Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 10:29 am
Eterna – Education Game Review
Eterna is a Education/Puzzle/Casual game from Vital Mind Media, LLC, first launched in 7th July 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 14+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Eterna Stand Out
Eterna is a citizen science game where players learn to design RNA molecules for medical research by solving puzzles. Complete introductory puzzles to unlock lab access and participate in challenges where you can invent medicine!
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Eterna is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Eterna 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:
App nonconsensually collects contact information for no apparent reason.
This was not working at all earlier, blank blue screens with nowhere to click. Its better now. However, we think that as in the eterna.org site that Ive started using, it would be a great help to have temps in each loop. We know that you could keep looking at 5he total temp for each modification, but seeing all of them makes it so much better when figuring out how to make it work.
This is an engaging difficult game and a good review of high school biology. However, when we try to access the screenshot feature ingame, its blocked by the window displaying the requirements for the level. Its really frustrating, especially since we cant submit screenshots to the chat for help. Also, the options under the menu with the three horizontal lines can only be accessed by clicking directly on the icon: it would be helpful to make the label for each icon selectable as well.
The game is a great simulation of RNA sequencing to learn how medicine is made. We love the puzzles, and love that it walks you through. But when you reach the 2nd lab and complete it it forces you to go to the website to play the rest of the game. Like, Im already in the app, its right here. Just let us play it here in the app, dont force us to open safari to go play it there. That defeats the purpose of downloading the app in the first place. Trying to play a game in safari is low performance and forcing someone to play it that way detours people from wanting to play it, especially if its meant to be a mobile game, not a browser/pc game. Im uninstalling for now, but hopefully this strange oversight will be looked at and fixed, maybe Ill come back and finish what we started.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: v1.12.3
- Size: 160.93 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Vital Mind Media, LLC
Last updated: 3rd December 2025 | Genre: Education, Puzzle | Developer: Vital Mind Media, LLC