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Shadow Bug Rush – Adventure Game Review
Shadow Bug Rush is a Adventure/Action/Entertainment game from Muro Studios Oy, first launched in 5th October 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 98+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shadow Bug Rush Stand Out
Shadow Bug is back as slick as ever. Shadow Bug Rush offers endless levels of slicing monsters to pieces! The game’s familiar one-finger-controls take platformer gaming to a new level.
Upgrade the game’s worlds by unlocking new monsters and traps. Climb the leaderboards. Collect loot, power ups and characters as you Rush through gorgeous landscapes with your ninja powers!
Features:
• Endless, random, increasingly difficult levels.
• Dozens of obstacles and traps carefully designed to slice you.
• Unlockable characters!
• Leaderboards
• Achievements
Important information:
This game contains third party advertising and cross promotion for other Muro Studios games, both which can be removed via a one time In-App Purchase.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shadow Bug Rush is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th December 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
The Sewer level has opened!
- New monsters
- New environment
- New traps
- New music
You can now challenge other players!
Download & Availability
Shadow Bug Rush is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Shadow Bug Rush 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:
Pogchamp of a game try it out an oldie but a goodie.
We were going to play shadow bug rush but when we click the app it will kick us out. Please fix this! Thanks.
This game is great but we got a new phone and it wont load please fix this problem and we will change our review.
This game was SO AWESOME we have played with our mom and we have the other games to they are so fun!! We wish it could be better.
We thought we were rating another game and gave this game 5 stars.
Maybe it's the endless platform that's never the same twice, but we don't enjoy this as much as the original. It feels like there's no purpose or ability to beat a level. What's the point if there's no obtainable goal.
Sorry, have to change our review after discovering this atrocity…but they are dropping this project/game for good when we already paid full price and they PROMISED new content (in the form of ATLEAST one more level update; it even says in-game 'factory level coming soon!')…but now they say they have 'other projects' they are working on?? Excuse us?? So the fans that finance your game company deserve to get screwed over…and this game obviously did well financially as it was either premium pay with no ads, or free play with ads and the leaderboards show over half a million players! You mean to tell us you didn't make enough money to at least finish what you promised?? Shady business move and everyone should rate this game 1 star and boycott future games from a developer that could abandon you at any moment without warning. Apple – you need to take direct action against devs pulling this unethical nonsense. This game should be pulled immediately so no other unsuspecting VICTIM pays full price based on a lie for an incomplete game. IOS games are finally being treated with respect with great games coming out; then you get devs like this who give ios AND the App Store a BAD NAME. This honestly feels illegal, and we have no quarrels about bringing it to the attention of the agencies who regulate this sort of thing.
Was super excited to play this game. Unfortunately, the game auto closes (even after re-downloading) as soon as we press start.
We are shocked that people are alright with this- drizzle! This is an outright ripoff of "Badlands", but with horrible commercials inseerted! You also have to PAY to keep playing. This plays on the gambling side of people's minds, and starts with children! This is the lowest of the low. Pure sugar – not caring if it rots your teeth or costs you thousands for the dentist as long as they make money. It's just tapping things and it lost us within minutes: we had more fun with Badlands 1 in moments than this, and paying a few dollars short term is better than paying, and paying, and paying later. Just remember that these games give your brain dopamine bursts, so some people here use them like drug dealers. Let's close them down. We won't play- unless you want to end up wasting time, having play interrupted, etc then don't. Walk away while you can, and go play a really GOOD game :) To the creators – take this premise and go a non-monetised way with it.
We do like this game keeps us busy as we're pooping.
This game is super addicting and fun. We would wish for the continued success of this game. This is so much fun. But new updates are needed. Could the characters level up further and the other maps we can use. We love this game please more updates.
This is a nice addition to the Shadow Bug series, a quick pick up and play for when you're on the go. Can be quite addicting! The option of having different characters to choose from is also great. Would definitely like to see a shadow bug 2 featuring different characters but this is a fun one to keep for when you don't have time for a full sit down.
Got this game today and couldn't stop playing such a good game cant wait for those new level.
Why do they say the game is compatible with an iTouch when we have an iTouch 5th gen and it will crash every time we attempt to load it?!? We mean, if it isn't compatible, at least say that instead of making us believe we can download it just to delete it right after because we can't play the game. We can play it on our friends iPhone and we really like the game, but it would be so much better if we could play it in our own free time instead of on our friends phone.
This game is fun to play but we can only play it once each time we re-download the game then it crashes when we try to play ):.
You should get this app it is one of the best apps we have ever had you should get it if you have not got it yet.
Please make more! Please!!!!! It's an awesome game! We just don't get one thing, is this last one "Rush" only like one level? They.
Couldn't stop playing. Challenging and satisfying.
Simple fun. Addictive game play.
The gameplay is very smooth which you have to love! It gives you a challenge to think quick so you don't lose. The upgrades are good to. Probably the best game we've downloaded.
This game is hands down the best one we've played in a long time.The graphs amazing ,the music just fantastic .If your looking for a action game ,you should get this it's amazing.
This game is great. We love the characters. We love the dark theme. We love the enemies and traps. This game has had us hooked since it came out and we still can't stop. Great game to play when you're bored. The frenzied one tap controls are amazing. A true original five star game.
We love this game! We hope that more shadow bug games come.
This game is the best game since Mario. It has the best art style, great simple controls, and is extremely addictive. We would suggest this game to anyone!!! :).
This app is far one of our favorites and we haven't even had it for 10 minutes so you did good and as we do not see in this game no bugs but in your "other" version it was not so successful but this one it is pretty good for now.
This game goes back to what platform gaming should be about. It has a simple yet stylish design and innovative gameplay mechanics. The best part is that it doesn't bombard you with premium characters or goods.
Gawd we're Hooked, but we hate the propeller! Fun & spastic! We like the grafix.
This game is so cool! It's like the best game ever! But if you want peoples to get the game you have to do some more options of character to pick and how hard you want it to be… That's what we think peoples want because a lot of our friends said that (about 20) so ya! That's what we think the game needs to be ever better! (we say peoples not people's).
What could possibly be as much fun as the gorgeous, challenging platformer Shadow Bug? An endless runner version, of course! Infinite Shadow Big is the correct amount of Shadow Bug.
Awesome, looks great and super easy to play. Unless you dont have fingers.
Great game but needs some updates of new maps.
Some of the reviews show people just don't play the games they review. This game is a great game. From the art style to the controls it's done really well. You not only upgrade the characters but you upgrade the actual levels themselves which add more traps and enemies. There is a single IAP to remove the forced ads, which we did do. You can watch opt in ads to obtain currency to get new characters as well as upgrade the characters and levels. There's a lot of variety in the characters abilities. The reason we took off one star is because there is no currency doubler IAP and this game should have that as well as there as there is no iCloud save support. If you are asking people to purchase consumable IAP you must have iCloud saves to protect purchases. What happens when we delete the game? We'd lose all of our money if we bought consumable IAP. So please address these issues.
The game is dope we just wish the wings would match the characters if we're fighting as "imp" we don't really want bright white wings lol.
It lags so much like we'll be playing and it will kick us off so it needs an update so it won't do that and we can't say anything else because we can't see anything.
The app keeps crashing each time we open it. We've uninstalled it and redownloaded it once and it still crashes. It looks fun and we want to play the game but we can't. Please fix this.
This game crashes too much but if you like this it's a good game. We advise you not to download this game.
This game looks AMAZING but crashes we played shadow bug And its more than amazing we're really excited to fix this problem.
First time it was okay, but afterwards it just crashes every time we try to play. Loading screen = crash. Fix please.
We can't say the game is bad because we can't play it. It crashes every time before o even get to the home screen. This isn't an IOS problem because ours is updated enough. This seriously needs to be fixed.
We played the game once. It was fun, beautiful art style, we're giving it one star because the game will no longer run. When we press play, the loading screen appears and the game crashes. We only have 3 other apps installed on our iPad right now (we Just factory reset today) so we know it's not a ram issue. Please fix.
The game is not working on our iPad 2.
This game is just AWFULL. We have played it in ipad 2 and in ipad mini 2. In the 2 ipads we have the dame problem:THE GAME CRASHES EVERY TIME we OPEN THE APP. The game is just BROKEN and UNPLAYABLE. This is the 2nd worst game we have ever played in our life.
We downloaded the game and played once and it was fine but after when we try to play anymore it goes to the loading screen then crashes. Ps this is a IPad mini and on the discription it said iPads work.
It's a bit rubbish really, isn't it? Dead boring and the same old hat stuff over and over again. Surf a bug, avoid spikes, yawn, uninstall.
Theres not much and there isnt much skill or chalage you tap on the monster and dont touch spikes.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 273.00 MB
- iOS: 7.1 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Muro Studios Oy]()
Last updated: 7th December 2016 | Genre: Adventure, Action | Developer: Muro Studios Oy