Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 12:37 am
Lights Off – Casual Game Review
Lights Off is a Casual/Puzzle game from Steven Troughton-Smith, first launched in 22nd January 2009.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 37+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Lights Off Stand Out
The classic game inspired by Tiger Electronic's 'Lights Out' is back for the App Store and better than ever!
Lights Off is a simple game in which the goal is to turn all the lights off to progress to the next stage. Featuring smooth animations, sound effects and beautiful artwork, Lights Off is the perfect way to kill some time and see how far you can get.
Spiritual successor to the original Lights Off game by Lucas Newman and Adam Betts, 'Lights Off' is completely built from scratch with a brand new engine and more of Adam's great artwork.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Lights Off is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
• Speculative fix for a rare potential crash in the audio engine on certain devices
Download & Availability
Lights Off is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
It was so good it made our life happy.
We saw this game on an iPhone before the world even knew iPhones were real. Or maybe just barely afterwards. But it was close (life was exciting back then, a lot was happening.) To see it updated for the iPhone 12 thats amazing. Has any iOS app had such longevity? Amazing.
Our cousin physically had this as a Christmas present when we were about 12 and 9 and we literally took over it and kept it as if it were our own . Ive always been known as a button presser because any hand held game with buttons we would never put down . The fact that this is legitimate ly on the iPhone is so wonderful because we were trying to find this game for years . Still as thrilling as before . Still excited and eager to get to the next levels.
This is a great game to play and pass time. But it doesnt work for our iPhone XS Max. It still works on the iPhone 6s though.
Its close but misses the mark. Resetting takes you through a flash sequence each time, gets very old very quick.
Currently broken, Doesnt turn off all 4 sides, one remains untoggled.
Doesnt work on the iPhone XS Max. Developer unresponsive. Wish we could get a refund.
The buttons do not work and does not recognize taps. It turns the wrong lights on.
Just installed on iPad Pro 11. No alignment between touch and the buttons. We want a refund.
This is horrible. The touch screen is so off that you cant even accurately hit the right square. We honestly just went on ebay to purchase the original lights out hand held game. Please send us our money back. Thank you.
Holy throwback, Batman. We can't believe this was re-released in 2016 and we just found it! This was our favorite game on the orignal iPhone. Clean, beautiful, simple UI and gameplay. Can't wait to start our Lights Off obsession again.
Fun and challenging. Would love to have a native iPad version though.
Highly addictive, great UI and simple to learn, Love it.
Just bought this and tried to open it, but it just crashes every time.
Bought this app. Hasn't opened since we got it. Restarted phone, redownloaded the app. Still hasn't worked.
We just downloaded this app and we LOVE IT. There is one MAJOR problem with it… It's addicting as heck! Don't start playing if yup have anything to do in the next hour or so because you will be late..lol…It earned a spot on our home screen. It also looks good on the iPad x2 mode but hope Steve comes out with a universal or iPad only version. Keep up the good work bro.
Of any lights out clone type game, there is not a single one with better graphics. Playing this feels like the original game. We were so excited to find this app and haven't yet been able to put it down. Bravo.
Great game, what's the next release.
We love it so much makes us wanna break out our old handheld version, the only thing missing here is the hint button to help on those tricky levels.
So addictive. We get 212 levels and wish there were more. But no crashes, no problems, and great replay value. The graphics are gorgeous…way to go Adam Betts. Add levels.
Great game, loved it on the jailbroken phones last year, love it even more now! Great job.
Simple. Fun. And works flawlessly. Great application.
We had our managers and co-workers playing this game. None of us really wanted to get back to serving tables. It's addicting.
We already wrote a review for this and sent it to the developer as @spoonforknife on Twitter, but we'd like to echo our sentiments on iTunes. This is a fantastic application, it's slightly buggy, but it was worth the wait and is worth it's low price. Great job.
It was a fun game back in the pre-app store days, and now it's MUCH better! Give it a try.
We had a problem with an application that developer solved in an instant! The app is great, as we all know! Now, if we could only give it six stars somehow…8^)) On a different note, we have noticed that lights are a bit less responsive than in an original game. Is this hardware (3G) or coding issue.
It's an amazing game. Great graphics and sound. It keeps us entertained forever! Even our friends love it. We convinced our friend to buy it for her iPod Touch, and she hasn't stopped playing it. Great work Steve and Adam.
Had this on a jailbroken iPod Touch and now we have it on our iPhone 3G. Super excited. Developers did a fantastic job.
We remember this from when we had a jailbroken phone, and it's only gotten better! Awesome job.
So much better then the jailbroken version. Well worth the wait and $2. Thank you!!! This game is perfect and addicting.
Simple & Fun! You'll notice that games becomes alot faster after you use symmetry :) Hope to see a plethra of added levels on updates!!! THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO THE APP STORE.
This game is so addicting! One thing that really needs fixing though is the level 213 thingy…we cant even play anymore:( we want more lights off.
This game is really fun and it has a lot of good levels.
Great Game!, simple play but oh so addictive ^^ Can't wait to see future updates on this already great game ^^.
We remeber the jailbroken app. We spent countless hours on that app! We played through over 20 times. Now we can enjoy it again in the app store, but there are a few problems. The app seems sluggish and the GUI sometimes doesn't register a button press. We have screwed up countless levels because of this. We want the developer to fix this now and we will up the rating to five stars. The app stops working after you beat all the levels! This is unacceptable. We payed $2.
This game app could be great. Currently, it has some problems. 1. The GUI is sluggish, almost buggy. Sometimes finger taps don't register at all. 2. At level 213, the program stops working. You can't even start the app. We've tried resetting the phone itself multiple times, but it still won't work. 3. The graphics are not as clean or brilliant as original pre app-store version. They're dull. 4. Many levels repeat. 5. There is no quick way to choose levels. For instance, to go from level 168 to level 1, you must tap the level button 167 times. And with the sluggish GUI… The concept deserves five stars but the execution is poor. If this is representative of all $2 games, we'll steer clear.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.1
- Size: 8.11 MB
- iOS: 18.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Steven Troughton-Smith
Last updated: 17th September 2025 | Genre: Casual, Puzzle | Developer: Steven Troughton-Smith