# Darkness and Flame 1 — user reviews > 367 indexed App Store user reviews of Darkness and Flame 1 by FIVE-BN STUDIO LLC, rated 4.80/5 from 3,137 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/darkness-and-flame-1/id1576654367/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/darkness-and-flame-1/id1576654367.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,610 · 4★ 443 · 3★ 60 · 2★ 18 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Darkness and Flame 1? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💎 Excellent graphics - 🎮 Engaging gameplay - 🔍 Challenging puzzles - 🌟 Interesting story - 👍 No ads or microtransactions - 🕹️ Smooth controls - 🎨 Beautiful art style - 🎶 Immersive audio **Cons** - 🔍 Hints can be unclear - 🤔 Backtracking can be frustrating - 🔑 Bonus content locked behind paywall - 🐛 Occasional bugs or glitches **Commonly reported bugs** - Progress loss when accidentally tapping 'Start Over' - Bonus chapter download issues - Hints not always working as expected **Most requested features** - Ability to take notes in-game - Option to replay completed levels - Hint system improvements ## Newest reviews (20 of 367) ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-01-29, version 1.1.4* A tricky game that’s fun to play, ### 5/5 — Very engaging *2026-01-22* Thank you for allowing this as a free to play game to us on a limited income. I found it very absorbing and really enjoyed the puzzles which I found either easy or difficult so the best of both to keep it interesting. ### 5/5 — Very good game *2026-01-21, version 1.1.4* Love the play through. It’s challenging but not impossible to play ### 5/5 — Darkness and Flame is great fun, *2026-01-19* This was the very first Five BN game I played. As such, it holds a very special place for me. It opened wonderful worlds in all their games. Each one is a different experience with excellent puzzles, interesting graphics and short clips to help tell stories. The only downside is I finish their new game and impatiently wait for the next new game to be released. So, I replay one of the many earlier games. Basically, we need to find tools, parts, etc., to open a new puzzle to move the game forward. The stories are engaging. I love these games and am so grateful to everyone who works on making them. Thank you! **Developer response:** Thank you for your comment! Your feedback helps us levelling up our games for better! See you in our other games! ### 5/5 — Game *2026-01-12, version 1.1.4* Love the puzzles ### 5/5 — Der Goldstandard *2026-01-06* Da hier in den Rezensionen schon alle Aspekte des Spiels ausführlich gelobt worden sind, möchte ich noch einmal auf die Grafik und Gesamtgestaltung (Sound!) der Spielreihe hinweisen. Die ist außergewöhnlich und hat eine Detailtreue, gelungene Farbgestaltung und Tiefe, die andere Entwickler einfach nicht erreichen. Das macht neben den gelungenen Rätseln die Qualität des Spiels aus. Der einzige Schwachpunkt in allen Spielen von Five BN ist vielleicht das Voice Acting. Auweia! Das ist zum Teil peinlich… 🙀 ### 5/5 — Sehr angenehm zu spielen *2026-01-01* Sehr interessant gemacht, angenehm zu spielen ohne dauernd Werbung schauen zu müssen. Rätsel nicht zu schwer aber teilweise schon knifflig. Insgesamt eines der besten seiner Art! ### 5/5 — 楽しかった *2025-12-20* 無料でできるのが本当にありがたい充実したゲーム。あっっという間に終わらせてしまいました。2も3も出ていて楽しみでしょうがないです。 ### 5/5 — LOVE THESE GAMES!!! *2025-11-13, version 1.1.4* Thank you for making such incredible interesting games for this puzzle lover and for free to boot! I will play every single game from this creator! They all have been excellent ### 5/5 — こちらシリーズも楽しい！ *2025-11-10* ロストランドが全て解き終わってしまったのでこちらを始めました。パズルの難易度もロストランドよりは解きやすくて、気持ち悪い日本語訳もないので楽しく進められました。 ただ、ボーナス章のモザイクで壁の模様を色付けするパズルは意味わからずやりづらかったかな…。 アリスもかわいいしこれからのストーリーも楽しみなので、2以降もプレイしたいと思います。 ### 5/5 — Intriguing Adventure and good story *2025-11-08, version 1.1.4* This is my second play through of this series. The games are challenging but not too hard. The items collected and used are all logical so it is never frustrating. ### 5/5 — They did it again *2025-11-04, version 1.1.4* Another fantastic series by Five-BN. The story is engaging, the scenes are beautiful, the puzzles are challenging while also being really fun. I always highly recommend these games. ### 5/5 — Brilliant game, not too hard and good story *2025-09-19, version 1.1.4* I love these Five BN games, really good stories and gorgeous graphics. Best of all, they’re free to play and no ads! ### 5/5 — LOVE these games!! *2025-09-19* I had found a similar game first before finding this one, but found it very frustrating because you had to wait a certain amount of time to have enough energy to be able to do any of the tasks. In my frustration, I searched for games that were similar to it and someone mentioned these games and they are amazing. They are exactly what I was looking for. ### 5/5 — Engaging and truly fun game! *2025-09-14, version 1.1.4* I love escape rooms and puzzles games and this was a it! ### 5/5 — Good but FIX! *2025-08-27* Please read this developers - I am currently on the diamond shaped mosaic in the desert city, beginning with G I think? Anyways, the very right and very left side are not letting me put the correct pieces in, let alone any piece. It shouldn’t be doing this! Could you please fix it? Brilliant game by the way, although I’m terrified of the arachnid on the treasure box. ### 5/5 — Convivial *2025-08-20* Pas trop difficile très plaisant beau graphisme ### 4/5 — 良き *2025-06-16* 概ね満足。無料とは思えない。 かなり楽しんだ。 ただ広告を見てヒントではなかなか対応の広告が見れず。 まぁYoutubeでヒント見れるかども。 ### 5/5 — Please make more *2025-06-12, version 1.1.4* Ok, I gotta say that I LOVE THIS GAME. Great job guys. ### 5/5 — 絶妙 *2025-06-03* なかなかハマれるゲームがなくなってきた昨今、久しぶりに時間を忘れて遊んでます。 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Several days progress lost in a second *2022-04-15, version 1.1.0* After playing this game for days and nearing the end I accidentally tapped on Start Over instead of Continue. All of my progress is lost... Why would you even put those opten next to each other? ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2022-02-19, version 1.0.6* Starts off as a good game. Of course then you have to buy hints. But a hint in this game can be a simple direction. Not a hint at all. I ran out of hints so I checked and it said I’d only done 62% of the game. Bought the hints only to discover that I only had one scene to go! They had included the bonus chapter. Ok I thought I’ll play that. But guess what? You have to pay to play that! It’s a rip off. There are plenty of good games out there that don’t rip you off. Sheer greed. Shame on Apple. ### 2/5 — OMG how much animal cruelty.. *2024-08-24, version 1.1.4* can one dvpr squeeze into a game? Holy moly. Totally unnecessary and made me reeeeally uncomfortable throughout. Such a shame as could have been so good without it. ### 2/5 — Awesome and astounding. *2024-06-19* Love the artwork, love the background music, love the storyline (what little I’ve seen of it so far, anyway), love the quality control (lack of bugs), love the special puzzles, and I’ve loved this sort of puzzle game for decades. The ONLY reason I didn’t rate it five stars is the solution being so dependent on “click all over the screen at random until you hit something that’s active” and “now go back to where you already finished and click all over the place again”. [Update: reduced rating to one star after giving up and looking online for a walkthrough. You have GOT to be KIDDING me. I couldn’t even complete half the story while reading the bloody walkthrough! Without it basically telling me everything to do, I never would have got past the uncle’s house, and even with it you’re stuck with an impossible puzzle in the underwater machine. What good is all that great artwork, great music, and great storyline if it’s essentially IMPOSSIBLE to ever see it without cheating? Sorry, but this is just too hard and too frustrating for someone whose IQ is only 160.] ### 2/5 — No hints given for progress *2022-08-15, version 1.1.0* No daily hints given and a hint taken when moving to a different area ### 2/5 — Why spoil it? *2022-01-06, version 1.0.6* Great game, but, guess what happens when you go to play the bonus. You have to pay for it. Some bonus, nothing but a money grab. ### 2/5 — Disappointed at the purchases to complete game *2021-12-11, version 1.0.6* I purchased this game and had fun. There’s some good elements, being able to complete some great puzzles. However at key points of the game I needed to buy hints to complete it. Then when I got a notification that I had ‘unlocked the bonus game’ each time I tried to use it I got a screen with two options - restore which lead to an internet connection error (but my internet has been fine this whole time) or an option to pay $2.99 to play. I have played a lot of games, ones more complicated than this and have never had to pay to play the bonus chapter. I’d rather pay for Big Fish games than these, should’ve stuck to them instead of wasting my money here. ### 2/5 — Disappointing. *2021-11-18, version 1.0.6* I really enjoyed the main game but when I tried to play the Bonus game it wouldn’t download . Said there was a problem with my internet. I tried several times with the same result. Smh ### 3/5 — J’aime beaucoup *2025-04-06, version 1.1.4* On ne voit pas le temps passé! ### 3/5 — Sound override ‘sigh’ *2025-01-26, version 1.1.4* I listen to a lot of books on tape and by a lot I mean three or four a week. When I’m playing games, I must be able to turn off the sounds within the game so it allows my book to play while I’m playing the game. Some games are good at this— not this one. Sometimes that’s normal you just have to go in Turn off the sounds in options which I tried and closed it reopened it. 😣 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Light and Fire *2026-08-14, version 1.1.4* Loved every bits of this game. ### 5/5 — Enjoy all by this developer! *2026-07-10, version 1.1.4* This game has an interesting story, good graphics, and a variety of mini games that are not too difficult. I like that I can play for hours without ads or needing to pay for “energy” to continue like some other games. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2026-07-03, version 1.1.4* Thoroughly enjoying the game, lots of puzzles to solve. ### 5/5 — Fun and Games *2026-06-27, version 1.1.4* I love hidden object games and solving puzzles. It’s a fun engaging way to explore and use my brain. ### 5/5 — High point for the dev *2026-06-27, version 1.1.4* One of their best! Loving it ### 5/5 — Good storyline *2026-05-24, version 1.1.4* I’m enjoying this game so far, the storyline is nice to follow and the English translation is really good. I rate the difficulty of the puzzles as intermediate, it keeps you engaged but not frustrated. ### 5/5 — Darkness *2026-05-15, version 1.1.4* Great game,challenging ### 5/5 — Love this series *2026-05-14, version 1.1.4* I have the series on my laptop, i love it and replay it every couple of years ### 5/5 — Stark gemacht, danke *2026-03-10* Wie alle FN Spiele ganz stark und liebevoll gemacht. Falls ich tatsächlich mal bei einem Rätsel nicht weiterkomme, zahle ich gern die paar Kröten um weiterzuspielen. ### 5/5 — All of these games are great I am transfixed & end up playing for hours, interesting & interactive *2026-03-04* I have played about 8 of the games provided by this group & what makes it just more special if that they are free too. Graphics are great too which almost no glitches I can’t wait for the next adventure, there are do many too choose from! --- *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.*