Darkstar: Idle RPG

Name: Darkstar: Idle RPG
Rating: 4.2 (260 reviews)
Author: Neptune Company

Simulation

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

260 Ratings
Age Rating

9+
Years
Category

Simulation
Developer

Neptune Company
Language

EN
English
Size

464.6
MB

New Captain Katie and 6 headhunting Captains arrive! Skill options and SSS-grade Software options are added, plus Rock-Paper-Scissors and Diamond Spending events. Set against the epic backdrop of a space war, this idle game lets you endlessly grow your fleet. With high-quality graphics and stunning effects, experience an overwhelming sense of impact and fun! Collect SS-tier warship and conquer planets for an exhilarating experience. Dive into the unparalleled world of space idle RPG gaming! ▶ Easy and Fun Mining and Space Fleet Creation System Easily mine resources with a single button operation, and raid other players’ ships to steal their resources! Use the mined and plundered resources to create even more powerful space warship! ▶ Dozens of Equipment and Spectacular Skills Strengthen your weapons and enhance your ships using special equipment and minerals collected through unexplored planet expeditions. Enjoy the dazzling visuals that change with each weapon you equip! ▶ No More Passive Pets! Launch a Fleet of Drones! Collect and grow dozens of drones that launch attacks with machine guns, missiles, lasers, and more as they fly in a circular pattern towards enemies. Start today, and by tomorrow, you’ll be a drone master! ▶ Endless Idle Growth and Upgrades Enjoy simple and convenient yet exciting growth content! Experience the unique growth of an idle RPG with easy controls! ▶ Offline Rewards and Abundant Events Grow endlessly with offline rewards! Feel the joy of rapid progression! ◈ Customer Support Contact: cs_darkstar@neptunecompany.kr

Events

SPECIAL EVENT
New Server: Race to the Top

A new server is live! Claim your SS-class starship, build your fleet, and race to the top before rivals catch up.

Ratings & Reviews

4.2

out of 5

260 Ratings

Fun, but needs work
05/30/2025
Chadlaugh
Pretty engaging game. Been playing a while.Pros: 1) you don’t really need to spend (except no ads purchase) unless you’re desperate to see a top 10 ranking by your name. If you do spend you don’t need to spend insane amount to make good progress.2) graphics are nice. Game is fun to advance through and lots of ways to grow. 3) devs are engaged. Lots of new stuff. Things are changing. 4) different ways to focus on building your ship and take some fun trial and error to figure out configurations.Cons:1) chat is terrible. No translation. No direct messaging. No mail system. 2) power works differently depending on pvp, events, or general progress. Kind of irritating when they add something new and all your previous work means nothing for the new algorithm you need to figure out without any real guidance. 3) power scaling is dumb. Percentages don’t make sense. Why not just make boosts based on standard numbers rather than percentages of some unknown base figure that scales so dramatically it starts using nonsensical alphabet codes. +8BD% attack boost? Seems intentionally convoluted to keep players guessing.4) too many monthlies. Although prices aren’t bad at the moment, I’ve seen this show before. Devs keep introducing more parts, more items, more admirals and so on…so you end up with a never ending list of monthly purchases. Started at two. Now up to four. If it keeps increasing I’ll find something else.5) i like idle games. My busy schedule keeps me from being able to play interactive war games atm. However, they keep introducing mindless chronos events that need to be constantly fought every 30 or so minutes. Dumb.6) the worst part is this thing melts your battery. The best rewards come from. It actually logging out and having it in offline mode…which isn’t great on the battery. And when you do play for 30-45 minutes your phone heats up like a fat kid running wind sprints. Come on devs, do better.
Fun, but needs work
05/30/2025
Chadlaugh

Pretty engaging game. Been playing a while.Pros: 1) you don’t really need to spend (except no ads purchase) unless you’re desperate to see a top 10 ranking by your name. If you do spend you don’t need to spend insane amount to make good progress.2) graphics are nice. Game is fun to advance through and lots of ways to grow. 3) devs are engaged. Lots of new stuff. Things are changing. 4) different ways to focus on building your ship and take some fun trial and error to figure out configurations.Cons:1) chat is terrible. No translation. No direct messaging. No mail system. 2) power works differently depending on pvp, events, or general progress. Kind of irritating when they add something new and all your previous work means nothing for the new algorithm you need to figure out without any real guidance. 3) power scaling is dumb. Percentages don’t make sense. Why not just make boosts based on standard numbers rather than percentages of some unknown base figure that scales so dramatically it starts using nonsensical alphabet codes. +8BD% attack boost? Seems intentionally convoluted to keep players guessing.4) too many monthlies. Although prices aren’t bad at the moment, I’ve seen this show before. Devs keep introducing more parts, more items, more admirals and so on…so you end up with a never ending list of monthly purchases. Started at two. Now up to four. If it keeps increasing I’ll find something else.5) i like idle games. My busy schedule keeps me from being able to play interactive war games atm. However, they keep introducing mindless chronos events that need to be constantly fought every 30 or so minutes. Dumb.6) the worst part is this thing melts your battery. The best rewards come from. It actually logging out and having it in offline mode…which isn’t great on the battery. And when you do play for 30-45 minutes your phone heats up like a fat kid running wind sprints. Come on devs, do better.
You almost had me.
12/07/2025
NoxxOfficial
I started the game and it was decent. Decent graphics and a good feel. Never mind the several small bugs and graphical glitches like your cursor flashing an inch away from your finger when you tap.I played for a few days. A new event popped up. It was giving me the summon currency readily for the event. Then suddenly I realized I was stuck at around 29k for a bit. What do you know? I need 30k to summon.Then, I’m going along and do the raids up to about 16. Your typical “raid” content. Suddenly I realized the autoadvance thing had turned off. I expected a new feature to open like it had done previously. WRONG. Now every time I want to do a raid I get to watch an add. It takes about 8 seconds to do a raid and the max is 45 seconds or you fail. One of the ads was at least 2 minutes. So you’ll be watching ads MORE than playing the game. Unless you buy the pass to not watch ads which is readily available lol.Speaking of passes, this game has more battle passes than I’ve ever seen in a game. I could probably buy 5 or 6 passes right now. It’s crazy.This game seems very predatory and tempts you with $1 packs so you’ll spend at least something. There is so much more I could write. I was hoping this was going to be a good game. It’s not. Also, the new update made everything way too hard. It becomes a slog too early.A shame.
You almost had me.
12/07/2025
NoxxOfficial

I started the game and it was decent. Decent graphics and a good feel. Never mind the several small bugs and graphical glitches like your cursor flashing an inch away from your finger when you tap.I played for a few days. A new event popped up. It was giving me the summon currency readily for the event. Then suddenly I realized I was stuck at around 29k for a bit. What do you know? I need 30k to summon.Then, I’m going along and do the raids up to about 16. Your typical “raid” content. Suddenly I realized the autoadvance thing had turned off. I expected a new feature to open like it had done previously. WRONG. Now every time I want to do a raid I get to watch an add. It takes about 8 seconds to do a raid and the max is 45 seconds or you fail. One of the ads was at least 2 minutes. So you’ll be watching ads MORE than playing the game. Unless you buy the pass to not watch ads which is readily available lol.Speaking of passes, this game has more battle passes than I’ve ever seen in a game. I could probably buy 5 or 6 passes right now. It’s crazy.This game seems very predatory and tempts you with $1 packs so you’ll spend at least something. There is so much more I could write. I was hoping this was going to be a good game. It’s not. Also, the new update made everything way too hard. It becomes a slog too early.A shame.
Such greedy garbage
Oct 1
Arcaneseal227
It was a fun game to play but there are so many issues that the devs refuse to address.Balancing: This is the worst thing since there’s no way to determine when you’re not powerful enough to fight the boss. Damage numbers don’t make any sense and the bosses are spongy. There needs to be an indication that the player can read to show the power level of the boss. Also the combat has to be rebalanced so players don’t get stuck for days and/or weeksGacha drops: It doesn’t work since it barely benefits the player even when merging lesser abilities, equipment, and personnel. There’s no reason to spend money on this since the game is generous with tickets and diamonds. It doesn’t help you damage output enough anyways.Bugs: One of the event login rewards keeps saying there’s an error with the server connection when there isn’t one. There’s also a high chance of the player’s ship taking damage from no one and this is across all combat. The interface has issues where it will activate the wrong menu.Obviously it needs a lot of work with quality of life features, bug fixes, combat balancing, and general fun level. I got sick of waiting for any fixes and quit. Best to avoid this trash and ignore the bot 5 star reviews.

Developer Response
Sorry it got bad enough that you stopped playing. Your thoughts on boss balance and how much merging is worth are with the team, along with the three issues you hit: the server error on the login reward, taking damage with no enemies around, and the wrong menu opening.
Such greedy garbage
Oct 1
Arcaneseal227

It was a fun game to play but there are so many issues that the devs refuse to address.Balancing: This is the worst thing since there’s no way to determine when you’re not powerful enough to fight the boss. Damage numbers don’t make any sense and the bosses are spongy. There needs to be an indication that the player can read to show the power level of the boss. Also the combat has to be rebalanced so players don’t get stuck for days and/or weeksGacha drops: It doesn’t work since it barely benefits the player even when merging lesser abilities, equipment, and personnel. There’s no reason to spend money on this since the game is generous with tickets and diamonds. It doesn’t help you damage output enough anyways.Bugs: One of the event login rewards keeps saying there’s an error with the server connection when there isn’t one. There’s also a high chance of the player’s ship taking damage from no one and this is across all combat. The interface has issues where it will activate the wrong menu.Obviously it needs a lot of work with quality of life features, bug fixes, combat balancing, and general fun level. I got sick of waiting for any fixes and quit. Best to avoid this trash and ignore the bot 5 star reviews.
Developer Response 2d ago
Sorry it got bad enough that you stopped playing. Your thoughts on boss balance and how much merging is worth are with the team, along with the three issues you hit: the server error on the login reward, taking damage with no enemies around, and the wrong menu opening.
It had potential and then fell flat
10/25/2025
Voleybri
I installed this game several months ago and enjoyed playing it. I love the fact that you were getting idle rewards and leveling up didn’t require a major financial commitment. However, there must’ve been a recent update to where now it is impossible to defeat a boss level. I’ve upgraded weapons and several other things and now I barely put a scratch in the boss. I have now been stuck on the same boss that I’ve been unable to defeat for several weeks. Also, now it no longer does idle rewards. So the whole time you’re off-line, you’re not gaining anything to earn more money. Some other parts of the game are fine, but with these two things that just were changed I’m definitely going to be removing this app.
It had potential and then fell flat
10/25/2025
Voleybri

I installed this game several months ago and enjoyed playing it. I love the fact that you were getting idle rewards and leveling up didn’t require a major financial commitment. However, there must’ve been a recent update to where now it is impossible to defeat a boss level. I’ve upgraded weapons and several other things and now I barely put a scratch in the boss. I have now been stuck on the same boss that I’ve been unable to defeat for several weeks. Also, now it no longer does idle rewards. So the whole time you’re off-line, you’re not gaining anything to earn more money. Some other parts of the game are fine, but with these two things that just were changed I’m definitely going to be removing this app.

■ New Captain & Headhunting - New Captain Katie joins, along with the Katie Headhunting Event. - Headhunting for 6 Captains begins: Karl, Hugo, Luca, Seraphine, Elios, and Noah. ■ Expanded Growth Content - A new feature lets you grant options to your skills. - New SSS-grade options have been added to Software. ■ New Events - Rock-Paper-Scissors and Diamond Spending events are now running. ■ Shop Renewal - The shop lineup has been revamped, with new limited-time packages added. Log in to Darkstar now and enjoy the new content!

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Seller: Neptune Company
Size: 464.6 MB
Category: Simulation
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

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Languages: English
Age Rating: 9+

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