Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 05:23 am
Preserve™ – Puzzle Game Review
Preserve™ is a Puzzle/Board/Entertainment game from Plug In Digital, first launched in 16th September 2025.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 570+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Preserve™ Stand Out
Preserve is free to download with no ads. In-app purchases are required to unlock the full experience.
Restore the wild. One tile at a time.
Preserve is a peaceful puzzle game that lets you build entire ecosystems through clever placement of flora and fauna cards. Whether you're growing a forest, cultivating a wetland, or balancing food chains in a meadow, your decisions shape how each biome evolves.
Enjoy multiple game modes tailored to your mood—complete challenges in Puzzle mode, build freely in Creative, or find balance in classic mode. With its serene soundtrack, charming visuals, and relaxing yet rewarding gameplay loop, Preserve is a unique digital escape for the minds.
- Grow living biomes by matching flora and fauna synergies
- Multiple gameplay modes: Puzzle, Classic and Creative
- Unlock natural wonders and discover secret patterns
- Soothing visuals and relaxing soundtrack
- Fully offline, no ads.
Relax. Reconnect. Rewild the world.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Preserve™ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- A new biome Ice Age has been added with new cards and gameplay.
Try it out in Creative mode and purchase the Ice Age biome to complete new puzzles and challenges! - Fixed prices display in the shop
- Various bug fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Preserve™ 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:
We love the beautiful textures and all the anamals we get to control.
Ive had this game for two-three months now and we absolutely love it. Its so relaxing. We didnt realize we had to buy the other biomes but they were cheap and they were so worth it. We love the ice age one the most but the marine and Jurassic one add some nice diversity. Recommend this game to everyone 10/10.
Breathtakingly beautiful, intelligently engineered, diversely enriched this is truly lovely game. Thank you to all involved in bringing it to life.
This is the best game ever and dont try to make a bad review because you dont like animals just delete the game. This game really is creative. Its like you as a God creating a world whoever made this needs $100 million dollars the best game ever.
Hands down best game Ive ever had. It stimulated our brain but it didnt require too much thought. What really gets us is the music and all the realistic sounds the animals make. It calms us down so much, we cannot recommend this app enough.
Very relaxing tho challenging enough to not feel like our brain is turned off. A very nice combination of low stakes, stimulation, and peaceful vibes.
We havent played it for very long but we can already tell its amazing! The devs were so creative with this, and all the nature is pawsome! :D.
The game is amazing and like a month ago we made a review asking if theyd add creative mode and what do you know they added it.
We love it! The bugs with the marine wonders and crashes that other reviewers mentioned have been fixed. The only issue Ive found is Savannah level 10 – we even looked up a solution because we were so stuck, but even copying it tile for tile leaves us a hundred points short, and Ive otherwise met even the gold on the large map. Help.
Great game love it but we being a privacy respecting person read the privacy policy and its incredibly invasive for no reason.
Ive spent hours playing this game on steam and we are so happy and excited to see it as an app now.
We love this game we could play for hours. As someone who enjoys games like animal crossing and Minecraft this is literally an amazing mix. We think the camera work could use some improvement for iPad users but other than that tiny thing its 10/10.
We play this game off steam and wished and waited for it to come out on iOS and it runs so smooth just like on our pc! Super fun.
We really enjoy this game for exactly what it is. You can just zone out and play and its relaxing and engaging.
Loved this game on PC, so happy to see it on mobile!! Thanks devs.
Love this game. Wish it had a zen mode. That wouldve dope.
From a person who doesnt game much, we havent closed this app in like 4 days. Good ish team <3.
Ive never reviewed an app before, but we really am enjoying this one! No annoying ads (like zero) and its fun and totally different to other games,es.
As someone who is a wildlife biologist and loves puzzles this game is amazing! We saw it and thought it looks great and we have only been more and more impressed. The gameplay is fun and simple but also complex. Love the visuals and soundtrack as well. For any nature lovers who play games this is a must try.
We finished first stage, went to marine level, and realized that wonders cant be placed. This is a great game, but devs should have fixed major bugs before release. Also, lakes leave tiles watered after you remove them.
This graphics heavy game is calming, fun and easy to learn. You have an opportunity to learn with a tutorial, but if you want to skip it, its not hard to learn. Calming, but challenging. Love this.
The whole game idea is awesome and it works quite well. The only things that need some tweaking are the touch gestures. When we got and add a new area/terrain and try to spin it, it will spin it but put the block somewhere else instead of where we had it originally. We just go ahead and click back where we want it and it will be in the right orientation. No biggie. Zooming in/out is not very smooth. Same with panning around. Besides that, everything has been working great so far and we spent a solid couple of hours on our first session just truly enjoying the game and the graphics.
We have been waiting for this game to come out and it is amazing! The only problem we have is that the graphics are a little blurry, but Im sure they will upgrade them.
Ive only played for an hour or so, but so far Im enjoying it enough to pay for the extra terrain packs. Peaceful and pretty. The only issue we have is that some of the details are hard to make out on a phone-size screen, so might be difficult for players with vision problems unless playing on a tablet. Ill probably end up switching to our tablet to play this game so we dont have to squint.
We didnt think the game was fun at first. However, we kept at it and it is enjoyable and relaxing. Our biggest complaint is the biomes needing to be under a certain size was not clear and the warning that a biome is merging flashs so fast its easy to miss. We would have given 5 stars but we feel the game is missing a relaxed mode. Our biomes getting reset is heartbreaking. We have a photo but it is not the same. Otherwise it is a good game we would recommend.
We really enjoy the game. It is so our style and we love the puzzle feel to it. Its visually pleasing as well. Our only complaint is that it feels kind of limited. When you play a game on a large biome, it is pretty much impossible to get past 2000 points. We wish there was less of a limit.
Obsessed with this game right now. We can play for hours! However one thing really getting on our nerves is the wonders glitch and not being able to place them at all in the marine biome, causing us to not have enough points to beat our high scores. Pleaseeeeee fix this! We know other people are also having this issue.
Great game, but there are some problems on our iPad placing certain cards.
We overall think its a great game but 1 problem we keep encountering on iOS is you cannot place natural wonder in the marine life , it simply will not place we even connected our Xbox controller to see if that would work but it did not . Im glad they updated it to be able to rotate items such as the terrain on the Dinosaur one . Would be 5 stars if the bug was fixed we mentioned. Its great besides that we have spent many nights staying up beating our previous scores and figuring out what we can do to out do it.
Been playing this game with our 4 year old son, and with our wife. We have made it our mission to show them the wonders in each biome once we manage to unlock them. Its been fun and a pleasure. However, Im running into an issue with the wonders in the marine biome. We have allotted the appropriate tiles to host each of the wonders, but every time we place the wonders on to the tiles all we get is a green highlighted area. We cant place the wonders in the habitats. Ive looked online for some fixes, and all Ive managed to find is another post on Reddit from yesterday from someone running into the same issue. Its been driving us bonkers we cant figure it out. This is a desperate plea for help. We have never once left a review on any apps before, but this game has caused us to venture out and leave a desperate cry for help in the guise of a review. Pls help.
Ive been playing the game quite a bit and so far hadnt had major issues. The wonders in the dinosaur and sea biome do glitch leaving it feeling unfinished. The sea is the worse as the dinosaurs at least let us place them most the time. Overall we like the game and hope these things get fixed in the near future. We would give 5 stars if things are fixed.
We impulse bought a few of the biomes and we have definitely played the game enough to justify it. Theres a really good balance between reaching goals and being creative for the sake of building something just as you want it. The only recommendation we can give the creator is to incorporate some quick ways to make cards and labels bigger to verify placed animals, or card details. Im playing on a phone and it can be challenging to differentiate the icons and colors.
We love the game. There been a few glitches and bugs. Oen that we cant escape though; no matter what, is we CANNOT get it to let us place a marine wonder even when we have it hovered over the 7 tiles and they are green lit. It will never actually place any of them and it is really annoying.
We finished the classic mode, and we are halfway through the puzzle mode, but want to play creative! How do we do this?!?! (Cool game though!).
Its a very good game Ive been playing for over an hour and still hooked but its only because we bought the water expansion and its great 10/10 would recommend but the only problem we have is that we cant place the wonders.
Good but there needs to be more free biome.
We think the game is amazing so far and definitely works the brain but we think a few free maps couldnt hurt instead of being forced to keep replaying the same ones over and over.
Amazing game but you have to pay for multiple biomes which we feel is a little unfair. If the audience had two free biomes that would be great. Also the game should have a creative mode.
We bought the marine biome and we really like it! It's super cute and cozy and we like the concept. The only thing we wish for right now is for an option to lower the altitude of certain blocks, like how you can increase their height we wish you could also have an option to decrease blocks. Especially since certain habitats like the octopus one need low altitudes, it's difficult to have enough space for those. Overall so far we're having a good experience and we will keep playing.
Overall, the game is so cool from what we saw only from the tutorial. However, whenever we try to play level one it just crashes and brings us back to the start. Once they fix this problem, we would play all day! <3.
We like this game a lot. Graphics are okay, a little squirrelly at times. When we got the Marine habitat we were so excited. The first time we played, we could put the natural wonder animals in their respective habitat as long as it was a 7-tile flower piece. Now, after multiple days of trying to put down more natural wonders it just wont work. The flower shape turns green like its a valid spot to put one but it just wont work. Otherwise we think its a fun cool game just needs some bugs fixed.
The free version is virtually a lite version of the game. Very bare bones and requires you to pay real money to start truly getting into the game. A shame because it is a very nice looking and intuitive game, but seems pretty scummy to only offer a 30 minute or less experience and then everything else costs money. Bummer.
We couldnt wait to download this game. We actually had it ordered to download it. Our gaming experience is good especially since we just recently took an environmental science class and we were talking about biome our only problem with this game is it constantly crashes now it has gotten so severe once we open the game it just crashes all of a sudden we really hope you guys can fix this issue that Im having it crashes on our Apple tablet and on our iPhone.
Graphic needs Anti-Aliasing. Even we set the graphics to high the jaggedness is obvious.
We like the concept. Its quite simple but impressively strategic for its low complexity. Its pretty, intuitive, and tactical. There is one big problem however; its full of bugs. We bought all the expansions because we find this game to be a great concept, but ive played 2 levels without something glitchin out on us and im halfway through the base game mode. We just rage quit because the marine wonders literally will not let us place them (we promise im not doing it wrong we tried so many things). Im not too antsy about bugs (as long as it runs without crashing or soft locking im cool), but it is buggy to a point that detracts from our ability to enjoy this game. It plays like a beta test, it simply doesnt feel finished. Like said we love this concept, but the devs gotta get on this bug infestation quick or we may not continue playing.
Graphic are pretty, and seemed a calming game until it started crashing constantly which caused the level to restart. Eventually couldnt get any further and deleted it.
This is a very fun and relaxing game! The different loads are fun to play around with. The puzzle mode is a fun challenge, the creative mode is fun to mess around in, and the regular mode is a great mix of the two. Of course, we have some critiques. The first issue that we noticed, as we play on a mobile device, is that the creative mode is designed for computers, and not touchscreen devices. This should be a simple fix for the devs, all you should need to do to fix this is to have two different modes for different devices. Our other criticism is that players only have free access to one biome. We believe that the game would be even more fun if the score system allowed players to unlock new biomes after reaching a certain score in the first biome. However, It would also make sense to have special biomes (maybe seasonal) that are not available unless you purchase them. It just doesnt make sense for the majority of the biomes to be with purchase only. Overall, this is a great game! We are excited to see where it goes.
It has potential to be a fun game but as of right now it constantly crashes and we keep having to redo parts that we already did. Cant get through a level due to it crashing every 3-5 min. If that gets fixed Ill continue playing but for now Ill wait for an update because we cant stand the crashing and losing progress.
Such a fun game but only lasts about 20 minutes until you go to the next biome and have to pay to be able to play it.
So we are not trying to hate on the game as of right now we dont think there is any ads which we love but after the tutorial we go to start a level and it closes the game as if it crashed. We know the game just released awesome concept just needs some work.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.5
- Size: 789.05 MB
- iOS: 17.0 or later
- Languages: AF, SQ, BS, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, EO, ET, FI, FR, DE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LV, LT, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SV, ZH, TR, UK
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Plug In Digital]()
Last updated: 9th December 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Board | Developer: Plug In Digital