# XenoShyft — user reviews > 72 indexed App Store user reviews of XenoShyft by Twin Sails Interactive, rated 3.40/5 from 27 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xenoshyft/id981289341/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xenoshyft/id981289341.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 10 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (16 of 72) ### 4/5 — Like a FPS like Lost Planet/Halo/Marathon *2022-11-15, version 2.2.2* Has the feel of the old time dungeon crawling alien first person shooters but mix in some deck building action. Love the card designs; enemy units; different weapons. Great game would love an Xbox one port with achievements. ### 3/5 — Almost Great *2022-07-26, version 2.2.2* I really like this game as the coop is awesome. But it’s freaking buggy and there’s no way to undo some things you are stuck with it. It’s hard so these frustrating broken ai choices it forces you into break the game. Good job on the game, keep at it. It’s almost there. ### 2/5 — Years later, still not balanced *2021-12-16, version 2.2.2* I like the idea of this game. I like the styling of this game. I like the system used by this game. I do not like the balance of this game. I get that the game creators like games that may be impossible to win even even if the player was clairvoyant and used perfect strategy. I don’t. ### 2/5 — Great visuals, Asmodee’s same terrible interface *2021-07-11, version 2.2.2* This game looks great and keeps in the spirit of the board game. However, trying to play cards and/or their abilities is atrocious. Typical from Asmodee games on the phone that I have played. Spend more time trying to perform functions and actions than making strategic decisions. ### 4/5 — challenging game! Crying out for local play or pass n play *2020-05-10, version 2.2.2* I want to play this with friends, at least as pass n play or better still, with both of us on our own iPads. I am not interested in online. However as a solo game it is still great, really tough, good visuals and simple mechanics, you can also play as the other players by simply controlling their resources- it works fine. This is a very good implementation of the board game I.E. a thematic alien vs man survival deckbuilder, easy to learn and a game takes between 5-25 minutes, although only if you survive that long! Not won yet, not because of poor or unrealistic AI, but because it is a really hard game! ### 4/5 — Excellent game. No bugs I can see *2020-04-05, version 2.2.2* A well made game of co-op troop management. Usually I find deck builders to have pasted on theme but this one has mechanics that decently reflect the theme it is trying to convey. Though this is weakened with the psyonics and gen mid expansion a bit I feel. A little practice has us winning easily at 2 division. Game is rather hard at 1 division. The difficulty settings are well gauged with easy being quite easy, normal being a decent challenge and hard being insane. I definitely suggest getting the elites expansion. It’s a couple bucks but gives a lot more theme and strategy to the game by allowing surviving troops to level up. My only complaint involves the UI for activating the expansions you have bought. There are expansions to the base game, an expandalone game, and expansions to that other game. Some of the expansions work with the base game some work on both and some only on the second game. This is the nature of the game, very complicated, but the UI doesn’t help at all by explaining the difference between playing Onslaught with the Dreadmire expansion and playing Dreadmire with the Onslaught expansion. It’s very confusing with no information to decipher the puzzle. ### 2/5 — Potential But Too Many Issues *2017-07-01, version 1.8.7* This app has a lot to love, good art and animations, smooth flow, and a good core engine. Too bad no one at CMON apparently ever played this game. This game is beyond hard, in many ways it is impossible to win. One example, in wave one, you could get a combination of two enemies that can nullify most of you attacks, this means in round one, through no fault of your own, you can lost half or more of your bases hp against the easiest wave, and that is just one example. The game is littered with impossible combinations. Once you get the engine down you should be able to get to round 7 consistently, but anything beyond that is all up to the random gods. I even bought some expansions in hopes it would make the game winnable. No luck there. In addition the app is buggy, constantly freezing and forcing you to close, save, and restart. So here is an app that should be getting four or even five stars getting two because CMON doesn't seem to care. Too bad. ### 3/5 — Buggy *2017-05-29, version 1.8.7* Game is fantastic, hands down. That's not in debate. The app is buggy though. You can't draw any of the free troops to fill your line, and if the screen ever locks, you can't proceed. It won't allow item selection when you unlock the screen. 😞 Very sad, as this awesome game needs more exposure, bad exposure may kill it prematurely though. ### 2/5 — Entertaining but Unwinnable *2017-01-30, version 1.8.6* This game shows a lot of promise. Unfortunately, they should have tested it a bit before releasing it, as it is so unbalanced as to be fully unwinnable. If you play perfectly, you can actually make it to the 8th of 9 rounds before the enemy's extremely over powered cards wipe you out. This is in "easy" mode. They need to rebalance the game. This could be achieved by starting your base with 30 hit points rather than 20. Otherwise, this is like an 80s arcade game, you can never win, you just get as far as you can before you inevitably lose. ### 3/5 — Trop chere *2016-12-21, version 1.8.6* 7$ pour un jeux sans animation, ### 4/5 — Fun...Hard *2016-03-19, version 1.7.1* Great deck building game. I haven't beat it yet! ### 2/5 — Still needs fixing... *2016-02-23, version 1.6.2* Still cannot access expansions if the device is not connected to the internet when the app launches. Please fix, it will make flying so much better... ### 3/5 — Good luck winning a game *2016-02-17, version 1.6.2* Let me start by saying this game has potential- looks pretty stinkin cool. It is incredibly well-designed... except for the difficulty. The enemies are incredibly hard and upping the base's health doesn't help much. I have yet to actually win a game after numerous tries and I actually kindof dread booting it up, as there is this sense that you will always lose. Thus it will be one of those apps that gets lost in the depths of my phone. Save the money (I know I wish I did) and put it toward the board game- at least then you can create house rules that might level the playing field. ### 2/5 — Bugged *2016-02-03, version 1.6.1* Game isn't even playable cuz it won't let me click done to move on after they claimed to have fixed it. I want my money back. Actually I would prefer a working app of a great table top game. ### 3/5 — Good so far, but... *2016-02-01, version 1.6.1* The Good: The game is fun, challenging, and has a lot of strategy. The VO is cool, and the graphics are great. Touch sensitivity seems spot-on. The Bad: The tutorial has a REALLY stupid bug, where they talk about the "DONE" button...but it's actually a "CANCEL" button (like THAT is intuitive :P). This is an easy fix that should NOT be in a professional level game (especially in a tutorial level). The game was a bit challenging to grasp, until I played the tutorial. Not a big ding for that...but it seems weird not to direct first time players into it first. The difficulty is REALLY high. When the game is on "EASY" it feels "HARD" and doesn't make me want to even see the "NORMAL" or "HARD" levels. I was playing a 1-lane solo game...but that IS something I can play so the game should scale to match. It doesn't. Beating someone down on their first try is *really* disenchanting. I will revisit the game at some future point, and it IS worth getting if you like the theme...just be aware of what you're getting yourself into. ### 2/5 — Nope *2016-01-31, version 1.6.1* Impossible to beat on easy, unintuitive UI, nobody playing multiplayer. Feeling robbed. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Fun but crashed first time I switched apps. *2020-03-11, version 2.2.2* It’s gripping. I’m buying the board game. But this thing crashed. I was in my way to winning. I don’t even think it saved that I was winning, so a total waste of time. Update: crash the second time I played and I did not even switch out of the app. Considering asking for a refund because this is unplayable. ### 1/5 — Buggy Mess *2019-05-27, version 2.2.2* Buttons are tied to animations. So hitting the done button twice too quickly will skip entire phases, bypassing the game’s own warning prompts. An easy fix to this would be the ability to go back to acquire phase from deploy phase. A few cards need more detail, such as the Prototype Heat Lance Shotgun which doesn’t specify that it only targets it’s own lane. There are also other bugs such as being unable to discard certain cards during wrap-up phase, which ended up costing me a Hard game on the very last round. ### 1/5 — Ver 2.0.2 crashes after deploy phase. *2018-08-20, version 2.0.3* Updated review for 2.0.2. iPad 4 iOS 10.3.3 - game crashes but after deployment phase. ### 1/5 — Multiplayer broken *2017-12-25, version 1.8.9* 3 attempts to complete a multiplayer game, keeps crashing. If this was fixed I’d rate it 4 star. Waste of time and money right now. ### 1/5 — Bug bug bug (and not the good one) *2017-05-23, version 1.8.7* Game full of bug. Crashes, I cannot even start a game. Then when I delete and reinstall, I might be able to play one or 2 games before the t get unplayable again. iPad Air 2 ### 1/5 — Frustrating QC still *2016-07-22, version 1.8.4* Centipedes still don't work right since they added needing to press "Done" after every stage of combat. Games take forever and the bugs make it unenjoyable. I feel like I've given this game enough chances. I can no longer recommend buying this b Great game but SO frustrating that they don't thoroughly test each release!!! ### 1/5 — Unplayable *2016-07-17, version 1.8.3* The tutorial freezes halfway through and nothing will let me continue. ### 1/5 — 게임의 재미가 문제가 아닙니다. *2016-01-12* 버그가 너무 심합니다. 게임을 하는지 바그테스트를 하고있는지 모를정도로 빈번하게 버그가 일어납니다. 게임이 재미있어버여서 환불은 안받고 다음버전 지켜보겠습니다만... 좀 심하네요 ### 1/5 — Failed implementation *2015-08-24, version 1.0.5* First of, lets give the game its due: its fun to play and the artwork is superb. The game is ment to be played online with other players to tag team the game in coop. The big problem is that theres NO GAMES ONLINE! So you're pretty much cut out of most of the fun of the game. It would of been simple for the developper to add a capitain chair mode where a single player can play multiple roles like pandemic for example but I guess they thought more money could be made if all people had a copy... Presently, theres too many things wrong with it's present form to be worth the price that's asked. Important bugs that need to be ironed out that have a direct impact on the game play. For example: -impossible to pick trrops from the discard deck which renders some cards dead weight. -crashes intermitently. -can't resume a game. So if you had to close your ipad for some reason all progress is lost. The games already hard enough toco additionnal handicap of bad playtesting. ### 1/5 — Can't take cards from discard *2015-08-23, version 1.0.5* Fix the ability to take cards from the discard pile! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Recomendo *2021-10-23* Muito bem feito e dinâmico. Roda bem no meu IPad Air. ### 5/5 — Must be fixed! Works great! *2018-11-24, version 2.1.1* I took a chance on this, seeing all of the negative reviews, but the crashing issues are fixed! I had no issues on my iPhone X or iPad Air 2. It requires patience learning how to activate abilities/card effects (play the tutorial). Of course it's more fun co-op, but solo mode is a blast. This game is alot of fun and very challenging. Good luck! ### 5/5 — Génial ! *2018-04-08* Horrible, ce jeu est machiavélique, les monstres sont sans pitiés, on se fait trépaner affreusement ... et pourtant on y retourne ... manque que la traduction en français, iPad pro ### 5/5 — Great game but... *2018-02-07, version 1.8.10* This game is really fun but the multiplayer is basically impossible to finish because of bugs. Also the art is really satisfying. ### 5/5 — Tons of Fun *2016-12-23, version 1.8.6* Sure you lose nine out of 10 times when playing the AI, but it's addictive to try to pick the weapons/first aid/armor/action cards and lay out your troops in order to survive against the relentless aliens. Very high quality production. It appears updates have fixed most issues ### 5/5 — Great deck builder *2016-07-21, version 1.8.4* Thanks for fixing the card graphics glitch. This is a great and challenging deck builder with some unique mechanics. ### 5/5 — Don't update! Super bugged *2016-07-08, version 1.8.2* I just installed the new update and now it only displays a weird zoomed in look on the left side of every card. When you hover over a card to zoom and view it you can't even read it because it's zoomed in so bad. Please fix this and for those that haven't downloaded latest update, don't. ### 5/5 — Excellent mobile adaptation *2016-01-04, version 1.6* Great game, great deck building / puzzle game, great challenge and neat art. I love "deck building games" and while this may not play exactly like Dominion or Ascension, it has it own style. I've been very impressed with it so far, it's been surprisingly difficult to play a "solo game" on easy mode. The enemy deck is just so tough regardless. It was great learning how the cards resolve and learning how each "division" deck played differently. I would be highly interested in seeing what the expansions add and to be honest this makes me want to buy the all the hard copy cards and play win my friends. ### 5/5 — awesome game, very fun! *2015-11-02, version 1.4.2* wonderful combination of card and tower defense, highly recommended ... plus it reminds me of the all time great Aliens movie! ### 5/5 — This game just keeps getting better. *2015-10-21, version 1.4* 1 star reviewer turned Huge fan. These Dev's really care about this game. They keep adding more great content. They fixed everything we requested in solo play. It is now possible to pass and play as well. I'm hooked! --- *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.*