Idle Defense: Dark Forest

First off, I liked this game. I spent $10 for the VIP and another $10 on demon packs. (This game is not fully idle, by the way. It is a tower/lane defense game). It is quite ad heavy, (and I mean HEAVY even for a free game. Ads for gold, diamonds, demons, just for playing longer than seemingly one minute, each time you beat a level, and boosts) but I did not mind because I was enjoying myself. Then came this latest update. It made the grind even harder, changed the flow of the game completely, and essentially made anything anybody did in the past worthless. Your cool demons you spent money on or lucky enough to get in free summons? GONE! Earn them again with RNG that is almost guaranteed to screw you over! Also, it was supposed to fix some bugs. Fixed the bugs, huh? LIARS! Give me back my diamonds and demons! DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY IN THIS GAME!! Not only am I not able to watch the ads for the free demons, I cannot summon any either because you took my DIAMONDS!! OH AND NOW ALL OF MY PROGRESS IS GONE!!! **Update**: I was given some compensation, though it did not put me back where I was and still lost my VIP status. Therefore, the rating will be updated.

The game is good. I have noticed that the rare demon shards ad won’t let me select it even though it has the red exclamation point. It also says that it is ready. Is there a way togix the error without resetting progress? I will attempt a resurrection and if that fixes the error I will modify my review with the fact Resdurection did not work. Rare summon is stillgreyed even though it is available according to the red circle and lack of a timer. I would show a screenshot but reviews do not allow such things, if you reply with an email I can email you a screenshot of the glitch further edut. Now normal summon is grayed out too without a timer. It appears the problem is caused when exiting the app on the summon screen. It happened with rare when I tried to exit an ad and was brought to the App Store. Please reply with an email so I may show you what is happening Further edit. It is fixed. It appears I just had to wait a day. The game is good

I’ve been playing for a couple weeks now, and this idle game is in my top 3 favorites. A tower defense game, which is a personal favorite from the past, that is also an idle game and that works great with my busy schedule. It seems to be sort of early on as there aren’t a huge amount of extra features, so it’s great for new players to hop in and get the hang of what’s there. It’s a fairly simple concept. Build towers, earn gold, upgrade/evolve towers, increase maximum stage for more options available, “prestige” or rebirth for bonuses, rinse and repeat. There is also a “hero”, or in this game demon, system as well and that’s one area I do have some slight issues with. The Demons are obtained by a gacha type system where you have the ability to “draw” from a random pool of available Demons. You have 2 options for free uses, a “Normal” with 10 daily uses, and a “Rare” with 5 daily uses. The amount of pieces you get per draw is a little lackluster for the amounts needed to obtain a full set of any given rarity, as well as the “Rare” option seemingly netting me mostly common grade pieces. There is also no indication of your chances of getting X rarity or even X amount of pieces per drop, that addition alone would be nice so that players are able to see what the odds are. There are a ton of ads, but it’s a free to play game so that’s to be expected honestly. There is a VIP system, but, BUT, as it is of this review, again, AS IT IS of this review, it’s well worth it in time saved and bonuses. Just the ad skip and daily diamonds pays for it over 30 days in time saved PLUS premium currency. All in all, a great idle game that could be quite entertaining if that’s your thing, but I’m hoping for more updates.