Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 05:14 am
Nightmare Puzzles: The Unknown – Strategy Game Review
Nightmare Puzzles: The Unknown is a Strategy/Puzzle game from Ta Van Truong, first launched in 7th January 2025.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 24,164+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Nightmare Puzzles: The Unknown Stand Out
Are you ready for the most annoying puzzle game?
Welcome to Nightmare Puzzles: The unknow – the game that will test your wits, patience, and sanity!
Do you have what it takes to solve frustrating and annoying puzzles while escaping strange nightmares?
Tricky and Annoying Puzzles: Every level is a mix of fun, frustration, and challenges that will keep you guessing. Will you outsmart the ghosts and survive the midnight madness, or will the pranks get the best of you?
- Haunted Midnight Adventure: Evade ghosts, escape spirits, and survive the strangest scenarios and annoying puzzles
- Funny yet Frustrating: You’ll laugh, scream, and possibly throw your phone – but you won’t stop playing!
- Escape the Nightmare: It’s midnight, the spirits are watching, and only your mind can set you free.
If you love annoying puzzles with a twist of prank-like fun and midnight scares, this game is for you!
Download now and challenge yourself to escape the frustration!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Nightmare Puzzles: The Unknown is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Christmas is in the town.
Download & Availability
Nightmare Puzzles: The Unknown is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Nightmare Puzzles: The Unknown 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:
It rlly good but the only Ick is that it keeps giving us the same block blast add and it plays it twice.
This game is so fun but there is like a lot of ads if you hate ads dont play cause it has a lot.
So l've played this game since march of this year and well these are all the issues we have with this game. Starting with: it's over reliance on Ai, like literally every level has Ai art and all of them are likely generated with Ai. Second would be the excessive amount of ads from "ad breaks" in the middle of a level to break your concentration so you'll have to play the level again since the game won't even let you think, to just zooming out for a less than a second to check the time or accidentally double tapping the zoom out button. Third would be: the fact that in the holidav levels vou have to unlock it with ads, like at least give us 1 level a day, but no you can only play them if you watch two 30 second ads. Fourth would be the lack of originality in some levels like for example level 89 is literally a whole copy of level 36 "frustrating puzzle game", though that game also has a similar model to the one that used to be in this games level 21 not surprising these puzzle games just steal each others ideas, and speaking of level 21, the levels: 15, 21, 26, and 29 being replaced with brain rot characters is so lame like taking away the original characters to replace them with this just makes at least the bit of originality these levels might of had disappear, and just cringier. And fifth. This is more directed to the plavers: are you actually having fun? Like if you think about it, do you feel like your having fun or feel happy when playing this or just looking for that quick dopamine rush but instead of TikTok replacing it with These "Logic brain(rot) puzzle games" that are just ai generated at this point, and the concepts of levels just being taken from popular tales/manga even some characters from those medias being in the game like chopper in level 3 of the Christmas levels. The game also has 112 levels and we obviously took longer than a lot of people because we wouldnt watch hints or skip levels we would just go to YouTube if Im having too much trouble or wasting too much time trying to find something (which we only did for 2/3 out of 112 levels) and it took us HOURS/DAYS to complete all levels, we didnt play it everyday, though in our first days we played it for a few hours and finished it and deleted it, but we then downloaded it again because we were bored, and well we ended up finishing the game long ago yet we still have it because we were reluctant to delete it, those hours/days spent completing this game, like this game determines our self worth, but digital self worth is very fragile and just like when you get frustrated when you keep losing thats because its hurting your self esteem and even if you feel proud for beating a level in this game (since theyre difficult) and keep going on and on and on until your finished a without realizing how much time/hours you spent on Ai generated stolen slop levels and having ads shoved down your throat in the middle of long levels and when you try to retry or continue like its fine to play games online once in a while but if theyre affecting your reality and feeling about yourself its better to just not play them and Ive completed a lot of these puzzle games because we were bored we have no screen time limit and didnt know where to spend our time in something meaningful thatll at least help us in a longer run unlike the quick dopamine/motivation you dont even use from these apps dopamine is the strive to do something/motivation to do something thatll make you happy so please delete this app so you wont have to keep wasting too much time you have to realize that these reward chemicals/logical flaws from the brain that come from products like this are studied just so they can juice you as much as they to make the most profit this applies to not just games but the internet, food, drinks, and entertainment as a whole, industries are mostly built on lies and deception or greed changes their view. Please dont compare yourself to scripted people. And live in the real world not in the digital world. Im deleting this app for good we only downloaded it again to write this review. Thanks for reading and early happy new year.
There are ads, but between levels, they arent too long. We just finished level 16 and these puzzles are tricky enough that we WANT to beat them. The graphics are fun too. Its worth it.
It's game really helps keep our mind sharp.
We cant believe they think of this game.
Love this game we like Deku from our hero academia and this is funnier they watching it.
It is so good and we love it and we're 8.
If you get this game make sure your eight or nine it scary.
The app is starting to glitch out, when ever we open it and go to a level Im immediately kicked off from the game, please fix it.
This game is scary but also really fun and cool whoever likes scary things this will definitely be the game you want to play,we recommend this game.
To much ads like we love this game too much ads so please fix this.
We KEEP GETTING STUCK ON LEVEL 3! FIX.
We will write a review after we are given our missing hints we paid for. We were suppose to get 20 hints but only got 5 hints, we refreshed and nothing. We feel scammed.
It is a good game but there very scary images so best watch out.
There is too much adds so annoying.
The touch response is laggy and it has too many ads.
To many adds overall a fun game for kids just wish there wasnt so many an add after each puzzle you do.
Theres way too many ads. Its very expensive a quite frankly it has amazing gameplay. Its just like that still could use a little bit more.
Its kinda annoying having add EVERY level and theres a thing at the bottom and its also annoying but fun game.
We and our family Are having the best day at this game.
Im into a lot of horror things and this suits us well.
We give this five stars because when we first downloaded it, this is the first puzzle. We actually wanted to do normally other puzzles would trick us in give us ads so many ads that we deleted the app, when we downloaded it, it brought us there straight away that has to do no membership. None of that so we think all of yall should download it. Peace by. CB.
This game is really fun and we love the music and how its tricky and easy at the same time.
Unlike the other games we have the option to remove ads and buy hints which we love but but pls hurry up and add more levels we been waiting for 2 months we akready finished everything else except the light level cs its confusing and barely enough time to figure it out some levels dont need a timer im not gonna keep watching ads to add more time and still cant beat it and the hints for that level dont help.
The game is fun and challenging but it could use less ad times and sometimes the sound glitches.
Great game ig but far too many ads.
We love this game. We play in our freetime whenever we have the chance it honestly helps us with focusing and all that silly stuff. Anywho lets get to the point. Whenever we do a ad for a hint, after we get back into the game it freezes. Ive been having this problem for some reason.. Even at the title when we try to start going through the levels, it just freezes. Im not sure if its our phone because we have one of the new iphones we really love this game and id appreciate it if this bug was fixed!! :).
We love this game but it has to many ads but it does provide a fun activity when we are bored.
The Ads are ridiculous! Way too long and way too many. Other than that the game is great.
This game is not good at all. Some things make no sense. You have to watch ads after every level. Sometimes even before. Do not waste your time.
Too many ads too little play time.
Its a fun game but its so gross and odd to play at some times.women in the game are sexualized like CRAZY.. Women farting a lot to hide from the killer and its mostly girls getting kidnapped and having to escape. Not only that, the faces they make when they fart like is so gross you can tell if meant to be sexual in a way. Like even if it is a joke its not funny its just very odd and seems like a huge kink. Not for kids at all. Its just the only bad thing for us but its a super bad thing.
An ad every time we pass a level, an ad every time we fail a level, an ad for a hint, theres just an annoying amount of.
Its fun but like after every level theres ads and its annoying.
This game was really fun to play although we dont like all the advertisements and the ads but yeah.
Pretty cool game we have no life so anything is really entertaining for us.
We love this game but why is this 4 year old kids this should be at least 9 year olds and older some of them are like kind of scary for like young kids.
Ts is just so peak you should play it its not a scam genuinely its so fun to play but there is a lot of ads (after every level) still good though.
Literally so good and at least its not cringe.
Thank you for doing this game is so. Fun.
If a puzzle is too gross, its ver6 easy to skip. Most of these are fun and reasonably challenging.
This is a very good and interesting puzzle game.
We like it and for some reason we cant go to level six we paid for all the games to get unlocked but it never did so we deleted it and downloaded again still cant play level 6 its just loading and we let it load for three hours still no it never started so plz fix the issue.
It a amazing, amazing, amazing amazing amazing and its great. We love every single piece. Its like its like Im in it. Its like Im in it.
There are ads on this app than should be possible. You cant enjoy the app for the ads.
So the app is kind of good every time we get to a good level edges pauses so we have to wait a day or a day not lying so also, the levels are really not really but close to an appropriate. Youll just have to see.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.2
- Size: 341.62 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Ta Van Truong
Last updated: 8th December 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Puzzle | Developer: Ta Van Truong