# The Swords of First Light — user reviews

> 80 indexed App Store user reviews of The Swords of First Light by Genius Inc., rated 4.39/5 from 84 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-swords-of-first-light/id1514990362/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-swords-of-first-light/id1514990362.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 57 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 4

## What do users think of The Swords of First Light?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 📖 Engaging and immersive storyline
- 🎨 Beautiful artwork and character design
- 💕 Compelling and unique characters
- 🎵 Excellent music and atmosphere
- 🎮 Fair free-to-play option available
- 🎭 Strong female protagonist
- ✨ Emotionally impactful narrative

**Cons**

- 💎 Extremely expensive gem choices (25+ gems per choice)
- ⏰ Tedious mini-game for earning gems
- 📱 Frequent app crashes and freezing
- 🔄 Limited story impact from player choices
- ⏳ Long wait times for free tickets
- 💸 Pay-to-win mechanics
- 🎮 Mini-game relies heavily on skill/timing
- 📺 Ad rewards system unreliable

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes on launch or during gameplay
- Season 2 cannot be accessed (shows end-of-story screen)
- Restart game function broken (loops to Season 1)
- Ad video rewards not being credited
- Mini-game freezing during play
- Version update error with no available update
- Game won't load past language selection screen
- No audio output
- Incompatibility with certain iOS versions
- App force closes unexpectedly

**Most requested features**

- Make games available on iPhone (currently Android-only for some titles)
- Release previously removed games back to app stores
- Add more game titles and seasons
- Implement chapter replay functionality
- Reduce gem costs for choices
- Add Dante as a love interest option
- Increase free gem rewards
- Create additional mini-games
- Extend season length
- Develop movie or book adaptations

## Newest reviews (14 of 80)

### 4/5 — Why?Porque?

*2025-07-25, version 1.0.4*

I really wanna know why i don't find anywhere all the genius inc anymore, i really wanna play the games again, my first otome game was from genius inc and i really love u guys, please put the games back.

Eu gostaria muito de saber porque não encontro em lugar os jogos da genius inc, antes tinha vários e sumiram do iPhone e samsung, eu amava jogar nos 2 celulares principalmente no Samsung, meu primeiro jogo otome foi da genius inc, então é minha favorita e de mais agrado, eu gostaria muito de voltar a jogar os jogos de vocês então por favor coloquem denovo se não for pedir muito.❤️💔

### 3/5 — Raquel

*2024-06-03*

los juegos están bien pero individuales solo hay tres para descargar en App Store estaría bien que hubiera más o todos pero por lo demás bien

### 4/5 — Ну как то ну …….

*2023-11-20*

Я играю но прикольно по мне я бы чтобы играли в эти игра валюту не делала ну или только на кристаллики вот из этого минус хотела 3 поставить 🥱

### 4/5 — Видео для просмотра недоступны

*2023-03-05*

Невозможно забрать пойнты/монеты за просмотр рекламных видео. В мини-игре та же проблема. Актуально на 5 марта 2023. Ни переключение с вайфая на мобильный интернет, ни впн не помогает. Сама история крутая. Всё портит нежелание разработчиков прислушиваться к проблемам игроков.

### 4/5 — Игра шикарная, но есть одно «но»

*2022-08-23*

Это ошибка уже возникала, но ее исправляли. Но сейчас  август 2022 года опять появилась. 
Не даёт  заново второй сезон пройти((( нажимаю начать заново - выкидывает на начало первого. Дохожу до конца первого, просит выбрать сезон, но переносит на конец второго сезона, если тот уже пройден. 
 Очень печальное обстоятельство. ((( Хотелось переиграть, специально рекламу насматривала, чтобы кристалла на любимого персонажа хватило.

### 4/5 — Amazing! However…

*2022-07-29*

The game is amazing! The story line is engaging the characters are all unique and very attractive. However it’s not easy to get gems for free which is an issue for me since I’m f2p. You can get gems for free but the mini game is super tedious only for you to end up getting like 6 points which wouldn’t get you any gems. 60 points for only 5 gems? I feel like there is a better way that could be done.

### 3/5 — pay to win kinda

*2022-01-24*

this has a good plot but it's kind of like episode. you're given two choices and one is locked behind a pay wall. and guess what? the one locked behind the pay wall is the only choice that lets you progress with them. it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take your entire stock of F2P gems for one single choice.. and if you weren't forced to make a choice every minute. "expand your relationship with him (25 diamonds) or ignore him and get absolutely nowhere (free)."

### 4/5 — Hermoso 😍😍

*2021-07-13*

Súper bueno el juego pero deberían dar mas BOLETOS

### 4/5 — Great game but....!

*2021-04-10*

The game is really really good!! The plot and music is amazing, and the characters are very interesting in their own ways and are fun to learn more about. My main critique is that the cost of rubies for choices is honestly inconvenient. 25+ rubies for a single choice is absurd regardless if you’re free to play or you pay money. To pay $6 for 60 rubies which would only get you through 2 choices isn’t really..... fair? The mini game, which can be extremely frustrating, doesn’t really give proper rewards either. Yes, there’s an opportunity to watch ads to multiply what you get by 3, but what use is that if you get a reward of only 2 rubies? As stated before, the mini game in of it is aggravating because it relies purely on skill and timing and that can take a while if you don’t understand how to work it. 

I think it would be nice if more mini games were added AND if the price for choices and for rubies were lowered.

### 5/5 — I really recommend this

*2021-02-23, version 1.0.4*

This game is so good,words can express how underrated this is. I’m happy that you get to have a choice of whoever you want in the end,because normally in other apps you have to work for it,and get hearts and diamonds. Etc. If you really want to explore a brilliant simulation world then download this. Infinity out of ten :)

### 3/5 — It’s Okay

*2021-02-22*

I like the story. I am a little upset how expensive the choices are. I do wish the options would impact the story more. Something else I dislike is that during the mini game, the app will sometimes freeze up and i’ll have to close it.

### 3/5 — Обновите игру

*2021-01-19*

Игра пишет о том, что версия устарела и требуется обновления. В магазине никакого обновления нет. Выпустите обновление или как-то иначе решайте проблему.

### 3/5 — Resolvam isso!

*2021-01-17*

Eu acabei de instalar o aplicativo e ele está pedindo para eu atualizar, mas quando eu aperto em “OK”, ele aparece outra mensagem dizendo que algo deu errado! Não estou conseguindo jogar, resolvam por favor! 😔

### 4/5 — 😡

*2021-01-16*

На последней главе 1го сезона игра вылетела и мне пишут, что версия устарела. Обновления нет. И что же мне делать, с какоооой стати, вы меня извините? Я скандал такой учиню 😡

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — The sword soft

*2024-06-11*

Вообще игра очень сильно глючит 😡
Хотела купить рубины , а мне выдаёт ошибку!!!

### 1/5 — Non si apre

*2023-09-18*

Non so il perché ma ogni volta che lo apro esce e mi da fastidio

### 1/5 — Cannot play Season 2!!

*2023-02-25*

When I open the app and select Season 2 from the menu, the app takes me straight to the end of game screen where is says “you’ve reached the end of the story”. Cannot start playing Season 2 at all!!! There is a choice to restart the game but this option starts the first chapter of Season 1!!! There is no way to play Season 2. 

Will change the rating if the developer can fix the problem.

### 1/5 — Problema ao entrar

*2021-01-29*

O meu não quer entrar , que raiva

### 1/5 — Срочно!!

*2021-01-16*

Обновила iOS и при заходе вдруг стало выдавать «установите новую версию», хотя до этого играла спокойно 🥲
Решите проблему

### 1/5 — Pas terrible

*2020-10-28*

Pour commencer je ne comprends pas pourquoi tous les personnages ne sont pas dessinés à part les principaux nous avons une ombre  ce qui est franchement agaçant ça donne l’impression de parler dans le vide et puis ce n’est pas si difficile de dessiner de simple figurants. Ensuite l’heroïne a l’air d’être une peureuse qui est faible. Je n’ai pas été très loin dans l’histoire mais c’est l’impression que j’ai eu( ce n’est malheureusement pas nous qui choisissons sa personnalité) Le pire est quand nous devons faire des choix ce qui est déjà plutôt rare et quand c’est le cas nous avons très peu d’options ( a peine deux qui se ressemble ). Mais ce qu’il faut savoir c’est que à chaque décision un minimum important il faut avoir plein de diamant pour choisir l’option qui nous plait. Donc au final j’ai l’impression que l’on ne peut jamais prendre la décision voulue. C’est limite plus une histoire à lire que un jeu à interaction.

### 1/5 — Ну серьезно!?!?

*2020-06-06*

Ну почему на айфоне при просмотре рекламы ты всё равно не получаешь очки!? Уже несколько раз!! В нескольких играх.. истории очень интересные.. пофиксите умоляю😭

### 1/5 — Spiel lädt nicht!

*2020-06-03*

An sich normalerweise sehr schöne Spiele. Aber seit Monaten laden alle diese Spiele einfach nicht mehr, trotz das mein iOS auf dem neuesten Stand ist. Man bekommt einfach keine Hilfe und man wird mit fragen alleine gelassen! Finde ich sehr schade. Hoffe das dieser Fehler endlich behoben wird. Würd eherne diese Spiele wieder spielen können😢

### 2/5 — Not Worth It

*2021-02-23*

The storyline would be really amazing... IF every choice wasn’t 25+ gems. Super hard to get attached to characters and hard to enjoy the plot when you don’t have the money to spend. Most of the engagement lies in the gem choices so I ultimately decided to delete the game. I understand that there’s a profit needed, but i’m sure you’d have 5 stars and even get as popular as other otome games if you made each choice cost 10 to 15 gems, rather than the absurd 25+. Really disappointing since I did read a couple of choices and they were really good. Hope you guys can improve soon!

### 2/5 — The gems are a scam

*2020-07-29*

To choose the good options you have to use a lot of gems which means you have to pay for it because the so-called “free exchange” is just a load of scams. I tried doing so many of them but they either tell you you lost no matter what or make it impossible to complete. Some were just downright viruses/scams. It really disappoints me because the game actually seemed interesting

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — I LOVE IT IM SAD THAT IS OVER😭

*2023-11-07*

Please make another game just like this but can you guys make it have longer seasons I just love the fact that I’m that story line I’m a strong woman I really love that BUT I LOVE YOUR GUYS IS WORKK!!

### 5/5 — Prévoyez un petit budget

*2023-11-04*

Possibilité de faire l’histoire gratuitement mais vous aurez très vite envie de faire chauffer la CB. 2 saisons dispo avec une fin plutôt sympathique. Prévoyez rubis et ticket pour un total d’environs 100€. Mais vraiment, je ne pensais pas accrocher autant à l’histoire. L’intrigue est sympa et aucun choix n’influence vraiment sur la finalité du scénario même si le texte est bien fait de sorte à nous en donner l’impression ! C’est immersif et tout à fait romantique! Les dessins sont top et la traduction plutôt bonne. Donc 5 étoiles. J’aurais juste aimé pouvoir choisir les chapitres que je souhaite rejouer… ce qui n’est pas le cas, on ne peut jouer que le dernier chapitre joué ou tout recommencer.

### 5/5 — идеал)

*2022-08-01*

Сид слишком идеальный….

### 5/5 — Сделайте эти игры и на айфон!!!!!!!

*2022-07-06*

У меня есть две любимые игры это «soul of yokai» и «my charming butler’s» я могла скачать их на андройде а здесь я этого сделать не могу!!!!!!!!!! Genius ink пожалуйста сделайте все те игры и возможности которые на андройде и на айфоне!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

### 5/5 — Meu coração ficou nesse jogo

*2022-05-17*

Gente... eu me apaixonei por um personagem... SOCORRO! Agora que zerei o jogo tô sem direção e sou monogâmica demais pra jogar de novo e escolher outro namorado😭

### 5/5 — I love this!!!

*2022-02-16*

This is one of my Favorite series EVER!! I love the story line and all of the characters!! I really wish for this to continue though!! I hope you create more Series like this!!
Sincerely,
-Raiku

### 5/5 — MELHOR PROTA

*2021-08-05*

eu já joguei todos os jogos da genius, e cara essa foi a melhor prota de todas, ela é totalmente dona de si e faz a diferença cara, ela não é igual às outras que se dão de donzelas em perigo! Ela realmente é uma cavaleira!!! mano eu adorei ela, achei a parte final estranha na real! Mas por favor façam mais portas PODEROSAS assim eu ameeeei!!!! ALIÁS EU FIQUEI MUITO CONFUSA PQ EU AMEI OS 4 PERSONA TIVE QUE ME SACRIFICAR PRA ESCOLHER O KAELAN MAS EU TAVA DE OLHO NO DANTE

### 5/5 — consigliato

*2021-07-28*

il gioco è veramente bellissimo, ti coinvolge un sacco, l’unica pecca sono i diamanti ma in sè è svolto veramente bene e i personaggi sono ben fatti

### 5/5 — Amazing ;-;

*2021-07-20*

I loved the entire thing but in season 2 why can’t i restart the last episode … please.. fix this.. ;-;

### 5/5 — ✨👄✨

*2021-04-19*

La verdad si te la recomiendo porque los personajes son tan hermosos y la verdad el juego es tan pero tan mágico y te deja enganchad@ si descárgalo si vale la pena 😏

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