Gear Clicker Reviews

Fun gameplay, or it could be but for the constant pop-ups, flashy on screen distractions, ads for everything, even purchases required for basic functions of playing the game, EVEN after paying for a subscription and "no ads." Sure, you get a stack of ad tickets, but since you're constantly using them to buy things necessary for progression, and constantly being nickled and dimed with pop-ups asking for another $3 here and another $4 there, it's a big slog that feels manipulative, gross, and not fun. Oh, and all that shiney ADHD-promoting on-screen distraction causes lag and sluggish, ugly graphics.

I have no idea how this game has so many high ratings. They're either bought or a lot of people have no self-respect. But then, it's difficult to find a game that isn't like this these days, even if you do have money (like me) and are willing to pay it for a good experience. This is not a good experience.

For those that want to save themselves time and money, please read as it exposes ethical practices this publisher does.

Bought this game and it’s super fun. Even paid for the ad free version. Now they do state that if you want to unlock other parts of the game you do have to watch some ads, which is okay. Only problem is, they take a highly unethical approach which is, the ad pops up and plays for three seconds, then gives you and option to click away, then says “you need to continue watching”, then plays for another three seconds and pauses again — it’s basically multiple ads within one video drawn out. The reason they have it setup this way is so you are coerced into spending money on their “skip ad tokens”. Brilliant marketing strategy, but also highly unethical even after you’ve “paid” for the ad free version.

Note: most other publishers do not bait you with the extended ads that this publisher does on purpose. This actually is the first time I have seen this unethical marketing practice.

You cannot progress in this game without watching an ad. There’s the normal “watch an ad, get a high powered gear” which is fine. Then there’s the random pop up ads, which are extremely annoying. Then there’s the fact that you are forced to watch multiple ads to unlock tows for your gears. There’s no option to use the money you produce from your gears, it’s Ad or nothing. You also have to then watch an ad to unlock the bonuses given by those rows. The game itself is great, but if you want to play it get ready to spend more time watching ads than you actually do playing the game.

That’s pretty much it, this game is boring. All you do is click and buy a gear, then click some more.

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I got a bonus offer today and it said 3x value. Was quite curious, could this offer be worth 30 dollars? Offer was a level 12 gear, 1m money and no ads, level 12 gear is 4 dollars, but the money was a little tougher, as the lowest offer was 50m. But 1m is only 8 cents. For the ads, you also get 10 skips, and it was worth 4 dollars, but it was just buying skips, and the ads was a bonus. So the price for no ads was nullified. By getting this offer, you’re getting about 2.45x less stuff rather than the 10 dollars you paid for. But thats not all. If you remembered I said 3x value on the offer, so to make it true, the increase amount would be a staggering 7.35x! Buy the gear and ads by themselves, and save 2 bucks. You can earn the money very quickly. Be more honest, and I bet 90% of those 5 star reviews are fraudulent, you dirty liars.

My highest gear is level 16. It cost 27m to add a new gear which could be a level 1 gear. It takes 8 level 1 gears to make a level 3. It takes over 2 thousands to make a level 11 gear. The game pushes you to add more gear through watching an ad. Also level 1 gear does less then double of a level 2 gear in income. After level 8 that no longer is true for merging gears. A level 9 gear does less then 2 level 8 gears. They should always at least double in income when merging them. If this was an idle game I could see myself getting into it but the offline earning is a joke. There is no ascending or prestige. Also the game looks nothing like the pictures.

To get higher point gears you must watch an ad. At higher levels that means maybe 5 seconds or less of game time then a 15 or 30 second ad. Every. Single. Time. Then - just for the extra ad revenue - how about a random ad popping up every ten to fifteen minutes or so. Interesting game but very, very difficult to play. Playing the game without watching ads to get gears you need is just not possible. Even then, a lot of gears pop up that are useless to you anyway. This has the potential to be a great game. Sadly, due to developers GREED, it isn’t.

Got GearClicker a little bit ago. Starting progress was slow, but fine. You could watch ads for boosts, pretty standard idle game fare.
But then ads started popping up every few minutes, regardless of if I tapped anything or not. This game has routine interruptions for random ads - it doesn’t *need* those, devs can get ad revenue from the upgrades just the same.
The insidious problem is they expect you to pay four dollars to get rid of these random, unnecessary interruptions. This game is fun, but it’s not worth four dollars when I could easily check out a different idle game.
Two stars. Game itself seems fine, but the ad interruptions ruin it, and the expectation to pay for what should be the standard is unfair.

This game is great and is a lot of fun with massive potential but it needs serious improvement. One thing that drives me crazy is that to place a gear it is very hard to get it to place because the gear doesnt line up exactly where your finger is, so it is really annoying trying to place a gear multiple times for it to just not go down. Another thing that is annoying is the amount of ads you need to watch just to play the game, not the upgrades or multipliers. Also it would be cool if instead of buying a gear and its the same number everytime, it randomly will give you a number instead of just buying the same number gear everytime.

It was fun for the first hour but you very quickly hit a wall with upgrades. The in game economy becomes very unbalanced with it taking extremely long to actually be able to to unlock anything. The 3 upgrades themselves don’t feel worth the amount you put into them. Upgrading 10 lvls on both speed and amount earned only got me .5k more/sec. Even finally unlocking the next gear doesn’t feel rewarding because of the minimal increase to income it generates for all the time you’ve put into unlocking it. It’s a good time waster but not fulfilling

It’s an ok game, and fun to play when I want to pass time. But there are some problems. I bought the 20k space, but when I logged back on today, it had gone back to locked, even though my gears were still inside of the space. It wouldn’t let me merge any of them either, and when I went back to buy it, it wouldn’t let me because every time I clicked to buy it back, I clicked the gear. So I couldn’t actually get it back. This is a buggy game and definitely needs more work. I think if it had higher skilled workers, (or people who cared more) The game would be better. The game also looks nothing like the pictures, so that’s just false advertising. And one more thing. It takes forever to progress in this game. You have to watch ads to get the gears for higher levels, or you’ll be playing the game for 7 hours trying to get a level 11 gear. Overall, if you like tycoon games, give it a shot. But it’s buggy, and not very interesting.

Please please please give us a bigger gear creating palette than 3. I get the whole point of the game is to combine gears on the board. But my fingers get tired of dragging so much across my phone. A 10 tile empty creation board would be so much more enjoyable for the strain on my thumbs trying to create anything over a power 4 gear. Also the money loss/inflation on creating huge gears is tremendous. i dont know why i care so much about a time waster game like this, but please bro my thumbs joints are about to explode just tryna make a level 9 gear

I was really enjoying this game. There were random times it would crash but I could restart it right at the same point so that was only a mild distraction. There were other times on the third board when gears wouldn’t rotate when they should. Picking them up and dropping them again would fix that. But now the third board is completely broken and once you watch a video the game is stuck on selecting if you want to watch the video. Otherwise I enjoyed the couple days I played it. A shame I couldn’t get higher than 19th on the board.

I have been playing this game for a couple weeks and have been loving it! I’ve gotten all the way to the final stage each gear cost around 75million and I’m earning around 40million a second. Everything was going great and then all of a sudden the gears stop spinning on the final stage and it breaks my game completely, I can’t earn anymore money and tapping the screen has no effect on how much money I receive. Closing GearClicker fixes the issue until I go to the final stage and it happens again. I would definitely rate this 5 stars if it weren’t for the bugs.

I went down a rabbit hole with this game and managed to get to #1 in about a week on the leaderboard. Overnight the entire leaderboard was all of a sudden back in line with me and dropped me down to 10. Which I’d be ok with if not every “account” in the top 50 didn’t also go up by 10x. I had a friend download GearClicker and the “leaderboard” did not align at all - game adjusts the leaderboard to keep you going. In hindsight it makes no sense that your spot on the leaderboard is 99 when you start when there has been 25k downloads.

The recent update kinda ruined the match portion of the game. on top of putting everything behind an ad wall, instead of getting the gems straight into your bank it goes into what I’m assuming is supposed to be a buffer… but as it fills up to what Feels like an infinite amount (even though when you start filling it the half way point in the bar is at about 250k) correct me if I’m wrong but it seems to never actually become full. I’ve got mine up to 1.0M and it’s ever so slightly picking away towards the end whereas when you start filling it, it looks like it’s filling much faster. It isn’t a game breaker just would be nice to know what is “full” For the gem buffer

The game is pretty fun and gets my mind off things however I don’t think the developers realize that the amount of money you get from merging gears plateaus. For example from gear 7 to 8 the 8 gear is exactly 2x better than one 7 gear. But from 8 to 9 you actually lose money because two 8 gears actually make more money than one 9 gear. I don’t think the developers know this because it would take an eternity to get 100 quadrillion dollars for the third level.

Before I started playing gear clicker I had no friends and was desperate for some entertainment. My dear friend Shirley Langsta recommended this game to me, and I had some doubts. These doubts were instantly wiped away as soon as I opened GearClicker . I was greeted with a warm welcome and a 30 second ad. Seeing this ad caused a smile to slowly emerge across my face despite my best effort to stop it. I LOVE ADS 🥰. The game in general is also “peak” or the pinnacle of all games. Those gears spinning really caught my eye and I even began to drool a little, oops 😬. I love the cool and unique gameplay of combining gears and leveling up. Games like Merge Town and Merge Planes have failed to truly capture the art of Merging, while Gear Clicker is just different perchance. This game is not just any old game it is a lifestyle a way of life and a home. I have been playing this game for hours nonstop, and I have been enjoying every minute with these cheerful little gears. And the ribbon 🎀 on top is that I am awarded with a 40 second FISHDOM ad whenever I misclick. Like I said earlier I love ads and this so Called devious feature just adds to the perfection of this game. Thank you Shirley Langsta and thank you Gear Clicker for giving me this opportunity, which I am so grateful for, to make my life mean something and truly matter. I finally feel like I am making a difference in the World.

I usually don’t write reviews about a game but I’m going to be brutally honest. I got the game and quickly realized it was broken in a good way. I realized there was a leaderboard so now my goal is to be #1, currently I’m at #3, there’s no way to get to #1 because It’s a fake leaderboard, why go through the trouble of making a fake leaderboard? Just make a true competitive environment! One change I hope you make is lowering the cost to upgrade the percentage of income price.

The ad immediately following when I watched an add to get a clicker for ninety seconds is a bit of a gut punch. Granted, you did keep it ad free the whole minute and a half.
But the real problem is the ad as soon as a free piece shows up. You have to have timing to get a decent free piece and the ad rarely returns to the game smoothly. So the piece I get that costs you nothing is likely downgraded severely while you get paid not only for the full length ad for the piece, but also for the brief interstitial that hiccuped the game.
Shame

First of all, my biggest peeve is the offline money system, I make 5 times I make in an hour offline in 1 second, it’s a joke. The speed could also be changed, before you could tap to increase your money per second, but at max speed that benefit disappears. Finally, for the income upgrade PLEASE make it to where you can hold it down or max it out with your current amount of money, it takes forever and I can only tap so much. I’ve currently tapped over 10,000 times just for the income upgrade and it’s driving me insane. Please fix it, besides that the game is great, can’t wait for the next level!

I think most mobile games over the past few years have either been poorly made, stolen an aspect of another game, or have an extremely good mechanic that gets boring after about 3 hours due to the same level design being used again. It’s rinse and repeat at this point. However, there are games like this that break away from that mold. They show you eat mobile gaming should REALLY be, which is a diverse number of different games that don’t follow a bandwagon appeal just to make a profit. As for the game in question, I haven’t gotten very far. I do think, however, that this game could go far some day. A quick message to the devs; keep working hard on this game, because what I see in your team is great promise. I’ll stop ranting now. Have a great day.

It’s good it’s satisfying and it’s not like immediately your rich you actually have to work for what you want there’s a lot of world to go through but when I first wanted to download it I looked at the views and thought it wasn’t a good game but I really like the game it really is a good game and you might think I was played to say this but I wasn’t there is alot of ads but that’s only if you want to get stuff and you don’t have enough money so I think it’s worth getting