# Tales of Monkey Island Ep 1 — user reviews > 231 indexed App Store user reviews of Tales of Monkey Island Ep 1 by LCG Entertainment, Inc., rated 3.30/5 from 49 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tales-of-monkey-island-ep-1/id474032269/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tales-of-monkey-island-ep-1/id474032269.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 24 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 16 ## What do users think of Tales of Monkey Island Ep 1? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great game with the same spirit as the old games - 👍 Funny and charming with great characters and storyline - 👍 Excellent voice acting and sound - 👍 Challenging puzzles and gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Laggy and choppy performance, especially on older devices - 🐛 Difficulty interacting with certain objects and UI elements - 🔋 High battery consumption - 💡 Lack of widescreen/retina support **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes on launch for some users - Unable to pick up key items, preventing progress - Saved games not loading properly **Most requested features** - Ability to save progress and resume later - Controller support - More language options - Improved UI and controls ## Newest reviews (11 of 231) ### 4/5 — A bit buggy *2025-07-28* Playing on an iPad Pro iOS 18.5 - it's impossible to interact directly with some key objects needed to solve puzzles. You can select them, but when you tap on the selected object - nothing! I've since discovered the only way to interact with some items is by using the ship's wheel to select them AND then tapping the centre of the wheel to interact. ### 3/5 — Tolle Story, bescheidene Steuerung *2025-01-12* Ich habe ein Ipad pro und darauf ist die Steuerung megaanstrengend. Schade ums Geld ### 2/5 — Cant progress *2024-03-04* Cant pick up the porcelain doll either so can’t progress ### 2/5 — Bug can’t progress in the game *2023-06-26* I can’t pick up the porcelain statue so I can’t progress any further . Wasn’t able to contact the games company either because the blue button to submit a request is info on the website cookies . Shame really I was enjoying this game. ### 4/5 — Still can’t select D’Oro’s dolls *2022-05-22* Y’all address that issue yet? Still seems to be a problem. I’m stuck :( ### 4/5 — I got stuck I think a glitch *2022-03-25* When you get to the giant stone door/portal, I went back to town. And now the map isn’t in my inventory (to activate the path back). So I’m pretty sure I’m stuck. Otherwise was having a great time. ### 1/5 — En Français ? Toujours pas ! *2022-03-18* Depuis dix ans, le jeu n’est toujours pas traduit en Français, c’est juste honteux !!! Je comprends un peu l’Anglais, mais pas assez pour me régaler des subtilités comiques de ce jeu. Je ne comprends pas toujours les paroles des pirates et ne peux donc pas deviner ce qu’on attend de moi. Jeu payant dans la langue internationale qu’on nous impose… ### 2/5 — No controller support *2022-02-27* Tank controls do not translate well to touch controls. Shame, I love Monkey Island and would’ve loved to have played this. Maybe if controller support is ever added ### 2/5 — No sound on iPad 5th generation mini *2022-02-20* Works on my iPhone 11 but no matter what I do I cannot get sound on the iPad mini. I have sound on other games so it’s not the iPad. Is there a bug fix in progress?? ### 1/5 — Bugs still not fixed *2021-12-12* Still can’t grab the pile of porcelain dolls which appears to have been a problem for some time now ### 4/5 — Please update to widescreen *2021-11-13* This game is very good and it lives up to the previous installments of the series , I had downloaded it a few years ago until it stopped working on newer phones. I then saw the re-release but was disappointed when the games has not been updated to be widescreen. I know Tell-Tale games probably doesn’t have time to give us a version that will take full advantage of newer hardware but if y’all do it would make this great game even better. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — warning - game doesnt save progress *2026-01-25* I wish there was a warning the gme apparently onky saves progress at certain points and even if that were the case it doesnt even save once you are off the boat and on the island which seems like a natural place to save progress. i dont have time or interest to replay so waste of money ### 1/5 — Monkey island *2024-12-08* It lags so much I want my money back ### 1/5 — Falta comandos *2024-01-03* Eu não consigo cortar a planta no navio , pois não consigo ser direcionado para aquela região dentro do navio… erro no IOs ? ### 1/5 — .00001 star *2023-01-06, version 1.4* I WANT MY TIME AND MONEY BACK! Like others have said, the controls are clunky in fact half the time I try to use the ship wheel style navigation it closes the game. Dialogue is long half the time unintended and you can't skip. Game should be fixed or removed from the store. Complete garbage and I bought the entire package like an idiot. ### 1/5 — Pas en français *2022-12-23* Merci de créer un match , traduction français s’il vous plais ### 1/5 — 2022… no french version ?!? *2022-11-17* Seriously ?! ### 1/5 — Poor design for iPhone play *2022-11-04* It appears, by reading other reviews, that a lot of us are unable to select and steal a doll from D’oro. This glitch appears early in the game and unfortunately the game cannot be progressed without the item. Waste of money. ### 1/5 — Keinen Stern wer *2022-09-27* Die Bedienung auf dem iPad ist ne Katastrophe und dann auch noch ohne Sound… Frechheit ### 1/5 — Disappointed the game is unplayable requested a refund the day of no response *2022-08-03, version 1.4* I have an iPhone 7 I play games on don’t usually have issue with games I purchase but for some reason it won’t go past the first part of chapter 1 I bough all 5 episodes and they just open the beginning starts and it shuts off and turns to a black screen I requested a refund the day of and Havnt gotten a refund or a response I wanna play the game but it won’t work so i lost 15 $ ### 1/5 — Sous titre en français au moins *2022-04-21* Très déçu que ce jeu soit proposé sans traduction française ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Wow! Simply amazing! *2025-08-25* I’m so glad I purchased all of these. I just started the first one and I’m in love with the animation and characters voices. What a beautiful game. I’m rusty with point and click games right now but I finally got through the first part and am on chapter 1. It doesn’t bother me that the game isn’t widescreen. It’s made for this aspect ratio so folks need to calm down. The only thing that bothers me is when it gives you options to choose from the dialog and says the phrase you didn’t choose. I wanted to rescue the monkeys and it said he wanted to rescue the girl. There shouldn’t be different options if the game already has the dialog chosen for what’s next. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2024-09-03* Not quite as good as the original monkey island but still loads of fun ### 5/5 — Super schönes Spiel *2024-08-24* Echtes Monkey Island - Feeling. Bitte mehr davon ! ### 5/5 — Top Spielerlebnis *2022-12-30* Lief super auf dem IPhone unter iOS 16.1.2 Steuerung war leichtgängig und der Spielspaß war wie früher. Das einzige Handicap war, dass man die langen Dialoge nicht überspringen konnte. ### 5/5 — Worked fine for me, late 2022 *2022-10-30* Played on a 9th gen basic iPad. Episode one played well, no crashes, no bugs for me. It doesn’t use the full real estate, but I assumed that was the case going in. The aspect ratio didn’t bother me at all though. Unfortunately I’d previously bought the first AND second episode a LOOOONG time ago (2012 or so), but while episode one worked and loaded fine, I had to re-purchase episode two. Ended up buying the whole 5 episode pack, because it was cheaper than purchasing separately even though I already had 1 & 2. 🤷‍♀️ Still, it’s my favorite franchise of all time, and hopefully one of the last times I’ll have to purchase. Just wish they’d stop taking away games we’ve previously purchased. Also the original Monkey Island used to be on iOS. I played it on my 3rd gen iPhone a decade ago. Why isn’t that still available!? I’m sure it’s a licensing issue, but seems majorly unfair. It’s the GOAT. ### 5/5 — Grandios! *2022-03-17* Grandios endlich kann der Klassiker auf dem iPhone weitergespielt werden! Die Steuerung ist anfangs etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, nach kurzer Zeit hat man aber den Dreh raus! Ich hatte ne Menge Spaß! ♥️ 🏴‍☠️ ### 5/5 — Awesome-Brings you back *2022-01-11* Buy the bundle and don’t look back. I’m sad now that I finished it. Worth every penny. Tons of play time. Great graphics and storyline, music, voiceovers, the whole shebang. Played flawlessly on my iPhone 12. Tip: Sometimes it’s easier to use the ship wheel to to activate things but you don’t have to. Arrrrrgh, ya land lubbers! ### 5/5 — Best Adventure Puzzle game ever! *2021-11-16* This is a phenomenal game! The reason folks are rating a 1, is because they are children that don’t like challenging puzzles. This game makes you really think with a side hustle of jokes throughout the game! I can’t wait for more to come! ### 5/5 — Excellent game *2021-11-15* I really liked the entire series. Very well done. I wish there were more games like this. ### 5/5 — Great game *2021-08-30* Is a great game. A little complicated to move at times but everything else is superb, worth the money --- *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 2026-09-01.*