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Hurricane Outbreak – Simulation Game Review
Hurricane Outbreak is a Simulation/Weather/Casual game from Nostrovia, LLC, first launched in 1st March 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 3,641+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hurricane Outbreak Stand Out
Grow your hurricane by navigating warm waters, acquire skills and abilities. Cause destruction and death in cities along the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and United States Eastern Sea Board regions. Features thousands of simulated cities, 22 unique upgrades and realistic hurricane behavior that will make every play through different. How much destruction can you cause?
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hurricane Outbreak is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th August 2023
Recent improvements include:
Upgrade tutorial helper after completing quest 1 to buy required upgrade.
Download & Availability
Hurricane Outbreak is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
Pls add other parts of the world, or just the whole map, and can NOT cross the equator, instead you can spawn on ether side of the equator.
When we were in ca. 3 section,we cross land And this happened:The hurricane grew stronger WITHOUT the leach we and II Very useful if ur on tropical depression.
We love this game but please put in a part where you can do anything including change your wind speed. And we need free CAT 10!!! AndI like that its so realistic but it would be so cool if you added other AI controlled storms.
NEED TO MAKE ONE AGAIN BUT ITS TORNADOES BECAUSE IT WILL BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS.
We HATE THID GAME SO MUCH PAY TO FUCCKING PLAY! REMOVE CATEGORY 4 SECOND MISSION PLEASE.
The game is very good we just need to know how to refund just in case want to delete the game.
This game was fun we say was because when we got to vapor dreams it wouldnt let us drain the vapor cloud or maybe Im just dumb.
We loved this and Ive read all the reviews and we think we know a good idea if the quest are to hard just look up were the places are and if there are bugs tell the owners nicely not like GET THAT DONE. But yes we completely finished the 1 to 5 hurricane levels but after that it does get boring but we still play it and do the levels again. PS we do not pay to win but the developers are just trying to make money k.
We like killing people with hurricanes.
Hey this game is fun but its just that you have to complete the realistic levels to just get free play!??!!!!!? We just wish that we could just pay for free play.
We were looking for a simulator for weather because Im a nerd for that stuff, and this game exceeded our expectations! Ive had it for a little while and Ive finished the realistic story quests (love how real hurricane names are the last few quests and you have to re-create their paths). We are yet to buy the bigger hurricanes pack but we will say after playing there are a few suggestions we have for the developer. First, we would love for there to be more customization for the hurricanes, like being able to forcefully downgrade a hurricane (its obviously not realistic having a Cat 5 hurricane remain a Cat 5 from east coast to west coast). Second, we wish there was an option to view the hurricanes path you took it on and was able to name it after it was said and done. Last, we wish there were more upgrade tiers and an option to uncheck some upgrades to simulate a weaker hurricane. On top of the new tiers, we wish we didnt have to buy coins to get the last couple of upgrades (or watch ads, but whos watching 40 ads to get one upgrade) and that we would be able to earn points from free play. Obviously this game is 9 so we doubt ittl get any updates now, but hopefully the dev sees this.
So we finally managed to get the leech upgrade but the very next day we do our next mission and when we made landfall instead of gaining wind speeds we started losing it and died we checked our upgrades and we still had the leech upgrade Im very confused and angry about this we hope the devs will fix this.
So we absolutely adore this game but we really wanted to do free play instead of quests so we think the quests should just be called campaign and if you complete it you can add 15 more categories of hurricanes and the freebie free play should just have 10 and so that way new players can enjoy the free upgrades ( Vapor Shock) ( More Speed More Turning More Recovery Rate) and that way people who are new can have much more than hard quests to complete but it does set a goal and also those who complete the campaign can get that menu made for graystillplays but just the limit for 10000 for every buff and the same thing for the freebie but the limit for each item is 100 that would make the game much more fun that it was set to be. If you add this you would get more players for sure and make more money off this game and another thing is skins you should have certain skins and exclusive ones that you have to pay for the free ones are fire ice grass and rainbow and there should be a shop where players on the game can design their own titles and skins and also add an online mode where theres 4 players/hurricanes that have to cause as much damage as possible before the timer runs out and the times should be 10 Minutes and have certain modes easy has lots of vapor clouds that grow big so easy players can have fun medium lower and hard is that vapor clouds are rare and you have to have 3 categories on hard more and competitive where players top off leaderboards off how much deaths,damage,flooding and for every season the leaderboard resets this can also have private lobbies with codes required to join them.
The game would be way better if you could redo levels for more points we think it would be better, but that might be too overpowered. You can lower the prices that each level gives you anyways, or you can let us turn for longer cause Im always running out of energy and then accidentally going to a big country and then we die when Im also almost done with our quest, other than that, we love the game its one of our favorite games ever actually its just a little too hard but again other than that its a super fun game. We really love it. Please make a update or maybe even power ups but again its your game and we really love it.
So hurricane outbreak sim we like your game it would be more fun if you removed all the levels and have all categories unlocked for $5.99.
Omg no ads??? Other than getting hurricane points, also on the last level, distritio federal or whatever is directly southeast of the Amazon rainforest also get leech for this.
This game is fun but literally so obnoxious the develepord need to make a different turning and make it easier to gain categories it took us 1 hour to do the El Salvador mission, fix your app.
We love this game, and we honestly wish theres more realism quests. (Also, Distrito Federal is the one in Brazil, if youre having trouble.).
Barely any ads, great quality and so much more.
On the cat 4 area level 5 it does not let us reach distrito federal and we looked it up but it shows Mexico City. So we went to go to Mexico City and it did nothing and even showed we hit it. We would look forward and respond to tell us if Im doing something wrong or whatever. Otherwise a really good game.
If you would make the turning better.
If your the person who made this game PLEASE make a tornado version By the way this game is fun.
Love the game but we want to get global warming without paying please dont let people pay.
We are speechless by everything in this game. We have no words.
Creative mode needs to be free because we dont want to try to beat the game by doing that because theres some places we dont know how to get to.
Please make the global warming free because we want you to. Please bro.
We were just able to survive on land when we have it but we still have it and it wont let us survive on land :(.
We loves this game but we feel like there could be some features added to the game that could enhance the gameplay. 1. Add wind shear this would weaken the hurricane 2. Add a mode where you could view the water temperature if those temperature is really high or very low that would cause the hurricane to grow intense or less intense. 3. The in game clouds would add the the growth or size of the hurricane. 4. Different Categories of the hurricane would have different looks Theres probably more ideas we have but these update would be really cool to see in gameplay.
Its an amazing game to play at home by yourself. And of it is great. To make it even better we think they should add free roam.
Add Bermuda and the hurricane doesnt weaken fast enough and make it to where we can stall.
We cant find district federal we cant find info on it on Google.
We love this game but every time we swipe it out , it glitches and next time we load into a game our hurricane acts as if it is on level 1 with no upgrades and we cant get past whatever level we swipe out on and it's annoying.
In the next update they son add cyclone,bomb cyclone,typhoons and tornadoes for 0.99.
Love the game. Played it for literally two hours straight getting all the upgrades. After we left the app it made all the upgrades not work and we cant seem to find a way to get them to work. We bought the full game and expansion pack too so im just hoping we can get this resolved.
Ive enjoyed it, but a few small changes would make this a 10/10 game: geographic labels or better yet clicking on an objective highlights the area; the ability to pan around the map; the ability to speed up gameplay in the base game (its a premium feature, but that isnt clear unless you go to the store); sound/music control that extends to the game menu UI; a sandbox option separate from the scenarios that allows you to see historic hurricane paths, choose a starting point, etc.; achievements that span across scenarios/sandbox. And the biggest improvement that could be made: we wish the game engine felt a little more nuanced – like Louisiana would be more susceptible to flooding. There should be weighted effects for more populated areas/countries (we.e. Hitting Miami will result in more deaths/damage than rural Venezuela – if this is already in the game, it isnt obvious). And Im not sure what benefits the upgrades for reducing preparedness give when early objectives actually require prepared populations. Im sure theres more, because while the game concept is great, the execution is lacking a little bit. We only make these critiques because we have put time into this game as a lover of casual strategy games. It is one of two solid updates away from a polished game and a 5/5 review.
This game is really fun, and reminds us plague inc. The only problem is that we beat it in a day. There is only so many levels, and although there are more in the global warming expansion pack, they cost money, and we could probably beat those in a day too. All Im asking is just to add more levels. Maybe a Katrina 2005 one? Otherwise, great game.
We played through the base game so quickly and decided to purchase the global warming expansion, however, we already purchased all of the upgrades and we keep getting the tutorial prompt to purchase upgrades while playing the global warming expansion and we cant purchase anything because Ive already bought everything. So we have to force close the application in order to play again. Then when we get to playing again we have none of our upgrades applied so its nearly impossible to get a Category 10 hurricane. Ive put so much money into this game for what it is and its a frustrating we cant even really play it. Hope to see this get patched in the future.
When we bought the global warming dlc all our storm upgrades stopped working and we couldnt click anything cus of an arrow waste of money but good game maybe you could fix it.
First, this game is a lot of fun. Getting to grow your hurricane, control it, etc. Is exactly what we've been looking for! Just a game to play around and destroy, reminiscent of Plague Inc. There are improvements that could be made to the game, like iCloud syncing across devices. We find it very annoying to have to start over just when we want to go to our iPad or Mac. We wish there were more mechanics and different ways of destruction and seeing it, but it's really fun just as is.
The game is really good and fun but it goes by quickly and you have to pay for global warming but otherwise its worth the time to play it just dont think its endless. Also Distrito Federal is the small box above Rio De Jenaro for those who dont know.
In the mission Terra do Brasil when you have to reach Distrito Federal and you do reach it, it doesnt check it of the task list. Thats our only problem with this game.
We never thought we would be playing a hurricane simulator on our phone ever. It isn't too bad, and we feel like it has the potential to be much better. There are many tasks and quests to complete that are fun to do. Some are recreations of hurricanes in history. However, premium mode is very expensive, and we don't know why there are boundaries on the map. We want to hit Europe! If you go over the boundary, the hurricane dissipates almost immediately. However, controlling the hurricane is easy, and when we finished the quests, we played with the free play setting, and it's very fun. We just wish that there was more to play with, and that the time limit in free play is quite annoying. But overall, there is so much potential for a game like this.
This is a very good game. The only thing we dont like about the game how do you turn left and right? It will not work that good like are you serious.
If you hit Turks and Caicos Islands it will say you havent hit it yet making the level impossible. Please fix it. The rest of the game is really fun.
The game is really good, However, we think the buttons should reload kinda faster. We were crashing out and we nearly cried because thats how stressing the slow buttons were idc laugh at us but its true.
This game really needs a new good update but overall we think it is kind of fun playing as a hurricane.
We can never enter the other side.
These creators need to make better ways and add things to freeplay like where to spawn because to make what the game calls realistic cant be made when you spawn near the gulf of mexico or near dr and cuba add a spawn point to the back and very back of the carribean and also make quests name like el districto ,brazil better anyway god game but needs new features.
When we get a quest that says hit Rio de janeiro we cant seem to find the exact area. So we were hoping you guys can add some type of arrow that says where that exact area is. Thank you.
Geeat game but WHERE IS DISTRITO FEDERAL.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.6
- Size: 144.46 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Nostrovia, LLC
Last updated: 30th August 2023 | Genre: Simulation, Weather | Developer: Nostrovia, LLC