# Baldo — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Baldo by Naps Team snc, rated 2.62/5 from 378 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baldo/id1513822917/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baldo/id1513822917.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 76 · 4★ 32 · 3★ 59 · 2★ 93 · 1★ 118 ## What do users think of Baldo? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful Studio Ghibli-inspired art style and graphics - 🧩 Clever and engaging puzzle design in dungeons - 🌍 Large open world with extensive content (50+ hours) - 🎵 Excellent soundtrack and music composition - 🎭 Charming characters and quirky NPC interactions - 📚 Good environmental storytelling and world-building - 🧠 Challenging gameplay that rewards experimentation - 🎮 Works well with external game controller **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and game-breaking bugs - 🎮 Unresponsive and clunky touch controls - 🎮 Buttons too small and close together on mobile - ⚔️ Unfairly difficult combat with one-hit kills - 🗺️ Tiny, unhelpful map with no zoom functionality - 📱 Poor UI scaling on iPhone and mobile devices - 🌑 Dark dungeon rooms with poor visibility - ❌ No tutorial or guidance for new players - 🎯 Unclear quest objectives and progression direction - 💾 Cloud save sync issues across devices - 🔄 Graphics settings reset after death - ⏱️ Slow character movement in large empty areas - 🎬 Non-skippable cutscenes during boss fights - 🚫 No ability to customize button controls **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes when equipping Forest Shield and digging - Game crashes when entering enchanted forest with Three Fairies quest - Game crashes on fast travel - Game crashes when bringing up menu during area transitions - Game crashes when loading save file with desert clothes equipped - Character falls through floors and solid geometry - Character walks through stairs and hills - Character gets stuck between objects and terrain - Unresponsive dodge and attack buttons during combat - Sword attack doesn't register when button is pressed - Ramps and slopes become unpassable - Dungeon map completely broken - Lever quest doesn't trigger properly in Underground - Waterfall won't stop in Rodia underground entrance - Tentacle guardian doesn't release after destruction in Galleon - Skeleton enemies won't enter jail cells in prison dungeon - Door doesn't register as lowered in dungeon progression - Digging causes immediate game crash - Sound doesn't work when switching from headphones - Graphics quality selector doesn't apply or resets - Controller button icons display as corrupted/black squares - Game gets stuck in skeleton trap room in Savoca Prison - Character stuck between tombstone and stairs in Rodia Graveyard - Items disappear from inventory - Quest script events don't fire correctly - Multitouch input misses rapid commands - D-pad repositioning is slow and unresponsive **Most requested features** - Tutorial or in-game guidance system - Customizable button mapping and control layout - Map zoom functionality - Adjustable UI text size - Multiple save points or manual save system - Brightness/visibility adjustment for dark areas - Quest log with clearer objective descriptions - Skippable cutscenes - Cross-device cloud save synchronization - Difficulty settings or adjustable enemy difficulty - Health restoration items or healing mechanics - Controller support improvements for Apple TV - Performance optimization for mobile devices - Larger interactive hitbox indicators ## Newest reviews (17 of 50) ### 3/5 — This game needs a lot more improvement *2022-07-21, version 1.2.5* Played it 10 hrs, game control really bad, if you press running or dodge button while moving, it often have no response. Running button and dodge button are too close together that makes the players often press the wrong one but you can’t customize them. Outdoor puzzle is great but dungeon design is poor, lots of rooms are dark, I can barely see . You have to avoid the spikes in darkness that makes the game look like the Binding of Isaac than Zelda. Game UI, map and describe text are too small in iPhone. You can’t pinch the map to zoom in and out. Enemies can easily kill players in one or two hit even outside the sereen, way too hard in a touch screen device. I wonder if the developer ever played this game and beat one of the boss on cellphone. Sorry for my bad English. ### 3/5 — Yay - New Adventure / Boo - Can’t finish it - BUG! *2022-04-03, version 1.2.4* I really enjoyed this game and can truly see the extensive amount of work out it into it, so thank you developers for that. I don’t like to complain… so I didn’t when I played through the entire Guardian Of Owls. When I saw an update with a new adventure, I thought: it was enjoyable BUT also maddening to play with the glitches but I’m sure they’ve got it handled by now. But still, no. I can’t complete the Three Fairies because as soon as I have all 3 of what’s needed and go to the enter the enchanted forest , the game shuts down. I’ve done everything on my end I can to be sure it wasn’t me or my phone. I even deleted my save and played the whole thing again all to get to the same. exact. issue. I can’t finish it because a huge giant bug that makes the new adventure legitimately unplayable is there. Releasing a game that has that huge of a bug… is a bit much for me. Don’t play Three Fairies until they fix it folks, or maybe, not at all. ### 3/5 — I was loving the game but ran into bugs… *2022-01-15, version 1.2.2* I absolutely fell in love with the game because it’s very legend of Zelda-esque. But unfortunately I ran into a few bugs that just blocks any chance of progression. Ramps have been rendered unusable. I try to go up a ramp or hill and Baldo just walks right through them as if they’re not even there. I died many times due to the prompt controls decide to be unresponsive, not allowing me to eat to heal, roll to dodge, or even pull out my sword. I want to love it again. Please fix these bugs… ### 2/5 — Too many bugs *2021-12-03, version 1.2.1* I have gone as far as I can in the The Underground. My game will not trigger The Ancient Lever quest. I am unable to push in lever into fish mouth- and in the other underground entrance in Rodia, the waterfall will not stop. I am completely stuck. I have watched tutorials and read walkthroughs. It is a glitch. The bombs quest is impossible; this makes me not able to proceed. I don’t know what to do. I really wish they would stop putting out games that they clearly didn’t play all the way through before releasing. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many bugs and glitches. ### 3/5 — Fix this glitch! *2021-11-04, version 1.2.0* I love this game and the concept. Honestly, I didn’t even super mind the difficulty before the latest patch, it was so frustrating but then deeply satisfying after you finally made a dungeon or whatever work. Would love to see a patch for a couple of glitches I’ve noticed though. Not sure where to share these notes other than here. When I have the Forest Shield equipped and try and dig in soil with the shovel the game crashes! I was hoping the latest patch would fix it, but I guess not. Also, there’s a spot in the Rodia Graveyard by the stairs where you can get stuck between the a tombstone, the stairs, and rocks. Not sure if that one was fixed. But there you go! Those are my thoughts so far! Oh and to anyone annoyed that there’s no tutorial, go check out the Rodia Library. ### 2/5 — Good game, but can’t load my last save *2021-10-17, version 1.1.5* Good game, reminds me of Zelda a little bit. Game play is very challenging at times with no real thought of leading you to the next task completions that will progress you through the game like Zelda does. Normally in games you complete an order of steps to get to the next level or move you along the game story line. This game really doesn’t do that. Got really far in the game and it decides that it wanted to kick me out of the game and never load again. I believe it was because I equipped the plant looking shield. The plant shield is suppose to help you look for places to dig which helps you find money or orbs. The game would shut down when I first equipped the shield, I would go to an area it would find for me to dig, and I would be able to get back in the game. This time though after equipping the shield to help me fight Flora and getting out of the dungeon the game shut down on me again and I wasn’t able to load my game ever since. I lost all that progress. ### 3/5 — Good game, horrible controls *2021-10-14, version 1.1.5* So much potential but the control is are just awful. Boss battles are tedious and can be frustrating, not because of difficulty but because the control is so bad. Great story and questing, fun to explore. Movements and battle mechanics are bad. Wish I could skip the necessary to move the story ahead battles after loosing dozens of times within minutes because Baldo won’t move properly. I’m playing with a controller, playing on mobile with thumbs on screen control was impossible. ### 2/5 — Controls are horrible; glitchy game; intentionally impossible *2021-09-28, version 1.1.5* This game had potential but why the developers would spend so much time and effort on a game just to make it into a miserable playing experience is baffling. From the mundane (world is way too unnecessarily large with tons of dead space that you plod through agonizingly slow), through the frustrating (controls are wonky at best, unusable at worst), and into the maddening (especially noticeable in the end boss fights where you can get destroyed while waiting for a non-skippable, and useless, cutscene and hit many times in succession including knockbacks where you have zero input control [meaning the controls aren’t even available to you]) - and throw in all the bugs and I don’t know how this game ever made it past QA. Maybe it’s better on other platforms, but without major overhaul this game is an exercise in self torture. Sure you can progress but expect to die thousands of times in mesmerizingly stupid fashion. I stuck it out up until the final boss fight but wish I hadn’t. I hope they fix all of the ridiculous issues but until then, you’re better off passing on this game. ### 2/5 — Locked out of Progressing *2021-09-23, version 1.1.5* In the Galleon shipwreck I was locked out from raising the chest with the sword. I had destroyed all the tentacles protecting it the crank, but the final “guardian” tentacle did not release. I am at a point where there is nothing left to do but quit. It’s a shame that a game with so much promise missed the mark in so many ways. Reading others feedback confirms that since the dev is getting that Apple Arcade commission they couldn’t care less about the actual gameplay. Nobody left to hold them accountable to a quality and well polished product. Apple sure as heck won’t do it. Edit: the issue I previously posted was fixed but now I have a huge problem with app crashes when I perform certain actions in the game— most notably, digging. The game immediately force closes. Also, I’m currently locked out of the game because it crashed during a fast travel. Now, it crashes when I try to open a saved progress game. **sigh** This game has so much promise… if only there were more attention to detail and debugging prior to releasing the the general public. ### 2/5 — If Apple Arcade is going to continue to put out titles like this… *2021-09-18, version 1.1.5* I was so excited to see this game coming. I primarily play on my Apple TV and thought they would finally be an adventure game worth my time. It is anything but. Great graphics, interesting storyline, and absolute poor performance. There is literally no way to access any items. I presume the menu button on my steel series controller is how I would access it but who would know? It never worked. If the vetting process for titles is not better than this Apple Arcade Wolfel. ### 2/5 — Great potential, but needs tweaks and big fixes *2021-09-16, version 1.1.5* This game has a lot of potential. The map is huge and there are a lot of things to do. But there are many serious issues: 1. Sometimes you fall through a floor at random. You can be standing there and just die. 2. It needs to give players more direction. You can spend hours wandering around trying to figure out what to do. 3. The map is not very useful. It needs to show more detail because a lot of areas are difficult to get to. . 4. After 60 hours of play I can’t make progress because completion of the prison dungeon did not clear the Cacia the Town Architect quest for me for some reason. I am at the point where I can no longer activate owl towers. 5. Touch controls don’t always work. You will die a lot from not dodging or attacking when you mean to. Game is much easier with a game pad. 6. Enemies are unfairly powerful and will block or evade many of your attacks. Each enemy requires a strategy. 7. Enemies are often right at a room entrance so you get hit before you know what’s happening. There’s more stuff. The developer has been making fixes and I hope they turn this around into a great game. ### 3/5 — Good and bad *2021-09-13, version 1.1.5* In some ways this is a great game, the puzzles are really good, the characters are fun and reminds me of Zelda. At the same time, I had to stop playing because the experience with fighting is really horrible. The performance is slow, so you can’t weave in and out, and you die with a couple hits, so you can’t even make progress. Also, on an iPhone the control buttons are incredibly small and close together. My advice is focus on the quests and puzzles and make the enemies slower and easier to beat unless you can drastically increase the game’s performance ### 3/5 — Zelda alike *2021-09-12, version 1.1.5* ***UPDATE*** I started playing on my Apple TV and saved it with my iCloud account. I was trying to play it on my iPhone and my saved game isn't there! Please fix it cuz I really like this game. If you love BOTW, you should definitely give it a try. But with that being said, BOTW is still the best action RPG game I've ever played, and nothing really come close in the same genre. Overall, it is very enjoyable, definitely worth your time especially if you are an Apple Arcade subscriber. ### 2/5 — I love what I've played so far. *2021-09-10, version 1.1.4* Firstly the art is beautiful, and if you don't want a game that will hold your hand and explain every mission to you, this is your game. The only problem that I have so far is once I obtain the owl's horn, the game freezes. I have tried deleting and downloading it again. Nothing seems to work. This is the only reason I have given it such a low rating. Otherwise, my rating would be a five-star. I have seen many comments saying the devs need playtesters and such; I would love to see the development of this game. P.S. want to put it out there for any devs reading the comments. I would be willing to playtest and help in any way I can with this game; I want to see it develop into the fantastic quality I know it could be. ### 2/5 — My game crashes on loading with desert clothes *2021-09-07, version 1.1.4* I grew up playing legend of Zelda and the level of complexity and difficulty in navigating this world is both immensely frustrating and immensely satisfying. If you are used to these Zelda-style games, the difficult will be good enough for you to make sense of the world. However, it’s too buggy and I’m crash-locked out of my game I’ve played the first three dungeons, finished Savoca Prison(the skeleton trap room is so buggy, it took me an hour of waiting) and I reached the desert and received the desert clothes. However, when I am not in the desert, the level of bugs and crashes while wearing the clothes is absurd. It crashes in every room and area I go to, I cannot dig any holes and now I cannot load my save file. Now my game consistently crashes while loading in Kodoge Village. I cannot start the game anymore making my 20+ hours useless. Your game is great, but you need to fix it. ### 2/5 — The game is the best throwback to Zelda games from the 90s except for its way too many bugs *2021-09-05, version 1.1.4* I love this game. The music, the gameplay, it’s tough and smart but why not take care of the bugs. The game keeps crashing on me both on my iPhone 12 and my Apple TV 4K. They just ralease a but fix which actually fix some gameplay bugs but it’s still not enough. I asume it’s a small developer so I am going to patience but I am going to stop playing until another update with better fixes. Update: after playing for 15 hours the game is now unplayable I can’t open my save file becuase the game keeps crashing ### 3/5 — Zeldo *2021-09-03, version 1.1.1* IGN said this game held its own against Breath of the Wild, but I'm not so sure. It is beautiful. The graphics are amazing and it's just truly a delight to see the different creatures within the world. I know it's meant to echo Studio Ghibli designs but the animation also reminds me a little of the old Dyer and Bluth arcade games. Just about everything seems to echo Breath of the Wild, though, which is unfortunate, because without that comparison, it's a lovely game. I am not very far along the story but the dungeon exploration is good (I hear it gets better/more complicated later on). It's difficult to understand the fighting mechanics. For something so anodyne and sweet looking the game murders poor little Zeldo constantly, and his defense and attack moves seem poorly suited to threat levels; meanwhile, the threats themselves seem both too dangerous and also too sparse for so early in the game. The game is a mess on Apple TV. It's usable on a DualShock controller but if you have the heavily promoted Nimbus it's barely operable. Lots of bugs and moments where you're not sure if you've not figured something out right or if something didn't load properly. I think when/if there's an update it will feel a lot better. Overall a decent game. Definitely not five stars on ATV but improvements may help. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t play *2022-06-29, version 1.2.5* Started off fine until you have to actually get somewhere or fight something. Can barely run or roll to get away from the bosses and half the time you click the sword and it does even work. Tried from phone and even MacBook and it’s the same! So freaking annoying! Developers did okay with graphics and everything else but you have very little to see on the map, can’t zoom in far enough, controls are wonky, and enemies are faster than the avatar so all and all you fail almost every time unless you somehow get lucky and make it to the next round. You don’t get many lives and with crappy controls you can’t do anything but die over and over again until you’re lucky enough to have them work. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2021-10-16, version 1.1.5* This game had me so into it. Then all of a sudden it crashed and won’t open. There where lots of bugs, all which I was able to ignore or work around. Sometimes the character would get stuck in the ground or pinned between things he couldn’t move out of. Some of the challenges took a LOT Of time and others where extremely simple. All that I could overlook but now when I’m like 75% finished….it crashes. That’s super disappointing. I have a new iPad Pro, completely updated and has lots of room. I kept reading people saying they where having issues but I thought it had been fixed. It hasn’t. UPDATE: soooooooo many more bugs appearing. I tried starting fresh but there are so many times I fall through the ground and can’t walk up stairs. Anytime I’m in a boss fight like the spider boss, I go to light the lantern but instead it pulls open the entire menu. It makes it impossible to light the torches. The battle is just so packed full of crappy programming it’s impossible. I REALLY want to play this game. It’s amazing…when it works. Gossip says that it won’t be fixed because it’s on Apple Arcade and they have no desire to fix a game where they have fully been paid and expect no more income from. Makes me not want to play apple arcade at all. This isn’t the first game that was pushed before being finished. I wonder if they even tested it before pushing it. They have to know all of the complaints. ### 1/5 — Unfinished *2021-10-05, version 1.1.5* While headed in the right direction, it felt as it I was playing a test version of the game. It has all the right pieces just feels incredibly unfinished. While playing on the AppleTV it was almost impossible to figure out the menu, in reference to what you are holding and how to use it. It was also difficult to read almost anything in the game and the use of highlighting different places and names was confusing rather than helpful. It’s also felt like a small child’s version of this type of game. I could also not change my angle of sight like in some other games like Oceanhorn 2. Overall not a bad start, keep at it. ### 1/5 — Great graphics. Fun interesting puzzles. Impossible boss! *2021-09-19, version 1.1.5* I love adventure games and I love puzzle games, so this was an obvious must try. However, I see no reason why there should be a boss at the end of the very first level that is essentially impossible to beat. It can’t be done at all without a controller and even with a controller the timing/dexterity requirements for defeating it once are ludicrous. And apparently it has to be beaten three times to go on the next level. After trying for literally hours, I gave up and searched the internet to find the solution. I knew I didn’t have the dexterity to do it so I had to get someone else to attempt it, and after an hour he gave up. If this isn’t some kind of bug/glitch that will be fixed, then the game is junk. ### 1/5 — Still a joke of a product... *2021-09-14, version 1.1.5* Three weeks and two "hot fixes" later and Baldo is still not ready for public consumption. I'm sorry that I wasted so much of my time, trying to bend myself to the broken logic of Naps Team. Too many reviews on the internet agree, don't get sucked in by the nosgtolgia that is Studio Ghibli and/or Legend of Zelda, this poor imitator is lucky if it doesn't get sued for defimation of character. A few posts have defended this product by stating that it is wholely created by two individuals. Great story, but Naps Team claims 23 years exeperience creating video games. I was surprised that they were around that long, since I've never heard of them. But now that I see the quality of their work, I understand why I never had heard of them before, what appalls me now, is that they ever hit my radar with Baldo. Clearly, I was sucked in by the marketing of the product, but as I have learned, no professional reviewers were allowed to test the game before it was released. Ultimately, the King isn't wearing any clothes! Dear Apple, get your money back. ### 1/5 — So much potential, poor execution *2021-09-08, version 1.1.4* Having played Zelda (all of them), I like a challenge and figuring things out. The graphics (when they work) are great. Unfortunately, its still super buggy and the controls are some of the worst I have ever used. With tough opponents (most in this game), you need to be able to move well and attack well. Half the time the touch doesn’t respond at all or too slowly or multi touch (kinda need to move AND swing a sword) doesn’t work. It’s very frustrating. Others have mentioned many of the specific bugs already those need to be fixed or you have to constantly hard reset the game. Oh well. Guess I will let Apple Arcade lapse as this was one of the few games with potential ### 1/5 — Amateur Developers Who Don’t Care *2021-09-07, version 1.1.4* Complete Amateur developers who either don’t have enough knowledge on how to read the reviews or don’t care enough to do anything about it.. You will die about 2.5 billion times/hour because they can’t figure out something basic like controls (for example, the game doesn’t respond to running/rolling which you have to do to survive boss battles; if the game doesn’t allow you to do what you want, you’re dead). The amount of time they spent on the game is worthless when the value of play is so low. Glad this game was free with Arcade…my wife woulda divorced me if I spent money on it! Additionally, if you get hit once you get stuck while the enemy finishes you off. The enemies should finish this game off and put it out of its misery. Listen to the other reviews and don’t waste your time. The developers are amateurs that do not care about fixing their glitches…they’re just a bunch of glitches themselves. All the 5 star reviews are done by the developers to try and raise their atrociously horrible game play and reviews. DO NOT LOSTEN TO THE FAKE 5 STAR REVIEWS!!! ### 1/5 — Bugs bugs bugs *2021-09-02, version 1.1.4* A lot of bugs where I fall through the floor or the app crashes , even with all the bugs I’ve advanced to si aro meadows and now every time I get the second chest from dodging in the tent it glitches me in the water so I gave that up, but nooooow every time I dig the game crashes before it finishes digging so please fix or I’ll delete. Here today with another bug and now I cannot proceed!!! Please help!!! I patiently waited for you to fix the lever bug to get into the back gardens and almost immediately I made my way to the back entrance to the jail but I’m blocked by crates I didn’t push aside the first time so I tried to go back out the way I came and I keep falling through the floor of your poorly made game this is getting annoying , why release a game that’s not finished! Changed to 1 star! ### 1/5 — Clunky controls, poor writing, finicky chickens. *2021-08-31, version 1.1.2* Was really looking forward to this game as a longtime fan of both Zelda and Ghibli but unfortunately it looks better than it plays. I had enough before even leaving the starting village after trying to return a chicken (holding it slows your movement to a crawl for some reason) to its seemingly inaccessible coop. The coop, is inside a house but you can’t enter while holding the chicken. Looking at a guide, the answer is that you have to push a box the game never gives you any indication that you can push and put the chicken in the *outdoor* chicken coop and not the indoor chicken coop that has chickens with exclamation marks over their heads (again for apparently no reason). After that I didn’t have much faith that the remainder of the game was going to be any better designed. Add to that the unnecessarily complicated controls for using items and an unfinished looking UI and you have a game that clearly needed a lot more work before being released. ### 1/5 — Terrible game *2021-08-29, version 1.1.2* Don’t waste your time. Broken scripts blocking progress, brutal puzzle without explanation. Enemies that kill you in 1 hit all over the map, broken screen FX, settings they keep reverting to low quality even on the latest IPad 12.9”. Quests sending you to far off vague locations with vital information the NPC mentioned not included in the quest log. Items deleting themselves from inventory, character getting stuck on geometry in the game world forcing the game to have to be closed. Broken script events blocking progress because they don’t fire off correctly, but no indicator where to go next so you end up running around aimlessly for hours trying to figure out what the game wants to you to do next and where to go since the quest log shows you on the map WHO gave you the quest but not where they want you to go. Almost every enemy has a method to 1 shot you forcing the game to reload from your last zone in point. It looks like Zelda but plays like a broken dark souls clone with difficulty from bad design rather than intended challenge. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Can’t get enough of this game *2022-03-25, version 1.2.2* Out of all my Apple Arcade games, this one is the one I play the most. I play it on my Apple TV only. The game is a little crazy but it is set up great, unlike any other game. I do own all the library books and still I get a little frustrated so I have to turn it off and think about what i’v done throughout the day, then played some more When I complete this game, I hope I can find other games very similar. ### 5/5 — A hidden gem *2021-10-05, version 1.1.5* This game is an absolute joy to play and you can clearly feel the passion the developers put in each and every corner of the world they created. It has some quirks and definitely doesn't hold your hand (some of the puzzles are TOUGH), but it's never unfair and the solution comes to you if you think and experiment enough. It has plenty of content, with a main quest that can last up to 50 hours and a lot of side content in the form of mini dungeons with puzzle challenges and side quests. But the real star of this game are the main dungeons, which are all huge and very clever, with puzzles that interact with each other and really make you think in order to progress. I definitely recommend this to any player that likes old school Zelda or puzzle/adventure games in general. And again, I can't stress enough how good this game looks in motion, it's ridiculous. It has a style that's inspired by studio Ghibli and it shows, all the environments are really detailed (the house interiors are incredible, with little details that add a bit of environmental storytelling and help flesh out the NPCs) and the characters are quirky and unique. ### 5/5 — Beautiful and hard *2021-09-09, version 1.1.4* I know there is a lot of negativity floating around about this game but the truth is that it is still a fun game. Yes it is really hard, but no harder that some of the early Zelda games. And it looks beautiful. Also, the developer is very active on social media communicating about what they are working on and providing support for issues they know about. Keep updating it and keep working hard at it. Yes it has issues, but it’s still fun! ### 5/5 — 80’s Kid Here *2021-09-02, version 1.1.4* This definitely reminds me of the games that came out on the Nintendo. Yeah you wouldn’t get spoon fed every single instruction or direction. You’d have to figure things out. You’d die. You’d die a lot. Having to work harder to get through a dungeon or to figure out a puzzle isn’t a bad thing. If you want to mindlessly get the next step or to have it pointed out to you, this isn’t the game for you. ### 5/5 — old style type of gaming *2021-09-02, version 1.1.1* This game is hard and often times very frustrating. A lot of old school type of thinking is in this game. I find myself being one shotted fairly often by low level stuff or falling off random ledges. The game doesn't explain much and relies heavily on trial and error. In some ways, kinda reminds me of dark souls mixed in with old school legend of zelda ### 4/5 — Love hate relationship has began… *2022-02-26, version 1.2.2* I mean I absolutely love the game n it has so so many objectives n courses that it’s almost impossible to get bored n the puzzle style situation… are awesome n love the effects but my one n only issue is it keeps kicking me off like when almost every time I use the horn to change worlds or whatever n bam I’m knocked off atleadt that’s how it began n this just has began a week or so ago n has quickly became worse more n more I mean I’m not loosing service just game knocks me off n many times it seems at the worst times like when I’ve spent a hour trying to kill something or beat a challenge & bam rt b4 I win boom ur kicked off n u have to redo all you just almost or even u saved a couple of times ur doing it all over again, joy! ### 4/5 — Great game with a few issues *2021-10-23, version 1.1.5* This game is visually striking and exactly the type of game I’ve been waiting to hit Apple Arcade. I wish there more open world games like this on Arcade. Baldo does suffer from bugs but I’m glad to see the developers actively working to correct them. Currently, the two bugs that affect me the most are cloud saves. I started playing on my Apple TV and saves will not transfer to my iPad or iPhone. I’ve also noticed resolution quality seems to reset after every death. Overall, love the game. Keep fixing those bugs and the game will only get better. ### 4/5 — Great game with a couple issues *2021-09-24, version 1.1.5* I truly loved this game. It’s very similar to a Zelda-type game but has enough unique elements to distinguish it. I love the art and the story. It’s a good mix of action, adventure, and puzzles. I was fully able to play without a controller (although I think I enjoyed it more with one). There were a few bugs when I first started playing, but even since then a lot of them have been fixed. For me, the bugs were frustrating at times but never enough to make me put down the game entirely. It was just a different type of challenge. This game doesn’t hold your hand. You have to explore and figure things out on your own. A few tips: 1. If you’re not sure where to go next, use the quests and maps to guide you. Explore every area again. Every time I got stuck I realized that I just missed an area on the map. 2. Use the library for hints!! The only real reason I give this 4/5 stars is the ending. No spoilers, but it felt very rushed and unsatisfying. I was pretty disappointed after otherwise really enjoying the gameplay. ### 4/5 — Good start, lots of potential *2021-08-31, version 1.1.2* Playing on an iPad Pro. Game is entertaining enough to play through the issues: disappearing control labels (appear as white blocks) and getting stuck in the background. Infinitely more playable with a controller. The lack of a tutorial makes learning control scheme a bit cumbersome and makes dying (a lot) seem like part of the game. I’ll admit I’m used to being able to FAQ my way past roadblocks, so it was satisfying when I finally made it to boss room. Wish there was a way to restore health (instead of dying so much to figure out puzzle mechanics). Hope they address some of the “quality of life” game issues, such as: showing rooms explored/treasure chest discovered on map, button mapping and a help system of some sort. ### 4/5 — Can’t finish the prison dungeon *2021-08-30, version 1.1.2* The game has been pretty good so far. Game is harder then most modern games like this. Hard but not punishing. My issue is the 2nd? Dungeon the prison. I got to a room where you have to lure three skeletons into jail cells. The cell door do not drop below the floor like they should so you or the skeletons can get in. This is a small issue that could be easily overlooked. Very ambitious game of this size on so many platforms. --- *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 2026-06-10.*