# Foregone — user reviews > 68 indexed App Store user reviews of Foregone by Big Blue Bubble, rated 4.10/5 from 56 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foregone/id1446312604/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foregone/id1446312604.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 36 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (15 of 68) ### 4/5 — Good..but. *2025-12-16* Not sure why it doesn't have cross platform syncing (iphone/ipad), nonetheless it's good with a controller ### 4/5 — Bigger font please! *2025-10-28* I came to review and was sad to see others had the same complaint 3 years ago, making me discouraged that this issue will not be resolved. It’s a GREAT game otherwise, but absolutely not formatted for a mobile device. It shouldn’t be too difficult to do. Please increase the font size and I’m sure you’ll get more sales here. ### 3/5 — OK *2024-08-12* The game is overall very well made and has a fun combat system and well thought out level design. The problem in the game is the repetitiveness. The game uses the same enemies in the same ways in very similar areas throughout each area, which can last for quite a while. Another issue with the game is the story, the story is very hard to follow, and even if you try to follow it, it is very uninteresting. The game is also very short, other than quests, the game lasts for 2-3 hours, which doesn't seem like enough gameplay for the cost of the game. I will praise the game for not having any ads or in-app purchases. Overall the game is fine, but nothing special. ### 3/5 — Bugs 😐 *2024-03-05* The game has some bugs, it doesn't let me confirm improvements, they should fix that, but the game is good... ### 3/5 — Forgone *2023-12-28* Can we please get this game controller support And also unlock the screen orientation? ### 3/5 — ゲーム自体は悪くないが… *2023-07-11* ソウルライクという言葉に惹かれ購入 とにかくUI周りが小さくて見ずらい&押しずらい 調整オプションもあるが何故か小さくするだけで大きくはできない ゲーム自体は面白そうなので続けたいがその辺が改善されないと途中で萎えて辞めるかもしれない アプデ求む ### 3/5 — Naja. *2022-12-16* Ganz nett. Schwarze Balken seitlich beim iPad mini. 👎 ### 5/5 — Recommend this game! *2022-07-16, version 1.0.0* Cool game, have problems with buttons naming on game pad. Controls works fine, but I don’t have button 4 on my ps5 gamepad :) ### 4/5 — Кнопки! *2022-07-07* Игрушка вроде отличная, но на SE 1 поколения кнопки ужасно маленькие( минут 5 язык пытался переключить. Как увеличить кнопки? Если есть такая возможность, влеплю 5 звёзд смело. ### 4/5 — Player *2022-04-12, version 1.0.0* Game need a updates. ### 4/5 — Enjoying so far but…. *2022-04-12* …..needs much larger font. Very hard to read anything on iPhone . Also needs correct button prompts when using a controller(eg: shows the press LB for some in-game actions but RB is what’s required to actually use). Great quality game otherwise ### 5/5 — Jogo Perfeito *2022-04-10* Com essa nova onda de monetização, tudo se compra, ou essa de tap tap, toque e avança, função auto ataque, os desenvolvedores esqueceram uma parcela importante de gamers, a geração que veio do super nes, ps1 e ps2 (com mais de 30 anos) gostamos de jogos com enredo, com dificuldade, jogos que a gente saia por ai pra salvar o mundo. Foregone tem tudo isso, aventura, enredo, mt porrada, mts armas, um jogo divertido de se jogar e de zerar. Infelizmente qdo acaba o jogo, temos que voltar pra appstore em busca de mais um joguinho, que não tenha como personagem principal uma amoeba ou um gatinho. Ou pior, de auto ataque que só deixa a gente passar de fase se gastar. Obrigado ao time de foregone, vcs reviveram os anos 90 e mostraram que da pra fazer um jogo excelente com um preço justo ### 4/5 — Excited for v1.1 (and onwards) *2022-04-04* TL/DR; Buy it. Absolutely worth the price of admission, and if it gets continued support it has the potential to be one of the great action platformers out there. The game is a mashup of Metroid/Vania, Flashback, Dead Cells and a pinch of masocore corpse running. The graphics are superb, and yes, it requi… benefits greatly from a controller. Note: The game pop up tells you it relies on ‘LB’ for context actions — this is actually RB, the right button, or R1 on a PlayStation controller. Gunplay and maneuvering are both exceptionally smooth; running, jumping, climbing, double jumping, are all elegant and responsive. Melee needs some time invested into it; everything feels just slightly off, as though the controller is lagging, and enemy responses are fairly non existent. It would benefit greatly from a proper light/heavy combo system, better enemy melee AI, a parry mechanic, and so on. Gear rarity runs the usual color spectrum, and with 5 gear slots and (in the early game) 2 functions per piece of gear, there are plenty of build options. Leveling is straight forward and there are only two currencies; Gold and Xp, which is perfect for this kind of design. The unlockable levels pose some significant challenge and the reward for completing them is brilliant. I love this game. It needs work, and I’m exceedingly hopeful that it gets the community support it needs to eventually hit v2.0. ### 3/5 — Beautiful game, bad controls *2022-04-02* Controls are so small, I constantly find myself frantically tapping the control area trying to hit the right skill button - which happens to be almost microscopic - and take huge damage or miss a ledge because my finger is off by a few pixels. Please add the ability to increase button size in the options menu. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2022-03-25* This game is good and excited for updates, devs please keep it up ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ganz gut aber… *2023-11-22* Die Tasten werden total falsch angezeigt Einige Tasten ( Xbox Controller )werden nur als 1,2,3 angezeigt ,somit muss man raten was gemeint ist. LB zum aktivieren von Schaltern und einsammeln von Gegenständen wird angezeigt aber es funktioniert nur mit RB. Was auch sehr störend ist ,die Bildschirm Einbildungen wie Lebensenergie sind viel zu klein . Ich spiele schon auf einem iPad Pro 12,9 M2 und trotzdem braucht man eine Lupe. Bitte dringend nachbessern dann gibt auch volle 5 Sterne. ### 1/5 — Meh *2023-11-02* So it’s been 2 years since this dropped… no clue why the developers have decided not to have any post-release updates, especially with the number of devices that the AppStore caters to, there’s bound to be some issues with every game that is released… It just seems incredibly short sighted to sit there and say “our game is 100% perfect at launch, no updates needed” when you decide to port your game over to the iOS. It’s a shame too, because premium titles are really taking off right now… and this could have been a great addition to the onslaught of titles that are high quality, worthy of a higher than normal price tag, wholly premium games that have come out over the last few years and look like they will be coming out even more frequently going forward (which means it’ll be even harder to gain a foothold). Original write up::;:: As lots of others have said, the controls. If we could make them larger, it would definitely help a ton. Some optimization would help too…. Or graphical settings…. Something to stop my iPhone 12 from turning into a heat rock after playing for 5 minutes. I don’t even want to know the damage it’s doing to my battery. 😕 But as it is now, with the small and finicky controls and my phone overheating after a few minutes of play, I’m pretty upset I threw my money at something I’m deleting without playing past the beginning of the game. ### 1/5 — Game doesn’t allow to rotate the screen *2023-03-11* Bought the game to play with my MFi controller (Gamesir X2) and to my surprise, for whatever dumb reason the game doesn’t allow you to rotate the screen, therefore it shows upside down with the controller connected. Stupid decision by the developers, renders game unplayable with this gamepad. ### 1/5 — The controls… *2022-05-24* Please fix the controls. At least allow us to make the buttons bigger. That alone would make a huge difference. ### 1/5 — Awful port of a beautiful game *2022-02-12* With my deepest respect to the developers - this port is absolutely awful. Zero work has been put into place for making the app mobile friendly, even the UI is unchanged, it shows “press ESC to return”, zooming on the map is impossible and the buttons throughout the app are so small that half of the time you die because you can’t tap exactly on those few pixel buttons. This makes the gameplay pure frustration. Dodging, switching between attacks, let alone just walking and jumping around are total hit and miss, you have a 50% of dying because of the clunky UI. Folks, if you charge for this game, please put some work into actually making it mobile friendly. Dead Cells managed to do it, so surely you can too. ### 1/5 — Locks screen orientation iPhone *2022-02-07* The developers chose to lock the screen orientation to one side so it’s not compatible with my gamesir gaming controller. As soon as that issue is resolved I’ll come back and update my review. ### 1/5 — Controls are horrible *2022-02-01, version 1.0.0* Controls are awful. This is the biggest mistake a platformer game can have. ### 1/5 — Controller is useless *2022-01-20* Unplayable with a Gamesir X2 controller because you can’t flip the display around… Hope they fix this soon. ### 1/5 — Battery drain and heated phone *2022-01-02, version 1.0.0* Please optimise the game! After 20 mins playtime the phone heats up and the battery starts draining around 1% per minute! The game itself is fantastic but it will kill my battery if it stays this way! ### 2/5 — Meh *2022-10-02, version 1.0.0* As lots of others have said, the controls. If we could make them larger, it would definitely help a ton. Some optimization would help too…. Or graphical settings…. Something to stop my iPhone 12 from turning into a heat rock after playing for 5 minutes. I don’t even want to know the damage it’s doing to my battery. 😕 But as it is now, with the small and finicky controls and my phone overheating after a few minutes of play, I’m pretty upset I threw my money at something I’m deleting without playing past the beginning of the game. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ein echtes Juwel! *2026-07-31* Die Atmosphäre ist fantastisch, das Kampfsystem macht richtig Spaß und die Animationen sind hervorragend. Alles fühlt sich flüssig und hochwertig an. Für mich ist dieses Spiel ein echtes Juwel und ich kann es jedem nur empfehlen. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-02-07* Merci, pb de sens lorsque la manette est connecté et support de la manette ajouté. Le jeu est génial , merci à vous ! ### 5/5 — TOP marks!!! *2025-01-26, version 1.0.0* Simply awesome on the iPhone 16 pro max! I am enjoying playing this game tremendously. I am streaming it to my Apple TV while connected to my Abxylute S9 controller and it is just excellent! I can’t say how it works on other devices but as far as I am concerned it gets TOP marks! ### 5/5 — Süper oyun yapmışlar *2025-01-16, version 1.0.0* Arkadaşlar aksiyon platform oyunu harika çok beğendim dead cells tarzı oyun seviyorsanız tam size göre bu tür oyunların çoğalmasını istiyorum elinize sağlık teşekkürler ### 5/5 — Its a soulslike *2024-07-03, version 1.0.0* Really good port! There are a few bugs such as the confirmation timer not moving when i salvage or destroy my gears but overall they dont hamper the experience ### 5/5 — 有中文 *2024-07-03, version 1.0.0* 有中文，很好玩，推荐 ### 5/5 — What a console game *2024-01-25* I never play games with touch and this game supports gamepad which is suits me well. It is iOS exclusive by the way that makes it more valuable. Good story and characters. ### 5/5 — 22 *2023-06-10, version 1.0.0* This A Good Game But it Need more updates 😉 ### 5/5 — これは楽しい！ *2023-01-20* 丁寧に作り込まれた良作です。 ステージクリア型の横スクロールアクションですが、確りしたストーリーあり、育成要素あり、ハクスラ要素ありと自分的にはドツボのゲームでした。 操作性はかなり良く、ドット絵ですがヌルヌル動きます。ICEYやGrimvalorが好きな人ならハマると思います。 難易度は高めで序盤のボスから何度も死にますが、チェックポイントからやり直しできますし、武器防具強化して何度も挑めば倒せます。回避が大事。 武器は大剣、短剣、ダガー、槍、ガンチャク（銃+ヌンチャク）、死神の鎌とあり、それぞれリーチや特殊能力が異なります。自分的には停滞とスタンのスキルが付いたダガーでメッタ打ちするのが好み。 進むにつれてアクションの種類が増えるのも楽しい。空中ダッシュもできるようになります。 サイドミッションも豊富で、タイムアタック、殲滅ミッションと全てこなすとかなりのボリュームになります。 アクション好きにはたまらない一品だと思います。☆5です。 ### 5/5 — Great Dead Cells inspired game. *2022-11-08* I use a PS5 gamepad when playing this. I can’t imagine playing w/out a controller (I’m don’t use touch controls for any game.) My only criticism is that there are some long jumps that are hard to pull off because I jumped 1mm too soon. --- *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 2026-09-13.*