# Lost Portal CCG — user reviews > 197 indexed App Store user reviews of Lost Portal CCG by Michael Camilli, rated 4.50/5 from 316 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lost-portal-ccg/id924691770/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lost-portal-ccg/id924691770.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 253 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 22 ## What do users think of Lost Portal CCG? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Engaging gameplay - 🎨 Beautiful artwork - 💰 Great value for money - 🕹️ Satisfying deck-building - 🕹️ Challenging yet rewarding - 🕹️ Reminiscent of Magic: The Gathering - 🕹️ Addictive and replayable - 🕹️ Offline single-player experience - 🕹️ Responsive developer support **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes - 🔍 Unclear tutorials - 🔍 Unbalanced difficulty progression - 🔍 Repetitive dungeon and quest design - 🔍 Limited deck-building options - 🔍 Unsatisfying story and lore **Commonly reported bugs** - Certain cards not functioning as intended - Graphical issues on newer devices - Progression-blocking bugs in late game **Most requested features** - More deck slots - Ability to reset progress without losing cards - Randomly generated dungeons - Expanded end-game content - Multiplayer or leaderboard support - Improved UI and quality-of-life features ## Newest reviews (13 of 197) ### 4/5 — Awesom Ccg, I’d love one more feature- *2026-07-06, version 1.4.8* Probably the best indie ccg on the market. The only thing I’d want to add is the ability to play against your own decks. And I also think creatures should go to the graveyards of their owners, not the player who most recently controlled them… and I’m not sure why I can craft most cards but not some of them? So it has some quirks that I wish it didn’t… but otherwise it’s very good, a real gem of the app store. ### 3/5 — Its ….pretty good *2025-08-18, version 1.4.8* The bones of the game are good, characters are well drawn, game mechanics are good. My issues lie with the core flow of the game, from the boot your given not a ton of options with deck building, I ended up switching multiple colors before I landed on green as I was finally able to beat early game bad guys. The precons your given feel kneecapped compared to the starting enemies. The only other main problem im noticing is the card drawing generator? I have switched cards around numerous times exchanging more aeon taking some out. I get Rng gods blow sometimes but more often then not the AI gets bricked as well as the player, the level of frustration I felt after carefully scanning each cost of card to aeon ratio only to draw aeon… aeon… aeon…aeon all while getting wally whooped by the AI makes me happy I have apple care. All in all its a fun game! It draws me back to play! But more varied card options from the start and a peak into how the cards come out of the deck to hand would improve this greatly! Great job overall though 🤩 ### 2/5 — Poor man’s MTG *2025-04-12, version 1.4.8* Way cheaper, but the game is just ok. Not great or particularly good. Not bad either. Average and cheap. ### 4/5 — Pretty Good, Some Flaws *2024-12-24, version 1.4.8* A fairly priced CCG with a reasonable amount of content, though balance and bugs keep it from greatness. The core game loop of improving your deck and stats and matching off against stronger and stronger enemies is quite fun. The randomness of rewards means that many battles don’t really lead to much progress, though the slow trickle of XP means every win matters. The biggest flaws in the game are: - every color feels the same; they all have direct damage, item removal, and board wipes — this means that so many battles feel identical - there are persistent bugs, such as long delays and the bug that shows some map tiles as open when they are actually unreachable; in many cases, this can be worked around by leaving and re-entering the map, but not for maps that are entered via the pink portal ### 4/5 — Solid Game, Room to Improve *2024-11-18, version 1.4.8* The pros: -the core gameplay is good. the mechanics are fun and engaging, with a good amount of depth -the card art is great -the rpg elements are a cool twist on the genre -theres a nice amount of customization options -does pressure you into micro transactions -only costs a buck and half The cons: -the UI could do with an complete overhaul. the bottoms often kind of blend in with the rest of the UI and are hard to see -it’s kind of clunky and a bit buggy, with some ocasional long load times. for instance, occasionally after a battle, it gets hung up and takes upwards of 30 seconds to load back into the map. -the tutorials could also use work. The highlighting, again, has too little contrast and is easy to miss. And there are things that aren’t explained or obvious from the tutorial, such as the fact that you need to tap on the “victory” or “defeat” messages after a battle to continue. It’s not a huge deal, but little things like that add up to detract from the experience. Overall, it’s a good game, and the pros definitely outweigh the cons, but a bit of polish and tidying up would go a long way. I would suggest looking at games like Hearthstone for cues on UI design. Generally, the simpler and sleeker, the better. obvious the dev doesn’t have the resources of blizzard, but you know what I mean. ### 3/5 — You will lose a lot. . . *2024-09-22, version 1.4.7* The game is mostly likely to be determined by who draws the better hand im the first round. If you lose the first three rounds just forfeit the match. The RNG in this game is terrible and you will never get a board clear. There are too many cards that straight up destroy monsters in one hit with 0 counter play. The beginning is a drag and a grind because you don’t have access to a decent shop, but enemies will have duel element decks way earlier than you. If you enjoy being lucky then this is the game for you. Otherwise prepare to draw cards you don’t have the cost to play or continuously draw energy. The starter decks are terrible besides fire. Neither-less I enjoy the game and I bought all the expansions, but man sometimes you will lose 3-5 games in a row. ### 5/5 — Fantastic Game!!! *2024-04-08, version 1.4.7* Such a great game that is very reminiscent of other amazing games like Hearthstone and Magic. I haven’t finished it yet, but I am having an absolute blast playing through the campaign. I already feel like I got so much value for the very inexpensive entry fee. I hardly ever write app reviews, but I just had to write a review for this one. Once I complete the campaign, I fully intend to purchase all the dlc’s not just because I want to support the developer but also because I am having so much fun with it! ### 4/5 — Fun *2024-02-27, version 1.4.7* Takes time to build your own deck, by the time you get to level 30 you will be ready to move on but thats around 20 hours of play. Well worth the price ### 5/5 — 5/5 *2023-12-05, version 1.4.7* Awesome game! Kind of reminds me of the game sorcery on paper; a little similar to magic but a way different play style. The similarity would have to be the different colors and spells such as deal damage to your opponent or creatures but I love the play style and art. I would 100% buy this game in real life if it was a tcg card game. ### 5/5 — Wonderful and engaging CCG *2023-08-28, version 1.4.7* Having been an early adopter of Magic the Gathering (MtG) many decades ago, this game is a fantastic clone of the card game. Beautiful graphics, great atmospheric music and engaging card play make this a winner. For the small investment of money, you get a huge amount of content. I do not have an addictive personality, but I kept coming back to the game and its 3 expansions. I completed them all. Where’s the sound of trumpets and the parade? The AI can be competitive and you are always trying to streamline your deck to make it better. Great card selection allows for a very large number of combos and strategies. One bug I picked up on my iPad Air 2 with the latest iOS….when you receive your cards or gold rewards, do not click on one of the cards to look at its details. The program will lock up and you will have to reboot the game and play the whole battle over again. Question? Now that I have completed the game, can I use my same character and all of his built-up values to play through the game again? Thank you for a wonderfully crafted game. ### 5/5 — Great single player fantasy deck game *2023-05-05, version 1.4.7* Interesting dynamics, clear thematic differences with the color suites. I have not yet played the expansion but have put a ton of hours into the base game. It’s a low budget single developer game, but it’s got it all where it counts. ### 2/5 — Unbalanced *2023-04-13, version 1.4.6* There is a shell of a good game here completely destroyed by absolutely terrible progression. The pace at which you gain extra and cards is terrible and makes progression just plain frustrating. You get shoehorned into a starting color and basically have to create a new character to try a different color because you don’t have any resources to play any other color to start. You get so little gold from matches shops are basically useless as most the cards you win are worthless too There is no way to go off and level up if you reach an opponent you can’t beat as once you beat an opponent they are gone for good so you can’t even grind weaker opponents to try and progress making this just RNG at its most frustrating because if you don’t get useful rewards you literally can’t progress. Worse yet unless you turn off the penalties losing means you lose gold or even precious cards it is actually a reverse grind where the enemy weakens you but you won’t really have anything else but to push on because the game is so linear You yourself a favor and pass on this one ### 5/5 — Topp! *2023-03-18* Spiele das seit Jahren immer wieder. Extrem cool. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — The dev doesn’t know the word “balance” *2026-07-22, version 1.4.8* A very shoddy AI slop game that is as unbalanced as it is dull ### 1/5 — Language *2026-05-16* Pla add Russia language ### 1/5 — voiceover accessibility request *2025-05-13* Hey! I'm a big fan of card games, I would love to be able to play this game, I'm totaly blind, however the game is currently unplayable with the Voiceover screen reader. ### 1/5 — bad bug *2024-04-04, version 1.4.7* All destruction spells can’t cast to enemy’s creature So disappointing Hope it’s only my mistake Wait for respond ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2024-03-04, version 1.4.7* Just bought this and the game doesn’t start. I get to the campaign page and all I get is 4 empty squares. Money back please. ### 1/5 — Grindy dungeon crawler *2023-08-03* The biggest problem from the get go is a very bad equilibrium : you can only win by luck because all your opponents have much better decks. And like many dungeon crawlers, you have to repeat ad nauseam the same battles with very few gains. The card game itself is a strange bastard magic-like with problematic features. ### 1/5 — Misaligned graphics *2023-06-26, version 1.4.7* I think this game is probably well designed from the perspective of anyone who likes ccgs and fantasy art, and it is probably fine on iPad, but I have trouble playing it on my Xs, because the card graphics in the duels are not properly aligned with the graphical tabletop. Also, menu items are only partially visible, bleeding off the edge of the screen. Buttons graphics are not aligned with touch sensitive areas on the phone screen. I would gladly change my rating upward if this UI issue were resolved. Thanks ### 1/5 — Tried to like it *2022-07-09, version 1.4.4* I will say it has a ton of cards, and that’s both a good a bad thing, after all this is mobile gaming, I’m not sure I want a trillion trillion possible combinations….. Regardless, each area has roughly 3 zones, and you get the same quests repeatedly: there’s monsters in the town, the portal is elsewhere, oh you got it, umm the stone to work it is somewhere else…. It’s monotonous… There’s no real story, and the scaling is atrocious, which is in part due to the size of the decks and nearly limitless card options, you almost have to retool your deck after every fight, as one fight your top dog but the next could take you 5-10 attempts depending on your RNG luck. TLDR: it’s rather boring, doesn’t consume much battery life, but you have to be a hardcore deck builder or love the challenge of constantly building a deck to love it. ### 1/5 — Virtually unplayable on iOS 15.2 *2022-01-07, version 1.3.1* Animations freeze and combat results don’t show sometimes. Buttons don’t respond in some screens do you are stuck. Overall poor. ### 1/5 — Unbalanced and tedious *2022-01-01, version 1.3.1* I can’t even beat the first mission with the starter deck that’s how bad it is. On top of that, the tutorial is horrible 1/5 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Worth the $2 *2026-07-05, version 1.4.8* If you like incrementally improving you deck like leveling up an rpg character this game is for you. Games are quantity over quality though and you will eventually stomp everyone ### 5/5 — A real hidden gem, much more than a Magic clone *2026-01-26, version 1.4.8* I’m absolutely loving this game. I only found it after looking on Reddit for CCGs with a proper Campaign mode. At first I thought it was just a Magic the Gathering clone but it’s really got it’s own thing going on. Highly recommended for all card collecting and fighting fans. The story is a bit forgettable but the campaign is massive and the sense of progression is brilliant. Hitting a wall, then building a new deck to break through it is so satisfying! ### 5/5 — Less than the cost of a booster pack! *2026-01-17, version 1.4.8* Just finished the main campaign after too many hours! So much flexibility in deck building. I feel there have been balance updates since the reviews 7 years ago. Heaps of cards and combos to choose and multi colour decks are easily achieved. 5 stars! ### 5/5 — Fun and challenging *2025-08-30* Top game. Survive the first 5 min of Tutorials and you have plenty of fun. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-01-31, version 1.4.8* After playing through all the campaign and all the expansions I can say this is a must buy for any CCG lover. Helps scratch the MTG itch without paying hundreds of dollars to make a single deck. ### 5/5 — Great fun, a strong solo CCG *2025-01-14, version 1.4.8* A real gem of a CCG. Read the rules carefully so you are aware how levelling up and point allocations work. I’ll play through with different colour decks and get all the expansions. Highly recommended, responsive dev and no in app purchases to play!! ### 5/5 — Simply fantastic *2024-12-25, version 1.4.8* Heat independent card game wow very impressed so far ### 5/5 — Still my favorite iOS game 8 years later. *2024-08-13, version 1.4.7* This game is fantastic. It’s been installed on my phone for at least eight years now. And, after all this time, I still come back to it. It’s my favorite CCG that I’ve played. Unlike most CCGs on the App Store, this isn’t a never-ending money sink. You buy the game, maybe the DLCs if you want more content. And that’s it. No micro transactions/gems/diamonds/or any other pay to win MtG clone. Just a full game with tons of hours. ### 5/5 — Classic shandalar *2024-08-11, version 1.4.7* No gacha. No live service. No ads. Finally some good freaking food. ### 5/5 — I will buy every expansions *2024-05-13, version 1.4.7* Waiting for a new expansion or lost portal 2. --- *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 2026-09-02.*