Last updated on December 11th, 2025 at 05:44 pm
Idle Skilling – Entertainment Game Review
Idle Skilling is a Entertainment/Simulation/Casual game from Lavaflamestudios LLC, first launched in 23rd September 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 704+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Skilling Stand Out
Idle games are nothing in comparison to Idle Skilling! With literal years of content, this will be your new favorite idle game!
Don't believe me?
Idle Skilling has mining, fishing, crafting, pet breeding, pet battling, lab research, soul farming, regular farming, flower growing, potion making, relic upgrading…
Still don't believe me?
Well idle skilling also has treasure hunting, construction, crusade boss battles, equipment smithing, achievements, boss fights, asylum boss fights, two separate prestige mechanics, and more. Yep, even more.
Be warned, this idle game is hardcore! It is more complicated than other idle games, but is also way more fun!
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Skilling is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd January 2023
Recent improvements include:
- REALM is now available to play! Collect dozens of minions, fight tons of bosses and unlock new realms to conquer!
- Fixed the Cards screen crashing.
Enjoy!
Download & Availability
Idle Skilling is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle Skilling 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 the game. Begged to download it for a while. But in the crusades tutorial, it exits after telling us to go until we beat the crusades boss. Then, it tells us again, welcome to crusades lets fight a boss as if we hadn't heard it before. Its so annoying. We tried to speed run the grasslands (even beat it in one day) just to unlock it but its sooooooo annoying that it wont work. :(. Love the game though. We also love idleon.
A real game and not a cash grab. Excellent work by the developer. We bought something just to support this guy because he truly deserved it.
The realm and nightmare features dont work for us, why.
Lava PLEASE ADD REALMS ON IOS PLEASE other wise the game Is great.
We really enjoyed the game it never gets boring for us because we can always just rebirth/ascend.
Changing the time on a mobile device can either make your run better or worse, respectively to how you change it. But if you go backwards in time, rift progression goes to negative numbers, crus multi and other things like the vault and the ascension perk giving you candy every set amount of hours will all have a wait time of how far back you set it to, and other things will break. But besides this, best game Ive ever played. Great work, lava! Below this point is everything Ive noticed with the said bug. (time) defines how far you set back the bug with. -Crus multi doesnt reset until (time) -Vault takes (time) to open again and apparently using gems to reset it is disabled. -Rift progression goes into negative numbers -Time candy ascension perk is set back by (time) –Tickets and Asylum Keys are also set back by (time) Thats all we found, theres probably much more though. If youre reading this lava, may bobjoepickles soul bless you.
The realm and afterlife are out but we can access them please fix this its been driving us nuts, also if other people are reading this please spread this message, please and thank you.
Pls add the realm to iOS we just got to it but we cant access it pls add realm.
Ive been playing this game for years and its very addicting and possibly one of the best mobile Skilling games Ive seen.
We had a save where we had raid boss cards, half way thru mountains, and so much more, and we got deleted.
It is very hard to find games/ developers that dont load their games with ads and such. So much to this game highly suggest playing.
Great idler. No adds. Very engaging. There is a ton of stuff to figure out you will likely need to consult online guides and wiki. There are some minor things we wish were improved and starting out you wont have a clue what to do. However, if you stick with it you will be playing regularly for a long time. It is also a breath of fresh air to not have to watch a single add.
We love the art style, the humor, and the mechanics. Well done.
Alright so we had been holding off on giving a review of the game, our first ever believe it or not, due to a well known bug. That bug being the game crashing on iOS whenever you access the cards screen, this was a HUGE bug because a lot of progress mid to late game is apparently locked behind card progress. So this one bug made a fantastic game, pointless. HOWEVER, this has now been fixed. Returning this to the five star game that it absolutely is. Out of all idle games Ive ever played, get busy dont have time for full games anymore, this has got to be one of the greatest. Progression is actually enjoyable and makes you want to come back and check on things. The systems are intricate but not difficult to figure out once you just play for a bit. Not to mention the wry humor from the developer does make the game much more enjoyable, it gives it genuine character. Now if you excuse us, we have to go check out the cards section of the game for the first time and see how drastically our progress gets boosted. So to anyone seeing the massive amount of 1 star reviews, it was 95% because of the card bug. With that fixed? This is indeed a five star idle game. Trust us.
The game is amazing. But; 1. When we beat the last level of the dungeon and unlocked the realm. When we went to o into the realm, it said, realm and afterlife update coming out soon. 2. When we rebirth for the first time and unlocked some gems for mining, it said, you need to rebirth to unlock this. But, in general the game is amazing and highly recommend.
Everything was fine until the games sound just turned off. Ive tried everything to fix it and it still wont work. The game is still playable but Id rather play it with sound.
Awesome game love it , just have a problem with realm. The button is there but when we click on it it says its not there yet. So we were like okay we guess the update hasnt happened yet so we came here to check but it seems like it did. Help.
Lacking a restore purchases button, is ghere any way we can get the packs and gempacks Ive paid for in the past? We spent quite a good amount of money on this game and its a bit depressing that we have no way of accessing our purchases.
We were speaking with little lava and he told us that you would give the realm update tmr that was 2 days ago. Plsss ik its just you but we cant wait for that.
Great game but realm is in fact not out for apple but they did fix the card screen which is nice but ios is still an entire update away but he's probably working on legends of idle on wich is understandable but we've spent much more time in idle skilling than that game.
So its been 4 months since the last update, and we have gotten to purgatory and the realm is going to be out in the next update, now Im not trying to be rude, but could you please say when it might be here? (Thank you and we wish you the best of luck).
The game is awesome it has no ads, its actually fun to continue playing. But when we tap on cards it just will crash which means there is a whole feature we cant use please. Please fix this.
Overall great little game fun spent 20 bucks on gems so far – wasnt able to buy the pet package or it would have been 30 theres just a few little quirks like that, deleting all eggs and trashing pets by accidentally removing one of the parents is sad. Also the silly apple bar at the bottom of the screen kinda hides some details like the pet levels you gotta kinda push it up which led to us deleting all our eggs tapping on the parent hence removing them from the nest and poof eggies gone. :(.
We been waiting for days for the afterlife and realm update to come out and it did and we cant play it so please make the update happen.
Now what the heck are playing this game for a little less than a year and all of their progress went to waste because our alarm back on the game yesterday how our progress is gone what the heck idle Skilling.
We need help fixing our game Im trying to buy the pet pack but it wont let us click on it like it isnt there.
If you are looking for a great idle game this is it. Be warned that the last two DLC Rebirth and Realms DO NOT WORK on iPhone go in knowing that and you can still scratch that RPG itch in a as little or much time a day as you want. 3 stars would be 5 if they fixed AFTERLIFE update.
Amassing game but ive kind of stone walled wheres the realm.
Alright but missing some QoL like holding down to level or craft instead of tapping a tiny button for way too long. Could even just add another quantity like x1000 or custom ones but the dev really expects you later in the game to tap x200 to craft a million of an item (multiple times per the two ng+ mechanics) or x1 to level up a new unit to 500. Stuff like this makes the enjoyment of the game die out. At some point the ratio of time spent on this game will just have way too much tapping small on screen buttons vs actual enjoyable progression. And then you cant continue your save on the pc version to use an autoclicker to avoid it.
Fun game but realm does not work on iOS. Even though it clearly states it does the icon only tells you its coming in the next update. Bummer. Stuck at a standstill without more progression enabling through realm and whatnot.
Ive been mainly enjoying the game, but our crafting is bugged. We cannot craft anything or select different things to craft.
Says we need to update game but we cant in the store it says theres no update.
The only real problem we have is that it cant connect to our steam account but we really love the game, we like the complexity and we havent had the progress glitch happen to us but maybe its just because we play on pc.
Why is it that the realm update was 2 years ago yet we dont have the afterlife update nor the option to update the game on iPhone.
Buddy abandoned this game and refuses to do the final update for iOS, dont spend any money on this game.
Theres no ability to save your data to the cloud! We had progressed quite steadily in the game over the last few days, whereas we found the game fun and engaging: leveling up various skills and perks, and unlocking special abilities collecting gems and the like, due to some bug when we opened the app our progress was entirely reset. We had noticed the fact you couldnt save your data anywhere beforehand but we didnt expect something like this to happen, we dont think Ill be starting this game fresh and new as we had lost several days worth of grinding and AP.
Please devs, just one last update to fix the bugs. Easily our favorite idle game of all time, except for two glaring problems: One feature (monster cards) will immediately crash your game on selecting that tab, rendering the feature useless. And the way bigger problem: your game will wipe. It's not a matter of "if", it's a matter of "when". It might take days, it might take weeks, but you will eventually lose all your progress. And if you spent money on the in-game currency? F in the chat. You spent money on data that is completely gone. There is no "restore purchase," there is no cloud saving/loading your data, your only option is to start from scratch. We miss this game but y'all made off with our money once and broke our heart twice.
Developer is unresponsive to emails. We encountered an issue with this game on Steam and emailed him more than a month prior to writing this review. Furthermore, the App Store description is false. It shows a feature to be playable but it isnt. The icon for that feature is showing on our game, but says Wait for an update in so many words. Thinking our game was glitchy, we deleted the app and redownloaded to find all our progress gone and no way to restore it. We had also made several in-app purchases that have now been completely wasted due to no back up being available and Im hesitant to email the Dev to address it really for fear of wasting our time. Aside from the above, it is TRULY a great game, and we will continue playing it via Steam. Just really saddens us that major issues arent being addressed and Ill definitely be thinking thrice about continuing to make in-app purchases for fear that the Dev will continue to just take our money and run.
Been an avid player for years, have joined every version of the discord and restarted plenty of times, to see the game so butchered on iOS after not playing for forever made us remember why we quit playing in the first place. No updates, whipped saves, meanwhile every other platform is thriving? We get that its a port due to iOS but wheres the loyalty to your fans? This is a lot like what happened to the re release of San Andreas, glitchy, bug filled, and missing core components. Sad to see, really.
Its been 9 months with little to no response from the developer. Every other platform has realm and this one was allegedly supposed to. Dont ignore us. Just add it dude.
The game is a blast, if youre okay with a big part of it not being accessible (cards). Its also no longer updated or supported by the developer. The game has some huge updates that are out for android and pc. Wish it was updated, it would be worth putting some money into. Recent update note says Realm is available, it is not. Still says it will be available in a future update.
At the beginning it was a great game, progression on and on for about 1 year and then on a regular day we log in. Poof!!! All our progress in a year gone. We know its a game but wow we spend about 2 hours a day punching our fingers away at this game. Thats about a month of us playing straight non stop at 720 hours and it resets. Dont waste your time unless you got immortality then be our guess.
Love the game and all the different areas it offers to play, only problem we have personally is that the game crashes whenever we click the cards button. We havent been able to look at what cards we have or the levels or even the page in general, the only way we know what cards do what is because of the wiki. Hope this bug gets fixed, but other than that no problems and great game.
Love the game but clicking on the cards tab currently kicks you out of the app.
Considering the Legends Of Idleon game this dev created, we are giving 5 stars as benefit of doubt that some of the issues will be fixed. The issues are as follows. Sound: there is no sound. Dont know if this is intentional or not. And there also seems to be no settings menu. Crashes: the game crashes whenever we hit the cards button. Other than that. Game is great. And if the other app the dev made is any indication. This app will only improve as time goes on. And to those who are having issues. Give it time. The dev will most likely fix the issues when they can. You gotta remember that coding games like this is a complex topic and it takes time. So be patient with the dev.
Whenever you open the card menu on iPhone it keeps crashing the game, PLEASE FIX IT.
Wonderful idle/ semi clicker game! Great pixelated theme with funny hidden play on real work things. It complements idleon really well. Currently our only problem is that the game crashes when opening the card screen, so we have never been able to use them.
We enjoy this game a lot. It has all the elements we look for in an idle game. We play on an iPhone 13 mini on the most recent iOS update. Only issue is it crashes when we select cards. Either way Im continuing playing and really enjoy your game.
Been playing since we were a kid picked it back up a few months ago on android, It looks like the iOS version is more updated but has a few more bugs aka the card issue nonetheless this game is amazing developer real puts a lot of effort in both his games BIG fan and really cant wait for coming updates and fixes thanks lavaflame2.
We really like it, its simple but fun. However whenever we try to open the cards menus it crashes.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.6
- Size: 162.24 MB
- iOS: 12 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Lavaflamestudios LLC]()
Last updated: 22nd January 2023 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: Lavaflamestudios LLC