# Wayward Souls — user reviews > 343 indexed App Store user reviews of Wayward Souls by Rocketcat LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 531 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wayward-souls/id857555369/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wayward-souls/id857555369.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 422 · 4★ 36 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 17 · 1★ 36 ## What do users think of Wayward Souls? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Excellent gameplay - 🎨 Beautiful pixel art and music - 🔥 Highly addictive and challenging - 💰 Good value for money - 🔁 High replayability - 🕹️ Tight and responsive controls - 🌍 Immersive world and story **Cons** - 🤕 Extremely difficult and punishing - 🔁 Repetitive grinding to progress - 🕹️ Occasional control issues - 🐛 Bugs and crashes (especially on older devices) - 💔 Loss of progress on death can be frustrating **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when using teleporters - Compatibility issues on older iOS devices - Glitches with certain enemy behaviors **Most requested features** - Difficulty options or modes - Checkpoints or save system - Multiplayer co-op - More character classes and upgrades - Cloud save support ## Newest reviews (14 of 343) ### 4/5 — Really fun game *2024-04-07, version 1.61* It’s super fun but it really needs to have a cloud save option…. 🙏🙏☁️☁️☁️🤩 ### 2/5 — Really? *2024-04-05, version 1.61* You cannot shoot or attack diagonally, this game has been on my wishlist for a while so I was excited to start it up. Lost interest about 2 minutes in when I was killed because I had to line up with an enemy, stand still, shoot and then the enemy would move out of the way. It’s ridiculous that you cannot shoot diagonally in a game like this. Frustrating, annoying, and a waste of time. If you could shoot diagonally I would give this five stars. ### 3/5 — Meh… *2024-02-27, version 1.61* I really want to like this game… I really tried. Nice graphics, great replay, nice options and gameplay, but the grinding …. If there some kind of carry over or stat improvement … I really want to like this game, but… ### 3/5 — Well Made But Not For Me *2023-05-28, version 1.61* If you’re generally a fan of Roguelikes, you can stop reading here and hit the Buy button. It’s well crafted and mechanically deep, certainly worth it for a fan of the genre. But, if you’re like me, this game won’t be the Roguelike to get you into the genre. Despite procedurally generated levels, I found it maddeningly repetitive, without enough progression between runs to feel different or varied. The separate characters played somewhat differently initially but the game felt stale pretty quickly regardless of who you’re playing with. This isn’t coming from someone who played an hour, died a bunch, and quit. I logged enough hours and made enough progress to say that I think I understand what the game has to offer. It just isn’t for me. TLDR: if you like Roguelikes and don’t mind replaying the same section repeatedly, it’s a very impressive mobile version of the genre. If you aren’t already sold on Roguelikes, like me, I’d recommend you skip it. ### 4/5 — Thanks for keeping it updated. *2023-04-07, version 1.61* A lot of games from this era are not playable on current iOS devices, so it’s nice that this well-designed game has been brought along. ### 4/5 — Great game but difficult! *2022-12-28, version 1.61* I am at the end of it, everything unlocked, but stuck. I may not be able to finish it. ### 2/5 — Why *2022-10-24, version 1.61* Sorry but playing the same level 30+ times isn’t fun. Need to feel like I’m making progress. Great music and visuals though. ### 2/5 — Boring *2022-09-28* I can’t believe I paid for this 🤦‍♂️ ### 2/5 — 面白いけど… *2022-09-27* 遊んでいて移動時に画面をスクロールしているとテクスチャーの繋ぎ目に線が入るのが気になるかな。 ### 3/5 — Missing content… *2022-08-04, version 1.61* The paladin level is tough, on PC it’s easier because of the extra content. We pay for the game as well maybe not on PC but it would be nice to be able to enjoy the game as well :) ### 5/5 — 絵柄もいい *2022-07-09* psゲーです、面白い。 道中で武器や防具などを集めながら進め敵を倒していくゲーム 集めた武具は持ち越せないが集めたコインが貯まるのでコインを使ってスキルをレベルアップ出来る、あとはpsを上げて戦うrpgです ### 4/5 — Decent! *2022-05-30, version 1.61* Pretty happy with the purchase. Worth it when you just want to play something simple for 10 min spurts. Cool variability in that you’ll never play the same dungeon twice. ### 3/5 — Disappointing dated rogue frustration *2022-04-22, version 1.61* Do you like repetitive, grindy gameplay with clunky slow movement while getting attacked off the edge of the screen? Then Wayward Souls is for you! RocketCat dropped the ball on this one. I played this on the coattails of Mage Gauntlet, one of my favorite mobile titles. It’s like they took all the amazing pixel graphics, beautiful haunting atmospheric music, and clever animations and battle mechanics of Mage Gauntlet and wrapped it in crappy procedural generation, making the difficulty infuriatingly steep to encourage replay and make up for the lack of actual content. It tosses out all the things that make roguelikes enjoyable - do you feel like you gradually learn enemy behavior and improve on your own merits? No, even when I know what I WANT to do, the clunky 4-directional attacks often go in the wrong direction, while enemies have full 360 degree attacks and are all twice as fast as me. Are you rewarded for skillful and tactical gameplay? No, you might randomly stumble into a room 10x harder than any other and ruin your whole run right there for no reason, with each stage being painfully long and repetitive. Are you making tough risk-reward decisions? No, exploration is entirely pointless in Wayward Souls. The only things to discover are random story elements that try to kill you, and difficult dead-end rooms with no telegraphing whatsoever. Weapon and skill upgrades are lateral moves - changing mechanics with downsides that usually overshadow your default move set. I stopped picking them up because they actually DECREASED my performance. And the game is so DARK trying to be atmospheric that I can never see what the heck is going on and often get blindsided with my screen at maximum brightness. I want so desperately to like this game. It comes from a fantastic development team with clever snappy writing and beautiful art design. I love all of their other games to bits, 5 stars across the board. But I wouldn’t even recommend this game to rogue or dark souls fans. There are better options out there in 2022, save yourself the disappointment. ### 4/5 — Great game, but no saves *2022-04-11, version 1.61* I redownloaded the game on my new phone, and all my progress was erased! Bummer! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Why did I pay money for this *2025-01-13, version 1.61* This game is very poorly Made. Horrible controls, lazy enemy design, very boring game ### 1/5 — Not great…or good *2024-05-13, version 1.61* pointless to play on a phone without a controller attachment. Hot boxes for characters are too large and awkward making it not a game of skill but of chance. I’ll be requesting a refund, my home screen is more fun to look at then trying to play this game on a phone. ### 1/5 — Progress *2023-05-17, version 1.61* Can you make it so when I delete the game I can save my progress, and make it so that I can save my progress across different devices? ### 1/5 — graphics like 1980s *2023-05-04, version 1.61* omg the arcade games in my like local pubs were better in 85 ### 1/5 — Trash *2022-10-09, version 1.61* Unfair mechanics ### 1/5 — Unplayable on larger screen *2022-06-29, version 1.61* Downloaded this game on my iPad. It was fun for a bit then increasingly frustrating because it was impossible to get the controls working fluidly with the larger screen size. It felt so awkward and my hands kept cramping up. It might be fine if you have a small iPad or massive hands but otherwise don’t waste your money. ### 1/5 — worst game *2020-02-04, version 1.42* bad game i ever played in my life. its hard ro control deal with enemies all kind of thins r too complicated i want ma money back ### 1/5 — When will you update your mobile version?!!! *2020-01-07, version 1.42* No Paladin update, no new content, enjoy your one star. It all this game deserves. It didn’t used to be that way but after the developer basically abandoned the mobile version, not much else to say. Thanks a whole hell of a lot. I used to love your games but not now. ### 1/5 — Awkward Controls *2019-12-11, version 1.42* “Fancy control scheme” - don’t buy it, controls are the same as every other mobile game and awful. ### 1/5 — Abandon *2019-11-15, version 1.42* No more ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good game… but *2026-01-01, version 1.61* This game is good but please add iCloud save. I can’t switch progress bettween my divices. ### 5/5 — This Is the Best Game on the App Store *2025-11-25, version 1.61* As a guy in his mid-30's who has been an avid gamer since he was about 4 years old, Wayward Souls is honestly one of my favourite video games of all time, and if you don't play it, I actually feel sorry for you. This is literally the very best game out of thousands and thousands of games on the App Store. I don't even care that I'm totally shilling the hell out of it right now, it's that's good. Buy it. ### 5/5 — Truly masterpiece *2025-03-11* Gorgeous pixil art with awesome story. ### 5/5 — One of the best *2024-05-31, version 1.61* This is truly one of the best action RPGs on mobile. Rocket if you could just make it to where we could listen to our own audio while playing I would appreciate it. I’d like to listen to my podcasts and audiobooks while I play. Thank you for making such great games without microtransactions! Truly a hero of the people. ### 5/5 — Awesome except *2024-03-22, version 1.61* when the game glitches and I’m locked in a room with no enemies spawning and no way out. A heartbreaking glitch. ### 5/5 — Mobile Masterpiece *2024-03-09, version 1.61* This game is the perfect successor to Mage Gauntlet, which I adored as a teenager. Though I would love if I could sync my game data in iCloud, so I could continue playing on my iPad! Love you guys ❤️ ### 5/5 — Undeniably one of the best mobile games *2023-06-21, version 1.61* We all know mobile games these days are senseless, low effort, ad revenue sponges. But this game has held up for years and years. The gameplay is fun, the content is expansive, and the experience is an amazing time. This is one of the few mobile games I am actually happy I spent money on, and I hope and pray that it doesn’t become unsupported and unplayable. ### 5/5 — Simply Wonderful *2022-11-19, version 1.61* Playing for hours and hours, hopefully more content soon! ### 5/5 — Add Three More Classes. *2022-08-09, version 1.61* Add a Witch, WitchDoctor, and Magician class. Allow the Witch to use witchcraft and the WitchDoctor to use voodoo. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2022-07-18, version 1.61* I have had this installed for years and play it all the time - it’s hard, very hard but so rewarding - I’m still working my way through the story and trying to max all characters (just the Mage to go)and really hope they continue development of this game as it really deserves it --- *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 2026-08-29.*