POWDER User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience80.6% of reviews
Neutral2.4% of reviews
Negative experience16.9% of reviews

~ Based on 124 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is POWDER Safe?

POWDER appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for POWDER is 82/100.

This assessment is based on 120 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

81.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
16.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 120 App Store ratings for POWDER.

Is POWDER Legit?

POWDER appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for POWDER is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Landscape doesn’t work

on an iPhone SE, landscape mode doesn’t activate correctly.

One of the best mobile rogue-likes

This game is pretty similar to Caves of Qud, but it’s much simpler. Still just as fun to play.

Portrait mode broken

Please please, if you see this please fix this. Powder is my favorite roguelike and is quite difficult to play in landscape mode

Jeff, please fix the screen rotation issue

Playing the game in portrait mode on modern iOS versions results in a heavily warped screen.

I’ve been playing Powder since 2007 on various platforms, and it’s really disappointing seeing the game fall into disrepair like this. Especially when this port has half the game behind a paywall.

So small

Fast download - very nice.

Deserves to go viral

This game truly deserves to go viral in its current state. So fun. So different. I’m happy I can actually play it at my desk at work offline. Love it’s feel so much.

Still worth it

Been playing this game for almost a decade and still pulls me back!!

Game is amazing. Graphics rendering is poor.

Amazing game that really deserves an update in terms of how it renders on iOS. Most fonts and tiles are unusably bad in terms of how they are rendered. Even the default tiles look quite poor here. It’s sad because the gameplay is the best of any roguelike on iOS.

Solid multi-platform dungeon crawler

Great game, but some QoL improvements like higher resolution rendering and full screen display would be nice considering the $10 asking price that’s unique to this version. The scaling tends to look a little wonky, regardless of tile set or whether I’m playing in portrait or landscape.
That being said, most people will likely never even get to the point the free version locks out, so I can’t bash it too much.
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Best Rouge like RPG out there

Used to play this on the school computers as a kid 10/10

Great

I was obsessed with this game when I was a kid! Now it doesn’t want to restore my purchase from many years ago. Maybe because it isn’t compatible with iOS 13? Anyway, I hope my boy Jeff makes this not an issue.

Also, I recently figured out how to become a lich, finally, so that was hype.

(FIXED)Love this game, one control bug

This is my favorite roguelike, period. Highly suggest this to anyone!!! One big problem though: when pressing A to cast spells, zap wands, or throw, the game does not recognize that I need to lift my finger and press A again. If you do not release the A button super fast, your first button press will register and you'll shoot yourself with whatever you were going to use! Please please fix. I'd buy the game twice if this is patched

EDIT: THANK YOU!! Ladies and gentlemen, he fixed it. I love you... switched my rating from one star to the five star I’ve always wanted to do. Adding the delay was smart man
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Great fun, although controls can get in the way

The game is wonderful, but as a game designed for keyboard/button use, the touchscreen controls can be sub optimal. Not infrequently have I accidentally double tapped A, and cast magic missile or some other spell inadvertently at myself. It is to the gameplay’s credit that despite this, I keep coming back for more.
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PLEASE FIX BUGS

I love this game, but the Zap function needs to be fixed! A button mechanics need to be reviewed. Thanks!

Ideal rougelike

Powder is one of the few games where the tutorial is actually helpful. Once you learn how the game works, it contains endless replay value. Outstanding.

Please fix controls!

Author: the repeat delay and repeat rate are way too fast! Please reduce it or allow customization.

I press the virtual A button to select an item and the repeat happens before I can lift my finger away. So I often select zap and end up zapping myself by accident instead of selecting another square (and many other similar accidents such as running into enemies I don’t mean to attack). I can’t make it out of the tutorial because of this!
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Awesome!!

This is a great game, I always end up coming back to it. Very, very deep gaming and customization. It’s like a one player D&D kit in your pocket. Thanks to the developers for such a great job on the app, and thank you for keeping it up to date. People need to play this game. 👍😁

Good game, lost purchases

Fantastic game, loads of fun trying out different builds with the random starting items every playthrough.

Unlocked the game, updates went by, changed phones, and was able to restore my purchase, fantastic.

Would like to see more frequent updates...

Fantastic game, I've been playing for awhile and can tell you the 10$ is well deserved to Jeff, and a big THANK YOU.

Edit: Jan/2014- really hoping for an update, but the future is looking grim ;-;

EDIT: March/2018- FINALLY AN UPDATE. Have been waiting for this day for 4 years, god bless murica

One of the best games I’ve ever played

This game is great it’s the ROGE like dungeon crawler I’ve been looking for but there is an issue that the new update just released were it causes you to sometimes double click the a button his is very bad because it causes you to shoot hurdled with magic sometimes