Last updated on January 25th, 2026 at 07:41 am
Nocturnals – Adventure Game Review
Nocturnals is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from Cowboy Toad Games LTD, first launched in 6th January 2025.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 66+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Nocturnals Stand Out
***NOTE: This app is best optimised for devices with more than 4GB RAM, such as the iPhone 14 and above. This app is not compatible with the iPad 7th Generation or iPhone 13.
Follow the story of Ted as he navigates the abandoned town of Ruddleside amidst the post apocalypse, finding a solitary companion in Diego.
Your choices determine whether Diego will bond with Ted and help him continue his search for surviving communities, or whether the pair will face difficulties and challenges that put them at odds with each other whilst trying to escape the horrors within Ruddleside.
Gameplay:
• Explore Stylized 3D Environments: Navigate the atmospheric setting of Ruddleside.
• Solve Puzzles and Find Collectibles: Uncover the town's mysteries through various puzzles and collectibles.
• Shape Ted's Destiny: Make decisions that influence Ted's personality and determine his fate.
The game has been fully ported over from PC to mobile, includes controller support and 4 additional subtitle languages: Spanish, French, Polish and Russian.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Nocturnals is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Updated the age rating to align with apples updated policy.
Download & Availability
Nocturnals 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:
During the scene where you are chased by Maggie and you have to crawl through the gate to escape. Every time we get to the hole in the gate the game wont stop loading even though the scene is still running. We cant do anything because its stuck on the loading screen and Ted gets killed because of that please fix this only then we will rate the game 5 stars. Update they fixed it Im changing our rating to five stars.
We think the cutscene quality is kinda bad and sometimes it would get frozen in place and we have to open the menu screen for it to play again, sometimes the screen just goes black. We think yall could do a bit better with the mobile game because why does the pc version have better quality and graphics.. But we watched over 7 people play this game and we think its really fun we love yaoi.
This game needs optimization its way to choppy and the voices sometimes do not match the characters mouths lol.
Its not a bad game, poorly optimized and crashes or freezes a lot also the controls arent very responsive. The way the characters react to your choices isnt very realistic and kinda dumb most of the time. For example if someone put a gun in your face and you responded kindly and then threatened them after they will later respond saying you threatened them even though they actively had a gun shoved in your face and constantly threatened to kill you. Game is somewhat enjoyable but for the amount of times it crashes or freezes we dont think 3 dollars is a fair price we would say 1 dollar at most until the issues are fixed Im playing on an iPhone 16 Pro and the description says the game is optimized for 14 and up. Well that was a blatant lie. We hope the developers fix the issues because their is issues that should be easy to fix but if youre okay with spending 3 dollars on a game that lags, crashes and freezes along with no real consequences for your choices then buy the game and we hope you enjoy it.
The game is so good optional game with multiple endings please continue with the story if they meetup sometime in the future please Im begging you this is our top number one game continue it please.
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We played the hole thing and we loved it no lags no adds nothing amazing very fun who ever created this game you did a amazing job the game is super fun yall need to download 1000% loved it!!worth the money.
We litgit love this game so much oh em gee but it lowk laggy in every cut scene/scene in general we play it on our iPad but its very laggy but not the part where u play the game and it glitched and lagged us out and we had to restart on a part but other than that we LOVE THIS GAME please make a second game and our soul is yours.
So for 3 bucks you get a great story but it always crashes after almost every cutscene and choice. We are on a IPad 9th gen so it is fairly new. We also closed all other apps to make it run better but it still does this. Please fix it has so much potential.
The game is good but it was very laggy. After every cutscene, quick time event or choice we had to make, we would have to go to settings, get out and then tap the screen a couple times for it to continue. Sometimes the subtitles would be ahead or behind the words they were saying but if we took the subtitles off we wouldnt know what they were saying bc the sound would cut off sometimes. Also the quick time events were less exciting. Maybe it was laggy bc Im on our phone and not on a pc like the game was originally on. But if they fixed the lag then itd be a really good game.
We can tell the game is probably good based off of the one time we got to play for like 2 minutes other then that we cant really tell. Our game is bugged or glitched or Im cursed whenever we try to play we cant even continue barley load ip like 10 seconds of the very first cut scene and then our screen flashes white then goes black and Im back to the title screen like Im barley loading into the game. There was only one time we were able to play for a bit and when it happened we couldnt even start from were we left off forcing us to watch the cutscene it turning black then Im back at the main menu making it a infinite loop making the game practically unplayable for us.
We cant play this game at all and we even have a we pad pro and we cant click the screen to play the game.
Ive gotten past Maddie but now Im stuck on a black screen after ted and Diego were together it sounds like Ted is getting up but Im stuck on a black screen so please fix that bug.
Ugh we wanna play soo bad but this game just wont permit we keep all apps closed in the background but no please we spent money on this game to not even play it.
We have restarted our game many times but right after Ted and Diego meet our screen goes black. We sat on the screen for ten minutes and nothing happened! And we spent $3 on this, please fix this.
Make this game into episodes not separated, but you dont have to. Its just a idea like life is strange 5 stars and our device is iPad 10 generation.
We truly loved the story-line. It was beautiful, we found the game from a YouTuber Playing it and had to try it, we just got it today and already have half the endings. Yes, it is a bit buggy in some of the spots, like the scene where ted first seen the auditorium. But overall not a lot of bugs! Our first ending was Diegos death Which struck us. Definitely gonna need a plot after they leave ruddleside! Loved it.
We apologize if Im being rude, but there are a lot of lags the cuttings go faster and also sometimes the game lags a little bit. We really hope you guys can fix this we apologize if im being rude but to be honest Im really happy we got to play this game. It is really fun! You two did very amazing.
We love this game its so fun and idk why people are saying the game is laggy it was okay for us.
Amazing game and great endings.
This game as reviews said it would do the same thing to us at the loading screen but then you have to reset your game we reset in our game and it worked perfect and we completed the game in an hour fun and we hope more comes to this and more games like this.
The game was really glitchy but we dont know if its our phone or the game but we thought we should just say this to get it out of the way but we love it.
Our phone is iPhone 14 Plus, and the game is running at the beginning, and when the film show ends, it takes us back to the main page. We paid three dollars to play this game. Please fix the problem.
We love the gameplay and the story. The art style is simple yet really cool kinda like those videos you watch on YouTube of some creepy animated stories, had that vibe to it. We love that you can make choices including even in the 3D world it feels so immersive. We played this on our iPad Pro didnt have bugs, crashes or lag. That being said we dont think its optimized for iPad as the resolution we believe is meant for phones because it looks so pixelated and blurry. Went through the entire game with this issue cause we wanted to play on our iPad so id love to replay the game with optimizations for the iPad.
We love the game but we cant get very far because whenever we get to the gasoline part(where mia finds you) it stays on the loading screen for the whole cutscene.
Great game, but theres an issue where after the ladder breaks, the game will reset back to the main menu. IPhone 14 btw.
Even though we saw many reviews that said the game crashed for them and was really laggy, we still purchased the game because of its popularity and storyline. We cant even get past the first part of the game without it crashing and bringing us back all the way to the beginning. This would be a better game if the bugs were fixed.
We like the premise of this game however it is very buggy had to restart a few times because the game crashed. The gameplay itself is fun but not long enough and we thought the choices that could be made were insignificant.
Download the game and clicked new game. It started showing us the trailer then goes to the loading screen. Then it took us back to the starting page. The only options to click were new game (again) and settings. We couldnt even click continue. Maybe this is a bug but we did just pay 3 dollars and really wanted to play this.
Im so glad this game got an app store version overall im very happy and cant wait for more.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 391.56 MB
- iOS: 18.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Cowboy Toad Games LTD
Last updated: 12th December 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Cowboy Toad Games LTD