# Dragons: Rise of Berk — user reviews > 2,911 indexed App Store user reviews of Dragons by Ludia Games inc., rated 4.80/5 from 91,052 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dragons-rise-of-berk/id667461862/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dragons-rise-of-berk/id667461862.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 78,498 · 4★ 7,750 · 3★ 2,320 · 2★ 816 · 1★ 1,668 ## What do users think of Dragons? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Awesome game - 🤩 Great graphics - 👍 Lots of content - 🤗 Fun gameplay - 🐉 Faithful to HTTYD franchise **Cons** - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 🕰️ Slow progression without paying - 🔒 Exclusive content locked behind paywall - 🐛 Glitches and crashes - 🤬 Unfair battle mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes on login - Purchases not being delivered - Progress lost after updates - Connectivity issues - Titan training odds too low **Most requested features** - Add clan/friend features - Reduce costs of dragons and upgrades - Improve resource gathering rates - Make Light Fury and Night Lights more accessible - Fix battle queue glitches ## Newest reviews (18 of 2,911) ### 3/5 — Had to remove a star after my last review. Pay attention, Ludia. *2026-08-27, version 1.111.7* Dropping yet another star for this because I’ve discovered that, along with the bothersome audio issues, this game is nearly unplayable now. It looks fine, till you start needing 150,000 wood to build one thing or 10,00,000 fish to level up one dragon. Not to mention you gotta wait hours, sometimes half a day or more to do things. Oh and there’s the fact that EVERYTHING REQUIRES RUNES, and those are A, hard to come by, and B, run out absurdly quick. Of course, paying with real money is an option, but I’m not wasting a cent of my hard earned cash on pixelated dragons. Then there’s the brawls, which have gotten so unbalanced it’s comical. I just played a round against a team that that one of my dragon species on it, and this dragon, despite being an entire 2 levels below mine, WIPED THE FLOOR with my team in under 2 minutes. Explain how this is supposed to work, Ludia. I expect to get a response along the lines of “we’ll send this to our support team”. Don’t expect y’all to actually FIX these issues though. ### 3/5 — Way to expensive! *2026-08-27, version 1.111.7* Great fun game, but way too expensive! Theres no reason why most of the shop is 100$ plus! As casual player who occasionally will spend a couple bucks its crazy to see how expensive it is to buy things here! Everything should have a way to get it with out spending 1000 of dollars! ### 3/5 — Pretty good but also 🫪 *2026-08-23, version 1.111.7* This is a pretty neat game with lots of dragons from the shows and the movies yadda yadda but my brother stopped playing it for a few weeks and found that it restarted two months of progress INCLUDING a dragon he paid like 20 dollars for! So its a neat game but it has its ups and downs. ### 3/5 — Way too much behind pay wall *2026-08-22* I love how to train your dragon and i like this game atleast give a free to play option for the game features sure it will take some time for f2p but they will play to unlock them. Hope devs will understand what I’m try to say. **Developer response:** Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We are glad to hear you enjoy Dragons: Rise of Berk and appreciate your feedback about progression and access to game features. It is valuable to hear how players feel about their experience. ### 4/5 — Great game *2026-08-21, version 1.111.7* Wow this is a great game but I wish that the dragons weren’t so much me and my grandma play this together and I like how you don’t have to be on it all day I highly recommend if you don’t have this game you should try it out right now!! ### 3/5 — Honest review *2026-08-21, version 1.111.7* The game is a great game has a lot of potential but some aspects just suck for example how much pay to win there is in this game like the dragon riders club it’s so expensive even the cheaper side for 10$ a month is just so expensive. I really enjoyed playing this game all the way up until the started shoving pay exclusive dragons and other things in my face and don’t get my started on the long timers.. I get eggs hatching for hours or days even that’s realistic okay but like the buildings and training for hours/days that’s unfair and the game is practically begging you to pay to skip the timer. ### 4/5 — Decided to pick this up again. Were the audio glitches always this bad? *2026-08-18, version 1.111.7* A few years ago, I put down Rise Of Berk for a while, and recently took another look at it. It’s still pretty fun, although there’s a major bug with the audio randomly dropping out and coming back. At one point the game went silent for a while, so I let it be, only to be ambushed by a phone call that somehow brought all of it back at full volume for half a second. Startled both me and my poor cat who was sleeping by my side. However, after that it went mute again. Ludia, fix this please! ### 4/5 — Open world game *2026-08-18, version 1.111.7* I love this game, but I think it would be so much better if it was an open world game where the player can ride a dragon and go to different regions and islands, instead of just clicking buttons and not really having much interaction with the dragons. I believe this would make it a five star experience and would be even more immersive. I think that there should be more games that are HTTYD and allow for an open world game ever since School of Dragons discontinued on Mobile. Please take this into consideration in the next update. I know it’s a big ask but I would ABSOLUTELY love to see this happen. Overall it is a very good game ### 5/5 — Bien *2026-08-16* Je l’aie depuis sa sorti en gros et toujours aussi bien ! Pouvoir exploration d’autre île serais bien, avec un changement d’écran tout sa ! Et autre point au marché des événements, par exemple achète des route! Avoir l’option de pouvoir en prendre plusieurs a la fois, car la tu en achète une, tu la place et tu recommence un long ! Un mode construction pour le amas de trésor serais cool! Un peu relou je dirais de prendre un trésor de le placer, de retourner au amas de trésor un si de suite!! Autre suggestion avoir un menu pour les trésor car obligé aller dans la cabane pose le trésor et retourne un peu relou **Developer response:** Merci pour votre avis 5 étoiles et pour votre soutien de longue date à Dragons : Rise of Berk ! Nous sommes ravis d’apprendre que vous continuez à apprécier le jeu. Nous apprécions également vos suggestions détaillées concernant l’exploration de l’île, le placement des routes, les outils de construction et la gestion des trésors. ### 5/5 — I love it! *2026-08-14, version 1.111.7* I love httyd, ever since I was a kid. I watch the tv series and play this game along side it. it is such a comforting feeling doing both. I do however have some thing that I would like changed and would make the game even more enticing. One is making the dragons more interactive, being able to ride or take care of them would be really cool as well as changing and personalizing colors on the common dragons since they do all come in different colors. Second, having more space to actually decorate and place dragons not in the hanger, making it more interactive and being able to walk around the village and into stores instead of tapping a button On top of that lastly and most importantly, I would love for there to be packs that I can buy with ruins and not just real money. I spend a lot of money on this game and would love to actually use some of the resources i actually have in the game to open those packs. Because they are extremely fun to open That’s all the feedback I have but thank you so much for keeping this game alive it truly is the highlight of my nights. ### 5/5 — Fan *2026-08-13, version 1.111.7* I love this but the problem is it’s really big and I reall what is a big New World I never seen and dragon for the New World and they can be bigger the problem you even make it cooler thanks it’ll be ### 5/5 — Dream come true *2026-08-12, version 1.111.6* It just makes my love for dragons bigger ### 5/5 — Amazing game but there are some annoyances *2026-08-11, version 1.111.6* This game is really fun but I just HATE when I go back to the Home Screen after a brawl and the collections section in berks duties has a notification badge even though I checked it before I went to brawl ### 5/5 — THE BEST GAME IN THE UNIVERSE *2026-08-10, version 1.110.14* Amazing just I wish you could fly your dragons in a pov or something like that and yeah make it easier to get legendary dragons and I love the light fury so can you make her available for free as I’m a young player and my parents won’t let me pay for things in game ### 5/5 — Why this game is so spectacular *2026-08-10, version 1.110.14* First off it’s original second I just love playing it. It’s cool that there’s a lot of unique dragons and and it’s also friendly for free to play players which that’s also a plus and the graphics are so good ### 5/5 — So good *2026-08-09, version 1.110.14* Omg it’s so good I have a toothy fruity it is elusive type but I have other dragons 🐉 ### 5/5 — Hut upgrades *2026-08-08, version 1.110.14* I love this game. But I’m curious why Stoick doesn’t have a hut where Thornado and Skull Crusher cans go? Gobber has a hut before Stoick. And if a specific character had more than one dragon couldn’t they both be with that character? ### 4/5 — Love the game but please add one more thing *2026-08-08, version 1.110.14* I hate that you need a dragon pass and it costs money to get the light fury please make it easier to get the light fury and can you add like a vet mode thing where you BE A DRAGON PLEASE it would be the best this game is lite so fun I could die to safe it if it wasn’t so expensive please add more free things and make the light fury free it would make my life so much better. Love this game ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bs *2026-08-12, version 1.111.6* It can be a great game but unfortunately you have to pay for everything, if not it will take you months if not years to get anywhere ### 1/5 — Remove the ads limit reached and put one ads only *2026-08-11, version 1.111.6* Every time I do the daily duties and weekly duties it gives me two ads and it stop on the first one and it doesn’t give me nothing. You need to fixed this and remove the ad limit reached and put one ads only ### 1/5 — Ludia is awful *2026-07-27, version 1.110.14* Game is fun but increasingly a cash grab by Ludia. Everything is pay walled and the app support system is a bad joke. Expect to be funneled in circles by a bot and to wait forever to actually get help. Been playing for a long time but can’t stand how terrible the user experience has gotten. 1/10. ### 1/5 — loading issue *2026-07-09, version 1.110.8* for some reason, i can’t get into the game, it freezes whenever i try and it only ever happens with rise of berk. it just stops loading on the loading screen. i cant access the game. please help ### 1/5 — BORING ! *2026-07-08, version 1.110.8* Not as good so far as the How to Train Your Dragon was. ### 1/5 — Cheating *2026-06-30, version 1.109.18* Games a cheat and dud ### 1/5 — PLEASE Help Your Players *2026-06-29, version 1.109.18* I know this is probably a shot in the dark and the developers will probably never see this but I told myself that it’s better to speak out than to never say anything at all…I love this game but there is a huge problem when it comes to the obscene time wall behind EVERY single thing that you do in this game. Whether it’s resources, building huts, gathering iron, training dragons, unlocking packs, etc. there is a time wall of HOURS that it takes you to simply play the game. Again I love the game and I want to play more of it but I can’t do that if everything is locked behind hours or even DAYS of waiting. And if I don’t want to wait behind the time wall then there’s a pay wall but that’s a completely separate thing for a completely separate review. All I’m saying devs is that for the fans of the game who really enjoy the game and want to play it more please don’t continue to punish them by making them wait to simply enjoy the game that they’ve put so much of their TIME into. Thank you and I really hope someone reads this and makes some changes at the higher level. Good luck guys. ### 1/5 — Stuck on loading screen *2026-06-27, version 1.109.18* The loading screen is frozen please fix it now ### 1/5 — Lost all my data, even though I didn’t delete the game. How can I restore it? *2026-06-23, version 1.109.18* Lost all my data. I had all the event dragons, all the titans, all of the costumes. I was given no information on how to restore/back up data so I have no username or restoration code. Please let me know if there is a way to fix this. Otherwise, I like the game. Thank you! ### 1/5 — boring *2026-06-14, version 1.109.18* sure you do get dragons you do fight but after a few months you will get bored you have to unlock dragons some of them you have to pay like what the I wish games like that could just have every thing FREE!!!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love the game *2026-09-01, version 1.112.8* The best httyd game ever but for some reason it says I can’t Connect and this started to happen after the new update and I just want to know if this is going to fix it’s self or be fixed but love the game ### 5/5 — Crashing gauntlets *2026-08-30, version 1.111.7* Great game but every time there is a gauntlet I eagerly wait for it to open only for it to crash or just do nothing for the first few hours after it’s available. Like I press the open button and it just kicks me out to the main screen and nothing else happens. So I’m unable to open them and then hours later it works like nothing was ever wrong. ### 5/5 — Light fury *2026-08-28, version 1.111.7* Plz I beg of you let the lightfury be able to get without the dragon riders plzz I beg of you I really love the game it’s fun the light fury’s my favorite dragon and I can’t do the dragon riders it’s a bit expensive ### 5/5 — Pls read *2026-08-27, version 1.111.7* If u like (or love) how to train your dragon this game will not disappoint u I promise I’ve been a fan of it for… I wanna say around 5 yrs now and I’m still going pretty strong! But one thing, WHY IS IT SO HARD TO LVL UP TOOTHLESS AND I WANT LIGHT FURY I cant get her even tho I rlly rlly want to ☹️ oh well but I want the blue alpha toothless so bad but I can’t get it bc toothless is lvl 30 rn and he needs to be lvl 52 to unlock that costume but idk bc I’ve never gotten that high up bc the game keeps accidentally deleting itself. That’s like the only downside but I do wish I could get all the live action characters without buying the card pack and Ludia can you please make it easier to get Legendary Dragons? I’ve been trying to get the first one for idk almost 10 months? ### 5/5 — Great game, but… *2026-08-27, version 1.111.7* Hey, Ludia! I’ve been playing this game for years and I absolutely love it! It’s super fun and a great way to pass the time. However I just picked up the game after a little while and I went to play Brawl, but the opponents seem so much more difficult to beat than before. I completely understand that you win some battles and lose others, but I’ve been playing Brawl for at least two hours today and I’ve only won two battles out of countless others. The opposing dragons seem so powerful and seem to evade at least every third attack I throw at them. The game never used to be this way and I’m getting a little frustrated ☹️ I’ve tried changing my dragons levels and types, even my battle strategy, but nothing seems to work. Is there anything anyone can do to ease up the difficulty of Brawl, even just a little? ### 5/5 — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *2026-08-26, version 1.111.7* Ten out of ten best game ever love it so much !!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️sooooo cooooollllll I LOVE HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON!!!!🤣😸😸😸😸 but you should make a how to train your dragon simulator where players could be the dragons ! ### 5/5 — The best *2026-08-21, version 1.111.7* It is so good that I don’t have words to express how much I love this ### 5/5 — Minecraft mod *2026-08-20, version 1.111.7* Can you make a Minecraft mod like a Dawn of dragons with every dragon and colors for bedrock and Java ### 5/5 — I love I love it. I love it. I love it. *2026-08-18, version 1.111.7* I can’t stop having fun it’s ### 5/5 — Best dragon game out there. *2026-08-16, version 1.111.7* ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ --- *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 2026-09-04.*