# Bobatu Island: Survival Quest — user reviews > 98 indexed App Store user reviews of Bobatu Island by MOBITALE LIMITED, rated 4.40/5 from 232 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bobatu-island-survival-quest/id1409604486/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bobatu-island-survival-quest/id1409604486.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 170 · 4★ 24 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Bobatu Island? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful graphics and colorful visuals - 🎵 Relaxing music and calming atmosphere - 🎮 Engaging gameplay and varied quests - 😊 Fun and enjoyable overall experience - ⚡ Fast energy regeneration system **Cons** - 🎣 Fishing mechanic is too difficult and frustrating - ⏳ Extremely slow progression and long wait times - 💰 High prices and aggressive monetization - 🌱 Plants and vegetation regrow too quickly - ⚙️ Frequent game-breaking bugs and glitches - 🔋 Energy system limits gameplay significantly - 📉 Low resource drop rates - 👥 Facebook friend system is broken and confusing - 🚫 Content blocked behind incomplete quests - 📱 Cross-device synchronization issues - 🆘 Poor customer support and no in-game contact option - 🔄 Infrequent and delayed updates **Commonly reported bugs** - Sea Cube cannot be found or obtained - Missing items for quest progression (Mangrove Island key, Shaman amulet, etc.) - Mango seedling stuck behind tree and cannot be moved - Friend list displays numbers instead of names and profile pictures - Facebook friends not syncing or displaying in-game - Game crashes or fails to load after updates - Cannot add friends despite updates - Locator items not working correctly in caves - Items not dropping from harvested plants - Game progress lost when switching devices - Unable to move or interact with certain objects - Quests stuck on 'To Be Continued' indefinitely - Raccoon blocking access to items - Butterfly catching quest impossible to complete - Mac version no longer playable - In-app purchases not delivering items - Game freezes or disconnects with error messages **Most requested features** - Fix fishing mechanic to be less difficult - Increase update frequency and content releases - Improve resource drop rates - Reduce vegetation regrowth speed - Add German language support - Implement better friend list management with names and pictures - Create alternative to Facebook friend system - Add more frequent sales and offers - Improve quest guidance and clarity - Make trees and items moveable - Add daily quests and weekly events - Reduce energy consumption for tasks - Provide in-game customer support contact - Add radar/locator for hidden items - Implement better cross-device save synchronization - Reduce building material costs ## Newest reviews (14 of 98) ### 4/5 — Bobatu *2026-07-17, version 2026.05.2* I love this game but I am getting fed up with nothing happening. No scrolls dropping at all. How do you progress when all you can do is chop and chop with no results. All my friends I cannot visit because they have updated their game. I play on IOS. No sign of an update. Thinking of giving up which is a shame. ### 3/5 — Не могу найти свитки ни к одному заданию *2026-07-01, version 2026.05.2* Грустно, что такую прекрасную игру не поддерживают разработчики и не решают баги сразу при обращении. Также в самой игре нет контактов поддержки, чтобы обратиться напрямую ### 2/5 — Frustrated *2026-06-23, version 2026.05.2* I used to love this game. It was my favorite. I had to stop playing for a while due to health concerns. When I came back recently, I became very frustrated with this game because I cannot complete any of the beginning quests that require you to find scrolls like the stone breaker and sea star scrolls to name a couple. I’ve broken countless rocks but the stonebreaker scroll will not drop. The same can be said for the sea star scroll and the breadwinner scroll. Also the bait quest has the same issue. They used to drop immediately so at this point I am thinking about deleting this game, which is sad because it used to be my favorite game. I hope they fix this or they may lose more players. ### 2/5 — Takes to long *2026-03-19, version 2026.03.1* Takes too long for energy & to clear the island by the time I get a section cleared it is over grown again by 5he next day ### 4/5 — Great *2026-01-23, version 2025.11.1* Great game. Although sometimes glitchy ### 3/5 — Fun game, unrealistic goal timeframes *2026-01-15, version 2025.11.1* A good, involved and fun game, pulled down as you progress by unrealistic timeframes to complete many of the tasks unless you throw an awful lot of money at it. Sadly I probably won’t be playing much longer due to this . ### 3/5 — Plants *2026-01-06, version 2025.11.1* The plants grow too fast. Everyday I’m clearing my inner camp so much I barely do a task. I can’t see my sheds or animals after a day. I feel I’m not accomplishing enough to keep the game. ### 2/5 — Très addictif *2026-01-03, version 2025.11.1* Coloré, varié, très sympathique et addictif. Je lève 1 étoile car les mises à jour sont rares et sans elles les quêtes sont bloquées ### 3/5 — Wunderbar, aber…. *2025-12-29, version 2025.11.1* update von mir: diese Fishing-Events sond sooooo langweilig!!! Schade, da muss mehr Pepp rein, auf Dauer zu langatmig! Deswegen nur noch drei Sterne ….:-( Ein richtig schönes Spiel, schöne Grafik, entspannende Südseemusik, abwechslungsreiche Quests… ABER: die updates dauern zu lange… ich hab meine quests schnell fertig und dann muss man lange warten, bis das update die nächsten Aufgaben freischaltet und bis dahin kommt man nicht weiter. Das nervt und dann wendet man sich anderen Spielen zu - bitte schneller updaten! ### 2/5 — Restraining Content *2025-10-31, version 2025.09.2* Gameplay, story thread, and mechanics are enjoyable. I simply would recommend to AVOID this game due to lack of content and story progression. There is a lack of development effort. I’ve hit dead ends in available story content and gameplay at early levels. ### 2/5 — Cool game but *2025-10-08* I enjoy the game a great deal but because you got to use energy for everything you do and when you need a certain piece to build something or repair something and some times when you chopped down things that should provide you with what you need doesn’t you run out of energy really quick. And the prices for everything is high. You might not want to waste your time with this app if you don’t have money and I mean a lot of money! ### 2/5 — Inviting friends *2025-09-23, version 2025.09.2* I like this game. What I don’t like is this inviting friends part. It’s confusing and I don’t want random Facebook people on my Facebook page. There should be a better way of doing this instead of having to invite random people on your Facebook page! Also, I play on my laptop most of the time.. like 99% of the time, but bc of this stupid friend requests I have to use my phone. Well even though I’ve tried to sync both accounts I still lost some of my work when I logged onto my phone app game. Please fix all of this ### 3/5 — Да ё-моё🤦‍♀️ *2025-04-24* Разработчики, ну вы совсем что ли?? Месяцами ждать обновления, чтоб поиграть пару дней и потом опять глухомань на полгода? Активатор ждали с прошлого года , теперь с чертежом такая же песня. В других играх каждую неделю какие-то обновления, викторины, каждодневные задания. Хочется заходить в игру и делать что-то интересное, а в этой игре тупо бегаешь по джунглям и всё, делать просто нечего. И так растеряли часть игроков, так самые стойкие тоже скоро сбегут. Жаль, конечно, игра интересная…была…((( ### 4/5 — Gutes Spiel *2025-04-18, version 2025.04.1* Ich spiele es sehr gerne, schöne Graphic. Es währe schöner wenn es das Spiel auch auf deutsch geben würde. Daher nur 4 Sterne ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Обновление *2026-08-03* Мало того что ждешь обновления по 2-3 месяца Так еще они ни о чем Скачала последнее обновление А ни чего не изменилось🤬 ### 1/5 — Why? *2026-07-28, version 2026.05.2* Why don’t you answer to anyone? there are no quest and I don’t like to have friends on Facebook. We should be able to choose friends in the game. You don’t pay attention. That’s bad. ### 1/5 — Please change the fishing!!! *2026-03-31, version 2026.03.2* I love this game but know of numerous players who have major difficulty with fishing. They have either stopped playing, or are stuck because of quests that require fishing, can’t take part in marathons that require fishing, and are just simply frustrated with the developers because they can’t master the fishing with the way it is designed now and will probably end up not playing at all. If this game was just all about my satisfaction, I would give it 5 stars, but I feel for those that are struggling and are frustrated because of the difficulty with fishing. It’s the same situation as when there were so many issues with the friends list. I was ready to stop playing because of all those issues, but thankfully the developers pretty much fixed that. There are still issues with that, but mostly it works for me, other than being able to delete players. Even after deleting people from FB and hiding them, they are still on my list. Because of my major issues with friends in the beginning, I can definitely empathize with players that are struggling. ### 1/5 — Fun game until they made it impossible *2026-03-31, version 2026.03.2* I really enjoyed the game for over a year but several weeks ago, they changed their fishing format & i have been unable to progress. Trying and trying again has become too frustrating. ### 1/5 — Ужасное обновление *2026-02-11, version 2025.11.1* После обновления стало не возможно поймать рыбу оивратительно верните как было ### 1/5 — Звезды *2026-01-22* Только скачала игру, осталось 1 задание собрать звезды, а их нет. Где их найти? На пляже где песок собрала все. ### 1/5 — минус *2025-10-21, version 2025.09.2* Хорошая игра, но рыбалка все портит, не понятно как эту рыбу ловить, ладно еще пару штук можно случайно, но когда нужно 70 штук…..невозможно проходить квесты ### 1/5 — Не обновляется *2025-08-13* Игра хорошая но потом ришлось удалить игру из за того что не хотел обновляться, в итоге все потеряла и все заново, если ничего не измениться то не рекомендую игру ### 1/5 — Facebook *2025-06-21, version 2025.06.1* Warning! If you do not do Facebook, do not bother with the friendship quest! Don't waste your time energy or resources, this will also affect long term gameplay if you dot do Facebook, also, there's no place I see in app to contact support should you have purchase issies and their out of game support does not bother answering, quest guidance is misleading at times telling you to activate quest when there is no way to do so until you fulfill other numerous quests thst you have no idea which they are because all it says it's ready to be activated, and one final issue in support of other reviews, the regen time is insane! It's nice to have endless resources but it would be nice after trying to clear an area to put a building that when you log back in eith energy you need to recluse the whole area again in less than an hourl it really is a fun game and could easily get five stars with a bit of cleanup and effort on their part to support customers, ### 1/5 — New update *2025-02-15, version 2025.02.1* The new update didn’t do anything. Still can’t add friends. It says I need to play on mobile but I’m playing on iPad. If adding friends means adding them to your fb. I don’t want random people looking at my info and stuff. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Редко выпадают ресурсы *2026-01-16, version 2025.11.1* Ресурсы очень тяжело добывать. Нужно много а выпадает слишком редко. ### 5/5 — Nothing *2025-12-08* I’ve got nothing to do. All my tasks say “ to be continued “. What am I supposed to do? I play this game all day long no I’m waiting stuck with nothing at all to do. I’m going crazy. I’m waiting on going in the tower and searching for what the colored roots are for in the raccoon cave… please get these things going! ### 5/5 — Friends *2025-10-25, version 2025.09.2* So many of us who play this game are having far too many issues adding friends. Need to either remove it or do something different. I’m tired of being stuck in the game because it doesn’t work right. ### 5/5 — Sooooo *2025-10-24* I’m on the area the mangrove and I’ve got to pave it. I can beat 10 rocks that take 20 hits each and barely get 5 of the ingredients I need to pave it. I buy 150 at $2.99 and like I said that’s gone in 5 minutes max. You know I’m not exaggerating in any kind of way unless I’m giving too much credit. So can you fix this scam or I just need to delete the game? It’s like this with every item you’ve got to build. You’re scamming everyone that spends a dime on this game except if someone is at the very beginning when it doesn’t take anything much to build anything or finish a task. Which I’m talking about the first 5 -6 levels after that you either wait forever for energy pay for it and it goes in no time or the game might have a sale once a month that includes a deal on some energy. You have a couple sales on items like boards and fences. But anyone wanting to play a game spend a lot of money and literally get no where in the game. This is perfect for you! ### 5/5 — Offers/sales *2025-10-21* Can you have more sales and/or offers than one every now and then? And all the problems that have been said by all the other reviews are ones I’ve ran into also. Things being stuck behind something and no way to get to it. The plants growing back way too much! And I’m not linking this game to Facebook because I hate Facebook and only have it for my family. I don’t go on there at all! ### 5/5 — Friends *2025-06-17, version 2025.06.1* Can you please change the friends to pictures and Facebook names instead of numbers so I can cull my friends list? It would help a lot. ### 5/5 — Вопрос *2025-04-02, version 2025.02.2* Где искать чертёж от колоны???? И как попасть на мангровый остров?,когда обновление????? ### 5/5 — So far I love it! *2025-03-20* I’m really enjoying the game at this point. I’m still fairly new to it so we will see as I progress. The only issues I’ve incurred so far is the neighbors situation that so many have encountered. Rather than seeing names and profile pictures we’re seeing their player number. That’s pretty annoying not knowing who is who. ### 5/5 — Друзья в игре отсутствуют *2025-03-13, version 2025.02.2* Все ещё не отображаются Все друзья с фейсбука , задание невозможно закончить ,исправьте эту ошибку. ### 5/5 — เพลินเพลิน *2025-02-25, version 2025.02.1* สนุกดี --- *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 2026-09-09.*