# Drone : Shadow Strike 3 — user reviews > 211 indexed App Store user reviews of Drone by Reliance Games, rated 4.30/5 from 871 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drone-shadow-strike-3/id1445399402/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drone-shadow-strike-3/id1445399402.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 548 · 4★ 162 · 3★ 63 · 2★ 36 · 1★ 62 ## What do users think of Drone? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Fun game - 👍 Great graphics - 💡 Realistic effects - 🚀 Addictive gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 💰 Paywalls and in-app purchases - 🔋 Excessive ads - 🐛 Inconsistent mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - PvP battles disconnecting - Payload recommendations not working - Missions not progressing properly - Drone repair not functioning as expected **Most requested features** - More levels and missions - Additional weapons and upgrades - Improved tutorial and guidance - Ability to save progress ## Newest reviews (12 of 211) ### 3/5 — Lazer *2026-05-27* Faut qu’on m’explique le lazer, l’arme la plus chere avec les meilleurs stats ne peut pas tuer un soldat, je me suis fais bien douiller En plus les pubs c’est chiants ### 3/5 — Daily sign in error *2026-03-13, version 1.26.138* Good but didn’t give me my last few days daily sign rewards I feel cheated ### 4/5 — ZR HEL *2025-08-13* Я купил оружие ZR HEL и я разочарован оно это самое худшее оружие оно наносит не 330 как написано а 1 ### 3/5 — Laststroke - impossible *2025-06-18, version 1.26.129* Great game for the most part. First, I believe there is recommended payload screen but flashes for less than a second so I’ve never been able to glean the ideal payload for the mission. A related observation is the recommend or ideal payload would be more informative if it was revealed in the hanger after the mission is started. As it is now, the payload recommendation just tells you if you guessed right or not. Second, I can’t figure out a solution to solve the Laststroke mission. I seemingly annihilate the obvious threats to the square and turret but apparently I fail to protect all but 6 soldiers. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. ### 3/5 — Too much ads *2025-03-04, version 1.26.115* Too much ads, now it feels like the literal meaning of 99% ads and 1% gameplay ### 3/5 — Gutes Spiel, leider nicht mehr gepflegt *2024-11-28* Sehr unterhaltsames Spiel mit ansprechender Grafik. Leider gibt es seit 3 Jahren keine neuen Missionen mehr. Man spielt seitdem tägliche Missionen oder sogenannte Events, die aber nur ein recht lustloses Recycling alter Missionen sind. Schade. Das Spiel hätte ein echtes Update verdient. **Developer response:** Vielen Dank für dein ehrliches Feedback! Es freut uns, dass dir die Grafik und der Spielspaß gefallen. Dein Wunsch nach neuen Missionen und echten Updates ist absolut nachvollziehbar – wir werden deine Anregung an unser Entwicklerteam weitergeben. ### 3/5 — Fun but Glitchy *2024-05-12, version 1.25.228* Not an original. Almost the exact same game as the last with a few updates. Much more glitchy than the last. Probably 30% of the time I play an online ‘Event’ my score does not calculate into the online score. Especially right now with the Zombie event. Game jumps and glitches quite a bit when I am in airplane mode on my phone (no internet or wifi). Bots are absolutely no challenge in PVP. Thank you. ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2023-11-22, version 1.25.128* Far to many ads in between missions ### 3/5 — Good game before reach caterin level *2023-09-23, version 1.25.115* This game is pretty fun before you reach dictator region(chapter 5). in this game you need to use different weapon to against different target( it won’t take you so long to destroy a enemy) you can use four type of weapon: cannon, missile, bomb, and rocket), and one thing I like it is infinite ammo (it only need to cold down) and you can equip 2-4 weapons at same time. Also this game have good graphic and special effect than other gunship game. But at dictator region, the difficult are greatly increase, it spawn too many AA at same time and it’s like “incoming Sam” repeat forever, and a level let you destroy vip, it cloud lunch 3 Sam every 5 seconds and you only have 4 flare, and it hard to destroy, it seem that the game don’t want you to pass that level. ### 3/5 — Ist ok… *2023-03-10* Lange Reparaturzeiten **Developer response:** Danke für dein Feedback! Wir verstehen, dass lange Reparaturzeiten frustrierend sein können. Wir arbeiten kontinuierlich daran, das Spielerlebnis zu verbessern – dein Hinweis hilft uns dabei. ### 3/5 — Just a remake, but not better… *2023-01-28, version 1.25.111* TL;DR: this is just a remake of the first game Unlike what the title tries to tell you, this is not a sequel. It isn’t even a new game. It’s just a remake of Drone: Shadow Strike. As far as I can tell, the only changes are changing the color of the HUD (the green HUD from the first game was better), shuffling the names (just the names!!) of missions, adding a PvP mode, and adding premium-only items (‘premium’ is a monthly subscription fee). I don’t think they improved the graphics, and they haven’t fixed any of the bugs or major problems I remember. For example, there is a survival mission that has a challenge for ‘no allied casualties in the first 90 seconds,’ but there’s still a helicopter that spawns in at 60 and instantly kills an ally. The Hughes Cannon (fires explosive shells) has a chance to deal zero damage, even if it directly hit an infantry target. One mission has a challenge to destroy five statues, but you can only see three (the other two are there, but invisible). There is only one thing I can say is a definitive improvement over the first game: there’s a daily mission to earn one gold currency. Problems (some of which are opinion-based): The daily mission ONLY rewards you with one gold, which feels absolutely useless. PvP rewards a special currency, but participating in PvP requires using yet another currency. They seem to have discontinued daily login rewards (if they were ever implemented) and the Live Events. Drone damage persists between missions and repairs on a timer (you can pay gold or watch ads to make it faster). If your drone is destroyed in a mission, it is unusable until fully repaired. Certain missions throw TONS of surface-to-air missiles at you, including one mission that fires off at least 6 at the same time. Post-mission ads are way too frequent. It feels like I get an ad every other mission. Certain challenges include things like ‘destroy 10 targets with an airstrike.’ An airstrike costs 20 gold, the challenge gives you either 1 or 5 gold, and you can skip the challenge for 15 gold. *shrug* Finally, this game is the single most unstable program I have ever used. It has crashed more times in 24 hours than I’ve seen any other program (PC, mobile, or other) in an entire year. If I had to guess, it crashes once every 1 or 2 hours. Please, fix this game. I enjoy it, but it has problems. ### 2/5 — How to get to the next level? *2022-09-01, version 1.25.111* Game won’t let me advance to jawbreaker . Why? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — PvP bugs *2026-01-16, version 1.26.138* 3 consecutive PvP battles disconnected due to your fault. Tickets for all battles are gone. No compensation. 1 star until you fix it. ### 1/5 — Не качать *2025-08-23* Никогда не качайте такие игры, это программа шпион ### 1/5 — DELETE THIS GAME *2025-05-03, version 1.26.126* 3 YILDIR WAR ZONE 2 BEKLİYORUZ. SÜREKLİ GÜNCELLEME OLMASINA KARŞIN WAR ZONE 2 HEP COMING SOON COMING SOON. 3 YILDIR BU NASIL COMING SOON AW? ### 1/5 — Kimsenin ilgilenmediği iyi bir oyun *2024-07-27, version 1.25.265* Atıl vaziyette kalmış bir oyun ### 1/5 — Bought the premium *2023-05-28, version 1.25.111* Only to not get any rewards from it ### 1/5 — Money money money *2023-04-11, version 1.25.111* The game is almost unplayable with the amount of minute long adds. Not inly that but the only option to avoid them is a weekly subscription. Nit to mention all the missions are the EXACT same as the first game. The exact same. Pitiful excuse for what was a fun game. ### 1/5 — Same old game, different skin *2023-01-01, version 1.25.111* Literally just shadow strike 1 but with more paywalls ### 1/5 — Fun to a point *2022-12-04, version 1.25.111* I have reached a point where there’s a mission to kill 5 super tanks, can’t kill them with the weapons I have and I can’t buy better to I get past this point. So I save up enough gold to buy 5 nukes. Kill all of them and then the game freezes. This has happened to me twice but I’m not given an option to contact the makers to ask for help. Clearly the game has issues that need to be fixed. ### 1/5 — Why bother? *2022-11-22, version 1.25.111* Download Shadow Strike 2 - it’s literally the exact same game, same levels etc, accept in this version they’ve paywalled some of the levels because reasons. You can play infinitely in the previous game too. This is just an minor upgrade with minimum effort designed to squeeze more cash from you when the previous game objectively was better, therefore it’s exploitive. ### 1/5 — EA Sports Puts More Effort *2022-09-12, version 1.25.111* I enjoyed original Drone: Shadow Strike game (or was it the second one?) as a kid and when I saw this one I was interested. When I played it I found it incredibly underwhelming, so I wondered if the one I had played was better or if I was imagining things. Well it turns out pretty much everything is the same, same gameplay, same audio, same mechanics, same lines, everything. This new one is just updated for a multiplayer I didn’t care for since there’s no new gameplay and somewhat better graphics but still poor mechanics. What a gutless sequel. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — New user *2025-01-12, version 1.25.287* Phenomenal game compared to others I’ve tried. ### 5/5 — Amazing game needs a few bug fixes *2024-11-20, version 1.25.278* I agree to the fact that this is one hell if a game to play but what’s annoyed me is that I was captain and now all my data is completely gone as I transferred to a new phone so please can you fix this problem :)) ### 5/5 — I love this game don’t have have to pay to play *2024-09-20, version 1.25.269* This game is great. It’s a lot of fun. You don’t have to pay to play. You can earn a lot of the gold a lot of the money. It’s cool that it has player versus player. It has side missions all around. It’s a fun game. ### 5/5 — Tại sao không liên kết tài khoản fb được *2024-07-09, version 1.25.261* Ok ### 5/5 — Amazing *2024-01-28, version 1.25.145* I haven’t been able to write a review for this game for so long. Truly an amazing game. I don’t care if it’s got “bad graphics” those people only play games on the highest quality. I play it for the experience which is amazing. One guy said matchstick had only 15 planes, the last one is stuck in another plane. ### 5/5 — Oh my gosh I deleted this game and it’s fun *2023-10-04, version 1.25.115* The biggest thing about this game was its ability is lots of drones I like and shadow strike is kinda fun now ### 5/5 — I finally found this game *2022-11-10* This is one of my favourite mobile games It’s sooooo fun and exciting hope u add more Missels bye **Developer response:** Thank you so much! We're thrilled to hear it's one of your favourites — that genuinely means a lot to us! Great news: we're always working on new content, so stay tuned for more exciting updates ahead 🚀 ### 5/5 — a *2022-08-20, version 1.25.111* $gfdvvc ### 5/5 — Love it *2022-06-02, version 1.25.111* I know about all the bad reviews, but think on the good side about this game. Actually, I made a mistake by playing this first but still, this is a good game, and if anything got stuck (like allied tanks) I either destroyed the thing blocking it or killed it and restarted, or went on ### 5/5 — Grew some twosome Tuesday *2022-03-16, version 1.25.111* Enjoy --- *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 2026-09-06.*