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Rescue Reef – Family Game Review
Rescue Reef is a Family/Entertainment game from MindJolt, first launched in 15th June 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,052+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rescue Reef Stand Out
Build your own underwater sanctuary and save ocean animals and fish. Exotic ocean animals need your help! Help endangered species by breeding and releasing them back into the wild. Only YOU can bring these rare creatures back to health and SAVE THE SEA!
- Design your very own Rescue Reef, visit your friends, and complete quests. Don't forget to pop the bubbles – this game is fun for all ages!
- LEARN ABOUT ENDANGERED SPECIES! Have you ever heard of a Zebra Angelfish or a Pygmy Seahorse? Reef Rescue has the cutest creatures in the ocean and they're waiting just for you!
- DAILY DEALS! Rescue Reef features a new deal every day. New items and updates are added all the time, so check back often for many surprises under the sea!
- FREE FUN! Brought to you by the folks who created Fluff Friends Rescue!
PLEASE NOTE: Rescue Reef is free to play, but charges real money for certain in-app content. You may disable the ability to purchase in-app content by adjusting your device’s settings.
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This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rescue Reef is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th February 2013
Recent improvements include:
Bug Fixes
Download & Availability
Rescue Reef 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:
Our whole family and we LOVED rescue reef!!! We need it back!!!! Rescue Reef coming back would be the highlight of our year.
We loved playing this game as a kid! We only wish we could play it today :( please update.
This game was awesome please bring it back.
Loved this game and it no longer works. Can it be updated so we can play again.
Please bring this lovely game back :(.
We played this so much as a kid but its gone now. Please update this game it has so much nostalgia for us.
PLEASE UPDATE ALL OF UR GAMES!!! We GOT NOSTALGIC NOW DURING QUARANTINE AND we REALLY WANNA PLAY ALL OF THE RECUE GAMES.
This game was a huge part of our childhood. It was so fun, and we wish we could still play it. PLEEEEEASE update this app so we can play it again.
This game was a big part of our childhood and we miss is greatly. Please update it so us and other players can play it again.
Just like fluff rescue reef rescue was a big part of our childhood which not to get too intense but was pretty hard growing up and this game was one of the only sources of joy and control we had in our life and to be able help animals even just virtually was something else. Please bring the game back it was so interactive and not to mention educational when you factor in all the species and all the info you learn about their diets and habitats and how to heal them. Just please try ur best to bring back this game that gives us so much nostalgia and would be something a lot of people would enjoy and have enjoyed but especially during this time.
Only problem is that we cant even install it on our phone. We play on our iPad but still, itd be nice to have on our phone. We love that it focuses on the message of caring for animals and having them be adopted. 10/10 game.
THIS GAME RULES. PLEASEEE bring Rescue Reef back!!!! This was our favorite game ever until it wasnt updated for awhile and cant work with even IOS 11. Please update it and bring it back, along with rescue safari and fluff friends rescue!!!! Please, and thank you.
We agree can you update the game Im in love with it and cannot play it no more and it makes us sad. Keep up the great work.
Hi can you please update this for the iOS 11 we like this app and it's really awesome so if you get the chance can you update it please thank you please update this is our favorite game pleaseee.
We love this game so much but we just got an upgrade on our phone (iPhone8 – iOS 11) and Im not able to play the game anymore :/ can developer please upgrade the game? Would be awesome.
This game is so fun Im sad that we cant play it anymore because the app hasnt been updated in 5 years.
We really love this app! It's our 2nd favorite game of all time and we love it!!!!!! But we're super sad because it now started to crash and say check your internet when we have three internet bars, we think it will only need an update. So please update this, we're so sad one of our favorite games is not working right now so please update! Love the game! Please update! And we Hope it will start working again. Thank you for this amazing game.
Other than the fact that we can't play it, we used to have it, and we want to play it again. Make all of your rescue games compatible, please. We have iOS 11.
We used to LOVE this game and the game fluff friends rescue, so we got them again but about 2 years ago it started glitching and it crashes after every time It starts showing the beginning cute video thing and it won't load so will the creators PLEASE fix this game and the fluff friends rescue?! It is AMAZING pretty please we love these games so much please update.
We need updates on everyone of your games. Just update the, its not that hard! Please dude we need these games. Oh and if they don't we update we'll send a review every day. There.
Okay so like 1 year ago we had this on our iPad, and we absolutely LOOOOOOVED this game. We recently downloaded it on a phone and it won't work because it needs an update, so pleeeeeeaaaaaaassssssseeeeeee update it!!! Same with rescue safari and fluff rescue. MADE IN 2017. – from an 11 year old.
This was one of our favorite games and now it's not working anymore and we're really upset about it please update it.
It is sooooooooooooo cute but it crashes so much it takes so long to load but it is worth it.
Sadly us and our cousin really love rescue reef and fluff rescue but it won't let is get in it says it's loading and we waited for 3 hours and it wouldn't let us in or our cousin please fix it.
We won't let us in the game please update it takes forever to load and we are a person that isn't very patient.
Our mom had an iPhone and we had this game. We had gon really far. Then she got a new phone, and rescue reef was of course deleted. We had forgotten about the app, and we got an iPad. After we had gotten our device, we remembered rescue reef. We downloaded it, and opened it. Then we were devastated! It kept on crashing! Same with fluff friends rescue. Plz fix your glitch! We all are getting very angry! But your game is soooooooo awesome so we have to give you 5 stars.
We love this game so so much, it's so cute but we have a few things that bug us. First every time we go to play it glitches us out on both our iPod-touch and our iPad we always get to the video the it glitches us out or it always say loading and it never loads. Our last thing is how long you have to wait for the mini game to load again. If you could fix it that would be great. We love this game it is so cute and so fun. People should get this app for sure.
Rescue Reef is a great game. We play it every day, which gives you a reward. In this game, you build stations to heal the ocean animals. When they are healed, (Which does take time and you have to pay) you place them in little stations where they stay until you can release them. After you accomplish certain things, you move up to different levels. When you move into a different level, you can get more money when you release your animals. You also unlock different stations and species. You can buy things to decorate your shelter. This app does not trick you into buying anything, or giving them any personal information. You can get money by tapping the bubbles on the screen. You can breed two of a species, and then the while family leaves together. The ONLY problem we have with this app is that sometimes it shuts down and brings us back to the home screen. But otherwise, thumbs up to Rescue Reef.
Looked up adoption simulator, this was the only result 10/10.
We love this game! Its really cute and really fun to play. However due to it not being updated for so long several things have stopped working, like the news or having the game crash sometimes. We only wish that you didnt need gold shells to save the sharks and dolphins Other than that, please update this app because there are a lot of people who like it! Its really awesome! Edit: Please give us some way to get more shells… The in-app purchases dont work anymore, and we really want to save the animals that cost shells.
So cute and addicting ! Love this game.
It's a fun game but sometimes it has trouble loading.
Ours works fine it just depends on your device we have an iPod 4 gen and it's great we love it.
Please please update fluff friends we played it when we were 5 so please please update it like this game we really wanna play it again anyway back to this game it's really cute and so awesome thanks for making it and again please update fluff friends.
We love this game it's so fun and the characters(animals) are so adorable The only problem we had was that when we got a notification saying we have mail or news we click the mailbox and nothing is there. Other than that we REALLY LOVE THIS GAME.
Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzx update all your games because we love them and we can't play them any more.
Us and our father play this game every day and we love it with the updates and new fish. We are on level 54 or 56 and it just gets better and better. Thank you so much for the makers of Rescue Reef to create such a fun and kinda of a learning game cause of the different kinds of fish game. Thanks : ).
Please make the animals faces less sad PLEASE! We're about to cry! The animals are so sad! Oh and we LOVE this game! It is amazing.
It's a really fun game and we really like it!! You did a good job on making it.
This game is really good! We love how you can have marine mammals along with fish/sharks. We only got this game yesterday but we're so in love with it. It's a great game to teach kids the importance of helping animals and not to liter bc in the first part of the game it shows a little clip of a clownfish swimming but garbage got stuck in garbage. Although some animals are helped most are not. This game will teach them to save the animals and help them get healthy again. This game is like fluff rescue if you have it. But we would like it if they lowered the amount of shells for an animal. Hope you get this app you will NOT regret it.
This game is super fun and we downloaded the game on our we Pad and our moms IPhone. It's one of our favorite games.
It is a great game but there is a problem we have with it. It is always freezing on us and it also completely shuts off game and takes us back to our game apps.
This app is soo cute! The animals are so chubby.
Ok, so we LOVE this game and we played it earlier today and it worked fine,then we went to play on it a little bit ago and when we tried to get on, it loaded funny then went through a little bit of the begging video, then kicked us out. We kept trying to play but it kept doing the same thing, PLEASE FIX.
This game is epic! We have waited forever for a update and we noticed it's been a year since the last update. We know MindJolt has other games but Rescue Reef needs more celebs, animals, and we even suggest new biomes! Like if you expand the look will change, let us explain this clearly. When you start out its kinda like a tropical reef, let's say we expand and the land that was the expansion will look like another place in the sea, such as the Twilight zone. Add Angler fish, Seastars, Manatees, and other animals. And PLZ fix Fluff Rescue loading vid crash bug.
We can't play it. See, we had this game on our IPad, and we loved it. We had quite a time spent to playing the game. Then we gave our IPad to a friend, and got a IPodTouch instead. We downloaded this onto it, and when we started playing……. IT. KEPT. CRASHING. We love this game and know it has potential, but possibly fix this glitch? Maybe add in a couple of minigames too, like one where you can clean up a reef or a sort of Tomodachi like one on one time thing with a fish. Maybe add in a feature where you can "adopt" some fish too? -A loyal gamer.
We don't understand with all the bad reviews! This game is awesome!!! The animals are soooooo cute!!!! One problem, on your other game ,fluff rescue , It keeps crashing. And please take out the video out in the beginning or have some way to skip it or just play it once for a person who has just started playing!!! Thank you!!! Best game ever.
Rescue reef is so fun and entertaining.
Everyone who rates this app and says that it's boring because this company doesn't update it anymore is completely, utterly WRONG. The only reason several app companies never update their apps anymore is because nobody rates them let alone POSITIVELY rates them anymore. Nobody gives them suggestions for the future. We'll anyway, since this is a review. Here we go. LOVE THIS APP IT'S AMAZING! This is the best ocean app on the store. We suggest creating more mammals and making them much cheaper. We're kinda broke on shells here! And maybe in the store you can buy rainbow bubbles. When you buy it the bubbles on your screen are rainbow and have a better chance to unleash shells, or maybe more than one. Maybe you can interact more with your creatures. More people. Love it! Please read this, you are an amazing company! Don't listen to those rude people who say mean things.
Such a great app . We love it . So much fun.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.4
- Size: 47.18 MB
- iOS: 4.3 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [MindJolt]()
Last updated: 26th February 2013 | Genre: Family, Entertainment | Developer: MindJolt