# Sonar Islands — user reviews > 143 indexed App Store user reviews of Sonar Islands by Hansjoerg Mikesch, rated 3.50/5 from 83 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sonar-islands/id1554817644/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sonar-islands/id1554817644.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 37 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Sonar Islands? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Immersive audio experience - 👍 Accessible for blind users - 🎨 Fantastic sound design - ⭐ Engaging gameplay - 🕹️ Intuitive controls **Cons** - 💰 Subscription model required to access full game - 🔇 Repetitive voice acting - 🕰️ Slow progression without paying - 🤖 Unresponsive controls at times - 🔍 Lack of clear in-game instructions **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and freezes on certain devices - Compass and navigation issues with iOS 16 - Incorrect Morse code in tutorial - Inconsistent audio cues **Most requested features** - Additional free islands to explore - Option to purchase game outright instead of subscription - More varied event types and challenges - Ability to customize islands - Support for multiple languages ## Newest reviews (14 of 143) ### 4/5 — Un jeu fascinant *2026-02-12* Je suis aveugle et j'adore ce jeu, pour tout dire c'est l'un de mes préférés, sachant que des jeux immersifs comme ça il y en a très peu. Le seul petit bémol, c'est que ça serait super qu'il y ait encore davantage de nouveaux événements tout en re proposant les anciens qui sont déjà géniaux. Continuez à nous enrichir de nouvelles îles on en veut toujours plus tellement c'est bien. **Developer response:** Nous sommes heureux que Sonar Islands soit votre jeu préféré, invitez vos amis et créez une tribu. ### 4/5 — Ganz gut! *2025-11-29* Das Spiel ist zwar immer noch gut, aber mir fällt auf, dass langsam einfach die Puste ausgeht. Zum einen wäre es schön, wenn wir im Inselbereich einen Button bekommen könnten, mit dem wir das gesamte Gold einsammeln können, damit wir nicht jede einzelne Insel extra betreten und jede einzelne Kiste auf einmal anklicken müssen. Der Button kann uns auch sagen, wie viel Gold wir insgesamt einsammeln. Zum anderen, können diese Events mittlerweile auch als Mini Games freigegeben werden, um an Extragold zu gelangen. Für einen gewissen Goldbetrag, kann man es dann spielen. Events machen nur dann wirklich einen Sinn, wenn sie auch ne Regelmäßigkeit haben. Das ist hier eindeutig nicht der Fall. Außerdem fehlen noch immer Quests, Missionen oder auch tägliche Aufgaben, um weiter leveln zu können. Momentan bekommen wir nur Inseln, die immer teurer werden, aber keinen richtigen Anreiz. **Developer response:** bitte auf IOS 16.0.2 updaten, alle unsere Test zeigen keine Voiceover Fehler. ### 4/5 — Sonar islands *2025-04-21, version 1.1.7* I recently downloaded this game, and find it one of the most accessible games I've ever played. I also downloaded fear, which I also love. Hopefully we will learn what the lights do, but so far this is an incredible game. ### 4/5 — OK? *2024-07-14, version 1.1.6* Update. So this is like 3 to 4 weeks after I got this game. Probably shorter than that, I don’t feel like doing math right now. And this is pretty much going against the original theme of the review I made before. But I really do love this game, I got this subscription and it is totally worth it. I still don’t disagree with my statement that I made before in the review, but I did get it and I think it’s worth it. The accessibilities are really awesome, and my favorite part about it or at least one of my favorite parts about it. Is that instead of having some weird text to speech voice enabled it, you can use your voice voice. if you want. It makes it just feel more personal, and the voiceover voice I have is the only one I really like at all. Because it sounds like an actual human being. So, I’m glad that I can use my voice voice for this game! I love your games, seriously the best! I cannot believe my luck! I mean, a few weeks ago I would’ve never guessed that I would All right, so I got this game not even an hour ago. I’ve already done the tutorial. it looks really good! I really like the sound quality, and everything. So here’s where my problem comes in to play. And,… Y’all can probably sense what I’m about to say. Right? Subscription……… So I get that y’all need money to make the games better. I totally understand, but can’t there be a one time charge? It’s just excited people get all these free games, or games that you can play without subscriptions. And pretty much every great blind game I find has to be paid for in some way or another. While I do get the need for money to make games better, can’t there be some other way to do it? Maybe you can watch advertisements to win gold which continues to play games. If you run out of gold, you cannot play any more games. Not until you watch another ad. or, if you really do need money, you should do a charge. And it’s OK if you do like $29. That is like the yearly subscription, but maybe it can buy the game. For an unlimited time. I get that this is not the amount of money that it took to make the game. It’s not even close, and I get that these games are really hard to find and probably even harder to make. But, I’m only 13, and I don’t got a bunch of money to pay for the stuff. I really hope this doesn’t come off through, because I don’t wanna brush off the time it took. Don’t give me wrong, I really really love this game. I can already tell, and I might pay for it. It would be a definitely, if it was a one time charge though. It’s only, my family has a bunch of kids. So we have to use our money for that. and, they don’t have time to really pay a bunch of subscriptions for my stuff. And, I do think if you made a time charge more people would buy it. Which would guarantee you more money. That’s how I see things. But, I totally understand if you don’t take any of my advice. and I’m probably gonna buy it so, despite the monthly pay, which I would like to add is a more than reasonable price to pay each month, I like the game. The only reason I’m even bringing this to attention, is because some people including me don’t have unlimited money. Like if someone wanted to play unlimited time, they would have to pay each month. Although it doesn’t seem like much, in the moment, it adds up overtime. Thank you, and again, I don’t want this to seem rude. I really want you to know that you are doing a great job when it comes to developing these games, and I wish there were more people like you who would take the time to recognize that all people should be able to play games.so thank you again, and keep doing a great job! ### 5/5 — Ist wirklich ein sehr gutes Spiel. *2024-06-02* Was mir sehr gut gefällt, ist die Bedienung, und dass es auch jetzt diese Events gibt. Da hat man wirklich sehr sehr viel Spaß. Also weiter so und hoffentlich kommen noch mehr Inseln, und Charakteren und Events hinzu. ### 5/5 — My review *2024-05-20* This is a really fun game. I would like if there was an option where you can create your own islands you can decide their obstacles platform and sounds for that island. Thank you. ### 4/5 — Hay un error cuando subes de nivel tu perfil *2024-05-19, version 1.1.6* Mi problema es el siguiente, y creo que es un gran error del juego, cuando subes de nivel tu perfil después de determinado nivel en mi caso fue el nivel 12, para subir al nivel 13, ya no te dice cuando subes el nivel por más que le des encerrar, o sea cuando toques el botón cerrar cuando actualizas un elemento tienes que cerrar y volver a abrir el juego, y para mí es bastante molesto entonces me gustaría que lo solucionaran ### 3/5 — You can’t access the islands without paying *2024-05-13, version 1.1.5* Dear app developers, please make the islands free ### 5/5 — C'eest tropee *2024-03-26* C’est ien ### 3/5 — Peccato *2024-03-22, version 1.1.5* Sarebbe bello renderla gratuita ### 5/5 — Gutes Spiel *2024-03-21* Es handelt sich hier wirklich um ein sehr gutes Spiel. Hatte es schon mal ein paar Monate gespielt dann aber das Abo gekündigt und jetzt neu aufgenommen über die neue Insel die jetzt da ist freue ich mich sehr und bin gespannt, wann ich sie freischalten kann. Ansonsten das Spiel funktioniert sehr gut und macht Spaß ### 5/5 — Extremely good with VoiceOver! *2024-03-07, version 1.1.4* Sorry for not reviewing yet, although I'v been playing for quite some time. I do, however, have some event suggestions and other things. One of them is for the rades, which MentalHome.eu was supposed tocome up with. I'll, of course, e-mail them about it, but what about having a "Home Box" for tribe members to use in helping with such a rade. These boxes could always be there, but they could help collect the gold when players aren't present to manually collect. I think players would like that, wouldn't they? Also, what about this for a Christmas-theemed event, right there on the Winter Lake? The penguins would still throw snowballs, and you'd have to literally drag your finger/if using other modes of navigation than the gyroscope. Any, drag your finger quickly left or right to dodge the funny birds and their snowballs. You'd be on a bobsled during the event. For those using the gyroscope, literally pull your device in the direction you'd like to dodge, things get faster as the gold and maybe, diamonds, are collected/kind of like the very first event but would only appear around this time of year'. Also, what about the Sonar Archade? That way, all events other than the "new" one I'm proposing will always be present to do when waiting for attacks and rades. Sonar arcade would be one of the options, right where the events are located on screen now, I'd think. Thank you for a great game, and what about making it more, like a survival-type game? If not, please have the Amazon Rain Forest or maybe, Statue Of Liberty, something like that. ### 2/5 — Ok game but with issues *2024-01-18* I’m getting on abit nearly fifty. The sound range I have isn’t as good as it once was. Maybe if you had a sensitivity setting or a calibration of sorts to improve the experience for all users. Love the concept but frustrating. **Developer response:** This game is designed to be played with the ears, so mainly for people with visual impairment. So please excuse that we cannot fulfill all needs, we would like to, but there are certain limits. ### 5/5 — Very enjoyable and lots of replayability. *2023-12-20, version 1.1.4* While I don't currently have a subscription I really love this game! It is very entertaining, very enjoyable, I quite enjoy it a lot. Also I think the subscription payment is very reasonable! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not good *2026-05-15* Too hard, especially when it drops you right in the middle of so many obstacles that just sneak up from behind you so you can’t get a move on even doesn’t matter how quick you tap Also every pro at that price **Developer response:** Well, if one of the islands is too hard, you can skip it, till you get better on other islands. Or maybe try the gyroscopic turn, so you face obstacles quicker. ### 1/5 — Reduce some gold to upgrade islands *2025-11-29, version 1.1.9* Hi guys, I’m ready to try the new island the best to come out but is there anyway in your update that you can actually fix it? I know we get gold by attacking Islands, but it’s kinda hard to raise the gold. You would actually need like it wants 10 million gold just to unlock it and not counting that 10 million or more gold just to upgrade the stuff. It’s already on other islands that you already have. is it possible that you can make upgrades a little cheaper because my capacity is up to 95 million gold but no matter how hard I try which I get it. You know they take so much gold for attacking islands. I get it cause that’s fun but what I’m saying is is there anyway you can reduce the upgrade cost down a little bit? I mean because if you don’t have to go, it’ll let you use diamonds but diamonds are definitely hard to get unless you’re paying real money and for the $2.99 dollar for the subscription that that’s actually great. I don’t mind paying that a month, but I ain’t able to pay that plus buy diamonds at the same time and I would need more than just a couple different diamonds. I’d have to pay five dollars just to get 1000 diamonds However, you can skip the gold if you don’t have enough and still unlock the action by using diamonds, but like I said diamonds are real rare it’s it’s definitely hard to get them unless you’re buying buying them with real money so is there anyway that you can possibly take down the cost of upgrading stuff on your previous silence and plus this new one I’m gonna try I got 5 million gold so far but I’m I’m trying to get up to 10 million gold so I can at least unlock it upgrade maybe one or two or three of the treasure chest just so I can play around in the island to see how it goes but it’s way too much Gold if you guys can reduce the gold prices for upgrades and unlocking the stuff I would really appreciate that like I said I just come back to this game. I haven’t been on it for a while, but I just started my subscription yesterday, especially when I found out about the new island so if that’s possible, let me know. Thank you. Keep up the good work guys. ### 1/5 — Jeu, sonar Island *2025-09-05* C’est un très bon jeu, sauf qu’il devrait être gratuit **Developer response:** Les bons jeux sont le fruit de nombreuses heures de travail de personnes qui souhaitent voir leurs efforts récompensés. Il existe suffisamment de jeux gratuits, peut-être pourriez-vous y jeter un œil ? ### 1/5 — Muy mala *2025-07-02, version 1.1.7* Después del tutorial. Después del campo de entrenamiento. Y después de la historia de las islas. Tienes que pagar para jugar. Qué estupidez. Y además te pide que uses audífonos. Debería ser totalmente gratis. Quiero que hagan una actualización para que lo hagan gratis. O sea el juego completamente gratis y además te va a haber una opción para atacar una isla, si no tienes dinero ni diamantes ### 1/5 — garbage *2025-05-19* garbage **Developer response:** thank you for your constructive comment ### 1/5 — My Sonar Islands review *2024-06-04, version 1.1.6* Hello I like Sonar Islands and all but the subscription servers doesn’t really let me play it it only let me use the tutorial the training account and the story is I don’t mean when I buy the six subscriptions I mean one of people can’t buy the subscription service one of it one of the mum doesn’t let them buy it but let them buy the app just there is some people in the world that doesn’t that can’t really have the subscription service and they like again I’m one of those people that like the game so much can you please make this game free all of the islands free it would be really nice to see all of the islands free on this game please can you reply I mean some of these were mistakes I don’t mean training account I’m in training camp and I don’t mean six subscriptions and I don’t mean server subscriptions I mean subscriptions ### 1/5 — Nice but you violated my privacy *2023-02-15, version 1.1.4* Immersive experience, check, knowing name before I even input it or give you any permissions, double check. ### 1/5 — This should be demo *2022-12-02, version 1.1.4* This game is not free and require a subscription to play. You can only play tutorial. This needs to be described in the app page. ### 1/5 — Spent way too much money on this game *2022-08-26, version 1.1.3* I had to keep buying diamonds to get anywhere. And you cant even get experience points from attacking other islands. ### 1/5 — Nowhere near good enough to justify the price *2022-05-25* An incredibly dull game with awful ai, you think for £25 a year they could pay a voice actor instead of using text to speech. Not paying £25/year for this trash ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Endlich mal ein packendes und spannendes Insel Abenteuerspiel für uns blinde und Ceh Behinderte Mens *2026-06-28* Barrierefreiheit wurde hier endlich einmal mitgedacht ### 5/5 — This game is great *2026-01-30, version 1.1.9* I read it a five star because it’s so great and I like the game do I recommend it to blind people are visually impaired people yes ### 5/5 — Sonar Islands, we love you!!! *2026-01-29* I absolutely love this game because it’s for people who are blind and visually Impaired, and it’s for blind people who cannot see it at all, including when they were blind whispers it helps with your hearing and helps you guide through all the steps that you need to take like when you hold down and turn left you hear this sounds perfectly in. It’s absolutely perfect. I’m glad you guys made this game so perfectly for blind people you should you should tell other blind people to buy this game. This is amazing. I’ve downloaded it and it is great. It is amazing. I love this game thank you App Store. Thank you blindfold games thank you for the support and the kindness. **Developer response:** Thank you for your loving words, we are Mentalhome Games and we have also FEER, another game, just in case. ### 5/5 — Love this *2025-12-26* I love this game so much **Developer response:** Thank you for your love ### 5/5 — Good *2025-06-11, version 1.1.7* Very good game especially for blind people ### 5/5 — Gutes Spiel *2025-06-10* Ist wirklich ein echt gutes Spiel kann nicht klagen ist wirklich echt gut für blinde geeignet und macht auch sehr viel Spaß und man kann es auch verwenden ohne Inseln anzugreifen, weil ich Schatzkisten ja auch noch mal Gold produzieren also kann man trotzdem immer noch Sachen freischalten und um aufs nächste Level zu kommen, müsst ihr alle Nur die ganzen Schatzkisten freischalten ### 5/5 — 課金＆イヤホン必須 *2025-05-20, version 1.1.7* イヤホンの左右の音量の違いなどを利用して宝箱を見つけ、出口から脱出するゲームです。イヤホンからの情報しかないので目をつぶってもできます。 　日本語対応。最初にチュートリアルがあり、その後月300円or年3000円課金すれば本プレイできます。チュートリアル段階で面白いと思ったら月300円を試してみてもいいかも。 　他人の島を襲撃みたいなのがあるが、対戦ではなくただ他人の島探索して宝箱開けて出口からでるだけです。ちなみに自分の島探索されたら金貨(宝箱の中身)失いますが、入手する方が多いので気にならないです ### 5/5 — Excellent jeu *2025-03-07* C’est un jeu qui est très bien, excellent bien pensé quand on est en situation de handicap visuel. De plus, comme c’est l’un des seuls qui existe dans l’App Store, chapeau. Si il fallait rajouter quelque chose, je pense à un espèce de guide qui récapitule clairement à quoi servent les lumières, et de manière générale, toutes les caractéristiques spéciales du jeu. ### 5/5 — super jeu *2025-01-04* bonsoir, je suis non-voyante et j’adore votre jeu. cependant je regrette qu’il faille attendre 30mn pour jouer quand on a fini les 5 parties. c’est dommage moi j’aimerai pouvoir jouer en illimité surtout que j’ai payé le jeu pour l’année. merci de bien vouloir autoriser le jeu illimité sans attendre 30mn entre chaque partie. est-ce qu’il serait possible que vous mettiez les parties illimitées quand on a payé le jeu pour l’année et rajouter des évènements plus souvent car j’aodre ça. je suis une fidèle de votre jeu. merci ! ### 5/5 — 面白すぎます‼️ *2024-06-13, version 1.1.6* イベもあったりして毎日はまっています🎵今までになかった面白さ😁 --- *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 2026-08-28.*