# A Diary Of Darkness — user reviews > 132 indexed App Store user reviews of A Diary Of Darkness by Pham Quang, rated 4.30/5 from 408 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/a-diary-of-darkness/id1605878509/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/a-diary-of-darkness/id1605878509.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 237 · 4★ 105 · 3★ 25 · 2★ 21 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of A Diary Of Darkness? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Challenging puzzles - 🕵️‍♀️ Creepy atmosphere - 🎨 Interesting art style - 💡 Unique point-and-click gameplay **Cons** - 🔍 Tiny/hard-to-see hidden objects - 🔁 Repetitive/useless hints - 💸 Excessive ads disrupting gameplay - 🐛 Bugs and glitches **Commonly reported bugs** - Sliding puzzle being impossible to solve - Progress not saving properly - Certain items/puzzles not appearing as intended - Sound issues and random noises playing **Most requested features** - Improved hint system - Option to disable ads or pay for ad-free version - Better save/load functionality - More detailed story and lore ## Newest reviews (15 of 132) ### 2/5 — Tradução *2026-06-24* Adoro esse tipo de jogo, porém falta uma versão em português. Em tempos de IA acho que não seria tão difícil fazer isso. ### 2/5 — Annoying ads *2026-06-16, version 2.7.55* I would continue play it if the ads are not popup every single minute ### 3/5 — Hints Annoying *2026-04-10, version 2.7.55* Have gotten 6 hints. Every single one is something I’ve already done. ### 2/5 — Ads in 45 seconds *2026-04-10* Ads in the middle of the game, I literally played for 45 secs and once I tapped to move an ad appeared making the whole atmosphere to go away. In this kind of game I don’t think that’s the way to make money. So sad cause I love and buy this kind of games ### 2/5 — Ads way too frequent. *2026-01-21, version 2.7.55* I couldn’t get into the game as every minute or two an ad would pop up. I couldn’t be bothered playing it enough to see if I would pay for the game. Uninstalled and I’ll avoid all from this developer in future. ### 3/5 — Second section *2025-11-17, version 2.7.55* I paid for no ads and part 2. In the middle of part 2, after stopping, I tried to get back into the game and the continue button is disabled. I did reboot once but it happened again and I am not able to finish the game I paid for. ### 4/5 — LOVED.. Except for 2 things *2025-07-13, version 2.7.55* im usually not a person that likes jumpscares or creepy things but lately ive been wanting to play games like these. only took me less than a week for both parts it was that good!! the puzzles are pretty hard (for me they were, it’s different for all people) and the game was filled with adrenaline rushes and minor jumpscares. There is two things that I didn’t like about this game. First, THE ADS. walk into a room? Ad. open a chest or drawer? Usually an ad. Second, (spoiler sorry!) at the end, when we have to sacrifice a newborn, I had no idea I was going to do such a thing. Maybe if there is ever a third part of some sort, please don’t add something like that. Me being a Catholic was NOT expecting a sacrifice of a child for my freedom 😭 other than that this game was super fun and highly recommended by me. ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2025-07-09, version 2.7.55* I do enjoy this game, however, there are WAY too many ads.. and thats without the option to buy the full game (which I’m prone to do btw). Not only that, but when you go back into the game from going out of it, you seem to lose your progress and coins. Wish I could rate higher. ### 2/5 — Legal mas… *2025-06-23* Sei que para manter uma empresa de jogos é caro, mas o tanto de anúncios desse jogo é absurdo ### 2/5 — 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ *2025-06-13* This is lowkey a cheap rip off of rusty lake and theirs ads every time i click to go to next room. This would have been good if it didnt have ads and mabye was a bit more different to rusty lake cuz this is so obviously a copy of rusty lake ### 2/5 — Review *2025-04-30* Started playing and got an ad within first 10 seconds. ### 2/5 — Một trời quảng cáo *2025-04-22, version 2.7.55* Chơi được 1 phút quảng cáo một lần hay sao á. Những game nước ngoài motip tương tự khi nào cần phần thưởng mới phải xem quảng cáo. Thôi mình xoá game luôn. ### 2/5 — review *2025-04-05, version 2.7.55* bruh to much ads ### 3/5 — No aceptable *2025-03-01, version 2.7.55* Buen juego, pero muchos malditos anuncios, anuncios de hasta 1 minuto cada 5 minutos, jodanse culeros ### 4/5 — Decent Escape Room Game *2025-02-18, version 2.7.55* A fine game, nothing particularly bad to say about the puzzles or any of the game content. Though, few small issues I have. One, the ads come out of nowhere and don’t have any warning, and considering the game has jumpscares this doesn’t feel good. Second, the scares don’t make sense for the game and have no buildup. Third, if there’s a story behind the puzzles I really couldn’t tell. There isn’t anything indicating a deeper story. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not fun *2026-08-17, version 2.8.69* I have only had the game for 15 minutes and I’m already going to delete it - WAY to many adds and I watch 1 minute of adds to get a clue and the gives me something I have already found or done . Don’t recommend :( ### 1/5 — Nhận xét *2026-06-23, version 2.7.55* Ứng dụng tệ cực kì ### 1/5 — copy! *2026-04-21* it’s a shameless copy of "The girl of the window", and also uses characters almost the same as those of the "Rusty lake" franchise games! ### 1/5 — Ripoff *2026-04-07, version 2.7.55* This is just a ripoff of the Rusty Lake games but with worse quality and full of ads. Even some of the puzzles are straight copies. ### 1/5 — Issues *2025-09-07* The puzzles were great but the ads keep popping out after every 5 secs!!. Secondly there’s a bug in the game only after resetting the game, did the error disappear but had played it all over again and for the hints wish they could just show the ones where we’re currently stuck at and not the ones which have already been clear , could have completed this game in 1 or 2 hour max but was stuck for 2 days due to all this glitches. I really enjoyed the puzzles though it was really interesting, so I hope you would fix this issues ### 1/5 — Sliding puzzle impossible *2025-08-20, version 2.7.55* Sliding puzzle can’t be solved. It’s mathematically impossible. Wasted a lot of time on it before got it. Also too much ads and look like poor copy of rusty lake games ### 1/5 — Way too many ads. And long ones. Spoils it all *2025-06-14, version 2.7.55* Ads Ads Ads ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2025-04-14, version 2.7.55* It should be illegal to have so many ads ### 1/5 — Anúncio toda vez que gira a câmera *2025-03-20* Nesse jogo você é obrigado a assistir um anúncio toda vez que gira a câmera para outa parede (nem me refiro a outro cômodo, mas literalmente cada vez que gira a câmera). Pra mim, isso torna a dinâmica do jogo cansativa e impraticável. Sem contar que é impossível ter uma imersão no jogo dessa forma. Os escapes do Sakiko Muto e da Rusty Lake são infinitamente melhores pra quem busca um bom escape sem ser soterrado de publicidades. ### 1/5 — Sliding puzzle *2024-09-21, version 2.7.55* The sliding puzzle is impossible to solve - please fix ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing ! *2026-08-02* Every one of these games is incredible! I’ve been looking for something new to play as a fan of rusty lake, glitch, etc. for someone to say cheap rip off or complain about hints is outrageous. These games should cost way more for the amount of work that’s gone into them. If you love the creators I just mentioned you will love these too !! ### 5/5 — Grandiosos *2025-11-01, version 2.7.55* Hace años los juego y son buenísimos ! muy buen juego ! ### 5/5 — Difficulties *2025-08-18, version 2.7.55* Unique point and click adventure , some puzzles are easier than others, hints are expensive, pop up ads are annoying and frequent. I definitely needed a walkthrough in parts and patience to get through the ads. ### 5/5 — Hard yet Rewarding. *2025-05-14, version 2.7.55* Wonderful game and the ending !?0-0 ### 5/5 — 期待 *2025-04-04, version 2.7.55* 期待续作 ### 5/5 — Almost perfect *2025-03-26, version 2.7.55* Full of puzzles and riddles, it’s one of the best in the market. Ads are a bit annoying but you’ll be amazed of how challenging this game is. At some point I thought there was a lot of information to deal with at the same time, but it quite makes it interesting. The storyline is not that great, but the game itself is worth it. A lot. ### 5/5 — :) *2024-12-31, version 2.7.55* It’s perfect I love it!💖💗 ### 5/5 — 추천~! *2024-12-28, version 2.7.55* 광고가 3분마다 나오지만.. 게임 퀄리티 높고 재미있게 플레이 했습니다 다른 방탈출은 게임도 아니라는것을.. 깨닫게해줌 ### 5/5 — To many ads *2024-12-21, version 2.7.55* Really good game just to many ads. ### 5/5 — Great games *2024-08-12, version 2.7.52* Love all of this devs games BUT the part 2 of this game won’t save on exit for me and when I go back in the doors appear open but are locked and some puzzles are glitching. So a few tweaks to be done but it will be a really great game especially for puzzle streamers when the glitches are gone. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*