# The Lost Heir — user reviews > 89 indexed App Store user reviews of The Lost Heir by Hosted Games LLC, rated 4.80/5 from 204 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-lost-heir/id956373528/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-lost-heir/id956373528.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 183 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of The Lost Heir? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Exceptional replay value with multiple character classes and story paths - 📖 Well-written narrative with compelling characters and world-building - 🎯 Meaningful choices that significantly impact the story and outcomes - 💑 Excellent relationship and romance system with depth - 🏆 High-quality interactive fiction with intricate storytelling - 🎨 Diverse character customization options and skill combinations - 📚 Engaging fantasy adventure with surprising plot twists - 🎪 Extensive content with hidden achievements and secrets to discover - ✨ Polished writing with minimal grammatical errors - 🎭 Well-developed NPC interactions and character arcs **Cons** - ⚠️ Unclear stat requirements for skill checks - 🎲 Frustrating stat system requiring narrow specialization - 😤 Difficulty balancing multiple character builds effectively - 🔄 Repetitive gameplay loop for trial-and-error stat optimization - ❌ Limited viability of hybrid character builds - ⏱️ Lengthy playthrough required for multiple attempts - 🤔 Unintuitive dialogue outcomes and character reactions - 📊 Poor stat progression making it hard to meet requirements - 🎯 Unbalanced difficulty with some classes overpowered - 🚫 Forced story moments where character always loses regardless of stats **Commonly reported bugs** - Legacy Advantage purchase fails on standalone version (works on Hosted Games app) - Endurance skill check (45) doesn't work in dark temple near Vernex - Relationship stat effects sometimes confusing and unexpected - Money loss after inputting smaller transaction amounts - Inconsistent dialogue outcome effects on character relationships **Most requested features** - Save/checkpoint system to avoid replaying entire game - Back button to undo choices without restarting - Chapter-by-chapter save options - More random adventures before main quest - Expanded demon summoning mechanics and battles - More mature relationship themes and romance options - Longer overall game length - Clearer stat requirement indicators before attempting actions - More diverse combat encounters ## Newest reviews (16 of 89) ### 4/5 — Fun, but be prepared to play several times or use guides *2019-06-10, version 1.2.0* This game is pretty rough on the unprepared player; a blind playthrough will likely lose characters the first time through. My advice to early players is to choose Sir Grady as a mentor and become a Squire, which gives you good skills and a few freebies from time to time. Magic is tempting, but being a pure magician will bite you HARD in The Lost Heir 3, where physical attributes ARE needed not to die. P.S. The Legacy Advantage only can be bought through the Hosted Games app. It makes it significantly easier to hit the skill checks, but the added story only appears in The Lost Heir 1 (so far). ### 4/5 — Love the game but won’t let me upgrade *2019-04-05, version 1.2.0* I would like to get the new upgrade but it just won’t let me other that that pretty good game ### 5/5 — Good game! *2018-11-27, version 1.1.1* I have all three and end up coming to play them all every few months. I’m still figuring out classes and it can be repetitive but still fun overall! ### 4/5 — Good, but missing Legacy Adventure *2018-10-01, version 1.1.1* On the Kindle version, there is an optional Legacy Adventure you can purchase for bonuses like stat boosts. Will that ever come to the Apple version? ### 5/5 — Amazing Game *2018-09-02, version 1.1.1* Make sure to carve out plenty of time if you intend to play this game. It’s magical, brilliant, and just awesome. You’ll constantly be thinking about it if you’re away from it and the story will leave you in amazement. One of the best games I’ve ever played. ### 5/5 — WOW!!! *2018-06-30, version 1.1.1* This is the jewel of the choice games! AMAZING STORY LINE!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEASE DONT STOP!!! ### 5/5 — Incredibly fun with great replayability *2018-06-15* I really enjoyed playing the game over and over again, trying to figure out the right combination of stats to succeed. ### 5/5 — PLEASE PLAY THIS *2018-04-17* I’ve kept up with the CoG and Hosted Games interactive novels for years, and this trilogy is my favorite by far. Just so you know, I never give five stars. Generally I’m a bit of a harsh critic of the novels they release, and I have absolutely no complaints. I only wish that the author would release more stories in the context of this world. (Life of a Wizard actually is. Which is enjoyable as well.) The replay value of the three novels is the best I’ve seen yet (I’ve played through it a million times), your choices ACTUALLY affect the story and have real consequences, and there isn’t a single moment in the story that I feel bored or as if I’m zoning out. Going through all of the different choices and options is fun and interesting, and choices you make right from this first novel affect the story in the third one - it’s crazy how intricate it is. In addition, the story isn’t predictable in the least, the characters are really well-developed, the world the writer created is unique, and it left me thinking about it for a solid week after I finished. The romance options are all well-written, which I will rarely say about any game (I honestly wish I could date Gill IRL), and the writing itself is excellent. Very few grammatical errors, and the author does a great job drawing in his readers. Not only is the story a joy to read, but it’s also a fun challenge as a game. It can be a bit difficult at times to get your stats high enough for certain things, but IMO it makes the game so much better when you can experiment with all the different stat combinations. Please buy this game. If you enjoy fantasy and adventure, you will love it. ### 5/5 — Worth it, but.... *2018-03-26* This game is so amazing with the way it just immersed me into the world. The story line is great and choices matter like a lot. Only thing that I wish was a this is an option to enable a feature that would go back one page just so that if you wanna experiment with an option then you can do it easier than how I did it... (I basically replayed The story more times than I can count in order to find out “oh what would happen if I selected this option”. ### 5/5 — Soooo Fun! *2018-02-23* This game was a good time, plain and simple. I enjoyed playing it the 100th time as much as I did the first. I hope there are more games like this and the rest of the series that come out because I will gladly buy them and support them as I did this series! Also noticed a glitch where 45 endurance skill check doesn't work in the dark temple on the way to vernex, so I can't get the cloak :( ### 5/5 — Worth every penny! *2018-01-11, version 1.1.0* This story has entertained me for hours and hours on end and has sooooo much replay value! Great storyline, well done characters, and your choices really do matter! ### 4/5 — 😍 *2017-11-19* Very good! I like that they're still updating it even after all this time! Does get a little tedious at times, but its overall pretty fun. I don't know what that one person meant by the boss being difficult to beat as I've beaten them before. My suggestion, for that person and everyone else having difficulty, is to try a different class, i.e. Bard, thief, hunter, priest, etc. Also, if you're trying to be on good terms with your entire party, I find it easier to *Spoiler Alert* choose the poor boy/girl rather than rich boy/girl at the beginning, especially if you choose to romance them. Then they can be the person you have to anger every now and then instead of angering the grumpy mage even more. Anyways, back to the review. I also like how I can choose the gender of not just my character, the characters that are in my party as well. It's unique to the choice of games and hosted games apps! ### 5/5 — AMAZING!!! *2017-08-29* I love this so much like I can't count the number of nights I've lost sleep playing this! It's well written, has an interesting plot with twists and turns, and is made really in depth. Once I finished the first game I had to move on to the 2nd, then the 3rd, and then repeat the trilogy all over again! This game has a lot of replay value. You can choose to train your hero however you want whether you want to focus on magic, archery, blades, religion, geography, it's all up to you! And there's so many classes that you can become by the end of the game, my mind is blown by diversity of options available. I 100% recommend this trilogy to anyone who thinks they might be interested because this game WILL NOT DISAPPOINT. ### 5/5 — A Masterpiece *2017-07-02* Truly a masterpiece, definitely my favorite Choice of Games game I've played. I've played around 10 playthroughs and experienced some vastly different adventures, but still only seen a fraction of what the game has to offer. Characters are well written and story is interesting, the author creates a wondrous world that rarely falters. I highly recommend this game and it's sequels. ### 5/5 — Masterfully done separately and as a series *2017-05-06, version 1.1.0* I withdraw my original criticisms, the game has updated significantly and the addition of LH2 and LH3 (which took far took too long to come out) tie the interactive experience masterfully. This game trilogy as it is now has brought me weeks of entertainment and is a Choice of Games gem, showing the full potential of the COG genre. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2017-04-16, version 1.1.0* I couldn't tell you how many times I've replayed this game. It's amazing, can't wait for the second and third installments. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Strongly not recommending *2025-01-06* The writing is extremely lazy , many times it gives multiple options which are not linked together. For instance right at the beginning main protagonist can go everywhere at the castle, and do something, the order is not important and you can explorer all option, that trick repeats itself and sometimes it works, sometimes its a munchkin style like i need to try all options and do something each time. The actions are also convoluted, in all such games if you cant do something the option is not available, here you can try to cast a fireball when you have 47 skill, but you need 50, you will know this only after a failed attempt and lost battle. How do i suppose to know this in advance that i need 50??? Dialoges outcome are broken in a lot of time when you pick some compromise option, in fact one of the characters is offended, just cause author wants this. All in all, i am very very surprised someone likes this, i do believe the positive reviews could be bought here. ### 2/5 — Overrated and short! *2019-05-03* This is the first review I’ve ever written for a game out of my 9 years of gaming experience which emphasizes just how much this game disappointed me. This game is overrated. How did this game get a 4.8 rating? I’ve played 12 games by Hosted Games and the price to length ratio of this one is not worth it. I made it through the game in about 3 or 4 hours and I’m not the fastest reader. I’ve played through the game 3 times and I’ve been disappointed every time. I don’t know if I’m playing it wrong or something but bad things always happen and my character always loses in battle. Each time I played through I used a different class and went about things a different way correlating to my character’s class but I keep getting the same results. Also the stat system is terrible. You have to have very high stats in a certain area just to pass a simple check. I tried to be a spell sword in my first play through but learned that you can really only focus on one class. Also the reviews of the third game are bad meaning you won’t get a satisfying end to this series. If you’re looking for a game to get skip this one and get the “Samurai of Hyuga” series. That series is my favorite out of all the games I’ve played by “Hosted Games”. ### 2/5 — Seems like stats are poorly planned *2017-09-25* The stat system in this game is pretty bad, you are constantly under the required stat limit and if you try to meat that stat limit next play-through you're almost guarantied to fail another check. I've gone through the game about 10 times trying different choices and stat combinations and before i looked it up online i was almost convinced the final 'boss' was just there as part of the story and there was no way to beat him. Apparently you can beat him, its just extremely hard and i have yet to do it. The game is just long enough to be tedious to play again and again trying to figure it out and there's no chapter-by-chapter save option to make it easier. The writing is good and its kinda interesting, and you don't need to defeat the final boss to continue, it just makes it less enjoyable. Those two reasons are why i gave it 2 stars instead of 1. ### 2/5 — meh *2016-07-31, version 1.1.0* I might be the only person whi was not impressed. I read so many good reviews and perhaps my expectations were too high. The writing was okay, but I felt like the interactions were stunted and not compelling. The characters fell flat for me and the story wasn't too exciting either. Wish I bought another game. ### 2/5 — Okay story; lame mechanics. *2016-02-01* So the whole skill system is pretty lame. Based on your narrative choices, you get a higher level in skills, this is all well and good--but instead of rolling dice with a modifier and then giving you a pass or fail, the game just decides what number your skill needs to be to succeed, and if you're below you fail and if you're above you win. So basically, you just put everything into sword skills and win all the combats. This game punishes strategy. The relationship stuff is okay, but if that's what you want you should be playing a dating sim. I suggest you play Sorcery instead. ### 2/5 — Ok *2015-03-13* It's ok is all I can say would rate higher if as it said at end could access more of this game. Well written so can't knock it on that side at all really. Do like this game just want more ### 2/5 — Impossible *2015-02-24* It's impossible to get your stats high enough to do anything useful in the whole game other than that it would be good ### 3/5 — Not fun *2016-04-20, version 1.1.0* Just wasn't an enjoyable game. Stats system was terrible, pretty much requiring munchkin-style play. One is left with the suspicion that in lieu of writing more prose, the designer decided to make people play it multiple times because they only had a 49 in Willpower and needed a full 50. The story was intriguing, but the Characters just weren't interesting. Give it a pass. ### 3/5 — Good *2015-10-02, version 1.0.0* It is fun and paths can vary. Unfortunately, your skills can't. You have to focus on one skill only, otherwise your character falls apart (by failing every stat check). This means I can't be a spell-sword or a magical thief. I think it would be good if you upped the stat increases from succeeding (or failing) so that I can switch up my act sometimes. Altogether, great game, character creativity needs a little tweak. ### 4/5 — Create a back feature *2020-05-13, version 1.2.0* It would be nice to be able to go back a page, if a mistake was made or wrong choice was picked, instead of having to start over again. Please consider for future update if possible. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I played the full game through! *2023-08-20, version 1.2.4* I had an absolute blast playing Lost Heir 1! Rich, fun, intricate and replayable story arcs make this one of my most enjoyable text based games I’ve played, in recent years! The relationship system is fantastic! I hope it leads to having a lover and not just a friend, because this game gives me hope that more mature themes can be played in deeper role playing games, such as this one. Loads of potential with the process of building friendships and relationships with many of the diverse characters! You can choose many hundreds of paths, each with different outcomes depending on your decision making! Some of the things that might be difficult for new RPG players is the item, money and relationship system. It requires a lot of practice and trial and error! You’ll fail a lot, at first! Secondly, the demon summoning seems very weak! It could have been an entire game in itself, if realized for that principal. It was that promising! I thought the demon relationships seemed quite sick! I would have loved engaging in demon battles with guards, bosses and monsters, out in the world! The Relationship system, the jewel of this game, is very well constructed and feels quite complex! Which is quite good! Combat needs a little more work, as hp and damage isn’t well represented later on. The strengths of this game are rested more with its story and relationship system! The inventory system is quite fantastic! Clean, robust and neat! Bravo! The accessibility is superb! I’ve played the entire game on Youtube! My channel GAME Double Tap! Has the full play through! Check it out, if you want! Awesome game and I look forward to more advancements, stories and game play elements! Keep it cheeky and fun! Thank you! ### 5/5 — Great Game *2021-09-07, version 1.2.0* Great game but sometimes hard to maximize results. The implications for many decisions are not always obvious even when studying the scenario. Overall awesome. ### 5/5 — Great game *2021-06-01, version 1.2.0* Most excellent... absolutely brilliant... ### 5/5 — Legacy pack not working? *2019-07-15, version 1.2.0* This is an outstanding game. I’ve been playing since before 2 or 3 were even released and I love it. My only complaint is that for some reason it won’t let me purchase the legacy advantage. So, if I can get some help figuring that out, I would be overjoyed! ### 5/5 — Pretty amazing *2019-06-16* To be 100% honest I don’t really write reviews but I saw the Most recent review of this and actually upset me. This game is very good there is a lot of depth to it I’ve probably played through at least 30 to 40 times and I would say 26 of those times had something that I had never seen before or didn’t even realize was a possibility. There’s a lot a unique choices every single time that I played through why I couldn’t do something I went back on my next place he would try to figure out what I had to do to be able to do that. I recommended this to all of my friends who play dnd and have heard nothing but good things from them too. Outstanding job. ### 5/5 — Great read! *2019-04-21* When I bought this when it came out I thought I would read it once and I’d be done with it. I was wrong. I read this book and the whole trilogy dozens of times and I love this series. The one problem is that when I try to buy the legacy advantage it says the purchase failed. Otherwise, amazing game and great read worth taking time out of your day for! (If you can contact me about the legacy advantage I would appreciate it!) ### 5/5 — Love the game but one problem *2019-04-16, version 1.2.0* I love the game, I keep playing it over and over with different scenarios, only problem is that I can’t buy the legacy upgrade, yet I can buy all the other upgrades on other games like this. ### 5/5 — IMPORTANT!! Reference legacy upgrade! *2019-04-12* UPDATING this review. A much of people have complained about not being able to upgrade the game to unlock they legacy advantage. I haven’t been able to all day, always pops up with an error. But I found the solution!! You can not purchase the legacy bonus on the standalone version of this game. You have to go to the lost heir in the Hosted Games app. Purchasing the upgrade through that app works perfectly. Hope it helps! So. I play a disgusting amount of choose your own adventure / RPGs, I’ve tried nearly every one on the App Store barring the ones in phone messages format, just not a fan of those. And out of all of the ones I’ve played The Lost Heir is by far one of my favorites, if not THE favorite. I absolutely love the character development for my character and the companions, I love the wide variety of outcomes dependent on my decisions. I especially love all the alteration you can make so far as classes and even subclasses do. So when you beat the game you can make different choices, or make similar choices with a different class or sub class and it makes it all feel new again. If you want to play a beautifully thought out and immersive game that gets you to genuinely care for all of the characters involved, look no further! You found it in The Lost Heir. The only issue I am having right now in which I’d like to bring to the attention of the developers is that I am having difficulty purchasing the legacy upgrade. It claims it might be an issue connecting to the internet, but everything else is working fine and connected. Reinstalling the app currently to see if it fixes it. But in general a big thank you to the developers for making such an elating game! I am a huge fan! Please continue to make stories similar to this! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2019-04-11* I have played this game though 123 times and every time I learn something new the care that was been put into this game is truly something! Although the legacy advantage doesn’t work yet it’s not a necessary to experience a successful and enjoyable time ### 5/5 — Purchase Problem *2019-03-30* I like this game and I felt like buying the Legacy Advantage because of the description, but every time I try to purchase it I am unable to make the purchase. I would like to get it because of how much I like this game and the two other games after. Please help this situation if it is on your part. Thank you. --- *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 2026-09-04.*