Tomb Raider Reloaded in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ Fun for a few minutes, but glitchy as heck

I really enjoy the core gameplay loop of this game, but the prevalence and punishing nature of the glitches just makes this a nearly unplayable mess. Approximately 50% of the time I’ve spent playing this game has been completely negated by glitches. It’s incredibly frustrating to think you’re making progress for 2 hours and end up having nothing to show for it. The game doesn’t give you any rewards for a dungeon until the results screen successfully closes, but there’s no “press your luck” mechanic that would ever make it so you shouldn’t be able to claim those rewards, so not giving you the rewards immediately every time you complete a stage was simply a programming decision that saves overhead at the cost of frustrating the player base. Some of the runs are 50 stages, and I’ve completed 50 stages numerous times only to have it crap out on the results screen and not give me any of the things I collected throughout the run. If they changed it so that it added the money and items to your account as soon as you pick them up, I’d give it 4 stars, and if they fixed all the glitches, it’d definitely be a 5-star game, but as is it’s just a frustrating experience all around, and I can’t in good conscience recommend it to anyone.

★★★★★ Game stuck permanently

Well, I was rather enjoying this game since it’s release date in February 2023, however nearly a year’s worth of progress will be gone since the game just randomly decided to stop loading and get stuck at 48%. No fix. When you click on the support link in the Apple App Store you are taken to the developers webpage, which has absolutely no contact info. I tried to report a problem to apple directly and I can’t. It won’t let me select the game when I go to report an issue with apple. The only direct support is in the game and I can’t get to it because the game won’t open. How convenient for the developers. I’ve also tried contacting the developers via their discord server, and there is no contact in there either, and no one in the server who is a so called moderator has a fix for iPhone users or contact info for developers. Only option is to delete and reinstall, which means I will lose all progress so I’m left with a dead game. The developers need to take responsibility for their bugs! I can’t even contact them and I have heard that even if you can, you will need your tomb raider reloaded game ID. Do people actually have the time to write down a mobile game ID? Very poor on the part of the developers! So mad what a waste of months of gameplay.

★★★★★ New Update 1.4 won’t let me open the app

I’ve been playing TR Reloaded for about 6 months now. I like the gear based/looter shooter and grind aspect of this game. The grind gets kind of repetitive but it’s still enjoyable because of the events that involve the outfits fragments. The grind for resources I feel is the hardest part and it’s mainly just the coins. I don’t have any issue with obtaining runes for outfit upgrades, shards for relics, or manuals for gear. I’ve got thousands of runes,shards, and manuals, I just can’t seem to get enough coins to upgrade all my stuff. I do the daily’s and weekly’s every week using all the coin scrolls I can get. I watch ads at every chance I get, even the ad in store for free coins every few hours. I just feel like the reward for this grind is getting redundant and now that the new update is out I was quite excited about it until the app just stopped loading at 48%. Still awaiting the next 3 stages to be added which I hope come soon after the fix to what ever is going on with the app now. I hope it’s fixed before the event is over so I can get the 30 outfit fragments I still need

★★★★★ New update

I’ve played this for a week now and decided to play today. It opened up to tell me about the new update but wouldn’t let me pass the screen to play. I had to delete the game, redownload the game and sign back in with my apple account to continue my saved progress. However I completed the second tomb with 50 levels and now that I’m signed back in with my apple progress account. I have to repeat the second tomb of 50 levels plus all of my artifacts and items in my bag are all lost that I no longer have. Can I get a award or something because it should’ve saved all that information and it hasn’t. I’ve lost my gems, my items, and even level progression. ALSO WHY DOESNT THE GAME ALLOW YOU TO MUTE IT PLAY YOUR OWN MUSIC WHILE PLAYING. As soon as you okay the music stops. Which is frustrating because this is a first for me not to be able to enjoy music while I game. Sometimes I don’t want to hear the game sounds, but my own music please update that so your own music is playable while playing the game other than that the game is fun, creative, and enjoyable

★★★★★ Ads are a bummer…let me explain

The actual gameplay here is actually quite fun and pretty addicting. Like most mobile games these days though, ads are factored into the equation which is to be expected and normally aren’t an issue for me. BUT, not only am I getting constant errors when trying to view ads telling me I don’t have enough phone storage to play the ads, but some of the ads are a minute long with multiple pop ups to close out of before getting your reward! The inconsistency and unpredictability of the ads (especially when attempting to view one for a revive) in this game are extremely frustrating. I’ll continue to play and hope they release an update to fix this issue but it’s a real bummer. Side note: Ads that force audio to play when my phone is on silent is a real turn off and makes me force quit the game. Additionally, it’d be nice if it didn’t force other audio apps playing in the background to pause when you open the game.

★★★★★ Shady Devs

I see what happened. It looks like the devs had a deal with Netflix where you just play the game. No ads, no in game purchases. Just all in game currency. It was great. Then all of a sudden, you couldn’t load the game. Stops at 48%. I figured I’d go to the App Store and see what version I have. Turns out, it’s a whole new app unrelated to Netflix. So now it’s the same game but with in app purchases. The old app I have has the Netflix “N” logo in the corner. This new one doesn’t. So it seems like the devs saw a lot of players and interactions and said… we can put in game purchasing in and make a killing. All while saying, forget the current players and their progress. I had gold guns, insane progress, upgraded outfits, tons! Yea.. this sounds on par for the gaming industry. They must have old Ubisoft devs here or something. Greedy. Of course you hate your fans and players. Looking forward to seeing you all fail like many others in the gaming realm who forget that players make you who you are. Give you one guess where you can shove this app :) Cheers! Keep up the bad work! (uninstalled)

★★★★★ The gameplay is great. The bugs are unacceptable.

Big TR fan for a long time so I downloaded this but truthfully wasn’t really expecting anything amazing. Turns out it’s a fun and well paced “grind” type game which rewards you with items that you can level up to try and take on tougher stages. Unfortunately the bugs absolutely ruin this game. If the game crashes (which it will) at the end of a run, while upgrading your gear, or any other crucial moment like that, you will lose whatever items were currently on your screen. I’m talking gear that you spend days or even weeks leveling up. Gone. I just had the game crash while leveling up an item I had worked hard on upgrading and when I reopened the app, it was gone. That completely ruins this entire game for me. I’m running this game on an iPhone 14 Pro Max so it’s not like I’m using old hardware either. It’s just a broken app that needs major fixes. TL;DR: This game will crash on you constantly and you will more than likely lose the items that this game REQUIRES you to grind and put time into. Not worth it.