# Sidius Nova — user reviews > 83 indexed App Store user reviews of Sidius Nova by Stefan Schmitt, rated 4.40/5 from 49 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sidius-nova/id585665931/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sidius-nova/id585665931.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 33 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 1 ## What do users think of Sidius Nova? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✨ Amazing soundtrack/music - 🎨 Beautiful/great graphics/art - 🎮 Addictive/fun gameplay - 🧠 Deep strategy/gameplay - 👍 Polished/well-designed - 🚀 Fast/quick gameplay chunks - 💡 Original/unique concept - 🆓 Free to play - 💯 Technically superlative - 👍 Intuitive interface **Cons** - 🔄 Repetitive gameplay loop - 🐌 Slow gameplay/pace - 📉 Lacks strategic depth - 🤖 AI can be unfair/cheats - 🤷‍♂️ Bland gameplay - 😔 Multiplayer removed - 🤔 Research points flawed **Commonly reported bugs** - Occasional crashing - Repeated crashing during combat - Crashing when fighting mothership - Game progress not syncing between devices - App leaves residual files after uninstallation **Most requested features** - Add multiplayer/hot seat/skirmish - Add longer single player campaign - Add more frequent dialogue - Add meaningful player-driven plot choices - Add 'back' button for dialogue - Option to skip mothership death animation - Rework research point system - Add bonus for multiple fleets - Improve mothership strength/abilities - Add iPad version/support - Add iPhone 5 screen support - Add Game Center support - Add cloud saving system - Add endless mode - Add asynchronous multiplayer - Add fast forward button ## Newest reviews (12 of 83) ### 4/5 — Multiplayer? *2020-02-09* I love it but do you think you can add a multiplayer or hot seat or just a skirmish I think that would make it a bit better ### 4/5 — Really fun game *2016-01-02, version 1.2.1* Really good and interesting game But it gets a bit to of the same Build the warp gates Wait Get money Build ships Send them in as one big fleet Pray enemy doesn't have bigger fleet This could be changed if you add a bonus to having multiple fleets Also the mothership Is the weakest ship in battle If no other ship is active it gets get in 3 seconds Make have some resistance e.g guns that shoot things on their lane once destroyed u can start destroying the ships health Something like that Just too much of the same thing Kind similar to the other guys comment But it's the truth ### 4/5 — Gutes Spiel *2015-03-16* Ich wage mal eine Renzension,obwohl ich noch am Spielen bin.Minimalistische aber sehr schöne Grafik und das beste:bombastisch-orchestraler sound mit sythiklängen.Mit Kopfhörern reist einen das ganze echt mit.Die Spieltiefe wird immer besser,weil man mit mehr Schiffen auch mehr Strategie hat. EDIT:Wenn man die App installiert und dann deinstalliert zeigt Itunes das 100MB als "Andere" oder "Other" auf dem Iphone 5 zurück bleiben. Saubere deinstallation sieht anders aus. ### 4/5 — Gut! *2015-03-15* ^titel ### 4/5 — Very fun! *2014-12-09* Love these type of indie games, love the strategy and the story. ### 3/5 — Not bad *2014-09-29* It's ok for a free game. Gameplay is quick but feels repetitive. The Sci-Fi concept is interesting and it's what kept me playing for a bit. Overall I feel like it needs more depth, graphics, and the ability to skip Mothership explosions. ### 4/5 — Superbly implemented game *2014-02-28* From a technical perspective this game is superlative in every way. Its gameplay is clean, crisp, and straightforward. It doesn't crash. It doesn't lag. What you get are five-minute chunks of easy, enjoyable fun. There are three areas where the developers could improve it, however. First would be a longer single player campaign with more frequent dialog and perhaps even a few meaningful player-driven plot choices would be nice. Second would be minor UI tweaks. For example, they should add a "back" button so that you could go back to see dialog that you accidentally tapped past. There should also be an option to skip the agonizingly slow death animation of a mothership. Third, the mechanic for earning Research Points is flawed. The 5RP penalty for taking extra turns is ridiculous. What's the point of saving up RP to buy the expensive ships if you're going to get penalized for playing slowly enough to be able to afford to deploy them? The current model rewards only one strategy: rush to the enemy ASAP and mass produce cheap fighters. I feel this should be reworked-- and by that I mean, drastically overhauled. Despite the above, I will say this is one of the best coded and most consistently fun games I have ever downloaded on an iPhone. I definitely recommend it. ### 5/5 — Worth a try *2013-12-04* Amazing game! It's very fun & time flies while playing this! ### 4/5 — Good game *2013-12-02, version 1.2.1* This is a good game with a few drawbacks. The fights are good but the strategy is always the same: build warp gates, get kyron, build a formidable army, chase the other mothership and kill it. This could be avoided by having different extra rules for some levels, eg you can only attack with 20 ships at a time! It is always a drawback to attack with the mothership but surely the mothership should be the best ship, so maybe you could give it powers like a gun that can kill any ship (except the mothership) but has a cooldown. The biggest let down for me was that the multiplayer doesn't work and there is only 20 RP at stake. Don't let this review put you off getting this because it is still on of my greatest games on my iPod. ### 5/5 — YES!!!! *2013-11-30* Possibly the best game I have ever downloaded ### 5/5 — Pleasantly surprised *2013-09-18* Wasn't really sure what to expect when I downloaded it, but its a really fun game. ### 5/5 — :-) *2013-07-09, version 1.2.0* Bande son musical au top ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Worst game I have ever played in my life PERIOD *2013-06-18, version 1.1.0* This game is horrible. I would rather play pac-man than this. Sure it looks good, but it is WAY too hard. I just started it and I lost already. The enemy has 10 friggin middle launcher ships (the most expensive once, at that) and only one planet. I moved my ship 3 times and got beaten. It is WAY TOO HARD. This is the worst game I have ever played in MY ENTIRE LIFE. When you fix the difficulty, you get 2 stars. ### 1/5 — Poor value *2013-03-28, version 1.1.0* I've tried repeating mission 2 multiple times to find my self owning over 30 planets to be defeated by the AI that has 6 what the hell is up with this, somehow they aquired over 700 fighters with less than 10 planets and i can't even afford to catch up... ### 2/5 — Boring *2021-04-07* Do not recommend for people who actually enjoy more intense strategy games. Very simple and not the strategic depth I wanted Edit: Hi Stefen! I’m not sure how to write a response to you, so I hope you are able to find this. I feel like the over world and battles need a bit depth. I felt like the battles where just a simple rock paper scissor style of combat. It was really easy to just store up enough resources and over whelm the aponte. The over world didn’t seem to offer to much in the way of strategy either. I felt like all I had to do was find a place that would offer me the most resources and then send a huge fleet to destroy the enemy. I think adding a larger over world and a more in-depth battle style would be nice. Maybe a little more hands on approach in a couple areas would help? Adding more depth in the AI would help. Since it’s not multiplayer, I think that’s where I would start. I don’t want you to just focus on what I’m saying because you are obviously doing something right and I hope you know that I think that developing this app is very impressive. No hate form me at all. I just don’t think I would call it a deep strategy game. Best wishes! -Nico :) **Developer response:** Hi Muffins-for-everyone, Do you think strategic depth could be intensified using the game mechanisms that are already in the game? Or would it need some new ones? I was thinking of making the maps larger with more planets so Deep Warp Gates could be placed more strategically, but I think the AI is not diverse enough in its approaches to Deep Warp Gate placement to exploit this properly once the human player figures out its placement strategy. Stefan ### 2/5 — Crashed several times *2019-04-21* Game was decent until several crashes on .3rd system **Developer response:** Really sorry about this DigitalPython. Just added a fix for this issue. It'll go live with version 1.2.5 ### 2/5 — Keine Synchronisation zwischen verschiedenen Geräten *2019-01-16* Der Spielfortschritt wird leider nicht durch das GameCenter auf verschiedenen Geräten (iPhone/iPad) synchronisiert. ### 2/5 — Great visuals, but repetitive *2015-07-28, version 1.2.1* Game starts out ok and seems to give you lots of upgrades to choose from. But considering the goal of the game and amount of turns you get... every. Single. Round. Is. The. Same. Spam ships and beat enemy A.I It only gets 'harder' by giving you less currency to start off with at the start of the game. ### 2/5 — this is lane defence, not 4X *2014-01-18, version 1.2.1* This is a land defence game (think Plants vs Zombies) not something like Master of Orion. ### 3/5 — Occasional Crashing *2019-07-21* I wish I could rate this 5 star because it’s super addicting and fun, but I keep crashing whenever i fight the enemy mothership. It gets super annoying because I keep having to replay the level until it doesn’t crash. **Developer response:** Really sorry about this Snoiper. Just added a fix for this issue. It'll go live with version 1.2.5 ### 3/5 — Amazing game, multiplayer removed *2018-11-29* I found this game to be amazing years ago, but I came back to find that multiplayer has been removed... ### 3/5 — Bland, but want more *2016-07-10* Arts great, setting is interesting. It's gameplay is absolutely bleh, but it's got enough eye candy art to keep your attention. I'd pay for the app if they polished the gameplay and focused more on the story. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very disappointed *2019-05-13* I was enjoying the game until it just started repeatedly crashing over and over again when ever I initiated combat. It seemed like a very enjoyable game when I first started playing but turned out to be a very annoying problem to the point where I deleted the game because it was unplayable. Would not recommend. 👎 **Developer response:** Really sorry about this Dragonslayer63. It's been a while but I just added a fix for this issue. It'll go live with version 1.2.5 ### 5/5 — Great game *2016-06-12, version 1.2.1* Good game lots of strategy ### 5/5 — Just great *2016-02-01, version 1.2.1* An example of what makes a great game. ### 5/5 — I came back for more!!!! *2015-11-08* This is truly a singular game, with no game coming close to it!!! I had to delete it once to get more space. Then a year later I spent 2 hours searching for it again!!!! ### 5/5 — Finally *2014-05-15* Finally a game that's original, addicting, interesting and fun to play all at the same time. It's like every great strategy game on PC in the plam of your hand. The fighting is spectacular, the story is engrossing and the combat is intuitive. How is it that this isn't the number one game on the app store? ### 5/5 — Can't Stop *2014-05-10* This is an incredible game I can't seem to take my eyes off it or put it down every attribute about this game is amazing and I'm glad it's not one of those "waiting" type games because I honestly hate those games. 5 stars must have. ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2014-02-22* This game is just amazing! Get this game! Not to mention the graphics is beautiful! The only thing I don't really like is the slow dying of the mothership! But at least it's beautiful! ### 5/5 — Magnificent *2014-02-05* In almost every aspect of this game, the features are magnificent including beautiful sounds and music, great graphics, and an awesome campaign. Multiplayer is also great but if they added a 2v2 it would be very cool. ### 5/5 — Incredible game *2014-02-04* Should be way more popular than it is ### 5/5 — More please *2014-02-02* I love this game, and would love to see more from this publisher --- *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 2026-08-23.*