# Redout: Space Assault — user reviews > 53 indexed App Store user reviews of Redout by 34BigThings srl, rated 2.88/5 from 303 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/redout-space-assault/id1464678372/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/redout-space-assault/id1464678372.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 95 · 4★ 25 · 3★ 43 · 2★ 30 · 1★ 110 ## What do users think of Redout? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Stunning graphics and visual design - 🎮 Engaging combat mechanics and gameplay - 📈 Ship upgrade and progression system - 🎵 Great soundtrack and audio - 🕹️ Responsive controls with controller support - 📖 Interesting story and narrative - ⚡ Smooth 60fps performance when optimized **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and app instability - 💾 Save progress not working properly - 🎮 Overly difficult difficulty curve - 🕹️ Poor touch control responsiveness - 📱 Inconsistent performance across devices - 🔊 Intrusive dialogue interrupting gameplay - 🎯 Confusing UI and navigation menus - 📍 Poorly defined race course markers - 🚫 Game-breaking bugs preventing progression - ⚙️ Default frame rate causes jittery gameplay **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch or loading screen - Save game data not persisting - Chapter 8 Level 2 - enemies stuck in place - Level 4 - dialogue freezes progression - Chapter 5 Level 5 - cannot lock onto Makeaba - Level 3-1 - camera zoom doesn't end level - Chapter 5-05 - weapons stop working in free-flight - Level 5-3 and Severed Ties - weapon targeting disabled mid-level - Race levels - boost gates not triggering - Performance jittering and frame rate drops - Apple TV crashes and instability - Dialogue skipping with controller input **Most requested features** - Skip dialogue option - Skippable race levels or make them optional - Better touch control optimization - Clearer race course markers and guidance - Ability to manually fire weapons - Open-world gameplay instead of on-rails - Different ship structural designs - Accessible difficulty settings - Improved UI with larger icons - Better tutorial system ## Newest reviews (15 of 53) ### 3/5 — Pretty good game but ridiculously hard races *2023-05-12* This could be a great game if it weren’t for the stupidly hard race levels that are mandatory to play but almost impossible to beat, especially on IOS touch controls! The idea of sliding one’s finger around to control impossibly tight turns and really tiny spaces to fly through at maximum speed is just dumb. It makes the game unplayable which is a shame since the game is really great otherwise. Make the races skippable and I’d rate this 5 stars. Otherwise it’s exciting, it’s easy to level up and the graphics and soundtrack are really good. ### 3/5 — Can't get past level four *2022-03-04, version 1.9.5* Not because of difficulty. But Makeba's line of speech won't go on. She just says, "is it true that cap posiedon blah blah blah...?" And then it's flying forever. I'm not sure why this is happening but it's disappointing, this seemed like a fun game. ### 2/5 — Glitch 8-2 Home Court *2021-12-12, version 1.9.5* Glitchy game but fun. Stuck on 8-2 Home Court because some enemy ships glitch and free float and can’t be targeted. Causes ship you’re defending to still explode and fail. Please patch this. Have attempted closing game and restarting. Have had this glitch 10+ times and cannot pass even though all targeted enemies are destroyed. Please fix! ### 4/5 — unfortunately crashed *2021-11-03, version 1.9.5* device: iPhone 12 Pro Max ### 2/5 — 3-1 Game Breaking Bug *2021-03-17, version 1.9.0* At the end of 3-1 the camera zooms out a bit like it should end there (also level ending dialogue), but the level doesn’t end. I can boost and outpace the camera to the point that the ship gets really tiny. Can’t progress as a result of this. Great looking star fox like game on my phone, but this is a huge bummer. Also the last mission in chapter 2 requires lots of grinding or that you just die over and over in order to keep your ship lined up and seal enough damage in time. ### 2/5 — Broken Level? *2021-01-29, version 1.9.0* Great game - fun to knock out a mission or two between Zoom calls - but I’ve reached a level that seems to be broken. Chapter 5-05: once my ship goes into free-flight mode, my weapons stop working! No missile lock, no auto-fire of regular weapons. I also wasn’t able to connect to the App Support linked in the App Store, so I’ll have to leave this here. ### 4/5 — One of the best *2021-01-20, version 1.9.0* One of the best games but it is soooooooo hard so 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. edit I’m Stuck on chapter 7 level 2 so hard but fun just wish it was easier ### 3/5 — Bug on 5-3 *2020-12-04, version 1.9.0* About halfway through the fight you will lose the ability target weapons. You can’t win or progress. It is a fun game, hope they fix this bug. ### 2/5 — Severed Ties level glitch *2020-11-07, version 1.9.0* Cannot progress past this level. I and other players have issue where halfway through the level, weapons won’t target at all. Just left trying not to die but never able to win level. meh. pretty, but meh. ### 2/5 — Awesome Graphics! *2020-10-02, version 1.9.0* I really enjoyed this game...umm well the small part I was able to play about 30 times in a row until I gave up. Apparently the cargo ship I was tasked to take down was in reality a super mega battleship with impenetrable armor plating, 5 high powered rip your shields off plasma cannons and engines that could a achieve some sort of pseudo warp speed that would reach haha you can’t catch me distance. Wait, sneaky technology...damaged cargo ship with power diversion to the engines means plasma cannons become ultra mega epic BFG one shot ship killers! Yes, these smugglers chose their stolen cargo errr battleship wisely. Too much stress for a game on my phone lol. Still, the graphics and fun of flying around in space kept me coming back until the 30th try when I put down my phone and began to cry. ### 4/5 — Good but glitchy. *2020-07-31, version 1.9.0* I have had some fun with this game. good graphics and works well with my iPad Air. Unfortunately, I got to 5/5 where Makeaba hunts me, and the chapter won’t resolve. I just fly around, not being able to lock on Makeaba or anything. Frustrating. ### 3/5 — Looks gooooood but debatably fun. *2020-04-16, version 1.8.5* The game looks great and I appreciate the person who made the ships. But there are some pretty bad things. Like wen I finish the second level of the second chapter because wen the level ends it just doesn’t and it keeps going. Also that level is vary hard because twice three fighters come out at once and kill you. Also I don’t like how you can only change weapons wen you die of wen you start a level. And I literally just found out how to fire the ships cannons wen I read a review. But again I thank the person who made the ships. ### 4/5 — Gorgeous graphics but poor control *2020-03-19, version 1.8.5* This is a gorgeous space shooting game. The graphics is stunning, no matter the structures and fleets in the background or the particle effects, all looks great. The battle is intense which is really good. But it’s too intense for the new player in the level one. The bullets on the screen are overwhelming. As a newbie, I have no idea how to dodge and fight back. Only after finishing the whole chapter one, I start to feel I can handle that. The most common bullets which is the red one, is the hardest to dodge. As it come closer, it gets bigger, and it becomes so big that it will take about 1/3 of the screen which means, I have nowhere to dodge. With this setup, it will make fighting back harder. Having the more undefeated enemies on the screen, the more bullets they will generates. It ended up with a pretty challenging game. The game provides variety of modes associated with the story line. It prevents the repetitiveness caused by space shooting all the time from happening. The control is the least satisfying feature of the game. The controller feels too slippery and sensitive. It makes the space battle gets harder. Even during the free fly, especially inside the narrow tunnels of meteorites. The space ship will hit the wall quite easily. ### 3/5 — Good but... *2020-02-20, version 1.8.5* Good game. Has a lot of potential Couple of things that need to be looked at - open the levels up instead of the game guiding you - and also get rid off the in game chatter between characters. It interrupts controls and gets in the way Edit: thanks for the update to the game. The beginning of the level character conversations are not interrupting the game play but if there is a conversation further in the level, it’s back to interrupting. Have to let go of all controls and re-engage. ### 3/5 — Great graphics, terrible controls *2020-01-12, version 1.8.0* This game would be better if the controls were better. Limited moved when piloting, end up crashing, hard time maneuvering, and gun controls are slow to respond. On the good side the graphics are great. The game flow is good. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Does not save progress. I’m tired of starting over *2023-06-23* After playing the same first levels 3 times I give up. Doesn’t seem to auto save. Exit to menu and hit save—does not load on next launch. Offline, no luck. Developers don’t understand how to use Game Center saves evidently Game play was “meh” at best. Great graphics but just a lot of hold a button and fire. No real strategy or skill. You just get pushed on a path and wiggle the joystick. No branching or decisions. Navigation menus and upgrading are terrible. The menus use tiny icons that don’t make sense. To upgrade your ship you have to try to start a campaign the upgrade then back out. Not sure if they treated this outside their own group, but it reeks of beta and not quite finished UI workflows. I recommend giving the developers a few major revs to work it out. Then try again. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t open/start *2023-01-09, version 1.9.5* Wish I could give a proper review. But, the app simply crashes within a second of trying to open it. Newer iPad mini. Everything up to date.. uninstalled and reinstalled, same same. ### 1/5 — Cannot open game *2022-12-31, version 1.9.5* I downloaded this because it looked like a game that I had played a few years ago, but cannot open the app. When I click on it, it opens for a second and then closes the game immediately. I have deleted and redownloaded and restarted my phone. If someone could help me I’d greatly appreciate it . ### 1/5 — A Game You Can’t Even Play *2022-10-11, version 1.9.5* Generally, for me to like or enjoy playing a game, I have to actually be able to play it. A game is an interactive medium, not an uninteractive medium. I don’t know how you can bork your programming or what have you to render your game unable to even start but the devs might have a thing or two to unscrew in the games guts because the lack of being able to start the game is NOT on my end. ### 1/5 — Epic game but it won’t let me in *2021-12-18, version 1.9.5* It is stuck on the loading screen. It only worked once after 10 tries. I waited 30 minutes for one of the times I tried to load this game. Please fix this. ### 1/5 — Disappointed by poor gameplay *2021-04-15, version 1.9.5* The graphics and style line this game up to be a Star Fox - esque style of game. However, once the game starts you realize how little effort was put into the actual game play. Tutorials prevent players from achieving objectives by taking control away. “Swipe to evade missles” when the player cannot swipe. The ship is difficult to control to boot. Reading other reviews it’s clear this theme has been a problem with this game for a long time. ### 1/5 — Too many glitches and GUI problems *2020-06-25, version 1.9.0* Missile firings and alerts from the enemies aren’t obvious and the marker on the screen is too small. The race course isn’t defined and you have to be near perfect to win. The expected direction of travel isn’t marked and you’re steered into obstacles during a fight, and sometime stuck. There aren’t instructions or help to understand the weapons and their general use. You sometimes skip through dialogue using a controller because of the boost button. The play area should be defined in areas where you have to explore, my ship has been destroyed for being out of the play area. Chapter 7-3 is nearly impossible. You have to slow down to get thru boost portals inside sliding gates that crush you and you lose every race. My craft is upgraded to level 10 and the enemy cannons still destroy me in this race. I hope an update will come soon. ### 1/5 — Stupid story, can’t tell what is going on *2020-05-21, version 1.9.0* Good luck trying to figure out what is going on because everything is so small. No idea what to shoot unless you pick up on something with a middle lock. Sometimes, I’m not sure what is even going on in a level. Why am I racing? Who are rebels? Why do I care about this general? Also not much of a clue as to what is going on with the story, but you’ll be dang sure to hear the terrible level intro dialogue every fecking time you start a level because there is no way to skip it. ### 1/5 — Real Review *2020-02-18, version 1.8.5* For a space game it’s very 2D, I feel like I’m trapped in a box... the controls only let you move up down left right within a box. The ship is flying in auto pilot and there is so much nonsense happening on the screen.... Enemy ships come in and shoot backwood?EXTREMELY BORING! I thought Apple Arcade would be much better then this. Maybe go get real arcade games we use to play? ### 1/5 — Game increases hardness too fast = impossible road. Stupid *2019-12-28, version 1.8.0* This game increase heardness faster than the tutorial allows you to learns l, so you keep repeating the same level in hopes of some slight satisfaction of the chance you get lucky enough to complete a level. To some that might be fun, but I feel sorry for those people ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — AMAZING!! But ain’t no way it’s so dang hard *2023-05-24* Daaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnggggggg why did You make dis game soooooooo hard and difficult??? I dunno but I congratulate you guys for making this game but please make the last level of “THE POSEIDON ACE” easier please! That’s all I have to say, but thank you for making this game!! Oh and I’m about to play it😉👋🏾✌🏾 ### 5/5 — Crash or blocking bug *2022-03-25, version 1.9.5* Chapter 8 Level 2 has an issue with the last portion of the level. Enemy and friendlies get stuck in place and it seems like all enemies are cleared because no one is shooting and missles don’t lock onto anyone and the ship we need to protect blows up out of nowhere. ### 5/5 — The game is great *2021-09-18, version 1.9.5* But, I have not been able to get past the level double tap, can someone help me ### 5/5 — Great Apple Arcade game 🕹 *2020-05-23, version 1.9.0* Overall this game is great graphics, controls and the story is great but my only concern is chapter 5 level 5 is impossible spoiler warning Makeaba tries to hunt you down and you free roam in this level which is cool except for the fact you can’t lock on to her ship and shoot at it no matter what after the part where you shoot all the drones down and it’s just you and her. I don’t know if I’m missing something but it is really frustrating but probably a bug so I’m not too worried thanks for the one of the few great Apple Arcade games.👍 ### 5/5 — Thank you for fixing the 705 mission. I finally beat it. *2020-05-02, version 1.9.0* I'm having so much fun with this game. I really hope that you do a second game without the rails. The visuals are outstanding ### 5/5 — Game just crashes *2020-01-12, version 1.8.0* The game crashes on “the purges” part on the last level please fix this I really like playing this game thank you ### 5/5 — This game is fun as hell *2020-01-11, version 1.8.0* I’m confused by some of the reviews I’ve seen because this game is fun as hell! The gameplay is simple and fun, especially the combat. It’s easy to blow stuff up and that’s what I want in a mobile space combat game. I don’t want it to be so hard that I throw my phone. I paid $1200 for this. Imagine me a grown man rage quitting a mobile game? Not here for that. Thank y’all for making this dope game. I’m really enjoying it! ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2020-01-08, version 1.8.0* I really like this game. The action and fighting missions feel fun and engaging. I like the game mechanics that allow you to upgrade your ship and continue to grind at other levels if you happen to get stuck at a certain level. I think the story is interesting and unique. All around a great game! ### 5/5 — Pushes The Boundries *2020-01-08, version 1.8.0* This is a highly underrated game. It contains some of the best graphics of any game I’ve played on an Apple device. Once I became comfortable with the controls I could not put the game down! ### 5/5 — A great addition to Arcade *2019-10-07, version 1.7.1* Probably the best space shooter in the App Store and the controls are elegant. Shooting is sweet and satisfying especially with the missile array. What a relief that a blast game like this can be played in full without grabbing money every second. Thank you!! Most gaming fun I’ve had on my iPhone in a long time. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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