Last updated on February 12th, 2026 at 05:11 pm
Survive! Mola Mola! – Casual Game Review
Survive! Mola Mola! is a Casual/Simulation/Entertainment game from SELECT BUTTON Inc., first launched in 10th October 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,866+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Survive! Mola Mola! Stand Out
5 million downloads of the pupular app in Japan!
Released in the English version of the Molas nurturing game!
The "closest animal to heaven" has arrived!!
Take care of your mola! Brand-new nurturing game where "death=pleasure"
Molas are pretty distinct with a large and oddly-shaped body.
However, they are actually very delicate. The smallest thing can make them die (´・ω・`)
【Cause of death】
Dive into the deep-end too quickly
->Wow, the water is so cold!
->Death
Sun bathing
->When I woke up, I was on land
->Death
Jump to kill a parasites riding on the body
->Fell and struck the water!
->Death
Don't let your mola die. Grow your mola to the world's biggest 2.5t class!
【How to play】
１： Eat ocean creatures to gain weight!!
Jellyfish, squid, shrimp. Flick over underwater creatures and eat them up.
Sardines (ﾟдﾟ)Mmmm(ﾟдﾟ)Tasty
２：Test your luck and go on an adventure to gain weight!
Go on an adventure to gain weight significantly!
But adventure comes with a risk of death!
Fail and something horrible will happen(´；ω；｀)Ugh…
３：Strengthen your mola and gain weight!!
Use mola points and power up your mola!
Discover new creatures and new adventures! M9( ﾟдﾟ)
４：Death is not the end! Start a new game!
Molas get stronger when they die!
Become a 2.5t world class mola! Time for a new adventure!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Survive! Mola Mola! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st September 2021
Recent improvements include:
- Fix small bugs.
Download & Availability
Survive! Mola Mola! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Survive! Mola Mola! 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 love this game and Ive been playing it for days with no ads! Either Im lucky, or we have really bad network issues(LOL). We also love playing Hunt Cook, a game where you hunt and cook! Whoever made these games are really cool.
This game is kinda fun when youre bored but yall gotta come back with the updates.
Oh mister ocean fish, drift away drift away.
We were abducted by aliens and we showed them this game and they let us free because of how amazing it is. This game is the reason why im here on earth today. We love this game. Download Survive! Mola Mola.
Give Mr. Mola a tuxedo, please.
We would write a detailed review, but Im too busy having fun playing this game.
We truly love everything about this game.
Great game, however Im not sure if this a bug but since we already have the 3000 taps achievement Im unable to unlock the actual death. Very odd but we hope something is done about it.
Before playing Survive! Mola Mola!, our life was a nightmare. Our wife left us, we were completely broke, our kids all left us, our car exploded, we lost our job, and our house was about to be foreclosed. Everything was absolutely terrible. However, we saw an ad for Survive! Mola Mola!, and we downloaded the game. In Survive! Mola Mola!, you feed and raise a sunfish, and make it do challenges. We started playing Survive! Mola Mola! Daily, and it changed our life. Instantly, we had 5 billion dollars in our bank account, and employers were reaching out to us to try to get us to work for them. However, we would not give up our love for Survive! Mola Mola! For anything. This game made us who we are today. With the lessons we learned from Survive! Mola Mola!, we were able to buy 193 mansions, as well as 654 cars and 72 hamsters. Then, we met our ex-wife Sherry while at a cafe, and it turns out that we both played Survive! Mola Mola! We fell in love all over again, and since she had custody of the kids, we remarried and are now living happily together. We owe absolutely everything to Survive! Mola Mola! This amazing sunfish game was able to pull us back onto our feet and give us a fresh start. If you feel like your life is completely ruined, Survive! Mola Mola! Will definitely help you and we recommend everyone to download this game. Thank you, Survive! Mola Mola!, for saving our marriage and making us a billionaire.
This game is very cool bc it just is.
We like this game and its charmingly bad translation, silly text, and ridiculous sudden deaths. We dont play it for long periods at a time, but it is fun to play to pass time in between doing something else. Not our favorite mobile game ever (that award goes to two dots, monument valley, and altos odyssey) but we have come to like it quite a bit.
The sound is a bit loud, it might be cool to add a sound slider. Other than that, perfect game.
Ive played this game alot about 2 years ago? We dont renember. But we somehow keep coming back to this game because its just such a calming game… We love mola molaaaaa.
Its so fun when Im bored theres like no adds of you dont click certain menus and we love it so much its just so fun.
This game is amazing. We love it wholly.
We love this game, we used to play it in 2016 and recently remembered it existed, Im so happy its still here! Its kindof like having a little tamagotchi on your phone but if they were very unlucky.
We have never experienced such intense mental trauma that being said we love the sound track more then air plus its a nice way to pass the time and lastly we want the sound track on Spotify or YouTube please.
This game is very fun and easy because you can take a photo and send it to a friend for adventure points.
If you like fish and cant get one fancy fish like a ranchu or some sort of fish from the sea and you cant raise, then you would love this game if you love animals especially fish, get your mola mola and raise till it dies, sad but you get another for free, so raise your mola mola and start your adventure with your amazing amount of mola molas and enjoy.
We remember when we saw this game for the first time. It looks so fun we just had to try! Coming back to it, its just as fun as we remember! The 8-bit art style and the music really makes it stand out. Love this game, keep up the awesome work! <3.
He is so cute and this game has taught us that you should cherish them as if they are gods of this world Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola Mola.
We downloaded this game after reading a novel that referenced it, and honestly it was an accurate analogy. We find it almost funny how deep a game about a constantly dying sunfish is, especially when compared to the novel. Kudos to the creators, we love this game.
We just like to play to see YJH inspo game.
So fun fun fun fun So So So fun fun fun.
This game is super cute and fun! The BGM is really good and it matches the game too! We love all the little mechanics. Overall very whimsy.
Good game, Mola eat, Mola grow, Mola die, Mola reincarnate.
We found a glitch where if you share the sudden-death pictures you get the golden turtle fever buffet thing.
Downloaded after reading this webnovel omniscient readers viewpoint that references this game maybe if we installed it first id be annoyed us sunfish keeps dying, but we just find it endearing now. Silly thing, getting too cold.
We dont like how the mola dies, but its ok we have like 200,000 more :).
This game is the best!! It helps us get through the school day. If we can get to 5th period, ill be able to feed our fish, is our thought process lolol. And to be honest, we dont see as many ads as the reviews say? We only get them once or twice whenever we open the game. Our sunfish is so cute!! He dies so easily though :( which we guess is the point of the game. Id recommend.
We love the cute theme of the game, nice backgrounds, and easy, fun, progression. Barely any ads, and we paid 0.99c to remove the tiny amount. No horrible bugs to ruin the game. Leaderboards are fun, we like to compete with friends and global. The game goes very far, and it feels like an adventure when you are deep in the game.
This is the BEST mobile game ever you have to try this, every one in our family plays it it is like an addiction except you can stop. If you dont disabled Mario will nock down your door.
Like actually im not kidding, its super cool! The suspense of the "wait" while your eating wondering if your dead or not and its just a good time waster. Like if your waiting for the bus, doctor, basically anything! So yeah its a pretty good game.
Mola? Its acting weird! (Rapid shape shifting noises) CONGRATULATIONS YOUR MOLA EVOLVED INTO YOUNG MAN MOLA.
This is a good game. The visuals are neat. There are rules you must follow in the meta verse the elon musk mark Zuckerberg craze has just began. It feels like 1997 with the 49ers. Anyways the fish game is good and educational yeah.
The hit game molaphus simulator on the app store.
The Dark Souls of Mola Mola games.
Look at our boy. Father help No our boy.
We love this game so much we used to play it when we were 6 now Im 13 and its still perfect.
This game is so adorable and a great time waster. We Mola Mola.
This game has our heart and soul its so addicting.
Ive always loved playing this game in the past so we downloaded it again but everything doesnt fit in the screen? Is there a way to like zoom out or something? Like all the numbers and things arent where theyre supposed to be and some things go out of the screen and it looks really bad.
Riveting gameplay ive been on this game since its release without eating or sleeping without one death now we cant stop please help we violently attack anyone trying to pull us away from our precious mola, someone please call homeland defense.
Hi. This game is genuinely like SO AWESOME and it's such a boost of serotonin when we get our little guy to a higher level!!!!! To be perfectly honest we only got it cuz we're a huge nerd and we have omniscient reader's viewpoint mental illness (/hj) and yjh is our son but ya. Oh our god !!!!! It's just so fun and it's genuinely just such a nice game and we love watching our silly mola lvl up. He's just so cute.
We love this game so much its so fun. Its so perfect and lovable!!!! :).
We ordinarily got this from battle cats but we installed it and we love it play the game.
This game has really good bg music and its simple, cute, and actually pretty fun! You dont have to feel like you have to buy Mola points or anything and once you do your daily you can come back again in an hour or 3 to get the adventure point charged up and then go back to doing what ever you are doing. We miss games that arent money hungry and actually put the time to make it fun. Plus everytime mola dies theres a cute information on why it dies and an art piece.
Ton of Easter eggs and progression to keep the fun coming as well as a great genre and very funny.
Heard about it from a villainess manwha its really enjoyable.
We like the way the game is both a luck and idle game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2.2
- Size: 67.79 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, KO, ZH, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: SELECT BUTTON Inc.
Last updated: 1st September 2021 | Genre: Casual, Simulation | Developer: SELECT BUTTON Inc.