Last updated on November 30th, 2025 at 05:31 pm
Idle Universe – Game Review
Idle Universe is a game from Dominik Stallmann, first launched in 23rd January 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,465+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Universe Stand Out
Create your own universe in this new addictive idle game!
First, you have to gather matter yourself by tapping; but once you've got enough matter to create a couple of objects in your universe, these will produce more matter automatically by colliding.
Features:
• Create 31 different interstellar objects – from tiny particles to your own planets, galaxies and even more!
• Unlock 24 unique Divine Powers!
• Upgrade all of your objects in various ways! You will be given multiple options to choose from and you can make your universe unique to you!
• Obtain Dark Matter and use special abilities like automatic tapping, speeding up collisions and many more!
• Get even bigger with prestige! Every time you restart the game, you will obtain Antimatter, which can be used to buy permanent super upgrades!
• Join the competition with leaderboards!
• Get daily rewards!
• Earn Achievements!
There're plenty of opportunities in the game – you can play for weeks and never get bored!
Try our new idle game and create your very own universe :)
• Music by Ckavi!
• Graphics by Pocido!
This game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Universe is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd July 2025
Recent improvements include:
The Divine Tap has been reworked completely to now be a multiplier for the total production.
=> The discussion on this can be found at our community Discord server!
Added collider ascension for every thousand levels owned
Added a 24th Divine Power
Added the option to reroll on Upgrade Points
Added luckier taps to get 2 or even 3 Dark Matter by tapping, instead of just 1
Changed balancing at many places
Visuals:
Added visual indicators to show active abilities
Added a radial fill for the current collider creation and an option to hide it
Added a visual indicator for the location of a tap
Added the option to change the language ingame
Changed the collider particles to actually be the colliders you are creating
Toasts are now stacking instead of overlapping
Improved some localizations
Bugs:
Fixed a bug that showed abilities to be available, even with insufficient DM
Fixed a bug in the calculation of rapid collisions, that made the Agile Momentum useless
Fixed a bug that changed the maximum warpable time to always be in full hours
Fixed various internal legacy issues
Hotfix:
Fixed various bugs, both visual and mechanical
Download & Availability
Idle Universe is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle Universe 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:
Ive been having trouble for years understanding how our universe works after it was created and in what ways we can give back to it, improve it and work in an administrative way to help manage and guide it. This app gives us a very easy to operate method for one learning about it and two to give back to and understand it.
The Copies of the main productors.
When we tapped to check the price on dark matter and it caused an infinite loop.
We saw this game and got excited, thinking it was going to be an interesting take on idle tapper games. Instead, all we got was a broken download button and a crash for our trouble. Pathetic.
It charged us money that we didn't even want to spend. Terrible game.
After the update, we were clicking around the menus. We wanted to see how much the IAP cost. We clicked on what was the $1.99 option. We cancelled the purchase and then the prompt to buy just kept popping up. We went to close the app, and the prompt just kept appearing. We even tried to double tap the home button to force close the app, but ended up making at least 2 purchases because of the never ending loop of "confirm your purchase with Touch ID". We had to reboot our phone before we could get the app to close. We can handle a broken game, but we can't stand for an app that just takes money you don't intend to spend.
We bought the auto tapper upgrade because we hate tapping for achievements, but soon discovered it doesnt count as a manual tap. This makes sense we guess, but its still a pain that we cant gain any tap related reward progress either passively or at least at a slightly faster rate from the added taps per second.
This is possibly the best idle game we've ever played! We've been playing this game for two weeks or more, which is easily the longest we've been able to stay into an idle game. And even now that we ascended and we got the final collider we STILL want to play it.
Cant load game after new update, please fix.
New update ok but seeing alot of bugs, can't upgrade rapid speed, was ganna get 4.72 an on implosion then update and only got 2.53 ae that sucked. The speed multiplayer seems messed up. Like the concept, we play while on break at work. Would be cool if you could add life forms to planets and space. Being able to see a model of your soler system would be great.
This game used to be fun, we were making great progress. After the update, our antimatter is accumulating so slowly. Please fix it! If the game still worked it deserves 5 stars.
The game is truly unique. The on screen leaderboard rank is quite engaged. It motivates us to be the top. Not much of a tutorial but the game is pretty simple and is easy to get the hang of.
This app takes two things that we love, clicker games and particle physics. We think this is a really interesting concept for a game and should undergo some updates.
Similar features to transport defender way to go unity.
Love the game one tiny problem.it takes kinda long just to get started.
Idle Universe is a wonderfully crafted idle game. We love the music and the visuals. As a man with great attention to detail, we could tell that the developers take pride in their work.
We love this game so much takes up all our extra time tho XD.
This app is a good ole time nothing but idle mining at its best.
Tbh this is a very good app not only to play but to learn space matter and everything that happens outside our planet, Very nice Id love to see more updates new things added. Very Nice.
All you have to do in this app is just sit and wait! We're not joking that's all you need to do to win.
This is a fun game and it's fairly addictive which is always good. Keep making more tap games.
This game is very addicting and sort of relaxing.
This is one of the better idle games.
It would be fine a new design and that visual things; out of that, great.
Fun and addicting game. Great game.
We enjoyed the renaming of the god.
Oddly engaging. Almost meditative.
We love the way this game expands.
Another idle game, but oddly fun.
It's not the best but after a while it gets to be more fun.
Fun, probably will get old fast.
Good clicker, interesting art. It could use better explanations though.
We're still not sold on the semi-random process of unlocking upgrades, but it does add some challenge to the game.
So far so good, the mechanics are very fun and it's like we're learning about the fundamentals of the universe too! Very cool.
We would give it a 5 star rating if it weren't to close out in the loading screen. When we try to join, sometimes it would just close out of itself.
Seems to take a while to get things going.
A good waste of time. Solid idle.
Five stars if it didn't crash so often.
It does not give you idle cash! We downloaded this cause we were looking for idle games and we see NO idle cash! We will delete this app if you do not fix the name or the problem.
Nothing ever happens, same graphics of dots in sky no matter how much improve. No incentive to play.
We do not want to be forced to be creating a Google account and do not need opening sending us to google each time we open the app.
It's okay, just another generic idle game, except it moves very slowly even from the beginning. Usually games like this have a pretty fast moving beginning but this one is quite slow.
Seemed at first to require creating an account. Then a "reward" took us to the App Store to buy some other game. Sleazy.
This game might be fun but we'll never know since we're not going to create a Google Account just to play it. We've tried hitting the "Done" button without entering any details and it just locks us out of the app.
This game is great at making time go by. We can play it for hours and not get bored.
Out of all the idle games out there this has to be our fave.
Aside from the necessity to tap incessantly in order to grow, once you reach a certain point, production takes on a life of its own. It is all a matter of patience combined with spending your generated points wisely. All in all, we like the game premise. It is mathematically simple to understand, provided one possesses a preexisting understanding of cause and effect, as well as simple linear mathematics. We do, however, think that matter generation should draw on just a wee bit less tapping on the screen.
Looking for something to occupy your time and get you hooked on just making one more upgrade? This is the game. No need to spend cash money to make things better or to advance, just if you want to jump ahead some and not grind it out. We are a fan of "tap" style games and this one is topping our list.
Simple? Yup. Boring? Kinda, but we keep coming back so not bad. Nothing happens while out of the app, the magic is in the time warp on your return. Have not imploded our universe yet as we want to see what the largest object we get to create is first. Been a fun game so far.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: v1.406
- Size: 92.29 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Dominik Stallmann]()
Last updated: 3rd July 2025 | Genre: | Developer: Dominik Stallmann