Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 03:24 am
Idle Civilizations – Evolution – Simulation Game Review
Idle Civilizations – Evolution is a Simulation/Entertainment/Strategy game from SayGames LTD, first launched in 18th April 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,118+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Civilizations – Evolution Stand Out
Welcome to the future!
… Or is it the past? You start off your empire building adventure as a worker in the distant future who, thanks to a rather unfortunate mistake, finds themselves thrown back in time all the way to the beginning of humanity. This fun strategy game will test your business acumen and tycoon tendencies as you build the world’s cities and civilizations from the ground up.
History in the making
After you’re thrown back in time, you’ll need to meet and work with locals to build and grow your way to the top and return to the future – you’ll also need to keep an eye out for time crystals to collect at the end of each level to keep moving through the ages. Experience the evolution of civilization in this fantastic idle style game as you get a feel for history up close and personal.
Get your business plan on – At each step of your journey, you’ll need to earn money by selling items or resources to the locals. As you progress through the eras those items will change, evolving as you move up in time to reflect modernization. You’ll need to strike the right balance and find the best strategy to maximize profits while also hiring more workers and expanding your offerings each time to progress as fast as possible.
Staycation time – While your character may have been haplessly thrown back in time and is now working in a Medieval town or prehistoric society, you’re able to just sit back and relax all while leveling up, no matter where you are. Chart your rise from your couch, from the train, or even from your work desk (shh, we won’t tell anyone!) – this is a chill game where there’s no crazy pressure to fight off invaders, timers that need to be beat, or anything stressful of the sort.
Go down in history – Not only do you get the fun of experiencing different eras of civilization, but you also get to customize your character to enhance their abilities! Along the way, as you fashionably work through time, you’ll also take part in building a fantastic tower – don’t forget to click that build button every time you see it appear so that your momentum and tower keep rising. After all, you want to be remembered in history as the one who got it all done, right?
And the rest is history
Get ready to take a blast to the past and experience civilization and humanity’s evolution up close and personal – you’re the one leading it! Put Earth on the right path forward and leave your mark on history: Idle Civilizations ticks all the boxes for fun, relaxation, and excitement, so you won’t want to miss it.
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This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Civilizations – Evolution is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th August 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Idle Civilizations – Evolution is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
Very cuteits a lot like Eatventure which is pretty excellent. This game travels forward through time which is appealing and Im looking forward to seeing what thats like. The only bummer about this game was right after the pop up asking for a rating, the forced ads started. Super annoying, $5.99 to get rid of them but of course youd still have to watch ads to get rewards. Take a note out of Codigames book and allow the ads to go away even for the rewards once a reasonable ($3.99) payment is made.
Nice game. We love to watch the cute people run around and do things.
The game is so good please make another game please.
What is this garbage, ad in 5,4,3,2,1. Either you want people to play or you dont, we made up our mind not to after the 2nd ad in 5,4,3,2,1.
Primal crafts stage has very slow progression.
We really like this game, but Im upset that the progression stops after the 3rd level. We thought it was more of a through the ages type game, so hopefully the devs add more civilizations/eras in the future. We think the progression is pretty well paced, and the events are fun (although they can feel very slow). There are no forced ads, so we dont know why people are saying there are? Another thing is that when you go to refund necklaces, rings, and belts it tells you youll get back 100% of the materials (runes) used to upgrade them. This is not true, and its very frustrating bc the runes take a while to build up, so we dont feel inclined to swap out those accessories even if we want to. Overall, we think this game is super cute, and its right up our alley with the whole through the ages thing. We just hope to see more levels added in the future.
Its fun but later in the game the levels get very slow and you need to watch ads to really progress. But other then that we like it not the best game but it is fun.
We typically like playing the game until one of the most recent updates. We went from watching adds when we needed boosts, to Im not even in the game for a full 10secs and an add just starts playing. Even if we give in and watch it, once its done, another forced add happens in the next 30 secs. It makes it really difficult to actually play the game and complete daily tasks or events.
We were playing and enjoying the game. Got through level four and BAM an ad before we even got to see what level 5 was about. So far in level 5, Ive had a forced ad every 15-20 seconds. How do you expect us to make progress like that? And 19.99 to remove ads??? Thats too much. We never pay more than $6 to remove ads. This is really too bad because its a cute game. But we just cant send more time watching ads than playing the game.
What are the green gems for?? We have so many but have no clue how to use them.
Good game. Recommend it share with others.
Its quite slow when you first start, you almost exit out of the app just waiting to get enough money to upgrade it once. But a while after that its pretty good.
This game seems like it doesnt have much to do in it, especially since we got out of the 1st phase Stone Age very quickly and moved to the tools.
We really enjoyed this game, played the whole game through and took the prestige 1. We loved how unique it was that every level was different and the graphics were charming, and in general we love tycoon games. But after we prestiged we noticed something; The cost to upgrade anything was insane and almost impossible to get without armor bonuses. The prestige supposedly gave us a 100% increase to profits, but what use to be a 5 coin upgrade now cost 240 coins. Now, in our case Im disappointed to know all the extra armor upgrade we earned dont actually matter, but the issue is that you can buy loot crates with real world money that give you armor, and they are pushed on you a lot. A game letting you buy something that will increase ingame profits but then raises its prices to match is super sketchy at best and at worst fraud. If it wasnt for the fact that this game is scamming people we would honestly just uninstall to reset the inflation and keep playing. We did love this game. But we just cant support this company. Uninstalling :(.
We love this game so much, everyone should download it.
Its a cute game but it suddenly start to crash on us. We love the game but had to delete since it crashes every 5-10 seconds of opening.
There are no ads we havent gotten any ads.
It is one of our fav games but the ads.
Is there anywhere we can find a guide that explains the gear? Is there a way to salvage the lesser value gear.
The graphics are cute, but its a lil laggy which makes it hard to click the update buttons.
We gave this app three stars for a few reasons: 1. Its a FUN game. We genuinely enjoy playing it, we love the premise, and its overall exactly the kind of game we like; 2. Its quick to level up, so Im not growing bored of it easily; 3. The design is super cute and we appreciate the attention to detail; 4. The FORCED ads are horrendous! We dont mind watching an ad to get five minutes of 2x income or another income-driven bonus. Its a little cumbersome, but pretty much on par with other games of this type. To expect your consumers to do this AND be forced to watch ads every minute (or less!) make the app less appealing than others of the same type. We love it for what it is, but with the forced advertisements, we think we might be better off playing a similar game from a different developer.
We only gave 1 star because Ive been waiting for quite a while for the next level to be available to play. Maybe you shouldnt have released the game unless you had all levels available to play? Just a suggestion.
There is a banner ad at the bottom of the game the entire game so why inundate us with forced ads? Even if they are 5 secs, they are completely annoying and we get nothing for them. Honestly that point will keep us from checking in with the forward progress of this game. We suggest stop treating your customers like nothing more than revenue.
This is the best game we have ever played we hope you make another game just like this.
This game is basically EatVenture with some features being slightly different. Coin incomes and upgrade prices are identical. The ad removal is also ridiculously expensive ($20), which Id like changed. So far, we havent experienced any bugs (thankfully), which is rare for a game of this genre.
Great game, but unfortunately, does not have a safe file option unfortunately lost progress due to a lost phone and had now had to start all over.
We have played a million of these types of games and this one is definitely the best we have played. Its got its main progression and events to keep things fresh. Its a really good, mindless, watch numbers go up game.
Game keeps freezing during ads keeping us from collecting rewards. Was fun until the third time.
Great, you added a prestige system. Its a shame the bonus you get from prestige isnt anywhere near enough to counteract the massive increase in costs after you prestige! What a shame, looked like it had a lot of potential reduced to 2/5 for no worthwhile replayability after the relatively short (but very cute!) initial run-through.
Its a nice little quaint game. However you can not charge for an Ad free experience and yet we still have ads! We will be requesting a refund.
Devs dont play their own game, otherwise they would know that theres no reason to have 2 waiters and 2 cooks and five work stations when youre still getting one customer at a time. Play your game so you know what the player experience is like. Not doing so is foolish.
Paid for no ads and theyre still were ads! Completely annoying would like our money back unless the issue is fixed.
Paid the 6$ to remove ads, assuming it would remove the ads for pop up boosts and game currency, still have watch them. No idea what we wasted 6$ on.
There will constantly be multiple icons on the screen trying to get you to watch ads. We understand that the devs want to make money, but it seems like thats the main goal, rather to create a fun game. Ive seen other mention a banner at the bottom, and we saw something in the game about paying $6 to remove the banner, but for us there is no banner. Ive played a few games like this before we like the graphics and story of this one the best, though, honestly, all games like this get very repetitive and boring after a while. Our biggest complaint, aside from the ads, is the equipment will make it seem like its an upgrade when its not. We have a gray body piece and a green body piece. We have the green one equipped and the gray one says it would be an upgrade, so we equip it and see our bonus go way down and then the green one says its an upgrade. Its very confusing. Updated our review to 1 star after experiencing a forced ad. Nope. Uninstalling this game. We had watched a bunch of ads to quickly get through an event, but we absolutely loath being forced to watch a full screen video ad when Im trying to a play a game. It should ALWAYS be optional, NEVER forced.
Im gonna blast you all over Facebook Instagram and TikTok for being scammers and money hungry.
We tried to keep up with this but lost interest quickly. Its about as exciting as watching paint dry.
We thought it was bad time consuming grinding maniac but when we continue playing, it was really good, and we like how you put the of why were in the past anybody who read this please download it and see for yourself we have already made it to the second stage.
We played this game and the levels are fantastically interesting and we get it takes a lot to create the games, just to figure this out when is the next levels coming out and if there is any new side quests that can be added during this time that would be great. The side levels like the dragon one shouldn't be to long in days wise. It should be close to a day or hours per side quest. That way we don't have to wait so long for another one to come out and it's more challenging. So how long do we wait till the update comes out.
Game has forced ads even with purchase of no ads IAP.
We bought the no ads for $20 and received absolutely nothing lol still ads, didnt receive the chests or gems either so Im confused on where the $20 just went.
Okay, so the game was a bit slow for us and we ended up uninstalling because we knew it would only get slower. It has cute toon graphics. The music is fine. And aside from the banner at the bottom of the screen, we watched ZERO ads. Yes, there were absolutely no forced ads. However, Im sure the ad bonuses could have sped up our progression, Im happy to say you do NOT have to view them. That earns five stars in our book. We never got to the dragon unfortunately. It took hours to beat the third stage in a Prehistoric. Each level up becomes much longer. Others have mentioned forced ads, though maybe we didnt get far enough. It did ask us to rate it and we clicked later. Did they change their forced ads to not happen anymore? If so, Ill rate the game 2 stars lower.
Love the game, however, Im waiting on a release for more levels. Lots of fun just give us more levels.
So far so good. Im enjoying the game and we like going through the different eras. We are grateful for no forced ads! Things Id like to see changed/adjusted: the ad-chests drop rates for other gear are too low. Even fully upgraded you only get .3% chance epic and 2% rare, which is a little silly imo. Also, the UI gets very busy, which disrupts the flow. We dont see the need for lots of pop-up effects and advertisements for paid features when we already watch a hefty amount of ads so we can get boosts to begin with. Very nice game so far. We like the level progressing at this point in time. Excited to see what more is added.
No instructions or directions given whatsoever.
There is a small problem and that small problem is that we were in an event playing this game and we had to restart our phone. And what happened is when we got home and got back on the game. It deleted all our hard work in the event like for example, before we had to restart our phone, we had gotten a few of the buildings up to 500 and something and after we restarted our phone it started everything back at zero. We do not like when that happens. Frustrating us because Im enjoying the game and we were really hoping to beat that stage, but this time we could not because, something happened to our whole process and we dont know what.
So every time you get an upgrade on your armor its ups the price of how much each upgrade costs on the machines and stupid us decided to spend money on the game (why not) and we wish we could refund it because its not worth it at all we wish we wouldve read the reviews before we played.
Say it isnt so. We were under the assumption that devs didnt even know what that meant. We can deal with a constant banner. We cant deal with the game stopping every 30 seconds for a 45 second ad. Well done dev plus you managed to make a good game as well! Hopefully other devs take notice.
This is our favorite idle game by far. Fair gameplay. Ads arent needed but give you a boost if you dont mind the 30-40 second video, fun locations that all have different characters and things to build, nice events that feel fair, etc. Our only complaint right now is we need more levels.
Pretty much finished all we can do in the game til it updates with a new era. We really love it and hope the update comes fast.
This game is fun, but will there be a new era after #3 Old Japan? Ive finished all the eras up until Japan and now its showing era 4 coming soon. So we guess we wont be playing the his anymore until there is an update.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.41
- Size: 277.00 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: SayGames LTD
Last updated: 29th August 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: SayGames LTD