# The Healing - Horror Story — user reviews > 535 indexed App Store user reviews of The Healing by SponsorAds GmbH & Co.KG, rated 4.60/5 from 2,401 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-healing-horror-story/id1593359678/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-healing-horror-story/id1593359678.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,777 · 4★ 415 · 3★ 134 · 2★ 22 · 1★ 53 ## What do users think of The Healing? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💗 Amazing game - 👍 Fun and interactive - 🎨 Great graphics and realistic - 📚 Interesting and engaging story - 🕹️ Enjoyable mini-games **Cons** - 🔍 Too many ads - ⏱️ Slow pacing and long wait times - 🎮 Difficult and repetitive mini-games - 💰 Paywall for certain features - 🤖 Unrealistic and annoying characters **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezing or crashing - Inconsistencies in character details - Inability to progress past certain points **Most requested features** - Ability to skip or speed up text messages - More customization options for player profile - Improved mini-game difficulty progression - Better integration of mini-games with the story ## Newest reviews (12 of 535) ### 2/5 — SPOILERS *2026-08-15* Look, I know the crew probably put a lot of effort and time into the production of this game, but it’s just not very good. I liked the game, and I did finish it, but something is just really lacking here. If you do like this game, that’s fine! I just have a few personal complaints. The thing is the dialogue options. They’re all basically copies of the same option three different times, and are constantly, constantly ending in exclamation marks. Your character does NOT need to yell so much though literally every single interaction. Like, I think there’s only two dialogue options in the entire game where your character is not screaming their head off. And the interaction you have with the villain make even less sense. Why, for a game with two endings, can you not express different feelings towards Dr Crow specifically? Every interaction with him, your dialogue gives you no choice but to be extremely hostile towards him. No stopping to take a breath, or wonder why, or ask him more questions about who he is and what he’s doing without being so incredibly rude and disrespectful towards him. If you’re playing a Good run of the game, that’s fine, but in a game where you can WORK WITH THE VILLAIN, you would think you’d be able to show any interest or fascination with him whatsoever! But no! It’s fight him, fight his methods, fight his ideology, and then join him on a whim at the very end of the game and brutally murder your friends! Look, I wanted to join the Doctor throughout the entire gameplay(a Plague Doctor myself) but when I actually got the opportunity to, it just wasn’t satisfying. It felt like a sudden jump to over the top villainy for absolutely no reason and no indication my character was thinking evil thoughts or believed in the Doctor even slightly to begin with. It just…happened. And it’s not very fun, story wise. Oh, and one last thing. It might just be a nitpick since Duskwood is my favorite and I loved the ending, but I find that the ending game music doesn’t fit the story. At all. If feels like the developers searched up popular songs and just slotted on in over the credits ### 3/5 — Hello, *2026-06-28, version 1.14.2* Hello, I think my save file is stuck due to a bug in Chapter 5. The last message I receive in the Strangers group chat is: “That’s what this guy was talking about!” After that, no new messages appear, even after waiting a long time. I also noticed that some previous messages repeated once, but the game became stuck again at the same point. I transferred my save to another device using the save transfer code, but the exact same problem happened there as well. I also reinstalled the game, but it did not fix the issue. Could you please check my save file or help me continue the story? Thank you. ### 3/5 — Don’t work *2026-06-17, version 1.14.2* It doesn’t work after message from Shadow “oh god, @username!!!” ### 4/5 — Super spannend und gute Story - bis auf eine Kleinigkeit *2026-05-31, version 1.14.2* Das Spiel ist schön gemacht, bisher eine gute Story und sehr spannend (habs noch nicht durchgespielt, bin also weiterhin sehr gespannt). Leider nur 4 Sterne, weil die Minispiele wirklich schwer meiner Ansicht nach sind :-( Teilweise ist das auch super frustrierend, weil man nicht weiterkommt und die Story nicht fortsetzen kann. Wenn das nicht so schwer wäre, würde ich auch volle 5 Sterne geben! ### 3/5 — Ajustes de idioma *2026-05-03, version 1.14.2* Es muy bueno pero me gustaría que le añadieran el idioma español, se los agradecería mucho!! ### 3/5 — Good story with game breaking bugs *2026-02-22, version 1.14.2* The story is good, but I have run into a few bugs that completely broke the game. The game seems to get stuck sometimes. The first time it happened I just restarted the game because it was still early. The second time I just created a transfer code, deleted the app, reinstalled, and entered the transfer code. The third and most recent time it seemed to be caused by a photo not loading due to my connection at the time (I’ll get to this in a minute), and then leaving the app and it unloading in the background. This locked the game, I was able to create a transfer code like I did before, but after reinstalling the app it said the code did not exist. I had to reach out to support to get back to the same spot in the story. Finally the most annoying part so far is that the game, unlike their earlier and later games that I have played, does not preload images or videos. They only download when they come up in the story. They are slow to load with good internet and can break the game with bad internet. ### 4/5 — Stimulant *2026-02-17* L'évolution de l'histoire en fonction de nos choix est une approche intéressante... Le fait d'effectuer des mini-jeux (en lien avec l'histoire) pour pouvoir continuer est assez original. Ainsi nous avons le choix de jouer ou de regarder une publicité mais celle-ci n'est pas obligatoire : c'est satisfaisant de ne pas être constamment interrompu par des pubs. Cependant, la seul contrainte me semble être la difficultés à résoudre les mini-jeux "au fil du temps" : plus nous restons dans l'histoire et son évolution, plus il y a des mini-jeux à effectuer. Cela peut devenir frustrant car nous passons plus de temps à faire des mini-jeux qu'à jouer au jeu initial. Résultat possible : cela peut devenir lassant et passer l'envie de continuer... ### 3/5 — It’s ok *2026-02-12, version 1.14.2* Not as good as The Stage and chats keep disappearing also mini game is super boring ### 4/5 — Both *2026-02-10, version 1.14.2* As for both orphans and the healing id prefer something different for the hacking portion maybe a word scramble or something of that nature just matching colors isn’t my style but other than that the story lines the characters the setup amazing ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-02-02, version 1.14.2* Ya really good game and has really good detail ### 5/5 — Fun Game *2026-01-29, version 1.14.2* So far so good!! ### 5/5 — Bbbebe *2026-01-16, version 1.14.2* Cool! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Help *2026-08-16, version 1.14.2* It won’t let me past the first call ### 1/5 — Game is broken *2026-07-25, version 1.14.2* The sound is not working. I cannot hear any talking or videos. Pretty lame, I couldn’t even play with no sound. ### 1/5 — Trash game don’t waste you time *2026-05-09, version 1.14.2* Trash game is stuck in loading 2/76 ### 1/5 — Kłamstwo ta gra nie ma wgranych języków obcych. *2026-04-18, version 1.14.2* Kłamią że jest tyle języków, są trzy :angielski, niemiecki i francuski. A ja bym chciała po polsku zagrać i niestety nie ma. ### 1/5 — Stops Working, Never Recovers *2026-02-09, version 1.14.2* I was addicted to this game. I spent money to play it… Hours and hours of my time and then BOOM - it no longer progresses to the next chapter. Money wasted. There is no support for this game apparently. Do not even bother playing this game at all you will never reach its end and your money will just be wasted. Shame, it could be a 5 star game if the developers actually cared about their customers. ### 1/5 — Media and pics don’t load *2026-01-24, version 1.14.2* Amazing idea if it actually worked. Videos, pictures won’t load and calls can’t be accepted. Such a shame. ### 1/5 — Media Issues *2026-01-10, version 1.14.2* I don’t if it’s just me but the media on the individuals profile never load and my iPad is up to date and I even downloaded this app on my phone to see if my iPad was just problem but the media wasn’t popping up on my phone either so could the developer see what’s up to that pls ### 1/5 — Doesn't even load. *2026-01-01, version 1.14.2* I'd love to play however doesn't even load. ### 1/5 — What a letdown *2025-10-28, version 1.14.2* This game sounded awesome but 5 minutes into playing it froze. Nothing was working I even closed it down and reopened it and it was just stuck. I'm getting notifications but they're not showing up when I go into it. ### 1/5 — Waiting to long to play *2025-06-02, version 1.13.6* I’m not sure if this is a common thing with this game… but why is it downloading so many fixtures ….Like it’s literally going on 3 minutes and it’s showing now 15/76 with 0%.. This seems a bit suspicious so I immediately removed it and ran as an on my device. Fingers crossed everything is good… ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Entertaining similar to Similacra *2026-08-16, version 1.14.2* Text style horror, it’s similar to simulacra phone horror ### 5/5 — Thrilling! *2026-06-27, version 1.14.2* This is the third game I’ve played and they are completely addictive. Absolutely love it! ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-06-26, version 1.14.2* Just started. Seems fun so far ### 5/5 — Gripping *2026-05-28, version 1.14.2* Fun to follow stories ### 5/5 — Fun to pass the time! *2026-05-23, version 1.14.2* Nice little branch off FMV and pretty addictive with some story beats that make you want to explore. Just scratching the surface but having a good time! ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2026-05-21, version 1.14.2* Best horror game I’ve downloaded before. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-04-24, version 1.14.2* 10 out of ten ### 5/5 — Game *2026-04-23, version 1.14.2* Nice game love playing it ### 5/5 — Merveille tout court. *2026-03-20* Je reviens ici plusieurs jours plus tard! E le scénario était phénoménal, les personnages attachants et leurs histoires touchantes ! De plus avis aux nouveaux joueurs : ne vous en faites pas trop pour les niveaux de hack, dès que l’on a l’habitude, ils sont très simples à prendre en main! ^^ Comblée comme je suis par ce jeu, et curieuse au possible, je suis tentée de vérifier les autres, même si cela signifie laisser mes petites préférées derrière (Zoe et Shadow ❤️)! Un excellent travail :3 ### 5/5 — Super cool *2026-03-15, version 1.14.2* Greatttt --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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