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Starborn Anarkist – Action Game Review
Starborn Anarkist is a Action/Casual/Entertainment game from ZeMind Game Studio Ltd, first launched in 7th December 2013.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 472+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Starborn Anarkist Stand Out
Update: Has now featured in "Best New Games" and "What We're Playing" in the app store!
One man's junk is another man's galactic battleship…
In this addictive arcade-style twin stick space shooter, you (a disgruntled waste collector) salvage the debris from each round of your destructive rampage to piece by piece transform your humble space-garbage-truck into a starship worthy of your cause.
Build increasingly better ships to unleash powerful weapons and gadgetry — lasers, giant ball-and-chains, anti-gravity orbs, heat seeking missiles, magnets, freeze rays and more — against endless waves of enemies and huge, modular bosses.
You'll never survive. But if you're going down, you're taking as many of them with you as you can. See how long you can continue the anarchy!
4.5/5 — TouchArcade.com
1 Paid App (Dec 11th, 2013)
"…you'll find this game incredibly rewarding. There's a bit of an art to playing this game well, and that's something that doesn't come along terribly often"
Editor's Choice, TouchGen.net
"…an incredibly fun hectic romp in space where you smash, shoot and laser anything that moves … a game well worth sinking your time and money into"
4/5 — 148apps.com
"Starborn Anarkist is the perfect example of classic arcade game goodness, with a sprinkling of zany madness."
9/10 — Gamereactor.dk
"When I first turned on the game, it ate up four hours of my evening. Starborn Anarkist is simply a small mobile-pearl." [translated]
Voted Game of the Week by TouchArcade members
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Starborn Anarkist is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd August 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- fixed mute problem on iOS 11.3 onwards
- new methods for getting one-off bonuses
- info on the kickstarter for our new game: Uncaged!
- bug fixes
Download & Availability
Starborn Anarkist is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Starborn Anarkist 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 like the game a lot, and find the gameplay to be very fun and creative, and dont really have any negative judgements about the game except for the challenge needed to unlock the rotten core ship, as it is nearly impossible to go through 3 rounds in a row with no pickups. In our dozens of attempts, we have only gotten a bit farther than the second boss before accidentally getting something. We think the challenge would be much better if it was only one round, but besides that one annoyance, we think this game is amazing.
We have played Anarkist on and off for a few years now and have completed every achievement and unlocked every single ship part in the game. We just wish it would be updated and advertised once in a while. There are so few creative space ship building games on iOS that are free. The reason we still play it today, even after having finished all the content, is that it is a pice of art and not just a product designed to addict new players into buying in-game content. It has its flaws, but everything can be unlocked through some effort and all the important stuff works. The only reason it has so few reviews is that the name of the game is obscure and it wont make the Apple a ton of money because IT HAS NO ADS. We know it is a small game but it deserves more and it would have a lot more reviews if it was fairly advertised by the App Store.
We've been coming back to play this game repeatedly! We're sure you've seen many positive reviews. It's definitely worth it.
We can not stress this enough how much fun this game is, if you got some time to burn it is easy to play and enjoyable with 69 achievements to unlock. We would love for this game to get a update, or maybe a second game like it, that would be amazing.
A game we come back to over and over! We will even occasionally uninstall and reinstall it so we can go through it from tiny ship to juggernaut again! Developer: work with the App Store to rerelease this gem and gain a who new following of players.
Had this game forever and yet we still always play it. Nuff said friends.
We dont usually write reviews but this game is unique different yet familiar all of the same time. Entertaining as well and we definitely recommend it youre searching or interested in some thing again different yet familiar. (!!!Nice-Job!!!).
Great game if this is your type. We play it for the challenges, delete the game and then do the challenges again.
Do not even bother asking your parents first totally fun and is not online.So if you have super strict parents (like ours) you wont have to worry about it being online. But if you like it if its online this is not the game for you. But perfect solution to strict parents.
We got two turrets The The bullet one and the missile One.
All but two, we repeat, ALL BUT TWO, of the ratings that are 3-stars or less were given four years ago and they refer to problems that have, with the exception of controller support, been remedied. There is some learning curve with regards to choosing and equipping the various vessels, but isnt that what makes for a long period of enjoyment in a challenging and complex game universe? So dig in, this game is well worth the effort…and you CAN, with patience, do well WITHOUT any IAP.
Really fun, and controls surprisingly well for a mobile game. Im enjoying it a lot so far.
Ive only got a few hours in but Im really liking it. Despite the change in genre, its a good replacement for old and defunct twin-sticks like GunBros. The only thing keeping it from 5 is the lack of MFI/Xbox/PS4 controller support.
Good gameplay…very challenging, tough controls but fun.
It is fun to play, but takes a little bit to learn the controls.
Some of the weapons are pretty useless, like the ball and chain. After playing through for a bit you get better and better weapons, its got a good system for getting parts; blowing up bosses. The upgrades/weapon switching mechanic is mediocre. Every time you switch, the weapons are shields you have are dropped to the lowest level and you have to rebuild all that power, but youll eventually run into a different weapon type by accident, again resetting your power. We think a good way to fix that would be to, instead of resetting your power to 1, every time you switch, the power goes down by one. Or something to that effect. Of course youd have to build up the powers separately. Overall its fun and its kept us engaged for over a week despite its problems.
This game is kind of good its kind of fun but the only problem with it is the drone bay its literally 200,000 pieces literally wasted why? Well because it does nothing we waited more than five minutes in a fight with other ships and nothing came out of it we literally wasted 200,000 pieces just for a piece of junk that does nothing please tell us if it actually does anything we tried it about three times still nothing comes out how come the anti-missile launcher works but this doesnt we dont understand.
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For the most part this game is a lot of fun, but the weapon switching part is so annoying it kind of ruins the whole thing. You can spend a lot of time and effort getting your current gun upgraded, and then just accidentally touching an upgrade for a different gun instantly switches you to that type and drops you clear back to the lowest level. It's so annoying when you're going after a huge boss with upgraded weapons, only to suddenly be dropped back to the lowest level of a gun you don't want to use simply because an upgrade for that gun happened to wander too close in the middle of the battle.
PLEASE REMOVE THE WEAPON FOLLOWING.
Had this on our iPhone 6s and enjoyed it up until we upgraded to iPhone 10s. Game doesnt sync across phones and we cant even restore purchases that we made. Deleting.
This is a great game, and about as addictive as they comeshort (especially at first) intense bursts of exquisite carnage. The achievements list has some pretty fun challenges that can require a lot of experimentation with ship customization in order to complete. It would be great if more of them could be added. Overall a very thoughtfully designed game.
Great as a little time waster, but also good for a marathon session.
Best game ever add A multiplayer mode where you can play with your friends.
Look this game is wonderful the idea is new you become bigger and stronger over time justhehshshshshdh its great we definitely recommend it.
Help us. We haven't been able to do posting this game for days. It's just too fun to improve our ship, overcome challenges, and blow things up.
Love the building mechanic of the Star ships. Only a bit confusing.
Super fun and easy try to get started.
It's a really entertaining and enjoyable portable shoot 'em up. We would fully recommend this game for its asking price.
…most of the time. This is good. New/old school mix.
Solid progression and feel… Controls could use a little tuning but all in all worth the money.
We like space games and this one of the better one's. Being able to build your own ship is unique. Lots of add ons. Gets better as you upgrade.
Fun so far but sorely lacking controller support.
The game is nice however we could play for any longer than 5 minutes, the controller plus de movement of the space ship are extremely imprecise making a huge challenge to just pick-up a buff. Sorry but controllers and movement is a most in a game.
There's no better Way to drain our battery than to play this game. We really love it and play it all the time.
An actual challenging game. PvP would be a nice addition. But still great with endless possibilities.
Love it. Deep upgrade path makes replay enjoyable. No hassling for reviews in-game.
The flight controls are perfect! The game feels like a classic arcade style game with a modern twist.
Fun, just hard to see the upgrades sometimes.
Outstanding Job! Hats off to the creators, lots of action, upgrades, & challenge bonuses to get you hooked.
We were able to unlock all the features of this game worked iap just took some grinding and a fb account for one unlock.
This is similar to the game captain forever but with more restrictions but luckily weapons are easier to get and the enemies are more diverse. Great game!!! Loved it.
This game might be the definition of fun guys and gals.
Yes, time and patience and there is a learning curve, but once you play it, its rather good and what a time waster! Building the ship the best way is maddening. Wish there was a library of ship plans or a way to see what others have played with.
We have had a blast without any IAPs.
This game is really fun! We like how you can put different parts together on different ship layouts! We hate it when we have level 10 upgrades and then accidentally pick up other color parts and you are back to level 1! Even though we have a magnet.
Great premise and fun gameplay! A must have.
Very easy to lose track of time playing this game, lot of fun.
Nice game like the ability to change up ship, cool challenges.
We normally ignore games with IAP, but we are glad we made an exception with this one. We picked it up while it was on sale and discovered that we loved it. We played it close to four days straight any time we had a free moment we liked it so much that we picked one of the IAP that we didn't really need to spend a little money on as to support the developer. It's quite fun.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 88.99 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: ZeMind Game Studio Ltd
Last updated: 22nd August 2018 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: ZeMind Game Studio Ltd