# Startup Panic — user reviews > 75 indexed App Store user reviews of Startup Panic by tinyBuild LLC, rated 3.10/5 from 31 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/startup-panic/id1517410833/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/startup-panic/id1517410833.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of Startup Panic? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Addictive gameplay loop - 💡 Realistic business simulation - 👍 Good value for price - 💡 Satisfying progression - 👍 Well-designed concept - 👍 Fun while it lasts - 👍 Good for micromanagement fans - 👍 Interesting and challenging - 👍 Good art style and music - 👍 Multiple endings **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent bugs and crashes - ⚖️ Unbalanced difficulty - 📉 Steep learning curve - ⏳ Short game duration - 🔄 Repetitive gameplay - 💸 Expensive for content - ❓ Lack of clarity - 😩 Frustrating mechanics - 🐌 Slow progression - 🪲 Game-breaking glitches **Commonly reported bugs** - Game keeps crashing - Saved games become corrupt - Blank screen after long play sessions - Game kicks user off frequently - Hacking events cause bankruptcy - Pop star mission is game-breaking - Feature scores change randomly - Game freezes at Leap Year winner announcement - Game locked itself after two simultaneous events - Update deleted game progress - Sound issues (fixed in update) - New game menu moved to the right, causing accidental new game starts - Translation errors and English text - Text boxes not scrollable - Employees constantly tired/exhausted - Loss of progress after updates **Most requested features** - Add difficulty settings - Option to skip tutorial on second playthrough - Mass group training option - Motivation boosters other than vacations - Ability to hire top-tier employees - More streamlined advertisement system - Remove 'scalable' skill points - Make kidnapping events more realistic - Overhaul vacation system - More interaction with employees and environment - Add cloud saves - Add manual save option - Improve French translation - More varied missions - More choices and less repetition - Improve UI and button sizes - More explanations for mechanics - Add more content and variety - Different game modes for different business types ## Newest reviews (15 of 75) ### 4/5 — Game crash *2021-12-09, version 3.14* Game keep crashing after I upgrade house ### 4/5 — Daraka *2021-08-31, version 3.14* ง่ายไป ลูกเล่นไม่เยอะ แต่ภาพสวย ถือว่าดีค่ะ ราคาขนาดนี้ ### 4/5 — Bueno *2021-07-07, version 3.14* Bueno nada mas cuando lo terminas ya te aburres ### 4/5 — Great but has plenty of aggravation *2021-02-09, version 3.11* I have played this on PC for a month and was happy to buy it here at 1/3 the price(screwing PC players I guess). The UI is a bit more problematic on mobile but it's also faster to start playing anymore convenient for most people. The game itself is very well designed and horribly balanced. I truly believe that they failed to apply proper weight to external testers opinions and instead balanced the game based on internal feedback from people who know how the game is structured internally. The result is very awkward game flow that punishes any deviation from the perfect path. This is FAIRLY realistic and deserves praise, but this is a game and should be fun first and foremost. Especially on mobile. There should be two immediate changes to this version(or all!): 1) add difficulty settings. 2) add option to skip tutorial on second playthrough The game is definitely worth $6 if you have any interest in social media startups or business simulations. Think of it as a much more difficult version of Game Dev Story. ### 4/5 — Blank screen *2021-01-18, version 3.5* Idk if it’s just me but whenever I play for a long period of time my screen just goes blank. I still can can go to all the screens except the office page, plz for the love of god, fix that. I hope this doesn’t just happen to me. But all in all great game ### 2/5 — Has the potential... Needs re-work. *2021-01-14, version 3.5* This game has the potential to be great! But somehow it is unrealistic. If you pay attention to the timeline, you send your workers to vacation every month. Some workers demand for higher pay than those who have more traits than they do. And you will always fail during the hosting the celebrity on your server (despite having all of my features 9 or 10). Needs a lot of re-work but possibly addicting if fixed. ### 2/5 — Can’t play *2021-01-12, version 3.5* I really like the game but I can’t play it at all because after a while it just kicks me off the game in less than a minute. I really hope that you can. fix this because I want to enjoy this ### 2/5 — Sarebbe perfetto se solo.. *2021-01-10* Sarebbe un gioco perfetto se solo fosse più equilibrato e meno ripetitivo in alcuni punti. Il gioco sembra che non ti premi mai per i tuoi sacrifici, fai tanta fatica per guadagnare soldi, risolvere i bug di sviluppo, rendere felice i dipendenti e boom: o ti hackerano all’improvviso o succede comunque qualcosa che ti fa tornare indietro. Così è noioso perché anche impegnarsi non ha più senso. Inoltre i dipendenti sono sempre insoddisfatti ed è un’impresa tenerli allegri se non facendogli perdere tempo in ufficio. A mio avviso quindi: - il gioco dovrebbe evitare di punirti a caso e darti la possibilità di raggirare le catastrofi - più possibilità di interazione con i dipendenti senza puntare il tutto sul mandarli in vacanza - l’ambiente di lavoro può diventare molto grande e gli oggetti con cui interagire sono tanti, quindi proporrei la possibilità di smuovere le acque potendo interagire di più sia con i dipendenti che con l’ambiente di lavoro fisico. Spero che il gioco venga aggiornato, sarebbe un peccato aver speso 7 euro e non poterci giocare più! ### 2/5 — Pops tar is game breaking *2021-01-03, version 3.5* Can’t even get past the pop star even with all features at almost 10 ### 4/5 — Great game but annoying bug *2021-01-01, version 3.5* Brilliant game easily worthy of spending a lot of time on, but one bug where the scores of your features, change depending on when you open the feature screen so you aren’t able to know whether a feature is doing very well or not as you could click on it and it say you’re on 10 for a certain feature and then click on it shortly after and it saying something like 4.5 which would mean you’re to lose money so you never know. Other than this one bug which basically makes the game unplayable very good game and I look forward to playing once fixed. ### 4/5 — Good *2020-12-28, version 3.5* It’s different from others , easy to play once figure it out takes 1-2 hours get use to it. Little tricky, basically just need have all over all perfect level new one . Do big contracts when show up and beat the game, Pretty simple. Took me 2 days to beat the game . After beat it very repetitive, stuff isn’t mixed up or different paths to take. Could did different approach would made it better long run - gaming , media , net work , business , etc in different class for players . Always kind of different mix up skills can research in always the same. It’s kind of basic for a game , like the concept and idea just would of added more content and switched it up a bit to make it better. Over all good effort and fun playing while off. ### 3/5 — Cher pour le challenge offert *2020-12-27, version 3.5* Jeu intéressant, manque un peu d’ergonomie et d’explications Par rapport au prix la durée de vie est très limite et le challenge n’est pas au rendez vous C’est dommage ! ### 2/5 — It’s ok *2020-12-26, version 3.5* Has potential but then sets these expectations with unreasonable consequences in a short time period which essentially makes the game unplayable. Unknowingly knocks you down before you can even get on your feet. On pc it may be easier, with quick clicks and shortcuts but this translates terribly on mobile. The consequences for not meeting these extremely high expectations are losing hours of your time that you can never get back. Fun idea, but it really is a waste of time at this point in development. Not memorable or significant in any way, really wish the odds of negative rng events were lowered. ### 3/5 — Fun but stuck *2020-12-25, version 3.5* I’m at a point where as the announce the leap winner, the game freezes and I can’t go on. ### 2/5 — Craschado *2020-12-24, version 3.5* Jogo está craschado toda hora ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Unreasonably difficult *2023-04-17, version 3.14* The difficulty makes this game impossible to tolerate every time you think you get ahead or stand a chance it throws you a task that’s impossible to beat like the one with that pop star chick or it just makes the competitors constantly steal your users for no reason in a random event. ### 1/5 — Great game but full of bugs *2021-11-07, version 3.14* Game keeps crashing. Have to keep creating a new game to resolve issues. Saved game becomes corrupt and stops me carrying past a certain point. ### 1/5 — game so suck *2021-08-15, version 3.14* need to refund! ### 1/5 — Game is good....with a hitch *2021-01-26, version 3.5* I feel after playing through 4 times getting to the same point that this game has an incredible potential like Kairosoft games. But it seems this hacking happens so often for me in every play through it bankrupts me soon as I build momentum making it impossible to improve further. I thought after the 1st or 2nd play through this was normal but after my now 4th play through hitting the same issues I am feeling the balance is off. I desperately want to give it a go but it’s hard after spending hours building up a solid company....hack.....hack.....hack....hack them im -$9000 with all my staff on 0 motivation ### 1/5 — 깔지마세요 *2020-12-15, version 3.5* 7500원 아까움. 게임 안에서 피드백 자세히 안해주고 방법도 자세히 안나와있고 그래서 무슨 유명한가수 앨범내는 거기에서 계속 막힘 그리고 거기서 막히면 다시돌아가거나 아예 첨부터해야함 진짜 시간낭비 갑 게임 ### 1/5 — Don’t work on IPad mini 2 *2020-12-12, version 3.5* Game don’t work on IPad mini 2, shut down, because of purchasing first office while playing. Before purchasing this game I saw in the App Store that my device is supported. Please solve this problem or take my money back. :( ### 1/5 — Schlechte Balance *2020-12-05, version 3.5* Nach jedem Projekt die Mitarbeiter in den Urlaub schicken ist frustrierend, da die Konkurrenz trotz schlechtere Plattform immer einen utopischen Marktanteil beim launch erhält, fällt das Einkommen ins bodenlose. Das ist keine Herausforderung, eher Frustration. ### 1/5 — Startup panic *2020-12-04, version 1.0* Game is literally impossible to play you cannot get any market share so you never make any money and competing extra work does more harm than good not too mention the fact your employees run out of motivation in about a day and you can’t afford to keep them happy. ### 1/5 — Balancing is way off *2020-12-04, version 1.0* Bad balancing makes the experience pretty horrible ### 2/5 — Cluttered Gameplay *2021-01-17, version 3.5* TLDR: there are too many things that detract from gameplay to make it enjoyable. Anytime you get ahead the game chops your legs off and you need to start from the ground again. First things first. The vacation system needs to be overhauled from the ground up. There is next to no time to play the actual game because your employees are too busy taking half the year off to be kidnapped on Mount Everest. Yes you read that right. On top of the fact you pay for all your employees vacations. Like what company on earth gives employees that much time off. There needs to be a better system. The other really frustrating thing is market share; like you didn’t know you were the underdog? That’s implied, so I shouldn’t have all my monthly profits taken away when out of no where I meet a new competitor. The last big thing is the recommended skill level. I can have employees 10 points over the recommendation and still not manage to get 10 out of 10. A few other features that would make the game more playable: •Mass group training(like vacations) •Motivation boosters other than vacations •Ability to hire top tier employees, even if they cost more •Make the advertisement system more streamlined, rather than having to research every place on earth. •the “scalable” skill points need to be removed. Have them a set amount not increasing as the player increases. •if you are keeping the kidnapping which you really shouldn’t, then make it realistic. There are too many logical fallacies within that particular system Overall it’s too much to manage and you never feel like there is a point where you feel successful. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — レビューからは想像もつかない十分に面白いクオリティ *2026-07-27, version 3.14* バグは多い。だけどiPadでできる中でstart up companyに近しいことができるのはとてもいい。 ゲーム性も十分で、2回ぐらい徹夜したし、やり込み要素(エンディング集め)も満足がいくボリューム。 もっと注目を集めてもいいと思った。 ### 5/5 — Investors *2026-01-26, version 3.14* Love the game, could be bit kore balanced because there is little to no rest and the investors could be less greedy for what they give. ### 5/5 — Ótimo Jogo *2021-07-28, version 3.14* Gostei muito e recomendo, não tive nenhum problema! ### 5/5 — Alerta *2021-04-02, version 3.11* O jogo só roda a partir de iPhone 7 e iPad mini 2 ou iPad Air pense nisso antes de comprar mas o jogo é muito bom ### 5/5 — Au top Mais ! *2021-02-08, version 3.11* Un jeux tout d’abord assez court. Mais il est totalement fonctionnelle. Prendre les bonnes décisions au bon moments était assez difficile au début mais avec le temps ont y arrive super bien. ### 5/5 — Early doors amazing startup *2021-01-07, version 3.5* This game is so addictive, some functions that could be improved on in the future and added to but the game is so much fun. Had no issues on the iPhone 11 with crashes etc would highly recommend to anyone that enjoys micromanagement games ### 5/5 — Easy *2021-01-06, version 3.5* It is quite challenging when new rival comes to the market but after beating them, their company’s development is too slow which makes the game become too easy. ### 5/5 — Almost impossible but fun *2021-01-03, version 3.5* Literally all scenarios are designed to negatively impact you greatly if things go wrong. If things go the right way, the effects are small. When a new competitor comes in, you lose almost all users, making it difficult to compete. Motivation decreases like crazy. I have to send employees on very expensive vacation every 3 minutes or so. ### 5/5 — Bon jeu *2020-12-26, version 3.5* Très court mais le jeu est vraiment bien ### 5/5 — Un jeu avec du potentiel *2020-12-25, version 3.5* Le jeu est très agréable. Il est facile à prendre en main et assez intuitif pour des joueurs amateurs de gestions. C’est un jeu addictif avec lequel on passe de bonne heure. Il reste néanmoins quelque point à améliorer comme par exemple des missions plus variés, une traduction française améliorer et d’autre. --- *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 2026-08-27.*