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Wish there were more to the map like you get the option to move to another town. After exploring the entire map it becomes boring and repetitive. Or worse, if your map is bad. Like no real useful buildings are close by each other making you have to travel the whole map for a factory and then the police station is across the map. Or if there’s only one. Or if all of your good buildings are only on one side of the map, making you only visit that spot the whole game. This kinda ruins the whole point of even having the map so big when everything you need is literally 5 hours away from your camp. I wish there were more options rather than this repetitive feel of going to one spot of the map over and over because the other sides of the map is essentially useless. The aliens also are a waste of time. I wish they dropped cool stuff like alien weapons or sword. Literally I just run away since they are a waste of time. It would be cool to have alien animals, like alien dogs that they use to hunt you down. Or like another alien faction that you can eventually team with. Having different gears from the original aliens. This would give the game a new feel and a better story. Right now it just feels like this game is meant to be played until you get bored. Like there’s no meaning.

Please Read: Bug After Update

Very fun game! Not pay to win and definitely time manageable. The only reason why it’s 3 stars is so the developer can see my description below of other bugs that I found, as well as my van parts disappearing even after the latest update. Van Parts: I have been using my van for quite a few days now and have never had van parts disappear on me. I even collected multiple pieces of certain parts of the van in my storage in case parts of my van broke off, such as 1 cable, 3 car batteries, etc. Right after I updated the game to the latest version today, all of my duplicated parts disappeared and I am left with just 1 of each duplicated item. I checked my van when I realized that and my van was still usable with no parts missing. I went on to play a bit more and saved the game before exiting, but when I returned to the game, I lost all of my van parts in my van (the ones that I had in my storage are still there but I do not have enough to use the van). I know the developer is working on this bug so thank you. I just wanted to state my situation with the van parts disappearing in hopes it may help with fixing the bug. Other Bugs: After the update, my progress on locations got erased. Usually when you discover a town, the name of the town will show. After the update, all of the town names disappeared and became ???. Also, normally you can see a description of what you have found at locations that you have been to, but that was erased for me too.

True gem. Please download if you like post apocalyptic games you can get lost in.

I don’t usually play games on my phone. I was going through a bad break up and I was lonely and I saw this game advertised to me on the front page of the games in the iPhone store. I didn’t really look it up but from the description I was like what the heck? I love sci-fi, I love, RPG games, I love the whole post apocalypse vibe, and the whole survival thing is super fun and it’s easy to get lost in. this game will consume you. It is beautifully made. I’ve even shown my friends this game and they just love to watch me play it and they love to play it and this game is super. Super cool. When I showed my friends this game they told me that it was super cool, and they were enthralled and tuned in. That’s exactly what I was looking for because sometimes life is hard and you just need a little game to escape and this is perfect, it’s intricate, it’s well-made, you might think it’s easier at first but oh, trust me, it tailors to help you play. That’s all I’m gonna say without giving any spoilers, so yeah, go ahead and just download this. You’re doing yourself a favor and it’s better than spending money on a night out when you can just get lost in a sci-fi world of your own.

Fun game, regrettable choices.

Hi devs, your game is fun, I remember so much about the old version and this current version is an great improvement of it. This was once a black, pixelated character running, you had to survive as long as possible keeping needs high and trading whenever you want. Clean water and canned food was rare in this version and I see this game as a great improvement from it. Here is some tips for beginner players: 1. Don’t go too far into the map until you get stronger. Because if your too weak and get attacked, it’s your fault you went into an area, with dangerous properties. 2. Think about your choices. Choosing reckless choices can get you badly hurt. Think about it, is it dangerous? Will illness or radiation get to you if you make that choice? Think about how dangerous the options could be and pick a safer one before you get stronger. 3. Don’t spend all your skill points on one stat. Seriously, I did that with luck and I barely lived to see another day. I think the med kits i got from it was the only reason I lived. 4. Don’t give up and reset the run, you might be able to get out of that hopeless situation. Trust me, I did it before with radiation in the oldest versions I could play.

Lovely game before updates

I downloaded this game a few months ago and I was obsessed right away. New updates came along shortly after which did add excitement and really cool new features but unfortunately the bad is outweighing the good at this point. First update I noticed all my quests were losing their titles and details so it was almost impossible to do my quests, which is fine I mean I had a lot of caps so I wasn’t too worried. A few updates I believe after that I’m now also running into the issue that my game is crashing about every 5-10mins. I do understand this game is in the motions of getting a lot of improvements and updates but I do think the most important thing is a reliable game. It’s hard to feel like you aren’t completely wasting your time when you’re relaxing playing a game and repetitively losing progress every few minutes. Also one more note, when I started there was billboards with ads which I didn’t mind at all, if anything it was fun to read/watch the different little signs but now there’s ads popping up at the bottom into my screen halfway and it’s extremely annoying. And now in almost every screen in the game there’s billboards so you shouldn’t feel the need to have ads expanding up across most of my screen while I play. :( this game is one of the best games Iv seen in the App Store I really don’t want it to turn bad.

Fun and engaging, but a few rough edges

So far I’m quite enjoying The Wanderer. The gameplay isn’t hugely varied but that hasn’t seemed to limit my desire to expand further and progress my character. There is enough detail in the mechanics, and the game itself if well balanced enough that it’s still a tightrope walk to make sure you don’t stray too far outside your effective range and get stomped on. The downsides are mainly the rough edges for what I assume is either a relatively new game, or one which has grown a rapidly. The most recent update added full-time banner ads at the top of the screen and was crudely done - the ads obscure part of the status info up there. They also appear over the in-game ads which you’ll need to use in order to fast travel, unless you have extra deep pockets to pay your way through the game. I also find the portrait layout rather frustrating as I keep my iPad in a keypad case, which means that the iPad becomes very awkward to hold. There are some other minor gripes, but I’m sure they will get polished up in the coming months as there does seem to be active development and improvement going on (hopefully those interface issues will be resolved.)

Great game, huge problem. No app support.

I rarely write reviews for games in general, but seeing as I couldn’t find a single option for any kind of app support, I’m not really sure where to post this. I’ll start by saying this game is incredibly fun, think fallout meets turn based strategy. Overall I only really have one complaint, but it’s a huge deal breaker for me. The ad banner. When the banner is active, it literally covers a huge portion of the game screen, which on its own is a scummy business practice that I find incredibly obnoxious. Normally I don’t have a problem with ads, assuming they’re not intrusive, but this one covers up a bunch of important info about the game (how many caps and tokens you have, your level, your day count) to the point where the game is almost unplayable while it’s active. That being said, I decided to support the dev by purchasing the $4.99 monthly subscription, the main reason being that it supposedly removes the ad banner. That didn’t happen. All of the other “perks” (which were negligible btw) are active, and restoring my purchases gives me a “subscription is active” notification, but the ad banner still pops up constantly. It’s at the point where I don’t want to play the game on principle alone. I’m hoping this is something that can be resolved, because I genuinely enjoy this game, but until it is I will not be playing anymore.

Good potential but needs work

It’s a good idea for a game, and is usually fun, but has some significant issues that need work. The main one is the demand it seems to have on your device. This is the only mobile game I’ve ever played that actually causes my phone to heat up and slow down. It gets to the point where I can only play for about 3 minutes or so before the game gets too jumpy and I’m unable to even do the fight task with the moving bar. Secondly, the map is really is pretty annoying to use. I’ll try to click the “x” on a message and it’ll select a part of the map. It also is too sensitive to the touch and is hard to control scrolling around the map. Lastly, there’s not much explanation as to what you’re really supposed to be doing in the game. For instance, I’ve played quite a bit already and haven’t even finished the first objective (finding the radio), because there’s no indication of where to go or what to look for. I’m short, I was optimistic at the start of the game but then quickly realized how frustrating it was to actually get to operate correctly. Definitely no more than 3 stars but if they improve these issues could be 4 or even 5 eventually.

Wander the harsh wasteland as one of the last remaining survivors searching for supplies and battling any unwanted visitors in this Fallout inspired pocket...

AppAdvice Thu Apr 29 2021