Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 07:23 pm
Subway Idle – Simulation Game Review
Subway Idle is a Simulation game from seven technologies S.L, first launched in 26th April 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 23,987+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Subway Idle Stand Out
Subway Idle tycoon, the idle metro simulator!
Subway Idle is all about upgrading and maintaining a subway map for a growing city. Upgrade and connect stations between other stations and get your trains running. As new stations open, earn more money and upgrade your metro even further! Decide where to use your limited cash flow. Be sure to keep your city moving.
• Multiple cities to progress through!
• Earn while your offline to advance your metro!
• Tons of upgrades to advance your network.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Subway Idle is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st April 2024
Recent improvements include:
Bugs fixes
Download & Availability
Subway Idle 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 give it a four star because it gives you ads, but still, it is a really game.
We can not level up at alllllllll.
The game is really fun but whenever an ad pops up, the whole game freezes after.
The game is great but once you get to London your progress just stops. We have been stuck on London for around 2 months and Im only at level 35. We have been going idle at level 34 for 2 hours and the level bar only went up by half so, we would appreciate if you decrease the experience needed to upgrade. Also when we reached Paris yesterday we fully upgraded it and all of the tool buttons it only gave us one level overnight so we will appreciate it if you let us stack levels so we dont have to be stuck on a level until we level up and decrease the amount of money needed to level up because those seem like the biggest challenges in our case. The last one is that when we normally exit the game it wouldnt give us any idle income and when we refreshed it still didnt give us our idle income when we went idle again we had to refresh but not go into the game to actually get our idle income so we would also appreciate it if you fix that. Thank you very much.
The game itself is fine, very basic gameplay you can find in a million other apps. But the ads in this game are actually insane. Every 30 seconds or so we get an ad and that's not to mention that there's almost always two things on screen you can click to get an ad, the game is barely playable with how many ads there are. There's an upgrade bar at the bottom that's half covered up by an ad which means that half the time we try and upgrade we Accidentally click on an ad. Ridiculous.
This game is interesting it would be fun if we could get straight gameplay for more than 5 minutes.
If you get a track to a maximum you either have to watch an ad or use your rare currency we recommend adding a way to buy a better track with money instead of an ad or gems.
This is exactly what we wanted to play but an ad every 30 seconds? Come on. Make watching ads optional for rewards.
Im sure its a fun game to just turn your brain off on but probably don't make ads pop up repeatedly in front of where the upgrade buttons are cause it makes it a little hard to play the game.
Its actually a fun game especially if youre someone like us who plays it while watching something in the background. The thing is theres constantly ads running in the background outside of the ones that already randomly interrupt your play. Its kind of unfortunate and the sound of the ads wont stop either you have to mute them but unfortunately they dont always stay muted.
Its a fun little game to pass time, id give it a higher rating though if it didnt give you like 2 ads every minute.
You cant even play this game because of too many ads and the ones that are covering the bottom of the screen turns on the sound automatically to a new ad so in other words do not support this game developer because theyve got ads popping up while youre playing the game and every 10 seconds making the game virtually unplayable.
Forced ads, bars on the bottom, etc. The game is completely unplayable.
Ads continued playing sounds even after we had turned them off for the app, too.
This game is like most mobile games, a waste of time and to much ads Why in the world do you guys do this??????? WE ARE TRYING TO HAVE FUN AND PLAY YOUR GAME Instead you make it not fun and have so much ads L DEVELOPERS AND OWNER.
If you hate ads too bad! This game not only has the normal ads, but also ads that play under the game making it less enjoyable and relaxing.
We just wanted to build tracks forever, but we have to pay money. We just wanted to make some stations, but we have to pay money. We wanted some metros, but we have to pay money. Make those free by adding some updates.
Its a fun and addictive game, Ill give you developers that. The bad things are that therere WAY TO MANY ADS. After we level up, the game plays an ad. After we buy a new metro or station, it plays an ad. Secondly, its IMPOSSIBLE to advance to a new city. We have been playing for a while now but cant really get to the next area. Pleasefix these issues and we assure you, the game will do better.
This game has potential, but you spend more time watching ads than you do actually playing the game. Theres also virtually no form of interactivity, youre just following an already chosen route.
Its pretty, Ill give it that. But there is literally no way to proceed without spending large amounts of money. And theres a big button asking us to connect crypto wallets?? Seems like a scam.
This game is so bad and glitchy and 2 minutes in theres and add.
Paid for no ads and still get ads.
Game has potential but within 1 minute of starting the game we have already been "forced" to watch 2 yes that's 2 ads in order to continue. DELETED.
You cannot advance without prestigio, and you can't do that without watching advertisements. Waste of time.
Dont play this, dont support this business model. Show as a consumer that forced ads are not something we will put up with.
This game is cool but we dont know what theyre crazy of but we love this! This is the most amazing game we ever played.
It so fun and Im a starter and started today and allready got so much money.
Look, this game is fun but has some cons. PROS – Interesting Cities/Landmarks – Can kill some time CONS – Too many adds – Lacks in creativity. This game is NOT like Mini Metro, you can not draw your own transit line, Ive been fooled. If you want your own creative and unique metro line app, just get Mini Metro.
The game is dont get us wrong its good, there is just too many ads. This is our honest review. Thank you for your time.
Hay muchos anuncios, Y ESO ME MOLESTA! Pero us gusta el juego.
We love the game, but Im stuck at the second city, London. We maxed out London at level 30 and we still need to get to level 40 in order to get to the next city. Ive seen gameplays where you can rank the subway lines higher than gold prestige, but thats not going on here. Is there something Im missing? Otherwise, itll take months or years to finish the whole game and Im not trying to play a game that wastes our time.
When we downloaded this game, we were expecting essentially a city builder. You could build your own subway lines, choose the stations, get money. Basically an Idle city builder almost. What we got was tracks that built themselves, upgrades we couldnt choose not to do, it felt very controlled. We would like to see more creativity in the future. Overall, mildly fun game.
There are only 5 ways to move improve your income with no reset system in order to improve income. Or at least as far as we can tell. We can't even get to the 3rd area because it takes so long to level up and we end up watching like 5 ads while the bar creeps along. Yeah, no thanks.
Purchased to eliminate ads but theres still ads. We think we spend more time watching ads than actually being able to play. What a shame.
We can not change the language of the game and there is no choice in the game settings to change the language and also from the iPad settings we changed the language but it does not change within the game, then we changed the language of the iPad completely and also it did not change.
Way too many intrusive ads and its so easy that its not fun.
Every action youre supposed to make causes an ad to come up even if you choose to go with the option that is supposed to be ad free youre still forced into watching an ad.
Cant play for more than 3 min without having to watch an add.
Its so FUN AND EASY TO PLAY just a tap and a tap and you have found The funnest game ever!! Definitely definitely recommend.
We love the game but we want some different cars or trains whatever u call it we hope theres gonna be a new update soon.
Its an enjoyable game, but if you leave it on for awhile, itll crash soon. Cant get to level 40 yet because it takes a little long to increase your level.
This game really sparks up our time at home and when we have nothing to do but. Ads really get in the way and they get really annoying and we wish the game didnt have any ads but Im not the game creator Ps: not telling you to get rid of them or anything.
This game is fun but we only will play it if we have nothing to do but its not bad.
Title says it all. Theres an ad nearly every 45 seconds.
Phenomenal game great job for the people who made this game.
This game is(very very very very)fun.the reason y is because it is about the subway almost everybody is interested in the subway(or metro). :D.
We tried playing it but it always said Fatal error.
This game is so addicting! We can not stop playing!! You need to download NOW! Its one of the most funnest games ever _()_/.
We played this game, we become rich and we were so good.
Enough with the ads there a like 5 ads a minute.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.78
- Size: 197.72 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: seven technologies S.L
Last updated: 1st April 2024 | Genre: Simulation | Developer: seven technologies S.L