Idle Ants - Simulator Game Wiki

It took me around four days to make it through levels 1-6 and I feel like it’s a pretty good balance of leveling/earning. 3x is always worth it and it’s just slow enough to keep you playing just to get that one more level. Will keep playing for more worlds and to 100% each world. About a week ago, when I would max out something on a lower world it would show gray for the same item on worlds above it but still let me purchase it. When an item was maxed out it would occasionally let me buy it and not increase anything. I feel like the strength is a bit unbalanced. It’s not really necessary to increase it over about level 15 and it doesn’t add to the overall idle productivity.

I love this game. It makes me feel a lot of joy. I’ve always loved watching ants collect. The upgrades are easy and watching the ants go to work is very satisfying. This is my most favorite insect themed game. Most games centering around insects usually revolve around destroying them. But I love to observe insects, and this is amazing. I like to focus on upgrading their numbers instead of their speed and strength because real ants work in numbers, it gives me a more realistic experience. Plus, it makes the game last a little longer. I really want more content to play with the same basic controls. I’m never really happy when mobile games rely too much on bonus items. This game has the perfect balance.

Out of all the idle games I have downloaded and played, this is by far the best. I have been playing it for about two days now and already completed the game, but don’t fret. The game is highly satisfying. In most idle games the beginning is easy and satisfying but towards the end or middle you feel like upgrades are to pricy, or you loose ambition to play. This game keeps you interested and the upgrades are cheap and easy. The gameplay is satisfying, so keep it up guys. This is amazing and I can’t wait for other maps.

After spending some time on the game I managed to max out the 3 options, speed at around 125 if I’m not mistaken, ants at 143 and strength at 25. The game breaks going past any of these options and you either have to reset or simply wait out any ad timers there are. I sped the game up immensely through the use of ads, taking my play time up from 5 hours to about 2 and the game was over. The reason I did this was to not only see what happens at the high speeds and how many ants total you can have, but also just because it was fun to watch them deconstruct the foods at those high speeds. If there is any way for you to add more of anything to the game, (a prestige system, more food, challenges, color variants to the ants, etc.) that would be wonderful. Until then, I cannot give this game a full 5 star rating because of the game breaking elements and the lack of content past the cap.

I’ve owned the game for a while and have played it regularly to the point I’ve finished the initial worlds and now am saving the insane amount for the next map after the latest update. It is an entertaining game but I have some complaints about its “idle” tag. To me, an idle game is one that can be played and then ignored without any micromanaging while the game is running. Unfortunately that’s not the case here. If the game is running you have to constantly tap on the collection of currency after each food is consumed. I’d like to see a timer that counts down, 10 seconds or so, to select wether or not you wish to view the add for the x3 bonus. Otherwise you get the standard amount and the game can continue to the next food. So far, from what I’ve noticed, there is no collection of currency/sec from previously created worlds while you’re playing. This should always be happening even in game, but instead it only seems to count for offline gains. For those of us who have purchased the “no ads” option it would be nice for an auto collect for the bonus options of double speed, the red ants, and the little guy that carries the loot sack. Consider it a perk for supporting the game maybe. Thanks for the entertaining game.

This is a great game and I love it. Seeing the ants grab a small piece of the object is satisfying, and getting more ants, speed, and strength makes it better. A great stress relief since I have anger issues. Although something that could make the game even better is to have less advertisements. Buttons pop up on the ride side around every 45 seconds. Maybe every 2 minutes an ad pops up on the side to give speed or temporary ants. And to make the game great, there should be sound. Quiet sounds of the ants walking and taking a piece of the object, with zen music in the background, and when the object is fully taken apart, it makes a cash sound effect. Less ads and sound would make the game great.

It is a fun game, and could have a lot of promise. I have found 1 bug or issue i was not aware of before... I have made it to the last level and every time the ants bring sections of the food back, it decreases my money amount and will even bring it to a negative amount, meaning i am unable to purchase any upgrades unless i move back to other worlds or when the entire thing is removed. After reading a handful of other reviews it doesn’t seem like anyone else has had this problem, but perhaps it’s just my device that has this issue, but i have all the latest updates on my device. so I’m not sure what the issue is.

For anyone who reads reviews I would say to give it a try, it’s not the best or the worst. All you do it upgrade your ants and eat food. There are different worlds which I like. There are a lot of ads, there is an ad after every level. The levels aren’t that long once you’ve got the hang of it. Some ads can be longer then the level. My tip is to turn on airplane mode while your playing the game, it doesn’t play ads at all when you do that. There are different food and drinks also, sometimes you get the same one but that only happened to me twice. Otherwise I would just say try it out it’s not bad. It’s not my first pick in games but I’d say it’s ok. The ants could like go back in rows like normal ants do because they run into each other, that could be a little more organised. Always thanks for taking time to read my opinion.

If you look at all the ads as a part of the process it won’t brother you as much. But the game freezes and crashes because of the ads. And it heats my phone up tremendously, and that’s with no other windows open, contrast all the way down, Bluetooth off, and my phone heats up bad from playing this. But I also play Honkai Impact, and I have my settings on HD, 60 FPS and play for an hour and my phone won’t heat up. Why is this game so resource heavy with phones? This is a time killer, it’s ok, lots of grinding, would be nice if they optimize the power usage. Ok for a tap game though . 60% of ads you don’t have to do. But it gives boost so I don’t mind... just do something about the crashing and optimize your resource usage for these devices, or I will have to uninstall

I like tycoon games. I don’t download many app store games, but one day I decided to see what the app store had to offer. I saw that this was a tycoon game and sometimes I just like clicking on things to make numbers rise. This game is so close to being good, but the fact that you HAVE to watch an ad after you beat the level makes the game nearly unplayable. This app isn’t worth the $9.99 that removes the ads. Maybe $5, but all I’m doing is looking at ants run back and forth. I’d actually gladly watch a few of the ads that give you bonuses, but I don’t want to because the developers got so greedy that they decided to force you to sit through an ad after every level. When levels only take about 12 seconds to get though, you’re staring at an ad for longer than you’re looking at ants. It probably gets as bad as 30 seconds of level, 30 seconds of ads sometimes. This game should be called Idle Ads. They claim in the newest update that there’s new sound design but the only sound that this game makes is the audio from ads. Ads ads ads. I get the feeling that the developer(s) don’t care because they probably make $200 off of each person from ad revenue. Apple’s not going to do anything about it. So the developers are going to sit there raking in money. And here I am, beating a level, closing the app and reopening it just to get past a level without having to sit through a 30 second ad.

My opinion about the game isn’t that it’s the worst it’s just not the best. Someone said there were a ton of ads but I just put my device on airplane mode so I didn’t get a chance to see if there were or not. But, honestly I don’t really like the game for the so fact that you just sit there watching ants go over to something and then take pieces of it into a hole. The only interacting thing you can do is upgrade and at the end either multiply your earning or push an x. There’s nothing to really do so if you’re looking for a game to just kind of sit and watch and do few interactions with then this is good for that if you’re looking for the total opposite then I’d say this probably isn’t for you. I mean, who knows? Maybe it is for you. Just because this is my opinion on the game doesn’t mean it’s yours too. If you want to see what this game is all about go for it, try new things maybe you’ll end up liking it. I don’t know. But, a heads up is that I think some stuff is over-priced. You shouldn’t have to pay for different ants that only have upgrades that you can just use your coins to buy. The ants in the store should be bought with coins not actual money. That is my opinion on the things I went through as I played the game. If you want to check it out I say go for it maybe you’ll end up liking it. Who knows?

Ok I’ve been playing this game for a while now and have not gotten very far, that’s because I have not played it. This game is potentially boring, maybe I’ve played it one or twice on my phone but, this game is boring. It also has money in it. Real money, like it’s all money money money. Oh and let’s guess there’s ads, of course there’s ads it’s a idle game, all idle games have a LOT of ads. Like for example, when you get money, sometimes ads just pop up out of nowhere. And there worlds, are SUPER hard to get. Oh and probably you can buy all the worlds for money, here we go again. Sure this ones a time-killer, but this game is not my kind of game, it’s just boring. Now I’m not trying to hurt someone’s feelings, but I just don’t like this game, one game is a HUGE time killer, it’s called roblox. It has TUNS of games. One is gacha life. I’m not saying you shouldn’t get this game, but I’d probably read this first it NEEDS changes, and NOW . Also why just why, when you just started to grow more strength, AND THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW THE GAME MONEY IS 60K FOR MORE STRENGTH! IT NEEDS CHANGES!

I beat the entire game in 1.5 hours: The game was fun and slow at first, and I kept watching ads to get the bonuses, which seemed worth it at first. I absolutely hate how they force you to watch an ad regardless of if you will get the boost anyways. I ended up paying the $20 to remove ads and then get all the special ants. This allows you to constantly have 2x speed, profit, free extra squads, and free VIP ants. The game literally does not scale to this kind of play, and is why I finished all the levels in 1.5 hours simply by spending $20. This is not rewarding and is terrible game design. Also, the VIP ant lets you spam press it while it’s walking out if you have purchased the “remove ads” and you will get the money multiplied by the number of times you clicked the ant. Overall I liked the game at first, but clearly this is just to make money for lazy developers, who will post “balance tweaks and bug fixes” every now and then to look good on the App Store, but ignore the blatantly obvious problems with the game mechanics.

You spend more time watching ads than ants. It’s definitely not worth anywhere near the $9.99 to remove the ads. And even when you’re watching the ants, you’re bombarded by pop up asking you to watch more ads for bonuses that aren’t needed. Each level already only takes 10-20 seconds to complete. Don’t download this crappy app. It exists just to make money on showing you ads, and is probably mining all your data while doing so. This is seriously a terrible example of corporate greed. Developers, if you actually care about making a good game (which I seriously doubt because clearly this is just about money), my suggestions would be the following: -don’t require an ad to progress to the next level. You already have an option to triple the money gift for finishing a level by watching an ad. So what’s the point of making them watch an ad either way?? Oh right. Corporate greed. -make upgrade purchases more expensive. The game is too overpowered such that levels go by basically instantly (meaning yay! Another ad!) -decrease the bite size of each ant. They’re eating too much of the item, again making the levels super short. Instant gratification isn’t necessary with idle games - they should be more about the slow burn. -decrease the no ad purchase by at least 50%. This crap game isn’t worth $10 and you know it. You’re just gauging. It makes me extra not want to support your nonsense.