# Dr.Virus : Pill Classic — user reviews > 38 indexed App Store user reviews of Dr.Virus by Trang Nguyen Thi, rated 4.60/5 from 1,533 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drvirus-pill-classic/id1438096044/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drvirus-pill-classic/id1438096044.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,180 · 4★ 173 · 3★ 91 · 2★ 33 · 1★ 56 ## What do users think of Dr.Virus? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🎮 Fun clone of classic game - 👍 Great gameplay and challenge - 🎨 Fantastic graphics **Cons** - 🔍 Lack of accessibility features for visually impaired users - 💰 Ads not removed after purchase - 🎮 Awkward and clunky controls - 🐛 Freezes and crashes at higher levels - 🔄 No progress saving between sessions **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes at level 49 on normal and hard modes - Purchased version still shows ads - Progress not saved between sessions **Most requested features** - Accessibility options for color blind and visually impaired users - Ability to replay completed levels - Leaderboards and progress tracking - Smoother controls and responsiveness ## Newest reviews (11 of 38) ### 2/5 — Доктор вирус *2024-04-01* Реклама после каждого уровня бесит. Удалил игру нафиг. А вот на денди она крутая ### 3/5 — Flew through 100 levels in 5 days. *2023-07-08* I expected more levels and unlimited play. ### 2/5 — don’t waste your time with these ads *2023-01-26, version 1.3* the gameplay is whatever, the audio is annoying and the immediate unskippable ads meant it got uninstalled after one level ### 2/5 — Poor Version *2022-02-21* The graphics are fantastic, but the play control is awkward and clunky. Maybe an up/down, left/right controller and a clockwise/counterclockwise button set would help. ### 3/5 — Got to Level 10 but can’t keep playing anymore *2021-12-22* Got to level 10 but can’t keep playing anymore, is this a bug or something? If anything just let me keep playing level 10. ### 3/5 — Love the game, but…. *2021-12-03* I really LOVE playing this as does my husband. But, after you beat the three levels, the only one left is “endless” which would be fine except that if you leave it for a day, it makes you start all over again! It needs to save your progress so you don’t have to go back to one every day! Please update this! ### 3/5 — Slows down when you play for too long! *2020-04-17* When I got to about level 10, everything about the app started responding slower: the buttons, the ads, the “x” to close out of the ads... Seems like a bug. Is this fixable? Can you fix it? ### 3/5 — Dr Mario *2020-03-03* I really liked the game at first, but quickly became agitated when the screen would not respond, and I could not make the pills go to the right, this became more prevalent as you would get into the higher levels, I deleted the game because it became more of an annoyance then fun ### 4/5 — Fun but Flawed *2019-09-01* I love this game. Mostly because I used to play Dr. Mario on Game Boy many years ago and this is almost identical. Game Boy offered buttons that allowed you to make precise moves very quickly. Playing this on an iPhone sucks because you have to hit the buttons on a touch screen. It’s easy to miss hitting the exact spot and when you miss at higher levels it means you’re done. I was really good back in the day but the lack of a good controller makes it impossible to play consistently well. But the think I hate the most is that when you’re finished it doesn’t tell you how your score or speed compare to others. It’s also pretty stupid that after the ad you can’t see your score or level until you start the next one. I’d like to compete for highest score or fastest time but there is no way to determine how well I’m doing. Major flaw as far as I’m concerned. ### 3/5 — Close to being great *2019-06-19* I love this game and the execution is great, but it doesn’t all fit in the screen of my iPhone XR. So I’ll stick to my GB Advance SP for the foreseeable future. ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2019-01-21* Downloaded because I was excited to play this classic game but it freezes on level 49 in both Normal and Hard. So after one day of owning it, I am deleting it because i cant go any higher. **Developer response:** Thanks, i will fix in new version :( ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Failure *2024-07-09* I purchased the no add version, was charged & I still get adds! I don’t want to see stupid adds after every level or at all! Really disappointed I wasted my money ! ### 1/5 — Won’t give you credit for beating high score *2024-04-05* Supposedly Jason Lundy has the high score but I got to level 23 on endless and his highest is level 20, so how is he still the highest score ### 1/5 — Don’t buy this! It doesn’t remove ads! *2024-01-03* This is a total scam. I bought it to remove ads. They charged me and never removed ads. This is a scam! You can’t find a way to complain to apple. I’m still trying. ### 1/5 — Not for me *2023-08-14, version 1.3* I was expecting swipe and tap controls. Not an on screen controller. I am a one-handed gamer, so sadly, this game is not for me. ### 1/5 — App Pastes from Clipboard w/o Permission *2022-07-21, version 1.3* Privacy concern with this app. Steals info from your clipboard. While game was paused, I opened Safari and copied something. When I returned to Dr.Virus, I saw a system notification at the top of the screen informing me that “Dr. Virus pasted from Safari.” There were no texts fields visible and I did not trigger the paste command. I repeated the action again and every time I would go to the game, it would paste whatever was in my clipboard. It looks to me that this app is mining information from user clipboards. Very sketchy. ### 1/5 — It’s my go to game even though it hasn’t been updated in a year *2020-07-05, version 1.3* Please restore my ad free purchase. I go through the levels, then have to delete app to start over, THIS TIME IT IS NOT RESTORING MY PURCHSE ### 1/5 — Dr.Mario rip off *2020-06-15, version 1.3* This is obviously a rip off of dr Mario.Its literally called dr.virus!. Most of your other games are also rip offs of fun games a game you made that was like subway surfers, it even had subway in the name. My advice would be to come up with a game of your own. ### 1/5 — Poor layout *2020-02-06* Wish the controls were laid out differently, I found it hard to use. Kinda glitchy too. ### 1/5 — It doesn’t save your game! *2019-07-14* Every time you go to another app or close you phone (even if you hit pause) you lose everything and have to start all over. So frustrating!! ### 1/5 — Cat *2019-02-10, version 1.2* App was ok but the viruses look unreal like Dr.mario ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun clone! *2025-06-30* Similarities to the NES classic, lots of fun on the iPhone. ### 5/5 — Great Game but Accessibility Needed - Please *2025-05-19, version 1.3* I love the Dr.Mario/Dr.Virus game on my iPhone and iPad, however, I am slowly but surely losing my vision due to a health condition. I have lost a lot of my color vision and think it would be awesome if a version of this game that could use texture-type marks rather than just color. I used to play Dr. Mario on my Nintendo Gameboy and it was black&white so texture-type marks were used and those of us, including kids, who are “Color Blind” (as well as those with other visual situations) would love a game such as this. There are more of us than you think and we all advertise well! Just thought I’d drop a message to see if I could get a bit of attention! Please contact me with information! Rae ### 5/5 — hawk tuah *2024-11-05, version 1.3* bussin ### 5/5 — Fun and easy to play *2024-06-22* I beat all the levels, and now play on endless. I cannot go back and replay the levels, so endless it is now. Lose progress every time the app restarts - which is unfortunate. ### 5/5 — Fun but frustrating *2023-10-06* I don’t like how many ads that are ### 5/5 — good bootleg *2023-03-28* dr mario would always have made a great mobile game. i'm glad someone made it into one, there's no glitches and it's good and fun ### 5/5 — can’t beat the classic *2020-03-07* if you were one of the weird kids like me who hated video games but could spend hours listening to the awesome soundtrack while stacking up those pesky lil’ pills, this is the game for you! ### 5/5 — Better than Nintendo’s Dr. Mario *2019-11-10* This classic game is more or a less a remake of games such as Doctor Mario. Dr. Virus is well stylized, fun, addictive and responsive. Easy to learn, difficult to master: it’s a far more faithful adaptation of the game than Nintendo’s own Dr. Mario on IOS. My only wish is that there were more levels, or at least an ability to replay levels, but I can’t really fault the game for making me want to play more. ### 5/5 — Great Fun! *2018-12-18* I played this game on an 8 bit system and loved it! T is wonderful that I can now play it on my Ipad! This game is addictive and fun also challenging! ### 4/5 — Good gameplay but soundtrack is off *2019-12-28* When the soundtrack restarts its not smooth other than that its really good --- *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 2026-09-09.*