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Idle Defense: Dark Forest – Adventure Game Review
Idle Defense: Dark Forest is a Adventure/Strategy game from 键富 何, first launched in 9th January 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,510+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Defense: Dark Forest Stand Out
「Story of the Game」
Because of a major mistake, the intern wizard burned down half of the wizard school. Nobody can forgive this huge error. He was banished from school and returned home.
Misfortunes never come singly. The amethyst of ancestral seal was smashed into pieces, and the monsters come swarming from seal stone. The whole world descended into chaos.
His father left him alone with only one copy named “Turret Engineering. “Aren’t the papers for my tears? “, he thought.
Although he burned the school by accident, he is so confident of his spell. For protecting the muggles of village, for saving his lovely home and for maintaining the peace of the world, he stands up and starts to deploy the defense of dark forest.
「Game Features」
◆ 10+ Types of towers with different functions: Arrow, Magic, Stone, Poison, and so on.
◆ Upgrade and evolve towers: level up to gain great power.
◆ Use elemental skills to hit the monsters: Lightning, Frost Freeze, Breeze Wind and so on.
◆ Research system to improve tower power: more than 10+ researches.
◆ Summon ancient demons to help you: now 16 demons and more in the future!
◆ Resurrection and get more resources: you will never be defeated!
◆ Well-designed task system: easy to get many resources.
Game facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IdleDefense
Discord：
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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Defense: Dark Forest is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th October 2020
Recent improvements include:
fix some bugs.
Download & Availability
Idle Defense: Dark Forest is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle Defense: Dark Forest 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:
Love this game. But it really needs updating! We cant evolve Demon Devil Favor at all. Plus Im using the VIP No Ads which we love for 3 months now! Also would Love an auto upgrade for skills, our fingers get tired of tapping for upgrading! Please update the game. If not next month uninstalling the game Which we really dont want too-.
Ive been searching for a game that allows us to release our angst, while being very simple in its design. We LOVE THIS GAME!!!! Once we started we couldnt put it down.
The glitch gives you unlimited gems so if you buy coins with gems you can get unlimited coins.
Game started fun, but demons just wont spawn, and we cant summon anymore.
The summoning demons function is broken and the developers have been told in multiple places but they wont do anything to fix it. They moved on to their next game and are ignoring this one. It was a really good game and they abandoned it. Ill update this if and when the summoning is fixed.
The game itself is okay, nice atmosphere, decent art design, and simple to play, however the latest update completely busted the demons in a way that makes them unobtainable and unusable if you previously had any. The game is also incredibly ad heavy and has poor translation, not to the point where you cant understand it, but its still pretty bad. We dont like that you have to merge demons now in order to upgrade their tier, where previously you just had to use level up crystals. It just makes us want to quit the game, not play it more. And we will not be contacted through Facebook or our email, just fix the game. So its been eight months since the last update completely broke the game and all of the update feed is just full of bug fixes but the biggest bug that broke the game still isnt fixed. Clearly the devs dont give a crap about their game anymore so dont even bother playing it.
Game no longer works on iOS 13 very sad used to be fun.
The entire game is just one giant ad. Every single key press prompts for watching an ad or using paid diamonds. Dont bother. Deleted.
This game is an AMAZING pass timer, and not only that but its pretty easy to excel in! Of course the new update had a HUGE bug in it that made us incapable of doing many things, buuuut the developers helped us out a looooooot! Highly recommended for those who love idle as much as we do.
The game is great and honestly helps us pass the time at work but there could be a few quality of life changes. The biggest problem for us is the multi-step process of upgrading each tower. Starting a tower, level it up, start another tower, level it up, remove it, evolve, open your bag, select the tower. Repeat. Another thing that bugs us is how the game stops while your in the upgrade/build menu. It really brings down the pace. But yeah thats all we got to say. Its a great game otherwise.
Packing up a tower needs a confirmation. Its very easy to click away and have your tower disappear into your bag.
Cant summon and the button is glitched please fix .but other then that the game is great.
Through the latest update we havent been able to summon any demons for our the entire demon tab doesnt work we cant even close it if we open it so im missing an entire aspect of the game.
Do not update the game, lost progress unable to summon demons we had unlocked already. UI/UX display issues, rewards not being given correctly, etc. Ruins the game. Developer might be more focused on their sequel game than supporting their actual product.
The update erased various things we had such as all our demons and a mega crystal.
After a recent update we found a bug when attempting to summon demons, up to this point we had made a few purchases but the bug made the game impossible to play correctly. After a few days of no improvement we decided to reinstall the game to see if it would correct the bug but to our surprise there is no way to restore our purchases. We will change our rating if we get our money back or progress restored Edit: we dont use Facebook so please send us a message on Facebook wont work for us ( we have no interest in creating an account there) we sent an email the same day we made this review. No response …. Hello, first allow us to say it has been several days since we posted our review of your game Idle defense. No response was ever made to our review instead we see it had been removed. Im not sure where the problem occurred but as a consumer this is pretty disheartening. We play your game and enjoy ourselves, we decided hey why not support these guys and pay for a few things only to find an update removed our purchases and the game itself is basically broken. This is our last attempt to request you make good on your product. Id expect you to reply to our mail if you need additional information seeing as how there is no (obvious) way to submit a proper request form. Thanks.
The new update caused the demons to screw up, we cant select any to bring out and cant summon any.
First off, we liked this game. We spent $10 for the VIP and another $10 on demon packs. (This game is not fully idle, by the way. It is a tower/lane defense game). It is quite ad heavy, (and we mean HEAVY even for a free game. Ads for gold, diamonds, demons, just for playing longer than seemingly one minute, each time you beat a level, and boosts) but we did not mind because we were enjoying ourselves. Then came this latest update. It made the grind even harder, changed the flow of the game completely, and essentially made anything anybody did in the past worthless. Your cool demons you spent money on or lucky enough to get in free summons? GONE! Earn them again with RNG that is almost guaranteed to screw you over! Also, it was supposed to fix some bugs. Fixed the bugs, huh? LIARS! Give us back our diamonds and demons! DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY IN THIS GAME!! Not only am we not able to watch the ads for the free demons, we cannot summon any either because you took our DIAMONDS!! OH AND NOW ALL OF MY PROGRESS IS GONE!!! Update: we were given some compensation, though it did not put us back where we were and still lost our VIP status. Therefore, the rating will be updated.
The game used to be good but after the update it is ridiculously glitchy and wont work. Dont buy until glitches fixed.
The gameplay is fun and a bit challenging, we like the artsyle.
In the recent update everything got glitchy all of a sudden. First the demons hold tab is completely glitched out and also when we just bought VIP it reset our gems and green balls. We had over 1k gems and like 100 green balls but Im kind of sad that our gems got deleted. Also we would really fix the demon tab as it is kind of making the game unplayable. And last thing we were afk for like 3 days and didnt get anything from it. The game is good it just need some consistent updates and it would be a top tear idle game for us.
We stopped playing for a bit and when we saw there was an update, we hopped on to check. But now the games borked. If you open the demons tab, it wont go away w/out closing the app, and you cant even access the demons you had before the update. Great game before the update, but now it is potatoe.
Lost all our demons with the update, every single common, rare, epic, and legendary. Tried to summon some demons, took our gems, tap to summon gives us nothing. Bugging out heavily. Fun game to pass the time but the update makes us not even wanna play anymore.
Since youre latest bug fixing patch, all our demons were taken off of our team, and now we cant summon any more. On top of that the game gets buggy whenever we open the demon tab up.
We lost all of our demons because of an update! We're giving 2 stars until we get our demons back, or we receive a free rare for the loss of progress we had on all the purple and blue demons we were close to unlocking! We love the game don't get us wrong, but we legitimately lost all demons we had and the progress we made to to unlocking the better ones.
So much has changed we feel completely set back from the work we have accomplished, we no longer have any of our "Demons" and now it os asking that we must pay to get more cards to even recieve a demon again. We are officially deleting this game. Also do not purchase anything in-game. This app has completely redesigned everything and our progress is basically set back and gone, extremely disappointed. Money and TIME wasted.
After the latest update the game is broken. All of our demons are gone. Attempting to summon any leads to an infinite loop of nothing happening.
Had a lot of fun initially. Fun take on the traditional tower defense formula. Game is currently minimally functional for higher level players. See issues below. Issues: we have an iPhone Xs and the game at higher levels become exceedingly laggy. Level skip almost unusable. A lot, and we mean a lot of ads. This has been mentioned previously Recent update resulted in loss of all demon progress, and a completely broken summon system All upgrades can only be done one level at a time. Once youve gotten to high enough levels you would spend all day clicking upgrades and not actually playing in order to spend all your currency.
Are you fix a bug or you add a bug tf we lost all our green ball we cant click select our demon.
We are much better at this game than before because we played for longer this time (18-10fail)but there is a glitch that deleted our lvl2044 meteor and didnt even give us 1k coins so please give us a lvl2044 meteor tower for free out of the limited time turrets and 50 diamonds (it is going to be 50 diamonds offer in limited time turrets.
Great game in general but it super annoying with the difficulty scaling. Watch a couple millions ads or spend a bunch of dough and you can compete. Way too grindy.
We just started playing the game and its really fun and amazing but every time we try to watch an ad for some rewards and when we do so It freezes and we have restart our phone.
Fun game but it seems like the game is frozen after about 10 minutes of play. The only thing we have found to fix this is restarting the application; but the the level restarts as well, so no advancement after a certain point. (This is in low graphic mode) Please fix this.
We cant recall a game where the ads are so constant. Almost anything you tap triggers an ad. Why does this exist.
It wont let us get on the game it will just kick us off the game.
One its trash and its mega trash so lemme merge demons and its not at all what the add said it would be.
When we log on it loads it kicks us out.
The title is a lie this is a tower defense game.
This game is lit its really good and we just started playing.
Ive watched ads for one reward many many times and Ive never received the promised item, it just plays the ad and gives us nothing.
Every time we click the shop the app frezene than show the shop but every thing is great we love this game keep doping what you what do.
Out of all idle games Ive played our favorite is idle life sim but this one has took second place we like it a lot and its pretty addicting and we just started like2 hours ago so yeah we like it.
We havent been playing for super long as of now, but overall, we love the game mechanics, art style, and general feel of playing the game. The only problem we really have with the game is how slow it can get. Any time that you try to do just about anything other than watch enemies run through your TD death maze, like upgrading towers, looking at your inventory, or clicking any other tab on the bottom of the screen, gameplay basically pauses until you exit whatever you are doing. This doesnt sound too terrible, until you realize that your timed buffs, like 2x speed, keep counting down even as the game is paused. Just as irritating is how at the end of wave in a level, the game gives you a reward of some amount of gold, and then gives you the choice to watch an ad for 3x gold. Not bad for later levels, but extreme irritating for low levels, which if you are fast enough to begin with, does basically nothing except stopping gameplay every other second, for a flat 5 seconds if you are using auto play. Aside from those two complaints, the game is amazing, though ad-heavy. If you dont mind watching ads for progression, definitely choose this game. Itll be worth your while.
But today just got the mega crystal and so want to turn off the animation for it cause the huge purple wave it emits literally hurts our eyes. Also found out yesterday if you try to buy a key to get a turret from the gacha while your bag is full it will still charge you but you wont get a turret.
IPad died. Got it fixed. Reinstalled. Lost us premium purchase. We dont want to start over, esp. If we have to pay for 30 day boost/no commercials premium again. Game is unplayable without it.
The game keeps wanting us to buy things and it puts Exclamation points on everything to try to get you to buy it.
To get the maximum daily rewards from the game as a F2P player you have to watch 107 advertisements. Pretty much all the advertisements are the 30 second variety. If you have the patience for that then go for it. Also, you have to watch a video to do a demon summon and then there is still a 5 second timer after watching the video before you are allowed to tap the screen and collect your demon. Then you have to wait 5 minutes before you can watch another video and wait another 5 seconds. Ads in games are expected, but this game is the worst example we have seen. We literally counted all the ads, and it is a minimum of 107 to get all the daily rewards you can.
The game wont even let us play. We are a huge fan of TDs, but when your memory is too small to run this application software what can you do? Well, delete everything on your phone! Free up to 50GIGS and still not have enough memory.
We recently beat the last boss, Ground Lord, and its like after that we really didnt have much to look forward to :,( Add more bosses like Dragons(The Sky Lord) That could be a name lol ;-).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.31
- Size: 103.04 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: 键富 何
Last updated: 6th October 2020 | Genre: Adventure, Strategy | Developer: 键富 何