# iA Iconic — user reviews > 26 indexed App Store user reviews of iA Iconic by Information Architects AG, rated 4.10/5 from 15 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ia-iconic/id1101257181/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ia-iconic/id1101257181.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (6 of 26) ### 5/5 — The essay is the best part of this IMO *2016-06-11* The controls take a little getting used to, but just place your left thumb in the center and "tilt" it. No need to actually slide your thumb! ### 5/5 — Retro Sensation *2016-06-10* Eigentlich schreibe ich keine Bewertungen hier im AppStore.. Aber dieses Spiel ist so eine Meisterleistung das ich mich gezwungen fühle dem Developer lob zu geben!! Dieses Spiel ist meiner Meinung nach das beste Spiel im 8bit stil im ganzen AppStore!! Super Hommage an die guten alten Space Shooter wie Space Invaders und so weiter!! Macht weiter so!! 11/10 Würde weiterempfehlen!! ### 5/5 — Un génie *2016-06-10* Mettre de la putin de trance avec un remix de space invadeur ..... Le créateur est un génie !!! ### 5/5 — The ecstasy... *2016-06-06* ...of truth. ### 4/5 — Divertido *2016-06-02* Quem é velho vai curtir! :) ### 4/5 — Cute! *2016-06-02* Didn't realize that it was tilt controlled when I was playing in bed the first time. Ship was just stuck to the left. I rolled over and realized what was going on. Toggle for that would be great. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Maybe in another 6 years *2023-04-01* There will be a second, actually useable, control scheme. ### 1/5 — On Ipad 4 *2016-06-11* Just a blank white screen. ### 1/5 — Needs an update *2016-06-10* The controls do not work and are too small to use. Otherwise this game has potential and looks great though I fear the levels may become repetitive ### 2/5 — Controls *2016-06-03* Despite being a pretty game, the controls are terrible. The movement is especially aggravating. ### 3/5 — Cool game but needs work on controls *2023-03-27* Slick and looks nice. Would love to have relative touch controls like many shmups on iOS have. **Developer response:** Thanks for taking time to share some feedback with us. ☺️ ### 3/5 — Beautiful pixel art, horrific control mechanism *2016-06-10* The left & right controls react like a spoilt 3 year old throwing a tantrum. This makes playing the game an awful experience. Aside from that, I really like the design choices & whole retro-ness of this game. At first glance I thought this would be a game I'd want to keep & show off to my friends & family, but the ridiculously uncontrollable controls have caused me to delete it instead. ### 4/5 — Controls seem OK to me *2023-11-18* Then again, I was slaying games like this in the arcade 40 years ago before all of you were born. We didn’t have sissy control pads and different control setups. Just put a quarter in and blasted. I beat this on the first go. ### 4/5 — Nice *2023-10-17* Please fix controls so fast to move make it smother controls thanks. ### 4/5 — Love It! *2018-06-09* This game takes me back to my wasted youth in arcades, and my wasted 30s in barcades. The only thing I dislike is having to start from the beginning every time I start the app. ### 4/5 — Great, but PLEASE please enlarge the slider!!!!! *2016-10-14* Often I can't move because of the tiny movement slider!!!! Please allow an option for adjusting the size! Maybe even the positions of both buttons. Thank tou ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Arcade game with colorful graphics *2025-05-04* I’m the person that played that and it’s has colorful graphics. This game is so fun! That game was awesome! With colorful graphics. So exciting and colorful! ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2025-01-20* This game is so exciting and fun to play! One of the games where I don’t find myself wanting physical buttons. In fact, the movement control is even better than having buttons. One request: can you add an option to put movement on the right side and the trigger on the left? The way I’ve been playing is with an Apple Pencil in my right hand controlling the movement and my left hand on the trigger. Crossed hands is a little awkward. Also, I think that a high score only registers when you lose the game, if you win, it doesn’t register your score. Finally, there was one time when I died twice in less than a second because my debris took a hit. This review is for version 1.1 ### 5/5 — Jogo super estranho, porém bastante divertido! *2024-09-07* Rapaz, eu não sei muito bem como explicar esse jogo, ele é super simples mas passa uma Vibe de Polybius com Space Invaders junto com uma nostalgia da época do MS-DOS, Arcades e Macintosh. É bem zoado mas eu gostei demais dele, que bom que achei ele! Continue suportando o iOS 11/12 pois eu jogo ele no iPhone 5s e iPhone 11 (por sinal no iPhone 11 alguns ícones acabam ficando em baixo do notch, consertem isso!) ### 5/5 — Excellent game lovely to play a true classic… *2024-02-07* This is right up there with the original space invaders and more recently chillaxian which has a bit more to it like rescuing astronauts and picking up power ups along with boss levels and being able to save your last level - all features I wish this had. Otherwise it’s perfect visually and great soundtrack just needs an auto save really badly as gets to be a pain starting over every time. Still easily the best game I’ve had recently so am glad I came across it by chance… 👾👾👾👾👾 ### 5/5 — D'un article de blog à un shooter intense *2023-04-12* À la base, ce jeu avait été créé pour accompagner un article du blog des créateurs d'iA Writer. Ils abordaient le thème des icônes dans le design des interfaces utilisateurs : quand faut-il en mettre ? quand faut-il préférer du texte ? De cette réflexion est né ce jeu sur l'élimination d'icônes. Fun et addictif, il sera vous faire passer quelques minutes bien sympathiques. Comme quoi, on peut lier l'utile à l'agréable ! ### 5/5 — PERFECT *2016-08-27* Retro gaming with beautiful handmade font. ### 5/5 — Yas kween *2016-07-30* This is the best one. Tried to find a game like galaga and every one had bad controls or bad adds. This one is simple and the closest to that ### 5/5 — Pure Perfecion *2016-06-20* This game is perfect. The style, soundtrack, and just everything blend together to become this perfect game. I'm so sad not everyone knows about this app. The only problem I have with this is the controls. I find the screen touching odd. If you look at the controls for similar apps that are more popular, I would consider coping their style. ### 5/5 — 😷 Tolles Retrospiel *2016-06-13* Kurzweilig, macht viel Spaß. ### 5/5 — Зажигательная *2016-06-12* Новое старое космическое вторжение. Затягивает. --- *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 2026-08-14.*