# Sometimes You Die — user reviews > 228 indexed App Store user reviews of Sometimes You Die by Philipp Stollenmayer, rated 4.30/5 from 155 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sometimes-you-die/id822701037/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sometimes-you-die/id822701037.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 111 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Sometimes You Die? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Unique and innovative gameplay - 🎨 Stylish and atmospheric presentation - 🤔 Thought-provoking narrative - 🎮 Addictive and challenging levels - 💯 Excellent value for money **Cons** - 🕹️ Frustrating controls at times - 🕰️ Short overall playtime - 🤯 Extremely difficult 'orange' levels - 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes **Commonly reported bugs** - Pause button not functioning properly - Game freezing on certain devices **Most requested features** - Leaderboard for fastest completions - More content and levels - Ability to reset/restart the game ## Newest reviews (15 of 228) ### 2/5 — Easy and takes 20 minutes to complete *2026-07-31, version 1.32* Very easy, quite boring, no music at all, beaten in 20 minutes. dont waste your money ### 4/5 — I have a question for the developer (spoilers I guess?) *2025-04-08, version 1.32* I found the orange area and got stuck on the final jump before the elevator bit. After 20 tries I eventually got it, breezed through the elevator puzzle and then the drop, leading me to a room with a singular lightbulb in it. Here, I got the ability to pause the game, letting me: 1) mute the music. 2) return back to the beginning of the orange area/start of the game. And 3) credits. My question is —> does this mean I beat the game, or is there more secrets / content? ### 4/5 — Fantastic Game *2023-08-04, version 1.32* I really enjoyed this game. It’s really smart with lots of twists. It was very engaging and I’m sad it’s over. Going to explore more from this developer. Fantastic. ### 3/5 — Nice but buggy *2023-03-02* Cool story for a nice simple game (quite repetitive though, see/saw is WAY much better), but the controls are a little bit buggy which can be SO annoying sometimes ### 4/5 — The orange section is a fever dream *2023-01-03, version 1.32* Honestly pretty decent game, I’m a fan of this developers games, but seriously I took me 5 hours to beat one section definitely a good time waster but at the expense of your sanity ### 5/5 — Sleep-wrecker! *2020-10-27, version 1.32* This is the. best. game. I have ever played. A great take on ‘lives’, witty, a soundtrack that weirdly never got too much, and the best ending to a game I have ever seen. I am writing this at 1am. Now at least I can put it down. ### 5/5 — Best Platformer ever *2020-08-20, version 1.32* Really really good game! I can play this without getting bored forever. I wish the Developer would make more games like this: and yes, I’d pay for more! Thanks Philipp! ### 5/5 — Déroutant et original ! *2020-03-07* Si vous avez trouvé le titre trop simple, c’est que probablement vous n’avez pas tout découvert ! On découvre un jeu de plateforme minimaliste qui possède une ambiance toute sombre à la Limbo. La progression se fait simplement avec deux directions et la possibilité de sauter. La ruse vient du fait que la mort peut servir à avancer. Ce qui est intéressant ce sont les réflexions liées à la création d’un jeu qui sont écrites tout au long des niveaux. Le développeur de talent nous invite subtilement à réfléchir avec lui sur ces concepts. Le jeu possède un prologue et des niveaux cachés, je le précise ! J’ai adoré refaire le titre avec les commentaires du créateur sous forme de notifications pleines d’humour ! On débloque ce mode après avoir tout terminé. Bravo et merci pour ce titre totalement gratuit ! Et oui, le message qui demande de payer 9,999 à un moment est une blague osée du développeur. La preuve, on ne peut répondre que par yes ou yes, trop drôle ! Pas étonnant que certains ont eu peur, c’est parfois un moyen utilisé abusivement dans des applications frauduleuses pour soutirer de l’argent. De toute façon pas de panique car avant achat il faut toujours une confirmation biométrique ! ### 4/5 — Definitely the most underwhelming game kamibox *2020-01-26, version 1.32* I’ve have bought all of your games but this is the one that is definitely the shortest and the most meaningless seeming ### 5/5 — Großartig! Toller Soundtrack! *2019-10-15* Ein rundum gelungenes, kurzweiliges Game mit tollem Look & Feel! Die Musik passt perfekt! Bitte mehr davon, bin ein großer Fan! ### 5/5 — It’s odd *2019-06-21, version 1.32* I loved the game but it was kind of short and I got the prologue code and it just said hi. I’m the developer I don’t get that 10 out of 10 ### 2/5 — Terrible Ending *2019-04-14, version 1.32* The game has a nice concept, was challenging enough at times, but short-lived and super frustrating at the end. The entire game was kinda easy, but then at the orange level everything was super difficult and near impossible to finish. I’m not even sure some of the levels there were actually possible to finish. So I gave up after 100+ tries and looked up a walkthrough to see what would happen at the end. Guess what? It’s an empty orange room with absolutely nothing in sight. So don’t waste your time trying to beat the orange level, you’ll hardly be rewarded. The insane difficulty on the last level just seemed to be an excuse to lengthen the already super short game. ### 5/5 — I Love It. *2019-03-14, version 1.32* Man, this game is just amazing. The combination of frustrating and fun is amazing. And I especially love the “Orange Levels”. I can say that I have beaten the orange levels, and the ending is a bit anti-climatic. Either way, I love the game. ### 5/5 — Best game I’ve ever played *2019-02-11, version 1.32* Amazing game like I’ve never written one of thes before but I loved the game sm that I took time outta my day to write one... one of the best games I’ve ever played if not the best... would recommend playing with headphones tho ### 4/5 — Anti climactic *2019-01-19, version 1.32* After spending hours and hours on this game, I finally beat it. But... there’s nothing at the end? The game itself is very fun but it was very anticlimactic. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What the heck *2024-12-26, version 1.32* There was an impossible level and now I can’t win and plus the one with the stairs is just hard enough ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2024-04-16, version 1.32* Can’t even open the app it crashes within seconds ### 1/5 — Stupid *2022-05-05, version 1.32* The last part of the game is to hard it is impossible everyone rage quits on this STUPID GAME stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid ### 1/5 — Any refunds? *2018-12-27, version 1.32* I installed the game today and i don’t very like it i would like to know if i could get refundded? ### 1/5 — Boring *2018-10-03, version 1.32* What on earth is the fuss about? I think you should ask reviewers to provide their ages. ### 1/5 — Doesn't Quite Work On My Device *2016-11-26, version 1.31* I'm using an iPhone 3G or 3GS, model number MC131C/A, with iOS version 6.1.6. This iPhone has a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The game runs but does not scale the screen properly to the small resolution; while the "?", "<", and ">" buttons do properly adjust to fit the screen, the in-game graphics do not. Significant portions of each screen of the game are cut off around the edges. For instance, there is an early screen that introduces an elevator off to the right; the entire elevator is off-screen and I know about it only because I watched a few minutes of a playthrough. I'll come back to adjust my review if I play it on a newer device or if the game is updated for compatibility with my old device. ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2015-12-31, version 1.31* Controls don't work properly. Game glitched about 10 seconds in. Restarted and it did the same. Didn't even bother trying a third time. Deleted immediately. Waste of time and money. ### 1/5 — 9999€ ? Wtf ? *2015-11-07* 9999€ pour débloquer des niveaux supplémentaires.. Elle est pas mal celle-là. ### 1/5 — Scam for $9999 inside app purchase *2015-11-06, version 1.31* watch for scam pop for in app purchase ### 1/5 — too minimalistic *2015-11-03, version 1.31* ok, i get left, right, jump with a bunch of tough to read words on this levels background. and it keeps happening. move on, next level with hard to read words. so it's super easy with no indication of score or progression, or what i'm supposed to do, so why should i keep playing. deleted. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Important to me. *2025-12-07, version 1.32* I’ve played this game over from start to finish, including orange levels, developers commentary, zero death run, glitches, secret room, etc, probably went through from start to finish over 100 times since this game came out years ago. Unfortunately now on iPhone 15 pro max the game doesn’t seem to run properly anymore. Pause button doesn’t work and can cause a total game freeze. Things are just off now. Hopefully this can be fixed ### 5/5 — Superb *2025-02-01, version 1.32* This game is a perfect example of originality, not in the game itself but everything surrounding it that makes you feel a certain way. I loved every minute Phillip your a genius, I got okay? After loving this so much. Years later this game still stands the test of time, it just has that special something you can’t put your finger on, so stylish and addictive, originality is so hard to find …what is it that makes a game or a film so riveting? Whatever it is this has it in spades. ### 5/5 — Kamibox knocks it out of the park… as usual. *2024-11-16, version 1.32* Kamibox. Enough said. I would love to know where the ideas for these games come from. This game is so unique, and I love the story or plot that you literally follow. It’s such an interesting concept. Do you or have you ever dabbled in console game development, or is there anything on steam, or are these only mobile games? I seriously love everything you put out. My favorite is a toss up between squaredance, supertype, and zip zap. I would absolutely love to see what you would do with an RPG. I’ve no doubt you’re unique stylistic choices, story, and playability would be a smash! Keep the games rolling! So good. ### 5/5 — Different and Smart *2024-06-28, version 1.32* This is another excellent game, from a brilliant developer, that’s grossly underrated. It seems most people aren’t interested in games that are unique and thoughtful. Anything more cerebral than match 3 is lost on most people. Thank goodness there are still developers who are willing to create great independent games for those who want more than more copies of the same old thing. ### 5/5 — INCROYABLE *2024-03-27* Un jeu vraiment incroyable, partie cachée magique, et pour les gens qui disent qu’il faut payer 9999€ C UNE BLAGUE DU DÉVELOPPEUR. Le message fait partie du jeu et vous pouvez l’escalader, ce qui vous aides grandement. Bref, je recommande ### 5/5 — beautiful game *2023-07-09, version 1.32* i love the game and both ending thanks for that game ### 5/5 — I won with 11 deaths *2023-06-17, version 1.32* Fantastic game, blew my mind with the orange levels, they are terrifying. What a philosophical game! I love the bonus features after completing the game. Advice: Make a leaderboard to see who has won in the fewest number of deaths! I think Apple added it recently, you can create leaderboards that are sorted by fewest points instead of most points (used for ‘golf’ type games like this one) I want to beat the game in 0 deaths, but there’s one point where I think you are forced to die, unfortunately. So the minimum should be 1 death. That will test my patience! Overall, a very fun and frustrating platformer game. ### 5/5 — Solution to the paying problem *2022-02-19, version 1.32* In the stage where it asks you to pay $9999 to unlock the rest of the game, the notification is physical and lets you beat the level. ### 5/5 — Richtig gut! *2021-11-26* Schon fast eine Kunstinstallation. Nicht sehr lang und auch nicht schwer, aber wenn man sich darauf einlässt ist es richtig gut. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2021-02-25, version 1.32* This game is awesome and we all should play it. Hidden number=9240226. You’ll see what that means when you play enough. The ending “bye bye” I saw. Amazing. --- *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 2026-09-11.*