Last updated on December 14th, 2025 at 02:46 am
Idle Game 1 – Music Game Review
Idle Game 1 is a Music/Casual/Strategy game from Cem Kamiloglu, first launched in 28th August 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 7,984+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Game 1 Stand Out
Idle Game 1 is aimed and specifically designed for experienced incremental game players with special emphasis on random upgrades.
According to random prestige bonus given in each round; the player should decide optimizations, different strategies and various adjustments unlike other Idle Games.
This mechanic leads to a different story for each player as random boosts can upgrade colors in infinite number of ways. Give it time and you will appreciate how tactical a prestige game can be.
Play responsibly and good luck!
Notes from the developer:
- Prestige cheats are not random, you'll able to select color & boost type.
- Prestige cheats are single use items meant to carry you forward in the game. https://idle1.com/cheats.html
- Please don't damage your screens by leaving it on for long hours
- Players with eye problems, please use the 'low contrast' mode for long hours of play
- Speed upgrades start to affect earns after maxing out the color speed
- If for some reason (device fail, crash, battery drain etc);
- you exit just before you use a purchased cheat: just tap on the 'cheat' button again in the next session to restore your purchase
- you corrupt your save file: just go to the options and tap the 'load' button to bring everything back
please don't hesitate to contact for any feedback or support request via:
email at: [email protected]
discord: https://discord.gg/SrtMVejmyK
This Music game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Game 1 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st September 2025
Recent improvements include:
- fixes and issue with idle multipliers
Download & Availability
Idle Game 1 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:
We bought a cheat that was infinite but it didnt even help us to get to the end all it did was lower the cost by a little bit. Game gets boring and repetitive at the end having to prestige with only 1-3 million each time but really you need 100s of millions to do anything. Also when the icon for infinite is there it doesnt mean it really is you still get upgrades for it even though it does nothing.
Draws you in and wont. Let. Go.
This is a simple game. Thats not to say there isnt strategy to it, but its not particularly deep. We appreciate the minimal layout there are no menus, settings, credits OR ADS and the only way to use real money is a button labeled CHEAT…. We also appreciate that it doesnt seem to be fleecing us for our money. One other interesting aspect to this idle game: it doesnt continue outside of the app! After a couple days of not playing we were eager to see what we had earned idling, and was shocked to discover that it was at where we had left it. There are moments of literary waiting for the game to save up money… Not something we typically do with any game… In the end we did use the cheat button once, not because we needed to cheat but because we appreciated not being fleeced and we enjoyed ourselves, so we wanted to pay the author of the app. We wish more games worked this way. Cheers.
This is a truly remarkable game. The GUI is nearly perfect & the best design we have seen. While minimal, everything matters and has value. There are some technical glitches (like the display sliding off the bottom of the screen) and some random bugs (upgrade purchases not taking), but all in all a remarkable game.
We have been playing this game for a while and its starting to get verrrrrryyyyyy slow. All of our machines have over 10 mil in power, speed, and cost and we can barely get to the 6th stage of calculation. Obviously there just needs to be some optimization to make the higher levels more achievable because we dont know what to do at this point besides grinding out calculation 5 about 500 times. Also it would be nice to have a stats page or any other type of info page.
Ive played a lot of idle games and this one does it the best every idle game should take notes on how to keep gameplay interesting. We normally dont write reviews but seeing as this only has 41 reviews we felt it would be nice to have.
The graphics and gameplay are fun and a different take on the genre. Random bonuses and prestiging a lot. Dev is very attentive! Keep up the good work.
We like these simple idle games sometimes. Its a nice break from ones with all kinds of crazy mechanics. This is very straightforward and fun. One thing that confuses us is the infinite prestige bonus. We havent purchased it but we would like to know how that would work.
Overall good and simplistic which we like about incremental games. We would like to be able to turn off sounds and not have our music turned off every time we open the app. Will continue to play for the time being.
Extremely addicting and fun but needs to have a button to turn off audio.
So far so good, Im about 8 away from the meaning of life. We swear if there isnt a insane cutscene and then a whole new game. Im changing our review.
We really enjoy this game and have played it for hours but we have two problems 1. There is no idle function. Its called an idle game but nothing happens when you leave the app so to make any progress you have to be on it constantly 2. We have played for HOURS and we cant get to meaning of life 6. After 5 its SO slow, we dont see any real progress! Please fix!! Thanks.
After getting orange to 400 none of the other generators are making anywhere close to what orange makes yet cost much more than what orange makes. Might be an impossible wall Im not really sure, our orange is level 7k/4K/4K and produces 12e6 but the next upgrade costs 40e7 which is extremely far away. Also its level 5 from 200->300 so buying it wont give us any significant income. The level 4 costs e8 to get to level 400 so we see no way past this wall at this point New update: So prestige points arent even working for us anymore. We got our level 9 machine to go from 9k power to 18k power effectively a 2x multiplier, and before the upgrade it produced 1e5. After the prestige it still produced 1e5 and nothing feels any faster for what should be our best prestige upgrade. Also it has 128k speed and Im pretty sure that does nothing as well.
We like this game but if we would have known that once you reach the meaning of life, the game is pretty much over, then we would not have used the cheat button numerous times. Wasted our money. Shame on us.
The games amazing but theres one problem. There is no progress saving with game center.
Hit long patches where the randomness is just a grind. We can upgrade the first two machines in the first second of a run do every time we push just to upgrade Red cost another million really hurts. The upper balance needs a little work still, the gap is so wide that our runs have boiled into almost instant prestiges because pushing any longer isnt worth it. We are on level 4-5 of machine. We can prestige for 123k in literally 5 seconds. Wait 37 seconds to prestige for 400k, and we have no clue how long it would take to push machine to 6 at our current level. So we are stuck in 5 second loops prestiging until we can hit 400k point just as fast we suppose.
We played the game for a couple of hours, got from 2k to 12k on each of the colors. We have also gotten to stage 2 of the machine. However, every time we open the game, the bottom menu keeps flickering gray, then the game crashes. Ive tried restarting the app, as well as our phone, and nothing works. Other than that, its a pretty good game.
The game is pretty good till we payed for a cheat. It froze our game and didnt give us the cheat.
Paid for a cheat and when we logged in today, it was gone. No way to restore purchases or anything. Just another grab of money. Whatever.
You have a bad UI bug, the button between the cheat shop and prestige button is not locked into position. So every time we tap it to upgrade our prestige value it moves further down the screen. It is so far down the screen now we can no longer tap it as the iOS control blocks it. Please fix.
It was great until it crashed in the middle of our (second) in app purchase and didnt give us the reward we paid for. Also- it should be made clear that the cheat is for ONE single machine. Nowhere does it indicate that before you buy it, you only find out upon using it. Would be a great game if this didnt happen.
Love the game been playing a lot of it lately, but one small issue with the upgrading where you cant get over 100k bonus but overall still a great game.
We dont normally write reviews but the developer seems to genuinely care. Elegant in its simplicity, not super pushy like many idle games, just a good simple wait and upgrade. We like it a lot and hope to see content updates in the future, or more games.
The game is a good, fun, time wasting idle game. However, there are a few problems. 1. The random prestige bonus often gives useless bonuses to the lower colors that no longer benefit us as they arent making enough to even register in the record count. 2. The latest optimization increased all numbers, which just kept the game at the same slog of grinding between machine points and didnt make it any easier. 3. The prestige bonuses have massive dwindling returns making it even more of a grind as you attempt to move through the machine 4. The game has stopped granting away funds while Im not playing the game. Meaning we would need to keep the game open at all times if we wanted to make any progress. Overall, good game that we want to see get better and grow with more content, just needs some improvement.
Everything about this game is great except the part where it all builds to… Nothing. Really regret spending money on this.
As a player who loves isle and incremental games, but is constantly searching for one that holds our attention, this game was wonderful. Definitely needs some balancing towards the end, but based on the feedback Ive seen, it looks like the dev is working to fix it. Right now, it looks like the numbers for earn, speed, and cost dont go above 16k, no matter how many times we prestige. Also, if you search for idle 1 in the App Store, this game is nowhere to be found; we only stumbled upon it on a comment on Reddit. Not sure if its the App Store algorithm or not, but we hope more players can find this game easier. Keep up the good work.
This is a fun take on idle games. But Ive noticed some issues: Currently most of our upgrades are stuck on 16k and wont increase anymore. We purchased two infinite upgrades, and more than a few times, the random upgrade for prestige is applied to those. It would be nice if the infinite ones werent included in the prestige calculation.
Im really enjoying this game a lot more than we thought we would! The way you adapt how quickly you can prestige by what rewards you receive in the early game is a lot of fun. It looks like the start of the machine has been improved, which is great, but the later machine stages seem to be impossible. It appears all of the upgrades max out at 16k, or at least our game is bugged, which makes progressing any further than Calculating 4 impossible. So far its really fun and Im really enjoying it, so keep up the updates guys.
Currently up to machine stage 4, but we noticed that when using milestone buy, it is the price of that many units + 1, which can be a problem and make getting to an important milestone purchase take longer than it has to. Also, while we didn't buy any levels of cheat up until cheat^5, they're all not worth the price. We assumed "infinity prestige" would actually mean something but turns out it's random like every other one, and if you get it on cost for something? Bye $5 with very little return of actual effect in game.
This meaning of life we completed four of seven parts max. What boost do you even get when you get all seven.
So Ive got about 8 hours of play time in this game and overall, the concept is good. The game is simplistic in its GUI and isnt overly obnoxious to the player. Its fairly easy on the eyes and is easy to figure out what everything is, and what it does. However we do think that the prestige system could use some work and balancing. Like we said Ive got about 8 hours of playtime in right now and Ive already hit a point where we can get to Level 5 of Calculating the Meaning of Life writhing about 30 seconds of starting a new prestige. All of our attributes (cost, speed, and earn) are at minimum 2k each and its just flat out a boring long grind to get to Level 6. So that could use some adjustments in our opinion.
Once you reach the meaning of life, you need to upgrade 7 levels of a machine to reach what we assume is the end. Unfortunately, once you get the fourth or fifth upgrade on the machine, you hit a wall where progress drastically slows down. You can prestige for about 900 at a time, but it would require at the very least, hours of actively prestiging every few seconds to make noticeable progress.
We love the fact we can play all day.
The game is pretty fun especially if youre of it for a while and get back on and get 1k x rebirth.
First things first: Mechanics. They are AMAZING! Simple, fun, and easy loop of a game with too many outcomes to tire of. You can sit and grind each level, or leave it on max upgrades and take in the idle prestige! Great fun! Our other favorite bit of fun is uncovering little bits of symbolism in this game. So far we've noticed that max upgrading a unit gives it a pentacle, the 9 color rainbows, the number "480" before you "start the Machine", the goal being "calculate the meaning of life", and so many more. Intentional symbolism?? Maybe, maybe not, but it's great fun to find it.
Never written a review im 15 but we sat here for 6 hours and still cant beat the dang game it is very very difficult. Must play.
Ive never actually wrote a review on anything but this is the first because its actually a really fun game to pass time like at work. We thought the first time you start the machine it was the end and then we found out the different worlds and we just thought that was awesome so great game.
Its easy to just click on the game every once and awhile and make a little progress bit by bit and you can also sit on the game and grind, prefect balance. Been playing for like 6th months or longer who knows but ill probably never delete the game.
We really like the simplicity of this game. The only issue we have is that we cant turn off sound effects (at least no way we have found).
Hey def, this game pretty neat, if a bit slow, but we dont mind. However, because Im playing on an iPad which is much more stout than an iPhone, the top and bottom of the world creation screen are cut off for us, resulting in us not knowing about important mechanics for over a year. Please fix. For reference, we had no idea what POW was or did until we saw a screenshot online from someone with a longer screen.
Truly, this rivals many games that critics have raved for. This hidden gem ought to be seen by the world, that all might see it shimmer in the sun as it was always meant to. This may not be an exactly revolutionary concept, but the way the concept of an idle game is portrayed here truly is revolutionary. And, indeed, it is surprisingly addictive. Well done, developers, you have earned our respect.
The game is very fun!! Its probably the most simple idle game youll ever play. We think its really enjoyable, even if you dont earn cash offline. Our one issue with the game is that theres one small but thats very annoying. Whenever you scroll up or down, your income is paused for a brief duration, so you arent earning cash until you stop scrolling. Its not that big of a deal but its definitely noticeable. Hopefully its fixed soon.
So when we rebirth we can choose the multiplier.
We love how much there is to do in the game and how entertaining it is to us just a problem its rly sad to find out after you do the reset you loose all of the boosts that you bought for the stat boost we just wish that whatever that amount was that was bought was saved on all stats that it was on. But anyway we LOVE THIS GAME.
All you have to do is wait for awhile offline then when you get on again, u will have like 100x prestige.
We think this game can go very far if it has a multiplier for the meaning of life things. Other than that this game is pretty great, no adds fortunately, pretty amazing rewards for completing a level.
Very fun game. Nice prestige system.
If you cant handle this level of addictive dont play. Like cookie clicker.
Because it has uhhhh incremental game features and BIG NUMBER.
Great game. Fishing for multipliers using your prestige was too addictive. Hours went by trying to get our values just right. First run took us about a week. You dont need to spend money, but the selectables are cheap and will get you through the lulls much faster.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2023.8.3
- Size: 4.36 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Cem Kamiloglu
Last updated: 21st September 2025 | Genre: Music, Casual | Developer: Cem Kamiloglu