Reviews of Kittens Game

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List of user reviews and ratings for Kittens Game

Total ratings

4.50 (Rating count: 322)

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Review summary

Kittens Game on iOS is widely loved for its deep, multi-system gameplay and long-term depth with strong replay value. However, repeated mobile-specific issues hinder the experience: persistent data save problems, buggy UI, occasional black screens/crashes on resume, and missing iOS features. Some pollution-related toggles also misbehave. Overall, fans praise the game's design and depth, but the iOS version needs stability and UX fixes to reach its full potential.

Pros

Deep, complex, and rewarding gameplay with many interlocking systems (industry, religion, education, space travel, trade, etc.).
Strong long-term engagement thanks to a prestige system and multiple viable playstyles.
Overall positive sentiment toward the game and its ongoing development from a dedicated player base.
Good value for money and mobile-friendly enough for busy players who want to check in periodically.

Cons

Frequent progress loss / unreliable saves on mobile (open on startup, exit manually, cloud save inconsistencies) leading to data resets.
Mobile UI/UX is buggy and non-ideal (sidebar scrolling broken, text wrapping and stutter issues, screen jumps, left-handed layout).
Occasional crashes or black screens when re-entering the app, sometimes requiring restarts.
Missing/awkward mobile features (pause function, pinning traders, mirrored layout) and other iOS usability gaps.
Pollution toggle is non-functional or counterintuitive (disable pollution does nothing).

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.50

All time rating average: 4.50

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25% (13)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-06-02	sw*****	Late game has a lot of issues, both game balance wise as well as calculations. Also it doesn’t support resuming from multitasking so if you have a lot of apps open be prepared to restart often.
Late game has a lot of issues, both game balance wise as well as calculations. Also it doesn’t support resuming from multitasking so if you have a lot of apps open be prepared to restart often.
2026-01-22	Mu*****	Overall I have played on mobile for years and desktop the same. 10/10 game but the sidebar scrolling has been broken for that same amount of time where you cannot scroll to the last resources in the list to craft. Thorium requires a lot of craft all maintenance on mobile and it’s crazy this hasn’t been fixed for as long as the bug has been in the game on mobile. Fix it and 5/5 granted
Overall I have played on mobile for years and desktop the same. 10/10 game but the sidebar scrolling has been broken for that same amount of time where you cannot scroll to the last resources in the list to craft. Thorium requires a lot of craft all maintenance on mobile and it’s crazy this hasn’t been fixed for as long as the bug has been in the game on mobile. Fix it and 5/5 granted
2026-01-18	Ne*****	Android and desktop have the option to pin traders. Recently switched to iPhone and really missing that feature. Switching tabs a few dozen times to spend all my heat trading with leviathans is pretty tedious
Android and desktop have the option to pin traders. Recently switched to iPhone and really missing that feature. Switching tabs a few dozen times to spend all my heat trading with leviathans is pretty tedious
2026-01-11	Da*****	As of this morning, all progress is cleared when I open the app. This makes the app unusable. All cloud saves are also cleared when opening the app.
As of this morning, all progress is cleared when I open the app. This makes the app unusable. All cloud saves are also cleared when opening the app.
2025-12-13	Ic*****	Love playing the game on computer browser but the mobile UI is pretty awful and it looses some of the games functionality like the ability the pawse the game. If I had known before I bought the app I wouldn’t have.
Love playing the game on computer browser but the mobile UI is pretty awful and it looses some of the games functionality like the ability the pawse the game. If I had known before I bought the app I wouldn’t have.
2025-10-27	tr*****	Make wood or catnip buttons disappear
Make wood or catnip buttons disappear
2025-09-08	Ja*****	It’s perfect
It’s perfect
2025-07-13	Me*****	There are a lot of games nowadays that have gorgeous art and sprawling worlds and are extremely boring to play because the game itself is so poorly designed. This is the antithesis of that. It’s got a janky interface, there are a bunch of themes that make it decent to look at but the UI is clearly an afterthought. It’s got some bugs and it’s mostly text based. There’s no astounding art here. But the gameplay is so thoroughly well designed that it makes up for that tenfold. Calling it an idle game is almost a disservice, it definitely can be played as an idle game if you just want to wait and click but the mechanics are so interactive that you can spend hours in the app micromanaging what your kittens are doing and reducing wait times to mere minutes. There are big difficulty spikes but they’re quickly followed by new mechanics to reach them, there are callbacks to your humble beginnings where you get to plow through early bottlenecks with your highly evolved manufacturing. Every single kitten has a name and skillset you can train and utilize. There’s industry, religion, education, space travel, politics, science, trade, and good old idle game building scaling. There’s a prestige system that lets you replay the whole thing with buffs from previous timelines and there are a ton of different approaches and styles (if scale out your population fast you get a ton of workers but you might get wrecked by overpopulation unhappiness, industrialize rapidly and you get all kinds of automation and upgrades but you might destroy your environment in the process). So yeah for 3 bucks this is probably the best idle game you can play and just one of the best mobile games in general. I’d love to see more of this kind of game, get the gameplay, design, and balance down perfectly and then build on top of that.
There are a lot of games nowadays that have gorgeous art and sprawling worlds and are extremely boring to play because the game itself is so poorly designed. This is the antithesis of that. It’s got a janky interface, there are a bunch of themes that make it decent to look at but the UI is clearly an afterthought. It’s got some bugs and it’s mostly text based. There’s no astounding art here. But the gameplay is so thoroughly well designed that it makes up for that tenfold. Calling it an idle game is almost a disservice, it definitely can be played as an idle game if you just want to wait and click but the mechanics are so interactive that you can spend hours in the app micromanaging what your kittens are doing and reducing wait times to mere minutes. There are big difficulty spikes but they’re quickly followed by new mechanics to reach them, there are callbacks to your humble beginnings where you get to plow through early bottlenecks with your highly evolved manufacturing. Every single kitten has a name and skillset you can train and utilize. There’s industry, religion, education, space travel, politics, science, trade, and good old idle game building scaling. There’s a prestige system that lets you replay the whole thing with buffs from previous timelines and there are a ton of different approaches and styles (if scale out your population fast you get a ton of workers but you might get wrecked by overpopulation unhappiness, industrialize rapidly and you get all kinds of automation and upgrades but you might destroy your environment in the process). So yeah for 3 bucks this is probably the best idle game you can play and just one of the best mobile games in general. I’d love to see more of this kind of game, get the gameplay, design, and balance down perfectly and then build on top of that.
2025-03-30	Mi*****	I really love this game. It has the feeling of understanding and controlling a complex system unlike any other game I’ve played. I really hope to see more from the dev in the future.
I really love this game. It has the feeling of understanding and controlling a complex system unlike any other game I’ve played. I really hope to see more from the dev in the future.
2025-03-06	Os*****	Best for busy people looking for an idle game in the background.
Best for busy people looking for an idle game in the background.