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MapleStory : Idle RPG

NEXON Company · 98,961 ratings · ★ 4.3

4.3
★★★★★
98,961 ratings
5 ★
70,797 (72%)
4 ★
9,506 (10%)
3 ★
4,244 (4%)
2 ★
2,668 (3%)
1 ★
11,717 (12%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 49 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

1
"game"
30 negative reviews mention this · 61% of all complaints
★★★★★ "it's sad it's become a glorified tamagochi. it had a better game play, ui, controls and community. not sure what happened with this game" - Pamela P.
2
"play"
11 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "it's sad it's become a glorified tamagochi. it had a better game play, ui, controls and community. not sure what happened with this game" - Pamela P.
3
"playing"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★ "Nexon at their finest. P2W, riddled with ads that don't work and it runs terribly. At no point in my four hours playing did I feel like I had any agency - what I assumed were tutorial missions to teach the mechanics continued up until I dec…" - Mia
4
"account"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★ "wow not been on this for a few months less than 3 and it decides to delete all of my progress even though ive already purchased nx cash and linked to my Google account soo its synced and saved still its refreshed all my progress like 1 big …" - Living Learning
5
"games"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★ "game kept crashing didn't even get passed tutorial none of my other games ever crash as much as this one did in the first 5 minutes looked cool but won't stay open more than 3 minutes" - Robert Rutledge
6
"money"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★ "The new foot race minigame is trash. The movement controls are terrible. Even when I'm trying to just get credit for even TRYING in the race, I apparently don't even get far enough to have considered to have tried. I've done 10 easily and o…" - Patrick “PaavoPwns”
7
"update"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★ "I used to enjoy playing this randomly. Even dropped some cash on gems and stuff. Have been busy with work and haven't played in a while. update, login... My account is gone. So disappointed..." - Nuggins
8
"race"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★ "The new foot race minigame is trash. The movement controls are terrible. Even when I'm trying to just get credit for even TRYING in the race, I apparently don't even get far enough to have considered to have tried. I've done 10 easily and o…" - Patrick “PaavoPwns”

📋 All 49 negative reviews

Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").

★★★★ Shiro 5/8/2026 v1.9.2
Fun as always, P2W as always too!
★★★★ Robert Rutledge 5/8/2026 v1.9.2
game kept crashing didn't even get passed tutorial none of my other games ever crash as much as this one did in the first 5 minutes looked cool but won't stay open more than 3 minutes
★★★★ Bernadette Higgins 5/7/2026
I love you 😍
★★★★ Ishwarya 5/7/2026
horrible game, ads kept interrupting my gameplay of other games that wers betterwhen I downloaded it it was terrible and I deleted it and ads interrupted me again and then you can't manually fight. It takes 10 mins just enter the game. This is a fighting game so manually fighting should be prioritised. The ads are so annoying so stop spamming them in my face.
★★★★ Michael 5/7/2026 v1.9.2
utter trash scroll enchantment rates. as soon i got to that part and keep failing i uninstalled.
★★★★ Jevin Harvey 5/7/2026 v1.9.2
this game constantly crashes it's so annoying
★★★★ Cozy Cuts LLC 5/7/2026 v1.9.2
it was bad 👎
★★★★ Mia 5/6/2026
Nexon at their finest. P2W, riddled with ads that don't work and it runs terribly. At no point in my four hours playing did I feel like I had any agency - what I assumed were tutorial missions to teach the mechanics continued up until I decided to quit and uninstall. Minute to minute gameplay is following the flashing button and hoping rng favors you with gear upgrades. I quit at the Kerning City boss after seeing I would need to increase my damage by 50% to beat the dps check. Do not play.
★★★★ Patrick “PaavoPwns” 5/6/2026 v1.9.2
The new foot race minigame is trash. The movement controls are terrible. Even when I'm trying to just get credit for even TRYING in the race, I apparently don't even get far enough to have considered to have tried. I've done 10 easily and only have credit for 3. This matters because in game rewards are tied to this. If I can't control your trash minigame well enough to even get credit for trying, theres an issue. Fix it or Ill charge back my money, since that's all companies care about anymore.
★★★★ Thomas Dunbar 5/6/2026 v1.6.0
😡 is stupidly in a bad way
★★★★ Sin Overlord 5/6/2026
adult community full of virgins playing a childish game..
★★★★ Tiffany Perry 5/5/2026 v1.9.2
not my style of game, art or anything. maybe for younger audience or anime fans.
★★★★ Kenny Meng 5/4/2026 v1.9.2
the new companion summon rate up event is a scam....pull more than 5000 tickets and only got 1unique for each new job, the rest is trash... absolutely blood sucking, heavily pay to win game 🙄
★★★★ Living Learning 5/4/2026 v1.9.2
wow not been on this for a few months less than 3 and it decides to delete all of my progress even though ive already purchased nx cash and linked to my Google account soo its synced and saved still its refreshed all my progress like 1 big full reset dont download this game as it will eat ur money and refresh ur saves would give it an zero if that was an option ffs
★★★★ brittanie redman 5/3/2026 v1.9.2
copyright what is the mushroom look like sunshroom🧐
★★★★ Daniel Tay 5/3/2026 v1.9.2
it's irritating how the game play is set, after lvl 90 the offline exp gained for a while day is less than 5%...the rate to get high level weapon is set so low like 0.016%. you can't advance in game for very very long time unless you willing to spend money on blue diamonds and scrolls or exp coupons.... 100% pay to win game, not out to please players but just pure business. Game developer need to raise the rates before more players starts quitting
★★★★ James Cai 5/3/2026 v1.9.2
garbage events ruin the game
★★★★ Kenny Meng 5/2/2026 v1.9.2
Purchased the pass to fasten the progress to level 60, but at the end, still need to pay and swipe your card for the 3rd job advancement as the time to clear the job advancement stage is insufficient and the boss is left with 30% hp, this game not only p2w but include 3rd job advancement and so on.....ridiculuous
★★★★ kass Beltran 5/2/2026
I hate it
★★★★ Nuggins 5/2/2026 v1.9.2
I used to enjoy playing this randomly. Even dropped some cash on gems and stuff. Have been busy with work and haven't played in a while. update, login... My account is gone. So disappointed...
★★★★ Mason Romo 5/1/2026 v1.9.2
game constantly crashes with latest update. if you spend a little bit of money they manipulate your account to have worse pulls to incentivize you spend more money edit: another update another unstable build that crashes
★★★★ Katekyo Hitman 5/1/2026 v1.9.1
would enjoy the game but the constent lag issues or the disconnection make it hard to play so ive quit the game.
★★★★ Susana Quinteros 5/1/2026 v1.9.2
this is just a copy of terraria and also i get ads everytime like bro and whenever i try to play the app closes and keeps happening
★★★★ weriko o 4/30/2026 v1.9.2
the flag race may be the worst pvp experience I've had in a long time
★★★★ Bernard ONBG 4/30/2026
whoever decided to make the race an anniversary event really should be fired
★★★★ J F 4/30/2026 v1.9.2
does this game actually work?? it's been on my phone for almost a week now, I try to open it at least once to multiple times a day, only to get a maintenance message.. or an update needed... still haven't even logged in yet
★★★★ Brian Chua 4/30/2026 v1.9.1
what's wrong with the app? already updated to the latest version but it keep off my game and bring me to google play store
★★★★ Madzola 4/30/2026 v1.9.1
new flag race mini game is the most unfun thing I've ever played, made me realize how much of a waste of time this game is. uninstalled and never looking back
★★★★ JH 4/30/2026 v1.9.1
every new update getting more dumb new event not even fun at all gotta waste all those time on a idle game race to win 10 times first race TryHard.
★★★★ Lyn Cañete 4/30/2026
1 star I like the game but so logging i can play anymore
★★★★ Andy Nguyen 4/30/2026 v1.9.1
Nostalgic but quite boring after hitting the progression wall. It's your typical p2w mobile gacha game but with huge problems every update. devs apologized every time but it's still bad going forward. also has very boring events. movement controls are very laggy. I recommend only playing if there's a nostalgia factor. there are much better games out there with more competent devs.
★★★★ Linna Yo 4/30/2026
this game Is trash i can only walk by myself and I'll never try it again
★★★★ CallmeAlex94 4/30/2026 v1.9.1
every patch messes something up. Today is the start of the 6 month anniversary and the game has been in maintenance all day. they are not going to compensate us for the offline gains they're forcing us to miss. it's mostly fun, but they manage it like cr@p and they keep getting caught being massive liars/scammers
★★★★ phil ho 4/28/2026 v1.8.1
this game scams you. DO NOT DL, it's such a scam this game. app company just should shut down how terrible they made this game
★★★★ Rampacious “Rampy” 4/26/2026 v1.8.1
The game feels like it's constantly attempting to kill itself. Between screen-filling graphical glitches and crashing after 15 minutes, I can't recommend this game to anyone.
★★★★ M 4/26/2026 v1.8.1
keeps deleting players account....2nd time I come back and lost all progress. this is just a blood sucking tool
★★★★ Richard Diponzio 4/25/2026
stopped playing for a month, and after an update my account was deleted.
★★★★ Sabith 4/25/2026 v1.8.1
These games are so boring. Copy paste, you gotta get some better ideas, man
★★★★ Dylan 4/25/2026 v1.8.1
Took a break for a few months after the launch, came back and account I had spent money on was banned for no reason, classic nexon BS.
★★★★ ApplyTheSalt 4/24/2026 v1.8.1
I can play many other games for hours on end, high graphic games, low graphic games. But for some reason this game specifically makes my phone get hot for no reason and then it crashes. edit: game still makes my phone crash. Can still play many other titles that require better system specs but this heats my phone up until it crashes and closes the game.
★★★★ Tom Picot 4/24/2026 v1.4.0
keep kicking me and can never play again
★★★★ Cameron A. 4/24/2026 v1.8.1
Launched the game and my account is reset. Lots of time and enough in app purchases to make me very upset at losing it all. There's no obvious way to send a support ticket
★★★★★ Pamela P. 5/8/2026 v1.9.2
it's sad it's become a glorified tamagochi. it had a better game play, ui, controls and community. not sure what happened with this game
★★★★★ Vlad Bosca 5/6/2026 v1.9.2
Nice game concept, but what is wrong with the execution: 30-50 seconds from boot up to actually playing? do you really need to check the patch each boot-up for 8000+ steps? And why if it's a "Idle RPG" as you named it is it fully online, eating data and battery like there's no tomorrow?
★★★★★ Sameer Kumar 5/6/2026
not good game
★★★★★ Jamie Soo 5/3/2026 v1.9.2
Dear Nexon, My game keeps crashing during Party Quests and Event Quests. Is there any advice on how to solve the issue?
★★★★★ LIME LIME 5/2/2026 v1.3.0
Good way to play maplestory like the old days without spending too much time on it. But why does it cost real money to be able to change my skin color to be darker? Are dark skin color people not allowed as a default option? what's this game tryna say... 🤨 edit after few months: game cost too much to sustain playing. membership fees to stay relevant rivals the prices of actual games.
★★★★★ Wilfred 5/1/2026 v1.9.2
play for like 10-15mins security verification fail then application automatically quit every single time
★★★★★ Jeremy Patterson 4/28/2026 v1.8.1
2 stars for now if it can be played offline and unlimited afk then I'll 5 stars

Sentiment summary

81%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
15%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.