# Next Stop Nowhere — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Next Stop Nowhere by Night School Studio, LLC, rated 3.56/5 from 409 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/next-stop-nowhere/id1466708191/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/next-stop-nowhere/id1466708191.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 155 · 4★ 68 · 3★ 85 · 2★ 55 · 1★ 46 ## What do users think of Next Stop Nowhere? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Excellent art style and visual design - 🎭 Outstanding voice acting and character performances - 📖 Compelling story with engaging writing - 🎵 Well-integrated music and soundtrack - 🎮 Interactive dialogue choices that affect relationships - ✈️ Unique flying/spaceship mechanics - 🌈 Beautiful color palette and aesthetics - 👥 Well-developed, likable characters - 🎯 Meaningful narrative with emotional depth **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and game-breaking bugs - 🕹️ Clunky and finicky navigation controls - 🚪 Difficult door/room transitions requiring precise positioning - 📱 Inconsistent touch input detection - ⏱️ Long load times and slow startup - 🔄 Dialogue repeating or overlapping unexpectedly - 💾 Poor save system and unclear save points - 🎬 Dialogue plays without character visibility - 🔀 Story branches not reflecting player choices correctly - ⌛ Limited gameplay variety beyond walking and dialogue - 🎪 Lack of puzzle elements or strategic gameplay - 📊 Forced romance route despite dialogue choices - 🎯 Inconsistent character animations and positioning **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes during scene transitions - Black screen with audio playing after ship tour - Unable to progress through doorways/rooms - Dialogue not playing despite sound effects registering - Characters stuck in sitting positions while walking - Inventory items appearing without being picked up - Voice acting cuts out or plays incorrectly - Game locks up after picking up specific items - Infinite loading loops during flight sequences - Story branches not matching player dialogue choices - Missing interaction prompts for required story progression - Controller button mapping issues - Game freezing at specific story scenes - Save files deleting or corrupting - Conversation replaying in wrong locations - Camera angle glitches and switching issues - Polygon crashes and visual glitches - Subtitle mismatches with dialogue - Overlapping dialogue at game ending **Most requested features** - Go back button to review alternative dialogue choices - Multiple romance route options with real consequences - Puzzle gameplay elements for more engagement - Better save system with manual save functionality - Clearer indication of save points - Timer display for dialogue choices - Chapter selection or skip options - Improved controller button mapping - Better text contrast for readability - Longer game length/more content - Sequel or additional chapters ## Newest reviews (18 of 50) ### 3/5 — Fun but could be better *2023-01-15, version 1.0.6* The graphics, color palette and flying component made this game fun. I didn’t like that you’re pretty much forced to romance Serra. It’s fun to have as an option but gets annoying when you’ve repeatedly chosen the “just friends” dialogue and then a final literal “there’s nothing romantic between us, you read into it” and you still get an achievement for becoming more than friends 😭 If you want your players’ choices to actually matter then you need to develop alternate routes that don’t just default into the same original one. There were a couple glitches and entering rooms was sometimes weirdly difficult but nothing crazy. Over all this showed a lot of potential and I want to see what the next game they develop will be ### 3/5 — Good game, glitchy and not great interface *2022-06-06, version 1.0.6* This game was enjoyable to play. I ranked it 3 starts because halfway through the story, it glitched and wouldn’t let me move forward (scene painting the tree got stuck). I tried rebooting my phone, reloading the app. Nothing worked and I was forced to start the story over. The interface needs a lot of work. I found myself doing things unintentionally, going to wrong rooms, selecting wrong choices, and such. The story also seems to jump around and sometimes fails to connect past choices. I really liked the actual story and the concept behind this game is really good. I hope they fix the glitches with this one, I would still recommend playing it. Be mindful that it doesn’t save continuously, there are spots that you’ll need to go back to when you come back to the game, you may need to redo a scene. ### 4/5 — A Story I Enjoyed, A Game That is Fine *2021-11-24, version 1.0.6* Next Stop Nowhere offers a pretty compelling cast of characters to get attached to with great writing and a quirky future world. I really enjoy Beckett’s relationship with Cody and Serra and I wanted to know what they’d get through. That said, there’s several gameplay polish issues I think could use some touching up. For one, navigation with touch just isn’t consistent enough. Sometimes tapping something will just not do the thing, even when it plays the sound effect registering that you tapped it. This happened pretty much throughout the game so be prepared for micro issues that will slowly build up into a damper. Another micro issue is that dialogue will jump immediately from one line to the next without any natural pause. I really enjoyed exploring, but keep in mind that this is effectively a walking simulator. There are some minor to mid impact choices to make, but as far as gameplay goes, that’s mostly it. There’s also a ship driving mini game but that’s few and far between and not all that interesting anyways. Still, I’d recommend everyone give this a go. It’s cool to see the developers of oxenfree give Apple Arcade a go. ### 3/5 — Sad *2021-08-16, version 1.0.6* I want to review this game higher. But the controls are buggy and if I switch to my controller all the buttons are off and I have to remember which ones to use. The inventory pops up randomly. After I pick up Eddy the game just locks up progress. I’m walking aimlessly around the ship with nothing to do. It’s painful. The story is well written and the art is superb but it’s like a team of all artists and writers got together and forgot to hire someone to work on the actual programming ### 4/5 — Clumsy but cute, still worth a play. *2021-07-27, version 1.0.6* It’s hard to disparage this game, since it is engaging, fun, and unique. It’s style and voice acting really make it entertaining. That being said, it’s definitely in need of some serious polish. The controls are clumsy and distract from the overall experience. Just going from one room to another can be hit-or-miss if you’re not standing in just the right spot, for example. Some areas of the game are almost impossible to get to, however necessary they are for progression. Polygons crash and disappear and jump around randomly… the diner scene, for example, is just about as clumsy as gameplay could be- you really have to want to keep going to not just quit. Therein lies the rub. For me, it was the voice acting and the choose-your-own-adventure style character interactions (and consequent dialogue) that engaged me. It was still cute and fun, despite its shortcomings. It deserves at least one play though. ### 4/5 — Good Game…but glitchy *2021-07-20, version 1.0.6* I really enjoy the game, and the storyline is interesting. I’m having issues with crashing and glitches. Seems like every time I finish a scene, the game crashes while it’s trying to load the next one. Then there’s been some random glitches where a conversation that already played replays in a different area. Not sure what that’s about. I give 4 stars because it has potential for greatness. ### 3/5 — Game Keeps Crashing, Can’t Finish Game *2021-06-07, version 1.0.6* I have enjoyed the game but at the section of the game named “The Bounty”, the game immediately crashes after all of the initial dialog. I have encountered crashes earlier in the game but it worked after a restart. This time nothing is helping so now I am stuck and cannot finish the game. Very disappointing. Update: I was finally able to get the game to last a few more seconds before crashing and it got to the next auto save point and then it was ok after I restarted but this game still crashes too much for a published app. Update 2: I am now encountering the same problem another person mention in their review. After dialog ends, I am supposed to interact with a ship but there is no interact option. Restarting the game does not work. I guess I am never going to finish this game. ### 4/5 — Funny, short, excellent voice actors! *2021-05-14, version 1.0.6* I finished this in around 5 hours, liked it the whole way through. Definitely think it’s an underrated game, the voice acting was great and the story was unique. I did start to experience bugs after I resumed the second time around and there isn’t a whole lot that you really do besides walk from point A to B. For some reason the game merges different possible storylines and I found that occasionally it would pick the opposite of my choice. I try not to let things like that distract from the experience so, overall, I simply enjoyed getting to meet new characters, travel, and water my plant. I could definitely do a chapter 2 and 3! If there were more puzzles and bugs got ironed out, 5/5 for sure! ### 3/5 — Not Enough Gameplay Variety and Bugs *2021-03-28, version 1.0.6* When I first started playing Next Stop Nowhere I was excited! The characters, environments, music, and art style were all to my liking. But as the story got going a bunch of problems (bugs, lack of gameplay variety, dialogue issues, etc) started to ruin the magic of the first hour of my playthrough. First off the bugs are numerous. I didn’t encounter anything game-breaking, but lets just say it was immersion-breaking. For example: dialogue not being spoken, characters running in circles mid-conversation, items miraculously appearing in my inventory that I knew I hadn’t picked up, and at one point the robot bounty hunter’s voice changed from his usual mechanical sound, to how I’m guessing the voice actor would sound normally. The lack of gameplay variety on the other hand, made the experience start to lull as you near the halfway point of the roughly 4 hour story. The game badly needed puzzle gameplay to make the player feel as if they were accomplishing something when walking through the game’s different levels. But instead of any kind of puzzle, you mindlessly walk around diverting power to doorways and devices with no thought process whatsoever. As a result, I was ready for the game to be over once I had reached the conclusion of this little journey. I wish they had ironed out these issues before shipping because it had so much potential! ### 3/5 — Great story, 5 star if glitches are fixed *2021-03-10, version 1.0.6* The story and characters are engaging, and the writing is great. I love the green space ✨ I’ve run into some errors, however. The controls are a bit finicky with going through doorways sometimes - having the character able to walk through doors looks nice, but doesn’t actually trigger the next room, so I have to walk it back into the original room (without being able to see the character until it’s through the doorway) so that the button pops up to go to the next room. That’s fairly minor, but the bigger glitch is that at some points the choices don’t lead to the right story branch. (Spoiler warning) I selected to go to the son’s job, but then in the ship, switched to going to his home. (Maybe that’s what caused the issue?) Everything worked immediately afterwards. The ship flew to the home, and I was able to finish (i assume) everything there. However, after leaving, during the dialogue with the friends, my characters started talking about the son’s boss and maya. I’m assuming that section would have made sense if I had gone to the job? Looking forward to updates! ### 4/5 — Amazing, but crashes *2021-03-03, version 1.0.6* This is an amazing game, I love the characters, story color palettes, everything, but there is one major problem, crashing. I don’t know if it’s specific to my device (an iPad) but I find that every chapter or so, it crashes. And I’m right now, at the location after the diner, and every time I go through the first bit, it crashes right after Sara finished talking before I go in, I hope this bug is fixed so I can finish this amazing game ❤️ ### 3/5 — Jeeze... *2021-03-01, version 1.0.6* Even with bugs, crashes, and occasional continuity errors, I was still loving and playing this game. But now I’m supposed to board the derelict ship and there’s absolutely nothing to interact with to do so. I have walked over the entire station, looking for something I can tap on. The only thing I can even see that could be tappable is the lock icon for re-boarding my ship. I’ve reopened, reloaded the game from the menu, hard restarted my iPad, nothing helps. I’ve replayed the same dialogue so many times I know it by heart. Really frustrated. Never spent this long trying to continue a buggy game. If a door appeared in my game I’d go right back to playing, it’s so very fun. But nope. And I don’t have the heart to go all the way back to the very start, especially since this could just happen again. ### 4/5 — Great game!!! *2021-02-06, version 1.0.6* Im very bad at writing reviews , but this game is absolutely amazing. I’ve been a good time playing it but.... I’ve encountered many bugs along the way, this last one keeping me from finishing the game. I’ve tried restarting the game and the phone many times but it just won’t show the options it must. I’m getting stuck in the part where Nyx is supposed to paint a tree and I have to give her the paint...but I keep getting the paint and no options show to give it to her , it’s so weird. :( I want to finish the game so badly please help ### 4/5 — Fantastic characters *2021-01-09, version 1.0.6* The writing for the characters was very enjoyable for me. The story was more of a conduit for the characters to shine. Honestly the segments where it tried to be a game (ie hacking and terminal minigames and ship traversal segments) were the worst parts. However the dialog and the characters were so well written that it was easy for me to overlook the games shortcomings. Reminded me of the oldschool point and click adventure games. The writting, characters and voice work are worth the the 4 stars in my book. ### 3/5 — Glitch haults gameplay *2020-10-25, version 1.0.4* I’m so sad. I think this game is so beautiful and well written. The character and environment design is incredibly imaginative and well executed. Plus, the dialog is consistently engaging and is accompanied with brilliant voice acting. In truth it deserves a huge 5 for story and art- I’m truly sad to give it anything less. I really want to play it in full. However I’ve run into the same glitch twice and it brings gameplay to a screeching hault. That and there is no place to press save. So I closed out the game, hoping a refresh would fix the glitch and thinking it must be auto save (as I couldn’t find a way to save it myself). Then I discovered it deleted my entire game thus far.... so I played it all over again to only encounter the exact same problem in the exact same place. This time I went to the menu to save, and it STILL deleted my game. I am invested in the story and have spent hours now trying to play, but due to this glitch I can’t see it through to the end. I won’t be playing again until there are more fixes and am pretty disappointed, mostly because it really is an incredible game. I know you guys will find solutions in time, and as a fellow artist I am certainly championing you all. I look forward to when I can experience your work in full. ### 3/5 — Game Glitches, and Freezes *2020-09-23, version 1.0.4* This game is a lot of fun and I am extremely interested in the storyline following Beckett and Serra. I have had a lot of fun making decisions and seeing how they change interactions. Unfortunately my experience was ruined by a glitch in the game when you crash in the junk yard. After picking up any of the pieces for the ship, or even talking to Randy, the conversation beginning with Serra saying "You know, it wasn't your fault back there" or something to that extent starts repeating itself. Then when you pickup the pipe, the walking controls lock up and you cannot move anywhere. Again, this is a great game! But this bug just needs to be addressed. ### 4/5 — Bugs in the game *2020-09-22, version 1.0.4* Updated- many of the bugs have been addressed and I was able to finish the game! Such a fun storyline and great voiceover work. Thanks so much to the developers for working hard to fix the issues, I really enjoyed the game and may even play it again, making different choices this time! Original review: I really like the game (when it works): good storyline, a mix of actions, games, and storytelling; fun graphics. But I’ve had so many bugs playing that I can’t possibly recommend it. Sometimes it glitches and starts replaying old conversations while simultaneously following new ones. When I pause and reload at any point, it jumps back to older storylines and you can’t skip any of the text. The character graphics are out of sync (eg Serra spent many levels in a sitting position while walking). It’s also frozen at a climactic point in the storyline so I can’t move forward. I kept pushing through the bugs because I really do like it, but I’m so frustrated at this point. **Developer response:** We're very sorry that the issues you've listed about glitches, animations, and voice over have negatively affected your experience with the game. We hope that many of the fixes we've made in our recent 1.0.4 have helped to address some of the issues you've encountered! ### 4/5 — Fun space romp *2020-09-15, version 1.0.3* Their previous game, Oxenfree, successfully modernized the point-and-click adventure. This has some of the same elements: excellent voice acting, much more natural banter that contributes to the story, simple dialog options that encourages spontaneous response, and a fun, compelling story. Oddly the game engine this time is a step backwards and works like a beta version of their previous game. Navigation is very clumsy and it’s too easy to go the wrong way by mistake (fortunately it never ruins the flow). Sometimes characters are talking but they aren’t visible. The interactive elements are simplistic—it’s almost pointless to have them. Flying the ship during jump sequences initially is fun but gets tedious (and difficult) later on. Fortunately these action sequences disappear half-way through the game. In fact, the latter half of the game seems less polished and more rushed. Still, I really enjoyed following the story, listening to the characters interacting with each other, the simple cartoon visual style, and the well-integrated music. I would love to see more by this developer. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — I give up. Stuck. Can’t progress. Devs don’t Care. *2020-10-29, version 1.0.4* Update. Reached out to the developers twice. No response. They seem to not care. I’m surprised Apple doesn’t require a better customer service experience to be in Apple Arcade. Want to play this game through but not able to do anything. Update: lowering to one star. Came back to my safe game and the game has no idea what is going on. No objectives. Nothing to do. Just stuck in limbo. Terrible experience. I reached out to the developer and will update if I hear anything. If not I’ll delete it. What a waste. Original review. Just started playing this game. Start up is way too slow. I’m on a iPhone 11 Pro Max and it take two or three cut scenes to start wasting almost a minute or more just waiting. There is no clear indication of where the save point will be. Meaning you think you get to one put the game down come back to find out you need to repeat it all over again. I play without volume so the text is critical for me. At times it’s almost the same color as the background and not really readable. Other times like when escaping the screamers it’s impossible to read as you try to navigate and not crash. Hopefully these issues can be fixed. ### 1/5 — I was enjoying it. Unfortunately it’s broken and I cannot progress. *2020-09-04, version 1.0.3* I’ve replayed twice now up to the point where you get the ship tour. Each time I’ve been locked in a room after performing an action such as watering your plants, viewing a movie etc. Reloading into the game results in a black screen with audio. I will revisit this review and update it if this major issue is fixed. Update- So I’ve tried it again since the last few updates and it’s still a buggy mess. I’m currently on my ship before what seems to be the last area of the game with no way to progress. I’ve spoken to everyone and interacted with everything and can’t go any further, I’m just stuck on my ship waiting to board another characters vessel. I’ve also had several crashes which isn’t very fun. Also the guitar you get is not able to be interacted with in the ship section after choosing to go to either the apartment or place of employment of a certain character. I was able to unlock the achievement for watering the plant but not the one for the guitar due to this. I’m not sure if I’m willing to give it another chance at this point. This is the second time I’ve progressed a substantial amount and faced a game breaking bug. I honestly don’t know how this game was ever released in this state. Not trying to be mean because it showed a lot of promise, it’s just really disappointing. **Developer response:** We apologize that the bugs present have affected your experience with the game! We're working to tackle many of the issues players have been noting, and appreciate your feedback. We hope that many of the fixes we've made in our recent 1.0.4 have helped to address some of the issues you've encountered! ### 2/5 — Great at first but more buggy as I progressed, can’t complete *2021-08-12, version 1.0.6* I have enjoyed playing the game, and the story. So much potential here. I think the music score is very fitting. I found the controls a bit frustrating, as it was too easy to go past the marker and then have to backtrack, but not so much so to make me stop playing. Flying can be hard to aim, it sometimes looks like you are clear but then you still hit something. Unfortunately as the game progressed so did the bugs and difficulty to control, and at one point a ramp would not appear for me to progress. Closing and then reopening the game a couple of times corrected this issue. Sadly I now cannot enter Jeb’s ship. I have closed, reopened, rebooted, and even offloaded then reinstalled. I still cannot get the camera shift and prompt to enter his ship, and so cannot complete the game. ### 2/5 — Was impressed at first... *2021-04-02, version 1.0.6* Well...where do I begin. There’s some bugs here that are really just annoying. They stop you from doing missions. That’s probably the smaller side of my 2 star rating. For me, the dialogue is trash between the characters. Everyone talks like they’re hesitant to spit out what they really want to say. A lot of ums, uhs, long pauses and hesitation. It’s super annoying and drags the game out as well as makes me sleepy and not even want to play the game. Sad because I was impressed before but...as of right now, I want to treat my hair out from the dialogue. ### 2/5 — Wasted potential *2020-09-27, version 1.0.4* This game has so much potential to be a top tier game, but the controls are touchy at best and completely game breaking at worst. I keep getting stuck when the camera decides to just switch back outside but I’m trying to go inside somewhere. It’s hard to click where I want to go and the corresponding action without the game just deciding for me. But the worst part so far has been the way these bugs interfere with the story. (Spoiler warning) For example, I am at the part where we leave Eddys place and go to the diner when Michigan and Tex call. All of a sudden Serra is saying we met Eddy’s boss? We didn’t meet anyone. I’m assuming the area where I was supposed to meet the boss was past the trip wire I needed the bolt cutters to get to, but I never got to go explore that area because after obtaining the bolt cutters I proceeded to the projection room assuming I could go back where I was before. That wasn’t the case. After seeing the projector message and unlocking the door for Serra I couldn’t go anywhere but back onto Cody. So now I’m missing key plot points but the characters somehow know about it. That completely breaks it for me so I don’t even feel like moving forward with the story now. I don’t know what dialogue choices to make because as far as I know, what they’re talking about didn’t happen. So, yeah, lots of potential for this game, just poorly executed. ### 2/5 — Fun but crash *2020-09-18, version 1.0.4* I really love this game. It has a great storyline and is very interactive. The only problem I have is that the game crashed after I escaped the Yearwoods. I finished all the “assignments” in terms of talking to Cody and wrench and etc, and the screen looked as if it was about to progress to the next scene only to crash and leave me in the ship with no signs of progressment. Now I can’t proceed with the story... please fix this bug! I really want to know how this story ends.. I’d start with a brand new slot game to hopefully overcome the glitch, but I don’t think this game is worth playing over (especially with the long dialogue) just to finish the story. ### 2/5 — Nice game horrible UI *2020-09-17, version 1.0.4* Honestly I love the aesthetics. Yet it’s a pain in the class to navigate through places. Redundant buttons to close and open up maps, awkward control on the player. I gave up 30 minutes in because I had to try so hard to work the bugs out by walking in and out in and out in and out through the door. Also although the architectural design is nice, the map is incredibly empty. A significant amount of the time I just feel like I am engaging in a dull af dialogue with Serra tryna solve her family issues while sight-seeing this sci-fi universe. Character-wise, sorry but I think M&T are just such cliche bounty hunters it is almost painfully cringy to talk to them, and Serra being the cliche cool mom with her problematic son. Nothing really new at least for the first 30 minutes. But you could endure the suffer and check on what they’ve got after that. Good luck and I am out. ### 2/5 — Update: Bad glitches *2020-08-27, version 1.0.2* This seems like a good game, but the glitches make the game impossible to play. Sometimes areas don’t unlock or sometimes a save file will only load a black screen with audio (after the ship tour). These glitches happen every time I try to play and I have tried deleting and reinstalling it. The black screen glitch is fixed, but now another glitch has me stuck. I’m at the gas station to get the first aid kit, but I can’t enter it. There is no dialogue and the person who is supposed to be sick is suddenly healed and following me. If I try to fly somewhere else, the ship seems to just fly forever. I really like this game when it works, but I hate these game breaking glitches that I can’t get passed. This game was clearly not even close to being ready for release. ### 2/5 — Looks cute, but is broken *2020-08-16, version 1.0.1* I never finished Oxenfree, but it was cute. This game is also cute, and I wanted to play it, but I can’t. Is severely broken. It doesn’t make sense, and neither do the options you get, but it looked cute. The gameplay also seems very simple, if/when it works. A lot of bugs: 1- On loading, audio plays to a black screen. 2- At the ranger station, I end up locked in a room, and the only clickable options are doors, one from room A to room B, one from room B to room A. Super helpful. No other choices are available. 3- buggy animations, the areas you are limited to walk in are not delineated well/at all and the very random and unreasonable invisible walls make no sense 4- where the click prompts are don’t make sense, seeing a “click prompt prompt” (not a typo) circle over an object, and when walking over, the prompt being for something else... very weird 5- crashing, things going out of phase, weird behavior I don’t think this game was tested enough, or actually ready for launch. Maybe I’ll be able to play it when it’s finished. ### 2/5 — Bugs? *2020-08-16, version 1.0.1* While the game is lovely and the color are my jam, I would enjoy the game more if there weren’t so many minor bugs - characters walking off into other rooms while interaction with another character is supposed to be happening in the other. The amazing voice acting is not always played and must restart the game in order to hear it again. The loading is taking forever after the mother chapter that I can’t move forward (and it’s annoying to have to restart the whole dialogue leading up to the next place I’m supposed to be just to try and see if it’ll work again). Sometimes I’ll be walking and the character is teleported back to the beginning, and I have to start the walk over.. I would say those are the minor bugs that is preventing me from giving 5 stars. Also moving between rooms in the same location is downright annoying to have to be close enough to the circle to activate a button you then have to click.. might not sound bad but doesn’t work for smooth gameplay, especially if you run too close to an entrance and the circle won’t make the button appear, you have to walk back and forth for it to pop up again. Maybe I’m being nit picking too much! Overall I do love the characters and their relationship, the story so far is good- if it would just load for me to continue on to the end. **Developer response:** We apologize that the bugs present have affected your experience with the game! We're working to tackle many of the issues players have been noting, and appreciate your feedback. We hope that many of the fixes we've made in our recent 1.0.4 have helped to address some of the issues you've encountered! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Review *2022-08-17, version 1.0.6* First game I’ve enjoyed in a long time !! Rating this game anything under 5 stars doesn’t sit right with me 😃I do wish it was a bit longer though.. Normally I don’t write reviews but I’m honestly a bit sad of how low the ratings are “3.5” stars for such a good game :( I was scared to play this game at first due to all the reviews saying “how there’s a lot of bugs” but Im glad I still played it because I didn’t experience any bugs or issues !! ### 5/5 — Hold your finger on screen to move *2021-03-10, version 1.0.6* I just found out that you can hold your finger down on the screen in the direction you want to move. I find this much smoother than having to tap constantly, and that may help with some of the issues other reviewers have pointed out? Either way it’s a properly fun game. I love the sound track and the art direction, the characters and dialogue are believable and interesting, and the voice acting is really great as well. The overall mood of the game is just really cool. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2021-01-12, version 1.0.6* Honestly, the story to this is so fun and amusing. There are glitches and interactive annoyances like when clicking areas/things, it’ll click the wrong thing or also when blasting off, characters and screens get stuck. But honestly, when I had this issue, I would go to the main menu again and then hit continue. The bugs/errors do not take away from the story/game at all in my opinion. I love games like these and felt like it gave more than usual amounts of interactive-ness! Lol. ### 5/5 — Overall: a great/fun game *2020-10-19, version 1.0.4* I loved oxenfree, I’m sad I didn’t realize it was the same studio bc I would have played it sooner, but I’m glad to say I loved this one too. I loved the voice acting and characters. The story and adventure was cute and fun. I did experience a lot of the bugs/issues that others report, but for the story/adventure I will give 5 stars despite that. Main issues: dialogue playing over eachother or not playing at all, dialogue repeating, touchy controls and movement, etc ### 5/5 — One of the best Apple Arcade games. *2020-09-30, version 1.0.4* This game is an amazing story mode game that keeps your interest, has great graphics, and runs smoothly. This game runs well with and without controllers. I played this game days after it came out and left a disappointed review that the game had bugs that ruined any chance of finishing it. All of these bugs have been fixed and I was able to continue where I left off. Thank you Night School Studio. ### 5/5 — Excellent But [Formerly] Buggy. Very. Buggy. Unplayable buggy at times! *2020-09-05, version 1.0.3* UPDATE: I have officially played through to the end for my first of many times. Latest update fixed my game halting error. Love love love, wish it was longer — May I beg for a sequel?? New chapters on this story, maybe some prequels, something? I love the crew and I know this story is tied up but I would love to see these characters in another story. I know things like this are not done overnight, and I’m guessing this game was a doozy to build, and may be pushing boundaries of current iOS hardware & software, based on how hot my XS Max gets playing this. Therefore begging for more already is crazy but I loved this game a LOT. So now I’m off to play OXENFREE then come back for a new play on NSN! Original Review: 2/5 stars So much to love but I have so. many. issues!! So many times, if I set the game down and do something else, I come back to a nasty glitch — my latest one, which is proving unfixable & game halting, is [spoiler] after you get the ranger med kit for Serra, Michigan & Tex video/holo call and I’m supposed to be in the main room with them to play guitar, but instead I’m locked out in the Pin Board room. The main room door has the lock icon and everything. I can access all other ship areas but no way to get to the main room. I’ve tried “continue” and “load” to the same result. HELP! I can’t play anymore now... **Developer response:** I'm so sorry these bugs affected your experience! We've just released a patch that fixes most of the bugs that players were reporting. We're continuing to test, but if you update to 1.0.3, it should be much smoother! ### 5/5 — Sugesstion/LOTS OF BUGS *2020-08-27, version 1.0.2* Please, PLEASE ADD A GO BACK BUTTON! I reallllyyyyy wanted to know what the character would’ve said if I chose the other option!!! Also, THESE BUGS ARE KILLING ME. The last few resolved after I just left the app alone overnight but it’s impossible to move on until some of them resolve. If you don’t feel like waiting, just play another slot, it’s at a different spot but I guess it’s nice to see the other options. The bug updates are pretty consistent though so I’ll give it a five cause it didn’t take long for them to fix some of the problems I was dealing with. ### 5/5 — Great game but can’t finish. *2020-08-21, version 1.0.1* I got stuck at the gas station. I leave the gas station and I am in an infinite loop flying they asteroids, that I can’t even crash into. I let it run for 5 minutes, three times, to no avail. I’ve restarted the game 7 times & uninstalled and reinstalled. The star map shows the gas/service station as the next stop even though I am already there. The story does not budge after I bought the candy bar. EDIT: I restarted the game and it was a very quick playthru but didn’t encounter the game breaking bug. I was more careful about when I quit out of the game because I think that’s what caused the looping. Story and gameplay is great, very simple but a nice interactive story with minor exploring and decision making. Voice acting and music is very well done. I recommend giving this a play through. ### 5/5 — Great Game! (and a minor not so great problem.) *2020-08-19, version 1.0.1* This game, like almost everything on Apple Arcade is amazing. The Story is captivating and the voice acting is spectacular. I loved the spaceship levels, they really put my gaming reflexes to the test. However there are a few problems, the subtitles are not always complete, but that was fine because I was wearing headphones the whole play through and I mostly just listened. There is a spelling issue in some subtitles. When they say Bourlag Diner it says Nighthawk Diner in the subtitles. The ending scene is really glitchy. Dialog starts overlapping and I’m pretty sure the camera angle is off point. I hope you can fix this so players who come later will appreciate it as much as I did. Thanks ### 4/5 — good game *2022-02-19, version 1.0.6* i really liked this game!! i’m not a gamer of any sorts but i’ve played many apple arcade games and this one was interesting. i liked the audio for the characters speaking, since many opt for the audience to read it instead. I liked the multiple endings and how it can affect the relationship with the other characters. I did find that the controls were a little annoying when navigating through rooms, and i wish it was a little longer. (i played on an IPad) loved it nonetheless! --- *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 2026-06-10.*