# Walking Game - Explora — user reviews > 54 indexed App Store user reviews of Walking Game by Explora (Apps), rated 4.60/5 from 176 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/walking-game-explora/id6471017303/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/walking-game-explora/id6471017303.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 144 · 4★ 15 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 7 ## Newest reviews (18 of 54) ### 4/5 — The only step counter I’ve kept *2026-05-28* Gamifying steps like this makes it fun. It does motivate me to walk a little more when it would be easier to keep sitting, multiple times a day. Their update last year I wasn’t a fan of. They made it harder to get perks that help you get prizes. I wish they’d hit a happy medium between the original levels and what it is now. I didn’t see the poll on the Reddit community and I’ll bet a lot of other users didn’t either. I have dozens of apps on my phone and I really don’t go to their communities very often. So I missed it. **Developer response:** Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback, it's very valuable to us. We'll do our best to keep improving and to keep the game balance fair in future updates. Luc from Explora ### 4/5 — Why? *2026-03-08* This is a pretty good app. Having a tutorial would be helpful. I’ve been using it over a year and still don’t get some things. Also, WHY did you take the steps needed per day away for the monthly challenge??? That WAS the most motivating part of the app. Now, not so much is left. I like collecting the monsters but the best way to collect is the monthly challenge. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review! A few players have requested to change back to the old design with steps needed per day. Therefore, we put a poll on our discord community, but the new minimalist design won. However, I hope we'll soon find a way to make parts of the old design fit in the new screen for monthly challenges. Stay tuned :) Luc from Explora ### 3/5 — Fun way to get your steps in! But the game lacks ability to see the walking steps of other players. *2025-12-13* Syncing is another confusing matter. In NY, USA syncing happens around 7pm. I often walk in the evening… syncs me a day behind. I highly recommend this app for adding a layer of fun and motivation. I just wish it was easier to understand what other players are walking in a day. The numbers are points instead of steps. There are days some seem to walk over 50 miles. **Developer response:** Hi! I am happy to let you know that we just released a new update: the world league now updates every 8 hours, which makes it more fair for everyone. Thanks for walking with us! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Une appli qui motive ! *2025-11-26* J’aime le fait qu’il y ait des défis quotidiens, et un classement hebdomadaire. C’est super de pouvoir collectionner des petits monstres. J’espère juste que les graphismes seront améliorés avec le temps ! **Developer response:** Merci pour votre avis ! Très content que l'app vous plaise, et nous allons faire de notre mieux pour rendre le design encore meilleur. Luc d'Explora ### 5/5 — It’s fun! *2025-11-04* I really enjoy this app, it’s giving me just that extra incentive to keep moving, keep logging my steps to keep earning the little rewards. Join the challenges, those help with the motivation even more! **Developer response:** Thanks a lot for your kind words! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Fun *2025-10-26, version 1.45.16* A very fun way to walk. Just needs a few more real rpg elements! ### 5/5 — enjoy *2025-10-15, version 1.45.14* i enjoy this app very much and pls keep walking together! ### 5/5 — Utile, user-friendly et ludique 🙂 *2025-10-14* Merci pour cette belle app 🙏🙂 **Developer response:** Merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire ! Luc d’Explora ### 5/5 — I love this *2025-10-13, version 1.45.13* Is an excellent app for me ### 3/5 — Buggy *2025-10-11* Post time zone change unable to log steps which means I lose my streak. It feels the more they try to advance the app the bugger it gets! **Developer response:** Hello! I'm sorry for this issue, please reach out to me from the app's contact link in the settings, and I'll be able to restore your streak. Just for your information, we have to lock steps for a few hours after changing time-zones, to prevent some players from changing their phone's clock to cheat and log more steps in one day. We're doing our best to keep the app fair for all, but sometimes there's no perfect solution. Best regards, Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Really fun and motivating *2025-09-14* I downloaded this app to encourage me to get more steps and it’s really played an integral part in motivating me to do so. Worth the subscription! **Developer response:** I'm so happy that Explora is helping you get more steps. Thanks a lot for taking the time to leave a review. Keep going! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — A fun twist to a step tracker *2025-09-12* I am not one for tracking my steps but this app has made it fun. I look forward to racking up points and gems. **Developer response:** That's fantastic to read! Thanks a lot for your review. Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — 好玩的健身遊戲 *2025-07-31, version 1.45.7* 真的很有挑戰樂趣，會讓人想多運動 ### 4/5 — Decent app to keep you motivated *2025-07-23* I enjoy this app for giving me some silly motivation to keep stepping. The collectible creatures and the competition are a pretty good motivation to keep pushing harder. **Developer response:** Thanks a lot for your review! Have a nice day, Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Helps keep me motivated *2025-07-19, version 1.45.5* I wanted an app that could motivate me to walk more because the health benefits of doing it aren’t beneficial enough for me. This app helps keep me on track because I can see things I’m earning immediately since the benefits of walking won’t be seen for a while ### 5/5 — Very motivational *2025-07-19, version 1.45.5* Insipiring to unlock characters especially the monthly challenges. There are also challenges based on the trail assigned chronologically. Cannot reach 400,000 a month yet but 250,000 is always a hit. Reminder keeps it in mind to walk as early as the morning but hoping a “control” in control centre or “widget” for future feature soon. ### 5/5 — Fantastic walking app *2025-07-10* I’ve been using this app for a few months. I’m walking more, and I’m having fun. The leaderboard and events are very effective at giving me this extra motivation I needed. **Developer response:** Hello, thanks a lot for your review! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2025-02-07* This app not only helps me track my steps, it helps encourage me to take more steps. I’m an older disabled person and I can tailor the challenges to fit my abilities. **Developer response:** Hi, I am so happy to read your review. This is precisely the reason why we built this app. Thanks a lot for walking with us! If you have any suggestions to make the app better for you, please reach out to us at hello@explora-app.com. Luc from Explora ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Inutilisable *2025-05-26* Impossible de l’utiliser, après démarrage de l’application une publicité s’affiche avec une promo. Cette page ne part jamais, rien pour la fermer, à part désinstaller et réinstaller l’application dans l’espoir que cette promo soit expirée pour enfin utiliser l’application et valider les pas… pour l’instant je désinstalle et on verra si un jour j’y retourne. Dommage, surtout que en famille on est 7 à avoir le même problème. **Developer response:** Bonjour. Toutes nos excuses pour ce bug, qui a été réglé lors de nos dernières mises à jour. Nous espérons vous retrouver parmi nous dès que possible! Bonne journée, Luc d'Explora ### 1/5 — Focus on Pay Not Steps *2025-01-16* The game is entirely focused on micro transactions. I’m normally a spender on games but not with this one. All you get from recording steps is “XP” which does nothing for your characters in game or actually levels you up at all. It only goes toward a weekly competition. The gems you can get from taking up to 20k steps every single day are worthless compared to the actually quite cheap bundles. What’s the point of playing this game? To put money in the devs pocket. The bundles for purchase do nothing other than get you closer to prestiging where can again earn XP and buy more bundles. Waste of time. **Developer response:** Hi, I am happy to let you know that we improved the user experience a lot since your review, which should help making the benefits of the app easier to understand and enjoy. I hope you'll give us another try, and share your feedback with us! Best regards, Luc from Explora. ### 1/5 — Pass *2024-11-16* The only ‘gamification’ here is the dev convincing users to pay real $$ for imaginary gems and childish avatars… pass. **Developer response:** Dear ElJefeTx, I'm sorry to hear you didn't enjoy Explora. We're constantly working to improve the app and make it more exciting, so we'd love to hear your ideas! Feel free to reach out to us at hello@explora-app.com. Best regards, Luc from Explora ### 1/5 — Froze *2024-06-01, version 1.3.6* Never got it to start. ### 1/5 — Scam *2024-06-01, version 1.3.6* Offered a free pass on AppAdvice but after completing the onboarding there’s not even a discount offered. So sick of these signup scams. ### 1/5 — Can’t get past username *2024-05-31, version 1.3.6* Downloaded the app and unable to get past username screen. It keeps failing despite meeting requirements ### 1/5 — Another paywall squeeze *2024-05-20* Many details seem rushed or poorly planned. Long and repetitive onboarding with lots of “why are you using this app?” insincere questions leads to a paywall before you even see the app. Then this aggressive app rating request. Well, here you go. And it asks for a lot of permissions, and onboarding questions assume you are unmotivated or lazy and you need a dinosaur friend to walk. With all of this, it’s unclear the benefit over apple fitness. **Developer response:** Hello! I'm happy to share that we've created a much simpler onboarding experience that gets you into the action faster. If you're interested, we'd love for you to give it another try. Thank you for your feedback, it helped us improve the app at an early stage. Best regards, Luc ### 2/5 — Fun concept but doesn’t fit daily life *2024-06-04* The app is a fun concept of using your steps as motivation to unlock and collect characters as avatars. In some ways reminds me of the tamagotchi craze from back in the day. But just like the tamagotchi, if you’re not around on the app regularly (in this case as the last thing you do for the day before bed) you don’t get to collect your steps for the day and have to pay to collect yesterday’s steps, or break your streak and lose XP. This is disappointing and frustrating which takes the fun out of using the app, reducing the chances of me returning tomorrow. My steps update automatically on my phone, the should be allowed to be collected the day after for Xp if not for the challenges, which I understand have to be on a time clock. **Developer response:** I am happy to share we just made the step & streak recovery feature free. Thanks for your valuable feedback. We hope to see you back on the app soon! Best regards, Luc from Explora ### 2/5 — Fake lifetime offer *2024-05-31, version 1.3.6* Lifetime offer is not linked to AppStore but to used in the app email. That means at anytime it could be taken away from you. ### 3/5 — Apple Watch *2025-12-19* Why isn’t there an Apple Watch app? It’s definitely more accurate than my phone, as I often leave it in my purse at work. My watch is always on me. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for your review. While there is no standalone Apple Watch app, if you sync your Apple Health data with Explora, the app receives all steps including the ones from your watch. Even if you don't have your phone with you, it will sync when you get back to your phone. Hope this helps, let me know if there's anything I can help you with. Luc from Explora ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Its good *2026-08-06* When i have my phone on me, it helps me track my steps **Developer response:** Thanks a lot for your review! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Makes walking more fun *2026-06-30* This game is a good balance between providing some extra encouragement to get steps, without becoming bloatware like so many other walking games. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind review! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Really fun!!! *2026-06-04* I thought of this as “Just another tracking app” I started to use it and realized you can get different characters and it makes me want to work harder for my goals. I was looking for a fun game, this is it for sure! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind review! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Addictif ! *2026-05-17* L’application est simple mais très addictive. On a très envie de collectionner tous les petits monstres :) **Developer response:** Merci beaucoup pour ton commentaire ! Luc d'Explora ### 5/5 — Keeps you motivated *2026-04-23, version 1.52.1* Great simple game that motivates you without sticking your time with complex interactions. Many times I’ve convinced myself to take the stairs at work because I’ll get Exp for steps! ### 5/5 — A great motivator to keep you moving *2026-04-16* The app is fun and it truly makes me walk more. If you don’t mind spending a few bucks it is even more fun! This developer really cares about users experiences and keeping cheats at bay. Without a good developer, this would be frustrating. He is also active on the discord board. THANK YOU Lucoss! **Developer response:** Hi! I am happy to let you know that we just released a new update: the world league now updates every 8 hours, which makes it more fair for everyone. Thanks for walking with us! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Top *2026-04-11* Application ludique qui pousse à faire davantage de pas **Developer response:** Merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire ! Luc ### 5/5 — Le sport gamifié *2026-04-10* Comment joindre l’utile à l’agréable en faisant du sport tout en jouant la compétition et en gagnant des points **Developer response:** Merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire ! Luc ### 5/5 — Great motivator! *2026-04-01* This app gets me in gear. I get my steps in even on days I would rather stay on the couch because I want that next little critter. **Developer response:** Amazing, thanks for your review! Luc from Explora ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2025-12-03* This app not only helps me track my steps, it helps encourage me to take more steps. I’m an older disabled person and I can tailor the challenges to fit my abilities. **Developer response:** Hi, I am so happy to read your review. This is precisely the reason why we built this app. Thanks a lot for walking with us! If you have any suggestions to make the app better for you, please reach out to us at hello@explora-app.com. Luc from Explora --- *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 2026-08-27.*