# Noir Chronicles — user reviews > 59 indexed App Store user reviews of Noir Chronicles by Artifex Mundi S.A., rated 4.60/5 from 490 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/noir-chronicles/id1314322745/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/noir-chronicles/id1314322745.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 350 · 4★ 92 · 3★ 31 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Noir Chronicles? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful graphics and visual design - 📖 Engaging noir-themed storyline - 🎮 Fun and entertaining gameplay - 🗺️ Helpful teleport map for navigation - 🎵 Ability to play custom music - 🔧 Good customization options - ✨ Well-crafted atmosphere and ambience - 🎯 Interactive inventory system - 📚 Interesting narrative elements and character development **Cons** - 💰 Excessive paywall/mandatory purchase to progress - ⏱️ Game is too short for the price - 🔄 Repetitive hidden object scenes - 🎮 Oversimplified puzzles and mini-games - 🎭 Wooden character performances and poor voice acting - 📝 Weak dialogue and writing quality - 🎯 Linear gameplay with limited exploration - 🔤 Minor translation errors and typos - 👥 Lack of diversity in character representation - 🎪 Repetitive game mechanics and structure **Commonly reported bugs** - Rope untangling puzzle not registering correctly - Hidden object items not registering on tap - Game glitches when tapping screen edges on mobile - Home bar obscuring inventory on iPhone X - Hint button shade too high, causing accidental taps - Boiler room combination puzzle not recognizing correct inputs - Game blocking progression on certain puzzles **Most requested features** - Port game to PlayStation 4 and other consoles - Longer gameplay duration - More complex and challenging puzzles - Greater variety in hidden object scenes - Non-linear gameplay with more exploration - More frequent game releases - Better voice acting and character development - Clearer upfront disclosure of subscription/payment requirements ## Newest reviews (12 of 59) ### 3/5 — Base game not that great to pay to unlock *2025-05-19* Really, I get a basic scène for free then need to pay to unlock? ### 3/5 — Keine Empfehlung. *2020-11-08* Schöne Geschichte, schöne Aufmachung , spannend... aber sehr kurzweilig. In weniger als einem Tag durchgespielt. Dafür Geld zu verlangen ist schon frech. Drei Sterne gibt es trotzdem, weil die Idee nett ist und mehr erhoffen lies. ### 4/5 — Noir chronicles *2019-11-10* Some of the puzzles are difficult. I untangled the ropes but it wasn’t recognized so I had to hit skip. This also happened in the boiler room, I guessed every combination of three numbers and I finally had to skip it. The music is awful. The musics been awful in the past few games. Patti Gaul ### 3/5 — Decent But Not Great!!! *2019-10-11* This game is average at best. Nothing special or unique and it’s definitely too short for the price! ### 3/5 — Cool game *2019-08-11* Story line was good. So was the overall gameplay. The HOS got a bit repetitive. I liked that I could play my own music. 3.5 stars ### 3/5 — Not bad 🕵🏼 *2019-02-04* The graphics are lovely and the storyline's ok but I found the characters a bit "wooden" and the voice acting of the lead character wasn't great. The mini games are fairly easy, the HOS are just lists and there were far too many keys to find. Not a bad game but needed more innovation and it was fairly short. Definitely wouldn't pay the full price. Glad I got it on sale. ### 2/5 — Well organised game - far too short to spend money on *2019-01-13* It took me only an hour to get through the free content. No way am I subscribing for £4.99 a month to get one chapter per month! Pity, because it was fun. ### 4/5 — Kept me interested... *2018-09-14* but I really wish it was longer. I finished the main story in an hour. Also, I personally don’t like the math-based mini games. I’m horrible with math, as I’m sure a lot of people are, and it takes the fun out of the game to be honest. Other than the length and the frustrating mini games, I liked it. Not this developers best game, but it wasn’t bad. ### 4/5 — Decent game *2018-08-19* Not a bad little game, storyline and gameplay were good. The mini games were lame however and I ended up choosing to skip most of them ### 2/5 — Too simple *2018-08-11* I’ve come to trust Artifex Mundi for fun storylines and puzzles as well as hidden object gaming. But this game in particular is so boring and dull. The dialogue is horribly written. It’s way too guided in that there’s no puzzle aspect. You only really have one thing you can do at a time so there’s no thinking involved and it’s been ultimately boring and unimaginative gameplay. ### 5/5 — Love! *2018-05-16* I haven’t even played it and I know I would love it! It’s my favourite genre! PLEASE port this over to PS4! The entire library in fact! I am currently playing Grim Legends 3 and I must say that it is my favourite one so far!! (I have have gotten most of the Artifex Mundi games on my console). None of them disappoint! (And no, I don’t work for the company or are related to anybody in the company lol) ### 4/5 — 面白い *2018-05-14, version 1.0.1* けど、短い。 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-07-19* The surprise “pay to continue” stuff is not ok, it makes your supposedly free game a big fat lie. Will remember this developer. ### 1/5 — Won’t let you finish without paying *2023-04-25* Let’s you play the game, but then makes you pay or you can no longer play. ### 1/5 — Non si può così *2023-02-13, version 2.1.0* Bellissimo il gioco , anche la grafica ma poi sul più bello per andare avanti bisogna pagare 8 euro . State fuori !!!!! ### 1/5 — just cheap trial *2021-06-29, version 2.1.0* it was fun until i have pay 7$ for this game to procceed ### 1/5 — PAYÉ 2 fois.. *2021-06-21* Jeu sympa mais j’ai du payer à la fois sur Mac et sur IPad pour débloquer.. étrange. ### 1/5 — Falso *2020-01-27, version 2.0.1* Orribile obbligare la gente a spendere un sacco di soldi x andare avanti Disonesto questo modo di fare è il primo gioco che scarichi gratis e dopo poco non puoi andare avanti se non spendi assurdo Darei 0 se si potesse 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞 False le stelle che SONO OBBLIGATA A METTERE X me é 00000000000000000000000 ### 1/5 — Жесть *2020-01-23* Вы серьезно?? ### 1/5 — Bellissimo ma... *2019-01-13, version 2.0.1* Bello davvero fantastico, ma ad un certo punto, sul più bello, se non ti abboni non puoi fare nulla.. ### 1/5 — Deludente *2018-04-22, version 1.0.1* Più che enigmi, giochi da “aguzza la vista”.. e quando pensi che almeno vuoi vedere come evolve la storia, ecco il blocco. Quasi 8 euro per proseguire. Ma anche no... ci sono enigmi infinitamente più belli e molto molto più economici. Adieu! ### 1/5 — Fun but don't waste your money *2018-03-14* While the puzzles are fun and challenging the game is overtly sexist and racist. Zero characters are people of color and only two women out of the many people you interact with (there is one other woman but she is dead). Also WAY too short. I expect several hours of game play, at least, if I'm spending $7.00 and I completed the whole thing in less then four. And that was on the hard level. No choice in who you play and game ends with a very anti-climactic kill. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Big fish *2020-11-25* I love it ### 5/5 — Red men *2020-06-18* Brilliant game ### 5/5 — Super *2019-11-14* Weiter so , tolles Spiel Es macht sehr viel Spaß 😉 ### 5/5 — Great Game *2019-06-02* Wonderful game...buying the full version ### 5/5 — Fun for noir fans! *2019-05-25, version 2.0.1* Fun for noir fans! ### 5/5 — Une partie gratuite trop courte et un abonnement non précisé au départ *2019-05-18* Si la partie gratuite dur 20min cela ne vaux nullement le coût et on devrait savoir directement que l’abonnement est mensuel pour continuer ### 5/5 — I love it *2019-03-13* It is a really fun game and my favorite part is when I saw the bad guy threw the window but thank you for makeing this game ### 5/5 — Sehr interessant und tolle Rätsel *2019-01-11* Sehr spannend gehalten und eine tolle Geschichte ### 5/5 — Wonderful game! *2018-08-14* Loved the noir genre! Hoping for more like this! ### 5/5 — Круто!!!!!!!! *2018-06-17* Классная штука очень сильно нравится 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 --- *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 2026-08-31.*