Idle Defense: Dark Forest

Name: Idle Defense: Dark Forest
Rating: 4.0817122 (28648 reviews)
Author: Loongcheer Game

Loongcheer Game

★ 4.1 (28,648 ratings)

⬇ 1,000,000+ downloads

Est. actual: 1,665,046

Style: Adventure

Free

Released: Sep 26, 2019

IAP: $0.99 - $69.99 per item

Contains ads

Rated: Everyone

Mechanics Idle / incremental Tower defense

Signals

4 this week · 1 positive · 2 warnings All of this week's signals →

📈Last 7 days +8 installs — 71% slower than the week before (+28) · 3/day since Sep 17
🏆Among Adventure games bottom 37% by installs gained this week (9715 peers growing)
⭐Rating steady at ★ 4.08 since Sep 17
🛠Updates dormant · updated 1053 days ago

Installs since launch

+126 installs · +2 ratings since Sep 17

SDKs in the app · version 1.3.0, analysed Oct 19, 2026

Ad mediationAppLovin MAX ironSource / Unity LevelPlay
Ad networkAdColony AppLovin SDK DT Exchange (Fyber)Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) 21.0.0 InMobi Liftoff Monetize (Vungle)Meta Audience Network 6.11.0 Mintegral Tapjoy Unity Ads 4.2.1
AnalyticsFirebase Analytics 21.1.0
AttributionAppsFlyer
BackendFirebase Authentication 21.0.6
Game engineCocos2d-JS / Cocos Creator 2.x Cocos2d-x
Social & loginFacebook Gaming Services Google Sign-In 19.2.0

1 mediation adapter

Adapters connect a mediation SDK to an ad network. An adapter alone does not mean the network’s own SDK is bundled.

AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin

Found by static analysis of the app package; bundled is not the same as active. All SDKs →

Update history

1.4.0 Dec 14, 2023 · seen Sep 18, 2026

–Fix bugs

Only the current version so far — new entries appear as the game ships updates.

Trailer

Idle Defense: Dark Forest is an adventure game by Loongcheer Game with 1,000,000+ downloads (about 1.7M estimated). +8 installs in the last 7 days. Rated 4.1 from 29K ratings. Released Sep 26, 2019. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.

From the store listing: “ Story of the Game Because of a major mistake, the intern wizard burned down half of the wizard school. Nobody can forgive this huge error. He was banished from school and returned home. Misfortunes never come single. The amethyst of ancestral seal was smashed into pieces, and the monsters come swarming from seal…”