Buggy
Fri Sep 05 2025 ChristieCremeI used to play this game a lot before they added the green factory. It had been a couple months so I went back to check it out and it seems even more buggy than before. Here’s some issues I’ve come across:
-the energy timer! This has been an issue since I got the game. Sometimes you get lucky and it works in your favor but more often you will get cheated out of energy. After months I signed on and had full energy. The log factory thing was glitchy and had nowhere to put my blades, so I restarted the game and now I have 2 energy with like 9 minutes left… how?!?
-Leveling up takes way too long! I’m level 19 but prestige 83 because the game doesn’t let you keep upgrading machines.
-the giant carver is kind of useless.
-the carvings interfere too much. Sometimes I can barely move.
The green factory and the reasons I stopped playing.
-idle earnings have gone to basically nothing. If I go carve at the green factory my safe fills up within seconds so my workers stop working I guess.
-gear requirements and upgrades. I have 5/6 (my guy hates shoes) maxed out, 1 million metals, and no way to upgrade any further.
I paid to remove ads early on because I enjoyed the game, the ads were never really too bad though. I would love to see some tweaks so I can go back to enjoying the game.
New Update Broke The Game
Wed May 14 2025 TheRealKoutaAs of yesterday you could sink time into the rings and eventually get to the next chest. Now, it’s blocked by gear power which doesn’t seem to have been balance tested. There’s no good way to gain gear power at the moment aside from clothing items which only drop from chests that appear to be broken after you claim them the first time. To put this into perspective, I was on the third set of rings yesterday morning, but now it’s saying that I need 2200 gear power to carve it. With the pitiful two gear items the game gives you, I have 100 gear power… I can’t progress without prestiging and starting over. Then, you have to upgrade the gear items using orbs collected from another area of the game that was just added, but for some reason, the blades are super slow and can only be upgraded using diamonds. Also, the gloves the game gave me have to be upgraded using diamonds as well. I don’t know why my goggles can use the orbs, but the gloves require diamonds. It’s super frustrating. Diamonds can only be bought or slowly and painfully collected via watching an obnoxious amount of ads or by carving into wood/ground mini games. It was really fun before and just difficult enough to keep it interesting. But now I might just be done with this game. I spent a lot of time getting where I was and now it’s just not worth it anymore. My progress has essentially been reset and it just feels terrible. The game was a 5 before.
Ads and performance
Fri Jun 27 2025 DaphneJadeThis is a 4+ age app. There should be no adult ads on this, but I keep getting semi-pornographic, AI, gambling, and drug ads no matter how much I report them (when possible) as they’re against my morals. Meaning no, they’re not targeted no matter what the ad companies say. Some of the things being pushed at me aren’t even legal where I live.
The other issue is performance. Even on the lowest setting, putting my phone on a fan or bit of marble, it gets very hot after a while of playing. Also as far as performance goes, a lot of the timers say you’ll be able to get something in X number of hours, but when you come back that many hours later, it still says you have many hours left to be able to claim that thing.
The second bit, especially, makes me sad because it’s a really great time waster when I’m working out or in a line waiting to check out somewhere. Those issues (inappropriate ads and taking up more resources than things like Pokemon Go or Merge Dragons) and I’d swap my rating for 5*
an almost good semi-idle game with prestige mechanics
Fri May 02 2025 warlockishgameplay is relaxing and simple. players earn their way to automation (the idle aspect) as they progress through the game and earn experience and money. players can also use the prestige system to earn permanent upgrades in exchange for restarting their workshop.
however, the game also has an 'energy' mechanic that is confusing and clearly designed as a money sink. 'energy' controls the spin of the central wood disc the player is planing as well as all automations. it has a countdown timer which Looks like a refill timer, but isn't - the actual refill timer is accessed by clicking the energy icon and it's absurdly long; you need to wait four (4!) hours to earn 20 minutes of energy. to earn more, you can either watch 2 ads once a day.... or buy it. energy costs, at its cheapest, ~83¢.
i'm fine with watching a couple ads to speed progress in games, but the energy mechanic breaks this game unless you spend money on it. without this mechanic i'd rate the game 4/5. i hope the developers remove it or make the energy use/recharge rate more reasonable.
Problems
Sun Jun 29 2025 NYRM1517I personally love playing this game but the first time I downloaded I played without problems for a few weeks and payed money a few times the things in the game went haywire. I deleted the game because I could just not progress because of the glitches. I re-download and tried to regain my progress and or purchases but it would not let me. So I just started from the beginning again which is fine like I said I like the game. Payed more money for different things and now again glitches! The second part the sphere helper drones don’t show up or do anything even though I have energy the spots are there for the recharge but the helpers are just gone. I would like to keep playing but can’t keep paying money just for it to mean nothing because of the glitches. Please fix these. I would like to talk to someone about the problems I have had but don’t know how to contact anyone because even in the game when I click contact for help nothing happens! Please help. If my problems are fixed I will write a new review because I do really like this game.
Was 5 stars until the update
Sat Aug 09 2025 LoonaLandingThis game was fantastic and super engaging. It was super fun to play and progress. When you reset to claim prestige you keep permanent upgrades and get to keep having fun. Since the new update you can no longer play the game while out of energy. It used to be that the disk stopped spinning and the robots went to sleep. Now you have to pay to regain energy or wait, but the time won’t go down if the app is closed. I’m not keeping it idle for 5 hours to refill the energy. The other glitch that happened with the update is that all the robot rank upgrades disappeared and if you upgrade a rank and then leave the app it resets but doesn’t refund the currency spent on it. Now my game is glitched to where I have full energy but it’s stuck on the “no energy” page. I would have written this all out to the support page, but when you click support it’s a completely dead button. Prior to this bad update it was a really fun very playable game. I’d be willing to update this review if they go back and fix the game.
Energy Punishes Players Who Like The Game
Sat Apr 12 2025 edmondstaI’ve been playing Carve Quest for the better part of a week, but I can only play for as long as the game allows because of the energy function. Progress comes to a grinding halt when energy runs out and I still can’t figure out how long it takes for energy to replenish. There is a 20 minute timer in the sidebar but you don’t gain energy after the timer is over. Watching ads allows you to replenish only one energy a day.
I thought buying the no ad option in the shop might allow me to play the game without these unnecessary lulls, but no… it only stops the forced ads (which aren’t even frequent enough to warrant this purchase). The developers are trying to force players addicted to the game to regularly buy the in game currency with real money to actually enjoy the game for as long as players want.
From the screenshots of the game in the App Store, energy wasn’t a part of the game. Restore the game back to unlimited energy, and the game would be absolutely solid.
Extremely glitchy- can’t contact anyone for help
Mon Aug 04 2025 There are people out thereThe game is strangely addicting and fun. But it is extremely glitchy and the “contact us” button on the app doesn’t work and the app support button here goes to a 503 service temporarily unavailable site. SUSPICIOUS. I’ve been playing for about a week and one day the screw driver wouldn’t go away. So I had to delete the game and restart the entire thing. When you run out of energy, if you don’t hard close the app then when you reopen it hours later it might still be out of time making it so you can not play. Now, I’ve had some “carvings” fall off the “edge” of the platform into infinity and l can’t reach it, and my cleaning robot can’t find it so just ambles around the platform aimlessly. I have a feeling nthat’s going to be a growing problem. With zero support I’ll have to stop. Such a shame. It’s so weird and fun… also, probably destroying my phone because it causes it to overheat very quickly and drains the battery incredibly fast on my pretty new phone even on the “low” quality setting.
Broken
Tue Jul 01 2025 Jasondk2Was good at first still go on here and there but you apparently can watch daily advertisements to get rewards and the past week they don’t reset also I bought something before last update and worked until I updated now I guess I need to repurchase it, but shouldn’t have to, also used to be a restore purchases before last update. After level 12 gets pretty slow would probably be better if it worked correctly because now it takes 2xs longer to level up gear since watching advertisements(daily) doesn’t reset which I guess is optional but either way it’s aggravating thinking it will reset looking a few ines a day and never happens 🤦🏻 even after a week:/ also since update metal carvers don’t work which is pointless especially when you dump a bunch of gems into them which I guess was a waste of time same with the metal vault. Which is annoying the amount of time I spent to get to that point
Love it but need help
Thu Aug 07 2025 Jasonsparks1I love this game! But suddenly it is buggy. The time ran out on game play and it won’t work properly now. The screen to purchase more time pops up every time I open it. But just before the pop up I see the regular game play for a second or two. The pop up gives option to watch an ad to get more time but it doesn’t work. I can touch a button to pay $7.99 to refill completely. But in the top right I see that the time has refilled (it doesn’t that over time). But even though I have full game time left it will not go to the game. It goes back to the screen to purchase time and there is no “X” to press to close that page. I love the game,r but it’s no longer playable on iPad.
I downloaded to my phone and it started over on it- didn’t download the version on the iPad even though I told it to restore purchases. I’m hoping that when the time runs down on this iPhone one it will not keep me from playing like on the iPad.
I emailed support and have not gotten any kind of a response.
