Idle Theme Park
Idle Theme Park, despite its lifetime high rating, is currently experiencing a significant decline in user satisfaction due to recent updates introducing pay-to-progress mechanics, frequent crashes, and a perceived lack of developer responsiveness to core issues.
Recent updates to Idle Theme Park have introduced new 'evolution' mechanics that significantly slow progression, pushing players towards in-app purchases. Many users report frequent app crashes, leading to lost progress, and express frustration over aggressive monetization and rigged event outcomes. While some long-time players still find enjoyment, the overall sentiment is negative regarding the current state of the game.
What users like
What users complain about
- New 'evolution' system for rides and managers makes progression extremely slow and forces players to grind for research tokens or spend money.R5R6R7R15
- Frequent app crashes cause loss of progress and a frustrating gameplay experience.R8R28R38R39
- Events are perceived as rigged with bots, making it impossible for players to win or place first, discouraging participation and spending.R1R8R10R60
- Excessive and intrusive ads, microtransactions, and aggressive monetization tactics make the game feel like 'pay to play'.R2R5R11R12
- Lack of ability to revisit previous parks after 'evolving' to new ones, forcing players to restart progress and losing beloved parks.R9R14R33R42
- Offline earnings are inconsistent or non-existent, and ad boosters have been significantly reduced.R22R33R102R108
- Upgrading rides requires excessive tapping, making it tedious and time-consuming.R42R45R61R142
Latest update · v9.1.0
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Balance adjustments Bug fixes and performance improvements
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy idle tycoon games and are willing to tolerate frequent ads, potential crashes, and a slow progression curve, or those who are prepared to make in-app purchases to speed up gameplay R3R21R31. It is not for players who dislike aggressive monetization, expect fair event competition, or get frustrated by app instability and lost progress R1R8R11.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, which contrasts with the high lifetime rating. Many negative points, particularly regarding progression difficulty and crashes, are supported by a large number of recent reviews across different regions. Positive reviews are fewer but highlight the core fun of the game. The developer's notes mention 'bug fixes and performance improvements,' which directly contradicts the widespread user reports of frequent crashes.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R3] Best game EVER: This game is such a fun game that keeps you motivated and focused and you get to build so many rides as you go the more you unlock! I LOVE this game and I think the people that made this game did such a good job! Keep it up!❤️🎢
- [R21] It’s a great way to kill time: I normally don’t write reviews but. It’s just the right blend of waiting but also keeping you active and some really good content, a little repetitive but every game is. My only issue with it is with the new evolution system your asking for 600+ research tokens when you barely give 300. The price is too high or you’re not giving enough research tokens to actually mak
- [R31] Best game: This game may look boring on the outside, but on the inside, it’s way fun. You can see different people and you can buy managers make your rides more expensive, which makes more money and now I already have a roller coaster and I think I’m about to get a whole Nother world
- [R32] LOVE: genuinely my favorite game ever. had it since quarantine. it's my nightly routine to make my rounds through my park.
- [R110] Great game: Great game with the purchase of no ads. The developers seem to listen to feedback and adjust which is great to see like the recent manager updates. Only tiny comment on it is that since the managers have come in they seem to have taken over the figures. Would be great to get a balance of managers and figures each day to keep playing with both.
- [R5] Really drags out: The game is super fun don’t get me wrong but it hard hard to progress fast before the update but now you’ve gotta have those purple coins to “upgrade” the rides and it takes hundreds of them and hours to complete, let alone you need to watch videos or spend money to get them.. I honestly think this killed the game for me
- [R6] Evolutions: Why was it changed so that you need to research rides and upgrades? It sucks the fun out of upgrading knowing you’re going to have to wait to continue playing the game.
- [R7] love this game, but….: i have played this game for years and years and love it so much but this new update where you have to “evolve” your rides every couple hundred levels on EVERY new park is absolutely absurd! most of the time, you get max 100 research tokens a day and it’s 400-1000 tokens to evolve just one ride! wouldn’t be bad if it wasn’t every single ride, every couple hundred levels. you
- [R15] More Pay to Play than ever: Changed my original rating after the last update. The satisfying element of the game is ruined with the introduction of the ‘evolve ride’ junk. It drains your tokens and gold, makes you wait for evolution, and repeats. Will never have enough resources to upgrade the ride managers under this new system without buying in game currency. I liked supporting the game with occ
- [R8] Lots of things wrong: Game crashes too much when I progress too fast. Those weekly challenges are also rigged so you can’t win them.
- [R28] This game doesn’t let people play: Every time I tried and play it kicks me off the app as soon as it loads
- [R38] It will not let me go to the first theme park.: I tried to start the game and it just couldn’t work and it would send me to my Home Screen. That’s why I am giving it a 3 stars.
- [R39] Fun but: The game is fun for a pass the time thing, but some of the adds take too long (Kalshi) and even then it crashes after you’ve spent all that time watching it.
- [R1] Events: it is a pretty fun game. not sure why they rig the events with bots that automatically beat you though. wasted my time and money
- [R10] Ehh: The game itself is a good way to kill some time. However! - when you’re doing a time event, no matter how much time and effort you put into it, you will never win. They have bots that completely take over your position so you will never be first. It’s quite annoying. Don’t spend money on the events because it’s a scam. Still a fun game
- [R60] Good but can be improved: The game is generally very nice and ive been playing for years. The one real issue i have is with your bracket-based leaderboard for events. I have played for years and have never managed to place 1st. It is always 3rd placement no matter how much i push. It is clearly engineered in the way that as soon as i upgrade my prestige points the system automatically update 2 bot
- [R2] Harder to progress: A couple updates back I was taking a lot less time to progress and didn’t have to do a bunch of ads and this update I do
- [R11] Long time player: Used to be an original player and took a long time off and have been on and off since, this game used to be really fun, and now there’s more micro transactions on your screen than there are rides in the park. Literally half of my viewable screen are clickable ad bubbles it’s disgusting. No more auto collection because they found out how to monetize the basic functions of the game
- [R12] Was great, then they changed it: I came back to the game after a few years and saw that they changed it up. I wasn’t too upset about it at first, but then as I played more it became very clear that it shifted heavily to people paying to play. For awhile I struggled to level up some shops because the card system they added for the managers restricted how much it could level up, and you can only get
- [R9] Please change: I really loved this game but I hated how you had to get rid of you theme park for a water park. Your basically restarting, a least make it able where I can switch back in between parks.
- [R14] They ruined it.: I loved this game, but I feel like they ruined it with forcing you to only have one park at a time. You’re just forced to sell your amusement park for a water park, and you’re never able to go there again. Please change this, I really did like this before.
- [R33] Consistent degradation: How do you manage to make the game worse every time you update it? When I originally played, you simply gained access to new parks, now you have old parks deleted when you “move.” Since I started back up, ad boosts have been cut, reward tiers have been lengthened, and now progressing requires you to spend even more in-game resources than before. Your greed is so blatant it’
- [R42] FUN until managers come in: So first of all I just don’t like how you have to restart EVERY TIME going to a new park and restarting and it being a completely different theme or look is okay but the same exact park just a new ride is boring and on top of that I have to click so many times eachhh ride to upgrade all of them but honestly I was okay with it that was until I got to the space world and
- [R22] So disappointed in the most recent update.: I’ve really loved this game, I’ve been playing it for a long time. The new update makes it pretty much impossible to advance. They’ve increased the use of the weird purple coins but not increased any opportunities to get them. I was super disappointed when they updated the ad booster from being an hour of boost to only ten minutes. That was a huge let do
- [R102] Problem: It's a fun addictive game But now I sometimes go inactive for an hour or longer and won't get any income at all This happens often and very annoying when I'm so far into the game
- [R108] Please read this for more info about the game :): It’s an amazing game that take time up when you need time to fly! But if your offline and you want it to do offline working it will only do it for 2 HOURS, which means it won’t do the most amount of working for money you think it will do if that make much sense!?! On the other hand, mabye to fix that by being able to upgrade the amount of time it c
- [R45] One thing to add: In the parking area there is a thing where you can upgrade multiple times in one click. I feel like it would be good to add that to the ride upgrades to make upgrades faster
- [R61] My opinion: I think this game is great. Where it falls short is a lot of advertisement. I understand the game devs need to make money. Also why does it take so long to upgrade the rides, like I have to hold down the upgrade button so long to get to 2.5k level on a ride, please add a multiple add to a ride so it’s faster to upgrade
- [R142] Upgrade Tapping: I love this game, it’s very fun and addictive and I’d love to play more of it. But please pleaseeeee add an option where you can upgrade a ride 10x, 100x or to the max as it takes me more than 2 hours (my thumbs hurt so much) just to upgrade all my rides back to how they were before I bought a new island. Tapping tens of thousands of times to upgrade a ride one at a time just gets
- [R4] stop w the updates: game used to be really fun and satisfying. i was literally glued to it. now it just takes too long to build things and u js have to wait it out. it’s not even playing a game anymore its js u press a button and wait an hour. every single update it gets worse.
- [R40] Vbom: It’s really fun but every time you build an extension the game completely restarts.
- [R18] Loved it til they killed it.: I’ve been playing this game for years. Got sucked back into it about 6 months ago and have lots of hours in it. Recently a change was made that requires every ride to be “evolved” after a specific level. How does one evolve the ride? With the same research tokens I already don’t have enough of to upgrade my workers. So what it’s pushing me to do is pay for the researc
- [R52] The game crashes..A lot: It’s okay I enjoy playing this game, But…..the crashes are unreal, every time I play you will have a good 30 minutes playing and then it just crashes every 5 minutes. Need to be fixed ASAP!
- [R54] Crashes: The game is wonderful but there is one issue I’d like to discuss: 1. Crashes. Every 10 minutes, the game crashes and I lose the last 10 minutes of work and I think that is quite ridiculous so I hope for you to address the problem as soon as possible. Overall, great game
- [R62] Crashing: Great game but sadly crashes every 5/10 minutes, and progress lost each time. Annoying
- [R83] Unrealistic game: Played the game, paid money to get first place in a event and was scammed! The app is programmed to you can only come 3rd at best! You can’t progress to any higher place. - immediately deleted
- [R47] Great enjoyable game: I bought the no ads and its a game changer for real, makes me want to play it a little more more, but my only issue is that i have finished the theme park and am going on to water, i wish there was a way to go back and go to the original theme park. I do not like that I cannot go back to my original theme park because I don’t really like the ocean theme. But other than that i
- [R115] Previous Parks: Game good, but let me go back to the normal park when you upgrade to the water park
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store