# Three Minutes To Eight — user reviews > 19 indexed App Store user reviews of Three Minutes To Eight by Assemble Entertainment, rated 3.10/5 from 13 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/three-minutes-to-eight/id6448524921/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/three-minutes-to-eight/id6448524921.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2025-12-05* Really boring copy of disco elysium, for the same price I can play actually well crafted games like Overboard and Expelled ### 1/5 — Horrible Handling *2025-06-06* First the game starts out in some foreign language like Korean, or so. Then you can't click the glasses without the hero running left .... And then the aformentioned two finger click for examining. ### 1/5 — Absolutely terrible… *2024-03-21* Never played on PC, saw it in the store, thought I’d try it out… How do you make a Point and Click feel SO terrible on mobile? Doesn’t seem too hard to make a Point and *Tap game, but they failed miserably. The 3 points another review made are absolutely right. There’s a “Highlight” button in the bottom left. You have to hold it. Holding it makes you run Left. So you have to hold Right so you stand still. Easy fix, poorly thought out. I didn’t even know there was a “Right Click” so I wandered around for 2 deaths and an hour and a half playtime w/ nothing new presenting itself before I looked up a walkthrough. The guy pulls a taser out of a trash can I’ve searched 6 times. A comment asked the question for me. He asks “did you right click?” So I looked at mobiles controls and see there’s a Two Finger Tap. I went to the trash can in my game and Two Finger Double-Tapped on the trash can probably 8 times before it actually registered because the cursor dances back and forth between your two fingers opposite sides of the item over and over. It’s SO unintuitive. I want to make it ABSOLUTELY clear that unless you’re playing on an iPad maybe, you have to FIGHT w/ the controls to play the game. It’s not something you’ll be able to “learn” or get proficient or even get USED to after some time. It simply could not be a worse implementation of Point and Click on mobile. I’m being redundant in this review because I want to make it evident that you should steer clear until the Devs completely revamp the control scheme. Ditch the cursor. Ditch the Two Finger Double Tap. Don’t make the “Highlight” button “transparent” and still move you. ### 1/5 — The controls are difficult to work *2024-01-19* I’ve been stuck in the tutorial because it’s nearly impossible to use two fingers to accurately tap on an object. I was excited to play the game too. I don’t see why they didn’t just do the usual one click to examine, two clicks to examine. It’s a mistake making users have to use two fingers ### 1/5 — Steuerung katastrophal *2024-01-06* Die Story und Idee mag zwar gut sein, die Steuerung ist aber katastrophal umgesetzt. Das Tippen mit 2 Fingern zum untersuchen von Gegenständen ist dermaßen unpräzise, sodass ein flüssiges Spielerlebnis auf einem Smartphone (in meinem Fall iPhone 13 Pro) nicht möglich ist. Wäre das anders umgesetzt worden, wäre das Spiel sicher gut! Schade für das rausgeschmissene Geld… ### 2/5 — Two finger tap is impossible *2026-01-31* Can’t see descriptions of objects without tapping 20 times. And if it’s on the edge of the screen it’s pretty much not doable. Also the highlight button will make you walk in that direction. This is apparent within seconds of starting a game so obviously they didn’t bother to adapt the game to iOS and just put it out there without testing. It worked because I can’t even get a refund. It’s a shame because otherwise the game looks good. ### 2/5 — Grottenschlechte Steuerung *2024-04-11* Wäre ein cooles Spiel, wäre es nicht für die absolut nervige Steuerung. ### 2/5 — Meh *2024-04-01* Too slow, too repetitive, too much talking, I thought there would be puzzles, but very few and have to have so many boring conversations the same over and over to make small advances, so dull. ### 2/5 — Please improve controls and UI. *2024-03-29* Wish the controls were better on mobile. I played the demo on PC and its a really fun game. ### 2/5 — Pretty disappointed *2024-01-17* This game looked so unique and I was intrigued by its description so I bought it. I only tried 2 “runs” and I spent a couple of hours having to touch everything on the screen twice to inspect every object in the environment to find nothing at all . Then you spend hours of reading the same dialogue over and over , touch screen . Ask 30 people if they heard the explosion . Touch the screen and repeat . I know it will get “better” the more runs I do and discover small changes but Jesus what a tedious clunky waste of $5 that was. The game has potential and gets 2 stars for originality but Boring with a capital B . ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Top, wenn man die Steuerung kapiert hat *2024-04-18* Danke an User epiano für den Tipp in der Rezension! Der Tipp ist, dass man zum untersuchen von Dingen nicht unbedingt mit beiden Fingern gleichzeitig drauf tippen muss, sondern auch einen Finger drauf halten und mit dem anderen irgendwo tippen kann. Lustig, dass man mindestens drei Enden schaffen kann, ohne jemals Dinge näher zu untersuchen :) Der Tipp klappt bei mir übrigens nicht im Inventar, ausgerechnet da muss ich doch mit zwei Fingern gleichzeitig aufs sehr kleine Bildchen tippen. Klappt auf den iPad gut genug. ### 5/5 — Sehr stimmungsvoll *2024-04-10* Bin noch am Anfang und schon mitgerissen. Wenn das so bleibt werde ich definitiv bei den 5 Sternen bleiben. Genau meins! Tipp zur Steuerung: Nicht beide Finger gleichzeitig verwenden. Zum Untersuchen einfach mit einem Finger das zu untersuchende Objekt anwählen und halten. Dann mit einem zweiten Finger irgendwo auf dem Bildschirm tippen. 😉 Einen Verbesserungsvorschlag hab ich auch noch: Wenn ich das iPad um 180 Grad drehe merkt das Spiel es nicht. ### 5/5 — Can’t believe the reviews *2024-04-06* I loved it, I had no problems with controls or finding objects on my IPhone 14! I had a great story with great voice acting. I’ve died all the different ways. I’ve reached multiple different endings. It’s not an easy game but it’s not so hard that you don’t even wanna play. everything makes sense that I have figured out so far. I think this game is a lot better than people are giving it credit for. Anyway I loved it, still only finished about half the endings, because some of the endings take repeating over and over I took a little break from it because of course repetitive things can get boring but sometimes it’s worth it to find out the ending like in “12 minutes”.! Hope we get more of these ### 5/5 — Superb game!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *2024-01-21* Wow what a fantastic adventure game! I’ve reviewed this before and thought I couldn’t pick up an item but it turns out I just didn’t read about the controls prior to play 🤦‍♀️ use two fingers everyone 😂 the graphics and so clever a concept make this a dream game. I love that you never know what might happen next! Also the addition of my absolute favourite director made my day!! I could listen to his voice over and over! Thank you for this wonderful game and for ENCODYA which I also adore!! 🥰 ### 5/5 — GOTY *2023-12-29* Probably my game of the year on iPhone. Interesting story and great setting. ### 4/5 — Great production, top voice acting, interface glitch *2024-01-13* The visuals, animations, and voice acting are great! But the interface for touch screen has a few problems: 1) the cursor from the PC point and click version is on the screen at all times and moves to wherever I tap on screen. It’s very distracting and unnecessary. I would removed the cursor entirely. 2) tapping to move works great, but it’s also registering outside the screen in the letterbox areas (on the top and bottom of the screen). This is a problem, as anytime I hold the “highlight interactive elements” button, I start walking in that direction, away from the elements I want to see. I think clicking on the top and bottom black bars should NOT make you move. 3) tapping with two fingers works… but the surface area of two fingers is pretty big and it’s hard to click accurately, especially in the corners of the screen. A “use” button at the bottom of the screen could fix this. Or perhaps a “tap and hold” command. ### 3/5 — Maaaan so frustrating *2026-03-07* I love the art, the characters, the writing, many of the puzzles, and the general vibe. What’s frustrating is that if this developer made a traditionally structured point and click adventure it would be one of the best. Spoilers: The premise of this is a time loop, and your character starts “from scratch” each loop. But that means an ABSURDLY repetitive experience. And even though you can click through lines of dialogue, it all gets reset each (very short ~20 min) loop. Please. I beg you. Make a traditional point and click adventure. And if not, at least let the characters memory persist from previous loops because my (the player) memory persists, and being forced to “relearn” each and every thing 30 times ruins the experience. ### 3/5 — Great concept but very random *2024-02-28* Love the concept and dialogues! However many of the endings are not intuitive to find, so I ended up looking up solutions from the internet which gets boring after a few endings. ### 3/5 — Seems cool, but controls are abysmal *2024-01-15* I love pixel art indie games, and I also love point and click style adventure games. Both remind me of my childhood in the early 90s playing Lucasarts games my dad brought home on cd Roms. This game seems like it could be fantastic, but the controls are so frustrating it’s very hard to get into and enjoy. 1. “2 finger click” is almost impossible. If you have manly hands (like myself) 2 fingers span across ¼ of the width of the screen….and now the game has no idea where you’re trying to click 2. When you click the hotspot button, your character goes running towards the left side of the screen because it also thinks you’re clicking to walk to that point Generally it just needs thought through better. I don’t know this for fact, but it seems like it is probably a PC game that was ported to mobile and wasn’t thought through very well…the round pegs were just crammed into square holes and the dev called it a day. Tweak the controls and it’ll probably be great --- *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.*