# Lost Frontier — user reviews > 159 indexed App Store user reviews of Lost Frontier by Mika Mobile, Inc., rated 4.20/5 from 200 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lost-frontier/id1008496061/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lost-frontier/id1008496061.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 140 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 22 ## What do users think of Lost Frontier? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Well-made game from top to bottom - 👍 Immersive story and gameplay - 👍 Great turn-based strategy experience - 👍 Excellent value for the price - 👍 Charming art style and characters - 👍 Engaging progression system with character upgrades **Cons** - 🐛 Compatibility issues with newer devices - 🔍 Difficulty can be too high, especially for newer players - 🔍 Lack of difficulty settings or options - 🔍 Repetitive dialogue and tutorials - 🔍 Reverse day/night effects for some characters **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes or crashes on newer iOS versions - Certain character abilities not functioning as intended - Incorrect day/night bonuses for some Living Legends **Most requested features** - Online multiplayer mode - Map editor and custom scenario creation - Ability to skip tutorials after initial completion - More varied soundtracks and visual environments ## Newest reviews (18 of 159) ### 4/5 — Compatibility Issues *2024-06-29* Compatibility Issues with iPhone 15. ### 2/5 — Why so difficult? *2024-03-28, version 1.0.3* Cool game but it’s just too hard to actually enjoy. There is no reason why it should be this difficult even at lower levels. If your already fighting with less troops, then factor in your not making as much as the enemy and they can keep buying more reinforcements even while they are ahead. It doesn’t really make sense that the game does this. ### 3/5 — Переодически вылетает !!! *2024-01-21* Отличная игра. Но не доработана. Во время игры вылетает. Исправьте пожалуйста. И оптимизируйте под новые экраны телефонов! ### 4/5 — Very fun, light strategy game *2022-12-30, version 1.0.3* Fun game with good music and visuals though the AI is pretty weak and it seems silly you still have to sit through all the tutorial messages even after you beat the campaign and are using unlockable characters meaning you must have already played through all the tutorials already and know how the units work. Also just a few bugs I want to report. Only one is legitimately game breaking, and it's a very niché scenario: -If the final enemy unit is a Machine and Crazy Jake destroys it and converts it to his side using his Legend ability, the game soft locks as it doesn't recognize that the last unit was killed and the end of the mission doesn't trigger, so you can't finish the level and are forced to surrender. After spending a solid 20-30 minutes on one of the later missions, this was a very annoying glitch to run into. -Crazy Jake's ability "Better Than New" does not do anything. I hand tested it in a custom game and it never raised a unit's attack values or (as far as I could tell) defense. I tried Jake healing undamaged unit, Jake healing damaged unit, Engineer healing undamaged unit, Engineer healing damaged unit, and none of it provided the unit with the effects of Snake Oil (unless you meant that as a joke, like how "Snake Oil" is phony in real life, though I doubt that was the intent in game as Snake Oil men do in fact serve a purpose in game). -Nadia Ramanov's units are supposed to have a 20% attack bonus during night time, but the reverse is actually true, she gets 20% attack bonus during daytime and no bonus at night which doesn't fit her vampire theming. -Clive Hawkins is supposed to get extra money during daytime, but he instead gets extra money during night time. -Edmund Ghast is supposed to get extra money at night but he gets it during the day. I'm just gonna go out on a limb and assume all day/night Living Legend interactions are accidentally reversed, as while I haven't tested all of them, all the interactions I've teated are backwards. -Edmund Ghast's legend ability where all his units adjacent to a friendly grave yard heal 30%, doesn't care whether or not the UNITS are friendlies. Meaning in an Edmund mirror match, the enemy Ghast gets healing from your graveyards. Seems like an oversight, should probably only heal friendly units not just "Any player who happens to be playing Ghast. ### 4/5 — Great game with one nasty bug *2022-09-18* Sadly the mal selection in single player does not show the map preview. Otherwise really great game ### 3/5 — Could be great, but difficulty is a bit ridiculous *2021-10-14* This game as such potential but without an option to change the difficulty it gets a bit ridiculous. Idk how anyone could ever get more than 1 star on some of these, and then level 11 is just annoyingly difficult. You’re just fighting a near impossible uphill battle while getting blasted with cannons and I feel the game does not give you enough resources to even make it fun. I don’t really wanna just keep churning out basic units for 20 rounds until I maybeee finally break through…which I haven’t yet hah there is a balance between difficult and fun and difficult and not fun and this is already leaning too much towards the later. Adding the ability to change the difficulty setting would benefit this game greatly. ### 4/5 — Not fitted for modern phones *2021-10-04, version 1.0.3* I absolutely love this game, but since upgrading my old phone I don’t want to play it due to the format only being for older, smaller phones ### 5/5 — Amazing strategy game *2021-09-03, version 1.0.3* Astonishing this game doesn’t have a perfect rating. It’s an immersive strategy game with a great story provided without ads or in app purchases. Download it and enjoy something uncommon in this day an age: an engaging and fun experience completely free of charge. ### 4/5 — Some trouble *2021-07-03* The levels start off easy but really quickly become really hard I wish was a slightly larger community to make playthroughs of so that I could play. ### 2/5 — A more tempered review. *2021-03-28, version 1.0.3* In regards to the game itself your most likely going to either hate it but want to keep playing or hate it and refuse to keep going, the main nuisances for anyone getting this game are that 1. The levels get extremely difficult fairly fast the first few are easy enough you might not 3 star em but meh fine least it’s progress, until you reach around about chapter/level 10 or 11 then the nightmare begins in earnest. 2. While the game is fun the levelling system for your living legends can be very long and drawn out if you get stuck anywhere making it feel slow and frankly not much of an achievement. 3. If you manage to get a legend to max level one way or another and then decide to check out a custom game there’s some bad news there too, custom games will quite often after you save and exit refuse to acknowledge that your character has actually got any perks, this includes things like discounts, extra health/attack etc which as someone who went through the hassle of getting a fully levelled legend is fairly annoying, yes I know the game is dated but still. ### 5/5 — Perfect turn-based RPG-lite game *2021-03-09* This is game takes a game like advanced wars and spins it on its head... adds cowboys, and the undead, while keeping the tanks and helicopters... I cannot count the number of hours I played this trying to get each character/hero to level 40 and succeeding. Each hero has their own legendary skills level track that makes playing as them so much fun. You may struggle on one level with one hero and then switch to another absolutely boss that same level... now I’m still playing this game after a couple of years... I’m still trying to get 3 stars on each level for each character... I think a couple are just impossible... I thought a few more were until I nailed the tactics perfectly and scrapped through by the skin of my teeth... love this game!! My hopes for a sequel are still strong :) ### 3/5 — Refunding *2020-12-21, version 1.0.3* The game is not optimised for phones with notch. Moreover, it takes even less space and shows black bars. I have requested a refund, but will buy it once the developer updates the game with this. ### 5/5 — Awesome Game *2020-11-24, version 1.0.3* Well-balanced casual tactics game, super fun to play. Mika knows how to make great games! ### 3/5 — Wirklich gutes Spiel! *2020-10-13* Zuerst war ich skeptisch und nicht sicher ob ich mir dieses Spiel holen soll doch meine Erwartungen wurden mehr als übertroffen! Es ähnelt etwas an Advance wars von Nintendo doch mit dem Unterschied das es Cowboys sind mit denen man spielt und nicht Panzer was ein guter Kompromiss ist wenn man Advance wars und Cowboys mag! Allerdings kann ich diesen Spiel leider nur vier Sterne geben da es nur die Sprache Englisch gibt aber sonst auf jeden Fall jeden Cent wert! ### 5/5 — Excellent Strategy Game! *2020-08-23, version 1.0.3* One of the best RTS games on the AppStore! I wish they added multiplayer option so that we can play online and also add spectators if we wanted to just watch verses the AI. The AI is not that bad but I feel like it’s the same thing over and over so it’s easy to expect what the AI will possibly get or do. Also, please update for latest iPhones and iPads. Thank you!! ### 5/5 — One of the best turn-based strategy games *2020-08-18* I play a lot of turn based strategy games on my pc, but when I’m traveling I have to play mobile games, and when I was looking for mobile games, I found lost frontier. This game blew me away, and this game is a lot better than even some of the games on my pc. The story is great, and it is one of the few mobile games that actually has a good storyline. The combat is really good, as it is simple to learn, but you can do so much with it. The campaign is the best part imo, but the challenge and custom maps are also fun. Also, it is really cool unlocking new abilities for your character as you go along. On top of that, to fully upgrade any character it’s only $.99, so the max you can spend in the game is only $9, and you really don’t need to pay anything as it’s not pay to win at all. I have never written a game review before, but this game is so good that I had too. ### 4/5 — Non-optimisée iphone xsmax *2020-07-18* Je vous prie d'adapter la taille d'écran pour xsmax , je vous en supplie même ❤️ j'adore ce jeux ### 3/5 — Nice graphics, sound and art however.. *2020-05-15* There are a few minute details which high end turn based strategy games feature. One day into the game, I find myself not knowing how to check or accepting a serious flaw in the game. We are unable to view the range for our own units. We are unable view any information about the terrain, also. For instance, clicking or holding your finger on a unit should serve a purpose to display ranged attack length or unit information. Recruiting is annoying because everytime you view a unit, they prompt a 2 sentence pop up of information which increases time to select your unit. We should also be able to station units on saloons or homes. I’m also not sure if ranger attacks can go through them? They’re are so many mesas as well but shouldn’t we be able to place our units on them, or on hills. Also the menu buttons are way to close, they feature similar font and size. So often I will click on a different button than I desire, as they’re placed on the top right. I’d prefer more copy and paste of advance wars , Lost Frontier is old but there is much untapped potential. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — I wish I knew there were supernatural element to this game *2023-07-13, version 1.0.3* Idk why it really turned me off! I was enjoying it before then..take out the “weird” stuff and there should be less dialogue… Loved battleheart legacy where fantasy actually makes sense ### 1/5 — Only Extremely hard mode *2022-12-19, version 1.0.3* never leave reviews but this one is needed. The gameplay is fun the the levels are SUPER HARD. I even bought the “in app purchases” to level my heroes to the max. Nope, still incredibly hard. Looking up some reviews online, this is many people’s issue with this game. There needs to be an Easy, Hard, and Extreme mode, in my opinion. Please make these modes available. The community wants them. ### 1/5 — Needs update *2019-09-23, version 1.0.3* Too many glictches can’t select troops screen moves ### 1/5 — Unnecessarily frustrating *2018-06-07, version 1.0.3* EVERY attack by your team has the frustrating problem of always leaving 1 health on your enemy. Very cheap move by Mika to make the game more difficult. How do they do this? Your attack has a range of damage, say for example 40-60. Guess what? It’s never 60, it’s ALWAYS 40. Such a great game being made bad by poor decisions on gameplay. ### 1/5 — Difficulty ramp needs adjusting *2017-10-24, version 1.0.3* The game gets super hard very quickly. I have loved Mika Mobiles other games, and I want to love this one. By the time you get to chapter 4, forget it. ### 1/5 — Crashes Constantly *2017-09-17, version 1.0.3* Running it on a 6S Plus, and it crashes once every 2-3 minutes, almost unplayable. Would be great if it worked.... ### 1/5 — Fantastic Game but Crashes Constantly *2017-09-11, version 1.0.3* I absolutely love this game's mix of advance wars style gameplay and Weird West plot. More games should aspire to take the best elements of good stuff and mix it together into a well-polished, fun and affordable game experience that doesn't load you down with micro transactions! Sadly, the game crashes on me constantly - about every other turn it'll freeze up and about every third time I launch it it'll crash. My advice as a game dev - take a few sprints and invest in automated testing, guys. It'll pay dividends in ways you can't imagine. ### 1/5 — Awful *2017-08-06, version 1.0.3* Awful ### 1/5 — Too difficult to enjoy *2017-07-25, version 1.0.3* Started out fun...but difficulty sky rockets making the game not fun and too much time waiting around to earn cash or level up your hero in order to even come close to being able to clear the stage. I play tons of tactical games and this one just too overwhelming....art is great and sound is good....they just really need to balance the difficulty or offer an option to adjust the difficulty so people don't feel like they wasted their money. ### 1/5 — Game Crashes *2016-12-26* The game is unplayable. It crashes every time I try to attack someone while playing the 3rd mission. Please Fix! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — War sehr gut *2026-07-17* Habe es damals in england gespielt und ist schon ein sehr gutes Spiel. ### 5/5 — Such a great game *2025-05-21* I really loved to play this game and have finished the campaign with 4 characters of the game and finished all challenge levels also. They are very challenging but this is the good part about the game. Thank you for many hours of fun playing this masterpiece :-) ### 5/5 — 👍 *2025-01-17, version 1.0.3* Just well made, top to bottom. Would love to see more! ### 5/5 — Didn’t get enough credit for how good this actually was *2024-11-04* We need a updated version or online battles ### 5/5 — Très bon jeu *2024-05-09* J’ai beaucoup aimé. Bon niveau de difficulté. ### 5/5 — Excellent turn based strategy game! *2024-01-25* I downloaded this game looking for some advance wars nostalgia. It scratched that itch big time and then had me wanting more levels of this, thought it was really well made and clean. I didn’t think it was too difficult like other reviews have said, but challenge maps can be really hard if you haven’t maxed out the legend you’re using. ### 5/5 — Great little game! *2023-12-03, version 1.0.3* Any fan of the advance wars series will love this. A nice old-school strategy game with character progression elements. Has been a mainstay on my phone for many years. Nothing too flashy but worth the price in a morass of pay to win games! ### 5/5 — Quel super jeu *2023-10-19* Apres quelque Anne de jeu de temps en temps, j ai enfin terminer entièrement le jeu, 3 étoile sur tous les perso sur chaque map challenge +story mode, ca aura prit du temps, mais c étais toujours un plaisir de reprendre ce petit jeu, ancien fan d avance wars, ce jeu est pour vous ### 5/5 — Really fun turn based strategy game *2022-05-21, version 1.0.3* This game is really fun. Different unit types, immersive story, and difficult but not impossible. One of the best games I’ve played in years. ### 5/5 — Owned this game for years and keep coming back *2022-05-12* I think I bought this game 5 years ago, and I wanted to write a review because I just got back into it and it’s just as good as I remembered. Well balanced and interesting turn based play, Tom of replay value, and it’s not intimidating to learn the mechanics and get started. I’m mainly writing this review for the developer to encourage them to keep making this type of content. It’s a shame this didn’t get a bigger audience but if you happen on it now you’ll still love it. Also there’s no bugs or crashes which can sometimes be a concern with old games. --- *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 2026-09-09.*