# Stella Arcana- Eternal Stars — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Stella Arcana by HaoPlay USA, Inc., rated 4.77/5 from 13,623 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stella-arcana-eternal-stars/id1538377666/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stella-arcana-eternal-stars/id1538377666.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 11,682 · 4★ 1,284 · 3★ 367 · 2★ 95 · 1★ 195 ## What do users think of Stella Arcana? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth gameplay - 👍 Cute and engaging characters - 🌟 Enjoyable story and quests - 💎 Visually appealing graphics **Cons** - 🔒 Excessive pay-to-win elements - 🔒 Restrictive progression for free-to-play players - 🐛 Frequent server connection issues - ⏱️ Limiting gameplay time through energy/stamina systems **Commonly reported bugs** - Quests not progressing due to animation glitches - Inability to exit certain NPC interactions - Game crashes and freezes during loading screens **Most requested features** - Allow server transfers without restarting progress - Increase drop rates for crafting materials - Improve auto-targeting and AI behavior for mercenaries - Add more character customization options ## Newest reviews (14 of 50) ### 3/5 — Please fix connection issue *2021-11-19, version 0.13.429* I agree with one of the reviewers that it was a fun game while it was working but recently after trying to open the game multiple times it still said something is wrong with your connection please check your setting. The thing is other games and browsers works fine so it really shouldn’t be connection issues unless it’s too many people on the game network and couldn’t start the game for that reason. Either way I hope you guys can fix this issue because at this rate I’m going to delete this game forever and never come back. ### 4/5 — Cute game! *2021-08-30, version 0.13.320* I enjoy this game a lot! Although I really dislike auto features on games it is convenient to use when I’m playing when I’m working from home or doing chores, etc. I dislike auto features which is mainly why I didn’t give this game 5 stars. I think the quests and stories are really adorable! I’m not sure why it still is showing “Happy New Year” messages which makes me wonder if I missed something in the story or if the game just hasn’t been updated to change that or not… but otherwise I love the characters, the amount of quests and things to do is endless and will constantly keep you playing! ❤️ ### 3/5 — Stella Arcana Review *2021-07-04, version 0.13.318* This game has a lot of good potential, but I can’t give it a 5 star review. It seems that all servers are constantly full minus one American server and one European server. I started my first character on the American server and the game was quite buggy. The animation broke skipping me passed the first boss, but didn’t let me continue into the cannon to progress; and now if I try to load back in, it doesn’t load passed 92% and freezes with the sound in the background of the boss fight taking place. On my European server character, everything was going nice and very smoothly. Nice interface menus/HUDs, and good graphics. Now today, as I try to log back in, it gets to 62% and crashes the game repeatedly. If I could either delete my American server character, or access any other servers in the meantime to make another character to keep trying out the different classes, I would give a better star review; but currently the game is unplayable (for me at least), so I have to give a 3 star review. ### 3/5 — Nice, yet that one thing… *2021-07-03, version 0.13.318* The game is very enjoyable and the content keeps you moving forward with all the quests and story. But just one thing which I REALLY HOPE THE DEVELOPERS SEE, is the way there are chapters for the story, to continue onto the next, then there’s a list of tasks which must be completed and some of them are designated at specific times. If these aren’t completed then you can’t move on with the story. This happens to be very hard for people who are unable to login at specific times of the game due to various reasons. For example, it isn’t possible for me to join the ‘guild feast’ because it’s at a set time… that means I can’t progress from the third chapter… Please do something about this! ### 3/5 — Almost A Great Game *2021-05-07, version 0.13.210* There is a lot to love about this game... WHEN you can actually play it. Characters are locked to their servers, and if it is full you are simply out of luck. Pretty terrible for a game that constantly is asking you to spend more $ but then won’t allow you to play. The server overflow update is interesting but only applies to a handful of newer servers. What a shame!! ### 3/5 — Good for the first few weeks of playing *2021-04-24, version 0.13.208* This game is amazing... at the beginning. You will spend about 2-3 weeks playing, leveling up, joining a guild and making friends, all of that. After that time period, it becomes a hellish grind for f2p players. I have spent a fair amount on this game myself and went f2p after realizing how money hungry this company is, it punishes you for doing so. F2p players beware, you will be constantly harassed by pop ups and announcements of other players getting things from the gacha and it will get annoying... all while trying to grind away for months on end to reach a spot that p2w players can reach in a few days to a week. ### 4/5 — Good game, bad questionnaires *2021-02-19, version 0.13.100* As the title states. I been playing this game for quite some time now and I love it. But my problem is the stupid questionnaires. You give the right answer but they mark it as wrong. I just got one that said “uzumaki is the surname of the protagonist in what anime series” and I just wanna know how naruto is wrong. These people need to get fired for putting questions in the game if they themselves do not know the answers ### 4/5 — Best, but still a LOT of clutter *2021-02-03, version 0.13.96* This is probably the best of these free ios MMOs I’ve played. It’s got cute, cartoony graphics and a storyline that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The quests are varied. Unlike some of the others, you’re not just running around fighting everything and picking things up. There are stealth quests, maps that have to be rubbed to find hidden details, cannons that shoot you around, etc. But, at the end of the day it’s still got a huge mess of different menus to obtain and claim rewards of various types of currencies. It starts off small and lures you in. Within a few hours of play you’ll log in and go hunting through the various tagged menus to find this or that claim for a daily or quest or achievement or whatever. It’s disappointing, because I absolutely hate these types of mechanics, but the base game is legitimately decent (something I’m not sure I’d say for the other games I’ve tried in this genre). I know why they do it, but all of the claims just leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. ### 2/5 — Forced out *2021-01-28, version 0.13.96* I have been playing since day 1 since the last update I have been unable to get back in. It just says check network settings. I have change my network multiple times but it keeps saying the same thing. I reinstalled and nothing helped so I may end up just uninstalling. It was a decent and fun game but currently is unplayable so if it ever gets fixed I may come back but seems like I’m locked out for now. ### 4/5 — Connection Error all of a sudden...? *2021-01-28, version 0.13.96* I really like this game! I’ve spent days playing it since rive downloaded it and have put a lot of time and effort into it. It’s easy to level up, gain items/materials, and I haven’t had any of the issues that people have complained about that were money related, at all. I’ve kept everything that I’ve earned, I haven’t had to pay for anything, my sprites also haven’t died permanently, absolutely no issues as described by others. But now, today, I’ve tried to launch the game numerous times only for it to tell me “Connection Error. Check your settings.”, I have no connection errors, my wife is fine, all my other games and apps load perfectly fine, including on my Xbox and Nintendo switch. So I’m not really understanding why it’s telling me that I have a connection error. It seems more an error on the games end. I’d really like to play, since I’ve reached a pretty high level in just a couple days and have spent a lot of time on it, so I hope this problem sorts itself out or the company looks into it and fixes it for myself and everyone else that is having this issue. ### 3/5 — Great game... *2021-01-28, version 0.13.96* I’ve been playing since server 5 but now I’m having problems. Game says I don’t have WiFi and won’t load. I have WiFi and there is no problem with my WiFi. Also, I have 2 other issues with the game. Having to wait 3 days and longer to get further in the game because the story stops for that long and the fact that materials to forge gear, temper gear, and etc are difficult to get because they don’t always drop and when they do it is far off from how much of the material you actually need. Purchasing material is hard too and the fact that you can’t auction/sell the unbound gear is not cool either. You should at least be able to give as a gift or put in a guild vault or something for other members (especially the perfect gear). Anyways, I’m hoping the whole issue gets fixed where the game stops telling me that I’m not connected to the internet because if it doesn’t I’m gonna fall behind on yet another server. Tired of spending money for the servers to go red and can’t get my friends there or loading problems. ### 4/5 — Server Full!!!! *2021-01-24, version 0.13.96* I have been enjoying this game from day one. I have poured a lot of money into this game for the past couple of days. But how am I supposed to play if my character is linked to one server and that servers been full for couple hours now. How am I supposed to play on my free time when the servers are full of players and it's not like I can join a different server because then I'll have to restart and make a new character. So you're telling me after buying those packs that I have to wait to grind my daily XP, IF THERE IS ROOM!!! Waiting isn't the issue for me that's making me do this review. It's the fact that I have to make a new character to join a different server IN THE SAME COUNTRY. But I'm sure a new update will come along to where there are multiple servers for different countries where I DON'T have to make a new character. ### 2/5 — Faulty *2021-01-15, version 0.13.96* Game seems to be a lure to get people to pay one way or another, though it’s enjoyable those that pay dominate those that do not. You get notifications to upgrade runes equipped with ones you have placed in another tree, you earn titles and they may not appear but the system will say you earned one.. I’ve played up until level 50, you cannot fish to a point where you get a fishing rod. Eventually you have to pay to get more bait, you have to pay for another fishing rod or you catch the lame fish 20k times. Check your purchase because you may not get 100% of what you ordered, I’m putting this game down myself but if you like pay to win and feeling important when you look down on others using “strength by money” then go ahead. 3/5 , baldly timed rip off of a game with same characters and skills. A story you’re forced to repeat with bland shallow NPC and quests fed to you repetitively. ### 3/5 — Review *2021-01-14, version 0.13.96* I love the games I spend a lot of my free time playing the game, the only problem I have so far is materials, when ever I’m crafting or synthesizing there’s always that one material that I can’t get because it’s a material I have to get from a dungeon of some sort, and when I can’t get it there I’ll try to buy it but most of the time I can’t because it’s sold out. And before you say I should just farm the dungeons well I can only do that so many times a day and the drop rate on its low. Now I know the devs for the game are busy making the game fun and entertaining, but I shouldn't have to spend days on end that turn to weeks to get a certain number of materials that just makes it a repetitive. Honesty the devs need to make all materials gather-able like with the life skills, if I have to farm a dungeon for something I should at least be able to get a least on of the materials I need and be able to do dungeons as many times a day, maybe not be able to get armors and weapon after a certain number of attempts but at least materials for crafting and all that. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t Play *2021-05-21, version 0.13.210* This game is fun if you have thousands of dollars you’re willing to throw at it. Mythic items are locked behind a huge paywall and players that do spend are massively overpowered. Most things you do spend money on are luck based and if your luck is as bad as mine you still get nothing even if you do buy stuff. Dungeons get some hard that you either need to spend a ton of money or hopefully team up with someone that does. This game is impossible to play for free. ### 1/5 — Greedy game *2021-03-09, version 0.13.202* I love the game itself but I hate how ppl make money from it. I started to play the game a little later than other so I create a clone to help me build my equipment. Then I realize how the game prevent ppl from doing the trade in the game so that there is only one way to have equipment is to buy from the game. The system will automatically bought your popular items if u try to sell them lower than the avg price they set. If you want to transfer money from your alt to your main acc by buying expensive items, they will give u a warm to purnish your trade, or let your clone buy but not sell ur item(I am sure that there only 1 item was sold at that time) ### 1/5 — If you enjoy having your game progress lost this is for you... *2021-02-08, version 0.13.100* I actually loved this game, it reminded me of another game I used to be obsessed with...I loved this game up until I had to recreate my character from scratch 3 TIMES. Once the server with your character is full, good luck trying to get on. At first I chalked it up to it being a newer game, so I just continuously tried to login at various times to try to play but it doesn’t matter what time of the day, you can’t get back in. I’m actually really annoyed because I spent hours farming exp and leveling up my character literally 3 times for it to continuously do the same thing. seriously the developers need to fix this issue or they’re going to lose a lot of players. ### 1/5 — Pay to Win *2021-01-20, version 0.13.96* TLDR: Game is 100% pay to win & trash. Quests are typical of an auto adventure game. Repeat daily tasks for materials to upgrade your gear slowly OR Pay for the fishing pack, adventure pack, monthly pack, and all of the other daily/weekly/monthly packages and you won’t even care about daily tasks. Devs intentionally set level limits every few days; so the only people who standout are the people who paid for the gear. Very tough to find an actual team, people use the computer bots. Had two glitch complaints over the two weeks of playing. “Customer service” required screenshots of all the errors to include my apple ID and transaction information. After submitting all the specific information, they said “we have submitted your claim and it will take awhile to process”. I uninstalled the game today with no solution after a week of waiting. Don’t waste your time unless you plan on 1. wasting time or 2. spending real money and still being mediocre. ### 1/5 — I really liked the game too.. *2021-01-12, version 0.13.96* First I’ll start off with how amazing the game is. Everything is really well thought out when it comes to the combat, skilling and even the guild stuff! But the biggest problem,that’s ruined the experience for me, is the servers! I started the first morning it was released, didn’t even get out of bed yet, and I was already on it, and I’ve been playing almost every day since then. Except most of today, I havnt been able to get onto my character because the server is full! Now normaly that’s not so bad, except you have to start from scratch if you want to use any of the other servers. I don’t have the time or money to invest in multiple characters spread all over the servers. I want to invest into my main character, and focus all my money on supporting that ones leveling. I want to compete on the score boards. But how the heck can you do that if you can’t access your character that you’ve lovingly nurtured because the servers are clogged. Review stays a 1 untill Im able to use my character when my guild actually needs me to be on. ### 1/5 — Derivative and false advertising *2021-01-07, version 0.13.96* Despite ads that promise lots of neat things (like catching new pets and leveling them to cool mounts), it ends up being just like every other Gacha mmo out there. The graphics are weak and the story makes zero sense at all. I can’t tell if it is just bad translating or just crappy writing. The amount of pay walls are insane too. There are literally 100s of ways to pay money to make yourself stronger, very few of which can be accomplished without paying. Have to say, the ads made the game look great, but it ended up being a huge letdown. ### 1/5 — Not At All What Is Promised *2021-01-07, version 0.13.96* I preordered this game a few weeks ago after seeing advertisements and thinking it looked absolutely gorgeous and fun to play, but this game looks nothing like the ads you see above. The controls are clunky, animation is choppy, and VFX in general are underwhelming and parallel the Cyberpunk memes. Interface is confusing, and nothing is ever explained, functionality or story-wise. Couldn’t even get through 10 minutes of this game, not to mention having to spend 10 minutes creating a basic character because I couldn’t press the button to proceed. The combat is nowhere near as fluid and aesthetically pleasing as the ads suggest. Don’t waste your time with this cash grab. ### 1/5 — Same old game *2021-01-06, version 0.13.96* This game is absolutely perfect if you like to push auto run, wait until you hit your objective, auto fight some creatures, then tap recommended, or auto select for any soul gems or skill points you obtained. This is not a game to battle it out with collected pets (like Pokémon) like I was hoping either, instead it’s your average mmo, the pets you obtain are your normal pets in these types of games. They hit on their own and the only say you have in what they do is tapping their ability (done automatically in auto run/auto battle) while you tap your abilities. Your classes are standard and stereotypical of these games. Swordsman, mage, healer, archer, rogue. Overall, aside from admittedly decent graphics, it’s the same game as any other in this category. So if you enjoy pushing a button every 30 seconds - 1 minute, and destroying monsters without doing anything, auto upgrading classes that don’t matter, and overall playing an idle game, this game is perfect for you. ### 2/5 — Put a server cap not an EXP cap *2022-07-14, version 0.13.768* Honestly a very great game, i have a lot of fun playing it and its definitely better than 90% of gacha/mmorpg’s on the mobile market. The main issue is theres almost 200 servers just in the US and a new one being made every week! It causes the servers to feel empty, lonely and most co-op functions unplayable since the servers are empty, when in reality theres tons of people online across different servers. You cant switch servers without restarting your entire profile. The game will never gain traction like the top mobile games, until they fix that issue. Additionally theres several very low caps in the game that prevent you from playing more. After about 30 minutes, youve reached an impassable capacity on how much loot, exp, and leveling up you can gain until the next day. This forces people not to play. Its like they dont want people playing their game? Why set a cap to your own game? It prevents people from playing more and spending more money. Unfortunate issues but otherwise a fun game to play. ### 2/5 — Pay to Win! *2021-03-08, version 0.13.202* So, played this for two days and decided it was not worth it. I have played many similar games and this one seems like just another copy paste. It has a few fun mechanics, but here is how it goes: tap, tap, tap...finish quests... “amazing deal, spend $5 here and get ahead...tap, tap, tap...you are now level 10, spend some more money and get ahead....tap, tap...here are some freebies, but if you want even more for another $5 you get much much more...and so and so. This game is extremely pay to win and they make it extremely tempting to spend money. For just $0.99 or $4.99 or $9.99 you can get so much stuff... on top of that for another $10 a month you can unlock all these features that otherwise are locked. Next thing you know you spent $100...it’s like a casino or something, you will aways end up spending some amount and the ones who spent the most will aways win.... And thats just what i saw. They give a lot of freebies, but still make it so you wanna spend money. Well, all in all it seems possible to play for free if you like to solo and do dailies. It will be tempting to spend at least $10 each month unless you have a lot of self control though and the more you invest in the game the more you want to buy at least one little thing. Anyways...download at your own risk... ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Wind surfing *2022-04-17, version 0.13.648* I broke wind a year ago, and today is the anniversary. When I awoke this morning to find the back of my underpants had been blown away, I knew today was the special day, and I needed to celebrate! I installed this game, and ate a beef and bean burrito. Pray for my commode, but rest assured that I will be entertained. ### 5/5 — Amazona but….. *2021-06-20, version 0.13.210* PLEASEEEEE ADD A WAY TO CHOOSE THE MERCENARIES TARGET !!!! I’m a solo player since the servers don’t have that many players! So the only way for me to play is with the help of mercenaries, but they are useless, they do not dodge red boxes, they always target random enemies and some times stand still and do nothing during boss fights. I’m struggling every day to complete dungeons, specifically the bio lab. When I reach the final boss, there are this 2 mini bosses that appear which u have 15 seconds to kill or else u die, but my mercenaries do 0 damage to them as they stand still or run around aimlessly. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2021-06-08, version 0.13.210* This game is a lot of fun in the graphics are beautiful. I like that you can customize your character and there are several different class choose from. It runs really smooth and there’s no lagging so far. I just started this game so I don’t have a lot to say about it but I am really happy so far with what I’ve seen thanks ### 5/5 — I *2021-05-07, version 0.13.210* I barely started playing and I could already tell that this game is a good game its fun and I love the pets they are so cute and I love when you battle different animals or whatever that are called (remember I’m knew to this game and I don’t know what they are called) but yeah my rating is 5 stars cuz it’s a good game ### 5/5 — Great game but it’s pay to win. *2021-03-04, version 0.13.202* I love the game I have not put any money into this game yet. However lots of the content is for pay to win. People will drop hundreds and hundreds of $ into this game and gives them a crazy unfair advantage. Especially in cross server events. One of the tasks is to get a triple kill in holy grail event which is almost impossible without spending a bunch of money on the game sadly. However that being said. The game is beautiful everything about it. Combat is fluid skills are amazing. The mechanics are so smooth. Definitely one of the best games I have played in awhile. Just wish I could get as strong as the top players being free to play. Even if ur luck is super good you can’t out rank the buyers. ### 5/5 — This is my 1 MMO game of 2021 *2021-03-04, version 0.13.100* Started one evening just looking for a MMO game. Got sucked in from the get go. Can’t seem to walk away from it. Great story with plenty of NPC to interact with. There’s never ending things to do, from quest, to world events, dungeons, friendly people, guilds, fishing, crafting, cooking, your own home, and tons of adventuring. The characters are all great, look cool, and can’t wait to play them all. I will recommend to all my friends. I have run into a problem though, the new update is up and not allowing IOS to update. Hoping this matter is solved soon so i can continue my awesome meandering adventures throughout the lands of Thel. ### 5/5 — Real review... *2021-02-27, version 0.13.100* I get it... you think auto questing isn’t hardcore -you are too cool for that because you want to spend 12 hours a day mashing your keyboard to feel elite... The reality is that games are meant to be played and interacted in a way that supports the lifestyle of the player base. Stella Arcana SA gives you the flexibility to progress through simple quests mostly through auto progression.. but it ends when you need to clear more challenging content.. The game systems are numerous which can be overwhelming but YOU DO NOT need to P2W in this game nor will it give you an advantage Community is great and being in and participating in a guild is not only useful but lucrative and fun So give it a try and have fun Vs. thinking that your to hardcore to play a mobile mmo ### 5/5 — Are you serious? *2021-01-29, version 0.13.96* I spent a lot of time playing this recently and decided to log in using my Facebook account to try out a different character little do I know this would cause both characters to be deleted cool game to pass time but this was just unfair ### 5/5 — It’s Fun *2021-01-22, version 0.13.96* The game is really fun and engaging. Tho their r obviously a few tweaks needed as it’s new. I would like to take out the energy feature like how u need energy to talk in world chat and how it costs a lot to farm materials. U don’t have to take it out just lower the energy amount for gathering. I think this game is really good because it only came out a few days ago and it doesn’t have many things to fix. Tho I want to be able to gain materials (not armor and weapons) like anti-magic leather freely by farming dungeons without the limit affecting it. But thanks devs for the great game ### 5/5 — I love this game it’s great *2021-01-07, version 0.13.96* This is not a complante just a suggestion this game is great definitely a great open world game I have 1 suggestion that could possibly make it even better that one suggestion is if there was a type of pvp where you could attack other players I think that this would just make it more fun. This again IS NOT a complaint just a suggestion:) --- *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 2026-06-10.*