Last updated on February 4th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Stranded Without A Phone! – Simulation Game Review
Stranded Without A Phone! is a Simulation/Roleplaying game from Gilligames, first launched in 31st January 2014.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 219+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Stranded Without A Phone! Stand Out
"Stranded Without A Phone" is a desert island survival game, on a distant planet similar to Earth.
WARNING! This is a challenging game that requires thinking. It is not an action/arcade game.
You must use your survival skills to stay healthy and get rescued. Build shelter, find food and drink, and collect salvageable parts from the wreckage that wash ashore. Use the parts to build a space radio and call for a rescue team to win the game.
Search for natural resources, then use them to create other items using various combinations.
Features include the ability to play as different characters, find and craft several items, and multiple save slots.
Features:
- Familiar RPG-style inventory system.
- Over 80 different items.
- Randomly generated map with each new game.
- Day/night cycle.
- Fishing.
- Boar hunting & trapping.
- Befriend a wild dog as your companion.
Hints
-Search dirt areas for small boulders to build a fire pit.
-Use coconuts as an immediate source of nutrition and hydration, but also find fish in shallow water.
-Boar meat provides the best nutrition and health.
-Search beaches often for useful items from the shipwreck.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Stranded Without A Phone! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th September 2024
Recent improvements include:
Updated Facebook version.
Download & Availability
Stranded Without A Phone! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Stranded Without A Phone! on App Store
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:
What a simple yet satisfying game. Ive had it for for what at least 8 years and have consistently loved it. Id pay quite a lot of money for the developer to keep working on it. More islands, story continues etc. We lOVE IT.
Are you ever going to update this.
This game was fun when we first played it a long time ago and is still fun now however we lost alot of progress when a mushroom grew on the spot where we were keeping all of our building materials for the hut. If you could fix this then we would give 5 stars. Overall, its very fun and adequately challenging.
Pretty cool game concept, liked totally having to figure things out first time or two. Liked that it kept gradually challenging each time played even on the easy/medium levels. Keep waiting for new editions with different objects to build make or use/eat; for this only 4 stars. Got a little tedious. Loved been able to play entire game without ads. Loved having an end goal. Where did your team go, man. Waiting for more games like this.
This game is great! We love the adventure of each new game. We hate in-app purchase but a few dollars on a hut, bandages & fast-food is a must but well worth it! Thanks.
Great game, but Ill be honest, there wasnt enough depth to make it worth investing real money. The dog mechanic is the best part. We would recommend playing up the alien planet aspect of the game to help the game stand out. Update the assets so it looks more like an alien planet and not just another tropical earth island.
Great game we dont mind the steep learning curve as its like actually learning to survive. The purchases we feel do take out some of the charm but we understand why some want it to be easier. Overall keep it ditch most other survival ripoffs this is something unique to mobile.
This game gives us a chance to desires from all the digital demands causing stress. We know thats deep but we appreciate you creating this game.
Lots of fun things to discover.
Very in depth and engaging. Surviving is satisfying and unforgiving in the early game. Utilize your dog.
This game is awesome. Please keep the updates coming.
We went into this thinking it was some sort of horse management game. Nay, we could not have been more wrong.
We do say this update is a huge improvement to the game. We would like it more if you could add farming in it or just something extra to spice it up a bit. Other than that this game is great.
Absolutely do NOT make in app purchases! We bought a time tiki which the game said was a charge of 0.99! Later, our charge history shows $2.17! This is absolute bull and we will not be supporting their app in the future. SCAM.
We were not happy but we paid for the task accelerator upgrade. We fished out $1.99 not realizing it was for one game and not a permanent upgrade. This was not stated anywhere. We feel ripped off.
This is actually a pretty good survival game, though it has a steep learning curve, and can be difficult to get started.
Our favorite new features are actually seeing the items on the ground, the tiki hut and inventory are wonderful!!, the auto walk back to the hut, the birds flying around, but we think our favorite has to be the night scene… The crickets and the lightening bugs are so peaceful. Great additions.
We love the game and would give it 5 stars but the windows and the items in them are way to small. Is there a way to make them larger.
SWAP is a fun and challenging game when it works as it's supposed to. We had v. 1.33 from an earlier iPhone. V. 2.0 has nicer graphics and new characters to choose from. V 1.33 never had problems, but 2.0 is buggy.
Every time we open it it crashes. We are using an updated phone and stuff so please fix this.
Everytime we get over 10 days it will not let us open our saved game.
It is extremely difficult to buy in app options.
After Day 19, we have not been able to open the app to the saved day. While there are new items to be found in this version, the loading bars are not a good new feature. We want to like this app more.
Just wrote a super long review that deleted, in short we played this game 5 years ago and rediscovered it recently and it has gotten a lot worse with the stupid pop ups trying to sell you bandages and health running out and game crashing after day 14. Also the loading bars are wack. They have been doing this for years and somehow managed to make this game worse. We would play it if it was the version we had 5 years ago the one we failed freshman science class for lol.
Still can't load gm. Using iPhone 5S with iOS 8.3 and every time we try to start gm it's a greyish blue screen that kicks us right out of app. Tried on second iPhone 5S and iPad as well with same results. Any suggestions or is app just broke at this point.
Love the game but hate the glitches. Played twice got to 38 days & over 60 the other & it won't let us back in. All we are able to do is start over from the beginning.
Needs software update. Game will not load. Used to be a great game.
Game crashes as soon as we open the app.
We can't play it, it doesn't even load it just crashes! Please fix this, until then 1 or 0 stars.
It takes a little time to get used to, but it's a fun game and it helps time pass. We're a fan.
We had this game a few years ago and it was such a fun game!! We just recently got it again noticing it was free (thanks Todd) and it is such an addicting game! However, it won't load our game and we have stopped at day 16 :( There are bug fixes coming soon right??? We would love to continue playing your awesome game.
Love this game but it crashes constantly, so much so that it is nearly impossible to play! We wish it would go back to the original version of the game, we loved it. Best concept though and really fun to make items and search for the missing parts on the beach.
This is one of our favorite games on our phone. When will there be a #2.
We're still enjoying this game the third time round. Now we're trying to see how few days it will take before we can escape. Still waiting for headphones to appear so we can finish the space phone.
We really enjoyed this game when it began. We'll play it everyone in a while. Please just update it. We check when we're bored to see if there is diffrent stuff.
We originally played the previous release of this. The new release adds some delays to some actions, and in-app purchases. First, don't worry: The in-app purchases really are completely optional. We beat it without making any just to see. If you pay attention, this is a very winnable game. If you don't pay attention, it can be pretty brutal. It's a survival game, and you need to focus on food, water, and shelter at first. There's not a huge amount of depth or variety to replay, but we still replay it occasionally because it's pretty fun.
Great game but maybe as an idea you should add a local multiplayer feature.
Is there going to be a number 2.
We have no problem with this on our device except that it doesn't line up on our screen.
Quite honestly, we love this app. It helped us cool down after a hard day, collecting coconuts and hunting boars. But now, only part of the screen pops up when it loads, over to the left, and nothing will fix it. Does anyone have a possible fix? Or should the game get debugged.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE ONE WITHOUT REITNA! IM ON AN IPAD 2 AND IT SAYS we CANT DO IT! DO THIS NOW AND ILL GIVE IT 5 STARS.
Great graphic, fun to play. Easy to pickup where you left off and if you want a game with a clear end goal this is it. We have been looking for games that have events that make since to your goal, not a arcade game inside the game.
We love the game, we also did play the first version but this is a ripe of. Come on we pay 1.99 and then u make slots cost money and also the new characters cost money. Come guys stop trying to milk every penny out of us. The try cost of this game is 8.99 for all slots and characters.
The extra save slots are an in app purchase… Why? It seems a little ridiculous to us. If you're trying to make a feature a selling point of your game, you shouldn't charge extra for them.
We like the first stranded without a phone better.
We played the previous version of SWAP where there was no wait time. You can make time pass through the day by sayin x hours and y minutes have passed after you complete making an item but it's dumb to make the player wait for the screen to essentially load.
We've played the original SWAP and it was really fun but with our phones condition and storage we couldn't fit it on it….. :P. So we tried downloading the retina edition on our NEW iPad mini! But it says right when we go in, YOUR DEVICE IS INCOMPATIBLE! Can you PLEASE make a one exactly like this except no retina? We'd love to play this game without the scary grandpa guy. YEESH! We'd also like to add that the compatiblility section says compatible with ios 5.0 OR LATER! We HAVE AN IPAD MINI WITH IOS 7.0! SRSLY?!? FIX!! PLZ MAKE A VERSION WITHOUT RETINA.
How do you use spear and axe etc.
We played this game a couple years ago, before there was such a "Retina Edition". We thought it ran pretty well, it never crashed, and on our iPad, the graphics were fine. We've just recently found thus game again, and we're disappointed in this "Retina Edition" update. Now, as we don't have Retina resolution on our iPad, not that a Retina screen has ever affected any other game before, when we start up the game, a white bar on the right of our screen pops up and we're unable to play without an eighth of the screen blocked up. This is very inconvenient, as we are neither willing nor in the financial condition to buy another device simply to play this game. At least the creator could have kept the old version out for us non-Retina users out here. Disappointing that we've been searching for a couple months now for this to pop up.
We're currently on level 70…. Yes 7-0 and we have yet to find the wire spool. It's been days and days and the only thing "washing up" is bubble gum and the occasional juice. We have almost maxed out hunting, have three fires, about 8 boar traps, several lean-to's…. We're sick and tired of walking around. So frustrating! When will it end.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.327
- Size: 153.22 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Gilligames
Last updated: 14th September 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Roleplaying | Developer: Gilligames