# Antstream: Play Retro Games — user reviews > 147 indexed App Store user reviews of Antstream by Antstream Ltd. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/antstream-play-retro-games/id1311611749/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/antstream-play-retro-games/id1311611749.md ## What do users think of Antstream? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎮 Excellent retro game selection - 🕹️ Great for nostalgic gaming - 👍 Seamless cross-platform experience - 💡 Innovative features like challenges and leaderboards **Cons** - 🔒 Subscription-only model with no trial - 🎮 Poor controller support and unresponsive touch controls - 🐛 Frequent crashes and performance issues - 💰 Overpriced subscription for limited functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - Subscription issues and account problems - Inability to play games without paying - Streaming lags and disconnects **Most requested features** - Add more classic game titles - Implement a free trial period - Improve controller compatibility - Optimize performance and stability ## Newest reviews (15 of 147) ### 3/5 — Good interface but game-list is poor *2025-12-24* Great experience, easy to use but lacks quality games. Loads great, relies on downloading for live games - so forget offline use. Also the interface and a Bluetooth gamepad works fantastic. The selection of games is pretty dire in my opinion. Nostalgic and some interesting games like Horace and Turrican. Gameplay lag from using airplay is not great. Best using a usb c to hdmi interface with charging. ### 4/5 — Trial period-everything was perfect... bought through a year sub,blocky and 2slow to 2fast gmeplay *2025-08-06, version 201.29.97* The controller connect versus the input on Xbox one controllers is the biggest issues as the lag is so bad it's basically unplayable especially with the speed discrepancies most of the games are showing, which i do not recall them having in the actual games by the way. It's lime a fast forward version.I do remember they would slow down at times in the game and eventually the game would significantly boost to catch up when too many sprites were on screen-ie double dragon, but it was never so fast that it was basically run at 1x plus speed to out maneuver the speed deficit and what's more, couldn't you guys temporarily download onto catches the game file as a cookie or something so it could play locally than delete it as the player exits so there's not a whopping issue with constant streaming and server use at 150 mb constant back and forth friction?-that's acceptable for Xbox games run on tv from servers ie but why for these 8-16 bit Max games that can easily be stored as a little itty bitty file and run in a mini file proprietary-still within your app but locally instead and running within constant constraints balances and stable as it was meant to,not like a sphaghetti meatball running downhill... ### 4/5 — Trial period-everything was perfect *2025-07-24* The minute i bought the subscription, the game streams are all blocky and you can't really play anything on any device that's not a phone. Was hoping to enjoy the same quality as the trial week which is why i gave it a second shot-disappointing to say the least when your twelve year old looks at you like you used to play with bricks when you were a kid-this turned out to be not much different-the bricks are just on the screen now. ### 1/5 — Não tem teste gratuito!! *2025-04-19* A ideia do aplicativo é boa. Porém eles não oferecem teste gratuito e, pior, não tem opção no site para cancelar a assinatura. Eles obrigam, maliciosamente, o consumidor a ir no próprio site do PayPal para cancelar a renovação. Sem contar que tem jogos muitos antigos, da década de 80 pra trás e sem franquias conhecidas, como Sonic e Alex Kidd. ### 4/5 — Great Idea! *2025-04-18* So glad they've brought this to iOS! I hope a future update will allow maybe 5 favourite games to be temporarily stored on an iPhone or iPad so they can be played offline. ### 1/5 — Pagar pra jogos antigos *2025-03-25* Não acho muito honesto cobrar para jogar jogos antigos que são facilmente encontrados em emuladores, mas ok se ainda está online o aplicativo provavelmente tem louco que pague por isso ### 1/5 — Cê é loko num compensa… *2025-03-17* Tem que pagar pra jogar jogos que você pode encontrar no navegador ### 1/5 — Não presta *2025-03-10* E tudo pago, não tem nenhum jogo pra jogar. ### 1/5 — Ta de brincadeira né *2025-03-01* Ta de brincadeira né ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2025-02-18* There is a real lag in the controls, which causes the gameplay to just be annoying. There are a couple titles that are fun for nostalgia but not enough to keep you playing like you were a kid ### 1/5 — É gratuito? E vc baixa e não tem nada gratuito! Será que para o desenvolvedor,grátis é pago? *2025-02-06* Gostaria de testar gratuitamente, mas sem chance, deveria ter opção para AppleTV que teria mais sentido. ### 2/5 — Falta relevância *2025-02-03* Jogos são muito fracos. Na minha opinião não vale a pena o preço. O sistema é bom. ### 1/5 — Propaganda enganosa *2025-01-23* Como colocam o app como gratuito sendo que não tem nenhum jogo gratuito? ### 1/5 — Não a teste *2025-01-18* Não a teste gratuito algum para jogar tem que pagar primeiro ### 1/5 — Precisa pagar todos os jogos! Não tem um gratuito… *2025-01-15* 🫠 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Schlechte Bewertung hat seinen Grund *2026-07-01* Nicht umsonst ist das „Spiel“ so schlecht bewertet, es hat einfach nichts zu bieten. Okey dass man mit einem Spiel Geld verdienen möchte aber dass hier ist der falsche Weg ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2025-12-27* Awful app most of the time I cannot get in. When I can there is awful latency and when I addressed it to their customer service their were helpless. Never again…. ### 1/5 — Wucher *2025-10-04* Noch nicht mal gespielt - schon soll man sich entscheiden, ob man monatlich oder jährlich zahlt? Ich teste ein Auto bevor ich es fahre, aber hier soll ich erst zahlen??? Total daneben!!! ### 1/5 — How this even exist? *2025-09-24, version 201.29.97* Was looking for some emulator for retro games,saw this one on App Store add on from recommended,opened the app,all games are just copy trash games,0 games from SNES or Sega or whatever,if i could i would give it 0 out 5 ### 1/5 — Unplayable *2025-09-06* Saw this and was very excited to relive some retro classics across all the platforms I had when I was a kid. Unfortunately literally every game either suffers from huge lag and/or controls that don’t even respond to what you are pressing. The whole control system needs a redesign as the majority of these games are completely unforgiving without precision. I’ll be unsubscribing and keeping an eye on the reviews. ### 1/5 — Lixo *2025-07-07* Não é grátis,tem que pagar ### 1/5 — Dinheirista *2025-06-16* Só joga se pagar, todos jogos antigos. ### 1/5 — why pay *2025-05-31* i would rather play free using delta emulator ### 1/5 — . *2025-05-30* Não vá não, não tem teste grátis e é tudo pago. ### 1/5 — Unplayable *2025-05-25* I was looking forward to playing some old games from my childhood but the controls simply don’t work. Bubble Bobble started but I couldn’t control the character, so I died immediately. I then tried Alien Breed and not even the start button worked, so I didn’t get to play it at all. Double Dragon controls worked for 30 seconds then stopped so I got beaten up. I have recently bought a brand new iPhone16 so I knew it wasn’t the device. Great idea, terrible execution. Subscription cancelled 10 minutes after subscribing. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Exceptional *2026-01-23* -Well worth the yearly ❤️ ### 5/5 — Amazing only a few requests tho… *2025-12-12, version 201.29.98* Could you make it for Sony smart tvs too and also 3 game requests 1. Bomberman 64 2. Bomberman 64 the second attack 3. Bomberman hero All for Nintendo 64 ### 5/5 — Great classic gaming! *2025-12-01* $4 a month for a ridiculous amount of classic gaming! It definitely works with backbone controllers. Dont believe the nonsense coming from other reviews. Enjoying every moment minute with these classics. Hope they keep adding games. ### 5/5 — ❤️ *2025-03-10* Have so many classics❤️❤️❤️ ### 5/5 — jeremie *2025-02-12* this is a blast to play if you like old-school games that work really good this is the app for you ### 5/5 — Retro *2024-10-12* Is my middle name 8 bit hero! ### 5/5 — Ottimo inizio *2024-09-04, version 201.29.93* Per tutti quelli che si lamentano dell'abbigliamento antstream è esattamente come l'app di Netflix serve solo se si decide di abbonarsi al servizio. Il servizio è buono mancano ancora molti titoli. for the developer to intend to include Dragon's lire and the other laser disk?? ### 5/5 — It’s the best game *2024-08-25* I played for 1 hour and I had so much fun playing the game it is the best app I have on my iPhone 8 it’s a cool app ### 5/5 — The Best IOS Emulator EVER! *2024-08-24* I Think They Should Add 3DO Games And Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast Games like Soccer Kid, Sonic R, And Sonic Adventure ### 5/5 — Impresssive *2024-08-10* So glad this has come to iOS. Signed up for a month to give it a go and I’m really impressed. Lots of arcade games are available. Plus of course many old classics including ones such as Adventure from the Atari 2600. So far no lag. Only negative is why can’t I sign up for a lifetime pass on iOS. I can on the Xbox --- *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 2026-08-27.*