# Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet — user reviews

> 96 indexed App Store user reviews of Nelly Cootalot by Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH, rated 4.60/5 from 102 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nelly-cootalot-the-fowl-fleet/id973866287/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nelly-cootalot-the-fowl-fleet/id973866287.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 85 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 3

## What do users think of Nelly Cootalot?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 😂 Hilarious and witty dialogue
- 👍 Great voice acting
- 🗺️ Logical and solvable puzzles
- 🏴‍☠️ Classic adventure game feel
- 🎨 Vivid and charming graphics
- 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Fun for adults and kids
- 💰 Good value for money
- 🕹️ Controller support on AppleTV
- 💡 Well-designed gameplay
- 🎶 Excellent music and songs

**Cons**

- 🚶 Slow walking animations
- 🗣️ No option to turn off voices
- ❓ Items disappearing from inventory
- 🐛 Glitches and crashes
- ⏳ Game can feel short
- 🤔 Puzzles can be too easy for some
- 💾 Save system issues

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Inventory items disappear
- Game crashes after specific points
- Save/load system issues
- Game freezes or hangs
- Items needed for puzzles disappear
- Achievement issues

**Most requested features**

- Skippable slow walking animations
- Option to turn off voice commentary
- More sequels/future games

## Newest reviews (15 of 96)

### 4/5 — Fun and runs on AppleTV

*2025-06-30*

A fun, colorful point and click adventure made all the better by running on AppleTV with controller support.   Good voice performances, good music and logical, solvable puzzles.  Lots of puns on the digital high seas.

### 4/5 — ?

*2023-12-25, version 1.8*

My game does not work after the whole Jeremy thing.

### 5/5 — I was bummed when it ended

*2022-03-29*

Absolutely loved this game. It brought me back to the King's Quest games!  It's funny, the characters and voices are great and the animation is perfect.  It's just challenging enough to make it fun and some of the quests are wonderfully silly.  Aarrrrrgg I hated when it ended!

### 5/5 — Excellent! Super Fun Game!

*2021-07-15*

Super enjoyable game with great humor, fun to play! Love the characters and voicing, really great job. The commentary and closing song were awesome also. I’ll be looking back at your first in the series on Steam now!

### 5/5 — !!!!

*2021-06-29, version 1.8*

This game is exceptional. Thanks 😊

### 5/5 — Pleeeeeease make another Nelly game!

*2021-05-14*

Such a good game-funny, challenging enough and nice styled graphics. I was sad to finish it! I’ve been looking for similar point and click adventure games ever since but haven’t found anything as likeable so far. Pleeeeease make another? Please?

### 5/5 — Wonderful game worth the money

*2021-02-09*

Really enjoyed this point and click adventure. Great story, cool characters and just the right amount of difficulty. Highly recommend!!

### 5/5 — Brill

*2020-10-07*

This is brilliant. Mind you, the makers could have a mental health problem.
But I can identify with that.

### 5/5 — Fantastique

*2020-07-15*

Une pépite digne des Lucasfilm de la grande époque. Humour typé Monney Island, excellent scénario, bande son et ambiance graphique au top.

### 5/5 — True Classic

*2020-06-30, version 1.6*

Well done, y’all captured all the fun of adventure games of the Monkey Island era!

### 5/5 — Now this is how to do a point and click! 😃

*2020-05-19*

Take note developers this is where the bar is set, absolutely fantastic and completely hilarious 🤣 not one hint needed due to the logic and flow of the game, funny one liners that at times you need to be quick to catch.... and the songs alone are worth the price! Nice that the devs tip their hats to predecessors too. Well done to all involved.....good show old chap!

### 5/5 — Really good and quirky

*2020-02-22*

Cute, fun, and some adult jokes too.
Highly recommend

### 5/5 — Review

*2019-10-22*

Thoroughly enjoyed the game

### 4/5 — Unplayable

*2019-10-16*

Crashes on iOS 13 - update: appears to be an iOS 13 bug when connected to an external display

**Developer response:** Hi, we can't see any problems here on our iOS 13 devices. Can you please contact our support team to solve this problem?
support@application-systems.de

### 5/5 — Perfect

*2019-10-14*

Charming characters and visuals, superb voice acting (including Tom Baker!), genuinely funny and engaging dialogue, nice little story. The puzzles / use of inventory items are always logical. Quick navigation map is a nice touch. Really couldn’t want more from an adventure game.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Inventory disappears

*2022-01-04, version 1.8*

My inventory disappears every time after I label the barrels in level 2. I love the game, but am very disappointed that I wasted my money and am not able to finish 😥

### 1/5 — Langatmiges Spiel zum vergessen

*2019-05-21*

Storyline ist nicht wirklich schlüssig. Nachdem man den einen Storyteil gelöst hat, wird er unrund abgehakt. Der storyteil in der Stadt ist vor allem langatmig. Schmunzeln musste ich überhaupt nur einmal, von witziges Piratenadventure kann keine Rede sein. Die Charaktere sind allesamt zum vergessen, kein wirklicher Bezug zu den Figuren wie bei Monkey Island oder Unmengen von anderen Abenteuern aus dem AppStore. Würde ich nicht nochmal kaufen.

### 1/5 — Game has glitches

*2018-06-05*

Cute game but stupid glitches happen.  Working a puzzle and one of the pieces needed just disappears!  Now you can't complete the part or get the piece back.  Waste of money.

Edit- the programmer got back to me very quickly .  I had to start over but he is going to make it so the game pieces can’t leave a smaller area ( in the next up date)

**Developer response:** Hi!
Sorry to hear that you've encountered a problem. We've never had a report like this. Could you please get in touch with support@application-systems.co.uk so that we can look into it and help you finish the game?

### 1/5 — Game hangs after finishing chapter 2 when trying to load next chapter

*2017-03-23, version 1.3*

The game is stuck with a white screen when trying to load chapter 3. Can't do anything else.  Tried to restart from a saved point but still no luck.

### 2/5 — No option to turn off voices

*2025-11-19, version 1.9.4*

Game starts with no captions at all, then forces you to listen to voice commentary, which is beyond annoying. I wish I hadn't purchased this game.

### 2/5 — Regrets

*2025-05-11*

I regret buying this game. I was hoping it would be a fun point in click game similar to the journey down, or night of the tentacle, but it is not. It’s really quite dumb. You know it’s bad, when you have to go through a walk-through five minutes into it, and even the walk-through doesn’t make sense. It was a waste of money for me.

### 2/5 — Gutes Spiel aber hängt sich auf

*2018-08-12*

Bitte Fehler beheben hängt sich auf!😢

**Developer response:** Das klingt ein wenig so, als würde dem Spiel der Speicher ausgehen. Ich würde empfehlen, alle anderen Apps und auch Nelly zu schliessen und das Gerät neu zu starten. Starten Sie dann Nelly und klicken Sie auf "Weiterspielen".
Sollte das nicht helfen, würden wir uns freuen, wenn Sie uns unter ashsupport@application-systems.de kontaktieren könnten - für uns wäre sehr interessant, welches Gerät Sie einsetzen und an welcher Stelle das Problem auftritt. Und vielleicht können wir Ihnen helfen, im Spiel weiter zu kommen.

### 2/5 — Schönes Spiel

*2017-02-14*

Eigentlich ein super Spiel. Macht spaß. Leider stürzt es nach dem Gericht immer ab und man sieht nur einen weißen Bildschirm. Ich kann nicht weiter spielen. Schade

**Developer response:** Bitte melde Dich bei support@application-systems.de - wir kriegen das hin.

### 3/5 — Fun until…

*2025-07-13*

Picked up items needed and then they disappear out of inventory. Sticker of singer and it won’t give you a second one. Want to go back and start over? Nope! Mad I paid for this now!

### 3/5 — gu

*2018-02-21*

sehr witziges adventurespiel. hat auch mit zuhilfenahme der lösung spaß gemacht.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — In the finest tradition

*2026-02-04*

of silly pirate adventure games, perfect for fans of Monkey Island. Vivid world, clever writing, mostly logical puzzles. I just wish the slow walking animations were skippable.

### 5/5 — Great game

*2026-01-12*

Enjoyed this one all the way through worth getting 👍🏻

### 5/5 — Just brilliant

*2025-04-26*

Brilliant UK version of Escape to Monkey Island. Definitely agree that needs to be another sequel!

### 5/5 — '

*2025-04-06*

Hallo
Ich habe Nelly cottalot 1
Gespielt kann de Brief nehmen aber nicht lesen

### 5/5 — Klasse spiel mit nervigen Speicher Überfüllung

*2023-06-16*

Das Spiel selbst ist super.
Aber das Speichersystem muss dringend überarbeitet werden
Man kann keine Spielstände antippen um sie dann mit dem aktuellen zu überschreiben ,man muss im wieder einen Namen eingeben um sie zu überschreiben und löschen geht auch nicht.
Das ist auf Dauer so nervig ,dass ich angefangen habe immer neue Spielstände anzulegen mit den vorgeschlagenen Namen .
Soweit wäre das auch okay für mich ABER wenn man das so macht wird es immer länger dauern um ein Spiel zu laden oder speichern mittlerweile dauert es fast 2 Minuten zum speichern oder laden eines Spielständen.
Es ging mir so auch die Nerven,dass ich das Spiel jetzt gelöscht und neu installiert habe und es jetzt doch so mache und immer wieder einen Namen für den Spielstand eingebe un ihn zu überschreiben .

Bitte bitte ändert es ,dass man die Spielstände antippen kann ,überschreiben und löschen kann.

### 5/5 — Amazing!

*2023-01-12*

This was fantastic. I hope there are more from this developer! Really enjoyed the game play and story line

### 5/5 — Great game, had a blast playing it with my kids.

*2022-12-09, version 1.8*

I heard about the game from the developer’s (Alasdair Beckett-King) YouTube channel. For the last few night I’ve been playing the game with my 5 and 7 year old at the end of the day. We’ve loved the game. The story is funny and the perfect length for a quick game with kids.

### 5/5 — Top Notch Point Click Adventure

*2022-08-08*

I wish there were more games like this on the App Store. Deserves all 5 stars.  None of the game is overly difficult but it still kept me playing. Art is great. Lots of humour packed in here and the Voice acting is some of the best I’ve heard.

### 5/5 — Great game

*2022-04-20*

Although it froze the odd time, it was still a wonderful game. I enjoyed the humour, the puzzles, and the storyline. Great job!

### 5/5 — Spitzenspiel

*2022-03-30*

Sehr liebevoll gemacht. Nicht das schwerste P&C Adventure, aber sehr stimmungsvoll.

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