Cataclysm User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience69.3% of reviews
Neutral7.9% of reviews
Negative experience22.8% of reviews

~ Based on 241 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Cataclysm Safe?

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Cataclysm is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 323 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

72.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
22.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 323 App Store ratings for Cataclysm.

Is Cataclysm Legit?

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cataclysm is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Doesn’t work for iPhones says screen is too small with no fix

Font size too big, can't play

I'm playing on an iPhone 11, and the game says "Woah! Your terminal is tiny! This game requires a minimum terminal size of 80X24 to work properly. 66X18 just won't do. Maybe a smaller font would help?" I don't see a way to make the font smaller. Maybe this is a feature that could be added?

Can't open the game

Downloaded the game couldn't get past the home screen

Not in english

The game appears to be in russian though i dont know flr certian, with seemingly no way to change the language. i do not speak russian or whatever language this is. thank god it was free as it is unplayable if you do not already speak the language

GREAT

I LIKE IT

9 years since last update

It’s a great, free, open source game. Please update it to the latest stable version

iOS 26

New update made the in game keyboard stop working

Одна из лучших игр на телефон

Даже несмотря на то, что версия устарела, эта игра продолжает быть одной из лучших игр которые я видел на телефон (хотя обновления все таки хотелось бы).

Controls

Unbelievably bad controls with KEYBOARD keys. Horrific and outdated even for PC, absolutely unplayable on iOS.

HERO

YOU ARE THE REAL HERO

Couldn’t get past the controls

Too complicated trying to figure out the controls. I didn’t even get past the setup screens before I got frustrated and uninstalled it.

Wish I could play it

For some reason stuck in Russian texts. I wish I could read Cyrillic

The controls are really bad

I don’t know how to play

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Неймовірна гра, шкода що не оновлюється.

…?

Some how my screen isn’t big enough or something? Said 80x something and mine is only like 60xsomething but I’m on a iPhone XR…?

Классный порт

Но очень устаревший. Стоит играть, только как ознакомительный вариант

Possibly broken

After going through the instructions upon the app booting up, I see a black screen with Russian words I don’t understand come up. Nothing I press can get me past this black screen despite the D Pad and other buttons clearly not frozen by lighting up when I press them. Also the keyboard key that comes up when swiping with two fingers is in Chinese. Something seems wrong
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very good, despite outdated version

this version is nowhere near the most recent release of CDDA, and plays fairly differently from the modern PC release, but this is an absolutely fun app despite this seeing as the alternative is a paid version (which i recommend for its price tag). i've had no issues regarding the commonly stated "screen is too small" bug and i use an iphone SE gen 2, the commonly stated language bug does exist, but the fix is as easy as going into the settings menu and turning the option which says it's in russian, to english (look for "Опции", then tab along to "Внешний вид", then look for "Язык: Русский" and change it to english).

overall an enjoyable game regardless of the language issue which is easily fixable, good game
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Great game, but needs an update.

CataclysmDDA is a fantastic game. It definitely has a learning curve, and you really need the wiki to learn to play it. You can construct a ton of stuff, and do a ton of stuff. The negative things about this game is that 1. This port is years out of date compared to the far superior PC version. 2. The game is intended to be played with a PC. keyboard. Because of this, the touch controls are klunky. I can’t think of a way to improve or change this though. 3. The font and tilesets are EXTREMELY small on an iPhone. If you have poor eyesight, the game is near unreadable. Everything is way too tiny. I would say that unless you have great eyesight, or don’t mind squinting to read text, or see the graphics, I probably wouldn’t recommend this game on a smaller iPhone. This game would benefit from having some type of screen zooming or magnifying feature. But since this game hasn’t been updated in years, I doubt that anything like this will ever come. This game would obviously look much better on a larger screen, like an iPad. On my iPhone 6s, everything is really too small for me to see. Another problem that I’m constantly running into is that for some reason, the game keeps saying, “External keyboard detected” and it pops up the iphone, on screen, keyboard. And then the keyboard gets stuck on the screen. I can’t get it to go away when this happens. It’s happening so much that it’s making the game unplayable. I’m wondering if this might be the result of an iOS update or something that created some kind of incompatibility with this game. Since the game is abandoned and hasn’t been updated in years, there is a good chance that this is the case. I don’t recall this ever happening before. Six years with no update is a very long time for an app that’s on a system that gets an updated OS every other month.
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it's in russian

WHY IS IT IN RUSSIAN