# Boat Battles: Defend Your Boat — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of Boat Battles by GAMEFACTO BILISIM ANONIM SIRKETI, rated 3.06/5 from 153 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boat-battles-defend-your-boat/id1563726784/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boat-battles-defend-your-boat/id1563726784.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 49 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 21 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 46 ## What do users think of Boat Battles? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎮 Nostalgic gameplay reminiscent of original Raft Wars - 👍 Fun and addictive core mechanics - 🎨 Good character design and visual quality - 📚 Helpful tutorial system for learning gameplay - ✨ Successful mobile adaptation of classic game **Cons** - 📺 Excessive ads throughout the game experience - 💰 Pay-to-win mechanics and overpriced in-app purchases - ⚖️ Unfair matchmaking and difficulty balancing - 🐛 Frequent crashes and loading failures - 💸 Slow coin/currency income relative to upgrade costs - 🔧 Broken raft upgrade system not functioning properly - 🎯 Rigged gameplay with suspicious bot behavior - ❌ Missing features from original game (story, plot) - 🚫 Ad removal button not functioning - 📱 App won't open or load past certain percentages **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes on startup or at specific load percentages (15%, 80%) - Daily login bonus screen freezes permanently - App won't reopen after closing (black screen) - Raft upgrade purchase doesn't apply visually - Cannot cancel team fire action once initiated - Cannot swap crew members mid-shot - Ad won't close after watching, trapping user - Game freezes during gameplay or on turn - Update screen loops infinitely - Raft customization triggers ads and freezes - Matchmaking search hangs indefinitely - Tutorial level soft locks - Purchased items not received (pack bundles) **Most requested features** - Friend vs friend multiplayer mode - Guest mode without requiring Apple ID - Speed run feature - More clan-related activities - Larger boat size options - Better clan filtering system - Increased coin rewards per level - True online multiplayer functionality - Story/campaign progression like original game ## Newest reviews (16 of 105) ### 4/5 — Good but… *2026-03-05, version 3.0* …WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OG VERSION OF THIS GAME? When I searched its og name I found it but with a different name, I thought ‘why did they change the name?’ I still got it and I don’t know what happened. 1st the title card is different but still says “raft wars” 2nd the game is not the one I saw in Socks4one’s raft wars video and 3rd WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TO THE SEQUELS?????????? ### 2/5 — Unfair *2025-10-02, version 3.0* Unfairly matches you up so you can’t win or are a LOT less likely. Rank is useless, bc you can’t even see it on the screen as it doesn’t all fit. Arsenal is useless when you can’t even get more guns or anything without paying real money because the amount of gems never goes up. Gaining more coins for the tech tree is useless when there’s nothing more in the tree. If you go to shoot, but don’t full send it and want to swap which crew member is firing, you can’t. If you go to use your team fire and you decide you can’t (because one member can’t make the shot), you can’t cancel it. Sometimes the other team will get more chances to actually hit you than you do and when you’re almost done for, might get a bomb in the sky to win with. The list could go on and on. The whole game is rigged and unfair ### 3/5 — Unable to click ad removal button *2025-08-27, version 3.0* Whenever I try to click the removal button for the ads nothing happens. ### 2/5 — Unfairly treated *2025-08-04, version 3.0* Got to be some way to make this game a little more fair on selection. Firstly, I’m always starting second and battling far more skilled players. Secondly, the bomb which situates above the raft is always given to my opponent as soon as the battle starts! I also find that I am always up against multiple players who are much greater levels than I am myself, which also follows with them being able to take the first attack. Very frustrating for me to consider I am not as strong as they are. ### 3/5 — Lame ads *2025-06-02, version 3.0* I grew up playing raft wars and that’s why I came to this, I’ll pay to not have to watch the stupid ads. Just include that option please. ### 3/5 — Bot oyuncular *2025-03-27, version 3.0* Anladığım kadarıyla karşımıza gelen oyuncuların çoğu bot. İsimlerinden ve hareketlerinden anlaşılıyor. En bariz göstergesi de savaş anında ayarlar butonuna basınca oyun duruyor bu da online olmadığını gösteriyor. Böylesine güzel ve potansiyeli olan bir oyun için çok üzücü bir durum. ### 3/5 — Coin issue *2024-04-23* The game is very fun and addicting. the only issue in the game is when you buy a larger raft, it won’t work. It’s frustrating because when you beat levels and save coins and buy a larger raft it stays small. You literally have to re-download the game and restart. ### 4/5 — Needs update *2023-10-18* The blue coins ive just been raking up not knowing what else they were for besides the tech tree , i found the booster in the clan but it keeps saying not enough currency but i have over 5000 coins ### 4/5 — Apple ID *2023-05-11, version 2.6* I hope it isn’t too much work for you guys, but may you please make it so there is a mode that you can play without Apple ID like a guest mode ### 2/5 — Donuyor *2022-12-14, version 2.6* İlk oyunu oynuyorum sinematikten sonraki oyun donuyor ### 3/5 — Raft *2022-12-03, version 2.6* Really good game, loved playing it since I was a kid. Would have given 5 stars if I was actually able to play the game but every time I go to play the game it won’t load I have full 4g but it only ever loads at about 2 points of the day and if I go off it won’t load again. Thanks ### 2/5 — I tried playing *2022-10-31, version 2.6* It will just get stuck at 15% and I can’t play ### 3/5 — Not being able to click out of ads *2022-10-30* I really enjoy playing this game, it’s easy and it’s something that makes time pass. However, I have noticed getting coins is hard to come by and when you try to do the watch the Ad for rewards. It will play the Ad then it won’t allow you to exit the Ad at all so you have to close out the game completely then you lose your reward. This is extremely frustrating when you are in the middle of the game and you hit a surprise box because then you can’t even go back to the game at all unless you completely close and reopen it. ### 2/5 — Good but not fun *2022-10-27, version 2.6* I like the concept of everything but when the shark bites all the buildings of your raft it feel like there’s no point to building. When you start the game you also have to fight people with much better structures than yours. Not to mention the randomness of everything like the stickers costing more than the power ups and buildings that have such better use. I can see how other people have fun playing this but this game is just not for me. ### 3/5 — Decent *2022-10-19, version 2.6* Not bad game but P2W aspect is too large you can’t unlock more gun variations unless you either 1) grind for eternity just to get enough gems for the cheapest one or 2) waste your money on a childrens game that won’t keep you entertained ### 2/5 — Bruh. Poki better *2022-09-04, version 2.5* DUDE MY MOM DOWNLOAD IT AND IT WAS 15 LOADED 15 LOADED!!!! WHY. POKI IS BETTER AND U GAME TRASH AND WE HATE IT. AND I JUST WANT TO PLAY IT !!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Problems *2025-12-21* Why is the tech tree small but you continuously get tree coins what are they for ? The ads are outta control no way to get perks in clan battles except ads. EVERYTHING NEEDS REWORKING but games like this never get attention so it’ll probably be a bad game forever if I could give 0 stars I would I think they owe me stars for trying this. And I almost forgot got the weapon upgrades are a longer grind than getting a platinum on RDR2 ### 1/5 — Bad *2024-01-21, version 3.0* Booooooo bad details. ### 1/5 — Uuuuuuuuuhhhhhh *2023-04-21, version 2.6* Bad game,npcs too strong bruh I don’t recommend it man it’s bad bruh :/ ### 1/5 — Where’s original? *2022-11-04, version 2.6* I want to download the original version but whenever I type Raft wars this game pops up☹️ ### 1/5 — This game is rigged most of the time the bots are dum bot other times that have aimbot *2022-09-24, version 2.6* I do not recommend this game ### 1/5 — Soruna çözüm bulun *2022-09-17, version 2.6* Telefonum iphone 11 ama açılmıyor lütfen sorunu çözün ### 1/5 — GLITCHES *2022-09-03, version 2.5* This game use to be fun but now it freezes right when your about win and gets stuck on your turn, and then takes all the stuff you bought even though the game froze ### 1/5 — Garbage *2022-09-01, version 2.5* Wouldn't even let me play the game app sucked 👎👎👎 ### 1/5 — Money hungry based *2022-08-21* This game is an insult to original On cool math First of all for every round you win you don’t even make enough for a rocket or anything you wanna by you have to play at least 10 games to buy two things second is they sell coins never thought of buying but the prices are outrages for $5 you can buy 680 coins which can buy you 2 things lol it’s sane I bet the developers are filthy rich it’s nuts ### 1/5 — StillNotFixed *2022-08-15, version 2.4* Why is the game still freezing on this version, really I’d like to know can anyone play this?? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Is that you obito?…… *2025-09-20, version 3.0* The game used to be fun but the ads ruined it….,, ### 5/5 — Game won’t load *2025-06-28* The game is fun played it the first day I downloaded now it won’t load pass a certain % (80) ### 5/5 — Great Game! *2024-06-13, version 3.0* I love this game. It’s a 10/10 and I play this game everyday. I wish it had friend vs friend mode but it’s still good. ### 5/5 — Hope devs read these… *2023-09-25* I am gonna go ahead and give this 5 stars just for the nostalgia, I remember playing this in a website when I was like 6-8 loved it and they did a really good job, but my only request would be making the coin income a little easier…. Each level is only 100 coins and upgrade prices are insane for that little income. Other than that? The game is PERFECT ‼️ ### 5/5 — Çoçukluğumun efsane oyunu *2023-04-25, version 2.6* 10 yaşında başladığım ve internette kafede oynadığım oyunun mobil versiyonu olmasına benim kadar sevinen yoktur herhalde. Karakterler ve görüntü kalitesi başarılı. Oyunu nasıl oynandığını anlatan tutorial da oyunun oynama konusunda kolaylık sağlıyor. ### 5/5 — Godly *2023-04-13, version 2.6* That guy is wrong-> ### 5/5 — Fun and exactly what you expect *2022-05-17* My game doesnt crash and ads when trying to edit base is annoying but I was stoked when I was reminded of this game and it was available, thank you! ### 5/5 — Bugs are fixed *2022-04-08* All the bugs have been fixed!! You can now enjoy this wonderful game with out being stoped by glitches. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your wonderful review. Please tell your friends about the game and what they are missing out on :) Your Raft Wars Team! ### 5/5 — Want the game to work played this as a kid *2022-03-18, version 1.9* Game crashes at 15% on the startup loading screen ### 5/5 — Oyuna girmiyo lütfen düzelt *2022-02-02, version 1.9* Oyuna girmiyo atıyo lütfen füzel tilsin ama yapan ölmüştür çoktan ap 🤣 --- *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 2026-07-26.*