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Idle Lumber Empire - Wood Game
AppQuantum Publishing Ltd · 106,688 ratings · ★ 4.6
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106,688 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 80 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"
59 negative reviews mention this · 74% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. This developer charge my Apple account without notifying me. It was a fun game while it lasted, but done risk being stolen from" - Beast58
2
"nothing"
20 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. Game is nothing like the add showed. Completely different game." - Mahawajlo
3
"play"
18 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Definitely not the game shown. After a certain level they include ads about every 3 minutes of play" - me6656
4
"playing"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They’re robbing you. I’ve been playing this game for a few days and managed to get quite a few lumberyards up and running. I’m into the quadrillions now and noticed that the app is literally robbing us. Why when something is 1t it’s taking a whole 1aa?? That’s …" - Six Murphys
5
"money"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They’re robbing you. I’ve been playing this game for a few days and managed to get quite a few lumberyards up and running. I’m into the quadrillions now and noticed that the app is literally robbing us. Why when something is 1t it’s taking a whole 1aa?? That’s …" - Six Murphys
6
"level"
8 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Definitely not the game shown. After a certain level they include ads about every 3 minutes of play" - me6656
7
"every"
8 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Definitely not the game shown. After a certain level they include ads about every 3 minutes of play" - me6656
8
"different"
8 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. Game is nothing like the add showed. Completely different game." - Mahawajlo
9
"advertising"
8 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "False Advertising. The game is not what they advertise and there’s way too many ads. Waste of time IMO" - TJH345
📋 All 80 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").
Scam
This developer charge my Apple account without notifying me. It was a fun game while it lasted, but done risk being stolen from
Weird
This app asks to “download data” to your phone, sounds like a virus or tracking app not my cup of tea to go beyond that. Be careful also says to shut WiFi off that’s not normal y’all that’s so if you have antivirus it won’t catch it
Definitely not the game shown
After a certain level they include ads about every 3 minutes of play
Scam
Game is nothing like the add showed. Completely different game.
misleading
I thought it was gonna be a much more fun game than it is because in the ads, which is where I downloaded it from there were tons and tons of different minigames but when you download the app, there’s not a single mini game in sight except for the one occasional thing
Not as advertised
Game plays nothing like the ad. If it did, I would play it. Otherwise it’s just another generic time-waster.
Crashes at the beginning
Crashes right at the beginning on an iPhone 16. Don’t recommend.
False Advertising
The game is not what they advertise and there’s way too many ads. Waste of time IMO
Game is fun, sometimes
Sometimes the game is fun, but there’s a lot to do. There is not good explanations or even tutorials. Following the fb page is a waste of time. The cards you get to upgrade managers takeforever,
And so dos getting diamonds.
And so dos getting diamonds.
FALSE ADVERTISING!!!
This game is NOT the game I saw in the ads. Plus, playing on a phone sucks. I’m sure it’d better on an iPad. I wanted the game I saw, not the one I got.
Удалил
Затягивает, но удалил потому что очень сильное потребление батареи и телефон очень сильно нагревает.
false advertising
the ad is deceptive. not the same gameplay
No Ads paid Still Forced
I purchased the No Forced Ads and they are still forcing ads on me. This app should be shut down immediately for frauding customers.
Only an AD game
Ad, AD,AD, AD
Not worth it
Ratting 1 cause it was fun until it started glitching and being kicked out of game. Logged in for all of 5 seconds and being constantly logged out. Claimed rewards, after getting kicked out gotta reclaim rewards.
No like the ad
Why make cool ads with a lame game?? Honestly what is the point??
Fake ad and game is awful
Just another game that gets you to enjoy the ad just for the game to be completely different.
Adds
Game pops up adds that you are now able to close.
Ad doesn’t match the game play
As doesn’t match the game play
Not as advertised
Ok game. Good to pass the time of day. But nothing like the ads before downloading the game. Too bad because the ad was fun but after downloading probably will delete the game
Update
I really do like the game but after this recent 2025-2026 update is just so confusing and I don’t like it at all I been playing for just over 5 years and loved it until now I have already uninstalled and don’t plan to reinstall highly dissatisfied
NOT AS ADVERTISED!!!
What’s is in the app commercial is NOT how you play the game!!
Gross Paywall
This game has an audaciously blatant paywall that is so bad for the last 4 days I have had literally nothing to do except accumulate money to get to the next stage. I cannot believe how egregious this is for someone who isn’t going spend any more money.
This Update Makes Me Want to Never Touch the Game Again
Please I beg of you, go back to the old version. The new interface for orders is so confusing and dumb that I never want to play anymore. I used to spend literal hours on your game and now haven’t spent 20 minutes since this update.
Math is not mathing
Doesn’t give you the coins it says it will when you complete orders. Says there is a per min $ value but it’s doing much, much less than that even when you have the game open and are actively playing. Purposely slows you down as you advance technically so that you don’t move up fast.
Ad Nothing Like Gameplay
Like every other game out there, the advertisement was fake junk to suck you into a game nothing like what originally caught your interest.
Used to be fun
This game was a fun way to pass the time but I already can’t stand the new update. It’s fun to collect and grow, it seems like the game is shifting from its roots. Happily, the short term events haven’t changed!
Not like the adds
Nothing like the adds don’t download
Doesn’t even load
I just get a black screen
Newest Update Ruined Game
This new update is horrible. It’s quite over stimulating at this point with all these new items and multiple forklifts. The peaceful idle game is now very overstimulating.
Overcharge
What ever you try to purchase they’ll triple charge you . Sometimes even more.
Nothing like the ad
The games is very time consuming and almost impossible to level up without money at a certain point. The last update just changed how everything works and now I’m even further away from upgrading. Time to delete.
Bug
Tree planter and lumber jack bug won’t let me progress
Bad game
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Nothing like the ad
This is not even the same type of game as the demo/ad
Waste of time and boring
Just a waste of time to play. Not interesting. Extremely confusing. Not what the ad showed. I wouldn’t recommend it.
Ads, ads, ads
Without spending money or watching ads, this game is unplayable. So much dead time. Wait or watch ads. Also, this game stops if you are not actually playing. Go to another app, game stops. Go to a mini game, game stops. Just a drag. Deleted
Nothing like advertised
This game is absolutely NOTHING like advertised. This preview they show, I have yet to see any of that. This game is about to get deleted actually
Too many ads
If you have nothing but time on your hands play this game. If not you are watching a several minute ad every couple minutes. Very frustrating
all about purchases
App is full of purchases. The further you advance into the game, it takes longer to get income and basically forces you to buy managers to make your machines produce more logs/income. It was fun and a good time killer at first, but got boring.
Terrible game
Complete waste of time and internet.
Do NOT do in app purchases.
I really do like this game, but do not make any in app purchases. You will be charged for a MUCH higher amount than listed when asked to confirm the purchase. Again, I do really enjoy this game, but I am so disappointed in this facet.
False description
Game is nothing like ad or pictures.
This was their response: "Thank you! Your feedback is very important to us! Maybe you will see such gameplay one day! Creation of new features is not a quick process, and it requires patience :)"
Then advertise the game you made not advertising or promoting of the fake game you are not providing.
This was their response: "Thank you! Your feedback is very important to us! Maybe you will see such gameplay one day! Creation of new features is not a quick process, and it requires patience :)"
Then advertise the game you made not advertising or promoting of the fake game you are not providing.
False advertising
I absolutely hate it when the ads for a fans are NOTHING like the actually game play. There is nothing less satisfying than seeing an ad for a game and only after downloading said game it is completely different from the advertisement.
Game nothing like the preview
Game is not anything like the preview
Game is nothing like the add.
The game is nothing like the adds you see on social media. If you make an add for something people want to play why not make the game representative of the add? That just seems like common sense. The game itself if good in its own way. One star for false advertising.
Edit because the dev responded: Yes, that is the premise of an add. But you still include pictures from the add as the main pictures of the game before you download on the App Store. That’s not an add. That’s blatant false advertisement.
Edit because the dev responded: Yes, that is the premise of an add. But you still include pictures from the add as the main pictures of the game before you download on the App Store. That’s not an add. That’s blatant false advertisement.
Deceptive
The game shown in store description is almost nothing to the actual game. Very misleading!
Developer state we will see it in the game eventually. How can you advertise something you haven’t even started developing?
Developer state we will see it in the game eventually. How can you advertise something you haven’t even started developing?
Nothing like the ads
Super repetitive and every time you kinda get ahead, you’re brought back down to almost 0.
Mad mamma
Faults advertisement
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Lost Progress and No Support
The game lost progress multiple times. It kept telling me I needed to sign in to save my data, and every time it would lose up to hours of progress. Additionally, I paid for the permanent VIP upgrade. I had it until the next time I lost my progress, then it wouldn’t restore to my account. Support was not helpful. Now I’m out the hours of gameplay and the cost of the VIP pass.
+ 30 more in the clipboard copy
Sentiment summary
90%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)