West Escape Reviews

There are so many forced ads that it makes the game almost unplayable. I understand you want some revenue and I get that, but I play tons of games with far fewer ads than I had dumped on my before I even got going. Address this and maybe it would be worth it to come back to this game.

After hours and hours of gameplay, i could not find any good words to describe this game.

It has 0 plot, game makes 0 sense, the developer is suuuuper greedy with the market prices, you just basically run around and gather resources just so you can watch more ads.

The game is pretty good except the pop up ads it is ok and good having ads to reduce time and for recourses and chests things like that in the shop but the pop up ads will make people want to play something else instead I know they make me not want to play I watched the ads for other stuff the pop up ads feel like harassment though because I know you want people to pay to remove them take both of those things the option to pay for no ads and the pop up ads out leave the other ads and the game will be much better

You have to pay for to have the option of playing with no ads. Why should you have to pay for that ??

You can’t even play this game without adds popping up and if your in the middle of doing something you reset after the add I know I can spend money to stop adds but it’s a phone game and really not worth paying money to play it without adds.

Played up until the end of current content, closing the game every time an ad popped up. I’m not coming back to this because of pop up ads.

I like the game and I got all the way to the Indian village. It says that I need to craft ropes to unlock leather and I’ve literally used all of the resources. I can to craft ropes and still cannot craft the leather so I can’t progress any further in the game

I understand the necessity for ads in FTP games. However, I encountered on within a minute of playing. Also having banner ads AND forced ads is just a scummy practice. Have one or the other. I don’t even know how much ad free costs because there were so many ads to even get far enough to see.

This game is relaxing but the automatic ads are frustrating and too often. When backing out of the game to avoid the ads, the game begins at the tool shop making advancement slow.

I downloaded this game a few days ago. It looked fun on WestEscape Store, had good reviews, and didn’t seem to be too “pay-to-win”. I started playing and loved it, the graphics are great, animations are very smooth and appealing, and the story line is simple but what you want from a mobile idle/exploration game. The game started off with a fairly normal amount of ads. Some of these ads are forced ads (where you are shown the ads without choosing to watch them) while others are incentivized (I.e. you get 10 iron for watching an ad). Lots of games use this and I typically avoid games with primarily forced ads. I’m not against ads as I knew developers have to make their money back and time spent etc. but the amount of forced ads in this game is appalling. What starts off as an ad every 10 minutes when you first start playing turns into an ad every 2 minutes or less. It’s impossible to play this game. I’m not sure what you need to do to fix this but I had to have given over $100 in ad revenue to this dev team in just my few days of playing. Good luck to anyone who gets this game… Oh and forgot to mention you can get rid of the ads for a small fee of $9! Not worth your time or money.

I spent money on this game only to be disappointed! Are you making the second part of the game? If so, when?

It is a fun game but you have to watch ads for everything, IF, you hope to do anything outside of waiting endlessly.

Example, you can pay for no “ forced ads”. Great. But if you upgrade you harvesting tool, eventually you needs nails. To make 20 nails you need to wait 20 mins, or watch an Ad to speed it up. Once you get the nails, you go to upgrade your harvesting tool, or the rail cart or the whatever, you need to wait again for that timer. It very quickly becomes 20 mins plus just for the nails, rail cart, harvest tool and etc. So what do you do? Wait or, yep you guessed it, watch one or more ads. Why? Because if your wait time is longer then 20 mins then you need to watch 2 ads or else sit and wait. And this is if you pay to get rid of the random, “ mandatory ads”.

Seriously, who wants to play a game just to be told every 5 mins that you have to wait in order to progress in the game. So your options are to wait constantly to do anything or watch ads back to back to speed things up.


So good game, horrible design and execution. I eventually had to delete it and rank it just above a dumpster fire for entertainment value.

Ads every minute or two and charge $6 to stop them. Also it asked me to rate the game, but when I hit 2 star it jumped to 5. I tried twice and both times it automatically changed it to 5 stars. Then when I went to write a review about it in the game it froze. I had to come here to give a real review. Needs improvement for sure.

To many ads for a bit playing time not worth even playing

Fun game but way too many ads. Game stops every two minutes to run an ad. Don’t be greedy!

Also it’s way too short. Should’ve had more content /levels before it was released. Again greedy.

This game looked to be promising, but once you start it, the action quickly degrades to “beat on everything with a stick, then upgrade your stick with materials, and if you don’t have enough just watch ad after ad after ad.” This is unfortunate because it could be so much more. All the missions could be different, but they are almost all simply repair missions. Let’s all hope that somewhere out there, an amazing, inspiring western-themed game is in development and will soon be available for those of us looking for “something more.”

I played this game for a couple of weeks. The game play is repetitive and boring. Even when you advance to the next level you do exactly the same thing to gain items and points. Every new level is the same as the previous one. It takes a very long time to get “CP” points to play the next level. The game wants you to pay for the items to move to the next level and if you don’t play the money it would take you several hours of gameplay to get enough items to advance.

If each level had different game events it might be more interesting but after two weeks it wasn’t worth my time.

This game is a really great game with the exception of the constant and I mean CONSTANT ADS! You get an ad every two minutes it seems and some are very long. Sure you can pay the fee to stop them but that’s what they want you to do but I refuse! Please limit the number of ads going forward! Let us play in peace!

I’m SERIOUSLY thinking about stopping this game due to the Ads!! It’s ridiculous!

Do these people just get to lvl 3 and stop working on the game? That’s as far as you can get on this. Sit at the river waiting while you either download discord and watch more unwanted ads! Where is the rest of the game? When will this actually get updated and completed? I’d give more stars if it was actually playable, but lvl 3 is the limit. There are too many games like this coming out and it’s becoming ridiculous.

I like the game, the graphics, the mechanics. Its fun, It’s engaging and even addicting. Except you are inundated with forced ad watching that seems to be based on a timer rather than milestones. I can accomplish very little without being ripped out to watch an ad. I was even forced to watch an ad MID COMBAT. That was kind of the last straw. This is in addition to the 100% up time on banner ads at the bottom of the screen. It’s too bad. I’d probably spend a lot of time here but the ads are just too much.

Do not buy CP Boosters,.. the game has no cloud save. And the restore purchases doesn’t work for that. I lost all progress because I had to reinstall the game. It has potential but it’s also incomplete, you will reach the end very quickly and see a message to try other games while they are creating the next level. Not sure why incomplete games keep getting released. It does have potential but gets boring fast.

This has an interesting story but it is really hard to stay interested when the game is too short and every level at end game looks exactly the same. You can only play the alien mines levels once each and then it’s back to the same old boring one level that you pay over and over to accumulate more and better gear. Over and over and over and over. At least with their other game which was ac zombie surreal one, you could go backwards to old levels (because some hard higher concentrations of certain things) and they added some boss levels that you could tune the difficulty on (and were also worth doing on repeat) not this one though. I regret purchasing the stronger weapon upgrade . I’m at the end of the game. There’s nothing fun to do. There’s no reason to keep collecting items because you can’t use them and you can’t sell them. I am legitimately bored of this game.

The game is fun but gets repetitive once you progress further, it’s a grind playing the same level over and over again, with a little different things after the grind. It’s also blatantly obvious how you don’t get the gear your wearing and have to keep changing it up because the other stuff your not wearing levels up faster, you won’t get whatever it is you have equipped. So be prepared to have to level up everything and it makes your grind useless. Always struggling to have high enough power to play a new level, it makes you work way too hard. It knows what you need and doesn’t give it to you. So frustrating

This game has potential. It’s not much different from most other resource collection games… break stuff, get resources, upgrade weapon, repeat. The initial opening suggests a base level story line but so far, I haven’t seen that actually play out. There’s no real direction in why you start in jail, what’s happening when you escape, why you’re trashing this town to get resources… it just seems lazy. Add that to the constant ads every 2 minutes (granted for like $6 you can disable them) and the waiting for upgrade timers to complete and this game is “almost” playable. If you download it just… keep expectations low. If you don’t have time to sit through about 10 ads just to upgrade equipment (in less than 2 hours irl) not really even worth a download.

I love playing this game. However, even with only playing for a short amount of time daily, you finish the level then have to wait for the next level. Yes I can play alien mines, but that get to be boring after a few mines. Please update for the next level soon.

This game is not about escape. It’s all about collecting things. Over and over. The buy ins are too expensive for what you get compared to other games.

The game is really fun and pulls you. I’ve been enjoying is right up until the ads. I’ve purchased the no ads thing, but ads still are a thing and is frustrating. I still like the game but just need the ads to stop.

Typical of these Idle type games. Get so far, then no more levels. It has great game play, but can be monotonous if you’re not paying for the game add-ons. Save yourself some money and play using all the ads and don’t buy upgrades. These developers like to get the money, but not turn it back into the game to develop new levels.

I like the game! But there is an ad every 2-3 minutes. Every time I start to lose myself in the game, ad.
Is it necessary to have them so frequently since there is already an ad banner at the bottom of the screen?
I understand there is need to make money but let us enjoy your game!
Sadly, I am going to delete it.

The only way you make any progress in this game is to watch a ton of ads. Good graphics, but be prepared.

Game is calming and good story line with amazingly calm gameplay. THE ONLY THING ALL OF YOU can learn, is that you don’t gotta force it to ONLY be playable with internet. Why on earth you think is alright and that someone likes it?!?! You could’ve earn more by simple cosmetics or to buy materials with real money(?)
For real, it is a bother that only online play JUST to force the AD streaming is unbearable and unbelievable. Just now, as I am writing this; 3 ADS have been running.

Had plenty of fun killing time and aliens, just to find out that it’s NOT FINISHED. Ugh, why isn’t there more? Do we even have an estimated time to see more game?

Same as Idle Breaker; different story. $6 to remove forced ads that play every 45-60 seconds. Must watch all other ads to obtain any reward. More and more games are requiring a purchase(s) to fully enjoy the game. Just like Idle Breaker, you must wait for many updates to enjoy an actual storyline.

I would have given this 5 stars BUT every time I play an ad sometimes SOMETIMES there's this particular ad that would play no sound and when getting the reward after the ad plays, the game itself would not have sound either. This is very VERY annoying!! To the devs: "Please fix this issue!!" Other than that I enjoy playing this game very much and I'm also enjoying your other games. I'll be trying out your newest game as well. I've invested a few bucks for removing the ad banner and forced ads. Just wish you guys (the devs) would make it so that the paid players don't have to keep watching the ads. What's the point of paying for removing ads when I have to watch them anyways for extra rewards?? Other games I've invested my money don't do that. Maybe in the future, you (the developers aka devs) would allow your paid players to not have to watch ads for extra rewards??? It would be soooo nice if you would consider my idea... I'm sure other players would enjoy the game more as well).

The game is fun to play, the requiring you to get to a certain power to do new stages is kind of annoying. Especially when you have to work for a few days to get the items to upgrade enough of your gear. I ended up getting all the way to the part where you’re traveling to the saloon, but cannot progress as that area is not available yet. I currently cannot do anything except run old stages for gear to upgrade my gear, but there is no point until the saloon opens. And at this point, I’ll have enough power and gear to be able to breeze through it if I continue to upgrade. So I will end up in the same position I am in right now where I’m
Waiting for another area to release.

This game is enjoyable. The ads show up quite a bit but don’t last for too long. One think they need to add though is a way to fast travel back to previous stages. There are things you can’t break until you get stronger, but once you are strong enough, there’s no way to get back.
I’m looking forward to “The Forest” release date so I can continue playing the game.

I like this game a lot. More than I thought I would actually. I am to the point in the game where I need an item for my horse to take it over the bridge. That item is in an Expedition, and nothing I do will allow me to get my CP high enough to do that expedition. I’ve invested 3 days of idle loot gathering, and doing prior missions for chests, etc, and I am still short.

I don’t mind paying for games, and I don’t even mind in-app purchases to smooth things along. I do not like it when I should be able to complete the game watching ads and using time to my advantage, but can’t.

I’m sure that the answer is that I can either spend N more days farming loot, or spend $6 to move ahead, my choice, but it’s challenging to have the time scale be a certain duration for most of the game and then here toward what I assume is close to the end it increases so dramatically.

This game is very funny and extremely fun to play! 😍

I love the game however you can only go so far in the game because the developer hasn’t finished developing the game. I’ve been waiting and starting to lose interest.

It’s easy to play fun to get to know and the controls are easy to use .

When is the update "the forest" being released have been waiting for 3 weeks ?

Love the game good story… But I’m disappointed I can’t progress, I did all the work to fix the train only to find out I can’t go any further. And way to many ads thrown at me. Hopefully that won’t be an issue when the game is finished. I really do want to see how this games story is going unfold and end.

I am really enjoying this game, the gameplay loop is very addicting and there is a ton of stuff to do.

Play style wise it is very similar to their other great game, Idle Breaker, which I have put over 50 hours into.

I pay for the “no ads” option in all of their games because I enjoy them so much.