# Runner odyssey:running journey — user reviews > 252 indexed App Store user reviews of Runner odyssey by VIVA GAMES S.L., rated 4.00/5 from 288 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/runner-odysseyrunning-journey/id834255500/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/runner-odysseyrunning-journey/id834255500.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 171 · 4★ 39 · 3★ 27 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 35 ## What do users think of Runner odyssey? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Great endless game - 👍 Fun and exciting - 👍 Awesome game - 👍 Addictive - 👍 Awesome game, hardly any ads **Cons** - 🐛 Glitchy, freezes, and crashes - 🐛 Progression halted due to bugs - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 📺 Too many ads that interrupt gameplay - 🐛 Doesn't work on iOS 8 **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes after completing missions - Character disappears from main menu - Multiplier progression gets stuck - Daily challenges don't work properly - Incompatible with iOS 8 **Most requested features** - Add new zones and characters - Bring back old Forrest Gump elements - Fix bugs and glitches - Improve progression system - Reduce in-app purchase costs ## Newest reviews (13 of 252) ### 2/5 — What happened? *2026-01-25, version 3.0.6* This game used to be called Run Forrest Run ### 3/5 — Great game but there is a problem *2025-05-18, version 3.0.6* My problem is that I haven’t even unlocked the football area yet but one of my challenges requires me to roll under 10 red football dummies so I’m soft locked from progressing through the game ### 2/5 — PLEASE READ - SO MANY LAGS *2025-03-15, version 3.0.6* I've never wanted a bug fixes update even more than I do now because there are so many glitches in Gameday, Jungle, Desert and City. (All the zones) Speaking of zones, add a new one! Have you abandoned this game? It's not even Forrest Gump anymore. Please just fix this. Then you will earn 5 stars from me. ### 2/5 — Why did you remove Forrest Gump? *2024-11-15, version 3.0.6* I’ve been playing this game for years and randomly went to play and and saw ever reference of Forest Gump had been removed? Why would you ruin the game this way? Is it a licensing issue now? ### 4/5 — Remember when this was licensed by Paramount? *2024-11-14, version 3.0.6* Odd choice for Paramount to not renew the contract when this game was seemingly made to celebrate a so many year anniversary for Forrest Gump. I am glad the developers were able to scrub any references so they could keep the app up for everyone. I don't understand why Jenny is now called Claire; Forest I can understand (besides Forest Whitaker,) by Jen or Jenny is a pretty common name. I'll laugh if Paramount trademarked the character name Jenny. ### 4/5 — Progression halted, game still really good. *2024-10-08, version 3.0.6* I play a lot of running style games. What run forest run does best is atmospheric world and unique power ups along the way. The ads are present, but are not to annoying to be frustrating to the point of quitting. As it stands now I have encountered my first major bug in that leveling up my multiplier from x14 to x15 will not progress and shows that I have 100 percent completion too rank up. This is a fantastic runner game and easily have recommended too friends and would still recommend even now to at least give it a solid try. ### 3/5 — Why is Forrest Gump black??? *2023-12-29, version 3.0.6* Devs why is Forrest Gump black now in the game??? Change him back the way he was a White Man! ### 3/5 — The game is great but why is bubba 100 🍩 *2023-01-26, version 1.9.6* It does not make sense because when you run there are not a lot of donuts to run into and I am not watching 100 ads just to get one character who will just play as the same way as the other characters. Also add more zones and characters because the game is kinda fading away so please 🙏 do this for the fans of forest Gump 🙁 ### 3/5 — Super glitchy *2021-04-21, version 1.5.2* I unlocked some of the costumes with not paying and then some times in can’t play ### 2/5 — Level to level *2021-04-10, version 1.5.2* Well the game was fun interesting in the beginning but when I got to level 5 to 7 unfortunately the player doesn’t exist I tried upgrading everything still so I deleted it but I inspire to make the game more and so interesting and fantastic ### 3/5 — Weird (and possibly insensitive) idea, but fun game...when it works! *2021-03-12, version 1.5.2* It’s super weird that this is a Forrest Gump game, considering the subject matter of the movie, and I’m still not 100% sure how I feel about that. But the game itself was really fun!....When it worked. Now it loads up the game and has an empty bench with text saying to tap to play, and doesn’t do anything from there. Tried restarting the phone, clearing cache and everything else I could think of, but still no Forrest and an empty bench. It’s a shame because it was fun enough to have me not thinking about my confusion on how to feel about the subject matter (a flying mentally handicapped person who is running on highways facing cars going the opposite direction and can survive running into cars if he has a helmet on). So I really don’t know how to feel about this game, even when it’s working really now that I put thought into it 🤔 I guess, cool game but fix it and maybe consider changing it to not a Forrest Gump game?? Just sayin, you might be playing with fire here... ### 4/5 — Fun *2020-09-16, version 1.5.2* Fun but needs new updates. ### 2/5 — Run forest run *2020-08-30, version 1.5.2* I play the game for a while than after that that little guy on there goes invisible please fix it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Dumb game now *2025-01-26, version 3.0.6* This game is racist now. I don’t wanna play with a fake black Forrest. Why was the character not kept white? I will be deleting this game now. Trump 45-47!! ### 1/5 — What happened to the name? *2025-01-17, version 3.0.6* Did our childhood game get copyrighted? ### 1/5 — I want a white Forrest *2024-10-12, version 3.0.6* Does that make me racist? ### 1/5 — Forest Gump is a black man in this game *2024-07-15, version 3.0.6* Forest Gump is a white man change it back you woke democrats ### 1/5 — What happened *2024-06-13, version 3.0.6* What is this new update, it’s not called run forrest run, did the developers lose the rights to Forrest Gump and had to rebrand the game??? ### 1/5 — Not based on forest gump anymore *2024-02-17, version 3.0.6* A few years ago I used to play this game and deleted it and remember the game saw it and it’s a totally different game to the original. ### 1/5 — ? *2023-12-26, version 3.0.6* What happened to Forrest ? ### 1/5 — In need of a serious update. *2021-04-12, version 1.5.2* The game freezes after every mission. Will not allow you to log in using Facebook. I have to keep restarting the game to complete missions. ### 1/5 — I’ve been playing it since I was a little boy *2021-02-11* I LOVE this game but after a while the character disappears and when you click TAP TO PLAY it gets frozen. I would love if it got fixed ### 1/5 — Make it work *2020-03-25, version 1.5.2* App is not working ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The game *2025-05-22, version 3.0.6* Great endless game love it ### 5/5 — I've been playing it since I was little *2025-01-30* I LOVE this game! Why isn't it Forrest Gump anymore though. Also, could you bring back the old tutorial? I know it was Forrest Gump but still. Also, I would like another running zone please. And maybe a few more runners. Apart from that, it's a BANGER! Bye ### 5/5 — Needs a major update *2023-12-18, version 3.0.3* Dynamic Island is blocking the tip of the screen can u bring the options down out of the way so it’s able to be pressed the Dynamic Island covers them they need to be moved down a bit plz thanx ### 5/5 — One thing you need to fix *2023-02-19, version 1.9.6* When you’re trying to go to your Gmail’s and everything and see how much money and everything you have you can’t see it because it’s blocked by the dynamic Island would you be able to update the app to fix this please thank you ### 5/5 — Super *2022-07-09* Super ### 5/5 — Great game, hardly any ads *2022-04-30, version 1.9.6* Really like it ### 5/5 — Vraiment bien *2022-01-01* Ce jeu retrace tout Forest gump ### 5/5 — The good game *2019-04-18, version 1.5.2* I love this game it’s the best game I’ve ever played in my life but I have to say that there’s a poblem with the game. ### 5/5 — This Game is really fun *2019-02-01, version 1.5.2* This Game is really fun ### 5/5 — Woweeeeeeee *2019-01-12, version 1.5.2* I love the game, but one weird glitch. I dunno if anyone else has this glitch: Every time I load up the game, it instantly makes my character Bubba, even though I hadn’t unlocked him yet. And it says Forrest cost this much coins: 300060007999 I guess I’ll have to play as Bubba from now on... --- *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 2026-08-27.*