# Desert Craft: Sandy Shores — user reviews

> 407 indexed App Store user reviews of Desert Craft by Alexey Mokrousov, rated 4.00/5 from 138 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/desert-craft-sandy-shores/id1116199375/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/desert-craft-sandy-shores/id1116199375.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 83 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 22

## What do users think of Desert Craft?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🎮 Fun and engaging gameplay experience
- 🏗️ Creative mode for building and designing
- 📱 Works on older devices and iPhones
- 🎨 Decent graphics and visual quality
- ⚡ Minimal ads when WiFi is disabled
- 🆓 Free alternative to Minecraft
- 🌍 Survival mode gameplay available

**Cons**

- 🐛 Constant crashes and force closes
- 🌐 False 'No Internet Connection' errors despite active connection
- 📉 Frequent app exits and instability
- 🎯 Poor game launch and initialization
- 📢 Excessive advertisements interrupting gameplay
- 🎮 Limited content compared to Minecraft
- ⚙️ Requires disabling WiFi/internet to function properly
- 🏘️ Broken village mechanics and poor loot
- 🎨 Odd-looking villagers and character models
- 🚀 Uncontrollable flight speed in creative mode

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes immediately upon opening
- No Internet Connection error despite active WiFi
- Game kicks user out after 2-3 seconds
- Forced logout and home screen redirects
- Inventory overflow issues when full
- Lost game progress and saved worlds
- Incompatibility with certain iOS versions
- White screen and loading failures
- Game requires WiFi to be disabled to function
- Uncontrollable flight mechanics
- Zombies not attacking players
- Arrows disappearing mid-flight
- Camera rotation difficulties
- Game becomes unresponsive after extended play

**Most requested features**

- Nether dimension and The End realm
- Nether portals and end portals
- More mobs and mob spawner eggs
- Redstone, levers, buttons, and sticky pistons
- Quartz blocks and additional building blocks
- Multiplayer and online co-op mode
- Biome selection and variety
- More diverse biomes and dimensions
- Herobrine and additional mobs
- Enchanting system for tools
- Better village and trading system
- Creepers and more enemy types
- Animal eggs for spawning creatures
- Emeralds, rubies, and rare materials
- Bedrock blocks
- Custom skin selection
- Tutorial for new players
- Ability to drop item stacks
- Larger inventory space
- Vehicles and cars
- Gun crafting mechanics

## Newest reviews (13 of 407)

### 4/5 — Fun game

*2026-01-21, version 2.2.0*

The game is fun but villages are different and village is bad loot and doesn’t Bosses

### 4/5 — It’s ok

*2025-11-20, version 2.2.0*

But the villagers look weird

### 4/5 — More blocks

*2025-11-12, version 2.2.0*

Hello. Please add more blocks into this game. Please add the quartz blocks into this game and add sticky pistons and add redstone and bluestone dust in and please add buttons and levers into this game. If you add this stuff you will get a 5/5 star rating from me. So please do this I beg you because it would make it the best game ever!  Please also respond to me asap to tell me if you think it would be a good idea. Thanks for the fun. Pls consider this. Thanks again

### 4/5 — cần bổ xung

*2025-08-30, version 2.2.0*

hơi nhạt nhẽo á

### 4/5 — Hay

*2025-08-14, version 2.2.0*

Game rất hay nhưng khó thấy kim cương

### 4/5 — Thiếu

*2025-08-11, version 2.2.0*

Tôi cần cánh cổng địa ngục

### 5/5 — More blocks

*2025-07-24, version 2.2.0*

Please add more blocks into this game. Please add the quartz blocks into this game and add sticky pistons and add redstone and bluestone dust in and please add buttons and levers into this game. If you add this stuff you will get a 5/5 star rating from me. So please do this I beg you because it would make it the best game ever!

### 4/5 — atp

*2025-07-22, version 2.2.0*

Wi-Fiを切ったら広告なくらるよ！！！

### 5/5 — 10₫

*2025-07-20, version 2.2.0*

Game hay nhưng cần update thêm

### 5/5 — Good

*2025-07-20, version 2.2.0*

Good nhưng nếu hay hơn khi onlien

### 5/5 — Si deja jugar

*2025-07-15, version 2.2.0*

Deja de jugar  si
Me encantó el juego

### 2/5 — ...

*2025-07-14, version 2.2.0*

Cần thêm chs vx bạn bè,thêm nhiều mod khc

### 4/5 — Başlık

*2025-06-11, version 2.2.0*

Oyun güzel tek sorun 2 kişilik oynamıyor

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — WHYYYY?!

*2026-04-14, version 2.2.0*

THERE ARE NO REDSTONE AND A LEVER

### 1/5 — Desert craft

*2026-01-24, version 2.2.0*

Too many adds.

### 1/5 — Çok kötü

*2025-10-12, version 2.2.0*

Oyun çok kızlı 1 blok gitmiyor 10  blok gidiyor

### 1/5 — Neeee

*2025-10-03, version 2.2.0*

Bune ya oyun boook gibi

### 1/5 — Nghi đánh giá

*2025-09-19, version 2.2.0*

Ko có trứng động vật

### 1/5 — Dở tệ vãi🤮🤮🤮

*2025-09-01, version 2.2.0*

Độ họa xấu,ko có vùng khác ào

### 1/5 — Game như cục cứcccccc

*2025-06-27, version 2.2.0*

Còn tệ hơn cả Multicraft

### 1/5 — Dở đang chs cái bị ao quản cáo

*2025-06-10, version 2.2.0*

1sao

### 1/5 — Cập nhật

*2025-06-08, version 2.2.0*

Cặp nhật lên phiên bản 2.4.0 tôi mới đánh giá lại

### 1/5 — KÖTÜ

*2025-06-01, version 2.2.0*

Tek kelime söylücem olursam KÖTÜ .

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Great game 😃

*2026-03-21, version 2.2.0*

I wanted to get Minecraft but I couldn’t so I got this and I like it 😃

### 5/5 — Nice game.

*2026-03-03, version 2.2.0*

I don’t know what people are talking about, saying they can’t play.
But anyway, this game is really fun. I mostly play on creative to build and i like it!

### 5/5 — Aga oyun kopya yada çalma ama müq

*2025-11-13, version 2.2.0*

Oğlum resmen beleşe minecraft oynuyom ama niye ise golem yok (ama harbi mükemmel oyun) :)

### 5/5 — Игра просто топ

*2025-10-26, version 2.2.0*

Я не знаю что там есть реклама. Я играю уже гот но я не видел что там есть реклама. Но игра просто топ.

### 5/5 — Hay

*2025-10-18, version 2.2.0*

Nhưng toàn mấy ₫ứa ngu

### 5/5 — 😃😃😃😃😃😃

*2025-10-09, version 2.2.0*

Ola me chamo samuel e o jogo é bom não sei se nos outros celulares o jogo requisitado aos comentários abre mais no meu caso o jogo abriu e deu para jogar de boa não como no caso da beatriz unicorn

### 5/5 — game cs dc cho 5sao

*2025-10-07, version 2.2.0*

nó ko tệ đâu kill zombie dc lucy bock hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

### 5/5 — Спасибо ❤️

*2025-10-05, version 2.2.0*

Как фан майнкрафта скажу что это самый качественный и проработанный аналог! Лучше вы на всем апп стор не найдете, качайте и не пожалеете)

### 5/5 — I love this game

*2025-09-08, version 2.2.0*

It was so pretty I played survival mode creative mode so much fun

### 5/5 — Vui và hay

*2025-09-06, version 2.2.0*

Game rất vui  nên tải nha!!

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