# Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead & BN — user reviews > 40 indexed App Store user reviews of Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead & BN by Yury Apollov, rated 4.00/5 from 3 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cataclysm-dark-days-ahead-and-bn/id1659104783/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cataclysm-dark-days-ahead-and-bn/id1659104783.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (12 of 40) ### 3/5 — Good game, broken now with last update *2026-08-09* Great port of a good game. But the most recent update broke it, so whenever you try to create a world it crashes. **Developer response:** Try backuping then deleting settings and maybe saves too. I had this very very issue and it helped me. ### 4/5 — Love this! One problem. *2026-08-07* It’s by far the best way to play CDDA on mobile but the recent update has caused my on screen keyboard to stop functioning, just for CDDA however. BN works fine please help. **Developer response:** Hey, just checked, everything works just okay. What issues do you have with the screen keyboard? ### 4/5 — Needs bug fixes. Constant crashing! *2026-07-31* Am a big fan of the game but the current version of dark days ahead crashes a lot. Even on the main menu the game will randomly close. I have yet to find a single cause, it’s pretty much random. ### 2/5 — Why a subscription? *2026-07-06* This is a great game. And it would be more than worth purchasing for a flat fee. But a $12.99 yearly subscription is just a bit far fetched for me. I also have a UI suggestion. The UI, here, is good, but I always found the CDDA UI in the really old iPhone CDDA app by Blue Bottle, REALLY good. It looked nicer and for me anyway, made the app easier to use. The Blue Bottle UI was really polished and it’s a shame that it lost support all those years ago. It would be cool to see that UI again. ### 3/5 — Would buy with more guarantees *2025-12-21* BN 0.9.1 is out and supposed to fix a lot of problems. When will you update? **Developer response:** Thank you for your review. Since this app is aimed to provide the latest versions of both games, it is up to core developers to make decisions about balance and bug fixes. This app updates then to the latest stable version, whatever that means. While it would be possible to contain more than one version of each game inside this app, it would also bloat the size of the app and, I believe, positively influence only some very small amount of players. If it would be some config options in-game or config files that would help tune balance, for example, it would be nice, but please address core developers to implement it. ### 3/5 — Would buy with more guarantees *2025-10-27* I’ve played DDA and BN for years, and I’ve purchased all of this developer’s other Cataclysm releases on iOS. I don’t mind paying a fair yearly fee to keep them going. But the current DDA build is basically unplayable — auto-eat and drink don’t work at all, and doing it manually through iOS menus is painful. BN runs, but vehicle fragility is brutal; even a composite-armored Humvee falls apart after a few zombie hits. I’d gladly pay if there were stable build options or some assurance of ongoing fixes. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review. Since this app is aimed to provide the latest versions of both games, it is up to core developers to make decisions about balance and bug fixes. This app updates then to the latest stable version, whatever that means. While it would be possible to contain more than one version of each game inside this app, it would also bloat the size of the app and, I believe, positively influence only some very small amount of players. If it would be some config options in-game or config files that would help tune balance, for example, it would be nice, but please address core developers to implement it. ### 2/5 — Options not saving for graphics / terminal *2024-12-17* for whatever reason the game constantly restores terminal size and window settings after restart. cant use borderless or fullscreen. cant adjust terminal size to actually be able to see more of the information in menus and descriptions The game is great, which is why I subscribed to have it on iPhone also, but this issue makes it hard to enjoy it properly. Hopefully this can be resolved. Spent a lot of time making a custom micro keyboard configuration with xkeyboard to play this and then discovered this graphic options issue. Bummer **Developer response:** Thank you for your review. I'll take a look: I thought this issue was resolved long ago, but appears it’s not. ### 4/5 — Seems Alright So Far *2024-09-21* It seems all right, normally I’d complain about the subscription fee, but I think CDDA on a mobile device is niche enough that it’s justifiable, I also appreciate that it is yearly instead of monthly, but it would be nice to have the option of monthly? My biggest gripe so far is that the buy now dialogue box is a bit obnoxious in terms of design, it’s too big and bright. Update: Tried a bluetooth keyboard with this (logitech k480) and it reads my inputs twice at times, very bummed out about that. ### 4/5 — Seems Alright So Far *2024-09-17* It seems all right, normally I’d complain about the subscription fee, but I think CDDA on a mobile device is niche enough that it’s justifiable, I also appreciate that it is yearly instead of monthly, but it would be nice to have the option of monthly? My biggest gripe so far is that the buy now dialogue box is a bit obnoxious in terms of design, it’s too big and bright. ### 2/5 — Why subscription? *2024-04-05* Would pay the flat fee for the app but refuse to pay a subscription. ### 4/5 — Good but unfortunate *2024-03-24* Love CDDA and respect that the guy has to make a profit, but I’d rather just buy it outright than have to do a subscription. ### 3/5 — Need to be one off payment instead of subscription. *2024-01-10* That and there’s a full screen bug which as soon as you change the resolution you can’t change them back to the default settings. In app purchase you buy it or one of them once should be so much better than a subscription fee for people who only play one of them only. Also the fact it’s putting people off since this game is free, but I don’t mind supporting the dev, but not by subscription. Needs work but it’s steady so far. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — UI Disaster *2026-07-14* First off this game has two purchases options 1. $12.99 yearly subscription and 2. $12.99 buy once play forever. However when you download and launch the game only the yearly subscription is offered and the buy forever option is not available in either the pop up or the main menu and I could not find it anywhere else…..no store link was available in either locations or menus….deceptive and shameful behavior from the dev. Especially since the game is community sourced and free to everyone…..the port for the iPhone obviously takes work so it theoretically makes asking for money, for that work, reasonable…except it’s terrible. Read on for more details. Side note the subscription is advertised as ongoing update support and the game hasn’t been updated in over a year….and the UI desperately needs fixing. Second I had to spend an hour and a half just resizing the sidebar so it didn’t eat half the screen the option to change the sidebars layout isn’t available in settings so good luck finding it. Also once you find it and select the best layout….its “compact” btw, you will still need to go into settings and change the values on the terminal width and height, doing both of those things from separate menus will let you have most of your screen, to see the actual games environment. 3rd the UI doesn’t work consistently and is clunky. The biggest offender was the quick hot keys and key bindings, they would change what they do or would become non-responsive (this was not a caps lock issue). Example, in combat the quick actions menu has the * key mapped to cycle targets…it worked once but after firing my gun, every other time the * key was pressed in either the quick actions menu or on the keyboard, it instead opened a construction menu from that point forward ….the same happened with the f key, it fired my weapon 1 time and then instead on all subsequent inputs opened an entirely different menu of actions only one of which was combat and when pressing the offered combat key in that menu…..it did nothing but close the menu. 4. Movement…if you ever see an enemy, you can no longer move without opening the combat menu and telling the game to ignore it, then you can move about 3 tiles and then you need to impute the command again….it is exceedingly tedious. 5. There is zero sound in this game, absolutely non. Music and sound effect packs exist for this game and non are included. **Developer response:** All the gameplay issues (2-5) you mentioned are related to the base game itself and had nothing to do with mobile port. The one-time purchase was there in past, and there is no way to delete it from the app store. There is no such option now: only subscription. And yes, I haven't updated the game for a year. Still it's the latest version available in the app store: the other ones are way older. Hopefully I'll updated it sooner or later. ### 1/5 — Just a scam *2026-03-19* You can’t play the game without paying $12.99 a year. It’s just a scam. Don’t waste your time. Really a shame since I love this game so much on desktop. **Developer response:** Just go play on desktop: it's really way better on a bigger screen and with keyboard. Those who REALLY want to play it on iOS don't hesitate to pay a single buck a month for it. ### 1/5 — Subscription based. AVOID. A *2026-03-11* EDIT:The developer does not care about anyone on an iphone 16 suffering from cut off UI, because he just couldn’t get used to the new, barely shifted, UI. Insane. See the reply. Not a fan of a yearly sub. one time buy maybe. The UI is shifted compared to the other ports, and game pad on the bottom left is clipping with the phone making the diagonal bottom left very hard to tap. UPDATE: The developer seems to not really care as the UI is still misaligned. I would avoid. **Developer response:** EDIT: I'm playing on iPhone 13 max and just double checked on iPhone 16 max — no difference, works as expected: cannot misclick. If there's something specific with iPhone 16, please, let me know the details. Thank you for your review. The gamepad is there to prevent misclicks. Earlier it was positioned not to clip, but that resulted in multitude of rages when I wanted to take a single step, but misclick led the character somewhere else that led to death. Hence this. ### 1/5 — Subscription based. *2026-03-07* Not a fan of a yearly sub. one time buy maybe. The UI is shifted compared to the other ports, and game pad on the bottom left is clipping with the phone making the diagonal bottom left very hard to tap. UPDATE: The developer seems to not really care as the UI is still misaligned. I would avoid. **Developer response:** Thani you for your review. The gamepad is there to prevent misclicks. Earlier it was positioned not to clip, but that resulted in multitude of rages when I wanted to take a single step, but misclick led the character somewhere else that led to death. Hence this. ### 1/5 — Menus have stopped working *2026-01-07* I can’t start a new game anymore, because the menu panels have disappeared. Please fix this. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review. Please add more details and a screen shot or better screen record at https://apollov.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 Also have you tried restarting a coupe of times? Sometimes the menu just hang and restart fixes this. ### 1/5 — Menu stuck after saving *2025-10-06* When saving a game in Bright Nights, after exiting the app and reopening, the main menu seems to get stuck and the overlay buttons don’t work properly anymore edit to respond to dev: Yes I have already submitted a support ticket on your website. **Developer response:** Please report more details to https://apollov.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1, I'll try to help. Edit: yes, thank you, I see it and marked it as important, but ATM I have very little time. I hope to take a look at this week. Sorry for the delay and thank you for your patience. ### 1/5 — completely broken *2025-09-30* nothing works, menus pile up, keyboard opens and wont close. thats it. thats all i saw **Developer response:** Everything works, menus don't pile up, keyboard opens and closes as expected. What exact issues are you having? In which of 2 games? What's your device? OS version? Post a support request at https://apollov.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1, attach screen shots or better video records. And I'll try to help. ### 1/5 — Звука нет *2024-08-07* Не качайте звук не работает только звук меню и то табаешься когда **Developer response:** Звука нет, потому что его надо ставить звуковым пакетом отдельно. Например, отсюда: https://github.com/damalsk/damalsksoundpack Также можно дополнительно поставить и графические паки, например. ### 1/5 — Subscription based. *2024-07-16* Not a fan of a yearly sub. one time buy maybe. The UI is shifted compared to the other ports, and game pad on the bottom left is clipping with the phone making the diagonal bottom left very hard to tap. ### 1/5 — Играть по подписке- это огонь *2023-10-30* Так долго ждал апдейта, купил уже виртуальную карту оплаты на 5$ через посредника и думал зарегистрировать второй акк в США ради одной лишь последней версии CDDA. Дождался релиза и что же в игре? 10 убитых мобов, а дальше покупай подписку за 1000₽ на год. Обалденно! Как будто из России и без того было недостаточно проблематично приобретать игры. **Developer response:** Платите через сотового оператора и будет вам счастье. Сам плачу за разные подписки именно из России и именно так — никаких проблем. Ну а по поводу самой подписки, так я вообще не хотел ничего обновлять, ибо сам не играю, да и денег особо на этом не заработать, так что зачем это мне? Полгода я себя уговаривал, в итоге всё сделал, а в ответ получил просто лютое количество, к сожалению ожидаемого, хейта. Ок, следующий апдейт можете и не дождаться. Играйте на компе, не портите глаза в телефоне. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — good game but have some bugs *2026-07-30* Great game overall. There are still a couple of bugs in the current version. When the on-screen keyboard is open, pressing a key that triggers an in-game popup may cause a crash. Also, using a soundpack can sometimes make the fonts disappear. The game is still playable by using the on-screen shortcuts and avoiding soundpacks. I hope these issues can be fixed. ### 5/5 — Big love *2026-07-26* Thank you very much for the game. I love it!! One issue though… settings and options menu don’t seem to accept keyboard inputs (like key bindings menu or for when setting the volume for sound packs) **Developer response:** Update and its gone! Now it's single purchase, and for all who bought it while it was free+subscription it becomes totally free. Enjoy. ### 5/5 — Good good, BN still needs some attention *2025-05-15* Base CDDA is solid, a lot of bugs have been fixed over the years and have no complaints. CBN suffers from the automatic rescale of the screen size again unfortunately so I haven’t been able to really play it at all due to that, hopefully to be fixed in the future. ### 5/5 — Top Tier Roguelike *2025-02-10* This game is complex and incredible. One of the best roguelikes out there but takes some time to get used to the controls. The port works quite well once you get used to it, but it could use more regular updates. Assuming the updates are continuing I see no issue with the subscription fee. Also, the page down and page up controls are not set by default so you need to change them to something that works such as 3 and 9. Finally, a sound pack would be nice I was disappointed there were no sound effects. Thanks for bringing this to iOS! ### 5/5 — Top Tier Roguelike *2025-01-22* This game is complex but incredible. One of the best roguelikes out there. The port could use more regular updates but I’m not complaining because it works and that’s all I could ask for in the end. Also, the page down and page up controls are not set by default so you need to change them to something that works such as 3 and 9. Finally, a sound pack would be nice I was disappointed there were no sound effects. Thanks for bringing this to iOS! ### 5/5 — будут ли обновления? *2024-10-14* Здравствуйте, огромный фанат этой игры на ПК, но к сожалению не всегда получается за ним постоянно проводить время, поэтому планирую купить игру на телефон, подскажите пожалуйста, выходят ли обновления обоих форков по мере их обновления официалами, и чем отличается эта версия от версии Cataclysm BN за 1500₽? **Developer response:** Здравствуйте. Спасибо за отзыв. Обновления выходят, правда, стабильных версий давно не было, поэтому приложение давненько не обновлялось. Эта версия от другой отличается, в первую очередь, тем, что тут 2 игры в одной: и BN, и DDA, а в другой — только BN. Ну и моделью оплаты: тут подписка, там — фикс. PS. Видел ваше обращение в поддержку, но что-то у меня портал поддержки не грузится. Либо санкции, либо одно из двух. Отдельное спасибо, что продублировали в отзыв 😌 ### 5/5 — Best CDDA Port for Apple *2024-09-16* While this is without any doubts the best option for playing CDDA on an apple device, there does seem to be an issue on my device with the game consistently crashing while exploring unexplored map areas, hoping that’ll be fixed in the next update. When it comes to the topic of subscription pricing other users are leaving negative reviews for, I personally don’t mind and believe the price fair despite having bought previous versions of the game from Apollov. The App Store charges prices akin to extortion from smaller publishers for “hosting” their apps on a monthly basis, not to mention that it can be difficult to motivate oneself to maintain said apps when they’re an independent developer. **Developer response:** Hey, thank your warm words. It means really much to me! As for the crash while exploring... I was experiencing this bug now and then while playing the game both desktop and mobile, and AFAICS it went worse with time. There's nothing I can do about it, because the circumstances of this happening are unknown, besides the fact it just happens time to time, and I'm not deep into the game code enough to suspect any part of it. More frequent auto saves should make life a bit better. ### 5/5 — Вот так *2024-02-21* Ну так если ожидал хейт , что ты ноешь, что я ничего не буду делать, допили сначала все по уму и потом продавай «продукт» ,да это вообще не легко и управление даже на клаве «закачаешься» , ну если сам взялся и еще за твои старания просишь оплату , то принимай критику, а он не говори « не портите глаза в телефоне» . 5 звезд ставлю за крутые ответы на комментарии )) ### 5/5 — Looking for a lifetime subscription *2024-01-05* Is this possible? Why is it per year? ### 5/5 — Glad to see it back *2023-11-05* I’m glad there is still a person maintaining an IOS port. For the time being I likely won’t get this, as I already got the previous version, but I wanted to come and leave a 5 star review because your ports are truly quite good and allow for an otherwise nonexistent experience. **Developer response:** Thank you very much for your response. I really do appreciate your kind words. --- *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 2026-08-29.*