# Solve the Outbreak — user reviews > 141 indexed App Store user reviews of Solve the Outbreak by Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, rated 4.60/5 from 60 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/solve-the-outbreak/id592485067/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/solve-the-outbreak/id592485067.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 50 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of Solve the Outbreak? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Engaging gamification of learning epidemiology - 📚 Educational and informative content about diseases - 🧩 Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking challenges - 👨‍🏫 Great tool for classroom and educational settings - 🎯 Realistic case studies based on actual outbreaks - 💡 Well-designed interface and user-friendly experience - 🆓 Free app without in-app purchases - 🔍 Detailed clues and explanations for learning - 👶 Suitable for wide age range from children to adults - 🏆 Motivating achievement system and scoring **Cons** - ⏱️ Limited replay value due to memorizable answers - 📖 Heavy text-based content without visual aids - 🖥️ Text too small on mobile devices - 🎮 Linear gameplay with no branching outcomes - 😴 Can become repetitive after completing cases - 🔊 Lacks background music and sound effects - 📱 Limited availability across platforms **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when attempting to reset scores in settings - Old scores and progress remain after reset attempt - Accidental question selection due to bottom screen placement **Most requested features** - Add more outbreak cases and scenarios - Create harder difficulty levels for advanced players - Include visual aids and images for better understanding - Add background music and sound effects - Implement branching storylines with different outcomes - Create Level 3 with more complex cases - Add ability for users to create custom outbreaks - Improve text size and readability on smaller screens - Release app on iPhone in addition to iPad - Include more historical and special plague scenarios ## Newest reviews (14 of 141) ### 5/5 — A great way for me to learn. *2019-03-29, version 2.5.1* As someone only slightly interested in medicine and virology, this app’s gamification of learning had taken that slight interest and kindled it into a great flame of knowledge. Would recommend. ### 5/5 — This Is So Cool! *2019-02-17, version 2.5.1* I love how the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) interpreted the fun knowledge of health into an amazing interactive. I personally love learning about diseases and health, for I wish to be a geneticist when I grow up. Thanks a bunch CDC, and extra thanks to somebody at the CDC that recommended this to me! ### 5/5 — More scenarios *2019-01-30, version 2.5.1* Please add more scenarios!! ### 5/5 — This game is better than fortnight *2018-11-12, version 2.5.1* Tbh this game is amazing and I love it so much, hats off to the developers ### 5/5 — Awesome *2018-07-17, version 2.5.1* This was both entertaining and informative, I love ❤️ this app Thank - you for providing such a quality game . ### 5/5 — I Love This App! *2017-12-06, version 2.5* Way to go, CDC! Your online zombie preparedness campaign was excellent but this app is wonderful. It's accurate, engaging, and educational. I use it all the time with my high school epidemiology class and they love it. Please make a 3rd level asap!!! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2017-11-14, version 2.5.1* You learn a lot while having fun doing it! ### 5/5 — Fun and useful! *2017-10-07, version 2.5* I have used it with my undergrad medicine students and its fun and enlightning. ### 5/5 — Wow! *2017-08-02, version 2.5* I thought being a detective would be boring! This app is very interactive and is very helpful! Once you start, you can't stop! I hope you keep adding more outbreaks! This is really a great learning tool! ### 5/5 — A very good game👍🏻 *2016-12-29, version 2.4* This game is excellent for kids to learn about, and develops interest in epidemiology, such as what happened to me!😀 ### 5/5 — Excellent *2016-05-11, version 2.4* Awesome app, fun, interesting, and you can learn a lot! ### 4/5 — Fun and informative game! *2016-05-04, version 2.3* This game is very strategic and involves complex thinking, the game also uses interesting clues, definitions and settings. The cool thing is that the outbreaks are based on really cases. I think this game is really educational because if someone really wanted to become a investigator this would be great practice especially because they are real world problems. Also this game is great because if these outbreaks were to happen again, people would have a better knowledge of what to do and how to deal with the pandemic. I suggest you only download this game if you are into taking apart evidence and lots of reading. Overall, I really enjoyed the game! ### 5/5 — Cdc app - great learning *2016-04-22, version 2.2* Fantastic gamefication of active learning in this app suitable for anyone interested in basic public health processes - ideal for MED students and people seeking an introduction to public health. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2016-03-25, version 2.2* This app is fun and educational at the same down! Fun for young and for old! Very educational and you learn lots about diseases and the CDC ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What? *2023-08-04, version 2.5.7* This app is only an app. I can’t believe my health teacher made me download this. How am I going to download and play subway surfers when I have to make room for this. I ain’t no nerd. Where are the coins? Where is the money? I do not want to be a nerd. It is great for them though… just not for me. Sincerely, That one nerd that isn’t a nerd ### 1/5 — Boring! *2020-06-21, version 2.5.2* Very boring! ### 1/5 — Can't reset scores *2016-02-25, version 2.2* Can't reset scores, when you click to reset scores in the settings, the app crashes/quits and old scores & progress are still there. ### 1/5 — K *2016-02-11, version 2.2* The fact I can get it right away with a lot more fun and addicting and I don't think that is not an issue with a lot more fun and addicting and I don't think that is ### 1/5 — Excellent but. . . *2013-02-23, version 1.0* This app has a great deal of potential for classroom use. It is engaging and thought provoking. I do have one concern. The negative connotation attached to the university scenario where the students had been "partying." In order to utilize this app in the classroom, it would be best to avoid this type of language. With the small change mentioned I would give this app five stars. ### 3/5 — Educational, but lacking in replay value *2013-07-13, version 1.1* I love the fact that it is based of of real epidemics and appears to use the same process the real epidemiologists used in the game. It is very educational, but as far as a game goes, it lacks replay ability since the outcome doesn't change with your choices, it just tells you what you did wrong and deducts points. I would love to see the ability to change the outcome and have changing data and decisions. It's great on the first play through, but you can memorize the correct responses easily enough. It feels more like reading a creatively written how to book, than playing a game. ### 4/5 — Great game. *2019-06-05, version 2.5.1* This game is a great way to learn. It forces you to solve problems using schema and knowledge given to you, great for people who like logic puzzles. It simultaneously manages to be fun, and tell a good story. I would say that you wouldn’t need an iron plated stomach to enjoy. Though this game is a great time passer, there’s one thing that keeps it from getting a true 5 star. The replay-ability factor is very low, due to it being a puzzle game. When you finish both Level 1 and 2, you’re pretty much done with the app, unless you want to show it to a friend or try and solve the puzzles again. Honestly, good for puzzle lovers, but barely replayable. The only reason you would play it again is to get a good score. But this game is satisfactory, and as so, I give it a 4/5. ### 4/5 — Excellent but *2017-11-06, version 2.5* I wish it was a real game... ### 4/5 — Great game...better played on a larger screen *2017-01-24, version 2.4* I love this concept for engaging people in the lives of others who are working behind the scenes and protecting our communities from the next big health concern. I am thoroughly enjoying reading about the cases, both historic and fictional, that have their bases in the reality that effects many communities around the world. My only problem with this game is the fact that I am unable to read many of the games data sheets because the print is too tiny to see. Because of this, I am forced to guess at many of the answers to the questions as a player I am being graded on. ### 4/5 — More please! *2016-06-08, version 2.4* Great app - well done CDC. Level 3 scenarios for older kids (and those of us who just like puzzles) would be good. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Pls add another level I’ve completed all with maximum score *2026-04-18, version 2.5.9* It’s great but can you add a nother level like one with strep . ### 5/5 — I love the CDC *2023-08-13, version 2.5.7* Hello. I am 12 and have been interested in the concept of infectious disease since before the pandemic. The CDC is the coolest thing ever! Please reply. ### 5/5 — Fun app *2023-03-01, version 2.5.7* I immensely enjoyed this game. The cases are realistic. Some of the questions are dumb ambiguous. Like in the Dengue fever case. I incorrectly chose to quarantine the affected. The next question was about local spread from the affected group. Mildly annoying and confusing. However does not detract from an otherwise excellent toy ### 5/5 — More Levels and Cases please *2021-11-13, version 2.5.2* I hope more levels and cases should be added. This one is not just fun but, it is also educational, It teaches people regarding disease control and prevention. It also informs people regarding a disease’s etiology, epidemiology and biology. ### 5/5 — Excellent case presentations *2021-09-12, version 2.5.2* The gamification of the learning process makes this app engaging and entertaining. Congratulations to the developers for creating an app that makes learning epidemiology fun! ### 5/5 — Already completed the game in a day *2021-03-06, version 2.5.2* It is a really great game I finished it in a day and I am only 10 years old please add more levels and some special outbreaks. Please I am taking human anatomy and my mom likes finding reviews for me I would really love more levels. ### 5/5 — Very fun! *2020-10-21, version 2.5.2* This game was very fun! ### 5/5 — BEST GAME! *2020-08-24, version 2.5.2* Love This Game But There Are No Spacial Plagues To Stop ### 5/5 — I love it *2020-03-21, version 2.5.2* This is one of the best thinking games there is ### 5/5 — Meh & lol *2020-03-08, version 2.5.2* Ok, but improvements should be made --- *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 2026-07-29.*