# Castle Story™ — user reviews > 2,086 indexed App Store user reviews of Castle Story™ by Storm8 Studios, rated 4.10/5 from 3,556 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/castle-story/id555194756/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/castle-story/id555194756.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,071 · 4★ 630 · 3★ 354 · 2★ 187 · 1★ 314 ## What do users think of Castle Story™? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Addictive gameplay - 👍 Enjoyable storyline and characters - 🌟 Fantastic graphics and visuals **Cons** - ⏱️ Timed quests are too difficult to complete - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases required for progression - 🔍 Accidental gem spending due to lack of confirmation - 🔋 Limited energy system restricts playtime **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes and loading issues - Disappearing items and progress loss - Unresponsive or buggy event mechanics **Most requested features** - Increase energy capacity and regeneration rate - Add confirmation prompts for gem spending - Improve drop rates and item acquisition for quests - Provide more free gem opportunities ## Newest reviews (14 of 2,086) ### 2/5 — Unfair but Cool *2026-08-09, version 2.3.8* Great game but creators like to sabotage your progress to make you spend more snd more money. The latest is Dragon Rescue Quest. Four times a Seeker Goblin has appeared forcing me to waste a total of 18 hours energy to remove it. Half way through I know I will fail. It only happens during quests. Change your algorithms. ### 3/5 — Just not the same. *2026-08-03, version 2.3.8* I’ve had this app for about 15 years. I’ve always loved playing this game although it’s still fun. It’s almost impossible to win prizes now unless I’m spending a ton of money and every time a new mission starts my game lags it doesn’t let me start the mission for several hours, which puts me behind all the computers. It is just so frustrating. It impossible to win anything. ### 3/5 — No response *2026-07-15, version 2.3.8* Don’t bother doing any game installs for tickets or gems as you won’t receive them. Reach out to developer, and they’ll never reply. Other than that, the game gives plenty of different tasks and challenges to complete to keep you busy. ### 3/5 — Review *2026-07-13, version 2.3.8* I like this game, but the challenges need to be changed. They take too long to complete and are too repetitive. Have us do different things instead of repeating the same things that take forever. It is very frustrating ### 3/5 — More expansions *2026-07-09, version 2.3.8* I have several neighbors who are frustrated because there are no more expansions. Can you work on that? Thank you. I like the story line sometimes but my favorite is monster hunt & realm master. It took me a while to figure out how to get red panda forward. Game usually directs you where to craft an item. But I had to tap on a lot of items (farm houses,etc) to figure out where to craft them. Please make more expansions!!! Thank you. ### 3/5 — Deleted *2026-07-01, version 2.3.8* It started out fun but quickly got boring waiting for energy all the time. Couldn’t get the town built, my favorite part. Then it turned into fighting off intruders which also saps energy. Then more kinds of beasts intruders to fight. Literally one after another and uses all the energy, good riddance ### 4/5 — ㅇㅔ너지 더 줘요 *2026-06-30* 재밌는데 에너지가 너무 부족함 ### 3/5 — More expansions *2026-04-30, version 2.3.8* I have several neighbors who are frustrated because there are no more expansions. Can you work on that? Thank you. ### 2/5 — Terribly slow. *2026-03-25, version 2.3.8* Used to be enjoyable but now takes forever to load and constantly resets ### 2/5 — Game hard to connect *2026-02-20, version 2.3.8* Always say connect to internet while my connection is stable ### 3/5 — Gem issue *2026-01-27, version 2.3.8* I love this game and have been playing for about 10+ years, and it is the only Storm game that doesn’t have stupid ads when you click on stuff, so thanks for that, but there is a serious issue with the gems being used accidentally!! I have saved up gems COUNTLESS times and clicked on things and used them when I didn’t want to!!! That is NOT right. Why doesn’t this game ask you if you want to buy before spending all of your gems? I even emailed Storm asking for the gems back and received the rudest most robotic reply back that there was nothing to be done. I bought those gems with my money and there is nothing to be done? BS. ### 3/5 — AN UPDATE!! Finally! *2026-01-01, version 2.3.8* After 3-4 YEARS!!! Wow. Like u guys just realized it was on the top shelf getting dusty. “HEY! Guys, it’s finally time for an update, cmon!!!” Hahaha. ### 1/5 — Nul *2025-12-28* Jeu nul et même pas en français… ### 2/5 — Apple ID *2025-11-04, version 2.3.8* Let be able to play with my new ID ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bad😡🤬 *2026-08-07, version 2.3.8* My character doesn't move😡 ### 1/5 — EVENT NOT WORKING!! *2026-08-03, version 2.3.8* Can’t buy the items needed for the new dragon event. They’re simply not even available to buy in the market. Plus can’t open any faerie chests. PLEASE FIX!!! ### 1/5 — System down since 5/15/22 *2026-07-31, version 2.3.8* Can’t open it keeps saying that it’s something wrong with my internet but it’s not I been playing for years I tried opening the app again and same thing happens. ### 1/5 — Horrible app *2026-07-26, version 2.3.8* This used to be such a great game to play, but they stopped taking care of it and doing updates. ### 1/5 — Don’t Waste Your Time *2026-05-30, version 2.3.8* I used to like playing but recently all my energy goes to killing monsters, which take up all your energy (50) to take out and as soon as you finally finish, you clock on on item and immediately get another monster that takes up another 50 energy to take out. You can’t do anything else in the game because all your energy goes to taking out a stupid monster that takes up more energy than the max (40). Monster is killed in 50 energy. Max energy is 40. The second you finish, you get another one. Whets the point? You can’t do anything else because you get another immediately. I only had a chance to click on 1 building before getting another monster that takes up 50 energy. I’m deleting this stupid game. Who ever came up with the idea that monsters that take up more energy than the max is a good idea and the frequency of these monsters must not have a half a brain. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-03-31, version 2.3.6* When I first loaded the game it was already off to a horrible start. It took literally ten minutes to load for the first time and then crashed immediately. I had to repeat this four more times until it finally worked. And than I couldn't scroll/move around or tap any icons the only thing I could do was access my quests and do stuff from there. I would tap the icon above the farm to plant and it would do nothing. ### 1/5 — Too many glitches/ no way to contact support *2026-03-22, version 2.3.8* The worst part of this game is all of the glitches and there being no way to contact support to have them corrected. It’s constantly resetting after you’ve already collected items that you’ll lose. I’m currently doing a timed goal. I’m in level 7/10 and it says to collect from from old Thomas house to move onward. I’ve collected from old Thomas 4x already and I’m still in the same spot. Very frustrating ### 1/5 — Bad *2026-03-17* Could not even open the game it just kept on loading for 15 minutes straight ### 1/5 — potion shop *2026-01-29, version 2.3.8* Hot to get a Potion Shop? Craft Glue fm Potion Shop, but it has been locked but achieve Goal, let me know how to get it? ### 1/5 — Lamest game on earth *2026-01-21, version 2.3.8* had to download this trash game just for gems on Bakery story and i’m struggling to get to level 9 for the 2 extra gems bc this game is THAT dang boring. There is nothing exciting about it. It’s honestly a snoozefest and I could care less about any of it and xp takes forever to grow ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Not opening *2026-07-08, version 2.3.8* Anyone having problems opening app ### 5/5 — Peak *2026-04-24, version 2.3.8* This game is lowk slept on!! Its like polly pockets mixed with minecraft and its honestly fire. The visuals are really cute and you have a lot of freedom when building your kingdom. The gameplay requires a lot of patience for free to play but imo the slow speed of progress keeps things fresh. It does sometimes just eat your gems which you have to pay for or accumulate very slowly from within the game. and theres no getting them back period. speaking of period, this game is for the girls and the gays cause all the characters are total divas 💅✨ 10/10 ### 5/5 — More expansions *2026-03-31, version 2.3.8* I have several neighbors who are frustrated because there are no more expansions. Can you work on that? Thank you. ### 5/5 — Castle story *2026-03-10, version 2.3.8* I absolutely love this adorable game. It’s so relaxing and a fun way to escape the day. ### 5/5 — Niner Trucker *2025-12-02, version 2.3.8* I have been playing this game since 2017! It’s a very good game! ### 5/5 — Castlevill Story *2025-11-30, version 2.3.8* I truly enjoy playing this game since the beginning. I in my upper 40 level. Made friends from far away place’s amazing game. ### 5/5 — Fun game *2025-10-20, version 2.3.8* I keep coming back. I want to expand to the one unknown territory. ### 5/5 — FUN! Still playing after all these years *2025-09-27, version 2.3.8* After taking a break with. too many life events I am back to enjoy my kingdom 🌞 ### 5/5 — Adore! *2025-08-26* I used to play the game as a child and now I’m back on it, probably even more into it now than I was when I was younger. Had a couple issues with bugs in the game but their support team was super quick about fixing it! Probably the best service I’ve ever gotten from anywhere, really. A very, very grateful thanks to Frieren in particular for responding to my requests promptly. You’re lovely, thank you :D ### 5/5 — Great game *2025-08-22, version 2.3.8* Excellent graphics. Very fun to play ❤️❤️❤️ --- *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 2026-09-03.*