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Bad North: Jotunn Edition
Raw Fury · 1,730 ratings · ★ 3.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 27 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
22 negative reviews mention this · 81% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can’t press “start”. Updated my phone. Checked for game update. Force closed the game and reopened it multiple times. Uninstalled and reinstalled it. GOT A NEWER PHONE. Still nothing. I used to love playing this game and now I can’t even get past the start scre…" - jakecrazy31
2
"play"
9 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can’t press “start”. Updated my phone. Checked for game update. Force closed the game and reopened it multiple times. Uninstalled and reinstalled it. GOT A NEWER PHONE. Still nothing. I used to love playing this game and now I can’t even get past the start scre…" - jakecrazy31
3
"start"
7 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "26.5. Doesn’t work on iOS 26.5 it starts but doesn’t let me click start" - Stereo!!!
4
"crashes"
7 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashing problem. I love this game to the very core, but alas it keeps crashing every time around the 6th campaign. I’ve tried reinstalling app several times and starting new campaigns. Mostly crashes when the new island has a lot of enemies. To be fair I am…" - puxxy5layer
5
"crashing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashing problem. I love this game to the very core, but alas it keeps crashing every time around the 6th campaign. I’ve tried reinstalling app several times and starting new campaigns. Mostly crashes when the new island has a lot of enemies. To be fair I am…" - puxxy5layer
6
"love"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can’t press “start”. Updated my phone. Checked for game update. Force closed the game and reopened it multiple times. Uninstalled and reinstalled it. GOT A NEWER PHONE. Still nothing. I used to love playing this game and now I can’t even get past the start scre…" - jakecrazy31
7
"screen"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can’t press “start”. Updated my phone. Checked for game update. Force closed the game and reopened it multiple times. Uninstalled and reinstalled it. GOT A NEWER PHONE. Still nothing. I used to love playing this game and now I can’t even get past the start scre…" - jakecrazy31
8
"play game"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
9
"doesn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "26.5. Doesn’t work on iOS 26.5 it starts but doesn’t let me click start" - Stereo!!!
10
"work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "26.5. Doesn’t work on iOS 26.5 it starts but doesn’t let me click start" - Stereo!!!
11
"past"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can’t press “start”. Updated my phone. Checked for game update. Force closed the game and reopened it multiple times. Uninstalled and reinstalled it. GOT A NEWER PHONE. Still nothing. I used to love playing this game and now I can’t even get past the start scre…" - jakecrazy31
12
"island"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashing problem. I love this game to the very core, but alas it keeps crashing every time around the 6th campaign. I’ve tried reinstalling app several times and starting new campaigns. Mostly crashes when the new island has a lot of enemies. To be fair I am…" - puxxy5layer
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26.5
Doesn’t work on iOS 26.5 it starts but doesn’t let me click start
Can’t press “start”
Updated my phone. Checked for game update. Force closed the game and reopened it multiple times. Uninstalled and reinstalled it. GOT A NEWER PHONE. Still nothing. I used to love playing this game and now I can’t even get past the start screen. I don’t know what is going on or what update broke this game for me. But it’s been bugged for a long time. Maybe I’ll change my review if ever I’m allowed to actually play the game again.
It wasn’t bad
The game was awesome until it randomly locked me out of playing forever
Unupdated
This game is not updated for newer iphones and should not be available for sale
Abandoned a great game
I don’t know why the devs have abandoned this game. It was GREAT!
Update or sequel please!
Update or sequel please!
Problems
This is the second time that I become so near to the end but after loading the saved game it crushes when touching an island PLEASE FIX IT, and maybe you can try to do some updates as well from time to time that will be cool
Not playable on 11 Pro Max
The art in this game is so cool! I really want to play, but this should not be available in the app store as is. The font is too small to read, with too little contrast, and no options to change it. Some gameplay elements (like selecting a commander) appear in the “notch” of my screen.
Just not accessible or playable for me ):
Just not accessible or playable for me ):
Can’t open game
When the game loads up I try pressing start and nothing happens. I’ve tried updating the game, my phone, deleting the game and reinstalling, I’ve tried everything. Love the game but just has issues.
Buggy???
Game physically won’t go past the start menu even after uninstalling. Wont mind much if I didn’t have to pay for a game that won’t work.
Doesn’t work
Crashes when Game Center logs you in. Waste of money.
Crashes
Super buggy. Don’t buy. Most of my campaigns have ended with the game crashing on load. Great play. Not worth the frustration of putting in 6 hours to not be able to finish.
Great game with bugs
The game was fun when I played but when I got to my 9th save it would just keep crashing over and over. This game is great but makes me sad I can not play it. If you want a game with lots of play time this game might not be the best.
How about some updates?
??????
Can’t play it on iPhone 14 pro
The buttons on the left side are covered by the dynamic island. Here is hoping they update it at some point.
Crashes
Love this game. Sad I can’t play it without it crashing halfway through every playthrough.
Needs a save feature
Everytime the game crashes(not often so it’s not bad) or just going to the menu resets all progress. The game is so much fun but without a way to save its unplayable
Map? Needs better tutorial.
This game was super cool, had almost 10 commanders all maxed out and then I hit next turn and suddenly the game is over? This was not even explained in the tutorial.
Lost all my progress because of this.
Lost all my progress because of this.
Fix!
Incredibly frustrating! I couldn’t press the “start” button on the main screen so I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it and just to make sure it worked I tried it right afterwards and it let me start a game so I though “problem solved” only to see now a few days later that it’s giving me the same problem.. this is very annoying. I bought this game and I can’t even play it.. fix this issue so I can play the game I bought.
Crashes constantly
Great game, the crashing constantly on iPad is a joke
Touch Controls Buggy
This game seems great but the 90% of the time i cannot get my unit to move to the correct tile, its extremely frustrating and just kills the experience
Game won’t get past start screen
I redownloaded this game recently and for some reason once it’s gets to the start button screen it doesn’t do anything. Really hope there’s a way to fix it and I’m not just locked out of this game completely
Crashing problem
I love this game to the very core, but alas it keeps crashing every time around the 6th campaign. I’ve tried reinstalling app several times and starting new campaigns. Mostly crashes when the new island has a lot of enemies. To be fair I am running on a iPhone 7 lol
iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island Blocking
The dynamic island notch blocks the troops when trying to place them
Compatibility
It doesn’t even work with any iPhone that doesn’t have a home button anymore. The game has been abandoned by the devs and barely works when the start button breaks the moment Game Center logs you in. Everything about this game had a chance to exceed and be great but has been thrown away into a dumpster fire.
Good but kick out of game
So when I reach like half way it kicks me out over and over again and at that point I just don’t play the game anymore due to the fact that I can’t even play it
Crashes to mush
I love the game that y’all have made and I keep getting drawn to it but when I do play it the game always crashes and sends me back to my Home Screen, to add to that after I get past 50% completion most times I can’t even load into the islands without it crashing, the last thing is that when I do get to around 67% the game wont allow me to load my saves, I love the game I really do but if this stuff could be fix that would be awesome.
Meh
Great graphics and interface. Beautiful ambiance. Slow painful gameplay. Poor tutorials. Overall quite mundane.
Sentiment summary
66%
Positive (4-5★)
9%
Neutral (3★)
25%
Negative (1-2★)