# The Bug Butcher — user reviews > 115 indexed App Store user reviews of The Bug Butcher by Noodlecake Studios Inc, rated 4.40/5 from 86 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-bug-butcher/id1090552213/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-bug-butcher/id1090552213.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 63 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of The Bug Butcher? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth gameplay - 👍 Charming art style - 🎮 Addictive and challenging - 💰 Good value for money - 🎨 Colorful and vibrant graphics **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🎮 Finicky controls - 🔍 Difficulty balancing issues - 💾 Inconsistent save/progress system - 📱 UI/layout issues on larger screens **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on launch - Disappearing coins/progress - Movement controls not registering - Graphical glitches and stuttering **Most requested features** - Customizable control layout - More levels and content - Controller support - Improved save/progress system - Optimization for larger screens ## Newest reviews (15 of 115) ### 2/5 — Desperately needs to be able to move the controls *2025-06-30* I really want to be able to play this game, but this game‘s controls were clearly designed for older iPhones that had a home button and therefore big bezels on the edges of the screen for your hands to rest on. The controls are tiny and allll the way in the corners of the screen. It’s impossible for me to play for more than 20 seconds without developing wrist cramps :( I know this game hasn’t been updated in years, but it seriously needs this minor fix. You need to be able to reposition the buttons on the screen to be reachable. ### 4/5 — Great title, make more *2025-03-07* Great game, it even has gamepad support ### 2/5 — Fun game, bad controls *2025-01-25, version 1.0.7* The game is fun, but the screen buttons positioning is really bad. Hopefully they can make it adjustable ### 3/5 — Needs better control location *2025-01-23* Game could be amazing but the location of the controls makes it really difficult to play. An option to move them would really help or make it so that they are not so close to the edge of the phone screen. ### 4/5 — Fun game but controls aren’t great *2025-01-03, version 1.0.7* This is a really fun game but it would be better if the size and position of the left/right buttons could be altered by the player. ### 2/5 — To hard and frustrating *2024-01-22* To hard and frustrating ### 3/5 — Not playable *2019-11-21* The movement arrows located too close to each other. Due to this problem, the gaming process became awful and irritable. ### 3/5 — Brilliant game just so glitchy on new Apple TV 4K *2018-12-28, version 1.0.7* Love this game so much. So enjoyable to just run around shooting stuff. The iPhone version and iPad version are excellent work seamlessly. I downloaded this onto Apple TV 4K and have constant glitches that cause a freeze when I upgrade any weapons. Meaning I have to close the app and reopen after every weapon change. This is really frustrating and should really be looked into. It’s not my Apple TV or my app as I have the paid for version and have downloaded this and installed it three times. I also don’t have any freeze issues with other games downloaded. All in all on iPhone and iPad brilliant and everyone should give it a go. Apple TV people forget it until it’s updated. Also the paid version only have a few levels, there really needs to be some added to this. Bit short on gaming experience for the app price. ### 3/5 — Stretched to the Max *2018-11-06, version 1.0.7* I love The Bug Butcher, but as much as I appreciate today’s widescreen update, the game is now bordering on unplayable on my iPhone Xs Max. The direction controls and fire buttons are so pushed into the corners of the screen that it’s now extremely uncomfortable to handle. A simple option to adjust UI placement (and opacity!) would make for a far more agreeable alternative! In the meantime, just three stars I’m afraid. ### 3/5 — Buttons not working sometimes *2018-06-27* Sometimes the buttons won’t work, makes me mad as well you know. Having a good run combo is high and then I can’t shoot ### 3/5 — iPhone X for when? *2018-06-13, version 1.0.6* You’ve had nearly a year now. And it looks horribly pixelated on iPad. Ever heard of “retina”? ### 4/5 — Bug butcher *2018-05-10* I love this game and it has really addictive fun game to play with your friends play the game once and you will never pit it down great game I love this game play it all the time ### 5/5 — Great game! *2017-12-23, version 1.0.6* Very fun game with tons of content. I love the music and art! Very happy with this game... just awesome. Latest update is very stable, fixed a lot of crashing and made it run a lot smoother. ### 2/5 — Can't even play *2017-09-02* I was so excited to see this game got an update and fixes, but immediately disappointed to see that it's still broken. The arrow keys won't show up in the beginning of the game, making it impossible for me to even play. ### 5/5 — Glitch *2017-08-23* There is a bug where the arrows dont appear in the start but I do like the look of the art. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Really? *2018-10-17, version 1.0.6* This game has been broken for a year and STILL no fix. ### 1/5 — Don't buy just yet *2017-11-12, version 1.0.6* Game can't even load properly. ### 1/5 — Ahhhh *2017-09-27* I just paid for this app but the controls don’t show up. Feels like a waste. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2017-09-16* Arrows do not show up. Have reinstalled multiple times and still doesn't work on iPad or iPhone. ### 1/5 — Do not buy yet - Can't get past tutorial *2017-09-09* Same as other reviews. Movement controls are not available after installing. Unable to do anything at all. ### 1/5 — Full of bugs *2017-01-23, version 1.0.1* Their updates erased all of my game progress, that's terrible programming on their part. ### 1/5 — Ripped off *2016-12-31, version 1.0.1* We purchased this game and it never worked😡 ### 1/5 — Crap *2016-12-31, version 1.0.1* I can't even get in the game hope the developers fix that. Ps I have an iPad mini ### 1/5 — Does not work *2016-12-29, version 1.0.1* Won't load past the main screen. How do I request a refund? ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2016-12-25, version 1.0.1* Does not work: I paid money for this and I can't even get to the main screen! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — THIS GAME IS SO FUN *2025-01-06, version 1.0.7* It is a challenging and fun game. I love crushing bugs and shooting spiders before they eat the scientist. ### 5/5 — It’s good *2025-01-03, version 1.0.7* It’s good ### 5/5 — Super fun quick shoot em up game *2023-05-02, version 1.0.7* I’ve gotten more use out of this game then I have any other mobile game, it’s a great way to take your mind off your work for a moment to reboot your mind when things are not going well. It’s super fun quick break to get my mind off of something negative then refocus and get back to work feeling good. I felt bad that I only paid a 1.39 for it, so I went to buy it on the google play store but it’s only 99 cents over there to, maybe I’ll buy it on xbox or nintendo switch one day just to support them. Update: I just finished 3 staring all the levels on hard, there were a few bugs, where the actual bugs in the game would get stuck in certain places, but the problem certainly was not a deal breaker, the levels are short and you almost always die in them anyways so it wasn’t a big deal to simply restart the level when one of those fluke circumstances that caused a problem in the game happened (I understood the game hadn’t been updated in many years when I bought it so that was to be expected). I loved how this game could give you satisfying experience in such a short amount of time, most arcade and shoot them up games or just video games in general can’t accomplish this feat, and you have to be prepared to spend many hours on them, not Bug Butcher, Bug Butcher could give you a great Experience in literally less than a minute. Usually doing extra things in games that were put there to provide more value to the player are just tedious, but I actually enjoyed perfecting the levels and getting three stars on all of them as much as I did playing the game on easy the first go around. Most video games have cheesy stories, especially ones inspired by older video games, but I thought the cute little story in this game with its great sense of humour was an extra cherry on top. I won’t hold my breath for its release, but I’d love to see a bug butcher 2 game get released one of these days, if it doesn’t happen I’m glad there was at least one of them that existed. P.S. It’s also appreciated that this was an up front payment game, almost all micro transaction games are intentionally built to be unsatisfying addiction machines instead of real games, getting the money out of the relieves the developer’s of the temptations to create legal scams in the games such as switching up currency’s and even worse actually ruining what could have been a good game by shaping it around taking advantage of week minded people in the addiction machine style. I know it is hard to make money with the up front business model these days, and there’s still quite a bit of potential to become wealthy creating a scam on the App Store rather than an actual game, so I had to give a shout out to the developer for using a legit business model for this game. I know it’s a shame that a developer deserves praise just for choosing not to be a crook, hopefully both players and game developers choose to treat each other better in the future, but for now this developer is one of the few that sets a good example. ### 5/5 — Incredible! *2022-11-05* It’s how arcade shooters should be made. Well worth it. ### 5/5 — Playfully Fun Bug Hunt / Slap Stick *2022-07-17* Players, This is a lot of fun! The Alien creatures just keep getting more weird and difficult. Totally worth your time to try out! I love it. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2021-02-16* Does not support mfi controllers despite the claims and the onscreen controls are garbage. I would like a refund if I can’t use my controller. Edit: apparently I just needed to restart my phone and everything worked just fine! Really excellent game that reminds my a bit of Cuphead 🤘 ### 5/5 — So good so far *2020-09-09* I watched the preview :) and it’s getting crazier and crazier every level!!!Now I’m on the fifth level and there’s always a blue big bug smashing me!😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 * and that stupid bug keep getting out babies!!!* and that gun is a very crazy invader , also all kinds of bug kill me! This game is a very good game and I hate the Bugs!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!¡ this game is too challenging And the whole room is full of bugs!! ### 5/5 — Lots of fun but it needs a little more improvement *2020-01-27* Sometimes when pressing the special attack it doesn't register causing the button to highlight but not do anything. Also maybe making the fire button a little bigger and getting a joystick would super helpful. I love this game and would highly appreciate a few updates ### 5/5 — Great fun *2020-01-13, version 1.0.7* Nice game to pass the time for a while. Good fun ### 5/5 — Neat *2019-06-26, version 1.0.7* Neat --- *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.*