# Smash.IO™ — user reviews > 20 indexed App Store user reviews of Smash.IO™ by PANGO GAMES MOBIL UYGULAMA VE OYUN GELISTIRME TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI, rated 4.55/5 from 571 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smashio/id1458513190/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smashio/id1458513190.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 448 · 4★ 57 · 3★ 26 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 27 ## What do users think of Smash.IO™? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎮 Simple and fun gameplay mechanics - ⭐ Engaging core concept **Cons** - 🐛 Game freezes after winning matches - 📺 Ads persist despite purchasing ad removal - 🎮 Gameplay dominated by bots, not real players - 💔 Frequent updates erase player progress - 🎨 Unwanted character design changes (ball avatars) - ⚠️ Misleading online/offline status indicators - 🚫 Unskippable ads - ❌ Poor name persistence across sessions - 🎯 Unfair bot difficulty and advantages - 😤 Unresponsive ad reward buttons - 🗑️ Overall poor game design and polish **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes after match completion when ad reward is offered - Ad removal purchase does not remove banner ads - Ad reward buttons become unresponsive/non-functional - Player progression and unlocked items erased after updates - Level progression skips (e.g., level 18 to 20, missing level 19 items) - Misleading online/offline status messages - Collision with walls causes unexpected knife loss **Most requested features** - Real multiplayer with actual players instead of bots - Persistent player names across sessions - Ability to invite specific friends to play - Better progression rewards system - Character abilities beyond cosmetic skins - Landscape/sideways phone orientation support - More dynamic map designs (multi-level maps, moving terrain) - Ability to customize character appearance (not forced ball avatars) - Improved matchmaking system ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Deceitful *2019-07-23, version 2.1* You’re not online like they want you to believe. They go as far as saying you are offline and are playing with bots when you’re not connected online when in reality you were never online to begin with. ### 1/5 — Too many updates *2019-07-15, version 2.1* Had the game for a couple months out lots of time to unlock items just to come back to a completly different change not once but twice ### 1/5 — A crap .io *2019-06-09, version 1.4* Seriously a cool idea but this game is poorly designed and needs some serious work. Players should be able to maintain a name past one game. No upgrades...just flare. Ads can’t be skipped..? ### 1/5 — Sahtekarlar *2019-06-03, version 1.4* Online oyun gibi gösterip online olmayan oyun. Eşyalar aşırı derecede pahalı. Ve IPhone 7 telefonum aşırı derecede ısınıyor. Para tuzakından başka bir şey değil ### 1/5 — More hot garbage *2019-06-02, version 1.4* Dumpster fire deluxe ### 1/5 — Sucked *2019-06-01, version 1.3* Would rate less, but can't. ### 1/5 — You vs bots that has a head start *2019-05-01, version 1.1* You join in, and get chased by 2 bots, then get gangbanged by one that has lots of knives. Great game man. Complete waste of time to play this, it was worth while with my 2 mins. ### 1/5 — It’s awful *2019-04-29, version 1.1* I was level 22 and had every skin but than the new update took that all away and now the game is so dumb don’t waste your time ### 2/5 — Why are we balls now? *2019-07-15, version 2.1* The real problem is after painstakingly collecting the coins and getting back some of my knives after you guys erased them the last time. You erase them again, turn us into balls, and still don’t let us change our names like before. Who said we wanted to be balls huh?😒 ### 2/5 — Would be awesome *2019-05-16, version 1.2* This game would be awesome if it had a couple crucial elements. 1 invite specific people to play, 2 better rewards for progress, 3 real people rather than what seams to be only bots, 4 more dynamics in maps,, like moving terrain was cool, but what about a 2 story map that you can fight on the ground and a bridge? What if instead of just purchasing skins, you could also get abilities with your char, what if you could play this game with your phone sideways? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Her oyunda emek var *2019-06-02, version 1.3* Emeğin karşılığı ise teşekkür etmektir . Teşekkürler. ### 5/5 — Live? *2019-05-26, version 1.2* So there is a live button on the main screen. The .io games started with agar.io and it was really live. I keep playing agaisnt knife king and generic names. When is this game going really live so i cant win against real players. ### 5/5 — I love this game! *2019-04-13, version 1.0* It’s so fun but I wish there wasn’t so much blocks in my way if you update this can you remove all the blocks? I don’t like the blocks because they remove all of my knives. ### 4/5 — Fun Game But.... *2019-07-29, version 2.1* Good game, super simple. However, after purchasing “no more ads”, I still got banner ads below. Also, after watching all the adds, for all the weapon skins, and having them all unlocked, the game now freezes after I get exp when I win. Where it would offer a weapon skin for watching an ad, it freezes up and I have to close and reopen to play another match. ### 4/5 — Why *2019-07-17, version 2.1* I like this game but it Taunts me whenever it asks me to watch a video for a knife the button won’t work 😭 ### 4/5 — Reviews *2019-07-01, version 1.5* An ok game. But this “Viktoria” girl who answers the reviews seems to be mentally challenged, can’t even copy-paste properly. People like that is what hurts gamedev - you’d be better off firing her and not answering reviews at all. ### 4/5 — It’s ok.... *2019-04-15, version 1.0* I don’t like when you touch a wall you lose knifes ### 4/5 — Game bug *2019-04-05, version 1.0* So I love the game after just getting it but I went from level 18 to level 20 in one game and I can use the level 19 knives please fix this cause I wanted to use the 19 knives instead of the 20 ### 3/5 — Error *2019-08-01, version 2.2* Still stuck after winning the match ### 3/5 — Update *2019-06-02, version 1.4* I don’t really like the update as much. --- *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 2026-08-10.*