Can't rely on auto-save – Idle Frontier: Western Tapper Review

I opened the game today and did a few things and then tried to let the game idle in the background for a few minutes while I did other things in my phone. To my surprise, the game refreshed when I switched back to it (reloading the main area and then I'd have to reload the event area as well), and I discovered it had not saved any of my progressfor those 10 minutes or so in the event. It didn't even save the fact that I had watched 6 ads to increase the x2 timer duration on my farm, so I'd have to rewatch the ads if I want that back. It did unfortunately save that I had already opened my free loot crates (but I don't think it saved the contents from them - not sure), so I can't open those again for another 4 hours. Looking in my settings now, I can see it tells me when my last cloud save was, so before I minimized it again (to write this review) I made sure to tap that icon to do a manual save. But it's really stupid that the game now requires manual saves.
Review by DreamwaIker on Idle Frontier: Western Tapper.