Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 12:48 pm
BuildNow GG – Building Shooter – Action Game Review
BuildNow GG – Building Shooter is a Action/Simulation game from Bohdan Chumachenko, first launched in 28th October 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,322+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes BuildNow GG – Building Shooter Stand Out
BuildNow GG is an online build-and-shoot game featuring various game modes, weapons, and maps. Build and hone your skills in offline training mode.
BuildNow GG is part of an emerging genre of online game that combines tactical building with third-person shooter gameplay.
Build, shoot, and party
In the game, you build ramps, rooves, and walls as quickly as possible while taking on another opponent. For new players, aim training is an excellent way to learn the basic controls. The game is online, but you can also start a private match with your friends in party mode. You can host up to 6-12 players in a private game.
Master your weapons
The weapons cover the standard loadout you’d expect in a shooting title, and you can switch between them while you battle. The loadout features a pistol, assault rifle, sniper rifle, shotgun, and a pickaxe.
Customize your profile
BuildNow GG features extensive customization options. You can customize the visual quality, FPS limit, HDR and more in the graphics settings. The options also include full HUD customization so you can create the ideal profile for shooting and building.
Game modes
BuildNow GG features game modes located on different maps. These are:
-Freebuild – a sandbox-style map where you can play PvP and practice without limits
-V-Arena – 1v1 battle or 6 players FFA, last man standing wins
-Realistic 1v1 – 1v1 battle with fall damage and limited resources
-BoxFight – 1v1 Boxfight or 4 player FFA, last man standing wins
-BoxFight Zone Wars – 6 player FFA in a zone
-Aim Training – improve your aim on static and moving targets offline
-Late Game Zone Wars – 6 player FFA in a random zone with limited building resources
Features:
-Build and battle your way to the top
-Play privately with a party of up to 6-12 players
-Fully customizable performance and HUD profile
-Practice your building and shooting skills offline
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, BuildNow GG – Building Shooter is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Added level purchase option — you can now buy Battle Pass levels directly!
Added “Interact” key binding — customize your controls even more
New XP Pickup item — collect it across maps to level up faster!
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where weapons couldn’t be picked up while building/editing and stayed floating above the player
Download & Availability
BuildNow GG – Building Shooter is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get BuildNow GG – Building Shooter 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 would love to use this app, after years of not having a console to play Fortnite. But we cant leave the hud when we go to change it.
Great but after a month it crashes.
Can you add Freinds in the game.
Please creator make battle Royale because it would be so fun for friends to battle other people and get a win so like add trios,duos singles,squads just please add battle Royale it would make the game so much popular.
When we press the button to login in to our apple account it doesnt work but when we press the guest button it works. Can you guys fix it please? Thanks.
If you like 1v1.lol we recommend this.
We think its better then Fortnite because less lag more actual game experience and its just better.
Need more games and tournaments.
This game is awesome but what would make it a lot better if you add shadow bomb or shockwave to zone wars that will be amazing.
5 stars but one thing you guys need to add the shop back and classic edit course and duo wild west please.
This game is amazing we love playing this game but please add back the edit course and the old west duo please we will very much appreciate it if you were to put both of them and also more skinssss please. Build now gg please see this please. But amazing game we love playing this game.
Ummm when we updated the game we get stuck in the loading screen we havent played the game in about 2 weeks.
This game is one of the best in our opinion even after the update with more skins which makes it very nice but there is one more problem, please bring back duo Wild West it was our favorite mode and everyone In the discord server wants it, please bring it back or even better just put battle royal with solo duos trips and squads for battle royal in the next update. Thank You for the lovely game and please bring battle royal.
First of all, we love this game. Its so awesome. But we want yall to add a battle royale mode, and put like 50 players in the matchmaking. Also add more guns. The recent update was so awesome thank you and add more awesome updates.
Honestly, this game is better than Fortnite, though you dont do that much tournaments, we hope your game stays forever and do cash tournaments for people to win, money pls add more stuff worth some money, so you can do cash cups and have more money.
The game is really nice it makes us not forget how to play Fortnite cuz our console broke and Im getting it in a month but there are some bugs like in box fights where you can teleport outside of the arena or on top and its just impossible to fight and another one in the setting if we have our reset build button binder to R3 on our ps5 controller and also confirm it sometimes makes us not edit since it thinks that we wanna edit and reset at the same time so please fix that or even a better solution add auto confirm edits but for reset so we dont always have to press the confirm button because us and 6 of our friends are currently experiencing that bug and it becomes really annoying to play because every time we try to edit the edit menu pops up for 0.1 seconds and disappears and it makes our gameplay not fluid at all and that is it to the developer who sees this have a nice day and we hope you and your team work on adding that setting or fixing the bug bye have a good day :).
Its really good but the graphics is bad and the delay.
We played this game for 2 days and it was good than when we go in an match the whole screen like soon as out and we cant zoom in Make this better and Ill give you 5 stars.
How do we make a private server.
Why did you delete edit course we like it bring it back.
This game would be better with a battle royale. The game is dying bc of this problem.
We play Fortnite but we get tired of it so we play this keep up the good work.
Pls add something like battle royal pls bro Im begging u.
We have something to say about this and we hope you read this because its getting unfair because pc players and mobile players have to deal with cracked sweaty pc players when mobile should play against mobile and pc should play againstt pc its that SIMPLE.
So this game is so fun all we want to say this whole review is if yall would add tournaments for all ages that would be great! And if yall added a battle royal this would be so great.
Why cant we use the shop while we play on mobile and it has a cross through if we want to be able to but we teams and it doesnt let us please fix this.
This is the best shooting game Ive ever played and its good and all but please ad a battle royal and dont just make it for apple and a please ad it to game senter.
It is so fun we play on our iPad, but we have our PlayStation controller. We connected to, it and it makes it even funner.
This game is so so fun but one thing they need to do is add more skins,pickaxes and backpacks but overall this game is the ball.
Add a battlepass 1-10 please an then take it from there and battle Royale mode.
Its a really good game, but you know what will make it even better, if you add battle royal, and ranked, also can you make characters more realistic and make the taller just like Fortnite, also add more game modes and newer weapons.
We have our edit as left stick and if we are in build mode we can't edit we will just play 1v1.lol or Fortnite.
This game is the next best thing to fortnite. Our only issue is that we purchased the starter pack and with came no ads. But guess what? We got ads. Please fix this bug.
So the game is really fun at this point its fortnite but the thing we hate is that there is a lot of pros like every lobby we get in is just pros like half of the games are full of pros and some games have mid players like decent players and not good players but there is alot of pros so we think it should be a 4.1 to 4.0 bc there is alot of pros.
We love this game we personally think this is the number one Fortnite contender only reason why we didnt give it a five stars you should really get like Royale gamemod or like arena/ranked type game mod.
We think we might get a low taper fade after grinding fake Fortnite and getting to skibidi rank and also we might goon when we finish playing.
Ive been playing this game for we we dont even know how long we wanted to play red vs blue then that messed our account up we tried playing other modes but that dont work.
We like it, but sometimes when we join the game, it freezes.
It was saying perches when we were trying to play and it got stuck can you help.
So why are players phasing through our builds and Im getting shot even though we build before they shoot at us so apparently thats a thing in this game. If that gets fixed the will be better:) But other than that the game is awesome.
Nice and fake but fps and edit quick lag.
We bought a 3 dollar deal but the game literally never worked. Im starting to think its a scam. But when it works its a fun game.
We love this game when first download then we delete on accident then when we got back it wont work keep saying purchasing idk why but please fix this.
First off Im a big fan of this game. They did a really great job with making it just like Fortnite! BuildNow GG just had an update that totally took it to another level! New skins, game modes, rewards and more! To us, BuildNow GG is a ten out of ten game. We hope to see more updates added soon! Definitely recommend BuildNow GG.
Ok so when we go to sign in it just kicks us out back in to the lobby when we try it again it doesnt even work and we would really like battle royal also this might be our issue but when we go to try to sign in on our phone it says you Apple account cant use the account on this so pls help us out thanks.
Its been a while since yall last updated the game when is it gonna happen.
This is by far the best ripoff Fortnite Ive ever played.
Im being honest the building and editing mechanics are better that Fortnite.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.3.81
- Size: 297.80 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Bohdan Chumachenko
Last updated: 5th November 2025 | Genre: Action, Simulation | Developer: Bohdan Chumachenko