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Row Row – Adventure Game Review
Row Row is a Adventure/Casual game from Part Time Monkey Oy, first launched in 24th January 2019.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 3,768+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Row Row Stand Out
Tropical rivers and steamy white waters await! Paddle down streams as fast you can with your favorite boat!
Become the Master Paddler and beat everyone in the leaderboards in each level!
— Very intuitive controls!
— Add friends and play together!
— 20 challenging levels with quirks!
— Beautiful jungle, winter and volcanic themes!
— 10 kayaks, canoes and floaters to choose from!
— Compete on global leaderboards!
— See others' replays for tips and tricks!
— iCloud backups so you won't lose progress!
The stunts in the game are performed by professional virtual characters and we do not recommend attempting them in real life!
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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Row Row is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th March 2019
Recent improvements include:
We apologize for showing too many ads in the previous versions. We've now tuned down the amount of ads that are shown. Also the "Continue" feature is now free after purchasing the "No Ads" IAP.
Download & Availability
Row Row 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:
Fun game however, cant login/make name for some reason.
This game is great. Very fun and exciting.
We just love it so much even though its a little bit hard we love it and and it says nine and plus and Im nine and its perfect for our age and we love it. Im glad you guys made this game.
Vary good but we wish they would add more boat and also we wish that we could have different colors for boats and since Im a real white water kayaker can you please add more boats and more levels but overall we think its good but add them please.
U can get rid of the ads by turning off cellular data on your phone while playing it(your phone will stay make calls and text with cellular off.).
We loved the game but we feel like it was really short like it took us like an hour or so to finish.
We think its unintended, but you can paddle back up into the whirlpools and do cartwheels, screwups, mystery moves and a bunch of other moves. And if you get a deep enough mystery move, you go into another dimension of sorts. Keeps us entertained for hours.
If you could make it easier to spin a 180 by holding the paddle in the water that would be great! Its just too hard in narrow rivers to get spun back forward and in real life its easy to do on a kayak. Thanks.
We dont like most video games, but this is a blast! We recently found our niche with games that feature a boat and paddling (we think it may be because we grew up on the water and am a Libra) including Nintendo Wii games. Im obsessed with this game already and paid to get rid of the ads because its literally so much fun. We hope you build more levels.
This game is pretty good we like the graphics the levels are fun and not to challenging.
Thank you for bringing something close to what we love doing. We love the seal launches, and rock boofs, dropping stouts. Sometimes we forget about the timer and practice catching eddies, or splats on the bank. So fun.
We love it so much but we love it so much that we want more then 20 levels.
The game is neat , The menu music is great , but it needs some more pirate songs please.
We LOVE this game. We keep deleting and re getting because we finish the levels so fast that they cant make more in time! However, we did notice an oversight where Id be wedged between a rock and the outside wall, and it would push us out of bounds. Ive had this happen on 2 occasions, the glitch is easiest to pull off on lvl. 1-5. We think we had it happen on lvl. 2-3 as well, but we dont remember. We just checked right now and there is multiple rocks on the right side of lvl. 5 that has NO collision detection whatsoever. So, please fix. ;).
Yeah easily one of the best games Ive played this year please give it a shot.
Its a super fun game and im addicted to it, however, we wish that a big update or a sequel to the game would be released because we wish that it had more than just 20 levels and it would also be cool if they added some more boats.
This game is very fun to play when you are bored. We like how it doesnt annoy you with ads. There are cool collectibles that you can get. This would have been 5 stars but our only problem is that there are only about 25 levels in the whole game. We know it came out 4 years ago, but Part Time Monkey Oy, please add more levels, this game has some potential and deserves more attention. Also download more games from this game maker, they have other fun games.
This game is really fun! We have finished every level with our friend! This would have been 5 starts but there is a lot of ads and only 25 levels, so can you please add more levels? Thanks.
Fun game, but would be better if you were able to back paddle to get yourself unstuck.
We like the game but please make it so that when youre going down a waterfall that the waves & the water volume increases or sounds louder so that it will sound more realistic and then go back to normal when you pass the waterfall.. We dont mind the ads because we wouldnt pay to remove them but Im dropping a star because the game is too short The game is worth the effort to put in more levels Other than that great game.
This may be challenging but it sure is fun! But we thought it was easy.
We dont want to be rude and say you need to change anything about youre game. We really like it and have just recently gotten it! We think the little dance the kayaker does at the end is adorable btw. We noticed when we first got the app it was really easy to get coins and there was an ad we could watch to get 20 coins. We thought that was a lot, but hey Im not complaining! For amount of boats and floats there was with the low price and ads for money seems kinda easy. Our main suggestion though has to do with the character. We personally love him but, we feel weird saying this, but Id love to be able to buy different outfits for him like tourist or adventurer ones. Just a thought. Also we think the graphics are amazing and beautiful! However there are TONS of ads and we know you need to advertise your sponsors or whatever but theres so many! Another thing, maybe you should make an ad for your other games like that pogo stick one and the other one in the monkey, Ive just been wondering how they work and all. Ok thats it sorry its kinda long and this was our first review. Thanks for your amazing game.
When we purchased this game we were very excited to play it but when we started playing it it was very odd. Its not a bad game, its just…strange.
Super fun and addictive but the controls for us are sometimes maddening. You will press left and the kayak will go right! And vice versa. Otherwise a lot of fun.
Every couple of times you fail you have to watch a add but its really fun and addicting.
Good game we love it just needs less ads and maybe a way to reverse.
Well we guess its halfway there. Nose still pulls to side you finger presses. Animation just puts paddle in opposite side of finger. Fun game but we wish paddle went in same side as finger but that pushed nose away from finger and paddle.
We dont think Ive ever played the game quite like this before we find it to be very creative. We played the game For a few hours and we would have to disagree with some of the other reviews, so the game is not perfect but its a game and games are made to not be perfect for if it was perfect nobody would play it. Some of the things that we are not crazy about are the graphics now granite these graphics are cartoonish and meant to be that way its just something we cant get into. The controls are easy, and we get what the developer was looking for but it kinda feels sloppy. A kayak has some resistance on the water we know its not a sim and more fun cartoonish type of game. Lastly whats more irritating then anything is if you want to start over your forced to watch an add. Ads,ads,ads look one at the bottom of the screen witch just ruins game play its distracting and annoying if anything move it to the top of the screen.
Ill be honest we really enjoy this game. We wish you could be able to boof, or throw some other tricks like freewheels, etc. Or getting hung up on a drop or hole because you boof it or if you werent lined up properly. Rolling your kayak would also be sick. We know that its just a game, and we know its not trying to be anything like the actual sport of kayaking. BUT we have yet to see a game developer come close to doing realistic extreme kayaking any kind of justice. With that said, we love your game either way and thank you for making it.
Super cute and would be endless fun but #1 there is no option to make game a little slower and #2 because its too fast you are constantly stuck and since there is only a forward stroke, unlike real kayaking , again you are constantly stuck and have to either restart or suffer through the same Royal Match ad. Could be a great game and moneymaker for the creators if not so frustrating.
Its a cool game but the ads get way too annoying.
So we played this game for the first time and played it for 2 days and got real bored fast. Im not saying the game is bad but maybe you could add new stuff or mini games or something. Thanks for reading.
We were really enjoying this game, until we got to the point where it said to connect to Facebook for more levels. It will not let us connect to Facebook. We tried deleting the game and reinstalling (losing all of our progress), but it still doesnt work. Update… After a while our progress was restored, but we still cant connect to Facebook and the extra five levels that were there when we reloaded to game are gone.
We struggle to beat level 3!!! They should make this game a lot easier. It is very hard to get stars! But we really like the song. This game is good and bad. We kinda like challenges. If your good at mobile race car games you will be good at this game. We always struggle with mobile race car games. This game can make people rage a lot. It made us rage. We mostly like this game. It is a good game. But a very hard game.
So we just recently got the game and we love it. We enjoy the different boats and the graphics are great. We like the character we think he is so cute. The dance at the end makes it nice and makes you feel good that you finished the level. We dont think there are to many ads in the game like other reviews say. Our only suggestion is that when you turn sometimes it over turns and you have to immediately tap and not hold to turn because it seems way to easy to get stuck. You have to be very Percise with your taps though that is some what part of makes the game challenging. One other thing is that there are only 20 levels so once you get three stars on all levels, you have beat the game. But all in all we do think it is a fun game with a few kinks.
Cute game to play and has lots of potential. Too bad you get stuck all the time and your options are to continue after a video ad or restart- usually after another ad. Sometimes you can force your way through and the graphics get all screwy. We dont have enough patience to spend with the game play and glitches.
Drains your battery faster than Pokmon Go. But otherwise good game.
Love the game hate the adds after EVERY game. Come on guys.
We love this game. Its unique but, the problem we have with it is that there is not enough levels.. Only 20 and then it says More on Facebook but we clicked on that and it was trying to tell us to download a completely different game.. We just want more levels.
Very easy to get stuck in the beginning and nearly every restart had an ad. Ugh.
Even after paying Im being subjected to ads and social media requests. Really a shame, at its core its a fun game well executed. There is also some pretty significant graphics bugs but they have never gotten in the way of gameplay for us so far.
Essay too hard to maneuver the craft.
We wanted to play the game until we read the privacy policy. They want a little too much information.
Are you guys going to update with new levels? We enjoyed playing the game , not crazy about all the ads, but with only 20 levels there isnt enough game to really enjoy.
First off, the game is great. Its simple and from what we found quite easy. The graphics are adorable and the layout of everything is very neat and nice. But for some reason theres only 12 levels. We dont know if we have to pay for the other levels or if they just arent out of development yet, but theyre are levels there that are just locked. We got 3 stars on level 12 so we have no clue why the rest of the levels are locked.
Great game. Kinda fun racing against the clock but the ads kill it. We understand getting revune being a free game but the constant 30s + ads in-between each level in a buzz kill.
We are just an average gamer, but we have had more trouble with this game than most. The controls are difficult and not as very responsive. The current takes you all over the place and we always seem to get stuck in rocks, logs, etc. And cant get out. Frustrating.
The game & graphics were ok but our iPad got so hot in 5 mins we had to close the game. We already deleted it.
The character is not rowing, it is kayaking. There is a difference.
The good: the gameplay's fun, challenging enough to reward skill but simple enough to pick up and play casually. The bad: there are very few levels and ads are really prevalent. The result: after playing a couple levels, we sprung to turn off ads ($1.99 in app purchase). About 15 minutes later, we'd finished all the levels. On top of that, many levels started off with a pop-up prompting us to watch a video ad — even after we'd paid to turn ads off. If we could truly turn off ads and prompts, and if there were more levels to play, it'd be a 5-star game for us. As it is, it was a quick but ultimately frustrating use of a couple dollars.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3
- Size: 194.27 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Part Time Monkey Oy
Last updated: 8th March 2019 | Genre: Adventure, Casual | Developer: Part Time Monkey Oy