# Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE — user reviews > 221 indexed App Store user reviews of Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE by Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., rated 4.20/5 from 485 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/katamari-damacy-rolling-live/id6449352814/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/katamari-damacy-rolling-live/id6449352814.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 336 · 4★ 44 · 3★ 34 · 2★ 27 · 1★ 44 ## What do users think of Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Fun and entertaining gameplay - 🎨 Great graphics and visuals - 🎮 Works well with controllers - 🕹️ Nostalgic and true to the series **Cons** - 🐛 Control issues and input delay - 🤔 Inconvenient touch controls - 🔍 Camera and view obstruction problems - 🔥 Device heating and performance issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Map selection issues after completing levels - Disappearing unlocked items and cousins - Leaderboard bugs causing game to hang **Most requested features** - Multiplayer mode - Add Princess character - Free play mode - Control scheme with single stick for movement and camera ## Newest reviews (15 of 221) ### 4/5 — Good game *2026-07-09, version 1.6.1* Good game sound effects can be less gross in fish ones candy to hard to get sometimes. ### 2/5 — Fun and clunky *2026-05-17, version 1.6.1* A fun premise but there are just so many issues. The controls are awkward, adjusting the joystick positioning is buggy, (and why do I even need specific joystick locations on a touch screen in the first place?), your character gets stuck a lot, the camera angles and perspective are bad, dialogue appears SOOO slow (letter by letter, which can’t be sped up) and when in a level it actually affects your controls bc tapping changes to advancing the dialogue instead of controlling your character. Overall the devs didn’t bother with some basic modern quality of life upgrades to make it playable ### 4/5 — Made me say “What the ACTUAL HECK” 🤣🤣 *2026-04-01, version 1.6.1* I’d heard of this game but was late to the party, so I found this, and dude, it’s as weird as it looks. But I freaking looooooove Katamari!! So fun! Controls aren’t great but that’s ok! Ty for this game :3 ### 2/5 — OH meh GAH *2026-02-25, version 1.6.1* The king makes me all 😞 so I have to beat a level the first time or I have to take a one day break from it and because of that I forget the layout of the level and lose again and ⬆️ ### 3/5 — Okay but missing things *2026-02-22, version 1.6.1* Fun to play but definitely needs work still. No one wants to roll around the same three bathhouse levels for a single candy. No one wants to grind these levels for a singular candy in an attempt to get any of the absurdly priced presents. Why not give candy as a reward for completing a collection? Why is the mask not available? What about the hat? Why not show us how the commenters work or what videos they're connected to considering they're the only way to get any somewhat substantial amount of candy? Why have the shop so filled up at all when there are plenty of levels that give players nothing but stars? Why not have some of these items be found? Or why not offer different items within the levels that currently have nothing? Also, give Kuro his extra antenna back, as that was a horrid mistake of a design change. So many of the cousins look the same and yall had to take away the one thing that made him unique. Good game but could be great with some more care and thought put into it. ### 2/5 — Great game, awful controls *2026-01-03, version 1.6.1* The controls make this game a pain to play, the camera is always in the worst possible position and moving it around is clunky and unintuitive ### 5/5 — Inacreditável *2025-11-24* Estou muito feliz que Katamari voltou com um jogo novo e mantendo todos os elementos da série original. É o meu jogo preferido de Playstation 2 e agora é meu jogo preferido de smartphones. Vida longa a Katamari ### 5/5 — Great fun *2025-10-25, version 1.6.1* Relaxing and silky and silly and skilly ### 5/5 — Na na na! *2025-10-24, version 1.6.1* Hi Namco! Im your ultimate fan! Thank you guys for putting this game on apple arcade! So I love the glow sticks level and the tag level! Very fun. This game is still fun as a katamari veteran. So far in the game, no complaints. I also like the King's design in this game. Especially the head pattern. Also, one suggestion. Can you make a level in "Wish Upon a Katamari", that you collect valuable objects for a king or a dragon? That would be cool. Also I, as a fan, want Eternal mode for lots of levels. Thank you guys! This is Arcadia, signing out! ### 5/5 — Very fun *2025-10-21, version 1.6.1* It is a very good game for when you just wanna destroy things, though it is kind of hard to control the calamari but is a still very good game so yes, I still do recommend. ### 2/5 — Difficulty ruins the atmosphere of the game *2025-10-19, version 1.6.1* It’s a great looking well put together Katamari game apart from the fact that the difficulty just seems ridiculous for no apparent reason. Time limits are crazy short and I’ve reached a point where I can barely make it to half the required sizes and just fail. It’s become an exercise in frustration vs what Katamari should be about, which is a relaxing silly slightly challenging game about running around picking stuff up! ### 2/5 — The stupid update caused the game lag! *2025-10-19, version 1.6.1* The update caused a severe drop in performance. Please fix this! ### 3/5 — Fix Rolling A Katamari In Space *2025-10-12, version 1.6.0* In that stage, almost all of the time, I can’t even roll up some stars that are out of reach because they are placed too high! I have OCD and I want to be able to get every single one of them. Please fix this issue and make all the stars be low enough for me to grab them! ### 5/5 — One of the greatest revivals *2025-10-10, version 1.6.0* Katamari Damacy was the first game I’ve ever played and I loved it. The sequels were also fun, but I loved We Love Katamari the most. It’s sad there were no new games for almost 15 years, but this revival is a great way to bring it back. The only downside is that it has a bit too many As Fast As Possible missions or my tastes but I’m able to ignore that with the incredible maps in this game. (My personal favorite is the bathroom map) Even though this game wasn’t perfect, it’s nice to see Katamari back. Can’t wait for Once Upon a Katamari. ### 5/5 — Katamari! *2025-10-05, version 1.6.0* Hey Bandai Namco, I just wanted to say thank you. This is the first Katamari Damacy game I’ve ever played, and I love it. It is really therapeutic and fun to play after a long, stressful school day, and the graphics are great! This game is worthy of Apple Arcade status!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Needs work *2026-08-07, version 1.6.1* Terrible unresponsive controls, tons of dialogue, interruptions, and loading screens. 90% of this game is not actually playing this game for no reason. ### 1/5 — too demanding for iphone (hot battery!) *2026-06-27, version 1.6.1* great game, but should not be on Apple Arcade if iOs is unable to handle ### 1/5 — Pésimos controles *2026-06-27* Muy poco intuitivos para jugabilidad, se va para donde quiere y llega a ser extremadamente molesto ### 1/5 — dude *2026-06-20, version 1.6.1* stuck on the loading screen for a literal hour. i had to keep my phone running and it turn it burned my legs ### 1/5 — Controls too hard *2026-01-01, version 1.6.1* Game is cute but the controls are too difficult to manage ### 1/5 — v *2025-08-13, version 1.4.0* i h@te this so much ### 1/5 — Does not work on Apple TV *2025-06-29, version 1.3.0* Was working great and lots of fun until after the third level and the game wanted me to access the fan club and the controller which is a nimbus bought from the apple does not work and I can’t play anymore. ### 1/5 — Awful controls *2025-06-28, version 1.3.0* Why is this even a mobile game!? The swipe controls are almost impossible to play with. It looks like a cute game but trying to steer and change the camera angle makes me want to throw my iPad across the room. Only played the tutorial and even that was way too difficult. Instructions for controls don’t even make sense. No idea how to do the special moves. Deleting. ### 1/5 — DOES NOT WORK ON APPLE TV! *2025-06-25, version 1.2.0* Be wary if you want to enjoy this game on your Apple TV. It does not work with neither game controllers, nor Apple TV remote. Stuck at save game screen loading screen but can’t select the save to load. Really wish they would fix this ASAP as they advertise it working with controllers and they work on other Apple devices. ### 1/5 — It needs more rooms *2025-06-18, version 1.2.0* Its nice but i am stuck and there is no more to descover !! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nistoga *2026-06-30, version 1.6.1* To good! I just can’t! And I also got all achievements and unlock all levels! ### 5/5 — best game ever *2026-06-21, version 1.6.1* no seriously. best game ever. another beautiful game made by a team who enjoyed making it. i know beautiful things take time to create but i need more levels nowwww 🫪 such a good game. ### 5/5 — A Most Satisfying Roll *2026-04-25* We tried this “Rolling Live.” We were bored for one second. Then—no longer bored. The music is delightful. Acceptable. Very acceptable. The rolling feels like the old days. Proper chaos. Proper growth. We like that. You have done a thing that does not disappoint Us. Rare. Continue this behavior. Now, roll. ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2026-03-29, version 1.6.1* Hi so I like that you can unlock new streams and that some things move and that it’s awesome. Wish you can add a level creator. Add more things too:) I got this a couple years ago and deleted it but installed it again not that long ago. It’s a game with a lot of fun. Peace out. ### 5/5 — ROLL THE KATAMARI! *2026-02-23, version 1.6.1* It an really good game ### 5/5 — Great but issue *2026-01-10, version 1.6.1* I really like this game but I can’t beat the you won’t believe this Katamari 2 level, that’s not the issue, it’s that sometimes when I open it there’s no sound but closing it out fixes it so still five stars edit: now I’m a top 1% player, great game! ### 5/5 — You need to try this *2026-01-08* This is insanely good. Man I have never had so much fun in a long time. Bring more katamari games to apple arcade please ### 5/5 — Timeless and fresh *2025-12-29, version 1.6.1* Never gets old, and every zone is a feast for the eyes!! ### 5/5 — Oh, we are so back with the old game The old version *2025-12-24, version 1.6.1* This game is very fun entertaining. I like the king where he gives you different quest and other stuff is really enjoying. You guys should play. It not only that I love where you could roll the ball and get more objects by rolling them into each other something like that this is probably the best game I’ve played in very very long time. It’s really enjoying and. if you fail on one level. The king will do a very purpleish dark scene. I like the animation. of the king and all the other different outfits, you can customize on your avatar. Not only that, but there’s millions of different outfits, you can customize on your avatar. This is my review. Hope you read it.(developer ### 5/5 — Great but issue *2025-12-17, version 1.6.1* I really like this game but I can’t beat the you won’t believe this Katamari 2 level, that’s not the issue, it’s that sometimes when I open it there’s no sound but closing it out fixes it so still five stars --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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