# Shantae: Risky's Revenge FULL — user reviews > 170 indexed App Store user reviews of Shantae by WayForward Technologies, Inc., rated 4.60/5 from 429 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shantae-riskys-revenge-full/id486409447/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shantae-riskys-revenge-full/id486409447.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 340 · 4★ 43 · 3★ 17 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of Shantae? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great game - 🎨 Excellent graphics and animations - 🕹️ Smooth and responsive controls - 💯 Fantastic platforming gameplay - 🤩 Charming and humorous characters **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔍 Blurry/low-resolution visuals - 🎮 Subpar touch controls compared to controllers - 🕹️ Awkward control scheme for certain actions - 🕰️ Short story/campaign length **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes at final boss fight - Progression-blocking bugs after certain boss battles - Disappearing/lost power-up transformations - Screen resolution issues on newer iOS versions - Controls become unresponsive in certain areas **Most requested features** - Add support for modern devices and higher resolutions - Improve controller compatibility and customization - Implement cloud/cross-save functionality - Expand the story and add more content - Include difficulty settings and accessibility options ## Newest reviews (16 of 170) ### 4/5 — Boss battle with risky boots *2025-03-26* I love this game sm but it keeps crashing at the boss battle with risky boots after i fight the monster boat she sends my way then she takes all my power and then i have to fight the evil version of shantae it crashes all the time right when i click to start the fight also im playing on iphone and i cant rlly play anywhere else so i hope theres a way it can be fixed please ### 4/5 — FAVORITE childhood game! *2025-01-19, version 1.0.12* Everything works perfectly fine! Except.. for some reason i cant hear the sound effects… ### 3/5 — amazing game but one bug *2024-12-09, version 1.0.12* this is a great game, love the graphics and gameplay. however, what really frustrates me is when i get to the end and defeat risky’s boat, my game boots me off and i cant fight the finale boss fight. im stuck here and its really tedious having to navigate through the dark maze and defeat the 2nd to last boss fight before it completely shuts down. is there any way to fix this? ### 2/5 — Frequent crashes mar a fun game *2024-11-15, version 1.0.12* Fun game marred by frequent crashes and sometimes frustrating touch controls. Unable to complete game due to it always crashing once you get to final boss. ### 2/5 — Game keeps crashing *2024-08-23, version 1.0.12* Why does my game keep crashing when im about to fight the doppelgänger? You cant save progress by that point so thats really annoying. ### 2/5 — Great game, horrible port *2023-09-21, version 1.0.12* It gets 2 stars because the game is really fun - but the port is unplayable. It crashed about 20 times, and eventually crashed at the beginning of the final battle CONSISTENTLY to where I can’t even finish the game. It’s horrible ### 3/5 — literally won’t start *2023-01-21* update: idk what I did but it starts now, a decent but dated port without widescreen support open the game and the screen is black, don’t waste your money on an app that hasn’t been updated for support for years ### 4/5 — Great but a bug has me stuck *2021-08-09* I really like the game and I would recommend it, but I ran into a bug at the Hypno barons place at that puzzle where you have to have two of those eye things looking down while the other two have to be looking up, I completed the puzzle but I ran into a bug where the door won’t open, I don’t know if it’s different for player to player since I was using a walk-through as I was really new, but I’m really confused as to why the door is bugging. I’ve tried everything I can to fix it but nothings working ### 4/5 — Please make this work with tvOS *2020-07-10* I love the new version of this series on Apple Arcade, but could you please make it so this is a native apple tv app as over AirPlay this is laggy and not great, I know the update is two years ago, but after playing the new version I discovered this one and so far would prefer it on a big screen. ### 4/5 — Fun and amazing game but.. *2020-06-15, version 1.0.12* Boss fights are wack, especially the last one because they were designed with a D-pad in mind. The touch pad is abysmal for boss fights, the only thing bugging me about this, besides that game play is great. ### 4/5 — Nice game!! *2019-04-07, version 1.0.12* I played the game and I loved it. They need to make more Shantae games ### 5/5 — Classic, Funny, and Deep *2018-12-09* What a gem. This is an absolute must-play for fans of 2D Action RPGs from the NES SNES, GBA, or NDS eras such as Zelda II for the NES. Our half-genie hero a relatable and inspiring girl who is strong and adventurous, but has life's circumstances force her to adapt, be humble, and work to maintain her natural sense of humor, optimism and charm. She's also a lovely look at how there are some magical, strong, independent women in Middle Eastern folklore ! MFi controllers work stunningly, although the weapon select cursor is sometimes invisible, and gamepad customization would be nice. Way Forward, bravo for keeping this tremendous port updated and working. It's only timeless if we keep it. ### 5/5 — confuse *2018-11-05, version 1.0.12* why the rest of the games not on the app store? ### 5/5 — Great game with great characters and fun abilities *2018-08-20, version 1.0.12* Great game! Can’t wait to play the rest! I hope to see shantae in smash bros:) ### 5/5 — Excellent, but there is one MAJOR issue. *2018-07-11, version 1.0.12* That issue is that Shantae (on the GameBoy Color), Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse, and Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero haven’t been ported to iOS! ### 5/5 — Shantae risky’s revenge 10/10 😆 *2018-07-08* This game was the best from start to end I enjoyed every part of it and would like to see Shantae pirate’s curse on the App Store. The best parts of this game were the bosses, challenging foes that guard the magic seals, that was interesting. The charming characters from head to toe are magnificent and the plot was one of the best ones I have ever played. Wayforward thanks for this game and I will play this again anytime. Without a doubt this game made the best time playing than all of the others -me ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No longer works *2024-04-29* The game does not work iPhone 15 ### 1/5 — Unplayable on m1 *2023-12-30, version 1.0.12* After the first boss I crash every time the screen refreshes going into another room. Seeing how many unanswered complaints about this issue the devs don’t care. ### 1/5 — Crashing *2023-08-23, version 1.0.12* Last risky fight crashes and cant win :( ### 1/5 — Needs to be Optimized for Newer Devices *2019-07-10, version 1.0.12* I love this game. It is hands-down one of my favorites of all time, and I've been replaying it for years. However, it is increasingly more difficult to play this game with every device released with a larger screen size. Currently playing on an X and I just cannot navigate as a monkey when encountering wide walls. I'm stuck, and I can't keep procrastinating while playing this game because I'm quite literally stuck. ### 1/5 — Shantae: Risky's Revenge FULL *2018-01-22* 👍: Отличная игра - БЫЛА!!! 👎: Купил игру и с радостью играл в неё, пока не восстановил iOS 9.3.5 заново. Теперь не могу скачать игру снова, т.к. новое обновление игры поддерживает только 64-битную систему, а на мой старенький iPod touch G5 она уже не ставится!!! 🚫: Сделайте, чтобы игра и на iOS 9 шла, как раньше или возвращайте деньги, уроды!!! ### 1/5 — What's with reupdating the 64 bits? *2017-11-09* I've updated my Shantae game's 64 bits that kept telling me to download the iOS 10 version in order to update this one like three or four times already, I mean why do I have to keep redownloading in order to re update this game like over and over again, its gotta stop, so why don't the App Store guys fix this one to where I can just update this 64 bits version of this game without having to redownload the iOS 10 version for this game's update all over again? its driving me crazy. ### 1/5 — It’s not working *2017-10-23, version 1.0.8* It’s an ok game I would give it a 4 but it is not working the makers of this game you need to update it so it works with iOS 11 ### 1/5 — iOS 11 Update Required *2017-10-08, version 1.0.8* Can’t play Shantae: RR due to iOS 11 telling me that the game needs an update. Please WayForward, fix this as soon as possible. Thank you. ### 1/5 — 改善はよ *2017-09-25* iOS11にしてからプレイ出来なくなりました。早急に改善お願いします ### 1/5 — Controller support issues *2016-08-24, version 1.0.8* A platformer is only as good it's controls. No updates to mfi since 2013? I have a steel series nimbus that does not work. Disappointing. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Shantae is always a good game *2025-10-16, version 1.0.12* The game is great. Plays really well and it’s always updated. I do wish they’d update the resolution because it’s really blurry and bad in comparison to the switch version. ### 5/5 — Needs fixing but it’s fun *2025-03-26, version 1.0.12* I love the game but every time I get the final boss it glitches and kicks me off the game. I thought if I collected all the items it would stop but it still keeps on glitching me out of the game ### 5/5 — hope you see this *2024-10-05* well it might be weird that i’m playing such an old game so far in the future but i liked the Shantae and the Seven Sirens game so i decided to try this one too. i liked it a lot and it was so much fun until i got to the boss battle, battled with Risky, and then the game crashed. i’ve offloaded the app and come back to it many times to try and finish it and it just crashes every single time. all i want is to be able to finish this game! might be a big ask for the company to fix a bug on such an old game and all the other reviews that i see on here are super old but please if y’all see this i would love it if this big could be fixed!!! otherwise great game. ### 5/5 — Gem *2023-05-09* 5 years after last update the game is still amazing! Would be great if developer could update it support aspect ratio of modern devices and resolution. Otherwise it’s perfect as it is! You don’t get many such quality platformers this days on mobile devices. Shantae is classics, played on Nintendo Switch but it’s even better on iPad ### 5/5 — Started crashing after iOS update *2022-11-13* I love this game I completed this game on the DSiWare version on the 3DS and I got the iOS version in 2021 when I updated my iPhone to iOS 16 it was working until I updated my iPhone today and now the game started crashing whenever I open the app. Can you update the app so then it won’t crash on the newer iOS software? ### 5/5 — Великолепно! *2020-02-20* Отличная игра. Отличный порт. Очень надеюсь, что в планах разработчиков портировать остальные части ### 5/5 — I like Shantae more than anybody in the whole wide universe *2019-11-26* Hi wayforward once again (am a HUGE fan I even want to work there some time) and so Shantae is my favorite series I can’t stop playing,watching and listing to the music of Shantae I just wish that all the games where on iOS for $2.00 includes Shantae,Shantae and the pirates curse and half genie hero I just can’t stop Shantae I don’t want it to end and mabe in a few years I’ll help you and join your company,wayforward technology’s inc. ### 5/5 — Sooo Good!!! *2019-10-31, version 1.0.12* Nothing left to say but can you please make the rest of them available here? Eg. seven sirens i will purchase it, but screw the apple subscription crap!!! So please!! Ps Wayforward you do great work! Love Your work on the re-imagined a boy and his blob, also soo good! ### 5/5 — Purchased *2019-08-08, version 1.0.12* I purchased because it supported my Nimbus! Thanks! ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2019-06-01, version 1.0.12* Just started playing the series and absolutely loving it please port the original game --- *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.*