# Caves of Lore — user reviews > 112 indexed App Store user reviews of Caves of Lore by TILTGames, rated 4.90/5 from 186 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/caves-of-lore/id6449979034/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/caves-of-lore/id6449979034.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 178 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Caves of Lore? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Great game - 👍 Enjoyable gameplay - 🎨 Beautiful pixel art - 💰 Worth the price - 🕹️ Engaging combat - 🔍 Lots to explore and discover - 🤖 Impressive for a solo dev - 🕰️ Nostalgic old-school RPG feel **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes - 🔍 Steep learning curve - 🌐 Lack of language support (e.g. Russian, German) - 🔋 High battery consumption **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes after a few fights - Traits menu not showing properly **Most requested features** - Add Russian language support - Add German language support - Implement cloud save feature - Improve UI/UX for better accessibility ## Newest reviews (17 of 112) ### 5/5 — Excellent Game! *2025-11-29, version 1.8.3* Love it, other developers should take note. Thanks for a great gaming experience, can’t wait for number 2! ### 5/5 — Amazing dungeon crawler! *2025-11-17, version 1.8.3* This game is a love letter to those who love old school dungeon crawlers. The turn based combat is fantastic! I really can’t recommend this game enough. Nice lighting effects and good level design. Worth every penny! ### 5/5 — Fun, funny, and overall a terrific time *2025-11-10, version 1.8.0* This game is a true labor of love. Love for old school RPGs and dungeon crawlers, with amazing monsters, fun sidekicks, and plenty of side quests and secrets. But also love for the player — this is a game with an amazingly supportive and responsive dev who really cares about making the game better. ### 5/5 — Incredible Indie RPG *2025-10-16, version 1.8.0* One of my favorite games of all time. A true treasure with inspiration from Fallout 1/2, Baldur’s Gate, and other classic RPGs. I count this as a cozy game with the art style and spell leveling. Amazing work, thank you dev. ### 5/5 — Great game *2025-06-03, version 1.7.7* Well thought out great game ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2025-05-29, version 1.7.7* Fantastic game and the dev is receptive to feedback. ### 5/5 — Love this game! *2025-04-27, version 1.7.6* I highly recommend this if you like a great story, unique characters, and DnD-like combat. Lots of love went into this game. ### 5/5 — Lot of hours in Solmaria *2025-04-12* This is a unique, wonderful rpg with beautiful pixel graphic, with not trivial story, great heroes, npcs, lore. Huge amount of secrets and quests. If you think about buying this game - do this, if u like rpg, turn-based or just fan of pixel art. Hope project will be develop, and over time mb new unique items, locations, heroes we’ll get… May be even dlc. It costs every ruble. Thank you. don’t abandon this project. ps. language is simple enough, but it would be easier and enjoyable to solve secrets, read books in Russian. ### 5/5 — Great Game! *2025-03-27, version 1.7.6* I’ve been gaming since I was a child. My first game was Pong. Yes. I’m old and I still love gaming. All of this is to say, I’ve played plenty of games in my 50 years on earth. I love this game. Thank you for sharing your art. ### 5/5 — Wow *2025-03-08, version 1.7.4* I’ve only been playing for a few hours but I ca already tell the dev put a lot of thought/love into this game. My recommendation is to create a trial version of the game so people can test it out and realize how good it actually is. ### 5/5 — An actual good iOS game *2025-02-23, version 1.7.4* Yeah you have to spend a bit of money but guess what? No adds or paywalls or other scummy practices. Just a solid, enjoyable experience that actually works. Thoroughly recommend. Well done devs. ### 4/5 — A winner! *2025-02-23, version 1.7.4* A super-fun old-style turn based RPG with a solid story, cool magic and battle skills, fun character progression mechanics, nice visual (pixel-art) flourishes, and a smart world/hub system. The level of *potential* complexity is probably deeper than required to play the game, but you can pretty much bash your way through. A great play, and a phenomenal bargain at the price. Can’t wait for the sequel! ### 5/5 — Добавьте русский язык !!! *2025-02-20* Ну серьезно, как понять лор игры , разговоры персонажей и вообще , что происходит, если ты не владеешь английский языком , издевательство :( ### 5/5 — Everything *2025-02-19, version 1.7.4* This is everything I look for in an immersive rpg! The only thing missing is more! ### 5/5 — Fantastic old school game *2025-01-18, version 1.7.1* The creator is easy to reach out to if you have suggestions. There’s a bit of a learning curve it doesn’t put everything in your lap, if it’s not hard to think it’s unforgiving. Just have to do some backtracking sometimes if you don’t pay close attention to what the quest is telling you. ### 5/5 — Отзыв *2025-01-15* Добавьте русский язык! Пожалуйста ### 4/5 — Пожалуйста добавьте русский язык *2025-01-08* Очень тяжело , когда ты слабо владеешь английским языком , разобрался в чем либо и просто делаешь все наугад :( ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes *2025-01-07, version 1.7.1* Game crashes every couple minutes. Unplayable. ipad 6th gen ### 1/5 — Crashes constantly *2024-12-01, version 1.7.0* Unplayable because of constant crashes. ### 2/5 — Mid at best *2024-02-14, version 1.4.6* Very confusing and clunky. ### 3/5 — Meh *2026-05-15, version 1.8.7* Advertised as a turn based rpg but progression is actually incredibly linear and build variety is next to non existent it’s either certain destruction spells, melee or archery. Both of the latter are underwhelming. Wall of force being resisted by almost all larger enemies is a big gripe of mine for a build I had in mind. Makes a game that could be fun feel boxed in with all the constrictions of enemy resistances. ### 3/5 — Falta tradução *2025-01-07* Por favor desenvolvedores coloquem a tradução para português Jogabilidade 10/10 história 9,5/10 ### 3/5 — Dommage *2024-12-15* Le jeu est excellent mais l’absence de version française le rend nettement moins agréable à parcourir. Je vais malheureusement demander un remboursement :( ### 3/5 — Decent gameplay *2024-10-02, version 1.6.6* Decent gameplay but the UI is a little convoluted and the dialogue options with NPCs are pretty redundant. ### 3/5 — Mechanics are a lot for a simple game. *2024-03-25, version 1.5.6* The mechanics in the game are wonderful but it just feels like all the work went into mechanics and not actual gameplay. The fights are really boring which is a bummer considering how much work you have to put into leveling your character. What I mean is you’ll spend 2-3x as much time in stat and level up screens as you do in battle. There is no respec so look up plenty of walkthroughs and explanations on google so you don’t waste points on abilities that you won’t end up using. The magic and skills are kinda boring to use which again is a bummer considering the way you get spells in the first place is kinda cool. Feels wasted. Ultimately I feel like if you add all the mechanics to a completely different game it would be really cool. But there’s too much tedious stat managing for such simple gameplay ### 4/5 — A quite well-made RPG *2026-03-18* It is really. But the whole game becomes dull once you do everything possible(of course, but still). Overall, it is a nice game. I enjoyed it a lot! ### 4/5 — Peerless gem.. so I’ll critique it.. *2025-10-05, version 1.8.0* We need more of this, just less flashy divinity or baldurs gate, easy to enjoy and engage with. One thing I would change about this game is that I’d like eccentric attributes choice to be more rewarding, it feels like the game needs to have certain attributes to be played, which is a shame. For example resistance build requires strength to function if you want to wear armour, or an archery build requires strength to wield a bow, or brawl requires spi to scale. Another thing is that I which proficiency negated skill penalty on related weapons, if I want to be all agility and wield a bow it’s impossible because I need strength req first, I wish i wasn’t blocked when I try to play extremes. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Game! *2026-08-23, version 1.8.9* If you enjoy tactical RPGs, this would be a great fit for you. Combat is good, story is good, and growing your characters feel extremely natural. I look forward to the developers next project! ### 5/5 — Top Tier Mobile RPG *2026-07-11, version 1.8.9* Game was fantastic, best money spent on an original RPG for my iPhone. Spend $10 on this compared to a month of premium on any “free to pay” mobile game. I loved the game. It was simultaneously simple enough to pick up mechanics, but also had a good depth and play experience. Lasted several months of gameplay, depending on difficulty and desire to do all challenges you could add or subtract some, but easily worth the money. I really like the battle system too. The mysterious storyline made discovering the game very interesting. The 3 minor complaints are, the dialogue eventually becomes a bit redundant and the inventory gets a bit cluttered (but isn’t accumulating loot part of the fun of an RPG), and the retro felt a touch small on the phone but I adjusted quickly to it. Overall the minor nit pics are so small compared to the fun I had playing. Get this game!! P.S. the game was made by a solo developer who clearly poured a lot of effort into creating this from his love of RPGs. Your few dollars spent on this go to a true RPG’r not some for profit game dev company making soulless games. ### 5/5 — Incredible Game *2026-06-28, version 1.8.9* What mobile games should be. ### 5/5 — Incredibly polished game! *2026-06-27, version 1.8.9* You can tell the dev put a lot of time energy and love into this game. It’s so well done and the tutorials are super helpful. My only request is portrait mode if ever possible. ### 5/5 — Excellent RPG *2026-06-17* Original, fluide et agréable à manier sur téléphone, fonctionnant hors ligne et sans pub, non pollué par des d’achats intégrés, et avec un contenu soigné… Bref, un jeu qui méritait d’avantage d’attention ! ### 5/5 — Absolutely awesome game! *2026-03-31, version 1.8.7* This has become one of my favorite games. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but from a solo indie dev who cares and supports the game. The story and lore are so deep. Great world building 10/10 ### 5/5 — One of a Kind *2026-02-13, version 1.8.6* While based on older titles and certainly drawing inspiration from them, Caves of Lore manages to set itself aside as an astonishing example of what a solo developer is capable of. From the story to the lore-rich world absolutely saturated with dialogue and even the dozens of books filled with actually interesting stories, Caves of Lore will keep you invested for days and then long after you’ve consumed the story as well. The combat in the game is fluid and very satisfying, with tons of ways to play. The unique system for learning spells from books also solidifies the importance of the lore filled world and the incredible efforts the dev had put into making it shine. If that wasn’t enough, the game also has incredible replayability. From testing yourself to finding new ways to overcome challenges or secrets you may have missed. Finally, the game’s Developer participates in active feedback with their community. If you haven’t played it, check it out! ### 5/5 — So good I bought it twice *2026-01-04, version 1.8.3* I enjoyed the game so much on steam I bought it on the AppStore just so I could give the dev another positive review. ### 5/5 — Exactly Right *2026-01-04, version 1.8.3* I’ve spent a lot of time trying to find a perfect single player old school RPG that has engaging mechanics, an interesting story, challenging but not frustrating, and NO MICROTRANSACTIONS. After a lot of trial and error I’m glad to say this game is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Reminiscent of early "Exile" *2026-01-02, version 1.8.3* This is an awesome game! It's reminiscent of the early versions of the Spiderweb Software game "Exile" in that it's completely open exploration, you have to talk to NPCs...and sometimes go back and talk again; and there are lots of secrets and quests and a lot to do. The interface takes some getting used to, but overall a great game and great value! --- *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 2026-08-30.*