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Vampire Survivors
Poncle · 5,030 ratings · ★ 4.6
4.6
★★★★★
5,030 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 14 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"
11 negative reviews mention this · 79% of all complaints
★★★★★ "New UI is not good. You can’t see how much characters cost after the newest updates, and seeing number of golden eggs now requires opening a second menu. Love the game but it was better before the last update. It’s crazy to me you can’t see how much character …" - battlespork
2
"play"
5 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointing….. I’ve been having a couple of issues as far as starting up the app. Why does it keep redownloading the new stages every few times as soon as I start the game??? And why does it slow down during the gameplay? It’s been happening a lot and it’…" - Juanito👨🏽
3
"does"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointing….. I’ve been having a couple of issues as far as starting up the app. Why does it keep redownloading the new stages every few times as soon as I start the game??? And why does it slow down during the gameplay? It’s been happening a lot and it’…" - Juanito👨🏽
4
"completely"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paid but why asking me to watch an ad?. I paid for this full game. The fact that the game, after you die, asks if you want to watch an ad to revive? It makes me completely think they cheat and kill you simply to make you watch the ad and so they get more money. I can’t even belie…" - Theonlyturnr
5
"mobile"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Embarrassing mobile implementation. Fun game but unfortunately hindered by critical flaws for mobile. Considering how much popularity and money this game’s made it’s just entirely unacceptable and I’m sorry to say it either lacks basic attention or motivation. For a mobile g…" - Sensei Tangie
6
"save"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Embarrassing mobile implementation. Fun game but unfortunately hindered by critical flaws for mobile. Considering how much popularity and money this game’s made it’s just entirely unacceptable and I’m sorry to say it either lacks basic attention or motivation. For a mobile g…" - Sensei Tangie
7
"unplayable"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Embarrassing mobile implementation. Fun game but unfortunately hindered by critical flaws for mobile. Considering how much popularity and money this game’s made it’s just entirely unacceptable and I’m sorry to say it either lacks basic attention or motivation. For a mobile g…" - Sensei Tangie
8
"progress"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Embarrassing mobile implementation. Fun game but unfortunately hindered by critical flaws for mobile. Considering how much popularity and money this game’s made it’s just entirely unacceptable and I’m sorry to say it either lacks basic attention or motivation. For a mobile g…" - Sensei Tangie
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Disappointing….
I’ve been having a couple of issues as far as starting up the app. Why does it keep redownloading the new stages every few times as soon as I start the game??? And why does it slow down during the gameplay? It’s been happening a lot and it’s not fun to play anymore! I like this game but it definitely has issues! Now, I can’t even finish the game without crashing and kicking me out!!!! Unbelievable and ridiculous!
absolutely not an action game, literally a gambling game
total slop
The optional ads are awful just let me buy the game
Just let me buy the game. And the ads are long and intrusive.
Paid but why asking me to watch an ad?
I paid for this full game. The fact that the game, after you die, asks if you want to watch an ad to revive? It makes me completely think they cheat and kill you simply to make you watch the ad and so they get more money. I can’t even believe this. I won’t play this game after this. It feels cheap.
Unplayable on iOS
The game has no save feature. Since runs often take longer than half an hour and a lot of people on iOS frequently play in five minute stints. You either have to leave your phone with the app open and paused for hours until your next 5 minute play session, or you have to only play when you have more than half an hour to sit and play, which probably means you’re at home by a console or computer you’re going to play on instead.
Otherwise, your runs will constantly be wiped when you lock your phone between play sessions, making it unplayable.
I realize iOS is what closes apps due to inactivity, but that’s why most games I’ve played on iOS program a save/continue feature into their games so it’s accessible to iOS users that don’t have a half hour or more to just play on their phone.
The game is amazing, I just wish I could play it on iOS.
Otherwise, your runs will constantly be wiped when you lock your phone between play sessions, making it unplayable.
I realize iOS is what closes apps due to inactivity, but that’s why most games I’ve played on iOS program a save/continue feature into their games so it’s accessible to iOS users that don’t have a half hour or more to just play on their phone.
The game is amazing, I just wish I could play it on iOS.
Keep losing progress
Why does the game restart every time I switch apps even for a minute?!? I thought it was a fluke at first but after being 25 minutes into a run, I check something else in another app for maybe a minute, and when I come back to the game, it completely restarts as if it's the first time opening it! What is this garbage?!? Is it that badly developed? Wow, garbage
Corrupted save file
The game would not run after almost finishing the whole campaign almost all achievements are unlocked! One such a shame! Don’t waste your time on a game that can’t get file saving right.
PLEASE FIX SANTA WATER
Santa water evolution is so spread out, does not throw out or overlap and is ruining phone version experience of this game
Where is Online?
Says they updated and added Online a month ago to mobile. Its nowhere to be seen…
ad freezes
was watching an ad to revive my character and it froze and i lost all my progress.
New UI is not good
You can’t see how much characters cost after the newest updates, and seeing number of golden eggs now requires opening a second menu. Love the game but it was better before the last update. It’s crazy to me you can’t see how much character cost and have to keep trying and hoping…
Embarrassing mobile implementation
Fun game but unfortunately hindered by critical flaws for mobile. Considering how much popularity and money this game’s made it’s just entirely unacceptable and I’m sorry to say it either lacks basic attention or motivation.
For a mobile game there’s no saving. I’d sometimes play 20min while I have the chance (kinda a huge point of mobile),
put it down and come back to it. As soon as an hour later and firstly the game is completely unloaded and secondly there’s no save to remediate that issue. It’s bad enough to lose a run that was going well, but afaik it effectively wipes it from existence.
This is in contrast to other simple pixel art style mobile games across genres I’ve moved onto that for one seem to be able to stay loaded in memory just fine… even for a couple hours or so. Which leads me to believe this isn’t just a iOS garbage collection issue but an app issue. Secondly most any other game has the ability to resume saves regardless for that reason along many others.
What’s sad is what could brighten someone’s day as a simple game to play during a break, commute, and between things in general instead ruins that whole idea. It’s also just generally disrespectful of people’s time because of the save issues at least and for that for such a successful and pretty mature game at this point there’s no reasonable justification to provide.
The controls also at times
feel non-responsive or not sensitive/reactive enough and/or located poorly. I’ve died many times to coming out of an ad or pausing and resuming.
With Vampire Survivor it was like the thinking was yup this is a game that naturally fits well in a mobile format and then couldn’t be bothered and in result ported it rather lazily and with UX issues.
Despite the harsh points I say this out of care of wanting to see a better game and hope I can come back in the future, but at the moment I’m fed up and it’s effectively unplayable to me to consistently lose progress. If I have to sit down and commit to more games many more options generally become available to situations where that is possible.
For a mobile game there’s no saving. I’d sometimes play 20min while I have the chance (kinda a huge point of mobile),
put it down and come back to it. As soon as an hour later and firstly the game is completely unloaded and secondly there’s no save to remediate that issue. It’s bad enough to lose a run that was going well, but afaik it effectively wipes it from existence.
This is in contrast to other simple pixel art style mobile games across genres I’ve moved onto that for one seem to be able to stay loaded in memory just fine… even for a couple hours or so. Which leads me to believe this isn’t just a iOS garbage collection issue but an app issue. Secondly most any other game has the ability to resume saves regardless for that reason along many others.
What’s sad is what could brighten someone’s day as a simple game to play during a break, commute, and between things in general instead ruins that whole idea. It’s also just generally disrespectful of people’s time because of the save issues at least and for that for such a successful and pretty mature game at this point there’s no reasonable justification to provide.
The controls also at times
feel non-responsive or not sensitive/reactive enough and/or located poorly. I’ve died many times to coming out of an ad or pausing and resuming.
With Vampire Survivor it was like the thinking was yup this is a game that naturally fits well in a mobile format and then couldn’t be bothered and in result ported it rather lazily and with UX issues.
Despite the harsh points I say this out of care of wanting to see a better game and hope I can come back in the future, but at the moment I’m fed up and it’s effectively unplayable to me to consistently lose progress. If I have to sit down and commit to more games many more options generally become available to situations where that is possible.
Crashes
The game itself is a 10/10, but the mobile app continues to crash and renders the game unplayable.
Lockdown mode
Says play offline yet I can’t play it with lockdown enabled.
Sentiment summary
90%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
7%
Negative (1-2★)