# If Found... — user reviews > 62 indexed App Store user reviews of If Found... by Annapurna Games, LLC, rated 4.40/5 from 102 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/if-found/id1440072561/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/if-found/id1440072561.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 80 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of If Found...? Overall sentiment: mostly positive **Pros** - 💖 Heart-wrenching story - 🎨 Beautiful art style - 🎶 Immersive soundtrack - 💬 Relatable characters - ✨ Unique interactive mechanic - 🏳️‍🌈 Meaningful LGBTQ+ representation - 🌍 Culturally rich (Irish) - 💡 Innovative storytelling - 👍 Touching and human - 🌟 Visually stunning - 📖 Compelling narrative - 😊 Emotionally resonant - 💯 Masterpiece of a game **Cons** - 😴 Boring and tedious - 🕹️ Not a game, just a story - ✋ Tedious interaction mechanic - 🤔 Unclear scenario - 🖼️ Art style forgettable for some - 🎶 Music and sound forgettable for some - 📚 Epilogue interaction frustrating - 🗣️ Poor localization (Japanese) - 🤷‍♀️ Side plot not understood - 😩 Gameplay can be tiring - 📉 Weak scenario **Commonly reported bugs** - Occasional bugs - Bug in second to last chapter (black screen) - One bug at the end of the game **Most requested features** - More polished interaction mechanics - Fix localization issues (fonts, line breaks) - More interactive elements in epilogue - Allow reading epilogue without replaying chapters ## Newest reviews (14 of 62) ### 5/5 — What an experience! *2022-02-20* This was one of the most amazing experiences I have had with graphic storytelling. Interactive and heartbreaking. This story changed me. ### 5/5 — Отличная визуальная новелла *2022-01-04* Русский язык поддерживается! Играть удобно как на iPhone, так и на iPad! Качайте - одна из лучших игр 2020 года. ### 4/5 — Beautiful! But with slightly flawed interaction. *2021-12-31* This interactive novel is beautiful, sounds great and the story is interesting. I also enjoyed learning tidbits about Irish life and vocabulary. However, I found the way you interact to be tedious and sometimes error-prone. I played on a regular size iPad (10 inch). “Painting” almost all of the screen for most drawings to be revealed was too much for me and I was a bit discouraged even after just a couple of minutes. I also found myself a few times “erasing” the drawing I was trying to fully reveal by mistake, likely because the game wasn’t expecting me to lift my finger in the process. Because of this, I was not able to read part of the text on several occasions. I am looking forward to next titles from this team but hopefully with a more polished way to interact. ### 5/5 — really nice *2021-10-28, version 1.2.0* Love it ### 5/5 — Excelente para pasar las tardes *2021-08-17, version 1.2.0* Es una historia interactiva, que te propone una perspectiva diferente a las habituales. El apartado artístico es increíble y altamente recomendable. ### 5/5 — Beautiful and painfully truthful *2021-07-10* A story of family and friends, how we hurt and love each other and rub each other the wrong way. It is touching and beautiful and painfully truthful. It was a joy to watch and to make this story reveal itself. ### 3/5 — ローカライズが雑 *2021-07-03* ゲーム本編・翻訳の質そのものはいいが、ゲームがスタートした直後の言語がストアとリンクしていないで英語で始まるとか、フォントが簡体字のやつになっていて、基本的なユーザーへの配慮がなされていない。 ゲームの体験が大きく損なわれた。 特にフォントはユーザがカスタマイズできない部分なので、ちゃんとした日本語のフォントに変更してほしい。 改行位置と誤字脱字(これは翻訳家じゃなくてコピペした人の責任でしょ)も、もうちょっとなんとかならないものか……。 ラストの『」』の位置とかもさ……。 ゲームそのものは少女マンガ的な絵柄に耐性があれば楽しめると思います。 しかし無駄にホラーで強迫観念的な演出はなんなんだろう。希死念慮をアートとして表現しているってことなんだろうけど、暗いしウェットでウンザリする。 ここらへんはユーザの好みにマッチするかだけですが、かなりヘビーです。 アイルランドのセカイ系。 ### 5/5 — Made me cry *2021-04-30* This is beautifully observed and sometimes terribly sad. It’s a poignant story about identity, families and found families, and it’s told in a really interesting and arresting way. Great use of audio too. ### 5/5 — Muito bom! *2021-02-09* Gostei muito jogo, simples mas lindo, tanto na história, quando na arte. Bem interessante. Recomendo. ### 5/5 — I really loved it *2020-12-28, version 1.2.0* Honest & beautiful ### 3/5 — Shallow and boring *2020-12-24* "If found" was nominated for "games for impact" award this year so I was intrigued. Unfortunatelly at it's core it appeared to be just a generic teenage drama. Transgender theme was for advertisement only and never explored below surface level. You can swap the main character with any cis-gendered teenage girl or boy and the story would make the same amount of sense. Gameplay mechanics of erasing words was interesting for 5 minutes, but then got boring. It could have had real significance like healing character traumas or branching the story. Instead it's just a realy tedios way to move forward in a linear fashion. Finally a few words about art: visually "If found" is just a collection of doodles. It's not in the same league as Gris and is rather forgettable. The same case being with music and sound effects. ### 3/5 — Not a Game *2020-11-30, version 1.1.0* This is not a game..... this is an interactive novel thta you will turn the page. Story is good but calling it a game is wrong. Just stick with interactive novel! ### 2/5 — Kinda boring *2020-09-05, version 1.0.7* I wanted to like this but was hard to follow. Its a story, not a game. You wipe from one frame to another. The wipe mechanic was entertaining the first few times. ### 5/5 — Blissful *2020-09-01, version 1.0.7* The artwork was just beautiful And the story was very relatable Sometimes you just need to be hugged and told that your loved And sometimes you just want to run and hide. I really really loved this book/app 🌸🌸🌸 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Boring *2022-06-26, version 1.2.0* It’s rlly cute and nice but rlly not worth the buy you sit there reading erasing and trying to figure out what ur going to erase next and it’s good for the first 3 minutes but then it just drags and u have to do it the whole time. I will say that the drawings and animations of whatever is really pretty. ### 1/5 — Not a game *2021-03-12, version 1.2.0* You have to buy it to try it. It’s a book, not a game. With pictures. For $5. Save the regret and don’t buy it. ### 1/5 — Boring and pointless *2021-01-27* Based on some online reviews I was hoping for an interesting game. This is neither interesting nor a game. It’s a poorly animated graphic novel with an annoying UI. I rarely delete games I paid for, and even more rarely write reviews...this app was frustrating enough that I did both. ### 1/5 — Not interesting, unique, or bold *2021-01-13* The masses give this app 5 stars because it has intersectional characters who spit on western values, and the entire thing is just so blasé at this point. No longer are narratives like this the counter culture, they are mainstream and there is nothing interesting or edgy about them, this is just another brick in the wall of the woke culture that dominates our screens. Objectively it gets old fast, the swiping around on screen to progress the story is annoying and redundant ### 1/5 — Beautiful story, but not a game *2020-09-23, version 1.0.7* Wiring category . This is a page turning graphic novel with some animated bits. I was looking for a game and not just a story to read through. ### 1/5 — It’s just a story. *2020-09-16* All you do is paint your screen over and over and over again with your finger. By paint, I just mean a big one dimensional blob that uncover the next page over where your fingers move. No other input. It’s a )7 interactive novel. ### 1/5 — THIS IS NOT A GAME *2020-07-27, version 1.0.7* It’s a story. And the only action is swiping all over the screen to erase or uncover graphics. No strategy. No gameplay whatsoever. I want my money back. ### 1/5 — I feel terrible *2020-07-09, version 1.0.7* This game makes me feel worse ### 1/5 — I need my money back *2020-06-06* This is a story book. It is not a game and should not be called one. It may be good for what it is but I feel cheated in the pretext that this is a game. There is no gameplay here. Give my money back ### 1/5 — Not a game *2020-05-24, version 1.0.0* The graphics and the story are beautiful, but I paid $4.99 thinking there would be some sort of interactive component. There is not. The erasing is essentially how you “turn the page” in a book. So annoyed that I had to pay almost five dollars for what basically equates to a video comic book. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Bugs *2026-05-24* I really loved the game!! It is my second favorite game after Omori. This game is a visual novel so you don’t do a lot in it so it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. There are the occasional bugs but you can bypass them semi easily there is one on the end of the game that I am still stuck on but I still really love the game. ### 5/5 — Gorgeous and heart wrenching *2025-04-11* Beautiful storytelling and made me cry (not easy!). One of those experiences that even though I went through the story years ago, it still stuck with me so deeply to finally leave this review ### 5/5 — I loved this game so much *2024-07-26* I can’t believe how underrated this game is. It’s one of the best I’ve played. It’s so sweet and it made me feel so many things. I love visual novels and this one is definitely my favorite. It's so interactive and different. I really loved this game and I hope more people will play it because it’s amazing. ### 5/5 — 消しゴムで全て消せたら爽快だろうけど *2024-07-15* アイデンティティに関する海外のストーリーを楽しむ時に考えてしまうのは日本語を使う民族のセンシティブさ。誰が言ってもI don't knowでも日本語だと「ウチ知らないっちゃ」「ワシは知らないのだ」「オラ知らねえぞ」「ワイ知らへんど」とキリがない恐怖、しかもどんな人が言ってるか想像出来ちゃう素晴らしさ。細かいニュアンスが理解出来るようになるまで義務教育やコミュニティで相当な苦労を英語学習など犠牲にしつつ学んだ結果、漫画読む時などは超便利だけど上下関係や老若男女の差異など面倒な事が多すぎる。For here or to go？で済む国と「こちらでお召し上がりになられますか？それともお持ち帰りになさいますか？」の国とでは様々な差別に対する感覚も全然違うに決まっている。社会的な環境で常々感じている人は此のようなゲームや漫画に関心を持っているので認識を変えれるけど、一般的では無い故に世間は無自覚なので諦めに似た許容を選択せざるを得ない事が多い。結局、状況を打開する為には経済的なバランスシートの俎上に載せて利害をハッキリさせる以外にないだろうから、カリキュラムを増やして表層的に慣れていくしかないと思うと、もっとゲームや漫画が売れれば良いのにって感じる。 ### 5/5 — J’ai adoré ! *2024-04-05* Pas vraiment un jeu, plutôt une histoire interactive et une expérience visuelle (étonnement la partie gameplay arrive à la toute fin et après les crédits) . Très touchant, nuancé et des personnages très humains. Un jeu court mais qui dit ce qu’il a à dire sans longueur inutile et un style graphique assez unique. Bref j’ai beaucoup aimé! ### 5/5 — Made my heart full (and my tear ducts) *2023-09-12* A really wholesome stylish gay lil 2 hour narrative game from an Irish team. If anyone’s played Florence, it reminded me a lot of that. The gameplay is pretty much just interacting with the art and narrative using the touch screen of your phone, and the story was really lovely albeit a bit too heavy at times. Bittersweet relationships with home, connecting with all the other gay little misfits, and finding freedom in queerness. It all hit close to home and I cried like a bebé. Anywho its really pretty game and if you ever wanna emotionally wring yourself out like a sponge I’d definitely recommend it. ### 5/5 — I loved this game *2023-07-15* The story was tough to handle in spots but overall touching and beautiful. ### 5/5 — <3 *2023-02-07* This game is forever in my heart. Everything is awesome and the atoey genuinely made me cry. I love the astronomy references and the aftwerwards of the story. I adored the fact that you included THAT ONE community and that the characters have different ages, personalities, and aren't JUST skinny. Good job on the language terminology and stuff. This game is awesome and i ABSOLUTELY reccomend it. I think this is the 1st game that have ever reached the number 1 in my list in my opinion. ( hint of spoilers? ) SUGGESTION : after finishing the game, the person unlocks this feature where they can write their ( by text ) own stuff in a similar book ( in the game )and also draw. But this is only a suggestion as the end of the game hints that we have gotten the book or it passed down on us? Sorry, i'm terrible at remembering things on the spot. ### 5/5 — Not perfect *2022-07-28* … but very beautiful. The story is really touching and human. Visually and musically it’s striking. I did get a bit tired of the main mechanic to move the story forward (wiping the screen clean with your finger), since my finger would literally get tired. There was a side plot that I didn’t really get why it was important to the main plot, but maybe I just missed something there. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2022-06-20* More like it please. --- *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 2026-09-21.*