Reviews of IdleSphere

By: Idle System, Inc.

List of user reviews and ratings for IdleSphere

Total ratings

3.90 (Rating count: 30)

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Review summary

IdleSphere is praised for an engaging idle core and strong visuals, with depth in sphere upgrades and challenges. However, players frequently note a lack of tutorial, confusing currencies, slow long-term progression, and performance/UX frictions that hinder smooth progression.

Pros

Engaging idle gameplay that players can sink hours into.
Beautiful visuals and polished visual design.
Deep, varied mechanics with sphere upgrades, battles, and multiple challenges.

Cons

Lack of tutorial or clear instructions makes core systems hard to understand for new players.
Progression can stall or be extremely slow, with long time gates and grindy challenges.
Currency system is confusing and some currencies feel useless or underutilized.
Performance/UX issues: heavy GUI updates, upgrade resets after prestige, and limited automation options.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 2.80

All time rating average: 3.90

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27% (3)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-03-21	M3*****	This seems like a fun game to sink a lot of time into, but I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. There’s no tutorial but there’s also no location to go to for a FAQ or an index or anything of the sort. I’m just pressing a button to make more colors but I have no idea what the button I’m pressing is doing or what the colors represent or what I’m gaining. I’m truly just confused and lost which is a shame because I really enjoy games like this, but it’s a seemingly complex game that would do well with instructions.
This seems like a fun game to sink a lot of time into, but I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. There’s no tutorial but there’s also no location to go to for a FAQ or an index or anything of the sort. I’m just pressing a button to make more colors but I have no idea what the button I’m pressing is doing or what the colors represent or what I’m gaining. I’m truly just confused and lost which is a shame because I really enjoy games like this, but it’s a seemingly complex game that would do well with instructions.
2026-01-17	Ym*****	After playing this game for 2 months, I got to a point where I literally can’t progress because my accuracy is too low and the challenges are too hard, taking me days upon days to complete. I login once or twice a day to cash in my time skip, using that as my main fuel to keep attempting to make any progress (almost never does anything) Arcs take extremely long to get and offer incredibly little value to the other aspects of the game, especially since void is set on a different timer and can’t be farmed with time skip. I think it only takes half an hour for a void, but you have to manually click it to complete it, so I’m not going to bother checking it every half an hour or hour. Stuck at around 280 for the orbit prestige, since the first celestial prestige takes NoNoG to get to (1e300.) the challenges were pretty easy to get to until I got the the logarithmic and glass challenges, which are completely luck and time based, ruining the aspect of the other challenges, which uses handicaps, multiplier functions, defects, and other cool things. All in all, was a decent game, but I don’t see it getting any better anywhere.
After playing this game for 2 months, I got to a point where I literally can’t progress because my accuracy is too low and the challenges are too hard, taking me days upon days to complete. I login once or twice a day to cash in my time skip, using that as my main fuel to keep attempting to make any progress (almost never does anything) Arcs take extremely long to get and offer incredibly little value to the other aspects of the game, especially since void is set on a different timer and can’t be farmed with time skip. I think it only takes half an hour for a void, but you have to manually click it to complete it, so I’m not going to bother checking it every half an hour or hour. Stuck at around 280 for the orbit prestige, since the first celestial prestige takes NoNoG to get to (1e300.) the challenges were pretty easy to get to until I got the the logarithmic and glass challenges, which are completely luck and time based, ruining the aspect of the other challenges, which uses handicaps, multiplier functions, defects, and other cool things. All in all, was a decent game, but I don’t see it getting any better anywhere.
2025-06-14	Ba*****	This game is an amazing game, especially for a smaller company. If you want no forced ads, a satisfactory idle sphere-based game, this is the game you are looking for. Although it can be a little confusing at first, you can quickly get the hang of it but a tutorial would be nice. A few suggestions: changing the battle system to a sphere-making factory or something, it would make it fit more. And the ability to turn off certain spheres from appearing on your screen would increase performance and make the game more enjoyable.
This game is an amazing game, especially for a smaller company. If you want no forced ads, a satisfactory idle sphere-based game, this is the game you are looking for. Although it can be a little confusing at first, you can quickly get the hang of it but a tutorial would be nice. A few suggestions: changing the battle system to a sphere-making factory or something, it would make it fit more. And the ability to turn off certain spheres from appearing on your screen would increase performance and make the game more enjoyable.
2025-02-17	Th*****	I had played this game a few times in the past; spanning for around a month or so. Just something I played to get my mind off things. As you progress through the game, you are able to upgrade your sphere/s, and battling (confusing topic entirely) I am a bit confused on the currencies. Nearly half of them were useless until recent updates, while others had very little use to begin with. All in all, seems like a good game, just too confusing to be what it tries to be.
I had played this game a few times in the past; spanning for around a month or so. Just something I played to get my mind off things. As you progress through the game, you are able to upgrade your sphere/s, and battling (confusing topic entirely) I am a bit confused on the currencies. Nearly half of them were useless until recent updates, while others had very little use to begin with. All in all, seems like a good game, just too confusing to be what it tries to be.
2025-02-06	M0*****	Looks nice, but desperately needs some form of instruction
Looks nice, but desperately needs some form of instruction
2024-12-10	JB*****	I really enjoy this idle game, and it’s got a beautiful visual aspect to it, and I mostly disagree with the other reviews on this one. The issue I have with the game, however, is the fact that at a certain point you kind of just get stuck. Once you complete all of the challenges and grind out agency for a bit, it’s almost impossible to get to the next reset. The only progression is in the battle system at this point, and it’s extremely slow as I’m just waiting each day for my time warps and then only playing then.
I really enjoy this idle game, and it’s got a beautiful visual aspect to it, and I mostly disagree with the other reviews on this one. The issue I have with the game, however, is the fact that at a certain point you kind of just get stuck. Once you complete all of the challenges and grind out agency for a bit, it’s almost impossible to get to the next reset. The only progression is in the battle system at this point, and it’s extremely slow as I’m just waiting each day for my time warps and then only playing then.
2024-11-30	Am*****	The chaotic generators in the sphere upgrade tab reset when you do a revolution prestige and as far as I can tell there is no way to auto-buy them back. It feels really bad.
The chaotic generators in the sphere upgrade tab reset when you do a revolution prestige and as far as I can tell there is no way to auto-buy them back. It feels really bad.
2024-11-07	Do*****	It looks like it might have something new to add to the genre; but I have absolutely no idea what anything does because there’s no tutorial
It looks like it might have something new to add to the genre; but I have absolutely no idea what anything does because there’s no tutorial
2024-10-17	Br*****	I cannot tap repeatedly on a surface without pain. I paid over $125 for this Apple Pencil so I wouldn’t have to. It is FLABBERGASTING that Apple Pencil support would be left out of ANY game, but especially now a game like this. I genuinely do not understand you people sometimes.
I cannot tap repeatedly on a surface without pain. I paid over $125 for this Apple Pencil so I wouldn’t have to. It is FLABBERGASTING that Apple Pencil support would be left out of ANY game, but especially now a game like this. I genuinely do not understand you people sometimes.
2024-10-16	de*****	Honestly it’s an amazing game and I enjoy it but I just bought a new iPhone 15 pro and the game no longer allows me to mute the background music no matter where I place the slider it does nothing and resets to max whenever I close and reopen the app please fix
Honestly it’s an amazing game and I enjoy it but I just bought a new iPhone 15 pro and the game no longer allows me to mute the background music no matter where I place the slider it does nothing and resets to max whenever I close and reopen the app please fix