Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 07:41 am
Idle Army – Casual Game Review
Idle Army is a Casual/Strategy game from Kwalee Ltd, first launched in 4th March 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 21,070+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Army Stand Out
Have you ever dreamt of being a squad leader? Now is the perfect time!
You will have to survive a horde of enemies. With the help of your amazing army, march forward. Count on your soldiers and merge the units to become more powerful in order to defeat the attackers. They will use all of their power and might to attack you: drones, ninjas, trucks, and tanks. Get ready for battle!
Discover new recruits to join your ranks and improve your firepower. How will you organize your military troops? Pistol, Rifle, Minigun, Bomber, Grenade, Rocket Launcher, Tank, Sniper and even Sharpshooter, they are all available to help you counter the waves.
To conquer, you must reach the highest level and for that, you will have to create an all-star army and have a great rate of fire. Are the enemies too strong? Launch the nuke, but make sure to time it right. One blast can make you the ultimate tycoon… or end everything.
Upgrade and customize your hero as you wish, do you feel more comfortable to shoot the enemies as a superhero or as an assassin? The choice is yours in this military simulation!
Make sure to test the endless mode to prove your skills!
Get ready for warfare!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Army is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and improvements to keep your army marching strong!
Download & Availability
Idle Army is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is amazing and we would rate it 5 but it drained our battery. We dont know if it was just our phone but we deleted the game and our phone is now working fine.
Not a bad game, pretty boring honestly, same level skins over and over with a higher difficulty star. The endless fight crashes the game at around 34000 kills, and you cant upgrade your troops past 3 star pinkish purple star which was a huge let down so we quit.
Fun game. Id give more stars if there were a leader board for the endless round to make it more competitive.
We give 4 stars for a good game but -2 because we have never had more ads in a game than this even after spending the $3 to remove ads. Its absurd that after every round we have to wait for the ad to go away because we dont want to buy more slots or buy a new skin for our hero. Paying to remove ads should remove ads.
After every wave theres an ad, and each wave only lasted under thirty seconds. The game was fun when we were actually playing.
We PAID 2.99 for no ads. Why am we still seeing ads.
The game wont even load after like 30 seconds of nothing it kicks us out and theres nothing we can do about it.
When we first started this game it was great, but now the changes have greatly diminished our rating. 1. The game cuts off on ending after we have 22k kills. Our highest was 35k before the last two updates. Since the updates we havent finished a endless mode because of the app cutting off. 2. Before the last two updates we were at 42 million in gold, we got 23 million in one endless mode, now the most we can get is 150k. The game has gone from a 5star game to a 1 star game. Changing the game to make more money make us not recommend even down loading this app.
Every time we try to play the game crashed and cant get passed the logo in the beginning. Ive tried deleting and reinstalling and same thing. Dont waste your time.
First off the stuff that is offered that you can get by watching ads when you click it the game lets you watch the ad but at the end of the ad the games crashes and you dont get anything and its really annoying, second when Im trying to play it gets really laggy and glitchy and sometimes it will stop at all until it glitches to us dying, so all in all honestly dont recommend playing if you not a patient person.
The add said No OnE CaN GeT PaSt LeVeL 89 we got bored after level 25 but we had to prove a point, made it to level 90 without any struggle, not sure what happens if they make it to the line because our enemies never got close.
We bought the dude with the machine gun for 2 dollars and we were expecting a fast firing gun but nope its just a skin change. Whats the point of making different characters if theres no difference between the two worst $2 Ive spent.
There is a 15-20 second ad after every 15-20 second round. You spend more time watching ads than playing the game.
Ive been playing this game and idk how to build walls. Please tell us if there is something u have to do to build walls, or if its just the ads that says that. And we just want to know how to build walls. Thank you.
This game is exactly what we were looking for to cure our random boredom that strikes every few days. Our only complaint is that once we made it to 40k kills the app starts glitching out and eventually closes. There is no winning, once youve built a strong enough defense the game wont stop. Itll force you out of the app so you never get to set a new high score. After adding new (crappy) characters, the amount of looks that you can get to before the games starts to glitch is even lower. Itll slow down at 25k kills and kick you out of the app at 30k.
We absolutely love this game, but it burned through our battery extremely fast. About 5 minutes into playing it 10% of our battery was gone. Im gonna have to delete it until its fixed.
This game WAS fun. Then the last update added a bunch of ads and pop-ups. Then the newest update made it worse, caused a bunch of lag, reduced the points given for endless, and reduced the damage issued by units. And all the new units with the "random" unit system make upgrading more expensive than ever. The developers are obviously making it more of an ad trap with every update.
We downloaded the game from an ad thinking it would be like that but we were completely wrong. You cannot draw in barbed wire like in the ads we have seen.
This game is just like every other free game. Filled with ads, minimal game play. Free games now a days are just sad, they have no life to them, theres nothing fun about them anymore. Theyd rather push out a game then make a quality one.
Its not even letting us in the game it just shows the creator.
No ads does not in any way remove or reduce the amount of ads you see, complete scam.
Paid 2.99 for the game to remove ads and yet the game is still completely riddled with Ads. Every round does bonus points but the ads you have to watch for the bonus points last drastically longer than the rounds last.
We saw the ad on tiktok and it looked really fun so we installed. Next thing we knew our phone was overheating and everytime we would launch the app our phone would force quit the game, so we never got to even play it.
Great game, could definitely use a unit information tab to keep track of where you should place what units.
There are 6 soldier types and only 20 spaces. That doesnt give near enough room to sufficiently upgrade any of them. We propose two possible solutions. 1. More spaces. Like lots more. At least double if not triple. 2. Once a soldier is promoted, make it possible to spawn that soldier at that promotion level. Even if it costs more(maybe 20k for red and 80k for purple) itd be worth it in the long run to be able to sufficiently upgrade all troops.
Please buff endless mode it used to be a good way of getting money but now you can only do endless every six hours for a maximum of 10k. Its not even worth doing if we can no longer make millions off of it. The newest units arent very good IMO so stick with tanks (3rd tier grenade dudes), miniguns (3rd tier rifle guys) and sharpshooters (3rd tier snipers) we have gotten to wave 267 with only 2 of each (6 in total) not even maxed out. Also, dont bother maxing out the heros bullet damage, it barely helps.
Even after the latest update, the screen freezes up, fails to load the currency and reboots itself. When it works correctly its a fantastic game.
This game in our opinion was ok for the following reasons: 1 being the lowest Ad quantity: 3 New Content: 2 Addicting: 4 Because of the ratings above this game a 3 star, but if u have a lot of time to kill them this game is perfect.
Why would you set a cap limit on the endless battle so low when you can earn more on regular waves?!?! Take away the cap on endless!! The point of endless is to kill as many as possible and earn as much as possible.
This game was good until they took out the feature where you could get quite a bit of money from endless now its a set amount everytime and everything else you dont get a lot either its not fun anymore.
Lack luster. Remove ads doesnt remove the ads so save yourself the money.
After running for a while, our iPhone 12 Pro is very hot.
If you like watching ads for longer periods of time than you actually get to play the game, then this is for you.
This game needs work its a good concept but it has too many ads no real plot or small story you can do on the side when we were playing after every wave we got an ad not fun at all.
Ads for literally anything, want to upgrade but dont have money? Ads. Want to do the next 30 second wave? 1 minute league of legends ad. They probably generated 20 dollars off of our 1 hour of playtime on this just from the endless ads alone.
Why did you reduce the payout on Endless mode? It takes forever to get new troops and there are new options. Makes us want to delete.
This game plays an AD no matter what. Its really annoying. However it has the audacity to limit the power ups you can receive from ADs you chose to watch. Overall a terrible game that needs to update their progression system. Absolutely horrible.
Added too many characters to merge.
The games crashed immediately after installing.
Im glad you added new soldiers and think its great, but we wish there was a reserve yard or something where you could store your troops while you work on upgrading them because theres not enough space in the normal place.
We got this game and thought we probably would play this much, we started playing for almost half of each day. This game is great.
Games cool but the new units kinda messed up our whole roster ngl.
This game was better than we expected, its one of the best time killers on the App Store, but the games performance leaves more to be desired. The game can be slow 50%-60% of the time and it sometimes leads to the game crashing. It gets annoying, but subtract that its a great game.
The new updates are causing the game to freeze and shut down.
We paid the 2.99 to remove ads. You cannot remove them. Even after we paid, youre still have to watch ads.
Cant choose who to shoot pretty bad that we have to watch videos to build an army.
Tired of having the App Store riddled with low quality games like this that are just here to pump out ad revenue for 0 effort games. It would be fun if there was more effort into this game and less ads. Every 2 waves we get an ad? Every other wave we have to get a free unit by watching an ad? We played for about 15 mins and half of that time was in ads. Jesus Christ.
The adds they are not annoying most games have adds they are however evil. Every single Time we hit a milestone or something with a big pay out that add after watching freezes and then its a 75% chance when watching the others that what ever we watched it for it did not even work. We watched 4 adds for one free unit. 4 bc it just did not want to give it to us.
Its sad giving this game one star because it seemed super fun. Ive just never seen a game this glitchy, laggy, and just slow. Its CONSTANTLY crashing or takes for ever to load. PLEASE FIX.
Good potential we feel. But you spend more time watching ads than playing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 14.0.12
- Size: 278.77 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Kwalee Ltd
Last updated: 25th November 2025 | Genre: Casual, Strategy | Developer: Kwalee Ltd