# The Wastelander: Survival RPG — user reviews > 99 indexed App Store user reviews of The Wastelander by Jamie Parish, rated 3.60/5 from 171 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-wastelander-survival-rpg/id6473739626/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-wastelander-survival-rpg/id6473739626.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 65 · 4★ 33 · 3★ 31 · 2★ 18 · 1★ 24 ## What do users think of The Wastelander? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ⭐ Great potential - 👍 Enjoyable gameplay - 💎 Delightful game - 🔍 Lots of details and good gameplay aspects - 🎮 Awesome idea, love the game **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and glitchy - 🔍 Clunky interface and not user-friendly - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🧭 Difficult to navigate - 🚫 Crashes frequently **Commonly reported bugs** - Missions disappearing or not triggering properly - Health bars not displaying correctly - Character clipping issues - Janky trade mechanics - Travel time stuck in negative hours - Unable to unequip or equip items - Crash when opening player tab - Tutorial stuck on eating canned food - Unable to pick up items in tutorial **Most requested features** - Build a custom house - Add day/night cycle and weather conditions - Improve item and mission explanations - Add a second seller for bottle caps ## Newest reviews (18 of 99) ### 3/5 — Keeps kicking me off please add auto save for us okay? *2026-08-12* Just so you know I love your game but it keeps kicking me off every 5 minutes or so, can you please allow us players to have auto save I don’t mind getting kicked what’s bothering me is i can’t save when I get kicked off the game. Please fix this issue 🥲🙏🏻❤️ ### 3/5 — Keeps crashing *2026-06-28* Genuinely a pretty decent game but has a problem with crashing after like 5-10 minutes of game play. Otherwise it’s pretty good so far ### 2/5 — Has potential *2026-04-09* Love The Wanderer and this game feels like it will have potential but still very buggy. Game just stops and I have to reload and then obviously nothing is saved. Doesn’t look like there have been any updates recently but if there will be I will definitely try it again. **Developer response:** Hey apologies i have an update on its way with some fixes. Anything specific though please feel free to join my discord where i chat to players about any issues. You can find the link on the save screen ### 2/5 — Good but bugged *2026-04-07* Not bad game to start off with but when I go up against enemy’s that need loot collected you can’t collect the item off them as the is no movement or button to collect from the body the only way I’ve figured to get around it is quitting to menu and then loading back in.. lowered the rating because you can’t seem to choose different quests either many bugs are now coming up please update **Developer response:** Hey apologies i have an update on its way with some fixes. Anything specific though please feel free to join my discord where i chat to players about any issues. You can find the link on the save screen ### 3/5 — Concept is there, poor execution *2026-03-22, version 1.40* Prolly the most glitched game on the App Store. Inventory glitches. Selling all junk glitches. After battle glitches. Rename game to glitch survival ### 4/5 — Good so far! *2026-02-25, version 1.40* Only minor bugs so far like a super large search icon, nothing game breaking. ### 4/5 — Just one thing *2026-02-25, version 1.40* After fighting I tend to get stuck and I’m unable to do anything but exit the game even though the game itself doesn’t appear frozen. ### 2/5 — Adverts ? *2026-02-16, version 1.28* I paid for no adverts so I could use speed ups, fast travel and deep search but it always says “No adverts found.” ### 2/5 — Okay so far *2026-02-12, version 1.28* Still getting into it the game can be a little clunky at times and the interface isn’t exactly user-friendly/smooth but I’m starting to get the hang of it. I’ll probably resubmit another review after I played more more skill points might make it more fun. ### 2/5 — I Can’t Play It *2025-12-27* I absolutely LOVE your previous game, “The Wanderer” but this game doesn’t live up to it. During the tutorial, when I attempted to search the junk pile, it just said “no resources found.” I noticed the other reviewers weren’t having that problem, so it might’ve been just me. Also, when I tried to open my bag during the tutorial, the game crashed on me!! I ended up just skipping the tutorial despite it being my first time playing. More issues occurred during creating my character. I was unable to change the skin tone very much in ways that felt natural, though that wasn’t a big issue so long as my character’s not tinted pink! The big thing though is that I actually can’t play the game. Not due to the game being glitchy (though it is kind of glitchy) but because of the game crashing. After finishing my character, I wait for the game to load and then it crashes. I even tried this a few times. In conclusion, I really do wish I could play this game, but many issues (as in the crashing) have prevented me to do so. I like the idea that this game is a 3D version of “The Wanderer” and if anyone reader this review hasn’t play that game, you definitely should! As for this game, who knows? Not many other reviews have had problems with the game crashing, so for people reading this, it might not be a bad idea to try “The Wastelander.” But developers, please try to fix these problems. “The Wanderer” is epic and I think this one could be too with some more updates. Thanks for reading! **Developer response:** Hey apologies and thank you for playing The Wanderer :D. For this game though i do agree i've had a lot of issues and im tackling things day by day. I have a new update coming soon with more fixes and also an update i believe was released recenty with fixes. Please feel free to join my discord as i love speaking to players and getting their feedback. I had someone recently who joined and gave me so much feedback and ive just spent my last weeks fixing all the things mentioned :D ### 3/5 — Buggy but good *2025-12-14* Loved the wanderer and game this one a shot. While I enjoyed the game overall there’s just a lot of bugs that take away from it. The main one for me was my quest disappearing. All my side quest I got from camp would disappear the next time I returned and I wouldn’t be able to take any other quest from those characters. Once I got a quest to fix the radio and it just wouldn’t activate when I got to the quest location. **Developer response:** Hey theres a new update which fixes a lot of stuff! ### 2/5 — Shower doesn’t work *2025-11-25, version 1.2.102* Gave Ben 2 anti rads and my mutation is still there ### 2/5 — Broken and abandoned game *2025-11-05, version 1.2.102* I want to love this game as it looks very fun but it has been forever and it’s still a broken pile of garbage ### 3/5 — Still buggy but not bad? *2025-10-20, version 1.2.102* Ive had fun playing but its hella buggy ### 4/5 — Loot loover *2025-10-17, version 1.2.102* 10/10 def recommended I’ve been playing non-stop for hours ### 4/5 — The wastlander *2025-09-28, version 1.2.102* It’s ok so far ### 2/5 — No combat, no main quests available *2025-09-20, version 1.2.101* What am I doing wrong? I explored half the map and it got boring ### 3/5 — uhh *2025-09-05, version 1.2.68* Aww it always crashes ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — tutorial bug *2026-04-06, version 1.40* would’ve been really good up from thewanderer except i can’t even get out of the first bandit… ### 1/5 — Glitched fights *2026-03-18, version 1.40* Whenever I win a fight I’m stuck looking at the dead enemy. Very disappointing ### 1/5 — Even tutorial is bugged *2026-01-18* Started the tutorial. Searched the pile. Being asked to select canned food, but none is available, so I can’t progress further. Deleted. **Developer response:** Hey so i have fixed the tutorial. Ive fixed quite a lot actually. Theres also a new update soon to be released with even more fixes. Apologies for these issues ### 1/5 — Buggy mess *2025-01-24, version 1.2.62* Was so happy to play looked right up my alley then I got stuck everytime I travel an hour I lose hunger and all that but don’t travel anywhere then I watched an ad to fast travel and still stuck traveling can’t fix it no matter what I do ### 1/5 — Bug *2024-12-15, version 1.2.60* During the basic training mission no matter how many times I fight run away or interact with Jamie it won’t update the quest I’ve tried restarting the game multiple times because I can’t progress at all I left the one star but I’ll Change it if the bugs resolved ### 1/5 — Lost everything!! *2024-12-08, version 1.2.57* Camper n entire game!! where is support??? ### 1/5 — Game keep crashing *2024-11-20, version 1.2.52* Ever time I load the game it freezes then it crashes but I can play the wanderer all day but can’t this it stupid ### 1/5 — Way too many bugs -released too soon *2024-11-08* I have played for 10 minutes and I have had to restart 4 times due to falling through the map. **Developer response:** Apologies we have fixed a lot of issues although falling through the floor seems to be a physics issue we've been trying to fix. Hopefully soon will have this fixed! ### 1/5 — Eh, Bugs are painful. *2024-10-19, version 1.2.40* Game could be a good game but theres too many bugs to deal with like how i cant unequip stuff or equip the GAS MASK. ### 1/5 — Might be a fun game but… *2024-04-28, version 1.2.3* During the tutorial, when asked to “use” the can of food, nothing happens. Then I can’t move onto the next step. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2026-04-17, version 1.40* You know good survival things ### 5/5 — keeps my attention *2026-04-12, version 1.40* i love this game. i love apocalyptic type scenarios and this hits it. also keeps me focused and didn’t bore me! good job guys! ### 5/5 — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *2026-02-20, version 1.28* I love your games! I still need to try 2 others but I think they will be just as great! They are so original and unique! I love it!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ### 5/5 — Enjoying it *2026-01-24* This deserves more than 3.5 stars. Only thing I wish it had in game is a second seller with a limited supply of bottle caps to sell your items. A custom house you can fix and make yourself at home **Developer response:** Hey thanks! Really appreciate it. Also as you upgrade the camp, more NPCs become unlocked and you can seel too. Go speak to Mateo :D ### 5/5 — Good so far *2025-12-26, version 1.14* Game is pretty good so far. Lot of details and good gameplay aspects for an RPG. Some stuff is a little buggy but for now it’s not impacting gameplay too much. ### 5/5 — Great potential *2025-11-11, version 1.2.102* Awesome game infinite endless game grind and you can help nPCs it’s one of the best survival games… OP ### 5/5 — Good game *2025-11-10, version 1.2.102* Good ### 5/5 — Good game but.. *2025-10-22* I enjoy this game but it needs to be updated, the missions are glitched meaning when I swipe the app and come back to play the game later, the missions I’ve accepted don’t show anymore and when I go to the person I accepted it from, it just says to come back to them when I’ve finished it but the missions still don’t show. There’s also a glitch with the mission you accept from “Agent”, Mateo & Jeff in the camp. Agent allows me to farm unlimited caps and it multiplies a single mission, so the more antidotes I receive from agent for accepting the mission repeatedly, the more missions multiply and when I complete the mission I go from low level to however high I can go, I reached level 68 just for finding a screw driver.. I was level 6 and just started the game. I’ve deleted the app and started a new game but Mateo and Jeff missions in the camp are still glitched. It would be nice to have an update ### 5/5 — Gas *2025-09-09* Good game **Developer response:** Thank you! Really appreciated! ### 5/5 — What a gem *2025-08-21* What a delightful game. Even though it crashes every few minutes , i still play it. Still. --- *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 2026-09-01.*