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idle lumber empire
free game | android
07-07-2023, by o'neill
idle lumber empire, available on android
Become a forest magnate.
The game is available on Android. Discover this free game now.
Android compatible, you will find all the informations about the supported systems on the official website.
The link redirects directly to the Google Play site for added security. Once on the site, identify yourself with your Google account associated with your smartphone or tablet, then click on "Install".
reviews
Good game but too many glitches. I put alot of work into upgrading machines and making money and sometimes it doesn't save my work or it restrts the level of the machine. Also, it isn't allowing me to save and exit. So many glitches and issues the last year and its annoying as hell. Please fix them! Update (04.07.23)- the update has made everything worse! Bags and technical issues haven't gotten any better ????
noname971407, the 07/07/2023
The game has lots of ad which isn't to bad but it does take a while to get through levels. Even after purchasing the ad free version you still have to spend a ton of money to keep advancing through the games. Getting the character cards for each level gets harder each stages. I wouldn't play the game unless you wanna invest some money into it.
noname757859, the 07/07/2023
Update: Support suggested I contact them through the app. I had done so a couple weeks back. I identified an ad that acted as I described. I was told it would be resolved in 2-3 weeks. Not reasonable. Waste of time. No reward. Games that show ads shouldn't have "dead" ads. Literally, it wastes your time and doesn't make money for them. And, it won't give you a reward. Sometimes, you get to watch another ad to get the reward. Sometimes, it's lost forever. So frustrating. Fix the dang ads!
noname685438, the 07/07/2023
Game is repetitive to the point of painful. To get through a level it's watching tons of ads after ads. 8 'factories' in and absolutely nothing is different than the first level. Each 'upgrade' is just the same thing again and again. You just start over and do it again, only each level takes longer to do the same things. I'm sure if you wanted to waste money you might get real changes, but doubtful. Was hoping to have a nice time waster, but this got boring after the first 20 min.
noname730818, the 07/07/2023
Terrible ad campaign. I haven't even used this app, but I get ads for it. They are WAY too long. I timed it. 1 minute and 15 seconds before I can tap [u003eu003e] then [X]. That's 75 seconds, when the standard is 30 seconds. Shame on you devs. It makes you look really bad. Plus its obvious it's not really the gameplay. When you make annoying ads that are not skippable nor mutable, it makes people not want to even try it. If your ad campaign isn't user friendly, then likely your app isn't.
noname631732, the 07/07/2023
It was cool while it lasted until you are forced to basically pay to play...you cant level up managers or move forward with the game because you have to sit through a million ads to get to the next level. Playing the game and making "money" is pretty much useless because you can't use it to buy the tools and what not to advance once again forced to watch ads every two seconds or pay.
noname888506, the 07/07/2023
This is an idle \ timer type app. For it's style \ genre, it's ok. Not too buggy. Ads are a little much, hence the lower star rating. There is very little strategy to this game tho. It's timers, wait, ads, tap occasionally, ads, wait. :) The ad that got me to install this game is nothing like the game. No road construction, puzzles or alike. Writing this review in hope they make such a game or they change the ad to better reflect the actual game. Again, if you like this genre, it's not bad. :)
noname439162, the 07/07/2023
The game is not too bad, but doesn't have much variety from 1 level to the next. Plus, it looks completely different to the ad for this game when I first saw it. It was meant to be a bridge building game in the ad, but turns out to be a lumber factory based game.Nonetheless, it was entertaining enough to start playing it, just not interesting enough to continue. The ads are just relentless if you don't want to pay for ad free. It's ridiculous! It's a real shame due to how many ads there are!
noname371967, the 07/07/2023
Other reviews are accurate. It doesn't take long to hit a wall, and "persistence" is not the answer. It's boring and tedious. It takes to long to get enough materials to build a home, then it takes too long to build a home to get enough xp to progress. The answer isn't persistence. The answer is balance and side quests or mini games. Also, watching ads shouldn't stop progression. That's frustrating.
noname303656, the 07/07/2023
I was enjoying this game for a bit but have to give it one star for wasted time and money invested. There is a glitch for when your phone completely dies, the first thing the game does is force the tutorial on you and all your progress for the season pass is gone. When you reconnect with your Google account, it reverts to when you very first connect to it, not saving any of your data. All managers and progress I accumulated are gone. This is the 2nd time this has happened to me. A total waste
noname605699, the 07/07/2023
I play a lot of idle games right now because I have a newborn baby. It helps that I only need to click a couple of buttons once in a while. I played this game for two days. I didn't like how the cost of upgrading a machine was so high and then it doesn't equate difference it makes in terms of speed/income after you upgrade it. Also, the "bonuses" didn't come that often. It made the "grind" less motivating if that makes sense. Other idle games feel more rewarding every 2-3 minutes of gameplay.
noname805411, the 07/07/2023
I've been playing this game for over two weeks. The ad shows players solving puzzles, building bridges, etc. However, all this game seems to be is an advertising engine. If you want to do basically anything, you are forced to watch advertisement after advertisement. I really wanted to enjoy this game, but it seems it's just another bait and switch. I'm really disappointed because the promotional videos show the game premise having a lot of potential...and almost all of it goes unrealized.
noname179243, the 07/07/2023
The game is fun. However, it does come with a huge caveat. In order to progress very well or claim decent gifts, one must watch ads. These ads can be lengthy, a couple being over a minute long. Now, when what you're trying to gain is about that time or less, it makes no sense. Also, more often than not, the ads will not load, forcing the app to be closed and restarted, thus losing that which one was first thing to gain by watching the ad.
noname11842, the 07/07/2023
Very addictive, but level-ups are horribly designed. First of all, the game starts out pretty slow, but as you play and upgrade components, the empire begins to grow. Once you've upgraded all the components to their max levels, it asks prompts you to modernize your operation, but it resets your progress to zero at every advanced level. This is not practice because you spend hours getting to where you are, only to have to do it again...and again... But each level does let you build up faster. Meh
noname114957, the 07/07/2023
I'm ok with the ads. Really liking the things I'm getting for free. But what I'm not liking is some ads I guess take too much time that it closes the app while I'm still on it. So frustrating to see the app going back to the home screen after an ad. I don't have no other apps in the background. It's just this one.
noname74426, the 07/07/2023
Loved it starting out. The 3 click ads are a bit annoying but not the end of the world. I also don't mind that when you build a new factory that you start over because you retain your leveled up managers and diamonds etc so re growing the new factory happens quickly. However now that I'm a ways into the game I am getting 90 second ads, the same 90 second ads. I have no interest in waiting 90 seconds to get the reward and definitely not the same 90 second. You lost me as a player.
noname615720, the 07/07/2023
Ok. I wasn't going to, but I finally decided to do it. It is very frustrating even not being able to watch the ads. At the end of the day, you are making money from it. Why does this game crash even when you agree to watch very length ads? Click to watchu003ecrash with black screenu003ehave to kill the process to be able to play again. There are no 5 stars until it is fixed.
noname469657, the 07/07/2023
so very very slow. The ftue leaves you doing nothing.... your truck driver goes to sleep constantly. You are left to hunt around to see what you can upgrade. The logs take forever to get there. The demos show managing a running factory, now that might be the case eventually. But to start it is hard to get into it, if there is nothing to do but wait for money to upgrade. And then not know what/which needs to be upgraded to make it go faster. There are too many upgrade locations to start
noname101438, the 07/07/2023
It's ok. videos dont run 1/2 the time they just stall so you cannot get the bonus. Having to click workers that fall asleep only when you play the game is annoying. There is no technology tree. Some of the game advice is off. Also watching some of the bonus videos when they do work doesn't give you a bonus. Animation is cool. It's kinda fun but Im glad it was free.
noname733476, the 07/07/2023
The video ad for this game is a complete lie. The game is nothing like it. If the developer is so deceptive on the ad, how deceptive do you think the game will be. The game is boring and nothing but repetitive. Every mill upgrade reduces your progress. After a few mill upgrades, money doesn't matter but ads are the only way to progress. Ad system just hangs on certain ads. This is not an idle game. The game timer does not progress while watching ads or even when in an event.
noname423515, the 07/07/2023
The developers have ensured that many functions only work if you play their ads - no real problem with this, except the volume required is manifestly excessive. The current major problem, which the developers are not addressing in any way, is that there are no adverts available to play - making the whole event a waste of time and effort.
noname552600, the 07/07/2023
In order to get ahead you MUST watch ads. This is fine for the most part but now I've reached a high level it no longer lets you watch ads to get ahead. Just a blank screen meaning that you either go slow or decide to pay. I thought it was a glitch at first but seems like you get to A high level then you can advance by watching ads. I was willing to watch but not willing to pay. Prices are outrageous.
noname231088, the 07/07/2023
Gameplay is nothing like the ad. I still enjoyed enough to pay for ad-free. Alas, after a week and a half, it couldn't keep me interested. It's the same process with every new mill. It takes longer and longer to progress, and paying real money won't guarantee faster progress since upgrade parts are discovered by opening crates based on chance. It's too repetitive and there isn't enough variety to keep me engaged. I have 150+ hours on Cells To Singularity w/out spending a dime. Take notes, devs.
noname869993, the 07/07/2023
I was quite enjoying this game until I stopped getting the ad options. Your FAQs says if you watch too many ads, no more ads for you temporarily. Why are you penalizing your players for playing the game as you designed it? I get wanting to make money for your hard work, but not everyone can afford to pay $25 for the no ad experience. It's physically impossible to upgrade managers with no ads because every crate requires you to watch an ad to open it and the rewards suck at higher level sawmills
noname549231, the 07/07/2023
I enjoy the game, but I've had a few problems. The last update makes it so I can't actually close the game. Pull down from the top, hit the back arrow, bring up a prompt asking if I wanted to quit the game, click yes, it closes. Now I click yes, it goes back to the game. Now I have to force it to close and it doesn't save everything so I lose progress. Side note, I've had to restart the game over 4x because of phone problems, save up during Holliday events, event ends, lose all I earned.
noname634254, the 07/07/2023
Gameplay is watching commercials to try to do anything, but only after another commercial. The gameplay is so purposely agonizingly slow that you are forced to watch commercials in an attempt to reward you with partial resources, but then have to watch more commercials to use them to build parts, to then watch more commercials to piece the parts together. And gameplay is not even close to the commercials that are out there for this game, very misleading.
noname855425, the 07/07/2023
The game play is not like the ad, of course. The game is ok but having to lose ALL your progress everytime you level up your factory got me to level 2 of upgrade then I stopped playing the game. Every level up on saw mill, lumber jack, planter, number of employees etc.. is reset to beginning of game stats over and over. The game is also very linear so Meh! Dropped my rating from 2 stars to one when developer made response to not being able to come back. I assume it was a threat
noname718384, the 07/07/2023
Game depends heavily on Ads. Which isn't completely horrible since most are 15 seconds. Played this for almost a week and all characters stopped doing their jobs, meaning I'm at a standstill. Orders can not be completed, no one is running any machine and managers that are supposed to streamline work flow do nothing. I've reset my phone, exited the game and everything but no one is moving. Will Uninstall because there is nothing else to do.
noname739150, the 07/07/2023
Another artificial scarcity game, where there's always at least one thing that's difficult to get and they want you to shell out big $ for. In this game, it's multiple things. Ads are annoying as well: no mute on audio, almost all are the 3 stage watch video, click u003eu003e , wait, click x. Also, the ads for this game are puzzles - build a bridge for lumber trucks, etc - and the game is just one tedious simulation
noname496683, the 07/07/2023
Okay I'll admit I love the lumber aspect of this but I hate the building the houses and the village part so I'm uninstalling. I mean it's a cool and different concept but I feel like it takes forever to progress without watching a bajillionty ads and I am just going to go back to playing old PC games because no ads, and no ridiculous prices or monetary amounts. Cool game in some ways just not what I looking for in a game.
noname120084, the 07/07/2023
I cannot get this to sync across devices on the same Google account, I've tried 4 different devices and each one seems to have its own progress. When first installed on another device it picks up the progress from my phone (main playing device), after that it only remembers what I've done on that device and won't sync to my phone or any of the other devices. It's like there's 4 separate saves going on. Support were no help and just copy and pasted a FAQ in a reply.
noname798833, the 07/07/2023
Rating based on your intrusive ads on other apps. They are too long and repetitive and make you watch the same screen for longer than most ads. You guys need to fix them because I hate this game without even having tried it. Update: if your ads are that repetitive, and ads embellish, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Scrap your current ads. They are surely damaging your product.
noname178615, the 07/07/2023
Really misleading ads for the game are shown. Most annoying part of the game is the job "refresh" timer only counts down when you are in the game, so you cannot leave the app, do something and come back and have the jobs refreshed, you must stay in the game for them to refresh. There isn't a big requirement to watch ads or pay for content to proceed, the main hangup is the timer and misleading advertisements.
noname645242, the 07/07/2023
Yesterday, the game hung during an ad. I haven't been able to launch it since. As in a completely black screen for a few seconds, then kicks back out. When I look at the apps running in the background, this app just has a white window below it's little logo. Killing it doesn't work. Restarting phone doesn't work. This isn't the first time this happened. I just took several months off from the game and just gave it a try again. Not sure what's going on.
noname314093, the 07/07/2023
The gameplay is very simple, but the monetization is fierce. You can progress at any rate you wish, but are constantly bombarded with bundles to progress faster. The timed events award upgrades that are far easier to obtain by paying....and the top rank rewards(avatar pics, lol) will never be obtained by F2P users. Ads are shoved down your throat too, which is common practice, but are basically mandatory if you arent buying the bundles. All their games are knock-offs of popular games.
noname134592, the 07/07/2023
I like the game, but there are way too many ads. You click on 1 thing, get an advert, as soon as you finish, click on the next thing, get an advert. THERE IS AN ADVERT EVERY MINUTE It would be ok if you had a range of 50 adverts, but when you are looking at the same 3 adverts over and over and over, it drives you crazy. I would play longer but I have to stop because of repetitive ads. Yes you can pay for no more ads, US$27.99, but that's AUD$42.00, wayyy too expensive just to not watch ads.
noname39329, the 07/07/2023
The game waste so much time on ads. Even a five second ad stretches upto 30 seconds, sometimes hanging the phone and I have to close the game. Sometimes I click on an ad and the game hangs due to which I loose the item for which I was wanting to watch the ad and also I lose my time. So, I feel like this game is just waste of time and not interesting.
noname46269, the 07/07/2023
I just started playing this week. it's a pretty addictive game. I ended up purchasing to remove the ads because they were pretty long. it's not necessarily "pay to play" but it takes a long time to progress unless you spend the diamonds. I did lose all of my progress after an event update but I'm working with "Ricky Martin" to at least get some of my stuff back so I can get back to where I was in the game.
noname323128, the 07/07/2023
I'm a huge gamer but never really play mobile games. But hey, gave this one a go. It starts really fun. Had a few mindless hours whole watching TV. But then, then it drops in progress and shoves microtransactions right in your face. Soon as you get to building houses, it's next to impossible to get paint and nails. So you just sit there making money you can't spend. Shame, could have given it a higher review if not for a suffer stop in progress.
noname352608, the 07/07/2023
Good but could be better! I've been playing for a little over a year and once you get far enough into it and if you opt for ad free it gets a lot better but to be honest since they started a competition in events it's becoming a lot more fun infact the regular game is getting a bit boring. What would fix that is actually changing the factory with each upgrade instead of being the same with higher payouts. Every level looks the same except for holidays. Just a thought. ????????
noname655721, the 07/07/2023
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