# Siberian Survival: Cold Winter — user reviews

> 100 indexed App Store user reviews of Siberian Survival by Tayga Games OOO, rated 2.70/5 from 120 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/siberian-survival-cold-winter/id1058822192/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/siberian-survival-cold-winter/id1058822192.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 38 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 15 · 1★ 52

## What do users think of Siberian Survival?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🎮 Engaging survival gameplay mechanics
- 🌍 Expansive explorable world with diverse locations
- 🎨 Decent graphics for a mobile app
- 🏗️ Building and crafting system
- 🐻 Challenging wildlife encounters
- 📚 Helpful community guides and tutorials available

**Cons**

- 📺 Excessive advertisements interrupting gameplay
- 🗺️ No map or compass causing navigation difficulties
- ❄️ Perpetual winter setting lacks variety
- 🚪 Inaccessible buildings and structures
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
- ⚙️ Poor game controls and mechanics
- 🎯 Unclear objectives and lack of guidance
- 💾 Unreliable save system losing progress
- 🏃 Slow character movement speed
- 🔧 Buggy building placement system
- 🎵 Loud and annoying sound effects
- 📦 Scarce resources and materials
- 🐻 Overpowered bear AI
- 🚂 Inaccessible train with no loot

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game crashes on startup or during gameplay
- Save system fails to preserve progress
- Invisible items appearing in inventory
- Character freezes or won't move
- Building structures disappear after saving
- Slow loading times
- Physics and collision detection issues
- Animals not responding to player attacks
- Fire and crafted items not persisting after reload
- Ads playing during critical moments (bear attacks)
- Glitchy building placement mechanics

**Most requested features**

- Add map or compass for navigation
- Implement multiple seasons (summer, spring, fall)
- Allow access to buildings and structures
- Add Northern Lights visual effect
- Introduce multiplayer functionality
- Enable animal taming/pets system
- Add polar bears to wildlife
- Implement grid-based building system
- Allow destruction and relocation of placed structures
- Add volume control option
- Introduce NPCs and other survivors
- Create story-driven objectives
- Add ability to enter and loot the train
- Implement sprinting mechanic
- Add farming/food cultivation system
- Improve graphics quality
- Add lock-picking mechanics
- Reduce ad frequency or add ad removal option
- Improve resource respawning system
- Add detailed crafting menu descriptions

## Newest reviews (14 of 100)

### 3/5 — Pretty easy to break

*2023-10-16, version 1.4*

Took less than five minutes for me to break out of the map that is the quickest I’ve ever been able to break out of the survival game on mobile congratulations on somehow pulling that off

### 3/5 — Pretty good

*2021-08-16*

It’s hard to see and you can lose your way easy

### 3/5 — Kinda Hard and Needs Work

*2020-10-25*

There is nothing. Just a train. Wish you could have weapons, clothes, building material, and other stuff. Add more animals please, my guy almost starved. Add animals like huskies and maybe even people so they can help you. I’d think it would be even better if the graphics were as advanced as those in Grand Theft Auto V. I wish you could enter the buildings. And your hunger didn’t go down quickly

### 4/5 — How

*2020-10-06*

I found a log cabin surrounded by a fence, it had a door with what looked to be a keyhole, but we can’t make a lock pick? How are we supposed to get in? Is it just there for decor?

### 2/5 — Needs work

*2020-08-07*

Need to allow the player to be able to go into buildings and search

### 2/5 — Five star rating

*2019-04-19*

I agree mama latisha, and make a setting so the volume can be turned down so people can gameplay without the sound being so loud. I can’t lie cause I love this game it’s awesome!!!

### 2/5 — Needs less adds

*2018-12-31, version 1.4*

This game is great but the one problems is that ever 30 seconds or a minute it pops up with an add.

### 3/5 — To many ads

*2018-11-23*

I liked the game but way to many ads. Plus I keep dieing because I can’t get all the items I needed to make a camp fire. At least give us a little more supplies to start with, and what’s up with the train we can’t even get in it. Let us get into the train and fine some supplies. If these things were fixed I would have given you a 5.  star rating.

### 1/5 — Bad

*2018-07-29, version 1.4*

It don’t look like the pictures u show and it boring.

### 1/5 — Barely an rpg

*2018-06-29, version 1.4*

The most challenging part about this game is not surviving the cold or the wolves, not even the terrible interface, but surviving the constant, game-destroying advertisements.

### 1/5 — TRASH NOT WORTH YA TIME

*2018-06-04, version 1.4*

Just looks bad sounds are bad actions are bad AI is bad the game is just bad

### 1/5 — WHAT A WASTE

*2018-03-18, version 1.4*

I love the graphics but the bears are over powered. One hit and I died NOT FARE! I cant even build anything like a cabin or a workshop if I try the workshop lags and disappears. ITS A WASTE.  This game wastes My battery and my storage.😡😡😡😡😡😭😭😭😭😭

### 1/5 — Boring

*2018-03-14, version 1.4*

I walked around for 10 minutes trying to do something, there is nothing to do but walk.  Deleted.

### 4/5 — It was fun

*2018-01-15*

I liked it but I wish the graphics were better and the touches you can pick up but besides that I liked the game

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Siberian Survival

*2023-04-30, version 1.4*

Game is rubbish, needs, map and compass, otherwise you are lost and die as with trying to find certain things to stay alive.  Game needs a lot of work, no sense in paying money to play this game, not worth it.

### 1/5 — Too Bad I Can't Give It NO STARS!

*2021-07-03, version 1.4*

So disappointing! Really looked forward to this game. Boring, frustrating & impossible to navigate. Only realistic thing is constant 'crunch' sound of boots in snow! Can't find anything to use, not even wood. Can't get on train, can't even run a straight line down the tracks that lead absolutely nowhere. Can't go in a straight line ANYWHERE. Only thing I DO have is a Pick Axe I can't even get hold of, so I can only jump & punch, so the Animals keep killing me! What a bomb!

### 1/5 — Not as advertised

*2020-10-05*

It’s an okay game but the graphics are terrible, definitely not what the screenshots show, you can’t enter any buildings, not much to forage or gather, and it seems the whole time I’m playing I’m just running around in the same circle.

### 1/5 — Really

*2020-09-12, version 1.4*

Dose it all ways have to be dark in this game.? A tutorial of the train crash would be nice and you shoud add a wolf that comes a long and they become mans best friend and and at the end they find a ship so they can go home something like that would be nice YOU THINK !!!!!!!!!! Plz get back to me AND FIXXXX IT !!!!!

### 1/5 — Constant ads

*2019-10-12, version 1.4*

Video ads interrupt game play ever couple minutes. It’s beyond obnoxious. The game itself is generic, but may have been decent if you could actually play.

### 1/5 — So many ads

*2019-09-06, version 1.4*

So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads So many ads

### 1/5 — So many ads you don't have time to play

*2019-05-15, version 1.4*

With so many ads every time you think you will get to play the game for a minute another ad pops up

### 1/5 — Awful

*2019-04-28, version 1.4*

Game? What game?

### 1/5 — Ads ruined the fun

*2018-09-29, version 1.4*

This game is great but it has so many ads that I deleted and don’t even bother to play it anymore because the ads run in the fun of playing it

### 1/5 — Just terrible..

*2018-08-21, version 1.4*

TO MANY ADS

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Interesting game, though easy to get lost

*2021-07-14, version 1.4*

I don’t know why there are so many bad reviews. (And about the ad complaints, I don’t think I got any ads at all, but that’s probably because I didn’t have good WiFi at the time). The game IS a little challenging and at first I was confused about what to do and how to start. But at the beginning there is a link to a YouTube video that shows what to do, and that helped a LOT. Also, someone else’s detailed review of the game gave lots of helpful advice. 
The main thing that makes it much harder is that there is no map to tell where you are or what direction you’re going. I eventually explored the area and made my own map, but it’s still easy to get lost. 
TIPS AND THINGS I FOUND: 
1) at first, you only have your own fist as a weapon/tool. You can use it to break down trees and rocks to get material (hit them more than once). Also, use your fists at the beginning to kill animals for food (rabbit is easiest, then fox, then boar, then wolf, then bear (deer is fast, hard to hit). When you kill animals and collect trees and rocks, you get coins (which you use to buy materials from the store). 
2) make torches to mark places. It will help you know where you are and help you to not get lost. It helped me so much! (And they’re a way to warm up)
3) WHEN YOU WANT TO PAUSE, PRESS PAUSE AND SAVE (pause sign || and then the second button with the square symbol is the save button) OR IT WILL NOT SAVE THE THINGS YOU BUILD (it should still save the things in your inventory and your coins tho)
4) from the train crash, if you walk to the right along the railroad tracks, you will eventually come to a little town and then the train station. There are no people and you can’t go into the buildings, but it’s interesting to walk around there.
5) if you go on the other side of the tracks (other side of train crash), there are just mountains which are dangerous to go on because of few animals.
6) the side of the tracks that you “woke up” on is a valley, which is the best place to get food and material, but there are lots of bears that can attack (with weapons it’s easier to kill them, but it still takes long and makes your health go down).
7) somewhere far down the valley and close to a mountain ridge are a big house and shed with a fence around them, but you can’t go into the house. Close by is the ocean with icebergs and ice floes. That’s a place to get water (that you use with the chemistry table), but I recommend not to stay there because there aren’t any animals or trees there. 
8) after exploring and getting kinda lost, I eventually found a village where you can get into a few of the houses, but the rest are locked. If you go down the middle road between the houses, you’ll go down to a dry riverbed or something.
9) then after walking around some more and keeping the mountains to my left, I found a little stone cabin with a slanted roof (door locked). 
10) so if you get lost, to eventually (probably) get back to the train wreck, you should try to stay more in the valley and keep the mountains in your sight to the left of you.
11) also, somewhere by the tundra (darker ground), there is a big rock arch with dead trees and boulders around. The ocean is near there.
12) for tools, weapons, and building materials, build the workshop (to make walls, roof, stairs, table, bed, etc.), the weapon table (to make an ax, sword, bow, knife), and the chemistry table (to make a first aid kit and healing potion). Then there’s the pick, torch and campfire to make.

In conclusion, the game is challenging but it gets better when you have tools and weapons and stuff. The worst part for me is that I can get lost so easily and sometimes almost starve or freeze. I wish there was a map or at least a compass telling you which direction you’re going. Also, like another reviewer said, that would be awesome to have different  seasons instead of just winter all the time. And it would be amazing if you could find other people along the way and survive together.
One more thing: I would want to be able to relocate walls or floors if I accidentally put them in the wrong place (right now if you put, for example, a wall down, you can’t move it).

Sooo hope this helps someone and I hope the developer(s) will consider my suggestions!

### 5/5 — I found a bunker thing

*2020-10-01*

So I was playing and I headed about 45 degrees with my back facing the front of the train and I decided to climb this big mountain thing and I jumped off hoping to kill myself but that didn’t work and I found this bunker looking house thing, don’t know what it is but 5 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

### 5/5 — Could be a lot better than this...

*2020-08-24*

Overall it’s a cool game but please add a map so you can see plus you need tools in order to build a place to keep warm & even weapons to defend yourself... it’s too boring, needs work..

### 5/5 — Excellent game!

*2020-06-17, version 1.4*

So I first started playing this game a few months ago, and I have genuinely enjoyed it ever since then. It’s simple, it’s enjoyable and it’s challenging but not at all frustrating by any means. I don’t usually write reviews like this, but when I saw that this game needed one more review to have 100, I couldn’t resist.

The synopsis of the game is simple: you are (probably the only) survivor of a train crash in the middle of Siberia, in the dead of winter. To put that into perspective: because of Siberia’s extreme inland location, with mountains to the south and the arctic immediately to the north, temperatures in Siberia have reached as low as -96.2 F in winter. You are stuck in that weather with no way to escape or avoid it. You must survive on your own in the severe Siberian climate. To do this, you must find ways to build fire, construct shelter, avoid predatory bear attacks at all costs and constantly prowl the endless vastness in search of food.

(WARNING: THIS PARAGRAPH CONTAINS SPOILERS. IF YOU WOULD RATHER EXPLORE THE WILDERNESS YOURSELF, PLEASE SKIP TO THE NEXT PARAGRAPH). This area of Siberia appears to have been settled in the past, but now it is empty and abandoned. You will encounter numerous settlements, including a railroad station along the tracks, a large and comfortable-looking house in the middle of the forest and a village consisting of about 20-30 buildings, including a church. However, all of these are empty and devoid of human life. The area you can explore consists of a valley in the south, where the train crash occurred. To the west the valley stretches on until the tracks come to an end, shortly after the railroad station. To the south (on the other side of the train tracks from where you initially “wake up”) are high and formidable mountains. Climbing these is arduous, and will lead you to nowhere. The valley is full of the greatest concentration of animals, rocks and trees, and therefore is the easist area to survive. However, if you would like an adventure, you can go north or east. To the east, you will run into a series of dark and snowy hills, with few animals and less trees. If you keep going, you will eventually come across a glacier. After that, you will cross the glacier and come to the ocean, where the glacier has created numerous icebergs and ice floes. From there you can travel northeards along the shore, which has high cliffs in that area. Go along there for a while, and you’re in the hills that border to valley to the north. If you turn west almost immediately, you will find a group of dense woods. Keep going and you will find the house and the village. However, if you keep going north for a bit before turning west, you will come across a magnificent rock arch and a very beautiful area of the highlands, rocky with many different kinds of trees and a dried-up riverbed. From there, you can keep going either north or west. Either way, you will eventually come down out of the hills and into the Siberian tundra. If you keep going from there, you will find the Arctic Ocean. Congratulations, you’re above the arctic circle! However, the tundra has few resources and you may want to keep to the hills or the valley beyond them. I myself froze to death there after trying to find a way back out.

I’m only going to give three tips on how to (perhaps) improve the game. First, add in the Northern Lights. The Siberian northern lights are truly magnificent and would make an excellent addition to the game. Second, make the game have seasons. Currently the game makes it winter year-round, but in fact Siberia does have a short, hot, wet summer between June and August, and extremely short transition seasons (spring and fall) in May and September. Have a time of year with bright sunlight, birds singing, lots of flowers and green trees, sparse rainfall, rushing streams and waterfalls and swarms of insects. It would prove an excellent time to relax and prepare for the harsh winters that last around seven months of the year. Finally, add in polar bears in addition to the brown bears already present in the game. Polar bears live on the northern fringes of Siberia, where this game takes place. :)

Bottom line is, this game is incredible. Don’t hesitate to download it if you like adventure, survival, anything challenging, or Siberia.

### 5/5 — Nice

*2019-11-16, version 1.4*

Sorry but to many adsssssssss;)

### 5/5 — Next update

*2018-02-13*

Put in a map of the whole world including where the building are at

### 5/5 — U mad bruv?

*2017-07-15, version 1.4*

This is sick game, are u mad m9

### 5/5 — The best game I've ever played

*2017-06-09*

It doesn't have any trees

### 5/5 — FOR AD HATERS!!!!!!

*2017-04-04, version 1.4*

Put your phone on airplane mode...problem solved.

### 5/5 — It's supposed to be hard

*2017-02-28*

People say it's too hard its survival not infinite resources it's a good game besides the ads

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