# Run the Gauntlet — user reviews

> 17 indexed App Store user reviews of Run the Gauntlet by JOhn Lyons, rated 1.80/5 from 8 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/run-the-gauntlet/id1448960748/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/run-the-gauntlet/id1448960748.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 0 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 4

## Newest reviews (3 of 17)

### 1/5 — Waste of money

*2019-04-21*

Multiplayer mode doesn’t work. Game play is terrible. Drawing bugs. Forget it.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2019-04-05*

Orange blocks start moving across the maze and kill you

### 1/5 — Money for nothing!

*2019-02-03*

Bad bad bad game! It seams to be like the original... However, controlling does not work correct and no button for magic. No recommendation!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Injouable

*2022-07-29*

Typiquement le genre d’appli qui hameçonne le nostalgique du jeu d’enfance sans offrir un minimum de jouabilité. 
Surfer sur la vague rétro ne demande pas trop d’effort graphiquement, pour un jeu payant la moindre des choses est de proposer un gameplay correct. 
1€ par la fenêtre…

### 1/5 — Scammed

*2022-07-14*

How can apple let someone put a game on which will not play?

### 1/5 — Run the gauntlet

*2022-01-14*

Dumb. Too hard to control and there is no map so you can’t see enough to decide where to go. Not the same as computer.

### 1/5 — Mr player

*2020-10-22*

Complete waste of money it’s nothing like to original game and controls are really bad avoid until it gets sorted.

### 1/5 — Sooooooo sloooooooooowww

*2020-09-04*

Take half an hour to do level 1 . Don’t buy

### 1/5 — Bugs

*2020-04-28*

Full of bugs, used to be a great game but it started going wrong. Orange blocks go across the screen making it unplayable

### 1/5 — Gameplay should be improved.

*2020-02-04*

I played Gauntlet for years when it came out in the arcade. The gameplay of this version feels like you are trying to move a rock around. Honestly, it is unplayable.
Tapping on the screen is both unreliable and it takes vision of the screen out.
My suggestion is to change the movement system to a pad like button on the bottom of the screen. Also, I tried the elf which should be the fastest pg in thr game and it is slower than what the warrior used to be.
I hope you improve it as I love this game.
Thanks !

### 1/5 — Ruined

*2019-12-18*

Orange blocks kill you off and makes it unplayable. Congratulations you’ve ruined the game.

### 1/5 — Run the Gauntlet

*2019-10-07*

Very disappointing not like the original a waste of 1.39 can’t play the screen keeps getting overrun with big orange blotches don’t remember that being part of the original

### 1/5 — Waste of money

*2019-04-22*

The creeping orange screen makes this game impossible to play. Shame.

## Most praised reviews (4 highest-rated)

### 2/5 — Long way to go

*2020-01-21*

I would love, to love this game. Remember playing it in the arcades when was I was a teenager. However, this version has a long way to go, to even come close to the arcade version. Thankfully it was only a $1

### 2/5 — Improvement

*2019-09-18*

I loved this game when I was a kid. It is still a lot of fun. This game has potential and I hope improvements are made. You are almost there guys!

### 2/5 — 😔😑

*2019-01-22*

Look l spent $1.49 and l have played this game way better some were else and now that this is on a app it doesn’t work well at all so l know that if you make the CONTROLS WAY BETTER INSTEAD OF ALL WAYS HAVING TO DOUBLE TAPP  it will be a good game to add 5 stars too.

### 2/5 — It’s ok

*2019-01-20*

Similar to the old school Gauntlet- hard to control. Cost me a $1   Just save your money

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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 2026-09-04.*