# FANTASIAN — user reviews > 1,063 indexed App Store user reviews of FANTASIAN by MISTWALKER CORPORATION, rated 4.65/5 from 2,111 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fantasian/id1517339045/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fantasian/id1517339045.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,786 · 4★ 109 · 3★ 87 · 2★ 49 · 1★ 79 ## What do users think of FANTASIAN? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Nostalgic Final Fantasy feel - 🚀 Smooth gameplay and combat - 💎 Beautifully crafted diorama environments - 🎵 Excellent soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu - 🤖 Innovative combat mechanics (e.g. targeting, dimengeon) **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and sync issues - 🔍 Lack of difficulty options (too easy/too hard) - 🌍 No support for non-English languages - 🕹️ Tap-to-move controls can be inconvenient **Commonly reported bugs** - Saved game data not syncing properly across devices - Crashes and freezes during boss battles **Most requested features** - Virtual joystick for movement - More difficulty settings - Support for additional languages (e.g. Spanish, French, German) - New game+ mode or post-game content ## Newest reviews (17 of 1,063) ### 2/5 — Wander aimlessly with bad controls *2026-05-30, version 2.5.3* It’s the type of game that doesn’t tell you what you’re supposed to do or where to go. So all you can do is wander around tapping objects to see what happens and read speech bubbles that pop up. But it’s tap a spot to move to it controls so you’re constantly running around to random spots as you’re trying to figure out what everything is and even when you’re trying to travel, it’s hard to get it to go where you want. Why didn’t they just give us a virtual thumbstick? So although the game looks good, good music, and feels like a Final Fantasy game, it plays like your first day on a new job and they haven’t trained you at all. ### 4/5 — Смешанные чувства *2026-02-12, version 2.5.3* Я прошел все финалки и это самая душная часть! Тут много обязательных боев за которые не дают опыта! Боссы, которых надо проходить только той стратегией, которую задумал автор. По 30-60 минут на каждого босса со строгой последовательностью действий. Шаг в сторону и часовой прогресс летит в трубу. Игру я прошел. Посмотрел кучу гайдов на английском языке. Без них просто нереально. Много персонажей, много предметов и скиллов. Без подскази очень много времени уходит на подбор нужной комбинации. Ну а так игра красивая и первая половина игры не душная. ### 5/5 — Good *2026-01-16, version 2.5.3* The music, art and game is good, I like it so much ### 3/5 — Nivel console? *2026-01-12, version 2.5.3* Vim por uma recomendação do reddit, dizer que esse jogo é nível console depende, a sensação é a mesma de jogar digimon world data squad no ps2, mas sem a diversão das digevoluções, vale a pena baixar e jogar um pouco mas é só isso mesmo. ### 5/5 — Une ode au JRPG d’antan *2026-01-09, version 2.5.3* Sakaguchi nous livre ici un JRPG exceptionnel. Peut-être même le prochain Final Fantasy qu’il aurait voulu faire après le X. ### 4/5 — Пропуск, перевод *2025-12-26, version 2.5.3* Если добавят пропуск, будет хорошо, если добавят перевод на русский язык, ТО БУДЕТ ОТЛИЧНО, пожалуйста, разработчики, сделайте пропуск на какие то заставки и перевод на русский язык. На этом минусов нет, спасибо. ### 5/5 — I love this game *2025-12-25, version 2.5.3* Turn based combat, and good story. ### 5/5 — great game *2025-12-17, version 2.5.3* recommend to all ### 5/5 — it’s a stunning experience *2025-12-15, version 2.5.3* i can’t say enough how great this game is. the story // the graphics // the SOUND // the incredible immersion // all of it is really stunning & i hope this stays on apple arcade forever. ALSO, thank you for supporting a controller. who needs a console when you have a MacBook? it’s perfect. thank you. ### 5/5 — Schwerstes JRPG ever *2025-12-12, version 2.5.3* Lange habe ich als Core-Gamer gedacht das hier ist ein „casual“ Mobile RPG was man mal so „wegsnacken“ könnte. Wusste da noch nicht wer dahinter steckt! Mit Hironobu Sakaguchi und Nobuo Uematsu (Musik) stehen aber zwei der größten JRPG Experten und Erfinder von Final Fantasy hinter diesem Titel. Das Spiel ist ein toll gemachtes JRPG im PS1 Stil von den absoluten Meistern dieses Genres. Grafik, Musik, Atmosphäre und alles ist toll. Im ersten Teil (ca. 25-30 Std) ist es herausfordernd, aber durchaus schwer.
Ich dachte da schon ich wäre durch, aber da geht es erst richtig los! Was dann kommt ist Crazy, vor allem in Bezug auf den Schwierigkeitsgrad: Man sollte sich darauf einstellen, das selbst zu jeder simplen Nebenquest ein Bosskampf gehört, bei dem man am Anfang das Gefühl hat, dass man das nicht schaffen kann. Ich weiss nicht was die Entwickler geritten hat, aber das bringt mich als wirklich RPG Experten wirklich an meine Grenzen. Ohne Guide würde ich nicht weiterspielen. Ich habe gehört das man für die Konsolen-Versionen den Schwierigkeitsgrad extra gesenkt hat. Hier nicht! ### 5/5 — Best *2025-12-03, version 2.5.3* Recommend to all ### 5/5 — Me fascina *2025-11-05, version 2.5.3* Es un muy buen juego y el cual vale la pena pagar Apple Arcade, me gustaría que hubiera mas juegos estilo consolas aquí, muy cool. ### 5/5 — The Best Turn-Based RPG Mobile Game in the World *2025-10-20, version 2.5.3* I’ve been playing turn-based RPGs since I was a kid, and now in my 40s it’s been hard to find that same sense of wonder and excitement again. But when I played this game, it brought all those feelings back. You can truly feel the passion and dedication of the team who wanted to recreate the classic turn-based RPG experience for players like me and make it feel fresh once more in every aspect. Thank you to everyone who made this game possible. I’ll be following your work forever. ### 5/5 — Good game *2025-10-08, version 2.5.3* Downloaded 2 times and still satisfied of how great this game is Worth playing! ### 4/5 — I don’t really like the story but I enjoy the gameplays *2025-09-28, version 2.5.3* I don’t enjoy the visual novels and the dialogues. Hate that I have to beat mobs one thousand times to fight the boss. Boss fights are really fun tho ### 5/5 — หัวข้อ ค้าขาย *2025-09-27, version 2.5.3* ทำไมถึงไม่เปิดขายครับจะเอารายเดือนเพื่ออะไร ขาย 499 599 ก็ว่าไป แล้วก็ไปทำแพ็คสกินขายในเกมส์เอา ### 3/5 — Bosses are impossible and health bars realy need other than that good game but is luck based so yeah *2025-09-25, version 2.5.3* its like only the like 4th boss and they just made it impossible also we NEED HEATH BARS FOR THE ENEMEY LIKE NOW also good game just want to say that and why is everyone geting mad that he kindas look like a girl i'm a guy I look a girl not a just a little also what is inppropet about the bosses they seem fine worste thing I seen so far is kina or what ever her name is. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — I hate it!!! *2026-04-08, version 2.5.3* Part one was fun, the bosses were appropriately challenging. Even wiped a t few times that got the rhythm and was able to beat them.. Part two, I hate it. I’m barely into it and I hate it. It’s more frustrating than fun and it puts me in a bad mood. Unless you’re a Pro gamer, I would just bypass this game. Because it hooks you in and then beat you up. It’s kind of like a bad relationship. Sorry Leo, I m Out! ### 1/5 — Barely fun *2026-01-11, version 2.5.3* This game is hard, and NOT in the fun way. It’s hard in the way that the bosses are incredibly unbalanced, forcing you to grind like crazy, doing the same things, fighting the same enemies over and over and over and over. Also, the movement is awful. Sometimes the camera angle doesn’t match the map angle and it’s disorienting and makes no sense. The story is… kinda cringe, maybe a 6/10. Honestly don’t waste your time playing. Would not recommend unless it gets updated to actually have balanced boss fights that aren’t just overly frustrating. ### 1/5 — Game hay. Rất đáng thử *2025-12-08, version 2.5.3* Đây là game hay, cốt truyện lôi cuốn, nhưng tôi đánh giá 1* bởi vì mọi người sẽ chú ý đến đánh giá 1* này. Có điểm lưu ý là sau khi cấp độ cao 40 trở lên, di chuyển trên map khiến demension rất nhanh bị over, việc đánh đi đánh lại mấy con creep yếu khiến người chơi hơi nản, mà phần thưởng chả được bao nhiêu. ### 1/5 — Se pierde el progreso *2025-03-13, version 2.5.3* Se perdió mi progreso de casi dos horas al regresarme a un checkpoint anterior, perdí mi avance y no pude recuperarlo. Segunda vez y lo perdí. ### 1/5 — Нет русской локализации *2024-12-20, version 2.5.3* Нет русской локализации ### 1/5 — ボス強すぎ。 *2024-10-05, version 2.5.3* ストーリー前半はバランスが取れていて楽しめる。 物語後半が始まると、あらゆるボスキャラが理不尽なほど強く、必要レベルに達していても全く太刀打ちできない。 このため必要以上の経験値稼ぎ（レベルアップ）を延々と強いられてしまうため、各キャラクターのクエストが進まず、前半に敷き詰められた伏線の回収も含め、ストーリーが楽しめない残念なゲームバランスになってしまっている。 しかも戦闘に参加できるのは3人までとなっており、とても少ない人員で戦闘と回復を行わなければならず、これもボス戦で勝てない残念な要因になっている。 昔ながらのRPGのような根気よくコツコツとクリアするタイプのゲームなだけに、なぜ後半のゲームバランスをこれだけ悪くしたのか首を傾げたくなる。 世界観やストーリー展開はよく練られていてとても良いと思う。 ### 1/5 — Why is Mac Version Intel app *2024-06-25, version 2.5.3* I tried to run this on my iMac and it requires Rosetta this is stupid as it’s on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Why is the Mac OS version not native. ### 1/5 — I gave up *2024-06-08, version 2.5.3* Just like the title says, I gave up. I’m writing this to fix the fact that I gave this game three stars originally, it doesn’t deserve that, man it doesn’t even deserve one star. This game is hard, and believe me I’ve beaten games that rival Dark Souls in difficulty. However, most of the time I just needed to get better at the game, I needed more skill. THIS GAME HAS NO SKILL INVOLVED, it’s all luck. Oh new boss? Hope your level is high enough. Oh new area? Hope there’s a way to heal up. The only way to beat this game is to senselessly grind for HOURS. No one has time for that I don’t have time for that. Also there are areas where if you’re level is not high enough to beat the boss you WILL get soft locked. There are places where there is no where to heal up, so you can’t grind for levels. This means you have to load a previous save, I lost SIX hours because of this, and that doesn’t count the grinding I had to do to beat that boss. Most people are probably thinking “oh you just need better equipment.” No you don’t. I would have the best equipment you could get and I would still be absolutely decimated. There are also time where the objective is not clear at all. I would spend thirty minutes trying to figure out what I’m supposed to do before just looking it up on the internet. And what’s worse is this was made by the same people who make the Final Fantasy games, so what happened? This feels like something they threw together in a month. That or they were just like “hey let’s not hire any testers for this game. It will be totally fine.” I would rather clean a toilet with my toothbrush than finish this. ### 1/5 — Spanish *2024-03-26, version 2.5.3* Spanish please… ### 1/5 — エンディングで落ちる *2023-10-14, version 2.5.3* エンディングムービーで何度も落ち、最終戦前に戻される。 何回やり直したことか。 時間を返して欲しい。 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Mukemmel *2026-08-11, version 2.5.3* 10/10 ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-07-03, version 2.5.3* I love it, please let me purchase it on iOS. ### 5/5 — Non ROG enjoyer here *2026-05-09, version 2.5.3* Captured by the presumably handmade maps - 20 hours in and just discovered the skill trees… Innovative battle system. The FF team nailed it with this one ### 5/5 — Perfect Score *2026-04-27, version 2.5.3* Please add more game like this to Apple Arcade. Simply the best JRPG mobile games. ### 5/5 — Hidden gem *2026-03-31, version 2.5.3* If you like JRPGS and look for a fun adventure, pick it up. On my second playthrough after years, and WOW did I not appreciate this game enough when it came out. ### 5/5 — FANTASTIC *2026-02-16, version 2.5.3* It’s incredible. Just give it a try and you’ll see. 5 stars, even more!! ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2026-02-04, version 2.5.3* Updated review, this is literally the best jrpg I have played on a phone ever, it just feels like the final fantasy we never got, while having its own identity love how they leave the upgrading your skills to later and giving characters their own elements making you switch your team about, I really enjoy this game and there’s not a single character that feels redundant literally everyone adds to a strategy. ### 5/5 — FFシリーズ生みの親の名作RPG *2026-01-19, version 2.5.3* Apple Arcadeで遊べるゲームの中で、一番面白い！！日本人が楽しめる本当に作り込みされているゲームである。AppleTVとMacBook Air M1 8Mの古い環境にてのプレイだが問題なくスムーズに遊べる。主人公が記憶喪失になった状態でスタートするため、記憶を取り戻していく中で感情移入がしやすいストーリー展開となっている。ストーリー通りに進める１部、その後は長く自由に遊べるようにやり込める２部となっている。時間がない人は１部のみやればいいし、遊び足りない人は２部をやり込むことで長時間のプレイにも耐えられる。リリースからいまだに遊ばれている名作。ぜひ続編を出して欲しい。 ### 5/5 — Really good. *2026-01-17, version 2.5.3* I’m playing on a base iPhone 16, the game is running smooth high settings and I do have the option to turn them down if I need to but haven’t had to so far, this is a premium jrpg that you can play on the go and if your already subbed to Apple Arcade there’s no reason not to try it and it seems to use the ffx card turn system that I think is the greatest way to play turn based. The only thing I don’t like is pointing where to go instead of a virtual stick but the touch in combat is fantastic. ### 5/5 — As a JRPG fan, this is excellent! *2026-01-17, version 2.5.3* I didn’t expect an iOS game to beat games I play on the steam deck but this one has excellent story and gameplay mechanics. I’m really enjoying it! Just need more of these. --- *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 2026-08-20.*