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Tadpole Tap – Action Game Review
Tadpole Tap is a Action/Casual game from Outerminds Inc., first launched in 22nd April 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 476+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tadpole Tap Stand Out
Reach the skies with your favorite tadpole while eating flies with your tongue!
With piranhas constantly on your tail, you must hurry and pull your way through dangerous obstacles!
Try to beat your friends high score and embellish your aquarium with tadpoles by unlocking all the little fellas!
-UNLOCK YOUR TADPOLES: There are multiple tadpoles to unlock, each with a unique ability that will help you through the dangers along the way.
-UPGRADE YOUR TADPOLES: Each tadpole's unique ability can be upgraded to get better scores.
-GET BETTER POWER-UPS: All power-ups can be upgraded to make them last longer. If they last long enough, you can sometimes have multiple power-ups at once! Some combinations are very good!
-DON'T FORGET TO EAT FLIES: Eating flies is somehow very satisfying, plus this is what allows you to buy upgrades!
-CLIMB FURTHER EVERY TIME: Beat your high score and battle your friends. Compare your performance on the leaderboard.
-GET THE PUZZLE PIECES: Each Tadpole has a unique puzzle to unlock!
-UNLOCK THE SKINS: Collect vials to unlock them all! There is 3 skins per tadpole.
-ACHIEVEMENTS: Let's see if you can clear them all!
In one word, Tadpole Tap is an awesome Retro Runner in Pixel Art.
Tadpole Tap, the life circle of a frog.
Language available: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, Simplified Chinese and Serbian.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tadpole Tap is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th December 2020
Recent improvements include:
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Tadpole Tap 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:
This game is very fun. The goal is to try and make it as high as you can. It gets more and more difficult the farther you get.we recommend playing this game.
Please eat the new bug so we can play this game on the new IOS. We love this game.
Its very fun but half the time we try to open it, it just ends up crashing which if we restart our phone it will open but If we even switch to another app or try and come back to it later its crashing again.
We had this app about a year ago, maybe longer than that. But since than our old phone broke and we somehow haven't played since. We got bored earlier today and we remembered how much we loved this game, so we reinstalled it. We were worried it would be like some of the other times where we didn't play a game for a long time and than they updated it or something and there were glitches or something that just made it not fun to play anymore. We were very delighted to see that nothing really changed, if anything at all. We know some people are asking for new tadpoles to get and we think that would be awesome, but we think if you do add more stuff try to keep it simple, we love the way this game is designed. Most games nowadays are complex and have complicated graphics. But we like that there are games like this still out there that are fun but simple. We love games that are simple and the concept stays the same. Like Tadpole Tap, it keeps the game with simple graphics and instructions. But managed to keep the game interesting, because when you run out of tadpoles to get, you can still try to beat your high score, get puzzle pieces, dna, flies, and power ups. We like that you can still keep the game going. We also found it's hard to stop playing once you've started, because the section where you play doesn't stop (at least we don't think it does we are pretty bad at the game lol), unless you die. And if you are trying to beat the high score you have it's definitely hard to set the device down (even though there is a pause button, we still find it difficult). But we think the best thing about this game, is you don't see ads unless you want to (for the free fly pack), and you can purchase stuff, but unlike many games, you can play to get all of the same stuff you could buy. So you don't have to buy stuff, but you can. Overall this is a great game, we definitely encourage whoever is reading this to download it.
Ive played this game on and off over the years and its an amazing mobile time killer.
We grew up playing this game and we still enjoy it till this day. Sadly we cannot open up the app from our homepage because every-time we try, it goes to a black screen and kicks us off in a second or two. Please fix this bug so we can keep enjoying the game.
This game has always had that special something in the gameplay but we have all of the characters we just think that there should be more characters like someone that doesnt die when getting hit by a electrical charge or someone that has power ups magnetize toward you. But still we rate the game 5 stars Thanks for reading.
This game is just the best theres tadpoles, fish, frogs and turtles hoppin around some flowers we just love everything about it! Im just glad that theres a game thats this fun out there.
We love this game so much, although, yes we do think it could use a but more things. We think it was intended to just be an arcade style game with optional skins and abilities. People say it gets boring but we disagree, if it does get boring you can just give it a day or two and it will be fun again. We like how they have an axolotl skin, thats a main reason we play.
Awesome but sometimes it just doesnt work. It kicks us out of the game sometimes.
Im able to download the app BUT when we try opening it, the game just wont start and crashes. Please fix please. This is a fun and distracting game.
This game is definitely fun but its ridiculous that you need to pay money just to advance but even when you get more characters youre not really getting new characters theyre literally just the exact same character you dont even get more puzzles to find for crying out loud their name dont even change they literally just replace the character you had before this makes us really sad and it seems lazy also this game has been out for six years why is it that the daily amount of DNA is still three? Can at least be 10 at this point? It really feels like theres no point in collecting all of the characters if nothing about them changes theres no new names puzzles or powers we thought coming back to this game after 4 years There would improvements we expected more from you guys get this if you just want something to play while youre waiting its not good for anything else.
We played the game for one day and the next day we wouldnt open :( its sad because we love the game so developers please fix it:(.
The game would be awesome IF we COULD ACTUALLY PLAY WITHOUT IT CRASHING.
We tried to open it on our iPad Air 4 but it wont open and crashes every time.
It is a lot of fun it was the first game we got and we had a iPhone 4 we forgot about it then we were said to our self oh our god we need to get tad pole tap again we now have a iPhone 6s….still a bad phone but our first time getting it was like 3-4 years ago we deleted it on year 1 out of 4 we deleted it because our storage was full and we never got it back but we got it again now we REALY love it and we know people want to change it but we really hate change and we dont think theres anything to change except we would like a speed blast sort of thing well thanks for listening to our life story bye.
We love how they give you a change to revive with flies because that seems like an advantage! 10/10 recommend.
Excellent game we just got addicted to this game because its so amazing so five out of five stars.
Can you fix for notch on iPhones we cant see the power ups.
We love this game! We used to play it so long ago, keep up the good work devs.
This game is fun and be at the same time intense, we love all the upgrades you can do and all the styles you can have, we cant get enough of this game, if your bored and If looking for a great game to play, this right here is number One.
We love this game its super fun and addicting, we think everyone will love this game.
We love this app it does not have any problems.
Loved this game from the start and have been enjoying it since.
Looks kinda dumb but man it's super fun we'd give it a try it's pretty cool.
This game is a classic. We played this when we were a kid and we just re downloaded it. Its fun challenging and has a great soundtrack. One thing that need to be fixed is we play this game on our iPhone xr and the game goes off the screen they need to shrink it so it fits.
Because the game is really fun and we like to play it and it is gone so we are writing this note just to let you know we are one of the players who plays this game.
Better than Fortnite (no offense).
Hello Im from Russia and traveld to US we like game because it was like the time a frog bit off our leg we shot frog now we like frog they good people and AND we LOVE ALIGATOR.
We love this game. It is so simple but so fun.
This is the story of our immense rivalry against David Paperno. Dr Paperno: ~350 Will Nicholson: 1500.
LOVE THE GAME KEEP IT UP OUTERMINDS.
Love this game. We are one of the top 10 players on IOS. It's been great.
This game never get boring. The music and challenge is great.
It gets a little boring and that part where the piranhas come is a bit to fast to process because most of the time we panic and click into a electric ball but other than that we think its a good game.
Its great! Its pretty hard though…. But we love it anyway.
When we were playing the game we got a puzzle piece then one minute later we died then we accidentally pressed the video to revive then after the ad our frog wasnt there we spammed click everywhere but still not there. So then we restarted the game checked on dew the frog and his puzzle we got was not there. Can please fix this.
This game is great in all but we think we needs a storyline about a princess frog in frog kingdom and a bad villain fish kiddnaps her and tad and other frogs have to save her and we want to include levels of each location and at the end a boss battle with all taps and frogs please do this we really want this game to be very organized plus for a cutscene make the menu music but like in a kingdom version of it thank you.
We tried to download this game but it didnt work.
We love this game but one big Problem not a lot of tappoles in the game we will give the game 5 if you add more tappoles.
Yeah, its addictive to simple minds (like ours) that are unlikely to challenge the evolutionary treeBUTdont think for one second this isnt a money trap. We play the basics and dont care about all the frills ($) that would force us to excel. These guys are going up that evolutionary tree and theyre clinging to it with your money. Still, it is addictive…so enjoy.
We really love this game and we hope that the developer can see this to improve it. First of all, it gets a little boring after a while, so we were thinking that you can probably make another option to play. Like you can have a choice on which mini game you want to play. So one game will be the one that is already on the game, and the 2nd one can be about your fish falling down to get to water and avoiding the other obstacles. The other thing is, can you maybe put like more abilities to level up in the shop? Like an ability that makes the electric balls go away for 10 seconds. And also maybe a power up that makes you zoom up for 5 seconds. Anyways, we really REALLY love this game and we hope that it has a good future one day.
We love this game. -DLC characters are only a dollar -The format, and placement of everything just makes it feel so replayable -The soundtrack, and when the music gets intense is amazing Just some things we would like to see -New Characters -New Skins -New obstacles -New thing to play for -For the characters, we thought you could just make one for every power up like magnus, and sparkle. Also, a character that would extend power up time would be awesome. It could look spacey, and be called time lord or something like that. -There are just not enough skins to us. We feel like you should add new ones that you could buy with flies. -New obstacles. The ones that are there get repetitive after 2-3 hours of gameplay. Just make more so it does not feel like we discovered everything to the game yet. Also, we were thinking about a cool obstacle. Could you guys add a creature that would work like the flower/bud, and when you land on it, it shoots you upwards with water? Like an archer fish or something? -Something else to play for. What we mean by this is, something else besides puzzles, and skins. Just add something new so there is more to look forward to, maybe you could edit their aquariums. Like, new aquariums could be earned through achievements. That would be awesome. -Last thing, could you make it so that if you buy BOTH DLC characters, all characters have a free revive? Thanks for making this game! Its original AF!!! Oh! And another thing. Create more bug variations. That would be cool.
This is our all time favorite game in the AppStore! Ive been playing for ~7 months and our high score is 863! We love the music in this game. Please game developers of this game, plz update it and make more characters, like a golden tadepole that gets times 2 flies. Thanks for making the best game.
Absolutely Fun and Exciting>W< Iz Wub how it pressures chu and Itz just Amaing.
SUCH A GOOD GAME it is . Addictive.
This game is amazing like we can't stop playing it.
It's really great. Reminds us of 2 summers ago. It was a better time. Oh well. If you're looking for a neat game, get this one.
This is an amazing game and if you go to fast you die so you have to watch what your doing.
This game is simple fun and addicting we rate this game 1000000000 out of 1000000000.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.1
- Size: 92.87 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, SR, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Outerminds Inc.
Last updated: 14th December 2020 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Outerminds Inc.