# Star Survivor:Premium — user reviews

> 111 indexed App Store user reviews of Star Survivor by Erabit Studios, rated 4.60/5 from 187 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/star-survivorpremium/id6464449923/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/star-survivorpremium/id6464449923.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 151 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 6

## What do users think of Star Survivor?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🎮 Fun and engaging gameplay mechanics
- 🎨 Gorgeous graphics and visual design
- ⚙️ Deep deck-building and upgrade systems
- 🎯 Excellent controls and intuitive gameplay
- 🔄 High replayability with roguelike elements
- 📱 No internet required, no ads
- 🎪 Unique space-themed Vampire Survivors style
- 💪 Well-balanced difficulty scaling
- 🎁 Great value for the price
- 🛠️ Responsive developer who fixes issues

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes during gameplay
- 🎮 Broken controller support (menus work, gameplay doesn't)
- 👁️ Poor visual contrast and visibility issues
- 🎯 Difficult to see enemies and obstacles
- 📊 Unclear weapon and upgrade explanations
- 🔊 Audio design issues (deafening or inaudible)
- ⚡ High battery consumption and device heating
- 🎪 Limited content after completion
- ⚙️ Unbalanced weapon builds (projectiles overpowered)
- 🐛 Bugs with upgrades not applying correctly
- 🎮 Buggy iPad Pro support with screen shifting
- 🎲 Cheap deaths from spawning hazards

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game crashes around 23 minutes in fast mode or 1 hour in regular mode
- Controller support broken in gameplay (only works in menus)
- iPad Pro screen shifts 1/2 inch lower, cutting off bottom
- Magic Keyboard triggers text entry in shop menus
- Upgrades don't apply unless app is restarted
- Sound levels inconsistent (deafening or inaudible)
- Meteorites spawn directly on player location causing instant death
- Screen visibility issues with dark backgrounds
- Enemy AOE attacks are too faint to see
- Missile and fire build effects obscure visibility
- Level-up menu distracting and causes deaths
- Xbox controller doesn't respond for movement
- View Items button easy to press accidentally during stage completion

**Most requested features**

- Full controller support with analog stick movement
- Additional ships beyond the first one
- Colorblind mode for better visibility
- Longer campaign or campaign length options
- Endless mode with proper deck building
- Weapon combo reference page
- Moveable and resizable joystick and buttons
- Improved visual contrast for enemies and asteroids
- More weapon options in level-up cards
- Manual weapon firing controls
- Faster experience pickup mechanics
- Larger virtual joystick size
- Graphics settings to reduce battery drain
- Better explanations of game mechanics and upgrades

## Newest reviews (19 of 111)

### 4/5 — Great game but needs cloud save

*2026-02-14*

The game is great, but it needs cloud save!

### 4/5 — Divertido

*2025-07-27*

Diminui meu rating pelos seguintes motivos:
- não tem como salvar o jogo na nuvem

### 5/5 — Great Bullet Heaven Game

*2025-03-03*

Another very nice bullet heaven game from Erabit. Needs some time to get the hang of it, but once mastered it‘s a lot of fun. I just miss a cloud save feature.

### 5/5 — Amazing!

*2024-12-13, version 1.0.65*

I mean….This developer only makes good games.

### 5/5 — Fun game

*2024-12-03, version 1.0.65*

This game is fun.

### 5/5 — Оружие и юниты

*2024-12-02*

Побольше оружия и количества разных юнитов.

### 5/5 — Great game

*2024-10-24*

It’s really fun and worth the price. Can’t wait for more updates or expansions or even whatever they do next. Once everything has been collected though there isn’t much to do so I hope for future content or something more to play and work towards in the game.

### 5/5 — A hugely fun Vampire Survivor style game

*2024-10-17*

Gorgeous graphics, fun upgrades and excellent controls all add up to make this one of my favorite current games. Worth every penny,

### 3/5 — Bugs on iPad Pro

*2024-10-11*

Edit: Still not fixed 2 years later…. Magic Keyboard opens up text entry on EVERY shop menu. 

Game is fun, and works initially with controller but needs to re-check for controller support if you tap the screen once. During the shop menu I could not select the REROLL option with the controller, so I tapped it with my finger. Then I no longer could use the controller. After I started the stage with my finger tap, the controller would no longer work, and the entire screen shifted 1/2 inch lower on the screen, and cut off the bottom. I can send a screenshot if you send me an email request.

**Developer response:** We are sorry to see you are having problems!Please provide the device model System version number and game version number so that we can better solve this problem,any screenshot or video catching up the problems would be very helpful.Our email address is support@erabitstudios.com

### 4/5 — Why aren't more people talking about this game?!

*2024-10-10*

Honestly, this is the best sci-fi space "survivors" style game on iOS. Kinda reminds me of and arcadey version of rings of Saturn on pc but with a core mechanic of vampire survivors. Could use a little more physics maybe to add additional challenge and game feel. It'd be nice to feel the weight of the different ships. I've only got the first so far so maybe the ships are different? Either way, this is a fun one

### 5/5 — Good times!!!

*2024-10-06*

I actually own the PC version of this game as well. The Mobil version is alittle different. But does not disappoint. Super fun to play, extremely hard to master. And so many ways to build different ships of distraction! Good times all around.

### 5/5 — Fun survival game to pass the time.

*2024-09-26, version 1.0.65*

Fun survival game to pass the time.

### 4/5 — ゲーム後半は処理落ちとの戦い

*2024-08-24*

宇宙船と隕石の座標が重なって、ステージ開始直後に即死するのは理不尽。

武器を強化していくのが楽しいけれど、武器の発射速度を上げ過ぎると処理落ちが酷くなる。派手なエフェクトの武器を使いたくても使えない。

### 5/5 — Gives me an Expanse fix

*2024-08-06, version 1.0.65*

Super fun!

### 4/5 — 惜しい

*2024-08-05*

イベント的なものやストーリーがあったらなお良かった。

### 5/5 — よい

*2024-07-27*

まだ始めたばかりだけど、いい感じ

### 3/5 — Good but crashes and ruined your fun.

*2024-07-23*

If it this game didn’t crash all the time it would be a very good game. I’ll get to around 23 minutes(fast mode) or an hour regular the game crashes. I want to like this game. But it feels like ever time I start doing well the game says, “screw you” and crashes…..
Don’t think this game was optimized for mobile.

**Developer response:** I'm sorry to hear the prorblem in the game.You can add our discord, contact erabit staff, and submit detailed question information

### 5/5 — Tolles Spiel das sein Geld wert ist!

*2024-07-02*

Endlich mal wieder ein Spiel wo man einen nicht nur versucht das Geld aus den Taschen zu ziehen.
Einfallsreiches Spieleprinzip mit wiederspielwert. Die Grafik ist zwar nicht Weltklasse aber gut mit anständigen Effekten. Nicht zu Bunt aber auch alles andere als simpel.
Das Spiel hat eigentlich keine Geschichte oder so, aber die Herausforderung in immer schwereren Stufen zu bestehen reicht völlig aus.
Auch die Auswahl an Schiffen ist sehr gut welche alle in beliebiger Reihenfolge frei gespielt werden können.(Ja kein echtes Geld!)
Ein rundum gutes Angebot für den Preis!

### 5/5 — Yep

*2024-05-23, version 1.0.63*

Yep

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — 好久没有更新了，新的飞船在哪里

*2025-09-23, version 1.0.65*

好久没有更新了，新的飞船在哪里

### 1/5 — I want to like this game, but …

*2023-12-17, version 1.0.35*

It’s not working correctly, upgrades do not get applied correctly. Yet another annoying halfway working app in the Apple Store. Apple you should be ashamed. Not good.

### 1/5 — Great game!

*2023-12-16*

I love this game, the gameplay loop of campaign mode is really fun.

BUT I cannot stand games that beg for reviews all the time! Please add an option to never show review again. Then you won’t get an „unfair“ 1 star review from me…

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, we will improve the game in the future! Sorry for the inconvience brought to you!

### 1/5 — 미완성 게임

*2023-12-16*

1. 쉴드가 몇개든 한번에 다까짐
2. 컨텐트 부족
3. 노잼

**Developer response:** We'are sorry to hear that you met the issue in the game, can you join our discord https://discord.gg/P6vekfhc46 and provide a screenshot or video showing it?

### 1/5 — Honest Review

*2023-12-12, version 1.0.34*

I just love that rock will just spawn on you non stop and Instantly kill you. Game is already bugged.

### 2/5 — Awful port

*2024-04-13*

Very buggy, awful sound design on iPhone. Steam version may be great, and has awesome potential, but too many issues. Upgraded don’t apply unless you restart the app, sound is deafening or inaudible at times, tagging, overcharge, and other mechanics have no explanations. 

Really supbar, especially considering it’s recommended through polished games like Brotato.

**Developer response:** I'm sorry to hear the prorblem in the game.You can add our discord, contact erabit staff, and submit detailed question information

### 2/5 — Controller support?

*2024-02-17, version 1.0.51*

Controller works in the menus but doesn’t in the game?

### 2/5 — Great game, no controller support

*2023-12-30, version 1.0.41*

I like this game and have been drawn to this genre from games like Slay the Spire and Vampire Survivors. But they’re always better with a controller.

### 2/5 — Good game, needs work

*2023-12-25*

The games is a fun horde survival game. The main issue is build balance. Projectiles are very easy build and just about any other build is extremely difficult to play. Beams are okay, but missiles and ion weapons are basically just trash. Also their rate not enough weapon options in level up cards. The only way to max out weapon slots is to take every random weapon they give you which messes up your build quite a bit. There is also no reason for the additional equipment slots, even grabbing every single weapon you’ll rarely max out your slots, let alone need extra slots.

**Developer response:** Thanks for playing. We've got your feedback and will forward it to our development team. You could also find us in Facebook/Discord, we are more than happy to solve your problems and provide a better game experience. Thanks again and have a nice day :D

### 2/5 — Okay Game; Lot of Room for Improvement

*2023-12-17*

Fun game, but there’s a couple things that are making me from really like this game.

- Explanation of upgrades is terrible. There’s no way to tell what weapons do what until you have them equipped. Also, the weapons fire on their own. It would be good to add some sort explanation of the weapons and how they operate. I would also like to have weapons that I can fire on control. 

- Pickup of exp is extremely slow. You have a radius of pickup, but your ship doesn’t pick up everything at once. There’s a weird pickup delay buffer as if it’s picking up what dropped first, in order. I think it would make a better gameplay experience if exp was picked up at once. 

- The virtual touch joystick is very small in my opinion. Small enough where my ship would easily go in circles due to the diameter of the VTJ not being big enough. It’s happens frequently where there’s a lot of activity on screen and you’re trying to dodge.

I think the above are easily correctable but in its current state, it’s not really fun in my opinion.

**Developer response:** We'are sorry to hear that you met the issue in the game, can you join our discord https://discord.gg/P6vekfhc46 and provide a screenshot or video showing it?

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — It’s pretty rad

*2026-08-15*

I love old school arcade games and Asteroids is in my top 10. I also really like this new horde survival type sub genre, so this game is pretty much in the sweet spot. Not far into the missions yet, but excited to get deeper into it. Starts slowly, but I’ve already seen glimpses of a faster chaotic progression. Worth the purchase for sure.

### 5/5 — Exactly what I've been missing

*2026-06-29, version 1.0.65*

Love this game

### 5/5 — I adore this game, but I’m also a tactician

*2026-04-06, version 1.0.65*

Improve improve improve this is a great game. I wanna see advancement.

### 5/5 — Bullet heaven meets slay the spire

*2026-03-07, version 1.0.65*

Take the map progression and deck upgrades of slay the spire, then throw a bullet heaven shooter in there. Maneuvering your ships is tricky (in a good way), and choosing slots for the powerups is a fun mechanic.

### 5/5 — 더 많은 무기장비

*2026-02-28*

트레픽 안정화

### 5/5 — Fun. Worth the ticket price

*2026-02-08, version 1.0.65*

A fun little survivors-like, worth the price of entry :)

### 5/5 — So far good

*2025-08-14*

Only been playing for an hour or two but super fun to upgrade and watch the weapons shred through the enemies.

### 5/5 — Keep pushing

*2025-07-17, version 1.0.65*

Awesome

### 5/5 — Farming

*2025-06-23*

one time payment, but it’s worth it.
Makes fun to play nearby and collecting upgrades.

### 5/5 — Still great

*2025-06-12*

I bought this when it came out and just came back to it today.  Still plays great!

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