# Messiahs — user reviews > 114 indexed App Store user reviews of Messiahs by Fatih Beceren, rated 4.60/5 from 3,686 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/messiahs/id1522926196/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/messiahs/id1522926196.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,719 · 4★ 636 · 3★ 199 · 2★ 38 · 1★ 94 ## What do users think of Messiahs? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Fun game concept - 👍 Good value for money - 🚀 Engaging gameplay - 👍 Unique religion-based mechanics **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently - 🤔 Repetitive and limited dialogue options - 🤔 Unclear mechanics and objectives - 🤔 Arbitrary and confusing outcomes **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes and crashes on startup - Dialogue options not working properly - Inconsistent and illogical effects from choices **Most requested features** - More diverse religion options beyond Abrahamic faiths - Ability to fully customize religion and commandments - Improved tutorial and explanations - Smoother and more intuitive controls ## Newest reviews (15 of 114) ### 4/5 — Great game. *2025-10-15, version 1.7* It isn’t crashing! It’s such a cool game. ### 4/5 — About the Game *2025-09-06, version 1.7* Is the Messiah a Christian game? ### 4/5 — Good game *2025-04-19, version 1.7* The Game has a ton of promise. The concept is bold, the art direction is striking, and the gameplay loop is surprisingly thoughtful. It’s one of those rare mobile titles that actually makes you stop and think — about choices, consequences, and the world you’re shaping. The narrative ambition here is huge, and when it clicks, it really clicks. But that’s also why the small issues stand out. The UI can be clunky at times, transitions lag just enough to disrupt flow, and certain mechanics feel just slightly undercooked — not broken, just not fully realized. There are moments where you feel the potential breaking through, only to be held back by small, fixable friction points. With just a bit more polish — tighter controls, faster pacing, better onboarding — Messiahs could be a must-play. Right now, it’s still well worth your time, especially if you’re into games that take risks and reward curiosity. But here’s hoping the next update pushes it from “really good” to unforgettable. ### 3/5 — Good concept, needs work *2024-08-30, version 1.7* The outline of the game is good. It’s sort of aiming for a cross between Reigns, Plague Inc, and Papers Please. It was fun and surprisingly intense for the first day, but quickly got repetitive. Some of the endings seem abitrary, it seems like it would be incredibly hard to complete the game as intended, and it would be cool if the different regions had different ‘vibes’ or special events. Overall an okay game, though probably not quite worth the £1.99 I paid. ### 2/5 — Buggy, bad design *2024-07-09, version 1.7* Pretty mediocre, to be honest. Filled with bugs, and there really isn’t any meaningful decision making. The way you are intended to play is not as a religion simulator, but as a snake oil salesman who panders to everybody (but weirdly also performs authentic miracles and actually is a prophet). Poor quality apps like this make the Apple app store difficult to justify purchases on. ### 4/5 — Good game *2024-03-23, version 1.3* A nice way to pass time ### 4/5 — It’s fun! *2024-01-22, version 1.7* It’s fun at the start, but having to remind people repeatedly of how you feel on certain issues gets a tad repetitive. ### 2/5 — Lacks gameplay *2023-06-23* I tried it for about 30 minutes, and I got tired of it. It lacks innovation and contents. ### 2/5 — It’s more swiping than strategy *2023-06-05, version 1.7* I thought I’d be able to make up the rules of my religion as I go. From problematic to utopian dream! But this game is more like “answer with what you think the game wants you to answer” The powers aren’t very useful and you level up at the same rate each play through so there’s not much variety in terms of how to spend your points.I got bored by play through #3. The game reminds me a very early version of pandemic. ### 3/5 — Fix the Religion hate *2023-02-13, version 1.7* I really like it, but the Religion hate bar goes up way too fast. ### 2/5 — Repetitive, forced and incredibly boring *2023-02-09, version 1.7* The game plays almost nothing like plague inc. I don’t know why people compare it to it. It’s a decision game where you must guess what will get you more popularity. The game forces you to defend things you’ve never said or done but it acts as if you are making a new religion. You also go through a predetermined list of regions which are simply named Region. It doesn’t matter how many people you converted because the game sets your total believer count. It tries to add challenge but it just feels forced(like randomly slapping a negative effect on you). And it’s terribly repetitive. People will ask you the same questions dozens of times. As long as it doesn’t kill you, it doesn’t truly matter what you answer as your religion is defined by the devs and not you. The premise sounds fun. The game is awful ### 4/5 — Messiahs *2022-10-10, version 1.7* I love this game. “ ### 3/5 — Good idea *2022-05-22* The idea of the game is quite nice but nevertheless I regret that I gave money to play it. There are a lot of things I really don’t like. 1. The questions people ask do repeat way too often. 2. until you gain any possibility to do miracles, it’s nearly impossible to finish a region without being killed. 3. even if you make it to the point to make miracles, the game doesn’t save the score, so you start again every time you start the app. 4. the hate grows much too fast no matter wich answers you choose. That makes it less interesting every time you play. In combination with the fact that the questions do repeat that often even in one and the same town, it’s nothing but a good idea. I wouldn’t buy it again. ### 4/5 — excellent *2022-01-23* I want you to translate it into Japanese. ### 4/5 — A little Abrahamic Themed *2022-01-17, version 1.7* Seems like a great game already but would really appreciate the ability to spread a diversity of religions such as polytheism and non-Abrahamic themed religions. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not worth £1.99 *2024-08-08, version 1.7* Good concept but simply not worth the money. There’s better for free. ### 1/5 — Great game. *2024-04-13, version 1.7* Crashes my phone. Kills me a lot. Won’t believe me. ### 1/5 — Very slow *2023-05-08, version 1.7* I usually enjoy games like this ie plague and rebels inc but found this game to be disappointingly slow and lacked any feeling of progression, it’s just a combination of swipe right/left for 20 mins or so. ### 1/5 — App crash *2022-11-16, version 1.7* When I play this on iPhone, it crashes. ### 1/5 — One option to rule them all. *2022-10-04, version 1.7* I have played around 10 rounds and I can let you all know that you must memorize the “right” options. The right option switches every time you encounter the same question. There is no building your “own” religion. You follow the exact path the dev wants. ### 1/5 — ?? *2022-09-05, version 1.7* This game keeps bringing up race in way that it seems like it wants you to side with and be prejudice against non white people ### 1/5 — GAME NO LONGER WORKS *2022-06-28, version 1.7* I used to really enjoy this game! Went to play again, and you can no longer make any selections when you start a game and meet individuals. Without and choices given, you cannot proceed at all into the game. Very disappointing that there's not even a place on the developer site to submit these claims. Especially disappointing that you pay for this game and the developers are not even responsible enough to maintain the game. ### 1/5 — All the reviews are bots *2022-06-16, version 1.7* You can recreate 1 existing religion. There are no alternatives. You die instantly if you aren’t a slavery worshipping Uber-Christian from the Bronze Age. ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2021-11-30, version 1.7* Wish I could get a refund, this game is nothing like Plague. No matter what you pick your the bar fills up and you lose. Even on the easiest setting. This isn’t a game it’s a cash grab, don’t buy it. ### 1/5 — Do not waste your $$ *2021-09-24, version 1.7* This game is a big letdown. I was comparing it to plague inc with its content/gameplay but it is nothing like that. If I could get a refund I totally would. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — This game super good *2025-08-13, version 1.7* But all this game need is every time I try to use a calamity it won’t let me most of the time even though I got it unlocked like you won’t let me tap the miracle button when I was supposed to do a calamity ### 5/5 — More areas please *2024-10-21, version 1.7* I feel like it would’ve been more practical if y’all uses the beginning such as plague inc etc where you can click any area you want to start the game ### 5/5 — Great *2024-01-26, version 1.7* Great game! ### 5/5 — So far so good *2023-05-14, version 1.7* Like it ### 5/5 — Fun game Great idea I think future versions will only get better *2022-12-24, version 1.7* This is a great idea game is done fairly well and I believe that future version of the game will allow them to roll out new features that aside I would recommend that they had a way for you to appoint your apostles to I have a system other than just faced points that allow you to do you things like write your own things or select from a list of affects or whatever so that you can create your own holy book and that you can create your own Commandments or choose the Commandments that you want to ### 5/5 — Very good, small problems *2022-08-30, version 1.7* The game is very good. Though it does get repetitive at times it is still a quality game with fun powers. The worst part is that people can be hypocritical. One will support slavery and the very next will hate it. The worst thing by far is that there seems to be a glitch. I had a massive religion, on my way to convincing the world, however, I got to one region, and I went through 6 areas. Before this I was averaging 6,000 believers per area, when I got here though, I could get no more than 99 per area. I died dispute the fact that I shouldn’t have due to the unfortunate case that the game glitched and didn’t allow me to progress I should’ve been able to. Though I am still mad about it my point stands. Good game but please fix this. It need to be fixed otherwise world conversion will never be possible. ### 5/5 — The darn intro cinematic *2022-01-07, version 1.7* The game is fun, and obviously built somewhat like plague Inc, but it has its own charms and shouldn’t just be looked at for where the inspiration comes from but from the experience the game gives. Personally I don’t like playing on easy mode much, so I’m trying the game on hard mode right off the bat. Not dying is hard, but fun. Would tell a man he cannot have another wife just because he believes in my religion again. ### 5/5 — Fun!!!! *2021-12-17, version 1.7* On my first talking with people I managed to get 771 believers out of 800!!!This game is awesome you got to try it ### 5/5 — Solid game *2021-12-03, version 1.7* After 30 minutes of playing I think it’s a pretty solid game ### 5/5 — Cool game! *2021-11-03* Please can you add Russian language --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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