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Radiation City – Adventure Game Review
Radiation City is a Adventure/Action game from ATYPICAL GAMES LLC, first launched in 23rd August 2017.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 1,002+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Radiation City Stand Out
Radiation City
Welcome to the world of Radiation City where a great survival adventure awaits you!
Forty years after the unfortunate accident of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, destiny brings you to the area of carefully recreated city of Pripyat. Uncover the amazing story, untangle the mystery and try to save your loved one.
This is not an easy task. It’s a huge open world area filled with dangers and anomalies. Hungry predators and sub-human creatures, they all want a piece of you. The elements, combined with radiation and unexplained phenomenon, make the lovely looking environment a place where you shouldn’t be. Yet, here you are.
Scavenge for resources inside any building and especially the landmarks of Pripyat: hotel Polissya, the cultural center, cinema Prometheus, the swimming pool and all the abandoned flat buildings. Craft and choose your gear wisely. Discover and use the campsites for safely passing the nights. Equipment, weapons and the vehicles you may find and use are your only friends.
Good luck!
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Radiation City is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th October 2023
Recent improvements include:
iOS17 compatibility
Download & Availability
Radiation City is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Radiation City 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:
We have been a huge fan of atypical games however Radiation City has been one of our favorites along with escape from Chernobyl now for a long time we were unable to play this game due to bugs, screen, sizing issues, and their inability to timely update. However, this game seems to be working fluently and perfectly, and we still cant say this is one of our favorites on iPhone. We dont have no regrets at all buying this game and we would pay for it again gladly. We do wish they would come out with more open world games like this one fully single player because that is what the gaming community is missing and thats what we miss as gamers.
This game is so good we remember we played it since we were 12, the graphics are insanely good ,the soundtracks of the zombies and the animals are also good , this game is peak all it requires tho is just some movement fixes of the zombies and thats it.
After completing the whole game, we gotta say, for a game thats over 7 years old it still holds up,! Its really hard but its very fun and worth the $5.
The game has a solid and good base, never disappoint to make an unpredictably fun game, now the only suggestions we would give if they were asked of us is to improve certain animations and mechanics as they seem and feel a bit raw, the game is still good, we think it is worth investing a few more resources to perfect.
New here 1st time playing good game overall but experiencing a lot of game crashes and lags using new iOS devices which would be good for the game.
During our playing through of this game, we noticed how spot-on the map of Pripyat was. With our long fascination of the city of Pripyat and the surrounding Exclusion Zone we have to say you guys did a great job of replicating the zone itself. Only things Id like to see added are some old uniforms and cars of the police and firefighters that we can search and pick up that add certain bonuses, like the cop uniform adding a single slot like a holster and extra inventory space, and the fire gear giving you decreased damage to fire. Thats really all we have to say, other than that we love this game. Thank you.
We love your games! Plzzzz make more! Much love.
El juego est bien simplemente us gustara que fuera verde la vegetacin – s por favor pueden arreglar eso para que el juego se vea mas bonito si.
Please make a Radiation City to a radiation island two plz . Anyways please sta safe.
Amazing Thats all we have to Say.
You need to make that every time u die the car respawns with you.
Its graphics are not the best but us being the fallout 4 addict that we are this game is fallout 4 on the go.
Why is it so hard for mobile devs to know this is all gamers want?? Make more of this, please. Make a postal 2 clone and we will pay whatever you charge.
We really recommend this game but it just needs a few things like if your playing in god/exploration mode developers can you pls make it so you dont need fuel for this game mode for the car pls.
Hello dev Would you update the game again.
Not saying the first radiation island was not good, but this game is amazing, we love the art style, and not complaining, but unlike radiation island we dont have a huge ping spike lol. We love how fluent the game is, and the controls are so fluid, over all its a really good game.
Ever since we played Radiation island, we have been waiting for this HUGE project to come out! {(Which Was A While Back)} And we would like to say… THANK YOU!!! For this awesome game! Keep up the good work: Some random person writing a comment.
We love this game we have every rad game but escape Chernobyl continue the great work. But we have found a glitch where you cant get a military vest at one of the towers or death rays it hasnt worked but we have found other things. We give this game five stars.
Great game. Very engaging. Takes a while to gather tools and weapons, but well worth the effort. No pressure; if you die it only costs you the weapon youre carrying, which you can go back and retrieve. TK.
We love this game with all new enemys and some old ones a lot of jump scares and a more of a survival aspect added In but the one thing we would love is if they could add the building mechanic but other than that its awesome.
Hello Atypical games This game is just too good Like Dayz but you know we think you need to change it a bit because of how the game is boring without multiplayer also Radiation island has multiplayer but we think you should add multiplayer in this game too because it would be a double experience with the player and it would be more fun. We hope you understand and hope we can see this update some point in the future Thank you and this game is defiantly the best survival zombie game Ive ever played.
If u like radiation island u will like this game most likely its a different style tho ur more on the move and in a city and we would say harder which we like but devs if your listening plz add a way where u can build or get homes and add storage chest u can place and maybe add more use for crafting beside that this game is amazing we love it plz keep up the good work devs and keep working on the game.
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We love it is worth 5$ but in radiation island you could build you own structure but in this game you cant build please add a building function to this game we think that it really needs please release an update for building and we will be happy but for the rest of radiation it is good but just please bring building in the game we think that other players would also want to build in radiation city so please that just release a simple update that allows you to build.
In response and follow up with the devs Im very impressed. Bugs are fixed and got great support.
Skip tutorial/tool tip fix implemented. Our wish has been answered :).
Its great game nice graphics and story keep the updates coming full of surprises.
Only issue is the wolfs are op there the only reason we die and rags are a bit to hard to find given..there rags but other than that its a great game.
It crushes Way too often. For us to play Its hard to play.
Its a great survival game we love but the creepy music just gives us goosebumps but apart from that this game is amazing.
We love this game so much but our only problem is that it drains our battery within minutes. We can be at 100%, play this game and then 5 minutes later Ill be at 20%.
The game is good however we dont enjoy constantly gathering food, we think this game is worth putting on the Nintendo Switch.
So, we know how to repair weapons, but we cant figure out what you need for clothes. We also cant seem to find the teleporters in some of the Tesla towers, even after searching all 3 floors and the decks. If you could tell us how, that would be great.
This game in terms of open world survival is nothing short of awesome!!!!! But we wish you would at least make some zombies slower just like Radiation island. The same goes for Chernobyl. There should be a variety of speeds since zombies are by nature slow.we dont mind the fast zombies but there should be also a lot of slow zombies! Can you also make sure the zombies dont glitch out too often? It kind of messes up a potentially good game. We hope you take into consideration these changes and implement them. Also since this game series has been a very awesome experience for us we hope you make a fourth game and make the gameplay, story, open world aspects and possibly add new features to make the game more exciting.
This game is awsome. The atmosphere is suspenseful. The gameplay is simple to pick up, but will give you hours of entertainment. Graphics are decent, though we had to tone them down in order to avoid slow downs on our older device. The story is intriguing but is a bit confusing at times. Music isnt really existent, except for a few atmospheric tunes, so we are grateful this game allows music in the background. Controls are initially overly sensative, but this is a fixable issue. However, there is one issue: inventory management. This is the kind of game that is extremely restrictive when it comes to how much you can carry. This wouldnt bother us so much IF there was a way to make a base of your own, with storage units, like you can in radiation Island. We managed to make something work by gathering a lot of cars around one campsite, but Id prefer a cleaner method.For the way this game works with limited stacking and how everything breaks after a while, this game needs a home base storage system. Despite this, it is still a really great game that we would recommend survival fans try.
We love this game but just one bug that bugs the crap out of us Sometimes we hear zombies hitting us but…there are no zombies hitting us it makes the hit sound and we dont know were its coming from it just makes the hitting sound and it gets really annoying when u constantly hear a smack smack smack and we also hear a zombie sound in the background we dont know if this is a bug or if its a zombie hitting our car since one time a zombie was hitting our car for we dont know what reason it was doin that but if it is a bug can you fix it thanks Also this is the best mobile game on here besides that one possible bug but other then that grate game love playin it really good story line but another thing the towers, its vary hard to find the thing to turn it off without bein killed by tough zombies also the Scientist zombie you know the one that shoots out the acid it kills you in 1 or 2 hits so if u could nerf that one zombie to be a bit weaker (but not to weak) thatd be great thanks for reading.
We love the weapons! Its just that the camera and movement when you use one is just weird. Some weapons are too close to the characters face… We also love the quest markers. Which helped us keep track of what we were doing.
NEEDS AN UPDATE ITS BEEN 4 MONTHS. Yeah its been like 7 months and we uninstalled this awhile ago due to lack of updates with new content.
So Im writing this review we were exited there would be a sequel? To radiation island and was exited to go have an amazing adventure through a radiated city full of monsters. Instead we got disappointment the graphic was better but the crafting and the looting isnt really fun in radiation is you have these outposts that are small and dangerous that had multiple way to invade and it was highly nuclear so you cant hide inside of it when you were in a pinch and gas masks pills etc was pretty expensive and so it had this pretty cool high risk high reward mechanic. But in this game these anti radiation items were pretty common also the military outposts are too big and too less enemys we guess it makes a pretty cool stealth section in the beginning but the stealth isnt even that good of you go close to the enemy it doesnt matter if their facing the other way they will notice you so why didnt you pack the place full with zombies so in the earlier stages it would be this intimidating force to be reckoned And thats a small peace of this laundry list of complaints we have for this game go play radiation island guys.
Weird UI. Clearly meant for a large screen. Some not picky things like certain things not being clear. But in terms of gameplay, its a great survival game that actually scares us. Especially when Im trying to be quiet at the house playing at low volume so you cant hear things coming at you. Ive jumped too many times. Its fun.
When we drive our car, after five seconds the game crashes. Edit:we use an IPhone se and it happens everywhere but otherwise the game is awesome.
A lot of bugs that need to be fixed. When you start getting a lot of items in your inventory everything in your inventory will become invisible and you have to figure out whats what by dropping everything on the floor. Another bug is zombies spawning out of thin air right before your eyes and jumping you. Sometimes even spawning in back of you. We see this game hasnt been updated in 3 years and we just paid 5$ for it so fix the game a little yea? Zombies are incredibly tanky and do so much damage, you can shoot a zombie 6 times and it wont even flinch. If you use a melee weapon your screwed, if you use a gun your screwed. So many wolf spawns in certain areas its pretty annoying especially when they spawn in thin air in front of you. This game has so much potential even after 3 years, fix up the game.
The graphics are good and the story is interesting, but you move incredibly slow. The amount of time you are able to run is unrealistic and annoying. It is far too easy to die and it takes ages to find anything useful. We thought it would be an interesting open world game, but it turned out to just be a ripoff.
Like others we wanted to love this game. Radiation island was a great game. Rad City isnt nearly as fun. Movement is slow and clunky. Crafting seems nonexistent. Your ability to carry items is very limited and creating caches for extra materials to free up space doesnt seem to be an option. (Tried but lost everything multiple times) They already had this type of game figured out. Enhance radiation island in a different setting with a different story line and you have a great game. Instead they decided to reinvent the wheel. These guys lost our trust with this one. We wont be so quick to spend money on their next game.
Game is good until you die holding something of greater value than a pipe. For example, if you are holding an ak74 when you die it is instantly gone forever. Going back to where you died does not matter as you wont find whatever you were holding. If we knew where all the items were in game that might not be a setback – but we dont have the dev map. Once we died a few times in radiation area permanently losing the high value items we stumbled across, we rapidly lost interest in game. We may check back from time to time to see if permanent loss of items is no longer a player shackle as, if that feature was not in game, it would be a great title.
We can not find the portal on tower 6 and 7 we dont know why but it seems unfinished and we cant play the story anymore. It is still fun though.
We would like to have. A "creative mode", similar to minecraft's creative mode. There's a bunch of selections of items, and you can craft anything thats for crafting, this will make more people want to play and show their creativity to their families, once they show their family, their family will buy it.
This by far is a decent game but we feel like there needs to be just a few tweaks and adjustment to make the gameplay more immersive and more intuitive for users. We feel as if it needs other types of enemies rather than just zombies and wolfs. More craft-able items and a new arsenal of weapons would be great. Personal chest or a house/bunker that you can fortify and use as a safe zone. Other than that GG and keep those updates ah coming.
We love this game jus plz fix the car it is hard to control.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.7
- Size: 2,216.00 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence, Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: ATYPICAL GAMES LLC
Last updated: 24th October 2023 | Genre: Adventure, Action | Developer: ATYPICAL GAMES LLC