# Ark Survival Underwater World — user reviews > 104 indexed App Store user reviews of Ark Survival Underwater World by Ghulam Mustafa, rated 3.69/5 from 849 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ark-survival-underwater-world/id1440027791/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ark-survival-underwater-world/id1440027791.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 481 · 4★ 74 · 3★ 44 · 2★ 48 · 1★ 202 ## What do users think of Ark Survival Underwater World? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Unique sci-fi game - 👍 Decent graphics - 🤖 Interesting creatures **Cons** - 🔒 Possible copyright issues - 🐛 Glitches and bugs - 🕰️ Strict time limits - 📺 Excessive ads - 🎮 Lack of gameplay depth - 🌊 Doesn't feel like Subnautica **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and freezes - Inability to progress past first level - Disappearing/unusable items - Incorrect/missing game elements **Most requested features** - More levels and content - Longer gameplay time - Ability to save progress - Removal of ads or paid ad-free option - Improved controls and underwater mechanics ## Newest reviews (16 of 104) ### 3/5 — Like Subnautica but not *2025-01-13* Just once, please, I would like a game similar to Subnautica as a phone app without the hassle of having to pay without ads. Just but the game. Zero ads. Don’t even mention it. Just 7 dollars. Don’t even ask the person who downloaded it to hit allow ads. Don’t even mention. One. Single. Ad. Period. Oh and I died in under a minute trying to find my stupid survival gear that’s underwater. Unlike Subnautica, where you just CRAFT your survival gear. Still. Three stars cause they tried. Seems pretty good. But I want a game where I can just start crafting my survival stuff… ### 4/5 — Hard *2024-08-05, version 1.1* The game is really fun and there is lots of adds so I used a add blocker but some of the monsters are over powered so I would say to make the monsters weaker.and THE quality it needs to be better and I was thinking to add a water effect then you get in and out of the water so I would do 4 stars ### 1/5 — Never download this *2021-12-15, version 1.0.1* This game is absolutely pathetic. It’s flooded with ads, poor graphics, unclear instructions and a waste of time. The developer clearly isn’t experienced. I have tried his other games as well are even worse than this. Sorry…. ### 1/5 — Dogwater *2021-11-13, version 1.0.1* Yep nothing else ### 1/5 — this is probably a subnautica ripoff *2021-11-01, version 1.0.1* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ### 2/5 — Disappointing *2021-05-06* I got an ad before the gameplay even began, which made me want to uninstall right away. That’s usually the first sign a game isn’t going to be good. And it was a full 30 second, unskippable ad at that. There’s no sound settings so I was stuck listening to the very loud menu music during the ad too. I finally loaded into the first level and the graphics were actually good. The controls were decent. The level took about fifteen seconds to complete and then it was right back to an ad. Don’t bother with this game unless you really like watching ads. ### 4/5 — Stupid timer *2021-04-05* There is a timer for only a minute or some seconds to get to the location I just wish I had for time to get there before the timer ends. but everything else is great ### 1/5 — Horrbile *2021-02-28, version 1.0.1* Copy of subnatica ### 1/5 — Stupid *2021-02-23, version 1.0.1* I can’t believe what trash this is. I can’t even play the game. It is always glitching and you only have 1 minute to get to level 2. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME ### 1/5 — Bad subnautica *2021-02-10, version 1.0.1* What is this? ### 2/5 — THIS GAME IS NOT BAD *2021-01-31* This game is not the worst game I have ever played, but I am a bit annoyed that there are still only 6 levels. More would be great! Also, it would be cool if the world was a bit bigger and we would be able to actually go inside the ship! Also, more animations on the creatures would be cool as well as some fish swimming around the world. Other than that, for now, I will probably not play the game until it improves a bit. Keep up the good work! ### 1/5 — What the.... *2021-01-05, version 1.0.1* I have seen a lot of rip offs but this... how much did that cost..? I don’t care, how is this good? You just threw random things you found and said “here, subnautica 2.0! And.. is that lump of rock the, uh aurora? Oh no.... the bamora isn’t it? So you avoid copyright, there’s no need though. You can’t even tell that there is any water, you’d think that you were floating around in the air... what the hell? ### 1/5 — This is just bad *2020-12-09, version 1.0.1* Imagine making an off brand of subnautica 🤡 like Fr y is there a time limit and if I neede a mask and oxygen I wouldn’t need it and oh lord y is there so much ads like every button I click there’s an ad😐Ik wat subnautica gameplay is like ### 2/5 — Dude *2020-11-09* If your gonna make a subnautica spin off might as well make it like subnautica I got this on ps4 and it was awesome I got on Xbox it was good and excited for a vr version I am trying to get this on every device I have but when I check my phone this pops why are there freaking GUNS ### 1/5 — I don’t get it *2020-10-26, version 1.0.1* What do I do in the first level ### 1/5 — Zero effort rip off *2020-09-24, version 1.0.1* Ripping off Subnautica, shamelessly. No effort put into this pile of cash grab garbage. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hated the level based system *2025-02-08, version 1.1* Meant to be an open world game but was actually a game with only 7 levels. ### 1/5 — Trash *2024-12-19, version 1.1* This is NOT subnautica 🙏🏻🤣😭 ### 1/5 — Couldn’t even get past the level screen *2024-11-25, version 1.1* I can’t get pass the level screen! Idk if this is my iPad being weird or the game sad don’t get ### 1/5 — TRASH!! *2024-09-06* This game is trash it doesn’t even work! The glitches are soo bad and to top it off they expect you to pay 7.99 to remove adds on an very broken game. I was able to go outside of the map lol! And it’s just an square body of water and emptiness. 1 STAR ### 1/5 — How to get 2 copyright claims in one app *2024-07-12* Step 1: Call your game “Ark Survival” when it isn’t made by the creators of Ark. Step 2: Reveal at the loading screen that your game is actually called “Sub Nautica” which is the name of a popular survival game about surviving in a world full of alien fish. Except with a space. This game is utter trash. ### 1/5 — What *2024-05-04, version 1.1* Would’ve given a positive review like some others, but looks like you gave up. So yh delete this ripoff from the AppStore. ### 1/5 — This game literally has no point and so many ads *2023-10-10, version 1.1* Terrible ### 1/5 — Review *2022-10-31, version 1.0.1* This is a poorly made game and does not entertain . Sorry it’s back to the drawing board for the developers🐤🐒 ### 1/5 — too many ads! *2022-03-18, version 1.0.1* actually 50% ads, 30 seconds ad, then 30 seconds gameplay. i couldn’t stand more than 5 minutes of that junk ### 1/5 — Trash *2021-12-23, version 1.0.1* Do not buy ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 😱 *2023-04-29, version 1.0.1* I play this in the pool ### 5/5 — stop making fun of this game *2021-11-05, version 1.0.1* all you reviewers who say it’s not as fun subnatica and it’s a bad rip off you try making a better rip off ### 5/5 — Too good *2021-02-02, version 1.0.1* This game was really easy even after all the people saying that LEVEL 4 WAS HARD honestly it was easy gg ### 5/5 — Terrific *2021-01-17* This game is very unique and very good sci-fi game I also love the graphics , and the creatures are very interesting . In my opinion the people who are writing these bad reviews are upset that the game might be difficult for them . I would love to see more levels and maybe some non playable characters !!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Good game *2020-06-19, version 1.0.1* I can not believe they have a good game. ### 5/5 — Never give up *2020-03-27, version 1.0.1* I cant really say the game is good, but I do think you have a special talent and should never give up. ### 5/5 — This game is awesome *2019-02-13, version 1.0* This game shows the tale of a man who’s spaceship has crashed ### 5/5 — Levels and missions *2019-02-02* I think u should have more levels the graphics is not to bad maybe more mission verities ### 5/5 — Not the real version *2018-12-26, version 1.0* I have the “real” version on my x-box one and the s app a crap compared to it ### 5/5 — Free mode *2018-12-22, version 1.0* Really good game but you gotta make a free mode please. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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