# Hearthstone — user reviews > 4,629 indexed App Store user reviews of Hearthstone by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., rated 4.10/5 from 121,290 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hearthstone/id625257520/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hearthstone/id625257520.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 85,629 · 4★ 9,562 · 3★ 3,980 · 2★ 2,780 · 1★ 19,339 ## What do users think of Hearthstone? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth gameplay - 🎨 Stunning visuals and animations - 🕹️ Engaging strategic gameplay - 🎁 Generous free-to-play model - 🕰️ Endless replayability **Cons** - 💰 Expensive to stay competitive - 🔁 Repetitive meta decks - 🎲 Excessive RNG elements - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🕰️ Slow progression for free players **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes during gameplay - Connectivity issues after updates - Reward system not working as intended - Unresponsive UI on certain devices **Most requested features** - Improved matchmaking system - More cooperative game modes - Ability to trade or disenchant unwanted cards - Reduced cost of new expansions - Faster gold/dust earning for free players ## Newest reviews (15 of 4,629) ### 4/5 — Battlegrounds *2026-08-25, version 36.4.250339* Wish they’d invest more into the mode as I find it the most fun ### 3/5 — Art *2026-08-25, version 36.2.248348* Legendary artists must be working for the bilizard ### 2/5 — Scripted game *2026-08-25, version 36.2.248348* Heavily scripted card draws. Its really just who goes along with the predetermined script the best wins. ### 3/5 — Storage and performance *2026-08-23, version 36.2.248348* This game is huge storage wise and over half the content isn’t even used by me. The only part I play is battleground (recently haven’t even been able to open the battlegrounds menu). I wish there was a way to manage the game downloads so I can free up space by getting rid of the parts of the game I don’t even play. Overall fun though ### 1/5 — What optimization, treating iPad so unfairly? *2026-08-21, version 36.2.248348* What kind of garbage optimization is this? Click the software and flash back. Hasn't this problem been solved? ### 1/5 — Battlegrounds won’t load *2026-08-21, version 36.2.248348* New battlegrounds season, bought the battle pass, but the game is inaccessible for days. ### 3/5 — Game is great but still buggy to this day *2026-08-21, version 36.2.248348* I cannot stand how often connection issues completely ruin my games. I've had glitches crash the game, delays in animation that shred away half my turn, games where I'm frozen but my opponent has full control. It has bothered me enough to bother writing a review about it ### 1/5 — ! *2026-08-21, version 36.2.248348* Честно говоря это издевательство а не игра ,разработчикам плевать на своих игроков . ### 2/5 — Massive storage issue! *2026-08-21, version 36.2.248348* I’ve been a long time player of hearthstone. I only really play battlegrounds i genuinely really enjoy game play and that you can play with friends. what I don’t enjoy and in fact has led me to uninstall is the space this app takes. It’s taking 13.7gb of space which is more than any other app that I’ve ever seen. Not even my Spotify with thousands of songs takes that much space. Unfortunately contacting support to raise a ticket for this is impossible to actually get a human so it’s led me to uninstall as my phone is just not big enough for it. ### 1/5 — Good game, but *2026-08-20, version 36.2.248348* If it weren’t so much of a cash pit or giving the option or if at least they gave the players that have free accounts or don’t use much money on their accounts the option of what rewards they want yes they get gold but it’s not a lot of people like the arena they’d rather pass for battlegrounds for the month or a pass for one game ### 1/5 — Unplayable on mobile *2026-08-20, version 36.2.248348* This game has become almost completely unplayable on mobile, it really seems like blizzard is more concerned with churning out 12 different $20 battle passes than they are with making a game that actually works. Game crashes almost every single game and crashes every time the shop is opened. Been playing since 2016 and honestly don’t think I can endorse a game that cares more about cosmetic packs than the game itself anymore. ### 1/5 — Re August 4 update 2026 *2026-08-19, version 36.2.248348* Another patch day passed and no fix ! UNFORTUNATE, Blizzard is to busy raking in the money to fix what they broke 🫥 Tried to submit a ticket, ( the only way to motivate Blizzard ) appears they are no longer accepting tickets about this issue. Wednesday and Blizzard has not decided that how they broke Mercenaries was enough of a issue to fix. #just like Blizzard 🤦 It’s Tuesday patch day, let’s see if Blizzard cares to fix them issues!!! Following the update it appears that all minions summoned are no longer functioning, Specifically Boggy Nemsy’s companion, Nephrite Army the treasure available to Brightwing, and the Naga attack spells that N Additionally while fighting a bounty after defeating the enemy you are held in combat seemingly by a enemy off screen. 🧐 Hopefully this will be helpful. ### 1/5 — Worst card game ever made *2026-08-17, version 36.2.248348* All luck, 0 skill, total money - should be banned from existence tbh ### 1/5 — Disapointed *2026-08-17, version 36.2.248348* It’s 2026 are the lack of transparency in game mechanics is unfortunate. The pictures on the upper left give poor information. There’s no ability to see other decks of people played. Gameplay footage limited and I get Legend all recent seasons. I look at history and no evidence against a deck I own will have a new mechanic. ### 1/5 — Not up to date or something. Crashes constantly. *2026-08-17, version 36.2.248348* I remember when this game ran smoothly on iPod, but it can’t seem to run well on the later IOS versions on iPhones. Yes, you heard right, it ran well on iPod but not iPhone. Stupid, huh? The game is fun when you don’t run into the “lucky” players, but on mobile devices you can count on the game crashing if you try to tap on things too quickly or navigate menus without giving it a couple of seconds to fully load or whatever. Even when you walk on eggshells to prevent crashing, there’s still about a 40% chance the game will crash in any given match. It’s just annoying and sad this doesn’t work as well as it does on a computer. They had it down at one point in time, but now that I got this app again it’s just janky. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Used to be fun *2026-08-25, version 36.4.250339* Now it’s just micro transactions and in-game purchases, pay to play slop. ### 1/5 — Rigged *2026-08-25, version 36.2.248348* The real question is…. How much money does one need to spend to win a game? Seems everyone plays the premade decks you have to purchase. Is this how you win at this game? Some of the decks are ridiculously OP. Magic the gathering is more diverse and overall a better deck building game. This game has definitely become a pay to play situation. I don’t understand this game anymore. A 1 cost random creature that summons a legendary. I’m calling BS on your AI. It just proves the winner of the match is already established. I love how this game is so one sided at times. I’m calling BS!!! How can a player summon 14 mana worth of creatures but only have 6 mana? ### 1/5 — ok *2026-08-24, version 36.2.248348* not ok ### 1/5 — Buggy *2026-08-24, version 36.2.248348* Game will not load at all. ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your time *2026-08-24, version 36.2.248348* It’s a great game with cool looking art but the community and everyone who plays this game are the worse of society everyone is toxic everyone has a top Tier deck no one plays anything besides meta the mmr makes no sense you will never climb because if your bronze and win 2 game your playing against diamond players. Worse digital card game out there never play this never buy anything from blizzard its literally the worse ### 1/5 — OP luck based BS *2026-08-24, version 36.2.248348* This game used to be fun and involve skill, especially battlegrounds. Now it’s just based on luck with which power ups you get and IF you’re given minions you can use. Before you could make it work with what you got if you knew strategy, now it’s all BS trinkets, prizes, time warp. Completely ruined the game. I’d change my rating if there wan an option to play the original battlegrounds before all the overpowered luck based BS gameplay ### 1/5 — Game takes 5 minutes to load the main screen *2026-08-24, version 36.2.248348* Joke of a company ### 1/5 — Fix the issues *2026-08-23, version 36.2.248348* There are a ton of long standing issues that aren’t even being worked on. Like, when are you gonna fix the journal so we can actually scroll through it? Or when are you gonna update the rest of the game? Haven’t had a new single player mode and no updates to Mercenaries in a looooong time. ### 1/5 — Need to hire better tech workers like myself. *2026-08-21, version 36.2.248348* I find bugs in this game constantly. Just a hint for 1, go check your crash logs for iPad devices. I can consistently reproduce it for the past year. Update. Mobile is horrible. 5 minutes to reconnect to a game if you leave the screen horrible. ### 1/5 — Demasiado hacker *2026-08-21, version 36.2.248348* Llevo jugándolo más de 5 años y la cantidad de hackers es increíble. Unas cartas con más de 10 mil en ataque y tengo fotos de los juegos ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Hearthstone *2026-08-24, version 36.2.248348* El mejor juego de cartas! ### 5/5 — Re August 4 update 2026 *2026-08-23, version 36.2.248348* Last update, I will enjoy the game and adapt, unfortunately experience has assured me that this isn’t a high priority for the developer. Another patch day passed and no fix ! UNFORTUNATE, Blizzard is to busy raking in the money to fix what they broke 🫥 Tried to submit a ticket, ( the only way to motivate Blizzard ) appears they are no longer accepting tickets about this issue. Wednesday and Blizzard has not decided that how they broke Mercenaries was enough of a issue to fix. #just like Blizzard 🤦 It’s Tuesday patch day, let’s see if Blizzard cares to fix them issues!!! Following the update it appears that all minions summoned are no longer functioning, Specifically Boggy Nemsy’s companion, Nephrite Army the treasure available to Brightwing, and the Naga attack spells that N Additionally while fighting a bounty after defeating the enemy you are held in combat seemingly by a enemy off screen. 🧐 Hopefully this will be helpful. ### 5/5 — Battleground Station *2026-08-23, version 36.2.248348* Complexity with inter comparability that inquires through sense of chance provide unique and enjoyable experiences WKM ### 5/5 — My favorite phone & computer game *2026-08-21, version 36.2.248348* I love this game, really gets my brain & mind working strategically, gets me thinking outside the box, awesome graphics & 11 cool different classes to play as. Spending money on a game is actually worth it for once. Never played a card game at this level before, really enjoying the standard format mode. No complaints thanks so much to the people behind this game really cheers me up during difficult & stressful times would leave 100 stars if I could. Bravo! ### 5/5 — 15(?) years *2026-08-20, version 36.2.248348* great game. challenging. good for all really ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2026-08-16, version 36.2.248348* It’s the only game I have been playing since 2013 , Still have not gotten tired of it ### 5/5 — Love this game but *2026-08-15, version 36.2.248348* I just wish you guys added more galatrod cards honestly it’s really underrated ### 5/5 — Great game, always fun! *2026-08-14, version 36.2.248348* Frequent updates as well as new/interesting cards to use. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-08-10, version 36.2.248348* Great game, only problem with it is it’s propensity to crash with older generation phones. ### 5/5 — Fun game *2026-08-09, version 36.2.248348* Love this game when it first came out but it works on odds. What does that mean. Well it sets you up with only people that can beat you and it sometime feels unfair. But with that the game is and has been an amazing experience. Love the makers of the game and I can’t wait for them to add the magic to it. --- *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 2026-08-28.*