# Crystalline Visual Novel — user reviews > 37 indexed App Store user reviews of Crystalline Visual Novel by PixelFade Inc., rated 4.63/5 from 91 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crystalline-visual-novel/id1460475403/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crystalline-visual-novel/id1460475403.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 78 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (10 of 37) ### 5/5 — Breaking what??!! *2020-12-26, version 41* I absolutely LOVE the breaking bad reference ### 5/5 — My favourite of their releases by far *2020-11-21, version 41* I've bought all their VN (including the newer Ethereal Enigma) and while they're all good, this one is my personal favourite :) I love the world they've built and the mini "fighting" games too that got me more involved in and was genuinely bummed that they didn't explore it some more (there's gotta be more on the elemental's world) Maybe a Kaori style follow up? :D either way looking forward to seeing if Project Astra can take its place as my favourite:) ### 5/5 — Incredible *2020-07-23* It’s such an amazing story, it’s lasts awhile, and it’s so immersive with the music and mini-games. I love it and will definitely have multiple playthroughs!! ### 5/5 — A plea for help *2020-07-14, version 32* Hello pixel fade, I have crystalline on an iPhone 6 and there seems to be a glitch that causes the game to crash at certain parts. One instance of this is the scene where the player and Leanna train in the morning, once you select and option the audio pops, the live 2d resets, the screen goes dark and the game crashes and because of this issue I haven’t been able to progress past this scene at all. I do not know if it’s an issue with the games stability or if it’s an issue with my device but if you guys could find a way to fix this problem it would be great. Thanks for your time and have a nice day ### 5/5 — This is amazing *2020-05-29* I can recommend buying this it has a great story and good graphics the voice acting is also good it’s worth every penny. ### 5/5 — Worth purchasing!!! *2020-04-11* Such a heart warming tale with very funny mature references. Not sure why the rating is MA-17. Please let there be a sequel to this or continue to make more visual novels similar. Great art work, nice voices and intriguing story line. An option for a photo gallery would have been a nice touch to reflect on some of the story parts and an ending replay counter to see how many endings you can keep track of. Awesome work and I look forward to more! ### 5/5 — Genuinely Amazing *2020-04-02* I don’t usually write reviews but this masterpiece has compelled me to do so. After playing Ace Academy (and it’s sequel) I thought I would never find another Visual Novel that I would ever click with to that degree but my God I was wrong. I never thought a game would get me so immersed to the point that when it ended, I would be left in tears wishing it hadn’t ended. I genuinely got so connect with each character it felt like I was really on the journey with them. I can say with all honesty that this game along with Ace Academy will have a special place in my heart. Thank you all for such a genuinely great experience and can’t wait for your upcoming works! ### 5/5 — A little buggy problem *2020-01-27, version 5.0* Hey pixel fade I have played Ace academy on android no playing Crystalline on the iPod and I am running to this problem that both games close off and every time I try to go back and continue the story it does it again so can you please fix the problem thanks ### 5/5 — Awesome *2019-11-14* Very good quality. Music and voice acting are 👍. Several hours in & enjoying a fun, simple, relaxing adventure. Cons, the battle sequences feel irrelevant & it’s not clear what’s happening in some of them. There’s quit a bit that’s cringy where the women characters are concerned. ### 4/5 — Fantastic *2019-11-10* Own this through steam and bought again on my iPad just to give you an idea of how much I want to support these developers. Doesn’t fit quite right on the iPad Pro but that doesn’t diminish the game’s quality in the slightest. Thanks, PixelFade~ Keep up the good work! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes Add Loading Screen *2022-05-28* Unplayable. Crashes at Loading screen ### 1/5 — Crashes after intro scene *2021-11-18* Can't get past intro scene because game crashes to Home Screen every time. $10 for a broken product 🤦🏻‍♂️ smh ### 1/5 — Crashes *2021-10-24, version 41* It crashes after intro ### 1/5 — Game crashes at loading screen! 😭 *2021-06-19, version 41* I really wish I could give a good rating but unfortunately I can’t because I can’t seem to get past the loading screen at the beginning!!! The game crashes as soon as I touch the screen! I’m on an iphone Xr with IOS 14.4.2. Please fix the issue because right now I feel like I lost my money!!! ### 1/5 — Would love to love it *2020-06-10, version 7* It looks like a great game, but it keeps crashing after meeting the first character. ### 1/5 — ctd *2020-05-30, version 7* crashes shortly after first character encounter, making the game unplayable. no workaround avail. please fix and i will change my rating. am running ios 10 on 3rd gen ipad. 5/22/20: update did not address crash issue. feel disappointed and misled now that they've lowered age rating. ### 1/5 — Good but crushing a lot *2020-04-23* This is an amazing game and totally worth it though the thing is that it’s crashing when I make certain decisions don’t know why so I am not going to rate a 5 star when that’s a problem I keep having ### 3/5 — Crashes *2022-08-24* Unfortunately it crashes now..it didn’t before. I have got to the part of the fire temple, I saved and closed the app. Went to play it where I left off and the novel keeps crashing at the title screen now. 5 stars for the experience, -2 for the glitch that will probably reset my entire progress. ### 4/5 — Great game with a lovely story *2023-01-11, version 41* It’s fun to play and the story is super interesting and fun. Different choices that can lead to different endings (but we all know the ending we are looking for 😉). 4 stars because the app crashes in some places, not nowhere where it will prevent you from playing the story. The story can get deeply sentimental making you beam with happiness, and heartbreaking where it makes you cry, and it’s really well done. The ending is not as dramatic but it’s still a nice one. Well done to everyone who was involved in the development of the game. Thank you for so many hours of fun. ### 4/5 — Needs a Sequel *2020-03-29, version 5.0* A PC Steam port to Mobile. It’s good if you like your Anime virtual novel’s, six ending I think (Note don’t take the first chance to go back and save a lot) funny and frequent movie references. If you have the money the burn for the price go for it. Depending on how much you want to read in a single day or night (or skip) you’ll easily be playing for 1-7-10 days ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2024-09-12* I was pleasantly surprised about how amazingly well put this game is the music the voice lines the story is all incredible I suggest making more games like this and look forward to more games from this creator ### 5/5 — Amazing Game *2023-05-15* Honestly one of the best choice based story games. All of their games are amazing. Top tier. ### 5/5 — Highly recommended! *2022-12-17* Very fun story, immersive and flows perfectly. Hope you keep producing more of these. ### 5/5 — Hey pixel fade *2022-07-19, version 41* Crystalline is a good game and I’m a fan of it and I’m hoping someday we could get a sequel for Crystalline because it’s just that good ### 5/5 — Underrated *2022-05-25, version 41* All of pixelfades games are criminally underplayed/rated ### 5/5 — A real treat *2022-03-18* I was very impressed with this game and felt the need to leave this review. It is a visual novel with some mini games, and the story is great. Surprisingly, it is fully voiced, even minor characters, and has several endings providing impetus to play multiple times. ### 5/5 — How dare you make me teary-eyed *2022-02-20* Unbelievable. The Gall. Now I have to get the other VN available on IOS to spite you. ### 5/5 — 1 minor change, otherwise really great *2022-01-06, version 41* Love the story, how the characters interact and the movements of them, just wish the menu inside the game was in a different place as it can be hard to access the list when it unravels at the bottom of the screen, right across the bar on my iphone, if it was a little higher or went across vertically instead, would be perfect ### 5/5 — Breaking Bad *2021-08-22* A hilarious game that doesn’t punish you for picking the ridiculous responses and I had to come give it the 5 stars when I got to the breaking bad content although I was already sold when you get to say “do you even lift bro” within the first few minutes of the game. There are negatives… the white bar on recent versions of iPhone/iOS directly overlaps with the text and the menu which is annoying. Also you can’t save during a choice, but you can save before you get to one which is annoying. And you can’t go backwards, you can only look at a log. So it’s a little annoying if you want to try a different choice that you can’t really do that if you didn’t guess when to save. That being said, the dialogue is so funny that I’m giving it 5 stars anyway! ### 5/5 — I love this so much *2021-03-29* I hope everyone plays this game because everything was just perfect I really hope you guys continue to make these novels and I hope there might be a continuation or something else from this one --- *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.*