# Silent Gear — user reviews > 83 indexed App Store user reviews of Silent Gear by Hosted Games LLC, rated 3.50/5 from 30 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/silent-gear/id947987660/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/silent-gear/id947987660.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Silent Gear? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✨ Captivating storyline - 📖 Engaging narrative - 🤔 Interesting choices - 💡 Creative game mechanics - 💖 Good character development - 🚀 Immersive experience - 🤩 Highly recommended - 💯 Best text-based game - 🌟 Unique game mechanics - 👍 Worth the time - 🎉 Fun game **Cons** - 🤏 Too short - ✍️ Frequent spelling errors - ✍️ Grammatical errors - 🐛 Buggy boss battles - ⚖️ Unbalanced boss fights - 🤷 Choices feel uninfluential - 🗣️ Awkward dialogue - 🤷 Story doesn't flow naturally - 📉 Lack of character development - 💔 Abrupt endings - 😵 Railroading in choices - 😒 Forced romance - 🚫 Limited choices - 🤔 Boss battles lack strategy - 😔 Disappointing ending - ❓ Unclear combat system - 🚶‍♂️ Story too linear **Commonly reported bugs** - Ling's BDS armor still deflects attacks after destruction - Boss battles are rigged - Player's systems can't be used if destroyed, but AI can still use theirs - AI spams attacks that cannot be defended against - Gender randomly changes to male - Game uses he/him pronouns and calls player 'sir' despite female character - Bosses can still block with defense modules at 0% - Boss AI cheats, can still use counter things at 0% - Boss battles are buggy and unbalanced - Stats and choices barely matter in boss fights - Ship battle is impossible - First boss is too hard - Boss AI cheats **Most requested features** - Make the story longer - Add more content - Create a sequel/part 2 - More variety in choices - Improve character development - Add more romance options - Fix gender glitch - Make boss battles more strategic - Add a dark mode option ## Newest reviews (17 of 83) ### 2/5 — Ends too quickly. *2023-07-06, version 1.1.6* You go on 3 missions. You just pick a choice at the end and nothing happens. Was fun. Tho I won’t be trying to attempt other choices, all it is trying to be is a game you can complete within 30 minutes that wastes time. Make longer games ### 2/5 — Has potential, but writing needs work... *2021-02-02, version 1.1.2* To summarize my criticism, this game has very creative mini-games and combat sequences, an interesting enough premise, and some cool world-building, but reading through dialogue becomes very painfully awkward early on. I played until just after the second mission. I haven’t played as a female character, so I can’t speak to that experience, but as a male character there is not really any opportunity given for your character to develop a platonic friendship with the male npcs, or at least not up to the point where I quit. On the other hand, the two main female characters I had the chance to interact with have very one-dimensional personalities, and seem only to serve as sex interests. What I mean by this is that, very quickly, you know more about their body type than you do about their philosophies and motivations, and the dialogue is very unrealistic. This might sound harsh but frankly it feels catered to a horny pubescent boy’s ideal female interactions. I’m a 30 year old guy, and I just couldn’t feel an interest in playing this character. After your second mission, there is a female character who you have no option of avoiding. She is pretty immature and forward for a character who is supposed to be a highly educated and professional adult, and even if you pick the most hostile dialogue options with her, she is still coming into your room every night. If the premise of a story includes that you are playing as a man with low willpower and extreme sexual desperation, then this can be excused, but for this game it’s just really awkward and distracting. If the writer wants to make a story that involves a lot of risqué behavior in what is otherwise a story about being in an elite futuristic military force, that’s fine, but I don’t think this is how it’s done. Others have commented on the spelling and grammar but that’s the last thing I would address. I just think the writer needs some outside perspective on how to write natural characters. ### 4/5 — Continuation? Please add more content. PLS *2020-07-27, version 1.1.2* I was pleasantly surprised by how this game makes the reader interact and make content changing decisions. I just wish there was more content to read and experience. Please make another addition to this story. Also this game is free, the amount of writing and probable story boarding the writers have gone through must have been a long time! This game should cost money. ### 4/5 — Good game, few mistakes *2020-01-29, version 1.1.2* Within the dialog I found minor spelling mistakes. The story is great with great amounts of detail with the option to go over or skip it. I enjoyed the multiple choice aspect and the training you require to get certain choices. It’s a great game despite the petty flaws. Would recommend ### 4/5 — Pretty good game I guess. *2019-08-04, version 1.1.2* All you guys complaining about the boss battles are just mad that you can't beat them. I found out pretty easy to beat the bosses and I thought that this was a pretty good game. I was wondering if you would actually make the chronomancers plz. I'm a big fan of these types of games. The storyline was pretty good but I'm giving it four stars because of grammatical errors. ### 5/5 — Silent gear... more like Metal gea- *cough*! *2018-12-20, version 1.1.2* If you’re a fan of MGS, this game is for you XD. Love can bloom on the battlefield boys!!! ### 2/5 — Rigged *2018-07-07, version 1.1.2* Boss battles are rigged where even if you destroy their systems they can still use them but if yours get destroyed you cant. Therefore the ai spams attacks you cant defend against but you cant do the same ### 3/5 — Meh *2018-05-29, version 1.1.1* Could have been good but it’s too hard to get past all the spelling, grammar and syntax errors. The dialogue doesn’t flow naturally and neither does the narration, which isn’t great in terms of far too much telling and unnecessary details. ### 5/5 — Great game *2018-02-26, version 1.1.1* Must have ### 4/5 — A MUST PLAY *2018-01-24, version 1.1.0* This has seriously one of the most interesting and immersive game i have played yet, the story is not linear and boring, it's goes out of its way and creates something different, plus, it even has its own version of "Boss" levels. Its seriously such a blast to play, although I hope there is a part 2 of the story, the way it ended....just seemed so....abrupt. 4.5/5 I highly recommend it. ### 4/5 — This is an amazing game *2018-01-13, version 1.1.0* For the first time in a long time I actually cared about a game for more than 5 or 6 days, the characters are good and the story telling is amazing. The only problem was the ending, it was lackluster and didn't go with the rest of the story. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2017-11-10, version 1.1.0* This is easily one of the best gamebooks I've ever played. Awesome and long story, awesome ending, awesome game. 10/10 would recommend. :v ### 3/5 — Started great but.. *2017-10-23, version 1.1.0* The story was absolutely amazing but the reason i’m rating it three stars is because of various spelling errors,the story didn’t line up with the female gender character choice and(Spoiler Alert)The ending after you choose to kill selene was terrible and it’s obviously the real ending you wake up from a coma after Todd supposedly beat you which ruined the other two endings for me,at that point I realized that both endings never happened and yeah i know its a game but this was the first time i enjoyed a game like this just for it to end the way it did in the real ending of the game ruined it for me but this is my opinion and I mainly rated it three stars for spelling errors and again the story didn’t really line up with the female character as well as it could have the characters didn’t really acknowledge that you were a female in the first place and the love hate relationship with selene still felt like it was between a man and a woman and the way Catherine comforted you just felt like a woman comforting a man but thats just my opinion. ### 4/5 — Amazing! *2017-10-20, version 1.1.0* The story line is great, I was completely sucked into it. I would definitely pay for a sequel! ### 4/5 — A lot of potential, but a bit short *2017-09-22* The game is very short and can probably be completed within a couple hours if you try hard enough. This is a bit disappointing, especially when the story goes out of its way to introduce an interesting setting (yet only a bit of it is explored). Boss battles were also not that fun to deal with, even though there were only two of them. Games that rely on RNG and luck more than actual skill are more frustrating than fun. Also, some characters could've been developed more, like the plasma fist guy (I can't even remember his name because he appeared for only a paragraph) who killed two side characters and then got killed pretty much instantly, without even saying any dialogue. His character could've at least been explored more. Despite these flaws, I still think the game has a great plot and setting. The only real problem is how short it is. ### 2/5 — Too much railroading *2017-06-12, version 1.0.1* This game wants you to play a male and someone who knows the game inside and out. If you make a choice that the game doesn't like it is instantly game over and you have to go through it all over again. Not great. ### 5/5 — Best Text Adventure Game! *2017-04-28, version 1.0.1* I really enjoyed it not like other text adventure games What i liked the most is the boss battle, i cant wait till the full game ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — It’s ok *2017-11-23, version 1.1.0* Started good, but boss battles are trash. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2017-09-18, version 1.1.0* Ship battle is impossible ### 1/5 — Waste of my money!! *2017-03-26, version 1.0.1* I spend two dollars that I didn't have to because I just had to play the free version!! ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2016-06-29, version 1.0.1* This game was extremely boring. ### 1/5 — Very disappointing *2016-04-06, version 1.0.1* So many spelling mistakes that it's almost unreadable. The only choice game I've not been able to finish. Wish I could have my money back for this one. ### 1/5 — Boss fights horrible *2015-06-12, version 1.0.1* If your gonna make a boss fight make it easy because I killed lings mech suit -25 hull but she won and killed me even though I got her first. The hint says she protects her lowest which is a lie it kept protecting other ones. If I attack and they are all at 100% it mostly says no damage which would annoy any one. MAKE THE GAME BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ### 1/5 — Choice game? *2015-06-06, version 1.0.1* I would hardly call this a choice game. You can't reject selene, you have to do everything the "right" way it's game over, and the boss battles make no sense. It's like you can only make suggestions to your character, you aren't the one controlling them. Had you been able to go through another time loop to do the story again that would have been way better. ### 1/5 — Don't even play *2015-01-16, version 1.0.1* You can't get past the first boss. Way too impossible.👎👎👎👎👎 ### 1/5 — The boss AI cheats *2015-01-07, version 1.0.1* When a boss's counter things are at 0, they can still freakin use them. ### 1/5 — Omg. Worst. Game. Ever. *2014-12-30, version 1.0.0* Please do not waste your time downloading this game. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The best. *2024-05-10* Not of all games, but the games that this company makes, not ad ridden forever like zombie exodus. ### 5/5 — t *2022-11-19, version 1.1.4* Honestly, I don’t know what to say about the game itself, since I mainly payed attention to the story and choices. Although, I absolutely loved everything, the story, the mechanics, and variety. ### 5/5 — i love the game but there’s an issue *2022-01-31, version 1.1.3* for some reasons i’ve completely destroyed ling’s BDS armor but she could still deflect my attack with it... somehow ### 5/5 — What???????!!!!!!!! Incredible *2021-07-31, version 1.1.2* Best text based game I have ever played, I need a part 2, that ending is crazy. I need a part 2!!! What do you need to make a part 2? If it is money, set up a Kickstarter and I will put some money, perhaps I could convince other friends to pitch in as well. Doesn’t matter, I need a part 2, please!!! ### 5/5 — Worth of my time *2020-11-13, version 1.1.2* The story is really good making you choose the decisions of ur character the i love how the devs mix it the action sci fi genre with some touch of romance i wish they made the story longer but yeah it is what it is i love this game keep it up ### 5/5 — Great story *2019-08-29, version 1.1.2* I really liked this game. It was exciting and it played with my emotions ### 5/5 — Nice *2019-08-24, version 1.1.2* Kinda short but still a good story ### 5/5 — Fantasic *2019-08-14, version 1.1.2* I love this game but my only complaint is that it doesn't continue on, please make a sequel or something ### 5/5 — Very good *2019-05-05, version 1.1.2* Only complaint that is there are a lot of spelling mistakes ### 5/5 — Great *2019-01-13, version 1.1.2* Awesome game, but it is a little short --- *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.*