# Gold Miner Joe — user reviews > 252 indexed App Store user reviews of Gold Miner Joe by Donut Games, rated 4.80/5 from 31 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gold-miner-joe/id327802424/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gold-miner-joe/id327802424.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 26 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of Gold Miner Joe? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Fun platformer - 🚀 Entertaining and challenging - 💡 Retro feel - 👍 Good value for money **Cons** - 🐛 Checkpoint issues - 👎 Small graphics on iPhone 11 - 👎 Awkward controls on mobile - 🐛 Some in-game features don't work **Commonly reported bugs** - Checkpoint issues - Controls not working as expected **Most requested features** - More levels - Difficulty options - More lives for player - Ability to kill bats ## Newest reviews (19 of 252) ### 4/5 — Fun Platformer! *2024-12-26, version 1.33* I’ve had this game on my iPhone for years. But I never played it until just recently. I found that it’s definitely a lot of fun and pretty entertaining. The only complaint I have is that the graphics are awfully small on an iPhone 11. The way one has to hold their iPhone, too, and work the controls on the screen can be a little awkward at first. Some of the in-game features like passing the white flag checkpoints don’t work – if you end up dying, you go back to the beginning of the level and NOT to the last passed checkpoint. But the game is challenging and entertaining! Definitely has a retro feel to it which is nice. ### 4/5 — Fun Platformer! *2024-12-08* I’ve had this game on my iPhone for years. But I never played it. Until just recently. I found that it’s definitely a lot of fun and pretty entertaining. The only complaint I have is that the graphics are awfully small on an iPhone 11. The way one has to hold their iPhone, too, and work the controls on the screen can be a little awkward at first. But the game is challenging and entertaining! Definitely has a retro feel to it which is no problem. ### 5/5 — AWESOME APP!!! *2015-10-20, version 1.31.1* This is the best app ever 😍😍 ### 5/5 — Excellent !! *2015-04-24* My Favourite Game for Years ! ### 5/5 — Heaps of fun! *2015-04-18, version 1.31.1* Great game. ### 5/5 — Love this game. *2015-02-16, version 1.31.1* I've always loved this game and I finally beat all the levels with 3 stars. It'd be awesome if you added more levels . ### 4/5 — Gold miner joe *2015-02-01, version 1.31* It's a great game well worth the down load need more games like it! ### 5/5 — Excellent game *2015-01-09, version 1.31.1* Reminds me of the old gameplay from years ago. I'm enjoying this tremendously. ### 3/5 — Nice, hamstrung by control issues *2014-12-16, version 1.31.1* Although to give the Devs credit, they have at least implemented a couple of control schemes, plus your patience might be better than mine in such cases. ### 5/5 — Gold Miner Joe *2014-12-05, version 1.31.1* Great graphics, fun game! Woogly44 ### 5/5 — Excellent *2014-07-01* Excellent jeu de plateforme à l'ancienne. ### 5/5 — Génial !!! *2014-06-09* J'adore le gameplay , ce jeu est très addictif . J'espère qu'ils vont le convertir sur d'autres plates-formes mobile comme console de salons ! ### 3/5 — Ok but... *2014-04-30, version 1.31* I have this on my PC but this version is different... If you earn extra lives you can't keep them for future levels like on the PC. Also the controls are sketchy pls fix! ### 3/5 — Ok, not the best *2014-03-04, version 1.31* After 5 levels it's not the best in my opinion i like their other games A LOT better waist of money!!! ### 5/5 — Now with icade support! *2013-10-07, version 1.31* Great! Now I can play this awesome game with my 8-bitty! Thank you Donut Games! ### 5/5 — Super!!! *2013-10-06* Das Spiel ist ein super Zeitvertreib:) Es ist schön gestaltet mit 50 verschiedenen Levels Tipp für verzweifelte: wenn ihr einen Riss im Boden seht den Boden einfach mit einer Dynamitstange sprengen (dazu den Bildschirm etwas länger berühren) dann findet man evtl. Eine Hacke o.ä. ### 5/5 — Tips *2013-07-03, version 1.31* I love this game! D-pad ftw, I beat the game with it Hard levels (for me): Brown Shaft 10 Green Shaft 6 Green Shaft 9 Purple Shaft 2 Purple Shaft 6 Purple shaft 10 ### 4/5 — Peregrinefalconflyer2 *2013-06-17* GOLD MINER JOE IS THE FUNNEST!!! But the controls are so hard to use. I was about to collect the last piece of gold in shaft 10 I was trying to jump over fire but it wouldn't work then it just automatically went right and I lost! Plz make it better and I will give 5 stars. ### 4/5 — Cool *2013-05-15, version 1.31* A great platformer on the iphone if not the best ! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ok *2014-08-23, version 1.31* It is ok should make it so you can have multiplayer and guns in this game ### 1/5 — Gold miner Jo *2012-11-28, version 1.30* Worked fine until installed on iPad mini now it won't work at all ### 1/5 — No fun *2012-06-16, version 1.30* This game is no fun. ### 1/5 — Bad controls *2012-06-10, version 1.30* Would be fun if the controls were better. I deleted it... Too annoying!!! ### 1/5 — CRAP!!! *2012-04-12, version 1.30* Don't buy it's really crap ### 1/5 — AWFUL !!! *2012-04-12, version 1.30* Worst donut game ever it's crap !!! ### 1/5 — 😓 *2012-03-08, version 1.30* Not very fun😁controls are very frustrating😲😲😲 ### 1/5 — Gold miner joe *2012-02-17, version 1.30* It's ok, not my favorite game! ### 1/5 — Schlechte Steuerung *2011-10-13* Das Spiel wäre bestimmt super aber die Steuerung ist so bescheiden das ich es gelöscht habe laden oder nicht laden muss jeder selbst wissen ich würde es nimmer machen!!! ### 1/5 — This isn't even a video game *2011-09-17, version 1.30* This is a frustration simulator. Want to duck, joe goes down a ladder, want to go down a ladder, joe will duck... Want to live, well too bad because joe will either jump off of a cliff or blow himself up with dynamite. Thank you for the the hair loss joe, I would tell you to jump off a cliff but unfornuately that is the only thing you really seem to want to do ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fabuleux *2025-08-21* Quand j’étais petit vers 2010 j’avais pas beaucoup de jeux sur pc,et votre jeux je l’ai fait refait rerefait vraiment mes meilleurs souvenirs ! Puis j’ai réinitialiser mon pc et j’ai pas retenu le nom… 15 ans plus tard je parle de mes souvenirs a chat gpt et il l’as retrouvé ! Le jeux a vraiment super bien vieilli en vrai comme un bon vin.fin bref ton jeux a refait mon enfance merci pour tout 🤌 ### 5/5 — Thanks Donut Games *2024-10-23* I didn’t grow up speaking English so I could watch all the other shows kids grew up watching. I grew up playing this game and I’m so excited I found it again. Incredibly nostalgic. ### 5/5 — Nice *2021-11-07* I played a lot of games from Donut Games when I was a little kid, I repurchased 5 of their games including this one. The games are good, thank you for the experience. ### 5/5 — Gold miner Joe *2021-09-02, version 1.33* It is Avery entertainment game, I really enjoy in my leisure times, I bought many years back and I always come back to it. Thanks MB ### 5/5 — The Best!! *2020-10-29* Love this game!! Played it ten years ago when it was fresh on iPod! Redone loaded and just reminiscing 😊 always fantastic, Donut Games ❤️ ### 5/5 — Awesome fun *2017-05-01, version 1.31.1* Pick up and play, fantastic with joypad ### 5/5 — Great game *2017-03-10, version 1.31.1* Great little game. Certainly not as easy as it looks ### 5/5 — Great game *2017-02-12, version 1.31.1* This game is awesome ### 5/5 — Greatttt *2016-12-27, version 1.31.1* This reminds me of miner 49r a great game I use a steel series controller and it makes so much difference to the game play,also love that you pay one price and not a fortune in in game purchase apps I would rather pay up front keep it up . Mary ### 5/5 — Needs a difficulty option *2016-07-19* Hey doughnut games please add a difficulty button because some levels are so hard to complete and also please make it so joe has more lives like maybe 4 instead of 2 (even though there are extra lives in the game that give you 2 extra tries in the game. Overall the game is very fun to play. --- *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 2026-09-10.*