# Deep Space D6 — user reviews > 81 indexed App Store user reviews of Deep Space D6 by Alex Vergara Nebot, rated 4.71/5 from 730 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/deep-space-d6/id1466537651/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/deep-space-d6/id1466537651.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 592 · 4★ 97 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Deep Space D6? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth gameplay - 👍 Intuitive interface - 🚀 Efficient implementation - 💡 Faithful to the board game - 👍 Great for mobile play - 🚀 Responsive controls **Cons** - 🐛 Inconsistent rules - 🎲 Heavily reliant on luck - 🔁 Repetitive gameplay - 🔁 Difficulty feels unbalanced - 🔁 Lack of variety **Commonly reported bugs** - Tutorial issues - Freezing and crashes - Inconsistent threat spawning **Most requested features** - Additional ships and expansions - Customization options - Local high scores and achievements - Difficulty adjustments - Infirmary rules from the physical game ## Newest reviews (14 of 81) ### 4/5 — Favourite Solo-Player App *2024-12-18, version 1.2.4* I am a fan of Tony Go’s solo table top dice game Deep Space D6. This App brings the game to your device. Good tutorial, smooth operation, tense gameplay. 1 downfall is there no variety of ships or dice. I hope more ships can be available with future updates. ### 4/5 — For what it is, it’s pretty good *2024-05-15, version 1.2.4* I tan across this app and redownloaded it. On cell phone screens, like my 12, the tutorial text font is right at the edge decernability why do all developers have this same flaw, to use the smallest font possible. ### 4/5 — Great but could have more options… *2024-01-11* Great little game though I wish there were more options. Since the creator of the app isn’t selling this I don’t understand why the game creator would reject allowing”fan-made” ships or cards. Personally, I would be more drawn to the full boardgame knowing the full rules, which these are not. These are the print & play rules. Here’s to hoping! 🤞🏼🤞🏼 ### 3/5 — Fun but rough *2022-08-19, version 1.2.4* Amazing Game! But the randomness ruins sessions immediately. I played about 6-8 games on varying difficulties and they all ended in my demise for stupid reasons. That’s it and that’s fine, but it isn’t for me long term. ### 4/5 — Engaging Gameplay *2022-07-14, version 1.2.4* This is fun. I wish there was a way to mitigate the effects of Meteoroid and Solar Winds. To my knowledge, you’re stuck taking that ten damage over the course of your play, which lowers your score. ### 4/5 — Good game, but dice seem kinda broken *2022-07-13, version 1.2.4* It’s a great game and it’s very fun, however I don’t know if it’s just my bad luck but the dice seem to be trying to make me fail. I know exactly what dice I’m gonna be getting next roll based on my shield, hull and the threats I’m fighting and it’s never in my favour. Not complaining or anything, but it kinda makes me feel like the dice aren’t random. Overall though super great game :D ### 3/5 — Fun and addictive game… *2022-07-10, version 1.2.4* … but largely based on luck. Success here is trying/restarting/etc until the threats come out in the right order. This game is about 80-90% luck, 10-20% decision making. ### 5/5 — Nice one *2022-06-28, version 1.2.4* Simply with so much fun ### 5/5 — Fun game *2022-06-21, version 1.2.4* A fun game where you command a ship through a dangerous system! The game is challenging but fair, and actually reminds me of a few early sci-fi video games especially some of the text-based ones on the Altair 8800. Each turn, dice are rolled for what actions you can do, and what threat activates. Some people might not like the RNG based gameplay but I enjoy it, and find it similar to tabletop games,. ### 3/5 — Rules aren’t consistent *2022-06-10, version 1.2.4* When four scanners go down, only 3 are reactivated, sometimes threats appears on their turn and then again before you are about to roll. ### 4/5 — Excellent Implementation. So-so game. *2022-04-21* This is one of the best implementations of a board game I’ve seen. Virtually no bugs, smooth play, good short tutorial, and very responsive. Art and interface are minimalistic but thematic. My only problem is that the underlying game, while fun at first, quickly declines. The game comes down to rolling dice and assigning them, then drawing a random threat from a deck and rolling to see which threats trigger. Most dice have limited function so in many cases you’ll roll six and be able to use fewer than half of them. There are some interesting choices, but they aren’t every turn and they often don’t matter because a few turns of bad rolls and threats (which is very common) will take you from full health to destruction. I’ve heard there’s expansions for this and would love to see them implemented. The system works and could be fun if more choices were available. As it stands, I’m neutral on this one. The implementation is a 10/10. The game is a 3. It’s worth trying out and it’s fun in the same way solitaire is fun, but don’t expect for it to stay fun if you play it too much. ### 5/5 — Simple, good game *2022-04-20, version 1.2.4* Not a lot of depth, but that is ok. The rules are simple. It is a challenge ball ending the priorities, and threats just seem to keep coming. But it is winnable. Great concept for what it is. ### 5/5 — Addictive tactical game *2022-04-03, version 1.2.4* Play through the tutorial and within minutes you will be off. This game is awesome and leaves you saying “...just one more game”. I have the print and play table top edition but never got around to playing it. Maybe now I will. ### 5/5 — Fantastic little game *2022-03-15* I have been playing this little game for months and months now. Not only is it fun, but pursuing the GameCenter achievements will teach you different ways to play and provide additional hours of replay. Well worth tipping the developer! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Tutorial broken *2024-10-18, version 1.2.4* Tried to learn how to play. 2nd round of tutorial appears to lock up. Happened twice. Had to quit game. ### 1/5 — Total Random Trash *2022-11-18, version 1.2.4* The implementation is great, kudos to the developer, but the game itself is just totally random trash. You can literally lose an entire run due to rolling three of the same result on 6 dice. You might as well flip coins and pretend you’re a winner or loser based on how many flips you guess right. Or try to guess a stranger’s birthdate. If you get it wrong, you “lose”! Oh no! Avoid. ### 1/5 — Too Luck Based *2022-11-01, version 1.2.4* Like many others have said, this app is well designed and bug free HOWEVER after about 15-20 rounds, it is near impossible to overcome a series of bad rolls leading to your death. It’s almost impossible to win because of how luck based and heavily stacked the game mechanic is against you. ### 1/5 — It’s Just Bad *2021-09-16* Firstly, this is an “unauthorized port” of someone else’s game. Secondly, that game isn’t even good. At first glance, this game looks like a cute little entry into the “dice placement” or “dice assignment” style of games, a genre where, in theory, the randomness comes from rolling a bunch of dice (shocker!) and the strategy comes from figuring out how to use those dice. Unfortunately, this game is pretty much all randomness and no strategy. Instead of having a bunch of different ways to use your dice to choose between, most of the time there will only be one currently useful thing to do with each of your dice and you will just… do that thing. Even when theoretically you have a couple options, the correct / optimal thing to do is almost always pretty obvious. “Threats” mostly have only one way to solve them, so you’re completely at the mercy of chance whether you roll what you need or not. Don’t get me started on the “Scanner” mechanic, which is literally just “Well you have a 1/6th chance of rolling the BAD face on every dice, and if you roll too many of them you get screwed.” Maybe the actual official board game version of this has some added complexities that actually add meaningful choices and strategy. If it does, this port is doing a disservice to DSD6 by making it seem worse than it actually is. If not, well, it’s just a bad game. **Developer response:** Hello, I appreciate the honest feedback, but this game (albeit unofficial) is very much authorized and appreciated by the board game's designer. You can check Tony Go's tweets from June 2nd 2021. ### 1/5 — Too much rng too little player control *2021-07-04, version 1.2.0* Poorly designed game mechanics mean when you get one bad turn it kills a run Getting sensor dice not only robs you of a die but also adds hazards, so getting 3 on one turn is impossible to come back from When you have 5 or more hazards more problems arise than you can control so at that point it’s game over On the other end when you have little to no hazards you can one turn clear everything leaving the game with no challenge In conclusion There are no meaningful decisions to be made in this game might as well play highest number with a d20 This is a perfectly fine game for a student project as in it’s not a game for playing it’s a game for demoing ### 2/5 — You can’t win. Ever. *2024-10-30, version 1.2.4* Even on the easiest difficulty, the enemies pile up so fast there is absolutely nothing you can do to win. Ever. Something has to be wrong with the rules. ### 2/5 — Needs stats, a local score option *2024-06-13* What happened to the local highscores and local achievement screens? There are none. The difficulty on easy mode is also unbalanced. Every time I play, the outcome is the same; starts easy… when nearing 10 threats remaining, the difficulty becomes harder, ie dice roll results become terrible, harder threats are reveals. After 5 threats, I get swarmed. Then finally I lose. EVERY GAME. Easy mode is only easy if you have more than 15-20 threats left. When further reduced, forget it. This is lame and broken. ### 2/5 — Conceptually sound, but poorly balanced. *2022-03-01* Like many other comments have pointed out, this game has potential to be good: The core gameplay is engaging, unfortunately it doesn’t seem well balanced. Most of the time your options are so severely limited you can only do one thing per die, if at all. Hopefully that one thing is even actually useful. While all your opportunities to apply any strategy to the game are seemingly disabled, threats accumulate, die get locked up, and as a result you have even less chances to actually influence gameplay at all. Even on easy difficulty after 15+ games I find myself getting sucked into the same negative feedback loop, rolling my two available die hoping I’ll be able to chip away a couple damage from the 10 enemies with 4hp that have accumulated. Somehow I continuously roll 4 scanners at a time, while only getting at most two soldiers. Either the mechanics of each die face/role need adjustments (maybe more options) to allow more player control, or the chances for things like scanners and infirmary events need to be adjusted. ### 2/5 — Really? *2022-01-31, version 1.2.4* I’ve played this over a two hundred times now on easy. Did you leave a bug in there? Is something off? Addictive even though I lose every time. I did come very close twice but come on! ### 2/5 — Unbalanced….. *2022-01-02, version 1.2.4* Game was fun at first but it is completely unbalanced in hard mode. AI rolls always favor the game and punishes the player. I’m all up for a challenge but even I wouldn’t even roll this bad with real dice. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2025-10-02, version 1.2.4* It’s so good but I completed all the achievements and I just wish there was more so i’d have something to aim for again. Was great fun though. ### 5/5 — A wonderful rendition of the best solo game ever created! *2025-04-01* The sound design is extremely well done. Gameplay is on point. My only critiques are that I wish it had the optional infirmary rules included in the boxed version of the game. I would also love to see the additional ships and expansions on here eventually. But this is still so well done that I just can’t not give it 5 stars with flying colours! ### 5/5 — Works nicely on a 9th gen iPad *2024-07-28, version 1.2.4* Wish we could get expansions, but nice to have this much ### 5/5 — Great game! *2024-06-02, version 1.2.4* Love this game. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2024-03-17, version 1.2.4* Game is fantastic. I’d never heard of the board/table top game before but I think I’ll have to check it out after this playing this adaptation. No IAP, no ads. It’s a fairly simple concept and much of the fun is conceived in your imagination. I always picture myself on the deck of bridge barking orders at my stressed crew as we attempt to survive wave after wave of disasters and incoming enemy fire. Absolutely great, kinder like D&D meets FTL but streamlined. If any of that made sense to you and appeals to you then you need to download this hidden gem. ### 5/5 — Awesome game! *2023-05-16, version 1.2.4* Deep Space D-6 is a great little dice management game that takes the guesswork out of the rules of the physical game but retains all the tactical decision making. I still bought a physical copy of the game because it’s super nice and it’s fun to alter the rules. And who doesn’t love throwing dice? ### 5/5 — Fantastic game to play when your waiting *2023-02-03, version 1.2.4* This game is a fun little thing to play if your waiting or on a bus. I think this digital version of the game is much better suited because not only can you take it anywhere, but since it’s much faster to play it is less frustrating when bad luck results in your ship being blown apart (which will happen almost every time unless I’m just very unlucky). In a way, this game is like solitaire. You play it, mostly without thinking but then occasionally it will throw a little challenge at you which is just enough to remain engaging ### 5/5 — Finally finished *2022-12-04, version 1.2.4* Well, I have played the game for about a year now, and I just finished all the achievements. The hat trick was the hardest. What a great game! Thanks, Devs! Y’all fill the tip jar now, ya hear? ### 5/5 — Great one handed portrait play *2022-10-18, version 1.2.4* Simple game mechanic. Turn based, portrait, one thumb, free with no ads or IAP. Balance of strategy and luck. Several hours of fun. ### 5/5 — beautiful app so-so game *2022-09-13* like other reviewers, i find how often you have to toss out useless dice and get stuck in an overwhelming amount of threats frustrating. HOWEVER this is one of the board game to app ports ive tried that is beautiful and intuitively designed and works well. additionally the developer is offering this for free without ads! even if i get annoyed with my current game, i can foresee myself returning to the app often as the developer lets me play the game with ease and convenience over the original print and play. --- *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.*