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FlapThulhu – Action Game Review
FlapThulhu is a Action/Entertainment/Casual game from Madgarden Inc, first launched in 21st February 2014.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 81+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes FlapThulhu Stand Out
Flap through the horrible gates of R'lyeh and unleash the Madness to open a portal to the eldritch dimension… or will the madness take you?
New in version 2, you can now beat up lesser monsters as you fly through a disgusting cave. You can also unleash and play as a new horrible beast.
Features:
- Flapping
- Fighting
- Madness
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Flapthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl flaptagn!5687817
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, FlapThulhu is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th February 2019
Recent improvements include:
Update for iOS 12 and latest display sizes.
- Shifted the score down a bit so that it's not blocked by the notch obstruction thingy on iPhone X etc.
Download & Availability
FlapThulhu 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:
We enjoy playing this game but we have so many skulls that we dont know what to do with. We need something else to buy with our skulls.
Love the colorful art and multiple game modes.
This is a great flappy bird game. We love the theme, from the pixelated graphics to the funky retro music. As far as we can tell there are no ads or IAPs. And it fits our iPhone 14 pro screen well. The only thing is that your character is too big to get through the spikes which makes it frustrating. Fun yet can be pretty repetitive.
The concept is great, but we can never get very far because of the size of Flapthulhu. It seems like theres only one place where the sprite can actually fit through, and any time you go even slightly above or below that you die.
We love this game so much. The gameplay is just the right amount of difficulty to keep us coming back. The music is great. The sound effects are great. We love the Lovecraft theme. We do wish it fit our iPhone 8 screen a bit better, but thats not a deal breaker. Would love to see some achievements or in-game awards or something. Please make a sequel.
We HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER THANK YOU FOR THIS NATIONAL TREASURE.
The game is a bit too zoomed in on our iPhone 7 Plus.
Great idea, great game, love it.
Fun addictive game! Our iPhone has started to bleed out of its headphone jack! At night we dream of flying endlessly on fungoid wings through strange non-Euclidean pathways! Fun for all ages.
Fantastic. So much better than all other "flappy" games. Only suggestion would be to have an option to turn sound off so it won't be distracting when we listen to music whilst playing.
But we have to go back to the App Store and give this a 5 star. So simple, so addictive, and so well themed. Just started getting into Cthulhu and we definitely love a great parody of the Mythos. Great unlockable mode Fight mode and can't wait to unlock the other GOO. Pls keep the updates coming :D.
Omg this is so awesome!!! The best and only flappy game that we like.
Really the best flappy bird clone we've ever seen.
Probably one of the coolest games we've seen, and definitely the best on our phone. One thing that we would love to see though is more characters to play as, but other then that great job.
The game was great. Really. WAS. Now with IOS 11, it stopped working. Please update it. We wanna continue playing.
The game is awesome and fun, but the gates are really small. We can't make it unless we time a glide in between taps or am lucky. Widen the gates a tad and it will be endless fun.
Fantastic! If you like flappy bird, but wish it was a bit more… Interesting, seems the classic Lovecraftian atmospherics are yet again the answer. Subtle soundtrack adds to this. However, we only give 4 stars because now that we have unlocked fight mode and the shoggoth, our skulls are just piling up. Perhaps in an update, maybe we could have another mode or 2? Preferably more creatures, the Cthulhu mythos is rife with them. Perhaps some elder things, night-gaunts, Nyarlathotep, all those good things. Maybe also some perks that you can purchase, to keep skull collecting an object of the game at all times. Thanks for the great game, keep up the good work.
It's flappy bird with a Lovecraftian style. It's kinda fun, but the ads that you have no option of removing make it feel….not good.
This game is very fun and we love everything about it, except for one giant bug. For a game that relies very heavily on timing, the animation is very laggy. It's so frustrating that we have much more sophisticated games than this one and they have much smoother animation. When we're playing, the game will lag just a fraction of a second and will cause us to lose. If this bug could be fixed we would give this game 5 stars.
Great game but once we unlocked the shogoth the game rest all of our stats and we lost the battle mode high score and shogoth.
Very cool, but the frameskipping is a real pain. Please fix it.
We have been playing this game for a while, and just last week all of our skulls and both the items we bought rebooted and we're back down to nothing. Can anyone help fix this.
Been meaning to write a review for a while, but the game kept us pretty well distracted. Great retro-style graphics, and while in gate mode the skulls come every 25 gates passed, whether you've biffed it or not.
This is pretty much the best game we've played on iPhone in a while and we never do reviews.
This app is excellent. It's so much more than a mindless flappy bird copy. The new fight mode is really fun too.
We love this game we spent 2 hours trying to unlock everything we really like the new character idea but we wish you change him from floating to flappy please make more exclusive content.
This is definitely the finest Lovecraftian "Flappy Bird" clone that money can buy.
This game is awesome. No other way to put it. Additions are fantastic.
This game rules! Way better than the original in our eyes, and it is in old arcade like design! If we had to pick anything to make this perfect game better would be some unlockable content maybe? It would make this game more addicting in our opinion. Having to reach a certain number of points to unlock some additional content, and maybe some new/more music. It gets kinda annoying after a while, but all in all, an amazing game. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.".
This game deserves to be the king of the genre, because it is by far the most well-made and rewarding.
This game is actually fun to play yet it's still challenging. Really cool sound and look to the game.
Best flapping game around. Get it.
Fricken love this app! 20x better than flappy bird. So addicting :) not to mention, this character is so adorable. Love the sound effects as well. Worth the download! Especially if you have a thing for Cthulhu.
Having played very many reincarnations of flappy bird, including the original, we have to say that this game is by far the best one. It is an assault on all your senses. Not only do you have to worry about flapping Cthulhu through spiky monster tentacles, this games version of FB mario pipes, but you also have a top and bottom of the screen that can kill, tons of other monstrous objects that can kill you, all with an ever increasing drone of doom that gets loud with each pass, plus an accompanying background that flashes and changes as well with each pass through point! As if you needed more things to reduce your concentration?? If you've grown tired of the monotonous original title of flappy bird, then play flappy Cthulhu instead! It's ever increasing difficulty will cause you to laugh at the original game for being mediocre.
The only remake of flappy worth playing!!!!!!!!! The graphics, sounds, and music are rad, plus it's actually entertaining to watch Cthulhu die lol — which you will surely do because it's devilishly hard! …but, this only adds to the addictive nature which you come to expect from this type of game :P.
The menacing drone, the increasing horrors, the maniacal gameplay, even the distressingly random theme tune will satisfy those with a taste for Lovecraftian nightmares.
This is by far the best flappy game out there. Even better then Flappy Bird. You know why? Cuz it's harder! IMO.
Obviously, the creator of Flappy Bird learned of the existence of this game & decided to leave the market rather than compete with this piece of perfection. This game is amazing! Whatever that was, this is better.
This game actually makes the "flappy" genre fun. It's made x100 better than flappy bird, and although it's still hard, at least it's made well.
This is a great and well done clone.
We swear, this game is 100% better than the original Flappy Bird. Sure, it's a lot more hard, but once you get used to it's sensitivity, it gets easier and the application's a lot more fun. This game is very unique in its own fashion. We mean, come on, you get to control a monstrous creature through spikes with a black hole in the background…What more could you expect? Sounds. The sound effects in this "flappy" game are just what you would expect, coming from an old fashion arcade-looking game. Meaning they are awesome. The game-over music fits as well. We really hope this application grows in popularity because it's so fun and, well, overall absolutely awesome. And there ends our review of Flap-Thulhu. Hope it encourages you to get the game. Peace out. Review by a gamer that has played plenty of games on plenty of game systems.
We're into Cthulhu and stuff, and this is perfect. We love it. It's challenging, but we guess it's supposed to because Cthulhu isn't meant to be taken lightly :b wonderful app, we'd recommend it.
In a game like this it's a really scary thing to encounter. Otherwise it's a really good clone.
Finally flappy something that is polished and cool.
We actually enjoy this more than the other flappy games. It's not a clone like the others. The game has a great atmosphere and its own unique style. We highly recommend this.
Our bones and muscles have atrophied to the point where our thumb is the only part of our body we control.
Good controls with a neat art style and good sound.
But, could you maybe fix the issue where every time we crash the game crashes? It runs great, but having to reopen it every time we die is a bit strenuous.
The visuals are stunning. We love this app. It is extremely hard, it's like flappy bird on hard difficulty.
No ads. Great control. Environment details exude creepy character. Thanks.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.2
- Size: 1.21 MB
- iOS: 8.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Madgarden Inc]()
Last updated: 13th February 2019 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Madgarden Inc