# Plasma Sky - a rad retro arcade space shooter — user reviews > 132 indexed App Store user reviews of Plasma Sky by John Dunbar, rated 4.90/5 from 59 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plasma-sky-a-rad-retro-arcade-space-shooter/id575310539/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plasma-sky-a-rad-retro-arcade-space-shooter/id575310539.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 55 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of Plasma Sky? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎨 Stunning neon vector graphics and visual design - 🎵 Excellent soundtrack and audio quality - ⚡ Smooth, responsive controls and gameplay - 🎮 Classic arcade-style shooter gameplay - 💰 Affordable one-time purchase with no ads or IAP - 🔄 Regular updates and developer support - 📱 Works across multiple devices and screen sizes - 🎯 Well-balanced difficulty curve - 🏆 Multiple game modes (Conquest, Blockade, Survival, Hardcore) - ⏱️ Quick pick-up-and-play sessions - 🔐 No data harvesting or privacy concerns - 🎪 Varied enemy types and wave designs **Cons** - 🐛 Game crashes on certain iOS versions - 📱 Poor screen optimization for newer phone models - 🎮 Controls can feel laggy or unresponsive at times - ⏸️ Game restarts when paused and reopened from springboard - 🎯 Restart button placement too close to continue button - 📊 Player health/HP indicator difficult to see - ⚙️ Inconsistent performance on some devices - 🎪 Limited content volume for long-term play **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes on iPhone 5 and certain iOS versions - iOS 7 compatibility issues - iOS 11 64-bit compatibility issues - Slow motion power-up causes crash when snake enemy appears - Game stutters and action lag during gameplay - Name change causes game to quit - White line artifact at bottom of screen on iPhone 5 - Controls lose sync during extended play - Game state not saved when paused and reopened - Icon displays as pure black on some devices **Most requested features** - MFi controller support - Haptic vibration and rumble feedback - Full screen optimization for iPhone X and newer models - Additional game levels and content - Ship customization and cosmetic skins - Persistent power-ups or in-game shop system - Difficulty settings (Easy, Medium, Hard) - Soundtrack available for purchase on iTunes - Multiplayer mode - Confirmation dialog for game restart - Game pause state preservation - Alternative weapon selection - Selectable difficulty levels with adjustable power-up duration ## Newest reviews (17 of 132) ### 4/5 — Please update for iPhone X *2020-02-27, version 5.0.8* Love the game but REALLY wish you’d update it to support full screen on iPhone X. I’d up this to 5 stars! ### 5/5 — Still one of the best!!! *2019-09-12, version 5.0.8* This game has followed me through two iPads and and at least one iPhone and an iPod touch. Simply a must have on every device. Amazing soundtrack and addictive gameplay that can keep you busy for however much time you have. Can’t recommend enough! Wish this thing had 1000’s of reviews! ### 4/5 — :D *2019-06-03, version 5.0.8* The game is good in general kinda reminds me of touhou with the bullet hell but I think you should add like a thing where you can get new skins and stuff or upgrades. ### 5/5 — A Mobile Gaming Must Have! *2019-01-12, version 5.0.8* Without a doubt this is my favorite game on iOS and Android. The graphics, gameplay, and music are spot on. It’s one the few games that’s always on my phone. ### 5/5 — Moreorless Perfect *2018-11-29, version 5.0.8* I’m not a game nerd but grew up frequenting amusement arcades in the 80s. Have always loved shoot em ups. Phoenix and Twin Cobra are my favourites, the latter the only one I ever mastered to any extent. Years ago I was looking for a shoot em up for my phone and just didn’t like any I tried... untill this sublime game. I could write a book about everything I love about Plasma Sky but am simply too lazy right now. I’m only really writing this to thank and show due respect to whoever put this game together. Damn, you know the score! The whole package is so well judged, so well focused on the gameplay. Simple, instantly accessible but with enough depth and variety to stay engaging and reward application, this game ticks my boxes in a flawless, classy package. Thankyou! 👍🏼 ### 5/5 — SpaceGrunts *2018-11-11, version 5.0.8* Is there a way to buy the soundtrack? ### 5/5 — YOU NEED PLASMA!!! *2018-11-04, version 5.0.8* This is a truly special game. It reminds me of the games I grew up on and yet the graphics are better. The game looks great on my iPhone 6s Plus, and equally well on my iPad Pro 12.9. Its just pure shoot ‘em up fun. This game and CHILLAXIAN are great retro fun! ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2018-10-22, version 5.0.8* Best space shooter I have played. ### 5/5 — FUN! *2018-04-22, version 5.0.8* I had seen my hubby playing this game. It looked fun, but not as complicated as some shooting games. Just shoot and try not to be hit. A great way to get my frustrations out! A number of different games, one with 100 levels. I know I have beaten hubby’s high score, but that is my secret...for now. I am a little addicted and have to play it a few times, at least, each night. Give it a try. You’ll fall in love! Thanks! ### 5/5 — Still have it today *2018-03-31, version 5.0.8* I have had this for so long, my favorite original galaga game remake ### 5/5 — Perfect retro shooter. Download now *2018-01-07, version 5.0.8* I’m glad I found this game. It’s just want I want in a retro arcade shooter. Simple. Fun power ups. Beautiful graphics. Challenging without being frustrating. Great. ### 5/5 — Yes!! *2017-09-24, version 5.0.8* This is one of the few shmups on iOS worth playing. No free to play BS. Just spaceships, lasers, and exploding aliens! Good work John. ### 5/5 — I Never Write Reviews! Buy This Game! *2017-08-29, version 5.0.8* This game is the perfect, timeless 80s arcade-style vector shooter. I'm never deleting this game! Buy it now!!! ### 5/5 — If Galaga & Abyss Attack M8ed-by👸🏻♿️ *2017-08-18, version 5.0.8* The best .99 spent on an iOS arcade shooter! Ever. A lot like Galaga (4 u nostalgic ones, like me!) with the flowing visuals of Abyss Attack which I finally deleted bcuz it has not been upd8ed in years. Plasma Sky is fun, fast paced, & absolutely beautiful. 😎👍🏽 ### 5/5 — Always fun to come back to, Beautiful *2017-08-13, version 5.0.8* Definitely worth downloading. Multiple game modes and terrific enemy variety. There isn't any ship customization but the upgrade drops will always help. ### 5/5 — Best iOS game ever *2017-05-29, version 5.0.8* I am cheap -- I do not pay for many games. I have bought this one twice -- for iOS and Android. And it was money well spent. If I could figure out how to get paid for the many hours I have spent playing this game, I could afford not to be so cheap. It is marvelously playable. Discovering its ways of scoring and the tricks to winning is half the fun of this game. It is not just a random shoot 'me up -- there is definitely a method to the madness. I average in the range of ten to fifteen million points per game. I have heard tales of those who score forty million points and more. They should write a book on how they do it for the rest of us. This game gets updated periodically and improves both the playability and the game itself as well as correcting problems. It is a must have for shoot 'me up gamers. ### 5/5 — Classic *2017-04-28, version 5.0.7* One of the best ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 今のところは *2013-09-21, version 2.5* iOS7では起動せず。 ゲームとしてはBGMもグラフィックも内容も最高なので、起動すれば☆5つです。 早期の対応を希望します。 ### 1/5 — Does not work *2013-07-26, version 2.5* Crashes the moment I try to open it on an iPhone 5. ### 2/5 — No mfi controller support? *2019-01-02, version 5.0.8* Awesome game, but no mfi controller support according to the mfi controller support Apple Games Site. Please, please, please; make mfi controller supported, and you will get 5 stars! ### 2/5 — Not quite at a level to make you want to keep playing *2018-04-21, version 5.0.8* It looks good, it’s smooth, it’s responsive, but I think it needs an easy, medium and hard setting, plus the power ups don’t last long enough. Also you seem to get a good power up right at the end of a level and then it takes it off you for the next level. It would be nice to have an option to keep power ups. Perhaps a shop type thing where you make credit in the game then buy permanent power ups. Not real cash though as in in app purchases as that would drive me and no doubt others away. I hate games with in app purchases. Oh, and what’s with level 90? Is that level even possible? I think not. I reckon level 90 is pretty much the end of the game as it looks impossible to complete without getting lasered to death. ### 2/5 — New version not great *2015-04-23, version 5.0* I loved this game before, but your update has many bugs...action stutters, and when I try to change my name, game quits...please correct these issues so I can play the game again ### 2/5 — Уныло *2013-03-19, version 0.1* Я надеялся, это будет похоже на infinity field ### 3/5 — Great shooter *2019-06-22, version 5.0.8* There is one problem, why place the new game next to the continue button? I’ve lost count how many times the game restarts instead of letting me continue because of my finger placement when I die. There is plenty of room to spread them out a bit! ### 3/5 — Great...... But *2016-05-24, version 5.0.5* This is by far my favorite game I play. Since the update last year, my game always crashes when I have the slow motion power up and the snake comes out. Contacted with no fix. Only thing that's keeping it from 5 stars. ### 3/5 — Icade support *2013-09-25, version 2.9.8* Only reason bought this app was to play on icade so hope you can fix this problem and how can we turn auto fire off-want to shoot myself especially on icade jr. ### 3/5 — Под пятый iphone оптимизация *2013-05-11, version 2.5* Крайне плоха,а так обычный скролл-шутер. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-06-27, version 5.0.8* I have played this for years now and still love it. ### 5/5 — it’s the best *2026-05-24, version 5.0.8* Years ago (around 2013), when I was still a pupil, I had just undergone surgery during the holidays and couldn't get out of bed. A relative lent me their iPad, and I ended up playing Plasma Sky on it for about a month. It's the best space shooter game ever! But I couldn't remember what it was called. Finally, with the help of AI, I found it. And surprisingly, it still runs fine on iOS 26—lucky! ### 5/5 — Yes *2026-03-24, version 5.0.8* I used to play this game a few years back, and when I found it the other day, I immediately got it. It is better than I remember—and does not harvest any data! ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-01-02, version 5.0.8* Free, and fun. Please update screen space for newer phones ### 5/5 — ❤️ *2024-02-05, version 5.0.8* ❤️ ### 5/5 — Since the IPhone 3G! *2022-05-14, version 5.0.8* If been playing Plasma Sky since the IPhone 3G and it remains my favorite iPhone game ever! Big props to the developer for keeping it going though all the changes over all these years!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Still playing this game *2021-07-08, version 5.0.8* Played it when it came out years ago. Beat it with many continues. Took it up again and beat it with one man!!!!! Who does that? Now playing survival mode. Wish they would make another one. ### 5/5 — Perfect Scrolling Shooter *2021-02-26, version 5.0.8* Awesome soundtrack. Polished graphics. I keep coming back to it. It will always be on my phone. ### 5/5 — Wow! *2020-11-18, version 5.0.8* Works great on the IPhone 12 Pro. Has the dev stopped working on it? If so, kudos for such a polished and fun game. And thank you for putting a user manual on your site. If the dev ever comes back to it, haptic vibration and vibration would be a nice addition. ### 5/5 — Great game. Please update *2019-10-16, version 5.0.8* Great game!!!!!!!, my only complaint is that when you pause the game and use others apps you have to start all over again. --- *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 2026-08-22.*