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Wasteland Life: Survival Idle
SayGames LTD · 22,356 ratings · ★ 4.4
4.4
★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 60 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"
37 negative reviews mention this · 62% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashing. Downloadr game won’t let me play keeps crashing" - 32145556789
2
"play"
15 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashing. Downloadr game won’t let me play keeps crashing" - 32145556789
3
"games"
11 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ironic. First ad was for a game bragging about not having ads and telling me to delete games that have ads… There’s so many ads i didn’t even make it far enough to tell if I wanted to drop the money to remove ads." - evrythngiztaken
4
"minutes"
11 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The Ads are constant and tagged to open your web browser, App store, or shopping apps when X is hit. Play this game for a week and I am deleting it. The ads are absolutely atrocious. You can’t even play the game for three minutes without there being an ad popping up. And then on top of it, they have all kinds of little things spread throug…" - Snip€hunter
5
"into"
10 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Forced into pay to play. I played for a few days they don’t provide enough materials to mine to advance in the game. Forcing pay to play. No rewards for quests you give up materials to do." - just grow something
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"forced"
9 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Forced into pay to play. I played for a few days they don’t provide enough materials to mine to advance in the game. Forcing pay to play. No rewards for quests you give up materials to do." - just grow something
7
"every"
8 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun and engaging BUT!!. Like the title says, fun and engaging but ads every 2mins. Why? It’s 2026 and the ads interrupt like it’s 2015 mobile game ads again. Yes I understand the need for funds and development but it takes away from enjoyment of the game. Maybe I…" - NovaChromatic
8
"delete"
8 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun and engaging BUT!!. Like the title says, fun and engaging but ads every 2mins. Why? It’s 2026 and the ads interrupt like it’s 2015 mobile game ads again. Yes I understand the need for funds and development but it takes away from enjoyment of the game. Maybe I…" - NovaChromatic
9
"money"
8 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ironic. First ad was for a game bragging about not having ads and telling me to delete games that have ads… There’s so many ads i didn’t even make it far enough to tell if I wanted to drop the money to remove ads." - evrythngiztaken
10
"game play"
7 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Super slow game play. The number of planned ads that are built into the free game is crazy. If you play be ready to do multiple things during gameplay because ads always pop up. I understand the reason for the ads; but a dialed back amount would significantly he…" - AwwDaww
11
"other"
7 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The Ads are constant and tagged to open your web browser, App store, or shopping apps when X is hit. Play this game for a week and I am deleting it. The ads are absolutely atrocious. You can’t even play the game for three minutes without there being an ad popping up. And then on top of it, they have all kinds of little things spread throug…" - Snip€hunter
12
"days"
6 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Forced into pay to play. I played for a few days they don’t provide enough materials to mine to advance in the game. Forcing pay to play. No rewards for quests you give up materials to do." - just grow something
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Crashing
Downloadr game won’t let me play keeps crashing
Ironic
First ad was for a game bragging about not having ads and telling me to delete games that have ads…
There’s so many ads i didn’t even make it far enough to tell if I wanted to drop the money to remove ads.
There’s so many ads i didn’t even make it far enough to tell if I wanted to drop the money to remove ads.
crashes
can't load pages keep shutting me out i have spent money on this and it's fun but dang spy games
Forced into pay to play
I played for a few days they don’t provide enough materials to mine to advance in the game. Forcing pay to play. No rewards for quests you give up materials to do.
Crash, Crash, Crash
Total waste of time now. Game loads then crashes. Not sure what happened but it is total trash at this point. Lost all progress and cannot even get a chance to start over. Sent support request and nothing but crickets.
Be careful to never spend money on this game
If for any reason you save file gets messed up all they will offer you is to delete your game and restart all over again. So all time you spend, video ads you watch and if you spent any money to get to where you are is just lost and they don’t care. Just will tell you sorry we can only give you a VIP and some
Gems. NEVER SPEND A DIME ON THIS GAME and only play if you are using it to waste time. I lost over two year of time to this just to be told I need to do it all over again.
Gems. NEVER SPEND A DIME ON THIS GAME and only play if you are using it to waste time. I lost over two year of time to this just to be told I need to do it all over again.
The Ads are constant and tagged to open your web browser, App store, or shopping apps when X is hit
Play this game for a week and I am deleting it. The ads are absolutely atrocious. You can’t even play the game for three minutes without there being an ad popping up. And then on top of it, they have all kinds of little things spread throughout the map that are ad trying to get you to buy some item. And I know that you can pay to get the ads to stop. But in my experience with other games, you either continue to still get ads just maybe not as frequently or you have some type of billing issue. And then you can never get your money back so I’m not even gonna bother. And the worst part about the ads that they play in so many of them are from Temu and Amazon and the candy crush game. And every single one of those try to open up either your Amazon platform, the Temu platform or your App Store platform to force you to by the game or suck you into shopping and frankly it pisses me off when any app tries to open any platform I do or don’t have on my phone. I didn’t give them permission to access Amazon or any of the other ones that open the moment you clicked the X button to cancel the ad and close it out once they allow you to. so they don’t even have the X button coded to actually close the ad they are tagged to redirect you the platform related to the ad.
Too many ads
I’m fine watching adds for games I like. I understand that you pay to play one way or the other but this one is ridiculous. There is more add time than game time. Then you watch an ad to get an upgrade for 3 mins and two of those minutes they are going to make you watch another add.
I wouldn’t recommend even if you pay, because lots of the things you pay for are just temporary.
There are a ton of games in this same genre.. go find something else.
I wouldn’t recommend even if you pay, because lots of the things you pay for are just temporary.
There are a ton of games in this same genre.. go find something else.
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Trash
Ad literally 15 seconds into the game
Ads ruin a good game
Overall game play is good, but ads are a constant. Ads at the bottom of the screen, ads that take over DURING play, ads that pop up when you get a new item. Then you are prompted to pay to remove ads, pay for additional features and so on.
So I bought the No Ads Pack.. And
Turns out it’s only for the FORCED ADS! When I’m skipping time I still get Ads I feel like this should have been stated. On top of purchasing I got bombarded by purchase ads and a VIP Ad for 7 day access to skip 30s and no forced ads.. for an extra $15 now, dev is nothing but greedy cause I’ve purchased no ad packs before in other games and that meant NO ADS
Unplayable
You do not get a permanent ad at the bottom and a forced add within two minutes.
Just ads
Wayyyy to many ads! Every 3 or 4 minutes you get stopped by an ad and half those times they freeze up. Long wait times and there is nothing to do while you wait. Definitely do not recommend!
Money Required to Progress
Literally impossible to progress if you aren’t feeding the dev money. Current loop I’m stuck in: cant go into the gas station area because I need level 6 vacuum, can’t upgrade vacuum because I need glue, can’t get glue because I need to go on expedition, cant go on expedition because I need the kitchen, can’t get the kitchen because I can’t get rubber at gas station, and loop.
Suspicious activity reported
Was alerted today by my cable provider that there was a suspicious website trying to access my device for past three days and it was linked to your app. I will be contacting apple store to have this app and any other app you sell removed and your company blocked and if this suspicious website has gotten any information about me I will file a lawsuit against you directly…. Fair warning to all, delete this app before your hacked too
Game sucks
It is just like most of the games out there, get past early levels and maybe spend a little real money and then only real money will get you past next few levels and then your being asked to spend real money all the time for a series of useless and complicated builds that take forever which then only become a part of even more complicated builds requiring more money. Forget farming for items because the game was designed to take your money. Don’t waste your time or money.
Too many ads
Too many ads
Junk!!!
This game only lets me play for 30 seconds and then shuts down. It’s junk🤨🤨😡😡
Adds!!!!!
Death by add.
Glitchy and doesn’t pay
This game is very glitchy and has way too many times it crashes out of nowhere. You also have to watch ads even when you don’t want to. The most biggest problem is the game doesn’t pay for achievements. It’s a shame it’s a good game but these issues just make it not worth the effort.
Adds too many
Good games but way to many adds. With in the first 15 secs you get hit with two adds then got gets better the randomn video , or when you on levels collecting sand the adds freeze and the clock keeps ticking. Just seems like they force way too many adds
Forced ad
Forced ad a minute into the game? Seriously? Great job on displaying your greed. Immediate one star review and a delete from my phone. Would give zero stars if possible.
Ads every 1 minute
Ads is too much and no fun any more .because ads is so waste time and make me mad, I have to delete it
Pop ups
I love the game. I’ve been playing it a long time. But every time there’s an up date, there is more pop-up ads.. It’s gotten to where you can play for 30 minutes and 20 minutes of it will be pop-up ads. You can get bonus power or bonus vacuum for four minutes and three minutes of it it’s gonna be pop ads.
No updates
The wait for updates is ridiculous
Ad-Centric
Ads every minute or when you finish/claim something. Annoying AH!
Cute game and has potential, but sucks. Can’t even enjoy the gameplay with all the ad bombardment. Uninstalled 5 minutes in.
Cute game and has potential, but sucks. Can’t even enjoy the gameplay with all the ad bombardment. Uninstalled 5 minutes in.
Played for over a month
I don’t mind a few ads but these were insanely constant and not a game to play if you don’t want to spend INSANE amounts of money to get the smallest perk. Ad after ad that forces the App Store open and other apps too. No way to skip that or to stop it from opening them. Cute game over all, but the ads make it nearly unplayable.
Forced ads
2/15/2026 dev response update: you write a lot for saying, “we do not care.”
2/12/2026 dev response update: I stopped playing and uninstalled so quick. I will easily play games that have optional ads for rewards for that make sense, and will uninstall games with forced ads.
Forced ads longer than you play for. Easy 1* for greedy devs
2/12/2026 dev response update: I stopped playing and uninstalled so quick. I will easily play games that have optional ads for rewards for that make sense, and will uninstall games with forced ads.
Forced ads longer than you play for. Easy 1* for greedy devs
Sad
I’m stuck on the game I was watching a AD and it will not let me out!!!!!!!!!! It has been frozen for hours what is wrong with this game!!!!!!
App Crashes
Seems like it would be fun but 3 straight crashes and it’s deleted.
Too bad.
Too bad.
Level unknown
It’s stuck… won’t let me do anything….
Review
Don’t ask me to review a game I am 30 seconds into playing. Hence the one star. Ask me in a few days
Interesting
If you’re looking for an app that from the day you download it to now you only use it once; This is it. The app lags from the second you log on then it gets slower as you try to move the guy around to collect sand. The app really really sucks.
To much ads pop up
Not a big fan because I get spammed with ads. The only way to stop is to pay for no ads. The game is unplayable
Too many ads
Played for 5 minutes, was interrupted twice for ads. No thanks
Sleazy forced ad tactic
Fun game, but the further you get into the game the more frequent they force ads. Deleted.
TOO MANY ADS!!!
I was enjoying the game until you have to watch an ad for what it seems like for everything you wanna do, especially resources. It’s not even a decent amount of resources, it’s ridiculous. I understand that you need ads for your game, but you charge for packs too! So I feel that maybe less ads wouldn’t be an issue. Plus it’s not a very IDLE GAME like it was advertised. I seriously feel like it was even a waste of the $5 to remove the forced ads. Because the frequency is just horrible!!!
Lazy and unhelpful support team
Customer support is useless and refuse to help or acknowledge you for 72 hours
Eventually it takes too long to do things
So the game started out fun, the items and structures that needed to be upgraded did so quickly, then…it eventually gets to the point where the player has to go from area to area to gather dozens of items needed then use those items to build a piece to build a part. Like right now I need to build 150 ‘things’ to build a coil/antennae but in order to build those I have to build And the part requires literally over 100 parts to build it. And to make those I have to make 38 screwdrivers, and to make those I have to farm another 18 of the metal pieces by going to the same region again and again and each time remove the sand and break open the chests. And when that is done the thing you are updating takes hours to do so. This is the problem with these games. They are structured to irritate you to the point you pay to buy things because people want to finish what they started, but most people just stop playing, like me. It was fun for a few days, but this is a time passer game, not my life.
Game won’t play
Downloaded because the ads for it were fun but the game won’t load and let me play it. It cuts off back to my Home Screen each time. DO NOT DOWNLOAD
Ads
Constant ads & pop-ups for purchases.
Lags
Been trying to play the game but it continues to lag and freeze making the game unplayable. It happens constantly. You get maybe 3 minutes of gameplay MAX before it starts lagging horribly
Fun and engaging BUT!!
Like the title says, fun and engaging but ads every 2mins. Why? It’s 2026 and the ads interrupt like it’s 2015 mobile game ads again. Yes I understand the need for funds and development but it takes away from enjoyment of the game.
Maybe I’ll return when it’s fixed/changed/removed but for now delete and back to WOS I guess.
Maybe I’ll return when it’s fixed/changed/removed but for now delete and back to WOS I guess.
Boring
It progresses very very slow with a lot a repetitive games played several times in order to get very little reward. Getting bored very fast
Super slow game play
The number of planned ads that are built into the free game is crazy. If you play be ready to do multiple things during gameplay because ads always pop up. I understand the reason for the ads; but a dialed back amount would significantly help & reduce the drag inherent in it. The number of time I’ve had to restart is beyond comprehension, so be aware of those problems.
A real time sink
Lotta lag and a lotta crashes
Wrong ad
The game that they are advertising up above for the game is nothing like what you see in the game you download on your Apple phone unless this is the android version don’t have multiples of yourself running around and helping collect stuff like that in their advertisements plus it takes so long just to acquire things n build stuff that you need an it repetitive all the time
No Golden Staff
The Golden staff is not appearing when I go to town. I have lost at least 100 coins. Not fun anymore
Ads
Well, I would like to give this game a four or a five star mark, because it is enjoyable, clay, and challenging, mindless building, and farming and stuff… The problem is is that every 35 to 135 seconds another ad pops up so anytime you’re doing something ads or constantly popping up in this game… It’s maddening, finally I just started exiting the game every time an ad comes on, but then what happens is you get moved to a whole new location on the map repeatedly and you can’t get back the next ad comes… It’s so damn frustrating, I don’t mind ads for rewards… I do mind that when you watch an ad for a reward and then they make you watch another ad when the reward timer runs out, it’s just overkill
+ 10 more in the clipboard copy
Sentiment summary
85%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
9%
Negative (1-2★)