Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 06:40 am
Lapse: A Forgotten Future – Strategy Game Review
Lapse: A Forgotten Future is a Strategy/Simulation game from Stefano Cornago, first launched in 29th April 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 371+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Lapse: A Forgotten Future Stand Out
Lead an entire nation to salvation – or destruction – in a post-apocalyptic world set beyond the year 2075.
With a simple swap of your finger, left or right, you’ll be able to decide of this Nation’s destiny, taking hard decision about different quests and problems, that will be brought to your presidential attention. Be careful though: leading has never been easy and it will be even more challenging in a similar world. Something mysterious has thrown the whole future humanity in a deep confusion, causing a continuous stream of events as wars, illness, famine. No one seems to recall what started this all, no one seems to know anything about the odd events that keeps involving the planet, no one can explain why you seem to rise every time someone tries to keep you down.
So be careful, and think long and hard each and every decision, because nothing happens by chance. Every single event might help you reach your final victory, but at the same time it could be the reason of your failure. Who will be your friend, and who will be your enemy? Hard to say in such a complex world filled with betrayals, aliens, bionic beings and ancient myths. What’s done is done, and you can just play your cards as well as you can in this inevitable race against time.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Lapse: A Forgotten Future is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th August 2020
Recent improvements include:
This version contains some bug fixes and performance improvements.
The story continues now in Lapse 2: Before Zero. Thanks to all of you for your amazing support!
Download & Availability
Lapse: A Forgotten Future is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Lapse: A Forgotten Future 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:
A very decent game in general. You have to think about your actions because all of them have consequences. Very good game.
Really challenging but extremely rewarding and fun.
Without giving too much away, its a constantly evolving gem of a game about split second decisions that effect EVERYTHING.
Ive only been playing this game for 10 minutes but so far Im really enjoying this game. Its challenging trying to keep all the factions balanced so your country doesnt collapse. Only thing we dont get too much is how the oracle works. Some of the choices we make doesnt give us the results the oracle says it would. For example, it says the army faction would increase if we say yes but it actually decreased when we made that choice. Other than that, very fun game. Highly highly recommend it.
This game is super fun and in addicted to playing it on our break.
Every time we get a new phone its getting downloaded again. Literally such a clever and simple game.
We love it its really fun , and makes you think.
This has been one of the most interesting and fun situational games Ive ever had the pleasure of playing. Great story simple and straightforward. Would definitely recommend. Worth EVERY PENNY.
Its fun exciting and challenging.
We played this on android years ago and we finally found it again! This story is very captivating and Ive bough lapse 1 and 2. Both of these games are outstanding and honestly this is the perfect example of what a good mobile game should be we hope you make more games in the future because we really love these games.
Its fun and challenging and we cant think of another game to compare with Lapse because Ive never played anything like it.
This game is really difficult for us personally, but its really fun. The story is just chefs kiss. Probably our favorite game on the App Store.
Best game we ever played! Every twist and turn keeps us wanting for more. Anything and Everything has an impact. Every choice matters. And you cant have to much of one thing so you have to keep it all equal. Great game all around if you like strategy along with twists and turns (as we said before). 10/10 Game.
Gate game very interesting endings and the prequel is awesome.
This game is so interesting and is a great way for us to spend our free time. Our friend showed us this game and we just had to play it.
This is one of our favorite games, It is very well made.
Not much to expand on. The game is well made and very fun! Definitely recommend to anyone who likes choice and balance games.
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Challenging but yet great game love the decisions.
We love this game. Great time passer.
The most like Reigns of the Reigns clones (which is a positive, believe us,) but with its own unique story and puzzles.
Its a very unique game that Im still figuring out but we really enjoy the mechanics. The intertwined stories are neat and it reminds us a bit of Death and Taxes with the consequences of your actions.
Fun game great way to kill time when just chilling.
We love this game, we used to play it a few years back and Im so happy we got it again.
We have been looking for this game since a year ago!!! We really love it. Once we found it again we got sooo excited !!! We loved it so much that was willing to pay for it!! We also realized that there was a second pet which made this even better. We are considering buying the second part once we are done with the first part.
Very good game the 1 dollar is with it and the second game is also good to recommend buy the pack.
The creator sent us here. We absolutely love this game.
This game is pretty good its kind of like Nirvana which is a really good game two with multiple endings so please dont skip over the cards read them because theyre really important and it could affect your ending.
This game is good for wasting time and enjoying storys. It barely uses battery as well.
Just like Reigns. Though we seem to be able to get further in that one. Its a good game when youve got a few minutes, but can keep you going for an hour.
Its very simple so you cant say you dont get it, But it has a lot of kool little aspects that keep you entertained.
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This has great story with multiple ending and routes with tons of replay value.
We used to have this game on android and we loved it so much, im extremely happy this game is on ios now. Definitely worth the wait.
Theres a lot mire to it than you'll first think.
If you got the money, buy the bundle. 1$ for hours of fun we would say. We enjoy this game more than some console level games we play and its not overpriced. Id like to see more attainable abilities and more alliance opportunities.
Very fun game that our friend recommended and showed us. Yes we paid that wack $0.99 but it was worth it. Its also fun to see how well you would do at running a county in shambles, so fun to prepare.
We had this game downloaded for a while never played it, but now we cant put it down. The game is very addicting makes you come back again and again to make the right combination of choices. Great game we love it. Cant wait to play the second game after Im done with this one.
Id love to make our own game like this some day. Its everything a mobile branching decision-making reality-warping game should be. We recommend it to anyone with the patience to lead a country who would like to live for a couple extra centuries.
Wow it is a really good game for mobile 100% recommend.
Its such a challenge yet its a really good game.
A very well thought out game and story. The delivery (the cards system and choice progression) done in this style is not done too often and works perfectly. There may be a few bugs regarding the accuracy of the Oracle, sometimes predicting the wrong outcome of choices, but that doesnt take away from the game at all. It doesnt take too long for the story to unveil either which is a good thing. All in all, it is a must have. 5/5.
Its fun, interactive, addictive and it gets on our nerves ! The way you have to make life-or-death choice had us craving for more.
We got this on our computer and loved it so much that we had to get it on our phone too.
Im so happy its on IOS now omg! We high recommend no spoilers but people will love lapse 2 even more.
Great way to pass time, very eye opening to politics.
Man, we played this a while back and had a blast. We lost our phone, and now that we found this game again, we cant stop. We love the story, the subtle hints, and overall quality of the game. Its so underrated and its a shame this wasnt a super big hit. Actually god-tier, the flow of the game feels natural and intuitive, 5-Star.
We played this game all the time when we had an android,, but when we switched to apple we couldnt play due to it not being on the app store. This game is great and im sure to play it for a very long time!! We love it.
If you like Reigns, you absolutely ought to get this game. More people ought to know about it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 63.23 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: [Stefano Cornago]()
Last updated: 18th August 2020 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Stefano Cornago