# GoQuest — user reviews

> 164 indexed App Store user reviews of GoQuest by Mindwalk Corp., rated 4.70/5 from 571 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/goquest/id834841918/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/goquest/id834841918.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 463 · 4★ 66 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 18

## What do users think of GoQuest?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Quick matchmaking
- 👍 Convenient for quick games
- 👍 Good for learning and improving
- 👍 Variety of player skill levels
- 👍 Simple and easy to use interface

**Cons**

- 🐛 Inconsistent scoring/results
- 🐛 Matchmaking issues - mismatched opponents
- 🔍 Lack of transparency in ranking/scoring system
- 🔍 Limited customization options (time controls, komi)
- 📢 Intrusive ads

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Incorrect scoring/result determination
- Disconnection issues causing lost games
- Placement issues - stones placed incorrectly
- Bugs with reporting/feedback system

**Most requested features**

- Add chat functionality to connect with opponents
- Implement 19x19 board size option
- Provide detailed game history and analysis
- Allow players to add friends and challenge each other
- Improve time controls and add byo-yomi

## Newest reviews (11 of 164)

### 4/5 — 以前から使わせていただいているのですが…

*2025-07-10*

対局開始ボタンを押すと
「対局待ちに問題が生じているようです〜」という画面が表示され使用できなくなりました。
設定もいじれません。
これは荒らし行為とかに対する処置かなとも思いましたが、心当たりありません。確認お願いいたします。

### 2/5 — コミの問題と対戦相手の先後問題

*2025-07-09*

コミが6.5になぜならないのか、対戦相手が各上にも関わらず先に打つ。元気が半減する。19路での対戦機会が少なすぎる。

### 3/5 — コマーシャル

*2025-07-07*

ゲームが終わった後のゲームコマーシャルが長い

### 4/5 — ゲーム性は◯。最近不愉快な広告が増えてきたので星−１

*2025-06-09*

そつなく楽しめる囲碁ゲームです。地味に顔アバターシステムなども搭載されておりプレイ満足度への底上げ意欲もちょっと窺える作りになってます。
最近、邪魔では無いものの視界には入ってくる不愉快なタイプの広告が掲載される様になりましたので星評価が一つ分落ちました。せめて不愉快では無い種類の広告を選んで掲載してもらいたいものです。

### 2/5 — Terrible app, awful for beginners!

*2025-06-02, version 3.0.63*

I’ve had this after all of 15 minutes and I can’t believe how many different things I found wrong with it. First of all, it matched me up against a player who is 25K better than me, which is just a waste of my time, there are plenty of other places I can play if I want to get smashed flat by a far superior player. I tried to file a report about it, and the report screen is totally broken… It lets you include about a sentence and a half before it complains that the details are too long, and then, it kept just erasing the details before I can submit them, it’s totally buggy. it doesn’t explain why you win or lose things, and the tsumego problems I can’t even figure out how to do, there’s no instructions or controls, and it occasionally flashes things at you in Japanese only, which I don’t speak. 

Update:I continued playing this in the hopes it would get better, and only found more bugs and problems. First of all, it frequently puts down a piece next to where you tried to put the piece down, often cost you the game. Yes you can turn on double tap… This doesn’t help the problem, it happens the same once you learn to habitually double tap as it did when you were single tapping. They also say it’s “beginner friendly“ but then they make you play not just against an opponent, but against the clock: if you don’t play expert level and know how to divide your attention to both watch the clock and think through the game at the same time, and not just win but win quickly, you will often lose by running out of time, which is nothing but frustrating since it has nothing to do with how well you play and certainly gets in the way of learning how to play well. 

Also until you figure out how to turn the bots off, which is hidden in the unexplained settings, you’ll wind up often playing bots which are weird and idiosyncratic players and will teach you terrible habits that will cost you when you start playing humans. And the problem where it keeps matching you up with players who are much, much, MUCH better than you never goes away. also, they have a TON, I mean a LOT, of really great players who don’t play very often so they’re ranked very low, and as you proceed through the ranks, you get penalized more if you lose to a low ranked player, so as soon as you begin to get ahead, they match you with an expert player who is said to be “25K” or “30K”, but they are incredibly strong and will smash you flat in no time, and you will lose maximum ranking points for losing to this supposed “low ranked” player, because their ranking system is inaccurate and lets extremely advanced players remain at much too low ranks. And no matter who you’re playing, wind only give you a few points, but each loss costs you many points, so if you are trying to advance in rank you will not proceed, you will struggle a very long time to get ahead and then lose all that progress in just a couple of games. 

Plus they don’t ever allow you to know what the komi is, so you can’t tell if you’re winning, or strategize to deploy your pieces effectively if you’re just trying to win. 

And some games end in a “draw” or “tko”, neither pf which exists in Go! They just made them up for this app for some reason. They’re against the rules.

It’s all incredibly frustrating, weird, annoying, and, put it all together, I would recommend beginners stay far, far, far away from this app. I found it an incredibly frustrating experience and it’s making me hate the game of go.

### 3/5 — 詰めチャレ課題

*2025-04-22*

詰碁チャレンジはありがたいがレーティングの上がり幅が鈍すぎる
流石に50勝20敗で最初の20級のままは厳しい
昇級がモチベーションアップにつながるため上がり幅を調整してほしい
少なくとも問題ごとに想定レートを決めているのだから、沿った値まではレート+20などハイペースで上がるようにすべき
また対局中の時間表示が大幅に劣化している
自分のが右下かつ文字が小さい
残り30秒など警告をださないのも不親切
詰碁チャレンジのように右上に目立つよう残り時間を書いてほしい

### 2/5 — Terrible, buggy, very difficult to understand app

*2025-04-20*

I’ve had this after all of 15 minutes and I can’t believe how many different things I found wrong with it. First of all, it matched me up against a player who is 25K better than me, which is just a waste of my time, there are plenty of other places I can play if I want to get smashed flat by a far superior player. I tried to file a report about it, and the report screen is totally broken… It lets you include about a sentence and a half before it complains that the details are too long, and then, it kept just erasing the details before I can submit them, it’s totally buggy. it doesn’t explain why you win or lose things, and the tsumego problems I can’t even figure out how to do, there’s no instructions or controls, and it occasionally flashes things at you in Japanese only, which I don’t speak.

### 4/5 — Love it the game I have idea for a new feature

*2025-03-18, version 3.0.60*

•1 Can we please get some kind of practice bored like one that will let me place both black and white on the different boreds I have been watching these life and death videos and would like try and think some out lol maybe even add some actual problems kinda like what the ShogiQuest has for 1 mate  ect would be cool too •2 lowkey really lame as hell that on the study thing you can only watch some many ads before you have to wait 210min ٩( 'ω' )و

### 4/5 — 囲碁クエスト

*2024-09-18*

囲碁のサイトやアプリの中では使いやすくちょっとした空き時間にも打てるとてもいいアプリだと思う。ルールが中国流を用いてることと長考派の方は慣れるまで時間切れ負けがあるかもしれないがすぐに解消できると思う。尚悲しいかな今もマナーの悪い人がかなりいる点が星を四つに落とした。

### 4/5 — Beginner-why am I getting 10+kyu of opponent in play?

*2024-09-02*

I’m a beginner, 27kyu at top. But somehow I kept getting paired with 10 kyu and once 5 kyu!! 
Like I understand we should be playing with all kinds of players but I DONT ATAND A CHANCE IN THOSE GAMES!!

### 2/5 — 楽しみたい人にはお勧めできない

*2024-07-02*

9路盤レーティング2000↑まで行ったが、アプリは削除した。 囲碁を気軽に打てると言うところは多少なりとも評価できるが、かなり強い人でないと楽しめない。 ・負けている時に通信を切る人が多いのに対策をしていない ・格上がマネ碁をする、負け碁を持ち時間ギリギリまで放置するなどのマナー違反対策がされていない(通報システムは機能してるのか？少なくとも私は機能していないように感じる) ・AIを使っている以上、難しいところは仕方がないと思われるが、最終盤面の形成判断が余りにもおかしい場面が散見される ・レーティングシステムなのに、マッチング厳選の幅が広すぎる ・アプリ内掲示板ではアプリの批判・意見が出せない(最初期から言われていたことを改善する気がない？) 上記の対策をしないと、初心者〜中級者層が離れていくだけ。 現にアクティブなプレイヤーは以前に比べてかなり減っている。 元々このアプリの趣旨は、碁を打つ人がどの環境でも楽しめることを目的としているはずだが、最も多いカジュアル層のことを一切考えてないと言わざる負えない。 また、無料なので広告を挟むのはいいと思うが、広告の質が悪い・対局後に広告が入りWi-Fi下以外でアプリを開くことがためらわれる(Wi-Fi下で囲碁を打つには、わざわざ囲碁クエストである必要がない)ことも評価を下げる要因になっていると思われる。 狭い盤面で気軽にできるという発想はとても素晴らしいと思う。 折角囲碁という素晴らしいコンテンツを使っているのだから、それを下げるようなアプリにはせず、プレイヤーの批判・意見を受け止めて改善をしていってもらいたい。 まだまだこれから持ち直せると思うので、期待を込めて星2つをつけさせていただきます。

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Mahatmasteve

*2026-05-29, version 3.0.70*

When ads appear it’s impossible to delete them, a real pain in the bot.

### 1/5 — レート落としすぎ

*2025-06-12*

レート上下において1負けの負担が大きすぎる。
モチベーションが削がれる。基準を見直して欲しい。

### 1/5 — ブロック機能

*2025-05-05*

何度か書いているがpkaO3012というアカウントは本当に悪質です、レートが同じくらいなので何回も当たってしまうのですが悪いマナーのルールから巧妙に抜けて嫌がらせをしてきます、棋譜を見ればすぐわかるはず、いまのアカウント停止ロジックで対応できないのであればお願いですからブロック機能を実装してください、マジでストレスです

### 1/5 — レーティングが機能してない

*2025-05-05*

簡単にいうと段位持ちと級位者が互先で対戦している現状です。格差マッチングで全く楽しめない ハンデも自分と相手が互いに設定していないと機能しない性善説のゴミ

※ ちなみにアカウントを作り直した段位者が平気で初心者を嬲る現状は8年近く経っても放置されてます

### 1/5 — bad

*2025-04-04*

The application doesn't launch after updating.

### 1/5 — Zero matchmaking

*2025-01-24, version 1.5.12*

The matchmaking is non existent. I have played go for 2 weeks, I am very much a beginner. My first 3 games on 13x13 were against a 3k, a 6k, and a 10k. This was an incredibly unfun experience and I will be removing the app

### 1/5 — Matching System Terrible

*2024-11-14, version 1.5.12*

Either I’m playing the same idiot bots as always, or if I do get matched against a human it’s someone who’s wildly out of my league and they trounce me. Either way, it’s not fun and I’m not learning anything. The game works fine, but the matching system is just awful.

### 1/5 — Matching System Terrible

*2024-10-24*

Played two games as a total novice, both times matched with people far above me who beat me without any trouble. Not sure what the point of that it

### 1/5 — AIにわけわからん判定をされる

*2024-08-15*

盤面完全に勝ってるのになぜか58目差で負けになって意味がわからない

### 1/5 — Bots and ads

*2024-07-21, version 1.5.12*

Want to play against poorly written bots then watch an intrusive ad? Then this is the app for you. 

If you want to play actual go, then check out one of the real options. This app is garbage.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Quick matches

*2026-07-28, version 3.0.71*

I love how fast I can get into a game. Best game ever.

### 5/5 — Gogogo

*2026-03-12*

++++ hhuuggee zadrot play go

### 5/5 — GoQuest is Best!!

*2025-07-17, version 3.0.63*

For 9x9 games on the go, GoQuest is the best app! I never have to wait long for a match and there is a wide variety of player strength.

### 5/5 — Обновление

*2025-05-12*

Жалею, что обновился. Как вернуться к старой версии?

### 5/5 — Best mobile go app and problems are worth it

*2025-03-26, version 3.0.60*

Because there is only one time control per board size, you find games quickly.

The sets of problems are really good too and the choice of problems are very good.  It doesn’t only show you problems of your level but around your level.  This means that the difficulty is not exactly the same.  I think this is  really good because you can’t rely as much ob the difficulty rating of the problem to help you guess the solution.

### 5/5 — The Best 9x9 game

*2025-03-23*

This new version is ugly. Why did you change? The sound to start, the dimmer display when pass, please go back to the last one.

### 5/5 — ストレスなく使いやすくて素晴らしいです

*2025-03-17*

1点あげるとしたら、検討画面で、今対局終了したら何目対何目というのを出せるようにしてもらえると凄く嬉しいです。
せっかくコンピュータ上で検討しているのに、色々な局面でいちいち自分で形成を判断しなくてはいけないのは使いづらいです。

### 5/5 — Great update!

*2025-03-05, version 3.0.60*

We can finally pay to get rid of ads, thank you 🙂 Tsumegos are high quality and there seems to be a lot of them! For now, the optional 3$ monthly subscription is totally worth it. I like the Hikaru no Go style music when solving problems 👍

Here’s one problem I have though:

The same account doesn’t seem to sync between devices. I paid the 3$ on my phone, but I still see ads on my ipad 😞

### 5/5 — Helps me practice go

*2025-01-30*

Reliably gets me into an enjoyably game. No settings to fret over.

I wish I could disable ads, but overall a good app.

### 5/5 — 色々なbot

*2024-06-30*

囲碁クエストには色々なbotがいます。
色々な名前もあります。
どのbotにも少し癖があります。
昨日初めてatari botという botと対局しました。楽しかったです。

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