# Xenoraid — user reviews > 69 indexed App Store user reviews of Xenoraid by 10tons Ltd, rated 3.60/5 from 56 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xenoraid/id1098089849/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xenoraid/id1098089849.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 30 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Xenoraid? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✨ Amazing graphics and visuals - 🎮 Fun and engaging gameplay - 💡 Unique enemies and storyline - 🚀 Smooth performance on powerful devices - 💎 Polished and high-quality experience - 👍 Strategic depth and RPG elements - 💯 Worth the price for full game - 🕹️ Great take on arcade shooters **Cons** - 💸 High price for full game - 😠 Frustrating controls on some devices - 😩 Difficulty spikes and balance issues - 🚫 Ads before gameplay - 📉 Slow progression and resource management - 😵 Overwhelming UI on smaller screens - 🧱 Unplayable tutorial bugs - 🐌 Sluggish movement and controls **Commonly reported bugs** - Tutorial broken, cannot progress - Controls obscure gameplay on phones - Weapons overheat too quickly - Enemies attack from off-screen - Tech not working as intended - Ads not pausing game - Tutorial weapon firing bug - Sluggish controls **Most requested features** - Availability on Nintendo or Sony PSP - More levels and content - Controller support for PC/consoles - Option to pay upfront instead of in-game purchase - Adjust difficulty or enemy stats - Improved UI scaling for phones - Add Chinese language support ## Newest reviews (11 of 69) ### 3/5 — appleTV : bug *2021-03-22* habe das spiel für 10,99 € gekauft... jedoch deaktiviere ich die Einstellung : „in-APP-käufe“ für gewöhnlich nach solchen Vorgängen (aus Sicherheitsgründen) die APP akzeptiert das aber nicht und will mich dazu zwingen genau diese Einstellung aufzuheben - da es sonst jedes mal in die eingeschränkte Version zurück wechselt... Da sieht man mal wieder was passiert, wenn man von der norm abweicht, und wie wenig diese software getestet wird... ständig muss ich solche Rezensionen schreiben und anderen ihre Arbeit machen (natürlich für lau)... es nervt so sehr.... ### 4/5 — The game is beautiful... but *2019-10-25* On my device (iPod touch) I found the controls made the game unplayable. I imagine the game plays better on a more advanced platform like a modern iPad (2019) I WISH this game was available to be played with either a Nintendo hand held device or a Sony PSP / I would buy this game in two seconds of it were available for any gaming system with actual (not touch screen) controls Developers... please! Get this game to be for sale through Nintendo! ### 2/5 — Would not buy *2019-07-26* just it’s fun just not fun enough to buy ### 2/5 — Nur eine Testversion. *2019-03-07* Kein vollständiges Spiel. Titel ist irreführend. ### 2/5 — Don't buy *2017-08-04* The demo was great. When you buy the full game, and you manage to complete it, the storyline is decent too. But I also love it when none of your tech works, like the anti-tracking things that are supposed to keep you alive but don't work, so you lose that ship. Oh, I also love when the enemies come BACK ONTO the screen from the side or back, and attack you while you helplessly try to dodge them. And the best part of this game is when all of the enemies just ram straight into you. You can dodge as many bullets as you want, but they just suicide straight into your ship. Great game, devs. Really worth the money... ### 3/5 — A good game with frustrating flaws *2017-01-25* The controls are so much easier to the iPad compared to the iPhone, frustratingly. Yet on both the two weapons are too far apart. The difficulty balance seems way off, with massive difficulty for an experienced gamer to even pass the first set of encounters' final level. Either toughen up the paper thin fighters, or allow us to reach the future level where they can have decent armour faster. ### 2/5 — This game *2017-01-20* I've been looking for a space game for my son, this is not a good game ### 2/5 — Were they trying to make the game not fun? *2017-01-19* I'm a big fan of schmups, but this game seems to take the rule book and actively design against it. The result: a frustrating game full of limitations and flaws. Controls are sloppy and awkward (either commit to motion aiming conventions or not) the weapon overheat is absurdly short and punitive (the weapon cooldown takes longer than the overheat itself!) and enemies are consistently attacking from areas occluded by the chunky UI controls (or from outside of the screen entirely). Icing on the cake: repairing all four of your craft can cost more currency than you make in a mission, so advancement is slow and grueling (if even possible). I don't know how you can fix this mess. Sorry devs. ### 3/5 — Pretty good demo *2017-01-18* First of all, the free portion is a demo fueled by ads. --- Blah blah blah Previous complaint about control size on the phone, but it's now more manageable. I don't care too much about the ads; most are short (Most players are for the demo. Don't expect too much from it...). Based on the demo, this game appears to be a bullet hell type of game with restrictions, such as weapon overheat and limited cash to upgrade, to amp up the difficulty. The company's mean to lessen the difficulty was by implementing a dodge-mechanic by switching ships; this gave player a brief invulnerability while giving them full control to move the ship. (Exploit this and manage your ship-switching cooldowns.) --- I personally enjoy the weapon overheat; it gives the game a unique level of difficulty while retaining its bullet hell format. I suppose many players aren't used to these types of game and expected infinite bullets from traditional bullet hell/plane shooter games. A tip to manage weapon overheat is to dodge around bullets often and shoot in short bursts. The game functions on spawning waves of enemies, so you'll be seeing the remaining enemies again. ### 5/5 — Reviews Without Unlocking the Full Game??? *2017-01-18* Revised review considering all the negitives I see here. First off its a premium game and only if you pay the one time premium price (which few have done here apparently) you get the full game and I don't see ads but then I play offline. Second, 10tons designed the controls purposely to give the game/ship actual "feel" when moving the ship, a lost art to some it seems. I play on an iPad and NO ISSUES and controls take but a few moments to get used to, just like many other iOS game. Just playing without paying then to post a review is just worthless, the actual game was never really played. Highly Recommend! Good job 10tons for another suprb game! ### 3/5 — Boring early levels = people won't stay for the higher ones *2017-01-18, version 1.0.7* Seriously, don't insult our gaming abilities with 3 little circles, give us what's shown in the demo! The font is illegible at phone size - was this playtested on real devices? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Nope *2023-07-13, version 1.1.3* This game is woke trash 👎🏻 ### 1/5 — Garbage stay away! *2017-02-11* Can't finish tutorial "press flashing button to fire primary weapon." I can fire it until it overheats, tutorial is broken and nothing, reset it even still won't let me get past. Don't bother with this garbage! ### 1/5 — Nope *2017-02-05* Seems like a fun game, but I never got to play it because they wanted me to sit through ads before I even got the chance to try it. Screw that. Might've paid the 10 bucks for the full version if it was fun. I guess I'll never know. Ah, who'm I kidding? No game is worth $10, I wouldn't have paid that either way. Maybe $5, for a super-fun game with high reply value. But not if they want me to watch ads before they even let me try it one time, that's just stupid. That's not a "demo". That's profiteering, and not fun. Poor way to try to sell a ridiculously overpriced game, didn't work on me. ### 1/5 — Ehhh *2017-01-23* The game is not fun when you only can get 4 levels in and then die because you have no cash and can't buy anymore ships, needs so more improvements in order to be better. ### 1/5 — Epic fail could've been great🚽 *2017-01-21, version 1.0.7* Sluggish controls. The developers worked against there self on this one,The game feels like they tried to hard to be mediocre ### 1/5 — Could be good *2017-01-20* But I would not know cause every mission has an add you have to watch.I turned of my wifi and it still showed adds. Either it access my wifi without permission or they are loaded in the game. ### 1/5 — Height of Greed *2017-01-19* Watch loads of ads or pay $$$$$... I have know idea where is it going ???? They don't even have anything special in the game and they want $4.99..... seriously ????? ### 1/5 — Greedy devs ruin good idea *2017-01-18* Start a level? Watch an ad or pay. That will be the whole game. Not a bad game but extremely bad execution. Will avoid all apps by this group in the future. ### 1/5 — Not free in any way *2017-01-18* It lets you test the controls then prompts you to pay $4.99 to continue. This gets one star for false advertising. Please App Store change this to reflect its actual cost. Total BS ### 1/5 — Escrotão *2017-01-18* O jogo todo e inglês se a pessoa não souber falar que nem eu vai ter dificuldade em tudo no jogo ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very fun game! *2023-01-22* It gets really difficult quickly but very fun to play. Great graphics also. Playing on iPad pro m2 and runs like a dream! ### 5/5 — Srsly? Just a 3.6 rating? *2020-06-14* I love this game! It’s amazing. The graphics, the gameplay, controls, unique enemies, amazing storyline, survival, and I just think it was worth the 10 dollars. I’m just disappointed in these ratings... anyways... keep up the good work! This is definitely my favorite 2D game of all time. ### 5/5 — Very Good game. 10/10 *2018-08-07, version 1.0.8* I had deleted this game. Because the game doesn't have Chinese and it costs $9.99. But after 1 year I was looking for it in the history to download it and buy the full game. Although I didn't even play the whole game, but I didn't find other games to replace it during the year. I understand that this game is so fun.XD (But I don't know how to connect with others) ### 5/5 — Gostei *2018-01-08* É bem legal, mas é pago e tem que ver vídeo pra jogar algumas fases. Mesmo assim, é muito bom. ### 5/5 — Amazing game! *2017-03-31* I love this game! So much fun, I wish there were more of this genre out there... 10tons... please consider adding more levels.. I'd be willing to pay extra for more levels vs in app purchase! ### 5/5 — Great & Unusual Space Shooter *2017-02-12* Once I got used to the controls (20 minutes), the game really shines as something new and fresh. Strategically changing ships is a great new play mechanic. The one star reviews are unfair, it is just a way to provide a good demo before you decide whether or not you want to buy it. I’m liking this as much as I like Neon Chrome, my current favorite dual stick shooter. ### 5/5 — Можно полетать *2017-01-25* Гуд ### 5/5 — Don't trust the negative reviews here, unless they paid... *2017-01-19* Paid and loving it! It's a STRATEGIC SHOOTER people! Not a SHMUP! If you're looking for something strategic and challenging, buy to unlock, worth the price and then some. To add, rpg elements involved here, upgrading ships and more. ### 5/5 — Why 5 Stars? *2017-01-19* Because this is an awesome game hands down! It's polished. It's a single priced premium experience with a long campaign and 3 survival modes and tons of replayability. There are lots of upgrades. There is a lot of diversity with the types of squadrons you can put together. The gameplay is fun and intense. 10tons put a lot of effort into the game and it shows. For all of the whiners complaining about having to pay only $5 for a game it actually costs money to make a game with this quality. If you can't afford to pay $5 then don't bother playing games on your phone cheapskates. I absolutely recommend this game. The controls are well done as well. Thank you 10toms for a great time! ### 5/5 — Great game *2017-01-19* Don't listen to the stupid reviewers complaining about the price. They just want something for free. Just a bunch of whiny people. --- *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 2026-08-20.*