want an idle clicker game. However, to my disappointment after purchasing this app. I launch the game and all my screen says is “direct touch area”. Voiceover has no buttons to read out on the screen. it is not accessible. Could you please look into fixing this? I would love to have a clicker game to waste time while waiting at the doctors office or while on the bus. ### 1/5 — Schlechte iPad App - Lieber die Webseite nehmen! *2023-10-19* Die App ist richtig schlecht auf dem iPad - alles ist in einer langen Zeile angeordnet, statt wie in der Web-Version in drei Spalten nebeneinander. Folge: Man scrollt sich zu Tode und verpasst ständig günstige Momente. Googelt nach "universal paperclips", so findet ihr die offizielle, viel bessere Web-Version. ### 1/5 — Unplayable due to bugs. *2023-07-04, version 2.1* Was excited but the app is unplayable due to bugs. I am maybe 10% through the game and cannot progress because the strategy engine gets stuck. Unacceptable for a paid app. ### 1/5 — No offline progress. Worthless *2023-05-27, version 2.1* What’s the point an idle game that has no offline progress? I’m supposed to leave this open on my phone all day? Absolutely worthless and a scam to charge for ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I was hesitant at first… *2026-08-06, version 2.3* But the reviews were great and now I am addicted to this. I see what everyone was raving about! It’s more than worth a couple bucks so give it a try!! ### 5/5 — Favorite Mobile Game *2026-07-22, version 2.3* No ads, no micro transactions, just a one-time purchase and you’re set. This is how mobile games should be. ### 5/5 — I got introduced to this years ago; can’t stop coming back to it *2026-02-15, version 2.2* This parasite lives in my brain and feeds me dopamine occasionally when I watch the numbers go up. The single best purchase on the AppStore I’ve made and I will stand by that until the sun collapses or is converted to paperclips. ### 5/5 — Maybe the best App Store games of all time, no joke *2026-01-27, version 2.2* It’s so simple, but it feels like a game for the iPhone from the days where you used to actually be able to find real games for your iPhone. Now, it’s all just ad traps. It has character and fun little things left there by the developers. Personally, it’s my favorite game. It’s not flashy, it’s not some big production non-sense circus. It’s just a good simple game that you can clearly tell the devs had a fun time making. That’s 5 stars in my book. ### 5/5 — Ride the exponential *2026-01-24, version 2.2* To understand this game you must play it under a log transform. ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-01-21, version 2.2* Please add a dark mode, and a landscape mode for iPad ### 5/5 — Un mode MAC *2026-01-18* Un mode MAC de prévus (affichage) ### 5/5 — Un Classique au top *2026-01-18* App fidèle au concept. Possibilité de mettre en place une sauvegarde (iOS ou autre) afin de pouvoir ne pas reset le game lors de changement de device ou le déchargement de l’apps ? ### 5/5 — 5 stars, but I’m deleting it *2026-01-03, version 2.1* Congratulations 👏 Congratulations for making a highly addictive game that mirrors my hopes and dreams of my own business. How I wish my business grew with such ups and downs and amazing side quests. To reach levels I could never dream of. However I’m deleting it. I’m spending too much time and phone battery playing this. I have a family. My kids need a present father in their life, my wife needs a husband, not someone who is constantly checking how his paperclip empire is functioning. I’m leaving you with a 5 star review because by all accounts you deserve it. But this is goodbye. 📎 ### 5/5 — I can’t stop playing *2025-11-02, version 2.1* I’ve been playing this game for an hour (in total) and I can’t stop playing it. Please buy the 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 2026-09-02.*