reviews
It's a fine time-waster. But the ads are awful. if you don't choose to watch ads, they will shove them in your face anyways. You can't be successful in events without spending half your time watching ads. The micro transactions suck, too. They created a problem and are charging you to fix it. Play Cookie Clicker, which is just as fun, but the ads aren't crammed in your face as egregiously. I can crash the game and relaunch when I get them forced on me, but will probably uninstall soon.
noname269339, the 05/07/2025
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Even though years ago when they updated the game to its current form they took away my purchases and refused to refund me, I still return occasionally because, in theory, this is a perfect game type for me. But every aspect of the game is built from the ground up to squeeze players for everything they're worth. 90% of gameplay is ads - if you don't "choose" to watch enough rewarded ads, they force unrewarded ads on you. Every time I give Hyper Hippo another chance, I regret wasting the time.
noname720170, the 05/07/2025
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Was a great idle game and great how you can choose to watch ads in an uninvasive way. Well that's changed now. I hadn't played for months, decided to update the game and play it today. Went about three minutes before an invasive advertisement video took up my whole screen. Dumbest decision ever. Uninstalled immediately.
noname344014, the 05/07/2025
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A pretty good time waster. Playing with out watching a billion ads is almost pointless, since watching 8 ads a day gives you X2 on everything. And watching ads for ransom stuff results in hours becoming moments. So its a good time waster and an ad machine, but i like it enough to keep playing. has a lot of extreme malicious ads that don't appear in other apps. they open by themselves and then others won't close till you click on stuff. then when you do it opens other stuff even when it's an x
noname299336, the 05/07/2025
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Ads are ridiculous, after rank 6 they increase exponentially so that you feel obligated to keep playing after the time already invested. And these are the double, 30 second ads with multiple "X" buttons so small they cause you to redirect to the playstore. They happen every 2-3 minutes and take at least 1.5 minutes to get through. thats a ~65% - ~35% playtime to adtime ratio. Games with this level of ads usually get delegated to "once or twice a week for 2 minutes" status. Id watch them otherwis
noname709373, the 05/07/2025
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Although I occasionally enjoy the game, cant say I any longer want to financially support it.Many times the premium pass screwed me from getting far into it because a lot of it required me to watch a piss load of adds for a lot of the "challenges" regardless and getting the timed event passes aren't even worth it. i won't bother purchasing the short term ones because that's a joke, but the week long ones aren't even worth it. Don't even have enough space to type it all, not worth spending on.
noname748181, the 05/07/2025
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It's an enjoyable relaxing game, I started playing a couple months ago and now, I'm still playing wich is unusual for me. I recently had a bug where my rewards didn't get gifted to me contacted the support team and got my rewards the day after. Update, for the team it would be nice to have a more detailed ranking system during events to make it more entertaining... like a small competition between players and actually knowing when you go up a position or down.
noname987485, the 05/07/2025
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Great game, it's really fun to play. However, I want to hard reset my progress and going in the settings to hard reset works fine but when I try to hard reset only the settings change back to default and my rank and cards stay. Will rate 5 stars when fixed
noname941521, the 05/07/2025
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Really fun game once you get the ball rolling, plus it's got no mandatory ads, all optional. The progress is steady and it hasn't hit a paywall yet (I'm at rank 36-ish). I'd say it's more fun than Idle Capitalist; Capitalist has a certain charm, however, you feel a bit more engaged with Communist with the cards and stuff. Overall, 4/5.
noname993983, the 05/07/2025
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Great at first now it keeps having technical problems. Every time I open the app it runs for about 10 seconds before freezing and having black bars at the top and bottom of the screen appear. Which will not unfreeze until restarting.
noname331402, the 05/07/2025
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EDIT: The game is ok. The one negative thing is that the developers should check the ads that they are allowing in their game, most of them are scam apps, "promising easy money" those apps are all scams, and some very sexual. **Extra star, for their quick reply on trying to fix my first issue.No more crashes**
noname380095, the 05/07/2025
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The most important feature of " next" in the options to buy ... basically filling the meter 100% correctly is missing. And honestly.. i expect nothing but lazyness being the reason because not being like everyone else is such a bad excuse.. do u still need to breathe air? yes? Then put some clean functions in. This game is messy + check ur ads vendor. They force accept data and privacy settings for me highsnobiety or something its called. Thats against our country law..
noname667625, the 05/07/2025
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Finally a free mobile game WITHOUT ads every other second, though loses some points due to how slow things get as you get further along even with ad boosts, also more airdrops need to reward you without watching an ad, not just the ones that give minimal comrades or resources, also please let us skip the resource exchange tutorial, I don't want to be forced to exchange resources when I don't need to, especially when I just want to change my profile pic back to the original male comrade
noname301052, the 05/07/2025
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I keep running into an issue that prevents me from receiving a reward for watching ads. It happens multiple times a day. Fix that. I'm not watching these ads because I enjoy them, I'm watching them because I expect something in return.
noname43605, the 05/07/2025
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When the game works, it's great! It has a ton of game play before you need to idle to gather farmers. Switching between the event and main game tends to fail to connect. Then the game won't connect if I try to restart it, no matter how many times I try. Leave it for a half hour and come back, and it will work. Restart my phone, and it works. It also does this when losing signal. It'll boot me off once the wifi disconnects. then I can't sign in again once I'm back on the wifi. Please fix this!
noname802899, the 05/07/2025
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It's fine. But what really brings it down is that the game will not start half the time; it will not connect to their servers. This happens on both Wi-Fi and cellular data. Update: ads went from optional to forced when I got to rank 30. They also show up randomly without warning. Connection issues still happen and can happen when swapping to and from events.
noname761461, the 05/07/2025
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I was really enjoying this game but the most recent update has ruined it for me. While it's nice to get the rewards from the previous two events finally, all of a sudden I am getting constant ads while playing the game. Previously ads were an opt in thing to get a reward or use some kind of boost, but now they're just playing without any prompting, one after the other, completely disrupting gameplay.
noname678117, the 05/07/2025
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good time killer.. I understand the ads. but why, when I click the 'X' because the video is done, most of the time it opens their app. annoying. and when I back out to come back to the game, about half the time the game doesn't reward me for watching the ad. if I haven't played for a long time now, I would stop.
noname266217, the 05/07/2025
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Was a great game, fun idle game, that you could purchase stuff or get bonuses for ads if you wished, otherwise a good, ad-free F2P game. Now it will randomly play 30 second, non-skippable ads for clicking normal stuff like switching from the main screen to the comrades screen. UNINSTALLING this after playing it for months. I would not have even spent this much time on it if it did this in the first place. It would have been removed immediately, just as it is now that it started this.
noname629796, the 05/07/2025
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Played game on and off for years, always been a good idle game but the latest update has added random ads as opposed to only for boosts. Makes it very irritating and very easy to be redirected as you intended to tap something in game only for the ad to be tapped. Not worth it anymore. Amending my review to say ads were in the game and worked fine before when there was a choice, and it sounds like rewarded ads still don't fully stop all ads, just isn't worth it when I can't play for 2 mins now.
noname501604, the 05/07/2025
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Very addictive and fun to play but could we please have an option to pay to move the air drop ads on the main game please. It's very annoying to have to watch 12 per day to finally get the less frequent free ones. If this was possible then it would almost be a 5 star game...except that the wonderful events are unfortunately pay to complete them fully.
noname733181, the 04/10/2025
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There was a time when I loved playing this game. Now it seems like the devs are trying to discourage people from playing it. Every time you try to see what your quest goals are or complete a quest you can't because a plane or train is covering it. The Hippo bank banner pops over the area you need to click on to open next reward. Okay, I get it. You don't want us to play anymore. You win. Uninstalling now.
noname157929, the 04/10/2025
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I'd love to be able to give this 5 stars however this game is definitely getting close to not worth the time, they have started to double up on ads and have even sometimes used ads that were over a minute long. also if a mistplay ad comes up its got a 25-50% chance to freeze the app and mistplay ads are the majority of the ads they play.
noname113203, the 04/10/2025
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fun and surprising! I don't rate games. I tried back in the 2010 era but it got so tiresome. literally still you download a game, click to play and instantly (RATE US TELL US HOW YOU JUST ABSOLUTELY LIVE THING THING). Like my dude, I literally just downloaded it. back off! usually just delete. been playing since 2017. off and on. but I came back and this is the first time it's asked. never noticed frankly thanks to the other guys. you know who you are... anyway. thank you for not bombarding me!
noname858906, the 04/10/2025
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Not every completed goal awards points. It is hit and miss. For example, when I check the completed goal that had xxx points, it sometimes shows no progress. Given that I spent real money, I received nothing for any money I spent.
noname919812, the 04/10/2025
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I love the game, but 90 second ads? I just got used to 30 second ones. In the words of Biden "Come on, man". If it's a Google Play thing, then it's not on you. update: 60 second ads? Come on, man. Update 13th Sept 2025: That stupid Trading 212 ad won't close even after 2 mins of letting it run, same thing with the Tester Upper ads. More like 'Trading My Soul' and 'Tester My Patience'. I will always report those ads that I can't close when it should be closable.
noname686119, the 04/10/2025
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update from 2019. your current ad partner is extremely obnoxious. it's a forced 60 second ad but on second 59 it changes to a different screen with another 5-10 second timer and then it force opens the play store. it takes 2 minutes to get out of the ad. and there's no option to pay to get rid of ads so if you want to actually play more than 5 minutes at a time either you watch these really annoying ads or you have to pay even more money to use accelerators. bad monetization.
noname481566, the 04/10/2025
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This is not a bad game like many other overrated games in play store. Fun stops after level 8, as it gets more repetitive. On downside, no one needs to stress hard to play this game. Just tap and have fun
noname607888, the 04/10/2025
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Amazing game, but it throws 60+ second ads in your face, many where opening the Play Store is compulsory and leaving and coming back crashes the game without giving the reward I watched the ad for. I just ask that Hyper Hippo fixes the game so it doesn't crash every time another tab opens and also maybe find an ad provider who gives shorter more reliable ads. Or reward players with ad skip tickets in either free capsules and/or a minigame like Adventure Capitalist. That would make players enjoy.
noname664024, the 04/10/2025
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fun game, but there are some stuff that could be improved, the UI was confusing at first because to go back to the main upgrade tab after being in any other tab in the menu at the bottom it swipes right or left not up and down. avatars and researchers are too similar looking, idk if I unlocked an Avatar or a researcher. the game is starting to slow down a lot after rank 40. it should be offline I don't feel any competitiveness in the world rank
noname451434, the 04/10/2025
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this game is pretty awesome, but i dont really like the numbering system (#AA, #BB #CC #DD...). I wish there was a toggle in the settings to make it the same as it is in AdVenture Capitalist and cookie clicker (Trillion, Quadrillion, Quintillion, Sextillion, Septillion...) Personally i find it more appealing
noname405104, the 04/10/2025
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if you want to watch ads and then have them crash the game, but not get the rewards. this game is for you. it is getting worse. snapchat ad is the one doing it. I did send a screenshot. but it got beyond ridiculous so I deleted the game after over 1.5 years of playing.
noname178646, the 04/10/2025
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The events are now impossible to complete without spending money. Play2win now :( Shame. Dropped another star since the devs increased the levels of researchers. A pretty lazy way to increase the 'game play'. A new industry would have been better I feel. Now I play for 2 minutes each week and hope for improvement.
noname347431, the 04/10/2025
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a more accurate name would be "wait for comrades simulator" as once you get past the initial fun of the game it's not about upgrades, cards, or anything. just waiting for enough comrades, which in events is physically impossible to get enough without spending money
noname605620, the 04/10/2025
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I am at rank 56 and can say that you need to either watch a lot of ads or spend money to make any meaningful progress. Or play 10 minutes everyday and don't care about it like I do.
noname783306, the 04/10/2025
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