# Bad North: Jotunn Edition — user reviews > 950 indexed App Store user reviews of Bad North by Raw Fury, rated 3.80/5 from 1,732 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bad-north-jotunn-edition/id1367121168/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bad-north-jotunn-edition/id1367121168.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 942 · 4★ 201 · 3★ 148 · 2★ 112 · 1★ 329 ## What do users think of Bad North? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great game, clean and simple - 🚀 Smooth gameplay and controls - 💎 Unique real-time strategy concept - 🎨 Beautiful art style and music - 🤯 Challenging and addictive **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and save issues - 🤔 Difficulty curve can be unbalanced - 🤏 Limited unit variety and customization - 🕰️ Can get repetitive after a while **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes when loading saved campaigns - Start button not working on some devices - Compatibility issues with newer iOS devices - Saved data getting corrupted or lost **Most requested features** - More unit types and enemy variety - Endless/survival mode - Ability to play as the Vikings - Skill trees and progression system - Multiplayer and co-op modes ## Newest reviews (13 of 950) ### 4/5 — Great game but hard to strategize and know enemy units *2026-03-14, version 2.00.18* Those little icons on top of an island are only helpful if you’ve memorized all of them and know what they are and if you can even tell the difference between them. Which is honestly very difficult as a new player. I started last week. What I wish this game did is have the list of the enemies in the codex. The icon and a short description of what that unit is. This way I would ACTUALLY know what I’m fighting and how to deal as opposed to guessing based on the icon and find out I was wrong. This is a frustrating part of the experience and this would be a 5 star game for me without this. I find overall this game is too difficult. I’m playing at difficulty normal and I’m an experienced gamer having played videos games since childhood. ### 4/5 — Super Fun *2026-02-10, version 2.00.18* Addictive, complex yet simple. The touch controls aren’t great though, have to have a spot on the map directly in view and it touches get blocked by ships. Also during the dynamic island / notch are hiding quite a lot of the interface. Otherwise amazing ### 4/5 — Very good game *2026-02-07, version 2.00.18* This is an awesome game, but I do have problems with crashes. It has crashed every fifteen minutes ever since I played, which normally was nothing more than an inconvenience because the game takes about 20 seconds to load and it didn’t crash in missions. But the more I turned up the difficulty, the more crashes happened, (more enemies to load i guess) and now i’m 84% of the way through my hard campaign and it wont even let me enter any missions. I hope I can still play this game but I’m not sure if it’s gonna fix itself. I don’t know when the last update was, or whether it’s supposed to be compatible with my device but I don’t have much hope of them getting it fixed. ### 3/5 — No updates *2026-01-17* Love the game. But there are no updates. This game has so much potential. Maybe a catapult invading unit could be added, or cannons. Fire could spread onto the island instead of just being on houses. ### 3/5 — Okay-ish *2026-01-02, version 2.00.18* In terms of IOS strategy games: it’s one of the best. Simple, straightforward, and it’s not some crazy strategy brain-storm-fueling game like some people make it out to be. I think it still needs work and has a lot of potential. Limited to just 4 commanders, only really having small, mountainous maps, not a lot of variety of weapons, and really the biggest strategy you need is the same as always - all of this tends to make the game feel old pretty quickly. If we had more variety of maps, weapons, being able to bring more than 4 commanders, and having bigger and open field maps will definitely make the experience and gameplay a lot better. ### 2/5 — Touch Controls Buggy *2025-12-27, version 2.00.18* This game seems great but the 90% of the time i cannot get my unit to move to the correct tile, its extremely frustrating and just kills the experience ### 3/5 — 希望开发者可以更新适配一下现在都iPhone *2025-12-10, version 2.00.18* 内容非常多交互界面不适配现在是新iPhone，希望开发者可以适配！ ### 3/5 — not working anymore *2025-12-03, version 2.00.18* game freezes on opening screen on Ipad pro. it is great 5 star game, but simply doesn`t work anymore. I didn`t expected expiration date. ### 4/5 — Learning curve but good *2025-10-23, version 2.00.18* Once you understand the various controls it’s actually a great game. ### 5/5 — Very creative *2025-10-18, version 2.00.18* Good, nice ### 5/5 — MAIS ATUALIZACAOES *2025-10-06* O jogo tem uma jogabilidade muito legal, mas não teve mais nenhuma atualização desde 2019! ### 5/5 — Extraordinary gameplay *2025-09-18* Need more of such games. It was intense and totally worth it. Looking for another edition Raw Fury / Plausible concepts. ### 5/5 — Worth every dollar *2025-09-12, version 2.00.18* This game was very entertaining and challenging. It’s artwork is just beautifully done in an anime style. You start out with 2 clans and try to defend the island from waves of enemies. Winning the fight gives you loot as coins which you use to buy upgrades for clans. Theres a good amount of skills and special items to unlock as you delve deeper into the map, defending increasingly more challenging islands. I completed the game on easy, normal and hard, however, very hard just took the fun out of it for me. I did enjoy creating my own challenges like trying to win with only one type of clan (archers were capable of defeating up to level hard.) lot’s of laughs watching them slaughter each other and some battles get down to the last man standing. I wish there were more games like this. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Trash *2026-07-13, version 2.00.18* Had lots expectations but i think it trash to make a paid game unplayable and checkpoint longer can't even sit and grind levels but have to reset every time you make a mistake ### 1/5 — 26.5 *2026-06-20, version 2.00.18* Doesn’t work on iOS 26.5 it starts but doesn’t let me click start ### 1/5 — Can’t press “start” *2026-05-31, version 2.00.18* Updated my phone. Checked for game update. Force closed the game and reopened it multiple times. Uninstalled and reinstalled it. GOT A NEWER PHONE. Still nothing. I used to love playing this game and now I can’t even get past the start screen. I don’t know what is going on or what update broke this game for me. But it’s been bugged for a long time. Maybe I’ll change my review if ever I’m allowed to actually play the game again. ### 1/5 — It wasn’t bad *2026-04-06, version 2.00.18* The game was awesome until it randomly locked me out of playing forever ### 1/5 — 무한로딩 *2025-12-24, version 2.00.18* 시작화면에서 클릭도 안되고 무한로딩 ### 1/5 — Game doesn’t work *2025-10-10, version 2.00.18* Won’t accept ‘start game’ ### 1/5 — No funciona el sonido *2025-10-08, version 2.00.18* Tengo un iPhone 16 y no suena nada ### 1/5 — Juego con bugs *2025-07-15, version 2.00.18* aproveche solo la primera hora de juego después me solicitó acceso a Apple Music y aunque la denegué o permita el juego deja de responder y no me permite jugar, mal gasto de 5 dólares (tengo iPhone 16 pro) ### 1/5 — Bug? *2025-04-17, version 2.00.18* Why can't I enter the game? I'm stuck on the waiting screen. Is it a bug? ### 1/5 — Not working with iPhone 16 *2025-02-01, version 2.00.18* I have started using new iPhone 16, but I cannot start the game. I get the inicial screen with START button but I cannot use the button to start. It does not do anything. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Won’t let me start!! *2026-06-24, version 2.00.18* Absolutely love this game. It’s definitely not an easy game, but it is super fun and feels very rewarding once you do finish it. I can’t even start the game in it’s current state which sucks because I love to play it so much. Other than that, great game, lots of fun, would recommend. ### 5/5 — I Love this game! *2026-06-10, version 2.00.18* This game is unique because of the terrain based strategy I focuses on instead of leveling to success. This game requires smart placement instead of hours played. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Great *2026-03-12, version 2.00.18* I have it on my ps5, saw it on mobile and had to get it, I must say it’s great both ways ### 5/5 — More! *2026-02-06, version 2.00.18* This is great, can we please have a sequel I will pay! ### 5/5 — 게임 진행도 *2026-02-03* 게임 클리어 후 홈 화면으로 돌아가서 저장된 게임을 보면, 진행도가 첫번째 체크포인트가 되는 섬에 멈춰있습니다. 엔딩 크레딧을 본 뒤 저장 된 게임이 진행도 100%가 되도록 수정해주시면 감사하겠습니다. ### 5/5 — Amazing game, but a big problem I have *2026-01-24, version 2.00.18* This game is amazing and I have played it for years now but I have a problem, recently I tried to enter the game, but when I press the start button, nothing happens. I don’t know what the issue is, so can you please help me out? ### 5/5 — Good game. *2026-01-19, version 2.00.18* This game is good, but I think you could add in more stuff without making it less simple, like I'm saying you don't have to add in a new system, but you could add in more things like more classes, but I'm saying you have to. But I'm just saying it would be nice to not be stuck with 3 classes, overall good game. ### 5/5 — The game *2026-01-03, version 2.00.18* Very cool game ### 5/5 — Entretenido y único *2025-11-22, version 2.00.18* Este juego en todos los dispositivos que tengo me ha gustado lamentablemente ya no lo han actualizado pero sigue siendo muy bueno :)) ### 5/5 — Great game , clean *2025-11-09, version 2.00.18* Finally, a game that knows what it is. A unique real time strategy that is simple, bills on accomplishments, complex not to keep you entertained, and easy enough to understand to keep you in. I love it. --- *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 2026-08-25.*