# Vaporwave Simulator — user reviews

> 110 indexed App Store user reviews of Vaporwave Simulator by Ethan Sarif-Kattan, rated 3.40/5 from 79 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vaporwave-simulator/id1263656409/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vaporwave-simulator/id1263656409.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 29 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 15

## What do users think of Vaporwave Simulator?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🎨 Excellent vaporwave aesthetic and visual design
- 🎵 Atmospheric and immersive music
- 🧘 Relaxing exploration without pressure or goals
- ✨ Unique and artistic concept
- 🌍 Interesting world to explore and discover
- 💭 Trippy and mind-expanding experience
- 📱 Portable meditation/escape tool

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
- ⚡ Severe lag and poor performance
- 🔥 Excessive battery drain and device overheating
- 🎮 Awkward and unintuitive controls
- 🗺️ Limited map size and exploration area
- ❓ Lack of clear purpose or objectives
- 📺 Intrusive ads in free version
- 🔊 Repetitive music and limited audio variety
- ⏱️ Short gameplay duration before boredom sets in

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes on launch or at title screen
- Game crashes after brief gameplay
- Severe frame rate drops and stuttering
- Device overheating during play
- Physics glitches with collision detection
- Graphical glitches and zoom issues
- Performance issues on older devices (iPhone 6, iPhone 7)

**Most requested features**

- Larger or procedurally generated infinite map
- Improved and redesigned controls (screen-based camera, sprint mechanics)
- Additional music tracks and audio variety
- Secret rooms, hidden dimensions, or Easter eggs
- Combat or interactive gameplay elements
- Save/spawn point system
- Multiplayer functionality
- PC/Steam version
- Regular content updates to maintain freshness
- Customizable run speed and jump height
- Ability to turn off ads without purchase

## Newest reviews (18 of 110)

### 3/5 — 3/5 ⭐️

*2026-04-10, version 3.0*

Cool visuals, poorly placed controls.

### 4/5 — Uh

*2026-03-06, version 3.0*

Its very interesting, its almost like a test map, theres no point or goal but is very entertaining

### 4/5 — This game is awesome

*2026-01-27, version 3.0*

The game is really good. The controls are a bit precarious. I wish the jump button was on the right side. It would make it easier to operate. The game is also really fun to play when stoned I also love the vaporwave aesthetic. The music is one of my personal favorites it gives me vibes of LSD dream emulator. I always wanted to play it but sadly I can’t, but this is just as good I just switch their portals to other locations. I really do love the game I like obscure video games but sadly some are usually on a device I don’t have or you need a steam account. I am very thankful I got to play this. The vaporwave aesthetic is one of my favorites love the music, the visuals. Well, almost everything I try to Fiji water I didn’t really like

### 4/5 — Uh

*2025-05-25, version 3.0*

Its very interesting, its almost like a test map, theres no point or goal but is very entertaining

### 3/5 — Needs an even larger map

*2025-02-22, version 3.0*

I’m guessing that it’s a tall order to ask for a larger map to explore let alone making infinite procedurally generated terrain. Heck I’m pretty sure the developer doesn’t even check these messages but you never know. I think this “game” is a wonderful idea, it just suffers from poor controls and very spots to explore.

### 4/5 — Mysterious

*2024-10-09, version 3.0*

Just a walking sim with some stuff to see, found the edge of the world and fell off. The skybox had a giant paragraph of Japanese text on the bottom side. I can’t translate it, very interesting.

### 3/5 — Lag

*2024-02-21, version 3.0*

It’s the best game ever but too much lag for my phone that’s why i downloaded it if of steam on my computer

### 3/5 — In the interest of keeping things interesting..

*2022-07-10, version 3.0*

Controls could merit some improvement, love the overall concept but this is really the sort of premise which would benefit from updates to the landscapes to keep things stimulating, which I can see as feasible in an age where AI gathering info from the web on what accounts for this aesthetic (‘Vapor wave’ in this case) can be relevantly implemented for the ‘self-maintenance’ of a game,esp.an online one with seemingly no ‘win conditions’

### 4/5 — I love this game

*2022-04-20, version 3.0*

It’s such a vibe to just walk around this world but it’s lacking in things to do. If you could update this game or release more like it with fighting or killing things, or secret rooms, secret dimensions, or anything really this game is so unique but it’s half baked I really want to see more

### 3/5 — Kinda scam

*2022-03-01, version 3.0*

doesn't look like it kinda but good game

### 4/5 — Fps

*2022-02-11, version 3.0*

Please can you fix a lags, game is realy cool and aestetic

### 2/5 — A tease

*2022-01-17, version 3.0*

I get that this game is supposed to be a meme, but it really disappointed me that there was so much to explore but basically no secrets. The only secrets i found was a small divet in the ground at the edge of the map to hide in, a weird possible glitch where if you roll the music ball thing out of spawn then some collisions with some objects just stop actually colliding with you, but lastly, the most disappointing bit, was THE BOX. As soon as you walk out of the spawn hall, you see a big statue, but if you’re observant, you will notice that there is a small box on its knee, one that particularly wasn’t there in earlier versions of the game, so i spent a good chunk of time trying to figure out how to get to the box, thinking that there would finally be a good secret to discover here, but no, i finally found a way to get to the box and its just another physics object that you can collide with to push it off the statue’s knee. Of course, i thought that maybe if i rolled that ball out of spawn to turn off some collisions then maybe i could see inside the box which could reveal something but i was too tired of trying, particularly because even after finding out how to get on the statue’s lap, it takes forever to actually execute the whole maneuver and its easy to mess up if you just get some timing wrong. Anyways, its okay for what it is, just a little meme thing, but yeah, still pretty disappointing.

### 3/5 — 🪲 drugs?

*2021-10-25, version 3.0*

cool aesthetics and fun to play when bored but the map size is small so gets boring very fast and it is very laggy

still a vibe tho, makes me feel like im tripping and kinda sinister undertones?

### 4/5 — It’s good, but what do I do?

*2021-06-30, version 3.0*

I love this app! It’s like a weirdcore kinda thing. I love it! But….what do you do?

### 3/5 — swag game

*2021-05-21, version 3.0*

i dont know what the point is so i kinda just walk around but its cool besties

### 4/5 — Windows 95 is best OS

*2020-12-23, version 3.0*

I like this game. It’s like a little place in my pocket that I can go to to meditate and breathe in the automated capitalism that is so called vaporwave.

There is a minor problem, however, and that is that the controls are a bit wonky. Perhaps dragging the screen as a whole to turn around would be more convenient than using a joystick.

I have many ideas to address, so I will list them for convenience:

Recommended:
- (As already mentioned) Use screen to look around instead of another joystick
- Double-tap the joystick to sprint instead of separate button

Optional:
- Be able to save a point to spawn from
- Spam-jump to fly around
- Set run speed/jump height
- More places/music choices

By simply improving the controls, I will up my rating to a full 5 stars. Thank you for the vaporous vibes!

### 5/5 — SO COOL

*2020-12-10, version 3.0*

oyunu ilk açtığımda bu ne böyle dedim fakat biraz oynayınca bayıldım oyunu ipad den oynamanızı tavsiye ederim telefonla pek anlaşılmaz ne olduğu, harika bir oyun

### 5/5 — I love this game

*2020-12-02, version 3.0*

SO UH Ya thats it idk what to say

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Won’t load

*2022-09-16, version 3.0*

Bad game

### 1/5 — boring

*2021-10-22, version 3.0*

bruh i was playing it cause ppl say it’s creepy or something i mean tbh the whole time i was just singing along

### 1/5 — Kinda creepy

*2020-11-29, version 3.0*

So um I downloaded this game and its kinda creepy i got shivers especially the song is kinda creepy the statues are weird brrrr it gives me nightmares 😭i gave it one star cause i have problems whit the creepy song and statues brrr

### 1/5 — Soy la única q piensa q este juego es raro y da miedo???

*2020-09-19, version 3.0*

Respondan. My comentario porfa :T

### 1/5 — a e s t h e t i c

*2020-08-16, version 3.0*

w o r s t g a m e e v e r

### 1/5 — Sad :(

*2020-05-22, version 3.0*

I was excited to get the game downloaded, as it looked very interesting, and I opened the app. The start was lagging and just as the music starts to play and I see the start it closes. I wanted an exploration game just like this, I like that it doesn’t have a point. It just doesn’t allow me to play it.

### 1/5 — Вы издеваетесь?

*2020-02-29, version 3.0*

Ужасно лагает! Невозможно!!!!1111!111!!!

### 1/5 — Лагает

*2019-12-31, version 3.0*

Прикольно, но проседает фпс, добавьте оптимизацию

### 1/5 — Crashed

*2019-12-03, version 3.0*

Bro wth it crashed as soon as the game loaded
:/

### 1/5 — 落ちる

*2019-11-07, version 3.0*

起動してもすぐアプリが落ちてしまいます。

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — This game is awesome

*2025-03-28*

The game is really good. The controls are a bit precarious. I wish the jump button was on the right side. It would make it easier to operate. The game is also really fun to play when stoned I also love the vaporwave aesthetic. The music is one of my personal favorites it gives me vibes of LSD dream emulator. I always wanted to play it but sadly I can’t, but this is just as good I just switch their portals to other locations.

### 5/5 — İts dont opening

*2024-03-02, version 3.0*

İn my iphone 6 do not opening the game :(

### 5/5 — Fun world to explore

*2023-02-17, version 3.0*

It’s a vaporwave museum in my pocket. Great for when I have random moments of time to waste.

### 5/5 — B e s t   g a m e   e v e r

*2022-03-18, version 3.0*

🐬

### 5/5 — 良い

*2022-02-02, version 3.0*

マップ広げてほしいです  好きすぎて課金したい

### 5/5 — Божественно

*2021-12-02, version 3.0*

Это не игра, это произведение искусства. 12/10

### 5/5 — Creepy af

*2021-04-30, version 3.0*

It seems abandoned and alone I feel like someone is watching me in the worst way I get anxiety I felt like running away l got to the end of the map just for everything to disappear besides the staring like if someone is looking at me and has gotten closer as the music fades away I sit in a lonely box with numbers on the bottom it gave me anxiety I reset it so many times to see what would happen fun game tho

### 5/5 — 世界のどこかで見れるメッセージについて

*2021-01-31, version 3.0*

［］完璧なレポートカード、すべてのBです。非常に誇り高い。馬！私はここに行くことを得た。-あなたは毛羽立ちがあります。-ああ！それは私です！-私たちに汝！我々は行118.000になります。-さようなら！バリー、あなたに言った.家に飛んで停止！-こんにちは、アダム。-ねえ、バリー。-それは毛羽立ちのグルですか？-少し。特別な日.卒業。私はそれを作るとは思わなかった。3日間の学校.3日間の高校。それらは厄介でした。3日間の大学。私は一日をとり、ハイフをヒッチハイクしてうれしいです。あなたは戻ってきました。-こんにちは.バリー。-アルテー、口ひげを伸ばす？いいね。フランキーについて聞く？-うん。葬儀に行くの？

これだけ見ると支離滅裂な文章ですが、

なんと元ネタを見つけました。

ビー・ムービーという2007年のアニメ映画に出てくる、キャラクターの会話です

以下抜粋

Barry I told you, stop flying in the house!

Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.

Three days of grade school, three days of high school--

Those were so awkward.

Three day's of college... I'm glad I took that one day off in the middle and just hiked around the hive.

You did come back different.

Hey, did you hear about Frankie?

Yeah.

You going to his funeral?

3日ずつ進学していくのも、ハチの一生だから辻褄が合います。118000列目のハチに手を振ってくれ！ってのも沢山ハチがいるんでしょうね。

### 5/5 — Wow

*2021-01-26, version 3.0*

Very trippy and the music does afterwards fun to play

### 5/5 — 최고의 게임

*2020-12-24, version 3.0*

몰입감이 엄청나다. vaporwave세계가 있다면 이럴 것 같다. 후진 내 스마트폰이 이 게임을 제대로 즐기게 해주지 못해 화가 날 지경이다.

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