Let me start by saying, this is by far and above the best idle game on the AppStore to date - but, it needs work. But you have to buy the ad removal because it’s unplayable with ads. Too much, too often.As it stands, this is the biggest problem with an otherwise great game. The progression tapers off, you’ll find yourself on the same mineshaft for 3-5 days if you don’t spent money. The reason for this is because like every other game like it, the currency grows in magnitudes. So you’re in the thousands, then the hundreds of thousands, then millions, billions, trillions and then, AA, AB, AC, AD, so on and so forth - to where I’m currently at, AO. Now, that doesn’t seem like too much of a problem, but as you progress through the mines, the cost of goblins and mine upgrades grows SIGNIFICANTLY - and you need to upgrade your Mines with Cards and Elixir. I’m sat on thousands upon thousands of cards, but the Elixir is IMPOSSIBLE to get. It doesn’t ramp up with the mines and currency, so you’re looking at extracting around 100 elixir from doing something, but you need 24,000 to upgrade a mine shaft (that gathers gold for you to spend). The problem here is you have like 30 different mine types, signified by a Gem. I’m now only able to upgrade mines if I spend a ton of money on elixir, or wait over a month of playing, to ramp up the elixir just to upgrade one of those thirty mineshafts.It really does need fixing, because it absolutely kills the potential of this great idle game.

As much s I liked this game in the beginning, I have played it long enough to realize I’m spinning my wheels. I get no where and after I finally get no where, it time to start over again. Sound fun to you? Me neither!! I’ve been trying to reach the levels shown in the ad for quite some time now, but have yet to get anywhere near that. I don’t think that level exist. I think it’s just an enticing ad to draw us in and the developers watch us beating our heads against the wall trying to advance. And when we don’t advance, they watch us dig deeper into or pockets to buy the magic wand that advances us to a higher level that really don’t exist. But we keep falling for it and the developers keep repeating the same old thing to all of us. Have you ever noticed their responses are a blanket that covers all complaints and they are always working on changes that NEVER happen. Will the real suckers please stand up! DEVELOPERS: Stop throwing blanket on our complaints and give us real honest answers. And is it necessary for us to have to sit through the same stupid game ads every time we do anything? Do you really need that many ads playing along with the millions buying power-up too?

DON’T WASTE TIME OR MONEY! First off the game works well. No glitches, smooth play, smooth transition between regular game and events and the graphics are on point. Initially I invested money into the game because after all who doesn’t want to see a good game get better? My low rating is because I keep getting cards for upgrades that I have already reached maximum level. I sent a message to the support team and was assured those cards would be needed in the future but that future’s future has come and passed and still no update. My point is that after a decent financial investment from me and a lot of time playing I continue to get low level upgrade cards for upgrades I have already reached maximum level on. Instead of rewarding players at higher levels for their investment into the game the game recycles the same low level upgrades. There isn’t even a tally of how many cards I have earned for those maxed out upgrades that I will use in the “future”. I believe in fair play and that includes the developers properly awarding rewards based on advancement in the game. I wouldn’t invest much time or money into this game if you’re a new player and I certainly won’t be spending much of either on the game.

So I made an accidental purchase a few days ago by misclicking on the option to purchase the deal on an event. Although I have no issue buying things in games (this game, for example, I purchased the ad free playing), but I didn’t have a use for the event deal. I immediately sent a request to the developers asking for a refund. Now, here it is…. Several days later with zero response. Even if they told me that a refund couldn’t be issued for whatever reason, fine…. But receiving whatever answer they decided on would have been better than being flat out ignored. The game itself is a decent idle game, with the option to actively play, although it gets insanely repetitive after a fairly short time. For the game itself, I give it 4 stars, but due to being completely ignored when asking for support, you lose a couple of stars. Ignoring me is a sure fire way to get your game uninstalled permanently, effectively costing you any chance of me ever spending money on your game. Although I made an accidental purchase, it’s not like I wouldn’t have purchased something else at some point. But that possibility has just vanished for you. Keep that 5 bucks. It’s the last you’re getting from me. And there’s no need to respond to my review. I won’t be back to see it if you do. I have no interest in hearing what you have to say. You blew that chance. I guarantee you that I’m not the only person who would be annoyed by being ignored, and it’s not like I left this review 2 days later. It’s been well over 2 weeks. You’ve had ample time to respond to my ticket. You just lost a player who would have quite likely spent some more money on your game in the future. Do better.