# Shadowplay: Forsaken Island — user reviews > 45 indexed App Store user reviews of Shadowplay by Big Fish Premium, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 1,663 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadowplay-forsaken-island/id1339206802/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadowplay-forsaken-island/id1339206802.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,127 · 4★ 335 · 3★ 130 · 2★ 38 · 1★ 33 ## What do users think of Shadowplay? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Engaging story and characters - 🎨 Decent graphics and visuals - 🕹️ Variety of puzzles and mini-games - ⏱️ Decent game length and replayability **Cons** - 🐛 Glitches and technical issues - 🔍 Precise item placement required - 🤔 Confusing or unclear instructions - 🕹️ Frustratingly difficult mini-games **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to progress due to glitched items - Repeated audio issues at the end of dialogue - Compatibility problems on certain devices **Most requested features** - Improved touch screen sensitivity - Option to skip or adjust difficulty of mini-games - Better quality assurance to fix glitches ## Newest reviews (12 of 45) ### 3/5 — Agree with disappointed. *2022-04-01, version 1.0.0* My game glitched at the radar plug area. I tried for ten minutes, searching the whole area to get the plug to attach, to no avail. So frustrating when you are close to the end. Good luck. Obviously Disappointed filled out their review 3 years ago and they still haven’t fixed it. ### 4/5 — Is it Eipix?? *2020-02-07, version 1.0.0* Mad Head brings us a distinctly Eipix-like game. The mechanics are eerily similar to the Hidden Expedition series, such as close-ups opening and closing with gold bars, instead of zooming in. The morphs in HOs are a traditional Eipix feature, even the morph indicator is the same swirl as Eipix! PLEASE TELL ME EIPIX HAS NOT BOUGHT MAD HEAD! Ok, onto the game. The story is of course save the world from the villain, but it’s an intriguing take. Story really didn’t make a whole lot of sense. As mentioned, morphs in HOs, and Mad Head logos in every scene. The HOs were 95% list type, one cool match the cloud shapes to silhouettes, and one match the texture. Not much innovation there, Which is not like Mad Head. No glitches, although a couple of times it took a few tries to get an item to work. Puzzles were better than most games; it actually took a bit of time to do a few of them. Yay! Game length was about average. You can go back and find collectibles you missed after the game is over, which is always nice. In the extras, there are jigsaw puzzles to do, and a treasure hunt. Once you complete the treasure hunt you get a large HO to play. There is also an “ultimate game” to play, which is the last mini game in the bonus chapter. It’s an arcade style game, and you try to keep from getting hit for as long as you can. I deducted half a star for lack of innovation, another half bc of the Eipix-type play, and another half for storyline. Real rating of 3.5 rounded up to 4 for the neat extras. ### 4/5 — Great story, clunky controls *2019-03-14, version 1.0.0* The story is engaging and the HOPs are new and innovative. The clues are more realistic and there’s not a box with a special emblem around every corner, although there are a few. But the controls are so clunky. I will put an item where I think it needs to be over and over, then look at the guide to make sure I’m doing the right thing, which I am. There was one point I didn’t think I’d be able to finish the game because no matter where I put the item, it wouldn’t work. Finally, it clicked, but more out of accident, than anything. I am happy with the game, but that part is so frustrating. I’m using an iPad. ### 3/5 — Shadow play: foresaken island CE *2018-10-08, version 1.0.0* Game froze in middle of blue disc game in bonus chapter. Cannot recover it. Tried to restart. Still stuck. If I choose to uninstall I will have to start whole game from beginning. ### 5/5 — So much fun! *2018-10-02, version 1.0.0* I finally hit the jackpot with a $2.99 sale! This game is more entertaining than its peers have been for a long time. And no repulsive phantoms or dark magic. Just good old-fashioned, scary sci-fi accidents. I'm having the best time. Very clever mini games. Just use your intuition and enjoy the lay. I love the sparkles on the HOPs. Great story line that flows from beginning to end. Okay, I haven't completed the game yet, but I guess I'm 3/4 of the way through. The hidden object text is tiny and there are a few places where the final sound clip of a character seemed to be cut off too soon, but those minor items I can forgive with the entertainment value of this game. Nicely done, Developers! ### 3/5 — Would be a great game but glitches are frustrating *2018-09-28, version 1.0.0* Was very disappointed at the constant inability to use the correct inventory until you try it 10 to even 20 times. And I mean drag it everywhere trying to find the spot. I never played one that had this issue so consistently. Otherwise I liked the plot, scenery and music and it's three stars because I liked the puzzles much more than usual and there were about three times as many. ### 4/5 — Shadowplay: The Forsaken Island by LynxMinx *2018-09-21, version 1.0.0* Note to KimTwilight: the brother was a HOTTIE! Note to Moxie ruby: Welcome back to reviewing. That being said, we all love Elephant Games, but this particular developer was Mad Head! On to the game. The genre combined both science fiction and horror, with human experimentation gone horribly awry, and the goal was to escape the island. The graphics were average at best, and there was not much in the way of unique or innovative elements as usually seen with Mad Head. I would have loved to examine more items from different perspectives via manipulation in various directions, and more sliding zoom zones. At least the teleport map was an in-game map, there were complex items to assemble, and loading was instantaneous between locations. Collectibles were limited to the Mad Head spiral, and most were quite obvious to spot. Morphing objects were confined to the HO scenes. At least there were some interesting HO puzzles, such as following a manual to operate a control panel, or combining silhouettes with sliders to find objects. This game was not overly lengthy inclusive of the bonus adventure but Mad Head managed to pack it with a good mix of puzzles! They ranged from simplistic and rotational, to games of skill and dexterity, to navigation of a maze and cracking codes. Some were quite challenging and I also enjoyed the one Kim liked so much, where you had to acquire jumper cables, because it had various sections to it! There was a gimmick in the form of a communication device, which also had a mini-game in the form of a book and which you must solve to learn more of the story. At times I found the basic gameplay slightly boring and felt like all I was doing was fixing equipment, but at other times I enjoyed the tasks which needed to be completed. So I was a bit torn with this game, as far as rating it. I didn’t feel it was fabulous but it was definitely a good solid game. However, there were some touch screen sensitivity issues at play and I am a stickler for excellent quality assurance. My review will remain at 4 stars. I deducted a star for lack of innovative components, length and for the linearity of the game. BigFish will give us a Labor Day Sale on Monday, rather than a new release. No, they gave us the sale now, so we have a week to wait for a new game! Are you really trying to make us that miserable, BigFish? Every holiday is an excuse for you to do this to your clientele, and it’s extremely unfair! Happy gaming to everyone, except we only have one new game, as Artifex Mundi has finally released their game, the only saving grace at all. UPDATE: BigFish used the release from Artifex Mundi to royally (insert expletives) us. So basically we won’t have a game from them for 10 days, as in a week from today. I have a suggestion for some of you who may not know about the following game from Mad Head, as it wasn’t distributed by BigFish. It’s called Adam Wolfe: Dark Detective and it’s a crime story. It’s expensive (8.99 for the whole game) but that’s because it has a whole bunch of episodes. There is no strategy guide but there is now a walkthrough which is FREE and can be downloaded on the App Store. It plays like all the Mad Head games, so if you like this developer you should enjoy the game. I’m just trying to help, for those of you who are bored, ticked off at BigFish and want a game. If it helps, KimTwilight loved it as well, and I know that most of you by now trust both of our reviewing skills enough to know that we wouldn’t steer you wrong! Enjoy! ### 3/5 — 😀 *2018-09-15, version 1.0.0* Was an ok game . Would love a really scary game or one similar to Adam Wolfe . 💋 ### 5/5 — Great game *2018-09-10, version 1.0.0* Good storyline and graphics ### 3/5 — So so *2018-09-09, version 1.0.0* Most games were too easy and one was to exacting to work on my IPhone. Other than that an okay game. ### 3/5 — Ralili *2018-09-08, version 1.0.0* This game is infuriating! It won’t let you skip some of the mini games or HOPs but it won’t put the items where they belong either until you get irritated, then all of a sudden it finally takes. I would give it less than 3 stars but the developers deserve something for trying. ### 5/5 — Wow awesome game worth every penny *2018-09-06, version 1.0.0* I play an embarrassing amount of these HO games (sigh) and this is one of the best ones that Big Fish/Mad Head have ever put out. Couldn’t put my phone down and loved the storyline, graphics and creative gameplay. Thanks and please keep creating quality games like this!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2023-03-07, version 1.0.0* Very frustrating game! Objects have to be placed precisely or won’t work. Stupidly simple games to just guesswork. And what’s with having to do everything three times?!? Don’t waste your time, money, or energy! ### 1/5 — Can’t unlock game *2022-10-21, version 1.0.0* With all the Big Fish Premium games I can’t unlock any of them, it just says purchase fail whenever I try without even trying my card. Every single game has been like this and I am beyond frustrated. ### 1/5 — The mini game cannot be completed on IPad. *2020-03-28, version 1.0.0* The gauge in the mini game after the zoo won’t let you move the dial it just keeps adjusting the screen size. So I can’t finish the mini game, can’t get the clips, so can’t finish the main game. ### 1/5 — Yes! *2019-06-18, version 1.0.0* Having more fun than I’ve had in a long time. I have terminal heart failure and this is something I can still do. Thank you and God bless you all. 🙂 Ps- I just now found out I had to pay to play from that point. Disappointed...but not really surprised ### 1/5 — To much *2018-11-15, version 1.0.0* $9.99 for a game? It seemed ok but That's outrageous! ### 1/5 — Glitches galore! *2018-10-13, version 1.0.0* Even with hints, it is glitchy. Tap in and around the area I am supposed to and nothing happens. I cannot get past the car with the winch on front no matter what I do. DELETE. ### 1/5 — Bad *2018-09-09, version 1.0.0* Too much commentary ### 1/5 — One star until I get help from Mad Head games *2018-08-30, version 1.0.0* I found everything fine in this game until I came to the Hidden Objects in the hut where you have to touch the dartboard to hit the target and no matter what I touched it doesn’t work even the hint doesn’t tell me what to use for the target so unless it gets fixed I want my money back. Thank you one dead brit, I finally found it and I agree with your review especially about more dark games. ### 1/5 — Not very good for iPhone *2018-08-27, version 1.0.0* The text is so small it’s unreadable! Deleted ! ### 2/5 — Disappointed *2018-09-30, version 1.0.0* I was really enjoying the game but then it glitched where the plug needs to be replaced. No matter where on the screen I placed the plug it would not take it, so I had to end the game because I couldn’t go further. If you can fix the glitch and let me know I would be happy to change rating... ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excecellent *2022-07-24, version 1.0.0* Compliments to madhead games. A semi scary game that ended up being a lot of searching through labs for things. Decent plot. Like four hours playing time for just the main game not including the bonus game ### 5/5 — Big fish *2020-11-13, version 1.0.0* I love it ### 5/5 — Excellent *2020-07-19, version 1.0.0* Excellent ### 5/5 — Another good’un *2020-03-02, version 1.0.0* So far so good. Seems to be another good game with music a graphics and puzzles ### 5/5 — Great *2019-12-12, version 1.0.0* Good awakening for my age..79. Lol keeps u alive ### 5/5 — Best game I have ever played *2019-07-14, version 1.0.0* Superb graphics and storyline. More like this please Big Fish ### 5/5 — Very good *2019-05-26, version 1.0.0* The only issue is that there was a small issue with spoken parts. At the end of every line, there was a split second of the first word being repeated. Not serious once you’re used to it. I won’t bother saying any more since Big Fish has decided to abandon their iOS customers! ### 5/5 — Good game! *2018-11-04, version 1.0.0* Pretty Long game; not short like many others. Good plot, good animation. No fairy princesses thank goodness. Pretty challenging. More like the old adventure games in a way. Recommended ### 5/5 — Forsaken *2018-10-13* I’ve been playing these games for MANY years and can only say that this is by far my very favorite. I love the fact that there are so many games sprinkled throughout. I love the format and the intrigue journey through this adventure. I know I will be play through this again. LOVE IT ..LOVE IT! ### 5/5 — Held my attention! *2018-10-05, version 1.0.0* This game has new and interesting puzzles, not just the ones where if you move one part all the other parts move. Some of the audio seemed to cut out before the speaker was finished but didn’t ruin the story. It’s worth the money! I recommend! --- *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 2026-08-03.*