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Blacksmith Lab Idle – Simulation Game Review
Blacksmith Lab Idle is a Simulation/Casual game from Dominick Bruno, first launched in 28th January 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 112+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Blacksmith Lab Idle Stand Out
Be a true blacksmith in this crazy-mixed idle game! Try all that you have: marketplace, bank, upgrades lab, news and more – to level up!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Blacksmith Lab Idle is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th March 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Bankroll bug fix, other bug and performance updates.
Download & Availability
Blacksmith Lab Idle is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Blacksmith Lab Idle on App Store
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 one of the best game on flash in our opinion and we think it needs more support.
We have only recently found this game, but im already almost done with it! We really like this game and want you to add to it! We even have some ideas: you can make after crystals make diamonds and add titanium and brass and make a ice and lightning enchantment, also make a battle axe, crossbow, spear, as well as gauntlets, chest plates, and nunchucks.
Cool game. Nice and simple time waster. But it seemed like as soon as we maxed all our upgrades we didnt need them anymore because there were no more orders all of a sudden. Game over? Would love more! Thank you.
Our IOS goes up to 7.1.9 and this is below and now this won't glitch! Thanks so much for making it 5.1.1 IOS. It's really helpful.
It is a great game but we maxed out all of our upgrades and items, please add some more features like prestiging, starting over and getting a boost. Because of this lack of extra content we deleted the game, we hope you add more.
It's a great game to cure boredom. If you have nothing to do and and you feel lazy, this is the game to play.
So addicted, PLEASE MAKE NEW LEVELS.
Absolutely loved this game! But beat it in just a few days. Like most reviews, just waiting for something more to come from the developers.
This game is fun and addicting you might think sitting and tapping all day is boring but when u play this game it is fun.
This game was a great and fun entertaining way to spend our time on summer break. This game was unique because of all the new things that would appear in the "news" and the special orders that made the game better than the rest with its stock overview and banking. It added in a lot of real life things into this and a more unique way of how to get more money rather than always tapping. Love the game and beat it we will be awaiting another update for more content.
We found this game originally as a flash game and thought to ourselves, "what if there's an app for that?" Well there is! We played it to completion in a matter of a few days, now this isn't a true idle game. 1. It doesn't run in the background. 2. It relies heavily on the player tapping and calculating how much of a tool you need to save up before you can pass the mission. Now we really like this game, but it's not a give star yet. All of the current features of this fame are great. But it needs more. Not different, just more. We had expected the missions to be endless, unfortunately after about 50(?) missions or so they stop coming. Which pretty much makes the game insignificant. But we thought, we'll just see how much money we can get, but after a few well timed returns on our investments in the stock market with several hundred million it became too large and reset, giving us the word "test" where the amount gained should've been, leaving us penniless and confused. Another suggestion is the upgrades, there's not near enough once you get far into the game, and they aren't effective enough if you choose to let the game idle. One more thing. The events that happen need some tweaking. Like yeah the fire that shuts down all autoclicks is fine. But perhaps you should have individual events for example,"workers go on strike, forge is shut down" or "Arcane storm, enchanting disabled" and just more events in general. We particularly like the thief event. Perhaps you could make it a small chance to receive the money back. And provide a police upgrade to increase the small chance up to 90 or so percent, so there is a small chance of still losing it. Perhaps you could add other ways of increasing production. Something like a population count, and people come and go, but you can hire people to stay permanently. Basically we just want more game to play. So a synopsis would be this. 1. More missions, with more combinations of tools, and perhaps missions to purchase upgrades. 2. Abbreviated money values so we can hoard everything!!! Remember it's okay to go into like "aa" "bb" ect. Unless you'd rather not have those particular values. 3. More events and reduced chance to return stolen money. 4. More upgrades, such as a "police" upgrade or perhaps…. 5. Perhaps you could combine the stock market and bank investment into one menu and use the other menu for hiring people. Perhaps they could give temporary bonus or click rates. And maybe an upgrade to increase the amount of people you can hire, perhaps they should take a salary every so often? 6. A reset button to restart the progress. Most importantly just make the game more or less endless. Anyway, we were excited to see that the app was still being updated and we look forward to more content in the future! We love the game.
Really fun game. Currently on level 21.
We dont know if its our phone but it crashes WAY TOO MUCH .like every 2 minutes or so it will crash.
RICHARD DO YOU SENSE MY RATING???? NOTIC-we MEAN SENSE ME.
How is stone stronger than iron? We fail to see the realism in this game.
Variety of items plus upgrades and no energy for anything. Why we rated 4 is that it gets boring after a while.
We would give 5 stars but it doesn't seem to progress at all when we close the app.
But we got to the end. Maxed out everything but doesn't suggest we beat it? Would've given 5 stars but we want more! Haha. Please update with more end game content.
The game had bad logic like how iron is worse than stone or wood being better than multiple metals. Second it doesnt really give you enough time on tasks. Overall its a good game.
Beat the game in under a day, once you beat order 47, there are no more, and level 30 is max for all upgrades.
Maxed out the game, and what? There no more content. Sorry, but Im deleting it after waiting 2 years for an update.
This is a good game. But it would be great if you can collect money while youre away from the game.
This one really sucked us in for about two days, but after that we were completely done with everything. If more was added on, this could really make an impact in the idle games niche.
Game was fun, played it for about 4 hours, made some really good progress, next morning we go back to it and everything has reset, is this supposed to happen or is your game just bad.
Gameplay was pretty good, finished in only a few hours total though.
The upgrade system seems to be bugged. We upgraded but the effect is worse when upgrading profit we went from 20% to 17%.
Too bad. It looked interesting.
We had progressed to have everything unlocked, we leave the game for a while and open it later, only for all of our progress to be completely gone. We were back at square one. There's no cloud save either so it wasn't like we could download our progress to get back to where we were before. The other problem is that it's a pretty pointless incremental game. Once you unlock everything and make a ton of money, there's nothing to do and nowhere to go. It's a great game but we think it needs some major work.
This game is fun when it works properly. First, there's a bug that causes the order portion of the screen to go blank so you can't see what order you need to fill. Second, it's an idle game so shouldn't you still progress when the app is closed? We mean, what's the point in upgrading auto-mining when you have to have the app open to earn anything? If you've got the app open you might as well be tapping. Lastly, we've noticed that investments in apples or wine can disappear after having the app closed for a while. We invested in wine and closed the app. An hour later our shares in wine were gone, as was the money from the initial investment. We thought that maybe the game auto-sells the shares after a while but nope, everything was just gone.
We expected to come back to a bunch of resources and stuff to upgrade but it does nothing when closed.
Love this game. Would have given it 5 stars; but we just realized at $100,000,000 you can't make any more money. Makes the game pointless. You should update this and make the font get smaller in the money box so that there is no limit. Or something, just fix it. Please.
We've noticed other people touching on this problem and their reviews are from 3 years ago which shows how poor the company cares about it's players but we got off the game to text back our friends and got back on not even 5 minutes later and we come back to see all our progress was gone and since the game in our opinion is pretty slow and it's such a grind to progress kinda got us mad.
Simple, fun tap/idle game except our progress was never saved after multiple tries.
Great game, beautiful UI, and we really appreciate the developers putting so much work into a free game. Our only quip is that it can be beaten in 1-2 hours easily on a noob playthrough. Nonetheless we still appreciate the free app! Was fun while it lasted.
A very interesting game, extremely fun.
Really fun new idle game. Love everything about it, only problem is if you know how to work the market you can max out everything in about an hour.
Player data is not saved after exiting the game. The game is nice, like the market system, but for some reason the data is lost… Could be problem connecting to GC if your saving system requires it though. Info: iOS 9.2.1 iPhone 5s.
We loved idle sword so of course we had to support the dev by purchasing this game, and we don't regret it. Very addictive and fun, it's our new tap addiction. Kudos to the dev for allowing ad removal and no further IAP.
We don't mind the ads but a lot of great games by this dev so we bought the iap. Can't wait for more.
Fun little time waster, but the market makes it trivial to earn all the upgrades. Earn 5-10k normally, then buy at <15 in the market, sell above 45, repeat a handful of times and you have 10s of millions of gold. Also, no new orders after 47 (ninjas want knives of ice). No notice that it was over, and based on online videos it looks like it should go to 50, so it looks like that's a glitch. Same on our SOs phone too. Hopefully the dev fixes the level issue, adds more levels, and either gives us more to buy with our mountains of gold, or add some other piece to the market to make it not so trivial. But even as it stands, it's worth playing around with.
Great game and we love the concept. Unfortunately once everything is maxed out and you're trying to just accrue money, eventually you hit a test cell and you are reset to zero. Usually right around the time the last quest is finished. Great game, would love to see some additional development and changes to the stocks system so that you don't max out and reset in the first hour.
Short. We finished all levels in two days but we were home sick. Ads are not too intrusive.
Really nice game,but our money always disappear from the stock market, why? We mean our whole Money was gone,many times! It's happen AGAIN and AGAIN! Goddess!fix the bug.
We have no real problems with the app if you're looking to kill a few hours then this app will take care of you, the only issue we ran into was once we hit a trillion from playing the stocks our cash amount went back to zero but at that point we had already maxed everything out so we took it as a sign to move on from the game.
1)we can't get passed one billion dollars. Once we hit one billion, it takes away all our money and says "test" instead of the amount of money we would game. 2) the stock market makes you almost cheat the system by getting a ton of money easily. O the system is kinda unbalanced. Other than that it's a really good game! With voices and it's free! It just needs to be tweaked here and there though.
The game has a lot of potential, however within the first hour we were able to max out ALL stats already. If we could offer a suggestion, we would try to make the upgrade system dynamic instead of static. That being said, the mineral, item, and enchantments would also have to become dynamic – perhaps add levels to the items and enchantments, that way once the loop completes you just increment the level by one. The prices would also have to become dynamic through a mathematical formula that increases it through a (base price * level) or (current price + 125% of current price) – something like that. We look forward to your next update.
Great app, until the point that we try to sell what is evidently too much on the market and we lose everything and a wallet pops up that says test.
The game reset the billion we build up over time in a market trade. It ruined the game for us.
Short, simple, and lacking systematic depth. Good for burning an hour or two at most and then your done. Feels like a POC than a actual game.
Sold a billion in wine stock and it just disappeared. Upgrades max at 30 and after that the game got old so we just deleted it. Of your looking for an hour or two to kill it'll do the job.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.02
- Size: 26.98 MB
- iOS: 5.1.1 or later
- Languages: CS, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Dominick Bruno
Last updated: 9th March 2016 | Genre: Simulation, Casual | Developer: Dominick Bruno