# BowRider.io- Fun Battle Royale — user reviews > 76 indexed App Store user reviews of BowRider.io by Games for Friends LLC, rated 3.54/5 from 104 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bowriderio-fun-battle-royale/id1488599148/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bowriderio-fun-battle-royale/id1488599148.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 54 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 29 ## What do users think of BowRider.io? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎮 Fun and engaging gameplay mechanics - 🎨 Good graphics and visual design - ⚡ Simple and intuitive controls - 🏆 Challenging and competitive experience - 📱 Works well when functioning properly - 🎯 Good concept and core game idea **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing - 📡 Severe matchmaking and connection issues - 📺 Excessive and forced advertisements - 💰 Pay-to-win mechanics and imbalanced gameplay - ⚙️ Missing basic settings menu - 🤖 Filled with bots instead of real players - ⏱️ Long loading times and queue delays - 🎮 Clunky and unresponsive controls - 🔊 Buggy audio and sound issues - 🌍 Multiplayer code sharing doesn't work across regions - 🎯 Unbalanced game mechanics and poor design - 🧩 Incomplete and unfinished game state **Commonly reported bugs** - Jump button disappears during gameplay - Attack button doesn't work or disappears - Arrows don't hit targets even at close range - Speed button disappears and causes player death - Mount attack and dodge disappear after respawn - Game stuck on loading screen indefinitely - Matches load at warp speed with no actual gameplay - Soft lock in tutorial preventing progression - Monster doesn't take damage and player can't move - Gold collection stops at 1240 limit - Aiming and arrow trajectory not visible - Desync and lag issues with arrow targeting - Game plays offline despite claiming multiplayer - Matchmaking freezes at 8-9 players - Portuguese translation broken with glitched characters - Multiplayer code shows as invalid - Tutorial soft lock if app closed before second mission - Animation stuttering and frame drops **Most requested features** - Settings menu with language and audio options - Region server selection for multiplayer - More maps and mount varieties - Additional cosmetics (pets, trails, skins) - Battle pass and limited-time items - Custom maps and game modes - Offline/single-player mode with rewards - Tier/ranking system for progression - More ways to earn gems and currency - Character build customization (attack speed vs defense) - Fixed arrow button positioning option - Increased game duration options - Player vs bot mode while matchmaking is fixed ## Newest reviews (11 of 76) ### 4/5 — Awesome game *2021-11-02, version 2.3* Everything about the game is good except for the multiplayer function. I’m trying to share the code with a friend in another state but it always comes out invalid. Maybe a setting to change region servers could fix this problem? Aside from that, everything is working fine. ### 4/5 — Fun game with lots of potential! *2021-04-26* It’s actually pretty fun! I’m currently level 11 and it’s just a good game for some down time, I hope they add more maps and mounts, like different creatures for the same level and such. I used to not run into any bugs but as of late my jump button disappears a lot, my attack button either doesn’t work or disappears, my arrows won’t hit even if i’m right next to the person. I also hope they add more ways to get gems, when you get up there in levels it takes forever to get enough for the legendary chests and diminishes the excitement a bit. I think with more improvements and such it should reach a bigger audience, i’m always playing with the same people lol! ### 2/5 — No settings *2020-09-19, version 2.3* No clear way to access setting and turn game sounds off ### 2/5 — forced ads = instauninstall *2020-06-22, version 1.21* plenty of ad options but still force ads? hahaha yea instauninstall. targeting arrows to aim is so janky it’s useless, hitting arrows do 0 msg close range cause of lag or desync. ### 2/5 — No settings?? *2020-06-19* I just started the game and right away I saw a big issue. How come there are no game settings?? It’s the first time I’ve ever encountered this issue since it’s the most basic option in any game. its specially annoying because the Portuguese translation isn’t good. It’s mostly broken, with words and sentences not fitting the boxes, and some characters are glitched. I really wanted to switch the language to English, but the settings aren’t even an option in the first place! I find this unacceptable. ### 1/5 — Awful *2020-06-17, version 1.21* Do not download the graphics are awful the game is awful it’s all awful ### 3/5 — Gameplay is not the best YET *2020-06-17* When I click battle, sometimes it just shows me sped up battle and gives me some rewards at the end. It’s like a ten sec thing and I can’t play anything. Other times, it just stays on the loading screen forever. The game itself seems fun (from just the tutorial and options and stuff) but also does not function well at its current state. I’m giving it a 2, because the idea was good but it isn’t playable yet. Thanks Well...the queue is fixed...but what initially seemed interesting now looks boring. To me, it looks like there’s a bunch of bots playing every time (considering the names and how they play). The “players” never try to get the coins when they kill someone. They just wander around killing more people. If you want bots to seem like players, make it a little more realistic. However it does look like some are real players at least. Also, what’s with unlocking items??? That is perhaps the worst aspect of the game for me. I think gameplay should be more smooth as well. When aiming in games, sometimes you can’t even see the trail. Still a lot of glitches in the game. ### 3/5 — Fun for an hour *2020-06-17* Fun for a short amount of time. There is no sense of progression so essentially it’s a cooler version of flappy bird. You replay and do the same thing with nothing to unlock. The things you can unlock are pointless. My first game I ever played I placed 5th. Every game after that was either first or second. This is with none of the unlocks. So the unlocks don’t seem to make a big difference and there’s no change in the actual gameplay so overall pretty boring after an hour of game time. ### 1/5 — Nothing to play for... *2020-06-16* After you upgrade your weapons to the max, there really isn’t anything else to keep you interested. Constantly getting useless characters as rewards only adds to the mundane feeling you’ll quickly get once you’ve maxed out your arrows. ### 2/5 — Combat *2020-06-16* When I was in a match and respawned after being killed my mount’s attack and dodge disappeared for the rest of the match. I’ll give a better rating when this is fixed. ### 1/5 — Unbalanced *2020-06-16, version 1.21* Trash ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — WHY IS THIS GAME REAL *2021-03-15, version 2.3* I hate this game please no one download it ok ### 1/5 — lol *2020-09-17, version 2.3* No consideration for the player. You know it's possible to design a game with ads without ruining the user experience. Smaller non ad buttons with delays before they appear are a big middle finger to your players. Also, 5 seconds in and youre bombarding the player with chests and loot to get em addicted for 0 gameplay... not impressed with the work. ### 1/5 — Soooo slooooow *2020-08-22, version 2.3* Neeeed speeeeed ### 1/5 — This game makes me think the App Store’s ratings are faulty *2020-08-13* Yeah it’s kind of fun, but you are clearly never playing against real players—its all bots with an online façade for the purpose of necessitating the ads between every other game. The sounds are buggy, the mechanics are terribly balanced, and mounts aren’t even available for purchase. Completely unfinished game. ### 1/5 — Garbo *2020-08-10, version 2.3* All of the challenge in this game comes from not just buying and using a controller. 🥴 ### 1/5 — MAKE THE PRACTICE EASIER I CAN BARLEY DO IT AND ITS SOOOO ANNOYING *2020-07-12, version 2.3* MY SPEED BUTTON ASLO KEEPS ON DISSAPEARING AND IT MAKES ME DIE PLS FIX THIS ITS SOOOOO ANNOYING THE BOTS ARE SO HARD TO BEAT SO ITS NOT EVEN PRACTICE FJDJSJSJSHSJA ### 1/5 — Was amazing, ruined by ad requency *2020-06-21, version 1.21* Tooo many ads holy jeez! ### 1/5 — Boring *2020-06-20* Bad game it’s not fun and the point system is way off. You get way to much killing the leader a lot of people just stay in second camp then attack the leader at the last second with special to kill him. That’s just poor design. The mounts upgrade aren’t that fun if it doesn’t include at least some character build development. At least let people choose between attack speed and defense when they level up. Without that there isn’t much strategy besides wait for timer to run out and kill the leader. ### 1/5 — Pay to Play *2020-06-19* If you don’t buy coins to upgrade your arrows, you CANNOT keep up with the other players. You’re basically killed in 1-2 shots, revived, killed in another 2 shots, revived... yay fun? Oh and then watch these four 45 second videos before playing your next two minute game... ### 1/5 — This is not a multiplayer game. *2020-06-18* The developers are lying. After a few minutes of experimenting by turning off my airplane mode in an “online” match. Nothing happened. Played fine even with no network. This game is blatantly lying and should not be promoted by apple, as it goes against their guidelines. The game itself is repetitive garbage, like every other .io game. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback but this game is a REAL multiplayer indeed.  It's true when you disable network during a match there won't be any noticeable different. That's because we have a way to replace real players with bots if the network fail.  It'a also possible when you hit "play" button you didn't find real players in given time, so it will be forwarded to an online match instead. Sorry for the confusion, but we didn't lie. If you still question about that, I hope you give it a try like this: 1. use the friendly match mode and invite a friend (with same game version) to play together 2. get more than two devices and play at about the same time, it will have a chance that they will join the same match ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — So fun *2021-07-12* Every child will have so much fun if they get this game and this is not a boring game like jefejirafa Said 😛 ### 5/5 — amazing but how do i get mount skins? *2020-11-07* this game is amazing and i love it but i don’t understand how you get mount skins? i’ve been trying to figure it out but it says squire again to unlock them but how do i even acquire them? ### 5/5 — This game looked fun to me i tried it and just know its not a waste of time *2020-09-17* Hvc ### 5/5 — Add more time *2020-08-09* Add more time 5 minutes ### 5/5 — Rider.io *2020-07-28, version 2.3* This game is so much fun to play. I wish they had more games like this one. ### 5/5 — so good *2020-07-23, version 2.3* why tf are people so mad just get good the game isn’t even hard. don’t trust the other reviews just remember when you shoot an arrow it’s auto aims towards the closest enemy or the last one you attacked ### 5/5 — Worth every penny! *2020-07-11* Great graphics, and simple game mechanics. Lots of fun, challenging and worth every penny! ### 5/5 — Great game! *2020-06-18, version 1.21* This is a really fun great game. Did you enjoy majoring it? ### 5/5 — Great Game few suggestions *2020-06-16* I think a tier system would be great for this type of game!! As you win games u go up in tier! But great game overall ### 5/5 — Three ideas! *2020-06-15* Hi I like this game a lot but! Here’s a suggestion! 1.MORE COSMETICS Like pets or trails! 2.LIMITED TIME ITEMS! Like a battle pass or limited time shop! 3.(I’m not expecting this to be in the game) CUSTOM MAPS! Add a little fun to the game with people voting who’s map will be played!(this could also be a GAME MODE on its own!) --- *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.*