# Retroshifter — user reviews > 39 indexed App Store user reviews of Retroshifter by Murdercloud Studios HB, rated 4.60/5 from 624 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/retroshifter/id1206104906/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/retroshifter/id1206104906.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 475 · 4★ 95 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Retroshifter? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎨 Excellent retro pixel art graphics - 🎵 Great music and audio design - 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay - 🧠 Challenging hand-eye coordination mechanics - 🏃 Engaging parkour mechanics - ⚡ Easy to learn controls - 👨‍💻 Responsive developer engaging with community - 🎯 Good difficulty progression **Cons** - 🐛 Unresponsive swipe controls - 🔄 Repetitive gameplay - 📉 Low FPS performance issues - ❌ Limited game modes and content - 🎮 Imprecise character animation and movement - 🌈 Distracting visual elements - ⚠️ Game crashes on startup **Commonly reported bugs** - Swipe input not recognized consistently - Low frame rate (25 FPS or less) - Game crashes on initial launch - Controls unresponsive during gameplay - Color selection changes during swipe actions **Most requested features** - Story mode campaign - Character skins and customization - Left-handed control mode - Colorblind accessibility mode - Night/day cycle themes - More unique upgrades and progression - Equipment/weapon systems - Additional game modes ## Newest reviews (13 of 39) ### 5/5 — Awesome, Fantastic Running Game *2017-08-06, version 1.0* This has been one of the best running games I've played. I really hope this game can get bigger and better with more modes and content. For now I will keep enjoying it by playing and getting better. 👍 **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words Andy! I'll be adding content in the coming updates! ### 5/5 — Best Arcade Game *2017-08-04, version 1.0* So far I am loving the game, unity has some of the best games like Gleam and what not, but this one sure is great. ### 4/5 — Good start *2017-08-04, version 1.0* This game is a lot of fun once the pace picks up, but could use some more content. Whether its a night/day cycle, new themes or just more unique upgrades, any good amount of new content would make the game more interesting **Developer response:** Thanks friend. More content will be added in the coming update. Thanks for the feedback! ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2017-08-03, version 1.0* If you love runners I highly recommend this. It different, fun and addicting! ### 5/5 — Awesomeness *2017-08-03, version 1.0* I haven't played this game yet but when I read the reviews and see that the developer is speaking to all these ppl it awesome. Developer you are awesome that I you for making this game and I know it can get hard. Thank you sooo much. **Developer response:** Thanks king! If people take time out of their days to play and review my game the least I can do is reply :) Much love brother. ### 4/5 — Love game but wow no equipment *2017-08-02, version 1.0* There is no equipment 🔪🗡🔫💣 so please put equipment ### 5/5 — Amazing 👍🏼 *2017-08-02, version 1.0* Just started playing this game and it's awesome, challenges your eye sight and testes the speed of your reactions amazing parkour game 😀 good job creator soon this game is gonna me in the top 3 ### 5/5 — AMAZING! *2017-08-01, version 1.0* When I just started playing the tutorial, I knew that this game would be a game I would love, which is true. But this game gets very difficult.... which makes it fun!! **Developer response:** Glad you like it friend! ### 5/5 — Parkour *2017-08-01, version 1.0* Love this Game Especially that its Parkour😍 ### 5/5 — Very nice game *2017-08-01, version 1.0* It's easy to learn all the controls, but very hard to do it well **Developer response:** Thanks friend. Glad you liked it :) ### 5/5 — Awsome *2017-08-01, version 1.0* This game is my favorite! I like the neon colors and how it's motion is parkour.I also like the pixilation.Thanks for the best game ever.😃I got a new costume and in definitely made the game better the people look way way better and it gets better the faster. This really is my most favorite game ever. ### 5/5 — One of the funest *2017-07-31, version 1.0* This game has me in awe, the cool 8-bit character with the newer graphics make the name fitting, this game is purely astronomical. **Developer response:** Thank you for the very kind words friend! :) ### 5/5 — Awesome game! *2017-07-30, version 1.0* Bad a#s. :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Kys *2017-08-08, version 1.0* Kys ### 1/5 — Legitimate Review *2017-08-01, version 1.0* So as I was reading the reviews for this game I noticed that most of the 5 star ones looked pretty fake. I'm not sure if this is actually true, but in any case I aim to give an honest and legitimate review; no saltiness and no fakeness. So first off, the game looks great, I personally love the graphics and general feel. It's a side scrolling run game kinda like Jailbreaker (I think thats what it was called). It has you jumping, diving, and sliding to get past obstacles. I think it has real potential. Unfortunately, it seems it's quite bugged. When I installed it it immediately crashed on me. When I opened it back up it was fine. This makes me think it was a one time thing, but nevertheless it was a problem. When I got the game running, I noticed that I was hitting very low FPS, if I had to guess I would say maybe 25 FPS at most, this made it pretty hard to play the game since I could barely see what I was doing. After that, the game did not recognize that I was swiping. You swipe to move and perform jumps and slides and stuff, but the game wouldn't recognize that I was. This wouldn't be attributed to low FPS, since even in low FPS you can still play the game will just lag. It got to the point where I was spamming the swipe but still nothing was happening. Overall this game has potential, but is too bugged to actually be a fun game, or even a game in general since you can't even play. If it wasn't bugged, for sure it would get 4 maybe even 5 stars. I also want to add that it's possible this is all on my end and other people may not have problems. I would recommend trying for yourself, but fair warning for what to expect. ### 1/5 — Boooooorriiiingg *2017-07-31, version 1.0* It's ok from one to ten. One being this ten being candy crush. It's ok for a free app but just go to major mayhem. ### 1/5 — Hmm. *2017-07-31, version 1.0* Didn't like it ### 1/5 — Generic idea, poorly executed. *2017-07-29, version 1.0* This is a game that focuses on style of substance, lazily retreading mechanics from superior games. It's like they saw 'Canabalt' and 'Chamelion Run' and decided to mash them together without any understanding of what made either game appealing. The character animation is bad to the point of breaking the core mechanic, with imprecise movements and frame timing giving the UX a sluggish and muddy feel. The flashy foreground and background elements only serve to distract the player from the true goals, even in the early tutorial levels. This game needs a lot of polish, but even if it's mechanics were perfected, your time would be better spent elsewhere. ### 1/5 — Cant play because im colorblind *2017-07-28, version 1.0* There needs to be some kind of colorblind mode. I can tell if the gates are blue but every other color looks the same. ### 1/5 — 😶 *2017-07-27, version 1.0* The game won't even know which direction I'm swiping or if I'm even swiping at all. The game is also very blank and repetitive. This is a 'needs work' at best. ### 2/5 — I really wanted to like this *2017-12-16, version 1.0* As the title says I really did want to like this game but poor controls and a repetitive gameplay makes me want to delete it, which is exactly what I did. The only thing I'm glad about is the fact that it was free and that I didn't waste my money on this. **Developer response:** Thank you for the feedback. You really lived up to your username. Have a good one. ### 2/5 — Ok *2017-08-01, version 1.0* So I would like to point out that many of the controls for me at least are un-responsive making it almost next to impossible to play the game.Secondly the level designs are good... It's just that the actual game play aspect can get bland at times.I would like to see this game improve since it looks like it can be a great game if enough work is put into it. ### 3/5 — Left handed mode *2017-08-03, version 1.0* It's pretty fun, but there needs to be a left handed mode. Where the colors are on the right side cause when I'm swiping to get through, it changes the color and I don't make it. But besides that it's okay **Developer response:** A left handed control-scheme will be added in the next update! Thanks for the feedback friend. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — yes! *2021-06-02, version 1.0* so much fun and challenging love the music and the feel of this game ### 5/5 — LOVE IT❤️ *2017-11-30, version 1.0* I love this game! I love the music, the pixel art style and everything! I would really love a story mode, if it’s possible! **Developer response:** I love you! We've been looking into implementing some kind of story mode. ### 5/5 — HARDCORE PARKOUR!!!! *2017-11-23, version 1.0* Paurkour mechanics are an essential to this game to make it interesting and fun... :)))) ### 5/5 — Great graphics *2017-11-17, version 1.0* You don’t find to many mobile games this good. The retro style graphics are great and the controls are easy and simple to use. There could be more game modes, but that’s the only issue I have with the game. **Developer response:** Thanks for the kind comment Dom. Much Love. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2017-11-17, version 1.0* I just got this game and already think it’s awesome, it’s fun and addictive. I do like the physics and how your character moves I think you should be able to make skins or find ones **Developer response:** Thanks man. You can unlock skins, albeit not too many at the moment. ### 5/5 — It is fun *2017-11-14, version 1.0* I just started it and it’s good ### 5/5 — Story *2017-11-05, version 1.0* If you were to add a story mode in the game how many parts would there be? And how would it begin? So here can you make a story made in the future you don’t have to be quick I’m patient. I hope you would make a story mode it would be awesome. **Developer response:** Thanks Salbado. Hm, that isn't something that I have considered. Would be cool though. Thanks for the suggestion! ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2017-08-24, version 1.0* This game is incredible I honestly love this game. It has to do with hand and eye coordination which is really awesome for a game. I rated this game 5 stars because I really enjoy it 10 out of 10! **Developer response:** Thank you RR. I also love games that challenge hand-eye coordination (Which was probably the reason for creating this game in the first place). Much love friend. ### 5/5 — Good game *2017-08-12, version 1.0* Nice game good old nostalgic feel to it ### 5/5 — Great game *2017-08-10, version 1.0* The developer really is answering people's suggestions and I really like that an overall the game is amazing I love it keep up the hard work developers **Developer response:** Ofcourse :) Retroshifter would be nothing without its users! I'm glad you like the game Zain. --- *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 2026-06-10.*