# Settlement Survival — user reviews

> 137 indexed App Store user reviews of Settlement Survival by X.D. Network Inc., rated 3.10/5 from 49 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/settlement-survival/id1623596533/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/settlement-survival/id1623596533.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 14 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 15

## What do users think of Settlement Survival?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🎮 Deep and complex settlement building mechanics
- 💰 No pay-to-win or in-app purchases
- 🏗️ Extensive resource management system
- 📱 Works well on iPad with latest hardware
- 🎯 Similar to beloved games like Banished and Civilization
- ⚙️ Detailed technological progression tree
- 🌍 Open-world freedom in building placement

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes throughout gameplay
- 💾 Progress loss due to crashes and save failures
- 🎮 Clunky and unintuitive controls
- 📱 Poor UI scaling on mobile devices
- ⚠️ Game crashes at higher population counts (300-500+)
- 🔄 Crashes during auto-save functionality
- 🌡️ Missing weather effects (rain, thunderstorms, darkness)
- ❌ Missing combat mode from PC version
- 📖 Tutorial instructions reference PC controls
- 🔌 Requires internet connection for offline game
- ⏱️ Inconsistent performance across devices
- 🗑️ Save file deletion issues
- 🎯 Difficult road placement on small screens

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game crashes every 5-15 minutes during gameplay
- Crashes specifically when building pastures
- Crashes during auto-save process
- UI freezes and becomes unresponsive
- Build bar disappears randomly
- Cannot interact with UI elements after certain actions
- Save function crashes without saving progress
- Game crashes on settlement creation
- Progress deleted after crashes
- Trees remain visible after being felled
- Graves invisible in graveyards
- UI text displays in Chinese despite language settings
- Bonus spots not showing on new maps
- Tooltip/help menu gets stuck and blocks interaction
- Controls are backwards for zoom and rotate
- Buttons positioned off-screen on certain devices
- No weather effects displaying in-game
- Inconsistent auto-save timing causes progress loss

**Most requested features**

- Fix crashing at higher population levels
- Add weather system (rain, thunderstorms, day/night cycle)
- Include combat mode from PC version
- Implement manual save button
- Improve UI scaling for different screen sizes
- Add offline play capability
- Improve tutorial for mobile controls
- Add search function for buildings
- Make UI elements resizable or minimizable
- Cross-save support between iPhone and iPad
- Port to Nintendo Switch
- Add enemy towns or alliance system
- Extend technology tree beyond Renaissance age

## Newest reviews (10 of 137)

### 2/5 — Not worth the money(

*2025-11-05*

Idea is nice, some features are great, the mechanics are wide. Unfortunately, the interface is too simple. not very user friendly and has a lot of bugs. Moreover, the game needs to save my progress every 10 minutes and I usually have bugs with interface during this period, which makes me restarting the app losing some of my progress. That is extremely annoying(

### 3/5 — Great but crashes

*2025-10-07*

This is a great port with some mistakes here and there but it crashes incessantly! it consistently crashes around every 10 minutes which also happens to be the most frequent auto save timer. sometimes you lose progress sometimes not but it will crash guaranteed

### 4/5 — 튕김

*2025-08-12*

게임은 진짜 재밌는데 너무 많이 튕긴다 좀 고쳐주셈

### 4/5 — Combat mode?

*2025-06-11*

I really like this game but I hope you did add this when you made the mobile version of settlement survival and that was to add combat mode like on the pc version but after trying different things to see if it’s there I’m not seeing it please tell me you didn’t forget to add combat mode to settlement survival mobile

### 3/5 — Noch Probleme

*2025-04-15*

Das Spiel ist eigentlich ganz schön, allerdings ist die Menüführung teils komisch. Wenn man ein Gebäude bauen will kommt immer wieder ein nerviger Info Popup für den Brunnen. Man muss dann gefühlt tausend mal irgendwo hin klicken damit er irgendwann endlich verschwindet. Bitte beheben!

### 3/5 — Update needed

*2025-03-11*

One of my favourite games about. Please please please update the game so it stops crashing every time auto-save kicks in as you lose all your progress🙌🏼

### 4/5 — Great game

*2025-02-10*

Pls fix the random crashes

### 1/5 — Buggy and deleted my save file

*2024-12-07, version 1.0.57*

Game was fun until it crashed and when I reopened the game my entire save file was gone…

### 2/5 — Anfangs ist das spiel okay

*2024-11-04*

Also fangen wir mal an, am Anfang ist das spiel sehr herausfordern und leider fällt das immer wieder auf an gewissen Stellen unnötig ob es die Bevölkerung ist die nicht richtig nach kommt und aber dafür zu schnell wegstirbt ( obwohl alles zu deren Zufriedenheit ist ) noch events oder sowas vernünftig umgesetzt wird.  Leider Gottes ist auch das spiel selber arg Verbugt da es keinen richtigen tag nach Zyklus gibt bzw dies nicht sichtbar ist da es nie dunkel wird und die Stadt wie auf dem pc schön erleuchtet noch regen oder Schnee wird richtig wiedergegeben das zerstört die Atmosphäre und auch zwangsweise den Spielspaß. Denn gilbt es da noch im interface und der Bedienung bugs wie bzw. wann das nächste event ist wie auf dem pc und sonstige Sachen die man einfach weggenommen hat und das spiel an Autentität verliert, schade weil das spiel so wie es ist eigentlich ganz geil wäre vorallen als coole Anno alternative wovon es hier echt wenig gibt. Es wäre cool wenn der Entwickler da noch ordentlich nachlegen würde so würde ich es echt nur bedingt weiterempfehlen das spiel zu kaufen.

### 1/5 — Not worth it for 8 mins of play

*2024-10-23*

Really disappointed in this game.. if I could give no stars I would. The controls barely work and are back to front for zoom and rotate.. takes ages to move the view how I want. Turned rotate off in settings and it wasn’t much better. I can only play for so long into the guide then it starts glitching and showing me details of buildings no matter where I click. Def not worth the money or frustration. If these bugs are fixed it may be a semi decent game but I have given up. I have restarted it numerous times and it always glitches at a certain point

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Cant login

*2026-07-21*

I was looking for a game like this but i am really disappointed. It is stuck on main menu i don’t know why. My 600 rs is lost

### 1/5 — TAPTAP가입?

*2026-06-20*

TAPTAP 가입을 안하면 게임을 못하게 막아놓는게 말이 되나요? 그걸 알면 누가 유료로 구매하나요! 당장 환불해 주세요!

### 1/5 — Horrible

*2026-03-06*

I spent 40+ hours on my save and it got deleted by itself. This is basically a scam. Do not recommend.

### 1/5 — Very bad

*2026-02-05, version 1.0.57*

So buggy please port the pc version.
Edit 2 years later: no update in 2 years, devs abandoned this piece of trash apparently.

### 1/5 — Waste of money :(

*2026-01-18*

Could not play for more than about 3 minutes, as the controls do not work on my iPad. The tutorial was telling me to “fell trees” but i couldn’t actually tap on the fell trees button. I hit it about nine thousand times before giving up. Don’t waste your money on this game! Should be zero stars.

### 1/5 — Glitchy and not impressive at all

*2025-09-27*

This game glitched within 5 minutes on the second step of the tutorial and I couldn’t do anything.  Tried multiple times to start again.  I have the latest iPad Pro so it is not a hardware issue.  Controls are clunky, graphics are basic.  I expected more from a game that I had to pay $5 to buy.  Deleted it and I will ask for a refund from App Store.  Seems like it might be a good concept for a game but need to fix stability issues.

### 1/5 — Great game, fatal bug

*2025-04-27*

Love the game in of, wonderful port except for the UI bug that breaks all UI interaction. This happens frequently, as in per building placed at times. I hear it is wonderful on iPad, hope it can be fleshed out for iPhone

### 1/5 — Very bad

*2025-03-07, version 1.0.57*

So buggy please port the pc version

### 1/5 — Nonsense game

*2025-01-27*

This game is really bad made , everything is a a nonsense, 7 year kid sitting in same house with a 50,60 year person as a couple, when I tried to have a high fertility, my plants say I do 4000-5000 per year and people will eat 1000 and still I have 0 plants , an offline game but you forced to have internet , you forced to agree their terms after you pay the game , if I pay I will tell you the terms

### 1/5 — Минусы

*2024-12-20*

Постоянно вылетает

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — ほんとに面白い

*2026-08-13*

操作やバグは難ありますが、とても好きなゲームです。PC版もあり、そちらがメインですが、こちらでもバージョン1.1から先がきてほしいです。
小規模でプレイする分には楽しいですが、500人を超える規模になると落ちるので、まだiPhoneのスペック不足かもしれません。
現在バグの修正は年単位で来ていませんが、出来れば修正をしてくれたら嬉しいです。
これからの運営さんに期待しています。

### 5/5 — Good

*2026-08-02*

Wish it had some of the PC features as I enjoy playing on the go, but enjoyable. All the other reviews seem to be from a few years ago and people deserve to know how good it is now

### 5/5 — Das einzige mit Freiheit zum Bauen.

*2026-07-13*

Für mich das beste Aufbauspiel, ohne Konkurrenz

### 5/5 — 자주 튕겨요

*2026-06-13*

일부 설계도가 창에서 아얘 모습을 드러내지 않음(마녀상 등등)
마을 현황창에선 습득한거로 나오지만 설치가 불가능해요

### 5/5 — please update

*2026-05-17*

this is a great game i just wish it was updated to fix the issues and so there's more content

### 5/5 — Relaxante

*2026-05-12*

Tenho na Steam e comprei aqui jogo muito relaxante e prazeroso de jogar, pra mim no iPad Pro m1 só tem ocorrido 1 bug, as vezes a informação de alguma coisa que vou construir fica na tela e não tem como cancelar, só fechando e abrindo jogo pra reiniciar e com isso acaba perdendo o progresso feito antes do save automático, por favor concertem esse erro. O restante é um jogo muito bom recomendo

### 5/5 — Great game

*2025-10-02*

Love this game. It’s fun. Can spend hours on it. I wish it would rain, thunderstorm, also turn dark at night like pc

### 5/5 — Хорошая игра

*2025-05-17*

Игра действительно хорошая, но было бы неплохо ее доработать

### 5/5 — My favorite game

*2025-05-13*

I am obsessed with this game!

### 5/5 — A Bit Buggy, But Addictive!

*2024-09-30*

Although the game is a bit buggy and it crashes when you reach a large number of population. The complex supply chain system, how citizens interact with each other especially with their environment, and the in-depth technological tier progression just makes this game worth it! It's a must play for gamers who enjoy city building games like Cities Skylines, but a more harder version of it.

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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 2026-08-25.*