Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 11:27 pm
Archer Forest : Idle Defense – Adventure Game Review
Archer Forest : Idle Defense is a Adventure/Casual game from Game Duo Co.,Ltd., first launched in 1st April 2021.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 11,361+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Archer Forest : Idle Defense Stand Out
Become an ally of the Archers and protect the Forest!
▶Enormous Stage
Clear stages and explore a wide variety of continents!
▶Easy to Control
All you need to do to is tap the screen and merge two arrows!
▶Speedy Growth
Upgrade to a better and more powerful arrow! You can be the best!
▶Endless Contents
Earn tons of items through Boss Fight!
▶Cute Animal Heroes
Collect unique heroes with various abilities!
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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Archer Forest : Idle Defense is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd April 2025
Recent improvements include:
App stabilization and bug fixes
Download & Availability
Archer Forest : Idle Defense is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Archer Forest : Idle Defense 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:
Ever since the new update we cant even load into the game, before that we loved playing it was a good time passer.
Can you make the game smoother? Every time it's stuck there and doesn't respond for half a day. When we press a button, we have to wait for 10 minutes before we see it press.
This game is oddly addicting and we can't put our phone down, no matter how far we progress there's more stuff to do. 10/10 idle game.
App is getting worse with bugs each time they update. The PvP system is completely broken after most recent update. Will probably be uninstalling now.
Im trying to play with our brother but cant because it seems that we are in different region.
Not going to say too much. Bring prices down so everyone can enjoy. Youll have more players coming in if you start putting in lots of discounts think of Temu, Amazon etc.
Title says it all. The success percentage are misrepresented. This is most evident in the gear upgrade with Black Diamond currency. It claims a 25% success chance and is far from it. We have had multiple attempts where we roll 15-20 times before we get a success. This is the norm. It is a similar experience with the Anvil of Heaven. This should be an illegal practice given the resources to roll these chances can be purchased with real money. That being said, the game is fun but most definitely P2W. Avoid if you arent willing to put a few hundred in. Otherwise you will never compete with others. If you dont care about that aspect and just want to see how far you can go arrow level, then it could be fun.
Have been playing the game for a hour and been having fun never felt like this for a while its amazing that you made this game greatly good job.
Cant get past Processing Request after clicking on literally any option, missing out on a lot of daily rewards after actually having spent money on this game. Please patch as soon as possible.
Its amazing! The graphics, the game, the characters and even how cute they are!!! Definitely our fav.
This recent update caused a bug we think. We cant collect any of the two year anniversary check in gifts. It says processing request and stays on that screen. In fact, everything has a lag when starting up the game. Everything has a delayed response after being clicked. Makes it more of a waiting game than an actual game.
It is a fun and simplistic game to start but as you progress it unlocks tons of New ways to buff your archers without explaining anything and it becomes almost impossible to understand how to get better archers.
Having issues reporting a bug with the game. Contacted the support team twice and have heard nothing. Fun game but dont expect help when you have an issue.
By the time we reached level 10 with the arrows, we realized that levels, stages, and bosses were mere numerical changes, with only shifting shapes and rewards. Strip away the level numbers and visuals, and the core game mechanics remain repetitive. It lost its allure after just the second arrow level. Now, we find ourselves logging in merely to claim rewards, driven only by the time Ive already invested. It feels more like a chore than a pleasure. Whats the enjoyment in seemingly endless arrow levels? Do we feel a sense of accomplishment as we level up? No. Is there a novel feature that reignites our passion for the game? Sadly, no. Its an endless loop of levels and a monotonous concept. Games should captivate players during gameplay. Yet with this game, as with many others lately, it seems the only true reward comes from spending real money on items, a concept that just doesnt resonate with us.
We cannot stand the time limit to choose an ad to double etc. God forbid we turn our head for a second and miss the chance. Can you give us the option to set the limit? Or maybe increase it a little? Otherwise good game.
We just started playing it a few days ago, and notice that the low-star archers are not being utilize as soon as you get a higher star. It will be better if the low-star archers can be promoted to higher tier. We know that it will take a lot of work, but it will help the game as a whole.
Found the app over the weekend and it reminded us of a more active tap titans 2, dropped cash to eliminate the way-too-many ads, now it wont launch using cell data and only runs on wifi, so kind of meaningless for how we play these. Network is working fine since Im posting this review, but stays stuck at 0%. Interesting, but its a micro transaction and currency acquisition nightmare with absurdly priced bundles targeting whales and those without impulse control. Cant see ourselves doing anything other than opening half-mindedly on the john on the weekend.
We have been playing this game for a few months now and enjoy it but now we feel like the game is wasting our arrow stones because everytime we try to refill our anvils it glitches to zero before it finishes the 20 arrows Im allowed to create.
We like games but never have the time, this lets us play and do other things at the same time, they are so cute, we wish they had something so we can hide the icons on the sides. We like that they have the ad block, worth the pay.
Ive been playing this game for about six months and its super easy. We actually enjoy it too. Its fun to upgrade.
But wont load.. Just freezes n brings us back to our home screen.
The game is great overall we would give it a 5 star if it didnt have this one problem. The problem for us is that is crashes, a lot, like ALOT. When we leave the archer village, exit multiplayer, or a boss. Maybe its just our device, but the anti lag version isnt doing enough. And sleep mode does help, but we still want to be able to merge arrows and keep our eye on the game. Other than that, wonderful.
Very good game just dont understand why we keep getting charged 3.99 a month. They really need to fix this issue.
Our arrows wont merge when its equipped.
Its a very cute and fun auto clicker. It has more to add to the gameplay than an average game of its kind.
Its the best game ever Im going to get school stuff and this is the only game we play.
To get our nitpicking out of the way, there are a bunch of simultaneous events going on right now, and theyre covering our health bar and also going off the bottom of the playable area, so thats annoying. Also, it doesnt show what youre watching the randomly interspersed ads for (for the record, its high level arrows). Also also, when you activate the auto merge stat, you cant turn it off, which should really be a feature they add. The actual gameplay on display is pretty good though, and the PVP is well, fine, we suppose, Im not much of a PVP guy. Our only actual issue, as opposed to all the nitpicks Ive mentioned so far, is that it crashes. Its never a big crash, and it never causes us to lose any progress more than half a seconds worth, but its still weirdly unstable. That said, yeah, Id recommend this game, its pretty good.
While yes its a decent idle game we would strongly advise being careful as it can overheat your phone if left on to long seems its worse for older model phones as well(we cant keep ours running for no more then 10 minutes without our phone feeling hot and we have a IPhone XR) otherwise the game does crash fairly often especially after a brand new update.
This game was very addicting and fun but the downside is that that it is not able to save. While trying to clear up storage, we accidentally deleted the game with all five-star archers and lost all our progress. Be warned not to delete this game.
Its a very good RPG and idle game and the more we play the more we dont want to get off but overall 5/5 game.
Love the game overall, its a pretty fun time consumer when you dont have much to do. But we do have one thing to say, the upgrading system isnt as diverse, the fact that you have to use the green hearts on both arrow upgrades and also hero upgrades is a bit hard, in our personal opinion you should come up with a different currency you get when you die that can be used on the each individual upgrades for the archers themselves while also giving the green hearts for the arrow upgrades.
Its such a fun idle game, and it works on our phone, but not our iPad.
This game is 1 of our most favorite since the minute we played it is a super fun merge game where you can summon different animals to fight the monsters.
This is a good game if you love a lot of grinding, which we do, but it also has a lot of p2w now. When we started it was a really fun game but now it just feels like every update theyre slowly taking away more and more of the free things and making you pay money for the simplest of features. There is also a ton of near useless features in the game that they made and just ignore. But this game is actually pretty fun if you take out all of that mess. We think Im quitting the game now but its just a mobile game, so its served its purpose.
The game is really fun but the top screen is very small so it gets us pretty agitated.
We like how it makes us feel better and also we like how the way the colors are.
We literally just need green buttons to make it feel better and know where to tap without having to actually read the text.
We enter the game and then It reaches 90% and kicked.
The game is very good. Its fun to progress, there are always events which help with progression, and the game is updated frequently. On the other hand, the price of the VIP packs are a little ridiculous. If there are going to be 9 VIP packs, that you have to get in order to have a completely meta account, they should not cost as much as they do. To buy all VIP packs would run you hundreds of dollars, thats a little crazy. If the price was lowered, we would buy the last few packs & we are sure that a lot of other players would purchase them too.
Just downloaded but it wont load past 90%, and as soon as it hits 90 it crashes and goes back to the Home Screen.
Thought this was a fun and innocent game to kill a little time, but then we started unlocking the pets in the game. Many are named after demons like Lilith and succubus. So sad they have to pay homage to evil.
The game does not load past 90% and only gets to 90% if you are lucky. The support page is from 2020 and is in Korean and appears to be terms of service instead of support. We believe Apple should remove this from the App Store until actual support page is provided, especially since the majority of negative reviews we have read indicate issues tend to arise when money is given to the app.
Having made an accidental $400.00 purchase they have not responded or refunded us. Great game concept owned by crooks.
When we join the game it immediately reaches 90% and 5en it takes us back to our Home Screen.
Game was great, recent update delete our account and would sync with the cloud server. Ive emailed the devs multiple times and they never respond. Be wary if you choose to spend money.
We really like this game but it wont let us play. We played for a bit and bought the ad free but then whenever we would load up the game it would say loading start at 6% and then end at 90% and the loading screen would say cleaning anvil.
We find ourselves playing this game whenever possible, and it not to hard to play and time commitment.
So Im usually not one to leave reviews, if we like a game we like it, and if we dont then we dont. However, we feel as if this game is genuinely one of the better idle games Ive come across in a very long time and we feel as if with a little bit of work, this game could be great! Instead of going right into our issues with the game, Id like to go over what we do enjoy for anyone considering downloading. For starters, this is an idle game, if thats not your type of gaming then we would continue game searching. Other wise we fee as if this game is full of features to keep you interested. The addition of PVP, boss battles (along with legendary battles to receive anvil fragments), an additional village you can build to receive awards, an archer ours, and many other features; theres no denying theres a lot to do in this game. We also like the fact that there is a lot of detail in this game, unique skills from different archers, the look of your arrow changes with every level and you have pets that can also give good bonuses. Despite so many features Ive found that theres minor issues with most of them. Ill start with our biggest issue with this game its very demanding on your battery. Obviously, when youre running a game for any amount of time its going to take its toll on your device. However, we find that its very hard to enjoy this game as many events force you to stay inside the game for over 10mins+ while it eats at our battery. A perfect example of this is the deep forest. The deep forest gives you items that cant be obtained anywhere else for free at the expense of spending essence of the forest, and this is great but if we close out of the game we wont be able to obtain the loot from the deep forest which means we must keep the game open the entire time which could clock well over 30mins. The same goes for doing legendary boss battles which requires you to wait in a lobby with other players for 10mins before the battle starts, this would be fine if not for the fact that you cant access or do anything else in the game while you wait. This leads us to our next issue, we would just leave the legendary battle and come back when we have the time to wait, but once you leave theres no way to determine when the next battle will pop up. This battle gives you anvil fragments which we would like to argue is currently one of the most rare items in the game purely because of how long it takes for the event to pop up again. It could be days, maybe a week, Im not sure. And these items cant be purchased so its even more important that you take the chance when it pops up. Another rare item in the game is finding unique bows to equip to your archers which in our week of playing this game have not been able to find one. If we were looking correctly we were supposed to find one at lvl. 100 of the archer mines but as soon as we got to the archer ours the tracker then turned to lvl. 1000 which will take us months to get down to. Youre only given 30 pickaxes and one special pick to descend the mines and if many of the stone blocks take 3 picks to break through a long with 2 picks to break red gem deposits or 10 picks to unlock a rune stone deposit we just feel as if promising a bow at these lower levels are a bit unreasonable. We also find that its not very well explained how to obtain a lot of the resources in the game. It took us up until a legendary boss battle to pop up for us to figure out where Im supposed to obtain rune fragments as well as it took us up until we unlocked the deep forest to figure out where we can find black diamonds. We still dont know the best way to find unique bows as we thought it was through the mines but that clearly isnt true. Other than this we really dislike the amount of in app purchases in the form of deals they push at you to buy. We get it, this is a free game and the game devs need a way to make money to keep this app running, but many of the deals the game shoves in your face arent even really deals. Many of these purchases you could easily obtain by literally playing the game for maybe 5mins. The only purchase we would deem worth buying is the bundle that gives you ad blocker as it makes the game loads more easier. We personally have not bought this bundle as we try our best not to spend money on free games, but the devs do give you a free 24hrs to use ad blocker which did make the game loads more easier and better. The final complaint we have about this game is that for some reason literally every tab we press requires some type of load time that can go anywhere between 1-3 seconds. We dont mind this too much but it does get a little annoying when youre continuously switching between tabs and have to wait a second or 3 between each tab. Ill end this the way we started it. We really do like this game and we plan on continuing to play, however some changes to the points we made above would honestly make this game go from good to great for us. Thank you to the devs for making such a good idle game, we would love to see some changes to make the game even more fun to play.
We would like to play this game, but it is crashing at 90% on the loading screen. This is really annoying us. Could you fix this issue? It will make us and everyone else who has the same issue really happy. From: Moonjangsam.
We played the game a lot cause we just like a good idle game. Recent update wont even let the game load and now we feel like Ive lost all our progress.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 16.11.00
- Size: 590.16 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Game Duo Co.,Ltd.
Last updated: 3rd April 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Casual | Developer: Game Duo Co.,Ltd.