# Darkness Dash - Escape The Shadow Quest — user reviews > 89 indexed App Store user reviews of Darkness Dash by RoboNacho Systems, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 204 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/darkness-dash-escape-the-shadow-quest/id990291713/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/darkness-dash-escape-the-shadow-quest/id990291713.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 148 · 4★ 31 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Darkness Dash? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎮 Engaging puzzle platformer gameplay - 🎨 Beautiful dark atmospheric graphics - ⚡ Challenging and addictive mechanics - 📱 Works offline without WiFi required - 🧩 Creative puzzle design - 🎯 Smooth controls and gameplay - 🌙 Perfect for relaxation and casual play **Cons** - 📺 Excessive advertising throughout gameplay - 💰 Aggressive monetization and pay-to-remove-ads model - ⏱️ Game is too short with only 5 levels - 💾 No autosave feature - progress resets - 🎮 Unresponsive jump controls - 😤 Overly frustrating difficulty spikes - ❓ Unclear purpose of collected orbs - 📖 Minimal story and narrative depth **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes at 90-96% during loading on iPad - Game closes after reaching 100% on loading screen - Screen goes completely dark after loading with only audio - Progress resets when returning to app - Unresponsive jump controls - Ads block settings menu - Ads interrupt review writing **Most requested features** - More levels and content - Autosave functionality - Checkpoint respawn system instead of full restart - Use for collected light orbs - Boss battles - Character development - Deeper storyline - Difficulty settings or easier levels - Life bar instead of one-hit death - Better tutorial and directions - Fewer or optional ads ## Newest reviews (10 of 89) ### 4/5 — Darkness dash *2021-01-20, version 1.1* Awesome, as usual. ### 3/5 — Как сохраниться? *2020-10-18* Как сохраниться? Когда я выхожу все начинается сначала была на 4 уровне а потом снова на 1😠 ### 3/5 — Good game...but *2020-04-22, version 1.1* Really liked the game..beautiful, dark graphics..pretty hard levels..but as soon as I downloaded it, I beat it! Way too short!!! ### 5/5 — Cool idea *2019-09-02, version 1.1* Unique take on a simple style game that deserves a try by everyone! ### 3/5 — Adds. So many adds. *2019-04-15, version 1.1* I like the game. I really do. But there are so many adds. The game asked me to write a review and an add popped up before I could click to rate it. Every time you die there’s another add. I get it. It’s a free game so adds are the only way to pull in revenue, but does there have to be so many? The controls aren’t that awkward, so I would rate it higher if there were less adds. Oh wait never mind. When I returned to the app it asked me to pay to remove adds. So this is one of those games that pesters you until you pay to remove adds? Okay then. ### 4/5 — Cool game *2019-04-03, version 1.1* Awesome ### 5/5 — Pretty good *2019-03-06, version 1.1* Good game, not as easy as it looks! ### 5/5 — Very good *2018-12-30, version 1.1* Very good game. Really challenging. A bit frustrating at some points. But it s a blast ### 4/5 — Awesome!! *2018-10-23, version 1.1* It was really interesting to try this out!!! But, maybe a little more detailed directions. ### 4/5 — Awesome *2018-09-17, version 1.1* Great game and would definitely recommend to anyone BUT needs updating and a use for the orbs. I was sad there wasn’t more levels. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Cant start *2022-10-04, version 1.1* The app starts loading gets up to 90% and crashes. Please fix. I have latest iPad mini 6th gen. ### 1/5 — Почему вылетает *2022-07-25* Но не получилось потому что после 96% загрузки игра вылетает ### 1/5 — No *2022-06-07, version 1.1* It doesn’t let me even play every time it goes to 96/ it takes me out the game ### 1/5 — Does not work on iPad 9th Gen *2022-05-03, version 1.1* App starts, gets to 100% on loading screen and closes down. Cannot get the game to work. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2022-04-13* Shut down recently after loading ### 1/5 — It is a pain *2022-01-17, version 1.1* When I left the game to go to bed in the morning it reset all my progress when I had three out of the five orbs ### 1/5 — Garbage *2020-12-13, version 1.1* You must sit through a thirty second ad before the game even starts. I’m not supporting this type of game. This is way too much. ### 1/5 — Too much advertising *2020-11-06, version 1.1* I can’t even look at the settings with the advertising popping up and blocking me. ### 1/5 — I remember this game *2019-11-10, version 1.1* I played this game when I was 6-7 cause that’s when it came out but I deleted it the next day I got it because it was boarding In my opinion ### 1/5 — Bad. *2019-03-31, version 1.1* Make the levels more easier. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Краказябра *2024-08-29* 1.вылетает. Разработчики, игра НЕ птичка! 2.на 1 уровне невозможно допрыгнуть никак! Как проходить? Но в остальном... 1.графика крутая 2.она вся чёрная, что мне нравится. Хорошая игра! Продолжайте в том же духе! если вы заделайте такую тёмную головоломку... я буду рад. заранее, спасибо! И у меня не одной рекламы не вылезло ### 5/5 — Love this game! *2021-07-28, version 1.1* I love puzzle platformer type games and they’re so hard to find. This is a puzzle platformer and it’s making me happy. I see some reviews critical of how short it is. But I just started so I can’t speak to that. All I can say is so far so good. I suppose my one complaint would be that when you die you should be able to start again where you last died and not have to go all the way back to the last platform and start again there. That’s the one thing I don’t like so far. Other than that, thank you so much for a great/smart game. I’m going with 5 stars. Especially since games like these are so hard to find. ### 5/5 — This is so fun *2020-11-09, version 1.1* More level plz! ### 5/5 — Thanks *2020-08-16, version 1.1* Thanks for your app ### 5/5 — So cool *2020-04-01, version 1.1* It’s so good just keep on playing. ### 5/5 — My Opinion *2020-02-04, version 1.1* This game is incredible! Full of danger and thrills. And you really have to use your head, and be light on your feet. And the plot is genius. And the best part, you don’t need WiFi in order to play it. I HIGHLY recommend playing this game. If you are looking for a game with adventure, mystery, thrills, danger, a great plot, and where you need to be able to figure things out, GET THIS GAME! 👍👍👍👍👍 ### 5/5 — Great game *2020-01-20, version 1.1* Great, fun game . Kept me wanting more when I finished it . 👍 ### 5/5 — One of my top fav games *2019-12-15, version 1.1* Being a night owl this is right up my alley. Not a huge gamer. It passes the time with just enough smooth action and challenge and in dim light, not abusive to the senses. Perfect. Thanks to the makers for creating this. I love this little game. 🖤 ### 5/5 — Wow *2019-11-03, version 1.1* Amazing game ### 5/5 — DD *2019-11-02, version 1.1* it's dark and you can dash more levels please! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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