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Forge Master - Idle RPG
Lessmore GmbH · 1,713 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 42 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"
31 negative reviews mention this · 74% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unfair chat ban. They really chat banned me for zero reason, and said I’m permanently banned from chat from my clan and public server. Stupid game" - UnbanMeAsap
2
"money"
15 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Clans suck. This whole game is real iron on you upgrade yourself and get better and once will not cleanse if you’re not 1 million power most of them will kick you or you spend IRL money to make your own and if somebody kicks you, you have to wait 24 ho…" - Edgetr22
3
"update"
14 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay to win. Newest update makes it where you can merge skins for better buffs, but not the easy to get skins only the ones that take tons on money or luck to get" - Idlereviewerguy
4
"play"
9 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wars are frustrating. The game is fun until your clan consistently gets paired with another clan 4 times your size. They then will only have to win one day because they will automatically win day 6 because that day is worth twice the points as any other day. Use…" - Harry Harris83
5
"spend"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Clans suck. This whole game is real iron on you upgrade yourself and get better and once will not cleanse if you’re not 1 million power most of them will kick you or you spend IRL money to make your own and if somebody kicks you, you have to wait 24 ho…" - Edgetr22
6
"progression"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misuse of Dev power against the player community. This would have gotten a 5 star if the devs actually thought through their most recent update before implementing it instead of rushing to push an unfinished project. While I see their view for update to make everyone at a more equal playin…" - SmolCorgi
7
"other"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Clans suck. This whole game is real iron on you upgrade yourself and get better and once will not cleanse if you’re not 1 million power most of them will kick you or you spend IRL money to make your own and if somebody kicks you, you have to wait 24 ho…" - Edgetr22
8
"spend money"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Developer's are greedy. I've spent more than I care to share on this game just for that investment to be erased by the last several updates. They could have balanced the game in a way that protected player's real money investments but they did not. They drasticall…" - Hayvoc
9
"progress"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Developer's are greedy. I've spent more than I care to share on this game just for that investment to be erased by the last several updates. They could have balanced the game in a way that protected player's real money investments but they did not. They drasticall…" - Hayvoc
10
"chat"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unfair chat ban. They really chat banned me for zero reason, and said I’m permanently banned from chat from my clan and public server. Stupid game" - UnbanMeAsap
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"players"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misuse of Dev power against the player community. This would have gotten a 5 star if the devs actually thought through their most recent update before implementing it instead of rushing to push an unfinished project. While I see their view for update to make everyone at a more equal playin…" - SmolCorgi
12
"people"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game was great until recent update.. Recent update today slows game progression to a halt for free to play players and only encourages an already pay to win environment. This is going to scare people away. Bad update!" - ololopopkpklj
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Unfair chat ban
They really chat banned me for zero reason, and said I’m permanently banned from chat from my clan and public server. Stupid game
Pay to win
Newest update makes it where you can merge skins for better buffs, but not the easy to get skins only the ones that take tons on money or luck to get
Developer's are greedy
I've spent more than I care to share on this game just for that investment to be erased by the last several updates. They could have balanced the game in a way that protected player's real money investments but they did not. They drastically reduced the value of resources, compressed everyone's progress by 50% (thousands of dollars wasted on gaining an advantage that was eradicated), and increased the price of already overpriced packs. The developer's do not care about you and never will. Do not spend money on this game.
Misuse of Dev power against the player community
This would have gotten a 5 star if the devs actually thought through their most recent update before implementing it instead of rushing to push an unfinished project. While I see their view for update to make everyone at a more equal playing field, they stole from many of the average players and “whales” who purchase in-game rewards with this update. Rewards were not accurately refunded with the update, resulting in a MAJOR loss of progression for whales and a waste of money for everyone who wanted to purchase and have fun in the game. They halved the technology % for forge progression and cost reduction as well as sell price for equipment, while further decreasing the amount of hammers received as a whole. I really enjoyed playing this game as a casual spender on basic inexpensive packs, but the devs nerfed the whole game to ground. Miscommunication and representation of future plans seems to be a common theme now, since they are telling the community different information whether you are in the whale discord or community discord. Players are currently and have gotten banned from discord and the game for speaking out against the improper use of Dev power and the amount of greed they have for community money. Insufficient refunds by means of in game resources were not properly distributed post update. A true disgrace.
Worst game on the App Store
Title says it all. Good luck progressing unless you’re willing to drop a mortgage on the app. Btw all the reviews that give the game more than one star are whales and or bots. Really says a lot
False advertising
Ad shows different game play. Uninstalled scam app. Bait and switch. It’s. Money grab game
illegal activity
DO NOT SPEND MONEY in this game. Anything you buy gets changed at a moments notice and you are left without the original value of your purchase
New update needs better balance
Not balanced at all, if you were late-mid game completely trashed the progress
Great concept-broken economy
Latest update broke the game experience.
Absolute shame.
Absolute shame.
2.0 update kinda sucks
After the 2.0 update everything feels inflated and not fun like every other mobile game.
Bad update
The new update killed progress for free to play players. Not really worth it anymore
My review
The 4/2 update made this game 10 times harder to progress and pretty much just ruined it. I’m still gonna play because I like the game but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Update killed it
Game was amazing and now the new update killed any actual F2P progression and the rewards were cut significantly.
Invidated all my purchases
They completely changed progression in a way that made the money I previously spent worthless. Progression is more straightforward now, true, but I can’t get past the emotional Thanos snap that took away half my progress.
Terrible update
Really disappointed in how they chose the upgrade system. It’s far less generous than the old one. Makes the game so much more of a slog
Game WAS amazing. Pre 4/2
Don’t even bother downloading the game anymore the 4/2 update nuked progression for free to play the game is practically credit card debt simulator now. Was an amazing 5/5 game just one day ago. This update has ruined what was a great game.
Update 2.0.0 killed it
The new update killed the f2p game… yes power was increased but rewards are down drastically across the board. Clan wars used to reward 100s of hammers and now the winner gets 65… the update seems shortsighted
Game was great until recent update.
Recent update today slows game progression to a halt for free to play players and only encourages an already pay to win environment. This is going to scare people away. Bad update!
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Need Chinese languege
terrible
I recently downloaded this game and found it fun I think I got around 15 hours of playtime when I logged on this morning and the game said I was permanently banned
Horrible for kids
So game is not that bad no adds is good forge upgrades take to long but as I'm sitting there I see global chat and people are adding eachother on Reddit and insta and talking abt how they love femboys and tomboys and to send pics of eachother in maid outfits so uh kinda deleted it after that but is what it is
Not like the advertisement
Don’t download
Remove Chat.
This game doesn’t need a chat, and what’s in there is a bunch of rage baiting, political extremism, and grooming of minors; delete the chat.
Boring
Becomes dull really fast once everything takes more than a day to do. Not engaging after that. Jump thing sucks too. Too much random RNG
No game really
It’s uh… it’s very boring. “Click this one button. Want to give us money? You can give us all this money if you’re a bro. Nothing to do but sit here, click button, and maybe give us money”
Game is Garbage
Don’t even bother playing this game. The developers don’t care about how bad it is and have no plans to fix any mistakes which there are plenty of. It’s a complete cash grab as well so definitely don’t waste your money on these garbage people.
Highly Unethical
Firstly, this game uses tracking data that obtains your identity, location, and advertising data (cookies). This is another typical gotcha game. Free to play but pay to win. The developers try to extract any money they can out of you for better odds in events. Additionally, the moderators of chat are clearly incompetent and malicious towards users. I would recommend avoiding this game, as it’s just a money trap backed by censorship . Conclusion: highly unethical…
Of course we can’t do the
Competition cuz you all always put higher people against us I’m 65K and I get put against people that are 100k to 165K so I that’s why I hate multiplier games
P2W cosmetics
Defeats the entire point of playing.
Bad Game
Nothing happens after you’ve played it for about three days. No events, modes, nothing. Doesn’t stand side-by-side with most games I’ve played that are similar
Dev ruined a Good Game
The first month is fun. But then you learn that the RNG aspects make or break your experience. No major content changes in months, yet constant reworking and readjustments of the point systems, and catering to those who spend money and insanely high rng. After a month, it is an every other week slog to make any progression, while fighting the same players in leagues and chatting with the same people in chats.. and don’t use world chat, if you want to retain your sanity.. especially when the filter system is broken and no autocorrect.
Our clan is dead, and our progression is halted. Leave while you can, or don’t start playing.
Our clan is dead, and our progression is halted. Leave while you can, or don’t start playing.
Terrible updates
Updates change in-process war event win conditions, packs are too expensive, fights take way too long (need a 2x button at minimum).
Terrible
Don’t do it, it’s on par with putting your dick into a blender. Save your time and money
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Do not spend money
Never spend money in this game. Skill, pet, mount pulling rate is rigged.
Clans suck
This whole game is real iron on you upgrade yourself and get better and once will not cleanse if you’re not 1 million power most of them will kick you or you spend IRL money to make your own and if somebody kicks you, you have to wait 24 hours to even apple to other clans
Wars are frustrating
The game is fun until your clan consistently gets paired with another clan 4 times your size. They then will only have to win one day because they will automatically win day 6 because that day is worth twice the points as any other day. Used to love this game but it is highly pay to play now and the only way to win against bigger clans is to spend a fortune…
New update forces your towards buying
The newest update changed progression (making thing player put time towards already, worse) slowed everything down, and made it so that if you would like to progress at the previous speed, you need to spend money. It is largely pushing players towards spending money to progress further in the game, even at early stages.
Think I guess
I love how they aren’t ads. Now nothing can distract me from the game that I’m not enjoying. Don’t worry. Now I can now enjoy my time, waiting. For a common upgrade. hey but it’s not all bad. They’re special mini games to give you extra rewards. I love waiting an entire day to play it a mini game twice. So you can get special upgrades and gear. Sometimes. and possibly make a difference. if you’re lucky of course
About 5 minutes of fun, very boring very fast
It’s fun to play for a little bit, then gets extremely repetitive after a tiny bit. Mix it up a bit, add other aspects to the game.
Feedback
I mean it’s a good game and all but the upgrades and stuff I have issues with like waiting days for a forge upgrade isn’t fun at all and the tiers do nothing but shred through ur money at least let them up chances other than that it’s fine though
P2W Update
Every update is just monetization, no QoL or anything added to the game.
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)