# Meridian 157: Chapter 1 — user reviews > 331 indexed App Store user reviews of Meridian 157 by NovaSoft Interactive Ltd, rated 4.70/5 from 5,197 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meridian-157-chapter-1/id1484024784/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meridian-157-chapter-1/id1484024784.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,062 · 4★ 927 · 3★ 149 · 2★ 25 · 1★ 34 ## What do users think of Meridian 157? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Loved this game! - 👍 Wow! - 👍 Great Game - 👍 Immersive, detailed and addictive - 👍 Great game series - 👍 Super Challenging - 👍 Breath of fresh air - 👍 Legitimately Perfect - 👍 home run - 👍 Essayer le - 👍 Best Escape Room - 👍 Really enjoyable - 👍 Brilliant Game - 👍 Great game! - 👍 Excellent game! - 👍 Truly Awesome Game - 👍 Phenomenal game - 👍 Great puzzle thinker that feels real - 👍 Captivating - 👍 Must have! - 👍 Brilliant! - 👍 Awesome! - 👍 Fantastic game! - 👍 Straight to top 5!! - 👍 Excellent - 👍 Très bon jeux - 👍 Escapism yes - 👍 Had a lot of effort put in. - 👍 Good effort put into this game, 5 stars - 👍 Absolutely fantastic - 👍 Must have! - 👍 Great game - 👍 Very clever puzzles - 👍 Fun point and click adventure - 👍 Wow! **Cons** - 🐛 Too short… - 🐛 Too hard - 🐛 Not Logical - 🐛 Too small - 🐛 Come on - 🐛 Clueless… poor puzzles - 🐛 Don't understand the positive reviews - 🐛 Get 'The Room' series instead - 🐛 Disjointed - 🐛 Slow uninspired gameplay, obscure puzzles. - 🐛 Not that impressed - 🐛 Lost interest - 🐛 a bit short - 🐛 Baffling at times - 🐛 Unintuitive puzzles - 🐛 Disappointed **Commonly reported bugs** - Login screen freezes - Incompatible with older devices - Occasional crashes - High battery consumption **Most requested features** - Pinch please - Dark mode option - Advanced analytics dashboard ## Newest reviews (15 of 331) ### 5/5 — Do yourself a favour and play this series *2025-07-24, version 1.1.8* One of the top point and click game series out there. Loved the story. It’s up there with Glitch Games. ### 5/5 — очень круто *2025-07-23* игрушка огонь, как в старые добрые времена ### 3/5 — There has to be a better way! *2025-06-29, version 1.1.8* My chief complaint with this game is the fact that you have to back into everything. Navigating through the game is SO frustrating!! Also, the hints aren’t great. Just provide some info on the goal for each puzzle. Then hints may not even be necessary. ### 5/5 — Wirklich spannend *2025-06-23* Sowas hab ich immer gesucht, gut gemacht, man taucht richtig ein in die Atmosphäre. Manchmal brauche ich die Hilfe, komme aber meistens alleine durch. Bin schon gespannt auf die Fortsetzung! ### 5/5 — Bon jeu ! *2025-06-17* Un peu court mais intéressant ! ### 5/5 — Meridian chapter 1 *2025-05-05, version 1.1.8* One word “AMAZING “ If you’re thinking about getting this, don’t think any longer, get this game ! ### 5/5 — Понравилось очень *2025-04-24* Очень интересная игра, прошёл её 2 года назад на андроид, хочу ещё раз погрузиться в этот атмосферу ### 5/5 — Great game *2025-04-11, version 1.1.8* I keep coming back to all these games. They are challenging and amazing! ### 5/5 — Good Puzzle and adventure game *2025-04-06, version 1.1.8* Liked the combination of puzzles and locations and moving through the areas ### 5/5 — My kind of thinking game *2025-03-30, version 1.1.8* Great scenery and very realistic depictions of machinery, a very convoluted path with multiple layers of puzzles to solve. Hints when you want a little suggestion but you don’t have to look at them. Challenging. Now looking forward to the next episode..super value for money ### 5/5 — Engaging and fun and no shady in-app purchases. *2025-03-22, version 1.1.8* Engaging pastime game for a reasonable price and the only add-on pricing is for additional content. Each of the three chapters is a separate purchase so you can decide if you like it before committing to the whole thing. ### 5/5 — Bon jeu *2025-02-09* Enfin un jeu sans publicité, sans achats intégrés et sans aspiration de multiples données ! Un jeu qui détend,fait réfléchir. Mieux vaut payer une petite somme pour tout ce travail. Bravo ! ### 5/5 — Loved this game! *2025-01-01, version 1.1.8* I’m completely addicted and sad I’ll be through all this developer’s games soon at this rate. I can’t put them down. These are great, with an eerie vibe, good music, satisfying puzzles and a neat storyline. Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Wow! *2024-12-09* Oh WOW! I've been waiting for a game like this since I played The Room. I can across Meridian by chance and so glad I did, what an awesome series. The storyline and puzzles were amazing, and I did have to use the hints a number of times, without them I wouldn't of got far. I can't wait to see what is to come in the future from this developer. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2024-12-09, version 1.1.8* Amazing graphics and very challenging puzzles. Must play! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Game crashed and lost all my progress *2026-05-30, version 1.1.9* Spent 4 hours playing only for the game to crash and lose all my progress. Unable to recover it and not worth it to play through to get to where I was. So frustrating!! ### 1/5 — Blinking tv’s in the train room *2026-02-11, version 1.1.9* What is with this scene, I change the channels as directed in the clues, but they keep changing to a different channel straight away so I can’t get the number sequence right - 8392 Faulty scene ### 1/5 — No explanation of puzzles *2025-11-07, version 1.1.8* You only get a choice to skip puzzles. The puzzles make no sense without an explanation. ### 1/5 — Not the best *2025-07-23, version 1.1.8* I am a big fan of The Room series and I had high hopes that this would be a good escape game. Some of the puzzles made no sense and seemed to be broken and there was no conclusion! I was left frustrated and disappointed. ### 1/5 — Old style game - outdated *2024-12-03, version 1.1.8* No flow - just clicking and clicking and clicking. ### 1/5 — Too short… *2024-11-19, version 1.1.8* That incredibly too short of a play through. Very disappointing. Dont know if i want to even bother with the other chapters now because the increase in cost. ### 1/5 — 555 *2024-01-12* Игра ужасная, логики почти в 60% ребусов нет, играл на сложном уровне ### 1/5 — Clueless… poor puzzles *2022-10-09, version 1.1.7* This was a good game until chapter 2. Impossible to figure out what to do without always hitting the clue button. No indication within the game as to what is going on. The garage door puzzle was completed correctly once I took a clue and found a most obscure resolution. Then when I set the levers, nothing happened. I had to go into the clue and get it to solve the puzzle, in the exact way I had, and then the garage door opened. I’m done. I don’t care how it works out, this was not fun, but a waste of $3. ### 1/5 — Not that impressed *2020-08-15, version 1.0.8* I played the prologue and it intrigued me, so I was excited to see there were two chapters to purchase and play. However now after I played the first chapter i am sure glad I waited to purchase the second chapter. Most of the puzzles were confusing even after I got the solution from hints. They just made no sense to me. The comprehension of how you got to the result just did not click. That made the game boring and frustrating. I do like to be challenged in these game, its part of the fun, but if you are left totally clueless, even after the hints, it’s just a waste of time and money. In addition the ending of the first chapter gives you no sense of accomplishment. It’s like the game stopped in the middle ... to be continued??? Give me some sign that I got somewhere in the storyline! I would not recommend and I will not purchase chapter 2 ### 1/5 — Can’t finish it! *2020-06-03, version 1.0.8* I placed the fan into the casing and tried to close it but it won’t let me. I get an error saying I didn’t bring the fan from the lobby area. So even though i did bring the fan and placed it, I go back to the lift but it doesn’t move so I can’t go back to the lobby. I can’t finish. What a disappointing game ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-07, version 1.1.9* This is honestly the greatest point and click right behind the room. It is a great follow up from the prologue, and it is very very hard to think that only 2 people made this game because it has perfect story and graphics. I will definitely be purchasing chapter 2 and 3. Keep up the good work you two. ### 5/5 — Nice graphics and challenges *2026-07-22, version 1.1.9* It has everything I want for a point-and-click adventure game. ### 5/5 — Chill Mystery *2026-06-03, version 1.1.9* Low key and interesting. Great graphics and ambience. ### 5/5 — So cool *2026-06-02, version 1.1.9* This is a great adventure and puzzle game. Worth every penny. ### 5/5 — Top rating *2026-05-27, version 1.1.9* Please make more. Your game design is best I’ve played. ### 5/5 — Aaaaye 💃🏾 *2026-04-02, version 1.1.9* 🗣️ Sorry I’m yelling ! BUT I wanna say I’ve never played any hop with such realistic vibes. So cool and u made your first chapter free!! Y’all are the 🐐! Guys just download n play. I accidentally started Aurora hills chapter 1 (Guys the graphics are dope af😍)and started 2. I came back to the App Store to see what others they had and I installed them all 😂.I stopped playing Aurora hills chapter 2. So I can start from the very first game on the list and I’ll work my way up.Normal mode def helps a lot but not too much depending on the quest.Keep making more games I’ve already finished chapter one and on to chapter 2 of 157 👏🏾🫶🏾 . Ok bye ✌🏾😁❣️ ### 5/5 — Stumped *2026-03-20* Love this game, 3rd time I’ve played it over a couple years or so. Have a problem tho, I’m stuck in the power room/vents and the only hint I get is to check if anything has changed in the control room. No, it HAS NOT, however, looking at the map I see a door which would lead me back to the tunnels… I cannot find that door except on the map! Developers, would you please tell me where I’m going wrong!? I’d like to get on with it and to the next chapter. For this reason you get only a four. Help me and I’ll change my rating! Thanks ### 5/5 — Умоляю, сделайте ещё подобные игры под iOS *2026-01-21* Очень жду ### 5/5 — Great gameplay! *2026-01-04, version 1.1.9* Just the right amount of difficulty to be fun, but helpful hints are available if you get stuck. Reminded me of super fun Nancy Drew PC games, except players don’t have to talk to any characters (which is nice!). Just find clues and solve puzzles! And there is a fun, spooky mystery element as well :) ### 5/5 — Great game! *2025-07-30, version 1.1.8* Great atmosphere and world building. 2 or 3 of the puzzles were quite tough, and a walkthrough is handy if you get stuck. --- *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 2026-08-27.*