# Kick the Buddy — user reviews > 3,653 indexed App Store user reviews of Kick the Buddy by Playgendary Limited, rated 4.60/5 from 1,045,294 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kick-the-buddy/id1278869953/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kick-the-buddy/id1278869953.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 841,421 · 4★ 88,397 · 3★ 46,369 · 2★ 22,444 · 1★ 46,663 ## What do users think of Kick the Buddy? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🤩 Fun and entertaining - 😂 Funny and amusing - 🕹️ Satisfying to play - 🧠 Good stress relief **Cons** - 💸 Too many ads - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 🤬 Aggressive monetization - 🐛 Glitches and bugs - 🚫 Locked content behind paywall **Commonly reported bugs** - Freezing and crashing issues - Glitches with rewards and purchases - Incompatibility with some devices **Most requested features** - Reduce ads and in-app purchases - Bring back old features - Add new weapons and gameplay modes - Improve performance and stability ## Newest reviews (11 of 3,653) ### 3/5 — Lots of ads *2026-08-30, version 2.8.1* Lots of ads ### 4/5 — Read this *2026-08-29, version 2.8.1* This game is fun to play and the noises are funny and it is fun to kill the doll but one thing on my iPad there is like a billion adds and after a while it gets annoying it’s good because I can’t get my stress out 😑😩😩🤬🤬 ### 4/5 — Fun but 2 things, *2026-08-27, version 2.8.1* So I was playing a slime game and I saw a ad for this game it was so fun just playing the ad like filling it up with water and acid and dipping him in so I got the game but it wasn’t like that like it didn’t have that so I was a little sad but still fun and there’s another thing, too many ads, I press a button and I watch a ad, it asks if I wanna get a present from watching a ad I say no and I still watch a ad but don’t get anything! Overall it’s fun! ### 1/5 — Hope this game gets shut down. *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* Back when this game first came out it was so much fun, now it’s just terrible, I just redownloaded this game after not playing it for 5+ years. Well just like every other game, an ungodly amount of in app purchases, weapons that REQUIRE an in app purchase to be made, and quite literally worst of all, there is not a SINGLE weapon that is free, that, DOESNT require an add to even use it. Super disappointing, I’d say this game is being falsely advertised, “fun and relaxing game” there’s nothing fun or relaxing about in app purchases and mandatory excessive adds just to even play this game, technically speaking that is in fact false advertising. ### 1/5 — Can’t even enjoy the game *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* I used to love this game. I recently rediscovered it and MY GOD. Every little thing is followed by an ad or a prompt to upgrade the version. I understand the creators had to add ads to keep the version free. But I’ve played games with ads before that wasn’t as insufferable. There’s even ads you can’t exit out of unless you close the entire app. I uninstalled it just as fast as I installed it 😕 ### 2/5 — Buddy *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* It’s all just pay to win stuff but it’s pretty fun👋🫤👌 ### 1/5 — Greedy company *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* Really? 7.99 a week for a mobile game is insane. This company is incredibly greedy ### 1/5 — Amazing! *2026-08-24, version 2.8.1* Love it so much!the only thing I would advise you do is give it less adds!it’s so annoying!and as soon as you get n the game it’s Add add add add add add now play and then you kill him then add and so on and so forth ### 4/5 — Odd *2026-08-23, version 2.8.1* Why even buy blood all it is is an effect also people might hate me for saying this but now that you can get a lot of gold for free it just feels too easy ### 3/5 — Meh *2026-08-22, version 2.8.1* It was a good game but the ads never did what it looked like it could. ### 4/5 — Try to calm down on the ads *2026-08-22, version 2.8.1* It’s a great game over all but to many ads ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-08-30, version 2.8.1* You get an ad every time you even SELECT an item🫩 ### 1/5 — Childhood game became horrible *2026-08-30, version 2.8.1* This sweet game where you could get everything for free just by playing when i was young, is now infested with ads, buyable packs and highly priced items. The greed of the company that created this game is showing. It’s so sad that such a nice relaxing game became a frustrating ad infested garbage hole. You can’t even play 5 minutes without ads. This is indeed sad times for mobile game. These business tactics need to STOP!! ### 1/5 — what an awful game *2026-08-29, version 2.8.1* the game is physically unplayable, the ads on here make this game so hard to play if i wanted to watch some ads i would’ve gone to the cinema ### 1/5 — Bad *2026-08-28, version 2.8.1* My younger brother was playing this and he started attacking my parents more and hitting them and being more violent than usual ### 1/5 — Shameful *2026-08-27, version 2.8.1* I will call the proper authorities if not taken down , terrorist ### 1/5 — Worst game everrrrrr *2026-08-27, version 2.8.1* Don't get so stupid you can't even do anything all you do is throw balls or something like that so stupid wish i could do 0 stars but cant ### 1/5 — Forced Ads *2026-08-26, version 2.8.1* After i claimed a daily gift, i reopened the app and it keeps showing me the daily gifts page with no "X" to go to the main game, the only way (i think) is to watch the ad to close the page ### 1/5 — очень много рекламы *2026-08-26, version 2.8.1* во первых почему то все стало за деньги стоить, в мое время было все бесплатно там очень много рекламы, ужас какой-то!!! не возможно играть, еще эти рекламы долгие ### 1/5 — P2W *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* Playgendary makes you pay 5 bucks for 0 ads. More greedy than EA ### 1/5 — Slop *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* I’ve never actually been able to open the app so I can’t truly give a rating on the performance or anything. However.. after downloading the app I have not been able to get past the loading screen. I’ve sat there with my Wi-Fi connected with my data connected. I cannot get this game to open. I don’t know if this is just an issue for me or if this is an issue for anyone else, but that’s my problem and that’s why I gave it a low rating ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A few less ads *2026-08-30, version 2.8.1* I understand perfectly why you have a bunch of ads but there’s just one ad I do not like because whenever I defeat The buddy you are the present and you can skip that present and whenever I click the skip button I get an ad so basically I’m watching an ad for nothing so I’d like you to delete that one but everything else it’s pretty good ### 5/5 — I absolutely love this game! but… *2026-08-30, version 2.8.1* I grew up playing this game for a LOT of time and I must say that it is a great time killer and fun but there are some things still missing. I have read several reviews of this game and older players have been wanting an OG mode for a lot of time and most of the players want a decrease in the ads and I personally feel bad for that little guy getting beat up by many painful ways so I would like to know why players have to kill the buddy over and over again. There is also a slight ad problem. Every time I kill buddy I get a gift for a bonus and I mostly skip it but while I still skip it, it gives me an ad. I also discovered a glitch by myself. If you unlock a weapon by getting to 100 percent after killing buddy 4 times, if you click on the ad button to get that weapon and while the ad is playing, you quit the game and reopen it, you won’t get the weapon but if you kill buddy again, the counter will go up to 125 percent and so on. ### 5/5 — hi guys *2026-08-29, version 2.8.1* i like the game but now pls make a version with the original version but with a “POV”button and there are two options”Player” and “Buddy (if you have any motion sickness, please do player POV.)” ### 5/5 — Ehh :( *2026-08-28, version 2.8.1* Ужасно стало но скачал ipa старую версию 1.3.22 она лучшая «translate it” ### 5/5 — Just add more please *2026-08-28, version 2.8.1* The game is super great. Add thousand more items or weapon an add a money machine where I can get infinity money I actually infinity maybe $10,000 in the next upgrade. Add a lot of more levels and tools please ### 5/5 — I like it but the ADS MAANN!!?? *2026-08-26, version 2.8.1* So basically I was playing it and an ad came up for a s*x ai 🤖 chat game and showed body parts on full display 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢 please fix this problem because I am only 13 but in general I love the gameee! Tysm ily guys ### 5/5 — Rolando *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* I love it ### 5/5 — Game is called the best *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* I lov ### 5/5 — Funnest game *2026-08-25, version 2.8.1* Played this game since I was 5 now I’m nine super fun! ### 5/5 — This game is soo fun *2026-08-18, version 2.8.0* 100% recommendations for u guys this is so fun and I love it but pls the ads --- *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 2026-09-01.*