Fantasy Hike User Reviews

Fantasy Hike

Forge7 AB

Health & Fitness

Reviews Summary

Positive highlights

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This app hasMotivating and engaging way to track walking progress

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This app hasBeautiful and immersive artwork and graphics

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This app hasDetailed map and narrative that follows the LOTR story

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This app hasAchievements and milestones to celebrate progress

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This app hasAbility to compete with friends (though not yet implemented)

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This app hasReasonable one-time payment for full access

Negative highlights

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This app hasMr. Underhill moves too fast, making it difficult to keep up

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This app hasUnclear what the meal counts (elevenses, second breakfast, etc.) represent

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This app hasLack of ability to manually enter distance or use other fitness trackers

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This app hasNew social features require a subscription, which some users dislike

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Beautifully Designed, Well Worth the One Time Payment

This app is absolutely worth the $3 or $4 (I don't remember, but the dollar makes no difference. Especially since it's a one time charge!). The illustrations are so pretty, and I love the narrative that goes along with it. If dopamine helps you stay motivated, this is the walking app for you. I have increased my daily steps by about 150%!!! I used to walk an average of 2-4 miles a day, now it's 4-7 miles a day. The passion, energy, and creativity of this app developer shines brightly through their work. I hope that there is another quest after I arrive at Mount Fire! I don't want it to end in a year. My ONLY complaint is that every single one of my friends I've shown this app to has immediately downloaded it and loves it, BUT we can't challenge each other! If that ever is ever added as a feature, this app will be PERFECT.

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Lolianajoy

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello Lolianajoy, Thank you so much for taking the time to review Fantasy Hike and thank you for your very kind words! We're absolutely delighted to hear that you're enjoying the app! And I'm happy to tell you that our team is currently working on a friend feature for the app. We are a very small company and it's uncertain how long this will take but it's in the making! Happy hiking and the best of luck on your journey!

So much fun

I have been using this app for almost 3 months. I don’t have an Apple Watch so I never knew how much I was walking throughout the day. As someone who hates exercise but loves lotr, this app motivated me to get enough steps in to move on to the caption at the bottom of the screen. I love to share this app with my friends and family because it’s actually really fun. Seeing my little hobbit character move across the screen and reviewing the trek I’ve made makes me want to keep going until I can get rid of the ring. I check this app everyday and I am constantly trying to beat my previous record. It’s also insanely accurate to the books which is fun to recall. It gives you a irl glimpse into what the fellowship went through in their long journey. If you like the lord of rings at all, I highly recommend that you get this app.

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Thatonegirl0907

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello Thatonegirl0907, Thank you so much for taking the time to review Fantasy Hike. We're absolutely thrilled to hear you're enjoying it and that it's motivating you! Happy hiking and good luck on your journey!

So So Lovely

So delightful ! Just a really fun way to think about moving my body and exploring the world around me that isn't so "get my steps in." The artwork is beautiful, I love feeling like I'm following in the steps of the book/on my own adventure, everything runs really smoothly, and there's always something new to get excited about even if I just end up moving a mile in a day, while also feeling real-life challenging: sometimes you just have to get past a bigass field haha. Totally in love with it, what a charming, valuable thing. The only thing I wish it included was a way to add friends! I'd love to be able to congratulate each other in-app on getting to x point, or talk about "Old Tom" and his unnamed-for-copyright-reasons wife haha.

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enthusiasm8

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello enthusiasm8, Thank you so very much for reviewing Fantasy Hike and for your kind words. We're absolutely delighted to hear it. And I'm happy to tell you that our little team is working on a friend feature for the app currently. We're a small company and it's uncertain how long this will take but it's in the making! Happy hiking.

Only ‘fitness’ app that works for me

I love this app so much! So far, it has been the only fitness app that keeps me motivated as I ‘compete’ against one of my favourite characters from my favourite story of all time!!

ceciliaah.2

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello ceciliaah.2, Thank you so much for taking the time to review Fantasy Hike. We're thrilled to hear it's motivating you! Happy hiking and good luck on your journey!

Perfect for a LOTR fan regardless of if you like to walk

I’m developing a pretty unhealthy obsession with LOTR and the entire Middle-Earth universe and was looking for apps to help supplement this. This app is totally adorable, I love the simplicity, and the attention to detail. Even if you aren’t competitive and don’t like to walk, you get to follow along with “Mr. Underhill’s” journey in real time, making it feel like you’re going on the Ring Quest yourself, in tandem with your daily life. I enjoy waking up every day to see how far Frodo would have got. I think it’s going to give me a real appreciation for his journey by the end. A must have app for LOTR fans, sporty or not!

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Ninjareview

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello Ninjareview, Thank you so much for taking the time to review Fantasy Hike. We're delighted to hear you're enjoying the app! Have a great day!

My new favourite app!

Great app, lovely imagery, and it’s nice to get a demo first to know whether you want to pay for the full version - rather than it costing money to initially download. (I think it’s worth paying the small fee for premium)

Somethings I think would make it even better:

- once finished, it would be fun to be able to play against yourself from your previous run, to see if you can get to ‘mount fire’ in a much quicker time than before.

- to be able to play with friends as I think it would make the game a lot more interesting and add a fun competitive element.

- would be nice to sync with Fitbits and other health devices as the health app isn’t as accurate.

- to see how fast the challengers pace is, and their averages km per day, and so you know who’s best to challenge.

- to zoom in on the map more as it’s very small and zoomed out.

Over all an extremely good apps, but just some things that would make it more enjoyable, and make it being a paid game more worth-while, as there aren’t that many features!

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gldlansneoekbs

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello gldlansneoekbs, Thank you so much for taking the time to review Fantasy Hike! And thank you so much for the feedback, we appreciate it! Happy hiking and good luck on your journey!

Great motivation to walk

I love Lord of the Rings so this app is a lot of fun and a great motivation to get walking. Also the purchase is one time and only about $3.00 so it’s definitely worth it. Definitely recommend this

BOT5308

2 years ago

Not the best but it gets me moving

Cute app. The best part is that I don’t have to log or do anything. It automatically updates my miles from my fitness watch. I enjoy checking the narrative updates, though it is nothing exciting so far. What really motivates me is seeing my estimated end date. 2025?? That got me moving until I could get it to 2024 lol now I’m working to get it to 2023, this year. I also like seeing the pretend competitors progress. Recommendation: explain the app. There are things I don’t understand like the hobbit meal counts. Are those times I started my activity later in the day? It was worth the one time $3.99 fee but I would never pay monthly for it.

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Unworthyservant777

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello Unworthyservant777, Thank you so much for taking the time to review Fantasy Hike. We greatly appreciate it and we're happy to hear it's been motivating. For more information about it you can visit our FAQ http://forge7.net/fantasyhike/support.html Happy hiking and good luck on your journey!

Nerdy boyfriend got me into it but I still love it!

I’m not a LotR fan myself but my boyfriend was having a blast with the app so I got into it myself. I’m having such a fun time going on the journey even without a lot of context (although my bf is happy to explain to me what the parallels are). Everyone I’ve shown this app to have thought the unlicensed, copyright free names of people and places were hilarious… I mean, Hairyfoot Potter?! Alice Wonderfoot?! How can you go wrong!!

I do wish you could challenge other real life people and have them show up on your map. I emailed the dev team about it and they promptly replied that they have that option as a goal, but that they’re a small team so they aren’t sure when it’ll be available. But I’m not predicted to finish my journey for like 18 more months so they’ve got time!! And after that I’m sure I’ll start it over. I will say, the paid version is pretty necessary if you want to get anywhere but I don’t mind giving a one time payment of three bucks to support such an awesome app.

Also I went to graphic design school and I really appreciate how simply yet functionally this app is laid out, and the achievement art is GORGEOUS! Huge shout out to the design and art teams!!!!

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Heartoffiction

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello Heartoffiction, Thank you so much for taking the time to review Fantasy Hike! We're so greatful! Happy hiking and good luck on your journey!

Great fun

Huge fan of TLotR here and I have to say this is amazing. I’m completely fine with them not giving the rights to Middle Earth (or just doing it for fun itself) because you can definitely tell where along the journey of “The Ring” you are. Clever little plays on names keep you up to date on where you are, along with little explanations of what’s going on around you makes it a lot of fun. The names of the people that you are “racing” to the mountain (not sure what it’s called in this version but I can only imagine it’s going to be great!) are a lot of fun too. Definitely caters to however active you are/want to be. Right now I’m racing “Jon Snowflake” 😝. It’s just the little things that make it the most fun! It’s definitely keeping me in the walking mindset because I don’t want him to be there before I am (right now I’m about 4.22 miles ahead of him after 95 days and 386 miles, the perfect pace for me to keep it fun to stay ahead)! Seriously though, if you want to make it fun to walk, it’s definitely worth putting the few dollars down (what, one beer? Mountain Dew? Whatever’s a good comparison!) to keep you up and being part of an epic tale!

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Sticks01

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello Sticks01, Thank you so much for taking the time to review Fantasy Hike. We're absolutely delighted to hear you're enjoying it! Happy hiking, and good luck on your journey!