# IMAE Guardian Girl — user reviews > 37 indexed App Store user reviews of IMAE Guardian Girl by Wondersquad, rated 4.70/5 from 230 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/imae-guardian-girl/id1664426019/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/imae-guardian-girl/id1664426019.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 197 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of IMAE Guardian Girl? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Cute graphics and art style - 🎶 Great music and sound design - 🎮 Enjoyable gameplay loop - 💡 Interesting skill combinations and build variety - 👍 High quality and well-made game - ✨ Feels like old Touhou Project - 🚀 Smooth performance on most devices - 🤩 Characters are pretty and likable - 💯 Fantastic 'survivor' type game - 🌟 Good long-term progression **Cons** - 💰 Very pay-to-win elements - ⏳ Stingy stamina system - 🐌 Slow progression and grindy gameplay - 😩 Repetitive gameplay loop - 💸 High cost for S tier items and gacha - 📉 S tier items become useless quickly - ❓ Confusing ability descriptions and synergies - ⚠️ Unfair and chaotic enemy patterns - 📉 Low rewards for daily chores - 🐌 Game feels incomplete at paywall - 🐌 Difficulty spikes suddenly - 🐌 Energy cost for modes is too high - 🐌 Small quantity of enhancement items for energy cost - 🐌 Enhancement costs get too high quickly - 🐌 Chance to fail acquiring skills is ridiculous - 🐌 Overall balance is too tight, feels like being chased **Commonly reported bugs** - 🐛 Active 'Guardians' stop working after Lv. 1 upgrade - 🐛 Game lags out often at higher levels with more projectiles - 🐛 App closes frequently at higher levels - 🐛 Lang Skin Mission Chapter 2: Fire Charm [Fervor] evolution not completing - 🐛 Fire Charm [Fervor] evolution mission not completing - 🐛 English language translation issues - 🐛 Game doesn't start - 🐛 Game frequently crashes on iPad - 🐛 Rabbit clover quest 2 keeps resetting timer **Most requested features** - Add offline play - More content and rewards - Add a boss/timer mob indicator - Add male characters - Add duo or trio co-op mode - Add an index menu for skills/gears - Improve progression system - Make stamina recharge faster or a talent tree upgrade - Add more stages/environments for flourish mode - Add more costumes and ways to collect currency ## Newest reviews (11 of 37) ### 4/5 — 화염 부적[격동]어떻게 진화시키나요? *2024-03-04* 랑아 스킨 얻을려고 미션하고있는데 화염부적 5/5로 해놔도 안되더라고요ㅠㅠ어떻게 하는지 설명서도 못찾겠고 좀 알려주세요^-^ **Developer response:** 안녕하세요. 소녀의 생존 로그라이트 액션 게임! 이매소녀입니다. 콜라보 스킨 임무 중 특정 스킬 '진화하기' 임무는 해당 스킬을 5레벨까지 달성한 후 '진화의 꽃'을 획득하여 적용하면 완료가 가능한 점 안내드립니다. 그렇기에 육성 플레이 도중 등장하는 '진화의 꽃'을 이용해 스킬을 진화하여 다시 한번 확인해 주시길 바랍니다. 만약 해당 방법으로도 임무 완료에 어려움을 겪으신다면 고객 지원으로 문의 접수를 부탁드리며, 문의 내용을 바탕으로 더욱 상세히 도움을 드리도록 하겠습니다. 감사합니다. ▶ 이매소녀 문의 방법: 로비 내 [설정] > [계정] > [고객 지원] ### 3/5 — This would be good.. *2023-12-22* This would be a great game if it got rid of its stingy stamina system. Or made practice mode less of a joke, (I finish in 11 minutes or so and win every time now, and it gives no rewards of any kind). Seriously, speed up stamina recharge a bit with every level up, or let it be a talent tree upgrade. It takes 30 stamina to start a 15 minute game and it takes ten minutes to recharge 1 stamina. What a poor decision on an otherwise decent game. ### 3/5 — I like it and I don’t like it *2023-10-28* This game is not balanced. The Flourish game modes energy cost is to high, it cost 30 energy to do 1 Flourish run and you only have 100 energy in total so that’s 3 runs and then you have to wait till you get more energy. The character enhancement items you find in Flourish are random and the quantity that you get is so small for how much energy you use, it makes it feel like it’s not worth it. The Attribute and Proficiency enhancement cost gets so high so quickly you will have to do 100s of runs just to enhance your character once, that’s especially true in the late game. In the Flourish when you augment your character with abilities you have this blue spirit energy that you use to acquire attacks or passive skills and if you acquire too many skills without replenishing this energy you have a chance to fail to acquire an attack or passive skill, which is just ridiculous. The enemies are strange to talk about, there are so many things to watch out for and it takes some getting used to but for the most part it starts out fairly tame but as you go from wave to wave it quickly gets to the point where it is just chaotic and also unfair. The thing that makes it unfair is that there isn’t a pattern it’s all just thrown at you chaotically. The ability descriptions can be difficult to understand and most of the confusing abilities are the guardian abilities and how they affect your character, however regular attack abilities are easy to understand there descriptions. The ability synergies are not, that’s a trial and error sort of thing which is part of learning any game. As far as the visuals, I think there great. ### 5/5 — 재밌게 하고있는데 *2023-09-02* 토끼풀은 이윽고 2번퀘가 계속 18시간 후 개방 → 1시간 후 개방 → 18시간 후 개방 말만 바뀌고 안 열려요...ㅠㅠ ### 5/5 — Not bad at all *2023-08-28, version 1.3.7* Good time waster ### 4/5 — Lots of potential *2023-08-19* As far as free bullet heavens go this one’s pretty solid with only one glaring fault that’s also quite excessive: it’s got the counter productive energy system. Seriously, all it’s existence does is tell people DONT play the game. Especially when, like this one is at the moment, it’s rather heavy handed and requires recharging after 2-3 plays. Devs please, for your own benefit, either lower the cost or remove the energy nonsense entirely ### 3/5 — Error *2023-08-03* Fix the English language, I can’t even read it **Developer response:** Hello. It seems that you have experienced inconvenience because the English language is not displayed well. First of all, if the set language does not appear normally, please take the following actions and check. 1. Update to the latest version (v1.3.7) from the store. 2. Change to any other language in [Settings] > [Language] and set it back to English. 3. Login again after exiting the game. If this does not work, please submit an inquiry by selecting [Settings] > [Customer Support] in the game. We will help you as quickly as possible. We will become an IMAE Guardian Girl who always strives to give satisfaction. Thank you ### 5/5 — Nice *2023-08-02* One more try ### 3/5 — 환불 정책이 이상합니다. *2023-08-02* 게임은 재밌어요. 간단하게 즐기기 좋아요. 근데 환불 규정이 이상하네요. 일일특가를 잘못 구매하게 되었고 분명 우편함으로 들어왔습니다. 우편함에서 받지 않은 상태에서 환불 요청을 하게 되었는데 계정이 정지 되었네요.... ### 5/5 — 그림체 취향이고 너무 재밌어요ㅠㅠㅠ *2023-07-22* 오랜만에 취향인 겜 찾아서 눈물 좔좔 흘리면서 플레이 하는 중입니다 산신령한테 뚜들겨 맞고 퇴출 당했지만 괜찮습니다 재밌잖아요^^... ### 5/5 — 게임은 기본적으로 재밌습니다 *2023-06-23* 난이도가 갑자기 너무 팍팍 어려워져요.. 중간이 없음. 거기 맞게 키우는데 오래 걸려서 늘어지고 진행이 안됩니다. 게임을 하루 종일 할수도 없고.. 조절 좀 부탁드려요. 그리고 보상 전체 일괄받기 좀 만들어주세요 조금 불편합니다 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 어렵고 할건 없고 *2024-09-01* 템강화는 같은거 모아 강화라 돈먹는게임에 할건 너무없고.. ### 1/5 — 🤥Ridiculously Pay To Win 🤥 *2023-11-15* At launch, this game was good and you can still beat all stages by grind. Then they added S tier items that are obviously better, so I decided to spend about $6000 to max them out since I liked this game and wanna support a game I like. Then only 2 months later, they added another set of S tier items that are so much better than the S tier items they added 2 months ago. Survival iO is popular because they are generous with S items and older S items are still useful and comparable to newest S item sets. But this game is very stingy with resources and only way to get S items are doing gatcha with in-app purchase currencies. Worst part is your S items become useless as soon as new S items release. ### 1/5 — 33rd가 더 재밋고 오래할만해요 *2023-10-31* 한판한판 너무오래걸리고 모바일게임은 가벼워야한다고생각하고 탕탕특공대처럼 빨리빨리끝나면좋겠는데 매번같은 맵 같은방식.. 지루합니다 졸려요 정말입니다 33rd그냥 어서신경써주세요 ### 1/5 — Bug *2023-08-02* It doesn’t start. 😡 **Developer response:** Hello. It looks like you're having problems with the game not starting. However, it is confirmed that the situation you described does not always occur. If you submit an inquiry, we will help you by understanding the situation a little more accurately. Please contact us using the method below and let us know more information. ▶ How to contact IMAE Guardian Girl: [Settings] in the game lobby > [Account] > [Customer Support] We will always try to help. thank you ### 1/5 — 퀄리티 자체가 너무 떨어지는느낌이네요 *2023-06-25* 일명 뱀서류 게임으로 나왔는데 스킬찍는데 확률이 존재하는거부터 말이 안되는데 레벨업따로 마나따로 올리는건 무슨 의도인지 이해가 안가네요;; 재미적인 요소를 스스로 제거해버린 게임인듯합니다 초반은 스킬도 적고 약해도 열심히 렙업해서 스킬도 여러개찍고 스킬렙업도 해서 시원시원한 진행이 되어야하는데 초반 몇번 지나면 패시브스킬업글만 나오는데 그나마도 스킵해가면서 스킬업글확률까지 조절해줘야된다는건 누구 머리에서 나온 메커니즘인지 이해가 안가요 정말 ### 1/5 — 블서류로 돈을 이런식으로 요구 할 수 있군요. *2023-05-28* 투자한 시간 비례 성장도 아이템 강화도 전부 더디도록 설계된 게임이네요. 그러한 부분들을 현금 박치기로 빠르게 해결 할 수 있게 만들어 놓은 게임이구요. 로그라이크, 블서류 게임 참 많이 해봤지만 이런식으로 대놓고 과금을 할 수 밖에 없게 만들어진 게임은 처음입니다. 무과금 유저들은 적어도 2주동안 죽어라 노력해야만 클리어를 시도라도 해볼 수 있도록 만들어진 게임같군요. 이런식의 게임들이 늘어나니 한국 게임들의 미래가 갈수록 어두어질 수 밖에 없다고 생각이 듭니다. ### 2/5 — Needs more content and rewards *2024-05-28* Played this game and was hitting mid to end game stages in less than a month. They gate you with gems and time to make you feel like spending, but there really isn't a point to get S+ or the highest difficulty if the weapons are locked behind paywall. Game feels incomplete when you hit paywall, and the daily chores for a small amount of gems to gacha pull nothing makes this a dud. ### 2/5 — Add Offline Play *2023-09-26* It’s fun, but the fact that you can’t play offline us a major downside compared to the many similar games on the store. I’d give it a higher rating if this was added. ### 3/5 — Has Potential *2024-04-29* I enjoy the gameplay aspects and gameplay loop, but there seems to be a lot of bugs currently, the biggest one I found is that active “Guardians” stop working when you upgrade then farther than Lv. 1, they just stop attacking whatsoever. ### 3/5 — Fun, but app closing issues *2024-03-12* I played this game daily for a month. When you get to higher levels and there are more projectiles, the game lags out quite often. I’ve done 5 games in a row 2x and 4/5 times it lagged out and the app closed, so I barely make progress in harder stages. Kind of disappointing when you spend 20-30minutes on a level just for the app to close(on the 30fps setting as well). Not too p2w, unless you want to roll the gatcha system. The skills are fun, but can get repetitive when you figure out which elements are the strongest/most efficient with beating the time limit per stage to get to higher levels. It’s fun, good content, grindy, interesting abilities, fun quick rpg run around and shoot things game, but now my progress is very slow late game. Good game to spend a few hours of free time. Long term, you will lag out a lot. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 왕기엽고 왕재밋다 *2026-02-27* 이런겜찾고있었는데 그래픽 음악 다 맘에들고 귀여움 겁나잘만들었다!!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Cute *2024-11-03, version 2.4.0* There are similar games that are older, but this game makes a better and cuter version. I love it. It has English, Japanese, and Korean dubs. ### 5/5 — 재밌는 뱀서라이크 *2024-04-21* 캐릭터 디자인도 마음에 들고 특시 레벨디자인이 잘 되어있는 것 같네요. 아직 플탐은 많지않지만 재밌습니다! ### 5/5 — 랑아 스킨 임무 오류 *2024-03-15* 랑아 스킨 임무 2장에서 화염 부적 격동 진화가 안 깨지는데 오류인가요? 몇번이나 격동 진화시켰고, 기억에도 그렇다고 뜨는데.. **Developer response:** 안녕하세요. 소녀의 생존 로그라이트 액션 게임! 이매소녀입니다. 콜라보 스킨 임무 중 특정 스킬 '진화하기' 임무는 해당 스킬을 5레벨까지 달성한 후 '진화의 꽃'을 획득하여 적용하면 완료가 가능한 점 안내드립니다. 그렇기에 육성 플레이 도중 등장하는 '진화의 꽃'을 이용해 스킬을 진화하여 다시 한번 확인해 주시길 바랍니다. 만약 해당 방법으로도 임무 완료에 어려움을 겪으신다면 고객 지원으로 문의 접수를 부탁드리며, 문의 내용을 바탕으로 더욱 상세히 도움을 드리도록 하겠습니다. 감사합니다. ▶ 이매소녀 문의 방법: 로비 내 [설정] > [계정] > [고객 지원] ### 5/5 — 시스템 추가 부탁드려요 *2024-02-25* 보스나 시계몹이 뜨는 페이즈마다 주변에 이펙트를 넣거나 타이머처럼 넣어서 출현 빈도를 바로바로 확인 할 수 있엏으면 좋겠어요 ### 5/5 — 재밌어요 *2023-12-29* 게임이 퀄리티도높고 bm이나 게임즐기는 것이 복잡하지않으면서 너무좋네요 튜토리얼 질질끄는것도 없고 약간 옛날 동방프로젝트 감성도 느껴져요 ### 5/5 — Top *2023-11-20* Top ### 5/5 — God *2023-11-13* Es muy buen juego pa perder tiempo ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2023-10-21, version 1.4.6* My favourite "survivor" type game. Runs great, huge build variety, skill is acually important. The UI is very weird and some things are hidden behind many menus but it was actually fun discovering them and figuring out how it all works. I highly recommend, there is huge longterm progression with the skin/armor unlock and upgrade questline etc. ### 5/5 — It’s a fun game but progression needs some work *2023-09-11, version 1.4* I think in general this game is worth a 4.5 star, the graphics are nice and clean, game runs smoothly without overheating, some nice innovations like the spirit thing and guardian skills, art style is great compared to other vampire survivor like games. The 2 main areas that need some work are: 1. Progression is slow and confusing, separating flourish and moon garden bonus is questionable, character growth is so slow to the point is barely noticeable, there’s only 1 stage/environment for flourish mode, although the skills combination varies, the general gameplay loop stays the same for a very long time, so it can get old very quick. This needs a lot of work and I hope the developer can look to 2. Need more info about skills/gears, maybe add an index menu so the there’s some info about the thing you have unlocked. The game doesn’t explain this very well. --- *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 2026-09-04.*