# Tavern Rumble — user reviews

> 52 indexed App Store user reviews of Tavern Rumble by Evan Cassidy, rated 4.16/5 from 100 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tavern-rumble/id1553018047/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tavern-rumble/id1553018047.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 64 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 13

## What do users think of Tavern Rumble?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Addictive gameplay
- 💡 Innovative twist on formula
- 👍 Fun and rewarding
- 👍 Great strategy
- 👍 Easy to learn
- 👍 Good mechanics
- 👍 Lots of content
- 👍 Well done game

**Cons**

- 💸 Aggressive monetization
- 💸 High cost to unlock classes
- 💸 Unstoppable ads
- 🐛 Ads not removed after purchase
- 🐛 Purchases not received
- 🐛 Ad removal not working
- 🐛 Christmas promo banner blocking
- 🐛 Crypto.com ads causing lag/freezing
- 🐛 Luck dependent wins
- 🐛 Pathetically unbalanced
- 🐛 Game crashes on boot
- 🐛 Game force closes after update
- 🐛 Lacks polish
- 🐛 Spelling and proofreading errors
- 🐛 Balance issues
- 🐛 Odd bugs

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Ad removal purchase not applied
- Purchases not received
- Restore purchase button needed
- Home bar not in 'game mode'
- Accidentally swiping into app switcher
- Pauses music playback
- Christmas promo banner unplayable
- Remove ad bundle doesn't remove ads
- Game won't start
- Game crashes on boot up
- Game force closes after update
- Instantly crashes
- Data wiped after crash

**Most requested features**

- Restore purchase button
- Allow music/podcast playback
- Paid version to remove ads
- More expansion decks
- Save data feature
- More interesting monsters
- New game modes

## Newest reviews (12 of 52)

### 3/5 — It’s good but…

*2025-08-01, version 7.18*

Love the game, I purchased the ad removal for like 10 dollars and literally no change at all to the game. I will change to 5 stars when I get a refund.

### 4/5 — Love this game

*2025-04-30, version 7.18*

I’ve played this game for years.  My only complaint is that you can’t play music or a podcast or anything at the same time.  It seems like an easy fix.

### 3/5 — Why Christmas bundle purchase not go through

*2025-03-02, version 7.18*

I and several other people have purchased the ad removal pack ages ago but was never applied

### 4/5 — Update to allow music playback

*2023-12-07, version 6.1*

Fun game. It desperately needs an update to allow playing music in the background e.g spotify while playing the game. The audio of the game doesnt really add anything to the experience anyways

### 3/5 — Gameplay is great; but where is the saving

*2023-09-01, version 5.90*

I love the gameplay and would love to support the dev by buying a pack or two but, I don’t see anywhere to save my data.  The lack of this feature will turn me towards other Rogue-like card games until I am sure my data won’t be lost after making a purchase.

### 2/5 — Death by a million cuts

*2023-08-10, version 5.90*

I want to love this game, but some technical issues keep it from greatness. It doesn’t put the home bar in “game mode” and on my 12 Mini I am constantly accidentally swiping into the app switcher when playing the cards. On top of that, every time this happens, it pauses the music I have playing. 

I’m going to e-mail the developer, too. Will update my review if fixed.

### 4/5 — Great game

*2023-04-11*

I’ve played this game off and on for years.  It’s great in almost every way.  I have 2 complaints

1) it stops audio whenever you start the game.  Yes you can start your audio if you have some external way to start music (headphone, etc) but it’s annoying
2) it takes forever to get gems.  I understand that that this is the way they monetize the game and I like this way better than forcing ads after every fight.

All in all I love the game.  Keep up the good work.

### 4/5 — Welcome back!

*2022-12-27, version 5.51*

Glad to see you back in the App Store. I’ll give you 5 stars if you offer an add free option. I’m willing to pay for it. Game was originally add free.

Update…unable to purchase no ads offer

### 2/5 — Remove ad bundle doesn’t remove ads

*2022-12-17, version 5.51*

Paid $9.99 for their Christmas bundle to remove ads, but still have to watch ads to claim the 100 crystal reward on the bottom left of the main screen. Still have to watch ads for the boost when you’re moving along the level path.  False advertisement!!!!

### 4/5 — Extremely good

*2022-09-23, version 1.1*

I’ve had the game for a few months and I really enjoy, the only reason it’s not 5 stars is because it stops the music I’m playing

### 3/5 — Ads are bad

*2022-07-15*

This is a really good tactical card game…..
BUT
it’s ruined by the need to watch ads.
Admittedly they are not all that often but they are there and you have to watch them for the full 30 seconds. 

If the game had an optional one off iap to remove ads I would rate this a 5 star game.
Heck I would pay $10 to have that option.

### 4/5 — Totally love

*2021-12-02, version 1.1*

So I love this game and have played it just about daily for the past few months. It’s so fun and easy to pick up and play, and the clans are unique and interesting. And the newest patch is amazing with the expansions. My only issue is that there’s the coding thing on ios that makes it pause musing I’m playing. Is there a way that can be patched? I know it’s a small nitpick and I’ll keep playing regardless. But it’s definitely something I often think about when I’m playing the game.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Abandoned Gem

*2026-08-16, version 7.18*

This game is a blast, but if I'm being honest its a massive shame that the dev just abandoned it entirely, cloud save doesn't work, I bought skins to support the dev..and they didn't come through. Crazy that this game is left running despite its state. Don't buy anything. Shame on dev for just running

### 1/5 — Intolerably Aggressive Monetisation

*2026-03-27, version 7.18*

There might have once been a decent game here, but it feels like the dev abandoned the game and turned monetisation all the way up on his way out. 

Unlocking every class would cost either £78 or countless hours of grinding gems and unstoppable ads.

### 1/5 — Hey!

*2024-03-16, version 7.06*

Could you please, just stop implementing new stuff and just put a restore purchase button.

### 1/5 — Ad Removal doesn’t work!?!

*2023-01-08, version 5.51*

Paid for the service but still get ads. Please fix.

Otherwise this is an outstanding “deck building” rogue style card game worth checking out. 4-5 star’s until this latest IAP issue. Please fix.

### 1/5 — Never received benefits of in app purchase.

*2023-01-08, version 5.51*

Bought Christmas promo and never received any of the benefits mentioned in the promotion.

### 1/5 — Cant even play due to ads

*2023-01-03, version 5.51*

as soon as i try out the game im greeted with an ad that just wont go away

### 1/5 — Unplayable

*2022-12-23, version 5.51*

Game is unplayable because of the Christmas promo bannner

### 1/5 — Want to rate higher

*2022-12-16, version 5.51*

This game is a lot of fun. This version is broken. The Xmas promo blocks everything and won’t go away. Purchasing it does nothing. It’s basically unplayable.

### 1/5 — Get rid of your crypto.com ads

*2022-02-24, version 1.1*

I don’t mind ads - i can accept that you gotta get paid. But your crypto.com ads screw up my system - usually they make everything run laggy until i shut your game down and restart. But today it froze my system, only giving the option to go into the App Store to presumably download the crypto.com app. 
No thanks.

### 1/5 — luck dependent wins

*2021-11-26, version 1.1*

Either i’m the unluckiest person to play this game or this game requires too much from you since so much of it is randomized

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Good game

*2026-03-03, version 7.18*

This has become one of my favorite games, the mechanics are good. There are minor spelling mistakes, and the design of the game could be more interesting (with pixel art in the background for example) but overall I am completely addicted to the game :)

### 5/5 — How is this game not more popular?

*2025-04-02, version 7.18*

Seriously!

### 5/5 — This guy

*2024-08-04, version 7.07*

So I had a pretty close run just using the knights where I was usually in single digits of health. I was at 3 hp and summoned king arthur and he summoned a dark knight using up would you guess it 3 hp. Great game though.

### 5/5 — Great Game. Purchase not received

*2024-03-25, version 7.06*

Love the game been playing it for a while. Bought the 25$ pack of gems and never got them tho.

### 5/5 — Love it, and have a few requests!

*2023-08-07, version 5.90*

I would like a paid version where I can get rid of ads. I love this game and would gladly pay to remove ads. It’s fun and super well done. I’d love even more expansion decks to mix and match. This game is super fun!

### 5/5 — Fixed headphone issue!

*2023-01-05, version 5.51*

Awesome game!! Way more fun and creative than many out there with lots of reviews. 

Also I figured out the headphone issue— if you just press start on your earbuds/headphones/watch you can start the audio— it just pauses it any time you enter the game for some reason.!

### 5/5 — Amazing game

*2021-11-25, version 1.1*

I’m giving us a five star instead of a porn star because this is just the type of game that I like and the fact that it is for free is mine boggling. I enjoy the fact that they keep coming out with new updates and deck typesAnd even dungeons. There may be some problems here and there however they’re really small and not that inconveniencing to the point where I would even consider four-star just because they are constantly working on the game as for what I can see and fixing problems. I hope the game creators are doing well and I appreciate you guys making such an amazing game.

### 5/5 — Great game

*2021-09-23, version 1.0*

I’ve been playing this game for a while, I am really enjoying it. You don’t have to pay any money to get other classes (unless you really want too: don’t recommend)

### 5/5 — Fun for years!

*2021-08-31, version 1.0*

I very rarely write reviews, but this game is fantastic! I’ve been playing this game for months, since I think the first month it was released and it is still so much fun. I’ve put so many hours into this game! Give it a try I think you’ll like it!

### 5/5 — Great Game

*2021-05-18, version 0.51*

Only thing I don’t like about this game is all the ads.  I would love if they offered an option to pay to fully get rid of them.

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*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 2026-08-23.*