# Achikaps — user reviews

> 158 indexed App Store user reviews of Achikaps by Ivan Yakovliev, rated 4.40/5 from 184 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/achikaps/id1515537717/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/achikaps/id1515537717.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 128 · 4★ 29 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 11

## What do users think of Achikaps?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Simple yet engaging gameplay
- 🚀 Smooth and responsive controls
- 💎 High-quality game with no ads or IAPs
- 🎨 Appealing minimalist art style

**Cons**

- 🐛 Grey screen glitch when switching apps
- 🤔 Unclear tutorial and lack of in-game information

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Screen turns grey when opening notifications
- Buttons and UI elements become unresponsive

**Most requested features**

- Add multiplayer mode
- Improve enemy AI difficulty scaling
- Provide more building and unit options
- Allow renaming of saved files

## Newest reviews (18 of 158)

### 4/5 — Good game but has some bugs

*2026-07-20, version 1.260420.1*

On my iPhone 16 Pro, the UI of Achikaps and Bleentoro turns black whenever I exit and reopen the game, or when I open the notifications bar.

Also, sometimes when I open the game the UI will be zoomed in too much, but this happens rarely.

### 4/5 — Good but hard to get resources

*2026-04-25, version 1.260420.1*

It’s fun, but it is so hard to get resources.

### 5/5 — Darkmode

*2025-02-25*

I like it :) just 2 things, 1. it would be great if darkmode got included & 2. it would be nice for beginners to know what the modules produce. (Also it would be kinda interesting to be able to take other colonies nearby or be taken by them) anyways, bye

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback :)

### 5/5 — Jogo muito bom!!

*2025-01-28*

É um jogo bem pensado, original e simples, o que é raro encontrar hoje em dia. Porém poderia melhorar algumas coisas, como remover alguns erros da tradução portuguesa, e, apesar de simples, algumas coisas são um pouco difíceis de entender, como quais construções produzem quais coisas, por isso acho que poderia deixar essas informações mais explícitas sem precisar construí-las. 
Mas são apenas ideias, o jogo é ótimo!! ;)

**Developer response:** Thanks for the good review. Please email me (yiotro93@gmail.com) about the problems in Portuguese translation. Also, please check out my newest game 'Pochemeow', maybe you'll like it too ;)

### 5/5 — Наг слон

*2025-01-23, version 1.241102.1*

Наш слон делает идеальные игры

### 5/5 — Incredible!

*2024-12-25, version 1.241102.1*

Hands down one of the best game and my fav game of all time.Gameplay is amazing as like all other of you guys games.But,it would be nice if like this game has the music option right?So I loved that and would be grateful if there were sound tracks for all other games.And,since I can’t support you all(Or you) via money,so for the betterment of you guys(Or you)I want to have a optional ad button on the main screen or something like that so that you can make more and better games:)Powchemeow,is that what it’s called?New game looks sick but,I have no credit card to play,so yeah.No worries.Best regards.Oh!And more things in this game would be appreciated.

### 5/5 — Amazing

*2024-12-21, version 1.241102.1*

Late to the game but just want to express my appreciation for the simple art style and the smooth experience throughout, no grey screen for me. 

Wish there couple be new modules and minerals. The possibility is endless :)

### 5/5 — Best side-Chill-Game

*2024-08-26*

I don't have any words to explain how nice and calm this game is, yea I know that sometime it could get a lil tense but it's a cute game.

**Developer response:** Thanks for the good review. Please also check out my newest game 'Pochemeow', maybe you'll like it too ;)

### 5/5 — A Great Game with A Respectable Creator

*2024-08-23*

Firstly, the game is simple, but fun! It’s a fun game where you have to learn to build, manage, and defend your base. I think adding more to this game over time would make it even better (adding new content). So the game is awesome and I would recommend the pro version! 

Second, I have been really getting frustrated with how many apps have been using ads and forcing you to watch them/click on them. However, this game has NO ADS, not a single ad has been appeared on this game. The creator even says he is not wanting to put ads on his games and I really respect the creator for this. Its things like this that make me want to buy and show my support to the creator, but also keeps me interested in the game!

**Developer response:** Thank you for the good words. Please also check out my newest game 'Pochemeow', maybe you'll like it too ;)

### 5/5 — Игра божественная

*2024-08-18*

Здравствуйте Иван я фанат ваших игр играл в многие из них на андроиде а игра отличная вы гений я вам рекомендую создать дискорд канал или еще что-то чтобы были новости

### 5/5 — Потрясающе

*2024-05-10*

Шикарная игра, очень давно в нее играю, еще не наскучила, жду новинок в следующих обновлениях)

**Developer response:** Спасибо за отзыв.

### 5/5 — Шикарная игра

*2024-02-25*

Ура! Моя любимая стратежка теперь есть на iOS!

Попробуйте, не пожалеете, залипнуть можно надолго

**Developer response:** Спасибо за отзыв.

### 5/5 — Имба! Но….

*2024-02-19*

Игра Крутая, но как достать шестеренки? Конфеты и пилюли это понятно а шестеренки не знаю…

**Developer response:** Спасибо за отзыв. Пожалуйста, скиньте мне на почту (yiotro93@gmail.com) скриншот этой ситуации, тогда я смогу помочь.

### 5/5 — Suggestion

*2024-01-03*

Make a option to rename saved files and add more things to the game.
I loved this game, keep it up! 🌟

**Developer response:** Thanks for the good review. You can rename save slots, just long tap (hold your finger) on a slot and then tap 'edit' icon (gray pencil) in top right corner of menu. If you want you can also email me (yiotro93@gmail.com) and I'll show you a screenshot of how to do it.

### 5/5 — Эта игра просто имба

*2023-12-11*

Мне очень понравилось. Ждем кооператив всей деревней!

**Developer response:** Спасибо за отзыв.

### 5/5 — So underrated

*2023-12-07, version 1.230905.1*

Your game is so fun for car rides for anything but please make it easier to get pills

### 5/5 — Хорошая игра

*2023-11-22*

Отличная игра, очень интересная, но можешь добавить ещё что-нибудь с неизвестным существом?

**Developer response:** Спасибо за отзыв. В смысле, с каким неизвестным существом?)

### 4/5 — Pretty good

*2023-11-06*

It would be nice to add a mortar that does heavy damage and has a long range but can’t shoot close to itself

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. I think that the 'airport' building already kinda meets these conditions :) Technically it can attack near itself but it will cause too many problems.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Juste incompréhensible

*2023-02-10*

Impossible de comprendre ce jeu.

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. Please email me (yiotro93@gmail.com) with more details about what exactly needs to be improved in tutorial levels.

### 1/5 — Actually really bad

*2022-11-23, version 1.2.220913*

Boring game where if you make a mistake you fully lose everything.

### 1/5 — Bug

*2022-08-24*

App freezes when a battery notification pops up or you slide the screen to check some other app notification. Lost all progress in a few levels because of this

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. I know about gray screen problem but sadly I wasn't been able to fix it (I tried multiple times). Currently I can't promise that I'll do that, sorry :( Though you can just enable 'autosave' in game options and it will allow you to avoid losing more than a few minutes of progress.

### 1/5 — Couldn’t play

*2021-08-28*

Cool game but couldn’t do anything did what the tutorial said for level two set a couple houses down and nothing tried sandbox and did what tutorial instructed and nothing was moving any resources not sure what I did wrong tried building all kinds of things and nothing changes tapped everything checked options I feel I’m missing something but no clue what. I enjoy games like this very much but you should let us start from literal square one and if you’re going to make it supe complicated then explain somethings says build houses preferably three and nothing happens when you do that so again not sure what I did wrong but great idea for a game would like to see it improves on in the future

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. Probably you didn't send units to 'construction' workgroup but that's just my guess. If you want you can email me (yiotro93@gmail.com) with a screenshot of this situation and I'll help you.

### 1/5 — Nicht zufrieden stellend

*2020-10-18*

Das Spiel ist am Anfang gut erklärt, jedoch nach 5 Minuten kann man angeblich die Basics und das stimmt auch noch für weiter 5 Minuten, danach jedoch kommt man nicht mehr klar und weiß nicht was man machen soll. Sehr schade👎🏻

Ab dem Punkt wo das Loch mit dem Metall verschwindet, war es für mich unklar wie ich ein neues bekomme für mehr Metall

**Developer response:** Thanks for reply. I’m sorry that tutorial was confusing to you. I’ve tried to make it as understandable as possible. Can you please specify what part of tutorial should be improved?

UPD: The idea is that you have to build more mines near other metal deposits. Hint: you can tap on mine/deposit to see how much resource it still has inside.

### 2/5 — iPhone version broken

*2026-08-04*

Love the concept, although tutorial could use some refining. But the worst part is that after the first time opening the game, any following attempt will have the buttons all be just offscreen and make the game physically unplayable

### 2/5 — Interesting but very confusing

*2022-03-07*

The task only tells you that you need to „build a road”, but how?!!

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. To build a road just do this: 1. Tap on a platform. 2. Tap '+' button in bottom middle part of screen. 3. Tap 'Road'. 4. Tap on adjacent platform that is not yet connected to it with a road. This will give units a command to build a road, so you just have to send someone to 'construction' workgroup.

### 2/5 — The game UI fights you every step of the way

*2022-02-26, version 1.1.4*

“Easy to learn” is a lie on the App Store page. I really wanted to like this game so I was trying to figure it out. However, I don’t think there’s an excuse for the lack of usability after being out 4+ years.

My biggest gripe is that there is a menu of almost 20 things to build immediately when you start playing the game, and the menu does not bother to tell you what each building produces or does. The buildings all look the same too, so I have to tap on each nondescript circle to see what I have. Once you place it there is a question mark to vaguely describe it, but why only after placing? If I know I need green circles, what do I build? Blue squares? The tutorial tells you once and expects you to remember. I don’t want to open a wiki page and memorize what each building does before I can even play. Most things are unclear like this.

A lot of mechanics are difficult to figure out, even with the tutorial, resulting in sitting for minutes in the tutorials without progress. One of many examples: I have just been told to build a road to a monument. I ordered it to build the road, tapping on the destination which was clearly in the build radius. The road flashed a red dotted line, which then just went away with nothing happening. No errors or hints to give me a break? Everything visually cued me I did it right, and I had my workers assigned to get it done but nothing happened. I don’t want to have to brute force trial and error every single mechanic. And It wasn’t an isolated incident.

All the basic info is just completely obscured.
There are no counters showing how much of each resource you have, nor a list of what you are able to produce, nor a rate of production. There are no health bars for enemies, no health bars showing when a building is about to blow up, no damage/dps stats for how effective my workers are on defense. There is a timer for the when next attack is coming, but you have to keep clicking on it to read it, no one thought to just make the timer visible all the time on the play screen.

I’m sure there’s a fun game under there somewhere (the genre with nodes and transporting resources speaks to me). But the game is fighting me literally every step of the way. I could memorize things about the game and maybe get through some levels, but the overall lack of information given to the player about everything makes this game a chore.

### 2/5 — Good

*2020-09-09*

Good game to play for 5 minutes of fun

**Developer response:** Thanks for reply. Full version is somewhere nearby in app store, it’s called ‘achikaps pro’.

### 3/5 — Need to improve Japanese language settings

*2024-12-31*

I understand both English and Japanese. My phone is in English but somehow all the UI is in Japanese. Japanese is unreliable level for the UI
It’s missing “ー” every time.
I know that Japanese is hard language, that’s why Japanese language consultants are important 
Or
Add language change future.

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. You can change language in game options. Also, please try disabling "high quality font" in game options and see if it helps with the "ー" symbol. If it does then please tell me (yiotro93@gmail.com) about that.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Отличная игра но…

*2026-06-09*

Зтрасвуте!игра отличная но добавьте команды например:перенести:шештеренка в патформа.пж!

### 5/5 — You Are Amazing

*2026-02-22*

I've played every free game that you've made, and this one thing is apparent. Every single one I've played is one I can recommend, except maybe Opacha-mda, (that's how you spell it right?) which is too simple for my liking.

My favorite games are this one, Achikaps, followed by Antiyoy Blenntoro, Vodobanka and Opacha-mda, in that order.

### 5/5 — J’adore !

*2026-01-06*

Aucune pub et le jeu fait vraiment passer le temps !
Une petite suggestion serait un mode nuit avec l’achat pro ?

**Developer response:** Thanks for the good review. I'll think about the dark mode, but I can't promise that I'll implement it (I would have to redraw almost all graphics in game for that).

### 5/5 — Восторг!

*2025-12-28*

Спасибо большое за потрясающие впечатления от Вашей игры! Все очень нравится! Хочется играть и играть без остановки :)
Единственное, хотел обратить Ваше внимание на то, что на iPhone 11, iOS 18.6.2, если во время игры, переключиться на другое приложение, затем вернуться в игру весь текст будет закрашен черными блоками. И в некоторых миссиях заметил что текст заданий в местах переноса строк расплывается.

### 5/5 — You have made this one of my favorite games

*2025-11-27*

The simple gameplay really does speak for itself, I love learning what I need to do next to build my base and the cherry on top is the developer, to the developer directly: I am so glad you have a passion for these games and people, making games you truly care for, you have truly earned mine and most people’s respect.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the good words :)

### 5/5 — ломаются кнопки и панели

*2025-09-10, version 1.250813.1*

если во время игры открыть вкладку уведомлений на телефоне или панель управления, либо свернуть игру а потом опять открыть, то все кнопки и панели становятся черными, текст не видно, приходится либо строить все в слепую, либо перезаходить((

### 5/5 — Почему не такие игры имеют миллионы загрузок а всякая посредственность?

*2025-07-06, version 1.250520.1*

Это несправедливо.

### 5/5 — Best dev ever

*2025-05-25*

I absolutely love every single game Ivan makes, love the art style, controls and mechanics

**Developer response:** Thank you for the good words :)

### 5/5 — Отличный игра

*2025-04-15, version 1.250221.1*

очень хорошо))

### 5/5 — Отличная игра

*2025-03-06*

Обожаю эту игру! Легкая, но в то же время нужно хорошенько подумать! Спасибо разработчику)

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