# Pocket ZONE — user reviews

> 399 indexed App Store user reviews of Pocket ZONE by APPWILL COMPANY LTD, rated 4.70/5 from 3,751 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-zone/id1626379167/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-zone/id1626379167.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,988 · 4★ 586 · 3★ 58 · 2★ 31 · 1★ 88

## What do users think of Pocket ZONE?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Great pocket version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games
- 👍 Friendly community
- 🤝 Supports developers
- 🕹️ Unique and immersive gameplay
- 🌆 Atmospheric and well-designed

**Cons**

- 🔁 Repetitive and grindy progression
- 🐛 Bugs causing loss of items
- 🔍 Unclear tutorial and lack of guidance
- 🔫 Unbalanced difficulty scaling
- 💰 Premium currency tied to characters

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Disappearing items in storage
- Weapons getting deleted after repairs
- Anomaly damage being inconsistent
- Accuracy and hit chance issues
- Language translation problems

**Most requested features**

- More quests and story content
- Ability to change character class
- Improved inventory management
- Multiplayer and co-op features
- Ability to save progress across devices

## Newest reviews (14 of 399)

### 4/5 — A letter from a Canadian

*2026-08-26*

Hello!! 

I want to start off by saying I freaking adore your game and the world you’ve curated for it! 

I work in kitchens and I live a really stressful and complicated life. 

One of the few joys I have is taking a smoke and firing up pocket zone for a bit and escaping to your amazing world! 

It’s why it’s makes me so sad to see this game get fewer and fewer big updates, I really wanna keep playing this game , THIS game. 

The sequel was never necessary, you have everything you need in the original, story, world building, style etc.

I really hope the best for you and at the end of the day you’ve really made a real impact on my life with your game. 

Your friendly neighbourhood Canadian,

-Ryan.

### 4/5 — Pretty fun for offline

*2026-08-05*

It’s a good game but does get repetitive a little fast 
If like if there were more “open world” aspects like the shelter in green village scattered around or in the raid zone nevertheless would recommend

### 2/5 — Returning to the zone

*2026-07-05, version 1.140.1*

After starting up this game after a while away, imagine my surprise when all of my stuff was gone, including the stuff I bought with my actual own money. How do I get my previous purchases back?

### 3/5 — I lean from 3-4

*2026-05-20, version 1.140.0*

This game is great, I love how there are no adds unless you want extra, there are many items that you can collect and if you like games that needs many of progress to finish or get good then this is the one for you, but it takes to long, items in the premium shop are way to overpriced and you only get 900 neuro per month, that’s 10,800 over a full 365 days of getting on, and you can barely get anything good for that, I love this game but this recent update kinda dropped my liking.

### 5/5 — Good game

*2026-04-27, version 1.139.1*

Take ur time and it will flow

### 5/5 — Read for details

*2026-04-26*

This game is actualy veyr promising, no forced ads only the ones you can watch for rewards such as skipping a daily login or getting a exclusive quest, you can pay to win but here’s the thing you don’t have to since you can actualy gain every paid item in game by leveling up and trading insted of being exclusively hidden behind a paywall.

Considering I’ve played this game for 3 or so years I think it’s one of the best mobile apocalypse games due to the really unique aspect combining a novel type descision based test game into a wandering experience. 

The only things are he tutorial is a bit long and you cant log in to save your progress I don’t think so don’t delete the game otherwise it deletes your data believe me I did and lost my 2 million dollars if the dev could please add a system where you can login to a account (not Google because it’s not optimal)
Just login to a preset account of maybe the Apple account game thingy .

If you are thinking of downloading this app just know it can be frustrating at times when you die and loose everything 

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Ignore this section this is for the dev because I think this developer was originally Russian
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Единственные недостатки — обучающий режим немного затянут, и вы не можете войти в систему, чтобы сохранить свой прогресс. Не удаляйте игру, иначе она удалит ваши данные, поверьте мне, я это сделал и потерял 2 миллиона долларов. Если разработчик может добавить систему, позволяющую входить в систему под учетной записью (не Google, потому что это не оптимально),
Просто войдите в предустановленную учетную запись, например, в учетную запись Apple.

### 5/5 — Good game

*2026-04-11, version 1.139.1*

Played it for a while though it is hard it’s still fun

### 4/5 — Fantastisches stalker Erlebnis auf iPhone

*2026-03-14*

Ich liebe dieses Spiel und spiele es seit vielen Jahren.. das einzige Problem ist das bei mir komischerweise keine Cloud Funktion vorhanden ist und funktioniert was sehr sehr schade ist weil ein Verlust meiner über Jahre erspielter Daten wäre eine Tragödie 🥲Bitte fix das. Ansonsten weiter so 👏🏻 ach ja Pocket Zone 2 spiele ich auch und liebe es 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 durch den Cloud bug leider nur 4 Sterne

### 5/5 — Ok

*2026-03-11, version 1.139.1*

Ok

### 5/5 — Yes!!

*2026-01-18, version 1.139.1*

Fell from the Heavens!!!! I love!

### 5/5 — Super dope!!

*2026-01-11, version 1.139.1*

I never write reviews but this definitely deserves one, it’s super relaxing and kills time like no other

### 5/5 — While difficult. Very pleased

*2025-12-28, version 1.139.1*

This game is honestly pretty tough. I’ve never enjoyed a turn based video game until this one. I’m currently level 20 just blowing through the first two-three locations to farm. I’m having a tough time with higher level enemies so maybe that’s a me issue lol. Very likely since this is my first experience with a game like this. But I am greatly enjoying it. The art style, sound design, and gameplay mechanics are really really satisfying. Very very good job!

### 5/5 — Интересная

*2025-12-24, version 1.139.1*

Думал скачаю и не буду играть - как это обычно бывает. А тут как понеслась)

### 5/5 — PHENOMENAL

*2025-12-14, version 1.138.1*

I’m practically already addicted to this game, and unlike other pixel games this has great graphics, and the whole concept and work of it is great. I can’t wait to see how this game becomes even better.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Разочарование

*2026-07-16, version 1.140.1*

Слежу за игрой с самых истоков, раньше даже активничал в тг каналах, но таааа долго ждать полноценный релиз уже перебор, я понимаю, что ты один делаешь игру, но вместо того, чтобы нормально доделать одну игру, ты берешься сразу за несколько проектов, а если в тг канале жаловаться на что-то, то как и в других отзывах сказано, ты просто мутишь тебе неугодных) продолжай в том же духе, игра действительно давала много надежд, но за 3 или сколько там лет 5 основных квестов, зато куча группировок и оружия и снаряги, которые в основном купить реально за донат, ты молодец!

### 1/5 — Not fun anymore

*2026-06-26, version 1.140.1*

Every new update is made only with idea to make you to buy something from the internal shop.

### 1/5 — All stats down to 0

*2026-03-24, version 1.139.1*

All my stats went down to zero i was i was level 12 and it deleted my character after i reloaded the game. I would really like it if yall could make this right somehow

### 1/5 — Really?

*2026-02-06, version 1.139.1*

Has an 80 second unskippable ad and the game doesn’t fit the screen on newer phone models.

### 1/5 — Don’t play this game

*2025-12-31, version 1.139.1*

It’s not only garbage but how does it take stamina to lift a gun to shoot? Second to that the tutorial doesn’t explain anything on how to really play or move just a couple basics and backstory. Honestly don’t starve pocket edition is actually better than this.

### 1/5 — Nope.

*2025-12-17, version 1.138.1*

God an ad when I clicked on a location to go do a quest within 5 minutes of starting the game. What happened to people charging once for a game and being done with it? Answer : greed. No thanks.

### 1/5 — Took a break to come back to this

*2025-11-09, version 1.138.1*

I took a small break to come back and to find the game has no enemies? The level 1 area I have started traveling to gain some supplies but, there is nothing. So much nothing that my character nearly died from dehydration. Another thing I can’t find or buy anymore is food and water. You look inside the trader it shows nothing but kits and guns along with ammo. No food or water. So now I’m stuck unable to do anything. Also, the food and water I had stored in my chest, it’s also all gone too. Along with some other items too. 

I don’t know what I came back to, but this game seems to have gone down hill. I really did enjoy this game, but now? I can’t even find a single enemy nor food/water source when trading.

### 1/5 — Anúncio

*2025-10-29*

Nem 2 minutos de jogo e já aparece anúncio não opcional, pior forma de monetização, desinstalei na hora

### 1/5 — Облако

*2025-10-21, version 1.138.1*

Сохранил свой прогресс в облаке в надежде что я смогу потом поиграть, но облако просто удалили)

### 1/5 — Newer phones block important text/content

*2025-10-13, version 1.138.1*

The game looks fun, but the fact that the game stretches to fit my screen is really obtrusive. The game displays text at the very top of the screen, which on my 14 Pro means that most of this text is completely blocked out. I might revisit when the game is updated to fit 2020+ phones without sacrificing the visibility of anything that might be displayed where the Dynamic Island is.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Простата

*2026-08-06, version 1.141*

Игра супер в игре сочетаются все параметры которые нужны для комфортной игры всем советую👍

### 5/5 — 'Drop' that 'Care'-'Package'🎁

*2026-08-05, version 1.141*

'Love'
Thee 'Uchiha'❤️‍🔥

### 5/5 — Pocket Zone

*2026-07-25*

Excellent jeux !!

### 5/5 — Pocket ZONE is good

*2026-07-20, version 1.140.1*

i like the artifact system, and how you can kill other stalkers, get stuff, SELL said stuff, get money, use money to get armor and guns, kill more, sell more, more guns and armor, and the cycle repeats. Also pretty nice game

### 5/5 — Добро пожаловать, сталкер

*2026-07-06, version 1.140.1*

Вполне вполне, очень даже неплохой проект, не душащий тебя донатом. Спасибо за старание!

### 5/5 — Hard

*2026-06-28, version 1.140.1*

It’s a love hate relationship

### 5/5 — Immediate!

*2026-06-18, version 1.140.1*

No save for profile?
All my progress just gone like that.

### 5/5 — Good game

*2026-06-11, version 1.140.1*

I don’t have anything negative to say :) … YET

### 5/5 — Not bad at all!

*2026-05-02*

I think it could with better pricing on items! It’s too expensive for mobile game!

### 5/5 — Very fun

*2026-05-01, version 1.139.1*

I like how you never know what’s coming next maybe a 25 level dog or a 5 level bandit you’ll never know although I think the game is really fun!

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*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 2026-09-09.*