Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 10:56 pm
The Bonfire 2 Uncharted Shores – Simulation Game Review
The Bonfire 2 Uncharted Shores is a Simulation/Strategy game from Xigma Games, first launched in 20th August 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,572+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Bonfire 2 Uncharted Shores Stand Out
BUILD SURVIVE EXPLORE
Build, craft, gather resources during the day, and survive monsters and raiders at night in this survival strategy game.
Sequel to the award-winning game The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands The Bonfire: Uncharted Shores expands on every aspect of the original and brings greater depth.
Design your city manage resources chains and workers with unique personalities explore procedurally generated world map in ships trade with free cities and discover mysterious dungeons.
Build a powerful city and gain magical artifacts to defeat an ancient evil.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Bonfire 2 Uncharted Shores is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th March 2023
Recent improvements include:
Guard AI improvement
Trees and rocks can now be removed
Minor Bug fixes
Download & Availability
The Bonfire 2 Uncharted Shores is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Bonfire 2 Uncharted Shores 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:
Please make a 3d one been waiting for years.
Honestly we really do love playing this game. Its fun and we like the freedom you have in building everything. However, the game constantly crashes. We really want to play it but no point when we can only have it open for 2 minutes at a time. PLEASE FIX these bugs.
Love it wish there was more to the game but still love its a good game to help ya wind down at night.
An update please. Our lil peeps keep getting stuck and then dying of starvation or sleep deprivation. Please add more content so we can keep our city growing :) Thanks.
Great game but it keeps crashing and kicking us out of the game.
It is a great game but has a specific glitch that make it frustrating to play. The settlers get stuck and never enter their homes, causing lack of sleep as well as easy prey at night. Would like to see some decor. Options to change how some things look as they advance. Im excited to see how this progresses.
This is a really cool game that starts off as a fun building and resource management sim. At higher levels, it gets confusing, though. For example, earlier in the game when you send your ships out, theyre all engaged in trading missions. Later, though, you suddenly find yourself in a dungeon without any way to retreat or better prepare your workers for those very different kinds of tasks. You can plow through blindly and learn by trial and error. However, more in-game documentationlike an info button for each building, resource or task, would make this game much, much better. The writing would also need to be made clearer at that point since what written info is available needs some significant editing. A very good effort overall with lots of replay value so definitely worth $5. To make it a truly great game, though, the devs need to give more clues to the player about how to actually play.
Perks of this game is youll get plenty of playtime for your buck, with an ad free experience, no arcade token purchases, etc. Our biggest frustration while sinking time into this game has been some poor design for mobile users. You are expected to nail really small icons in a crowded field to get to what you need, the macro-level views are limited, and there arent any macro-level adjustments you can make (redistribute weapons, auto assign optimal tools if available, etc). Combined with the need to reassign all of a villagers tools again if you switch them between production jobs vs combat jobs and it becomes tedious. Our second biggest complaint is obvious bugs/jank. There are more than a handful, and they all interfere with this being an enjoyable experience.
Fun mechanics, but on IOS, the trading dock isnt always selectable, making ships useless. Others have reported this as well, and the only solution appears to be reinstalling the game, which isnt much of a bug-fix. What gives.
Its cute, the visuals are indie and overall its a good variation on RTS. We love these types of games, but unfortunately theres too many bugs with this one. At first it isnt obvious but then you quickly start to see that things arent working as they should and the UI/UX is awful. A lot of tapping to opening tiny windows with difficult to ready text. Fabricating 10 armor but the guards never wear them. Fabricating a bow but you need bowmanship master skill, but there is not skill selection UI. Most of the game ends up managing the guards who patrol the area and die easily from various attacks. And mitigating those loses by using other workers (like blacksmith or hunter), which becomes tedious. We tried to play the game where we stayed indoors the whole time. We went 160 days before mega creatures appear and destroy our village. Even at 160 days, the best building was a trade shipyard. But there was no one trade with so it made no sense. Also theres no obvious way to brew wine or forge steel. $4.99 is a bit high for this type of gameplay. We would have expected something more intuitive.
We really love this game but Ive noticed here on day 53 that almost all of our workers keep on getting stuck when they walk past their houses and the loggers hut. PLEASE HELP DEVS.
Been playing for a while but keeps crashing please fix love the game but sad and frustrated.
The title says it all. The City Building is great. Love the game but needs a cloud save or a way to export or import the game save file.
A fun, moody take on city building, but once the town starts getting dense, characters frequently get stuck in buildings (particularly after battles) where theyll eventually starve to death if the building is not destroyed. Makes the game unplayable.
This game is Trash. We love strategy games, and this game started off fine. After numerous buildings proximity/selecting/managing became difficult. Then after 100 nights our food resources went to zero. We had many manned buildings that produced food, yet our production stayed at zero. We did what we could to mitigate the issue, but since the food store wouldnt build back up Half of our population died of starvation, everything went down hill from there. Didn't make sense, maybe a glitch in game? Or designed to be lame who knows. But we deleted it Not worth our time.
We absolute love this game but as of lately the app has been crashing quite frequently Mali bf the playing experience a bit irritating. Otherwise this is amongst the best game we have ever played.
Super nice and addicting just sad how on android its free and on apple you need to pay 5$ but still super nice we love playing.
Im too lazy to write a proper review haha! All im gonna say is, if you like simulation/building games this is a MUST!! WORTH EVERY PENNY.
Overall, its a fun, casual game. However, the problem with the guards running away as soon as certain enemies arrive makes Bonfire II unplayable past a certain point. Until the bug is fixed we probably will not play anymore.
Hopefully updates to the game will fix this but we cant play beyond about day 40. The game constantly crashes even with the graphics turned to the lowest setting.
Very fun and you can tell a lot of care was put into making this 2nd version. The camera can be frustrating at times since it seems to move at inappropriate times, however that is nowhere near as frustrating as the some difficulty balance shortly after hitting day 100. A large enemy can wipe out 8 armored guards in a blink and then new workers do not show up quickly enough to replenish them resulting in a downward spiral that you cannot pull out of. That said it is still a very fun game. We just dont plan on making it too far past day 100 before having to start over.
Game is quite fun until you get close to finishing it. Once there your ships will randomly go into the fog and never actually make it to the destination, and your guards at night will always run to the wood line (even with never run from a right and full solar equipped). All In all its not bad its just not good.
Fun game but crashes all of the time on our ipad5.
This game is awesome but is broken on the Ipad. The animations dont t update correctly, things randomly disappear, the build screen is randomly missing structures and crafted items. Broken mess. Dont waste your time. Unfortunate.
Great game with an amazing new update. But once you beat the final boss dungeon, nothing happens. Your troops are just stuck in a room and if you exit to city then you have to do the whole fight over again.
Game is phenomenal, loved playing it. Made it around 130 days to a pivotal part of the game requiring specific items. However for some reason the AI in the game lost the items at some point in the process of building. The items required were only achievable one way in the game and you cant get them again. So we were stuck and had to restart. Which is very discouraging.
Really love this game. 5* well deserved. We do have two suggestions, though. 1) On the save feature, would be nice if it asks you if youre sure before saving. Too many times Ive accidentally saved when we didnt want to because our finger (or hand) was too close to the screen. On an ipad, at least, you dont need to touch the screen. If youre hand is too close, it registers. 2) Would be nice if you could banish people to remove those with unwanted traits.
We love the game its super addicting and good but are you ever going to finish updating and adding more to the story? It would be even better than it is now.
Love the game, best 5 bucks we've ever spent. Although there is a minor problem with some mechanics, alot of the movement with the villagers seems jumbled and sometimes even glitches out. The guards will run to the woods right after killing an intruder, leaving the others to either die or get majorly hurt. When we need to assign more guards at night to fight bigger mobs, some will glitch out near the house and never move. Lastly (that Ive experienced) the ship cant be reloaded on food when docked back home. Thats it! Other than that the game is fabulous, a true masterpiece of base building euphoria.
Just beat the game very fun but there is more islands we wish you would still update the game so you could go to them.
This game is really good, they really improved from the first game. We remember playing this first years back man how we wish we can play the first one again to really compare it. But again this is a fantastic game,we recommend this game a whole bunch.
Addictive and fun to play very interactive could use a tutorial but its fun.
Bit of a slow start and could use even basic explanations (how villagers heal, that the bridge unlocks more hits, etc) but a fun little game. Def worth five bucks if thats what youre looking for in reviews. Go for it! If you like this sort of game youll get your moneys worth. Only thing is the bigger the settlement the bigger the impact on your device. Im on day 80+ and the game has begun devouring our battery. It is chewing through our charge faster than even the beefiest, most layer heavy files we run in our art software! Suppose this brings resource management to real life since absolutely cant risk a popping on in the middle of a work day.
We spent the best hours of quarantine a few weeks ago on this game; its been so long but we still think back to it. Its so so fun. We love all the little hyper managing we get to do.. And the nights get us stressed sometimes!! But we couldnt stop playing til it was all done. We cant wait for more updates!! The guard night system is a little tricky like other reviews have mentioned, but we found ways to keep our guards and archers alive. Best of luck to the devs.
Game was short and we would love to explore the islands to the north.
Fun game but shuts down often on our iPad.
We like the game very much but there are some features that could be a bit better such as the ability to clear the trees and stones that are in the way thats causes use to not freely design our island and we also dont like the fact that you can freely move buildings that are already built you literally have to destroy the built in order to remove it. Also this is a small thing that we wish it had which is the ability to zoom out more than we can but its fine.
This game is absolutely AMAZING!!! The only problem we see is that when you pay a traveler with food or something they leave a gift right? Sadly you cant tap on it because its too close to the bonfire. Atleast on an iphone but it gets kind of annoying . Please update! By the way this game is amazing! (we said that twice lol).
Hi, we really like this game and we hope guys that you can add arabic language to the game, because we have a lot of players they want to play this game but there is no arabic language so they dont understand anything. We Wish if you can add arabic language.
Decent game ; just waiting on the update . When will there be one.
We love this game. Ever since we downloaded it Ive been playing non-stop. Ive played the first game and was very skeptical about playing the second. Especially paying $5 to download it…Im a stickler and we dont like paying for something we dont know Ill like. Like buying and playing and then coming to not like it, it would have been a waste of money. But we dont feel that way about this game at all. Not a tiny bit. Although there is one thing Id like to add to the game if thats possible, the option to move your city around after youve built everything. After unlocking the two sides and then having to basically start over a small city on either side. We like everything to be together like the city in the center , the hunting/harvesting on one side, and the factories on the last side. But its hard to do that when we cant move the buildings around. We constantly break the building and start building all over again. Thanks for the great game and cant wait for more to come. If you see this Id really love to add this to the game. Thank you for your time! And hope to see amazing updates soon to come.
This is a great game with 1 problem, THE METEOR SHARDS TAKE FOREVER TO GET.
The game wont stop crashing every time we play it every few minutes when we get to a certain amount of progress it crashes. We dont know why we trying to figure it out but it kept crashing every time basically theres a really big Bug for you to fix. The game doesnt crash at first when you first open it but as we build progress it crashes more and more. We have sufficient memory and the correct operating system. Please fix we really enjoy the game. Send.
We like this game. Something fun to play while relaxing for evening. Ive had game force close once one us. Also when you give visitors food/wine etc and they leave you something behind it its shows in the notifications and you click you can keep getting a gift they leave behind untimely setting your guards up for life. Is this supposed to be like this??? Besides that keep up the work. Really enjoy it.
This game definitely is one of the best games Ive played. Its a challenge, but if you know how to play survival games like these, its super fun.
This is like an actual video game and not just a dopamine pump. Very good. One of those simplicity equals depth type games. When your level 6 dude you named Fisher to tell him apart from Miner dies to a spider in the night youll be sad about it.
It offers a lot the building and designing is fun so are the monster attacks the game updates frequently and we wouldve gave it a 4 star rating because of the bugs but the are being fixed every update the only problem we have with the game is that we can see other islands but cant go put to them but we think they will be fixing that soon.
Let us just start by saying, this game is amazing especially for being in relatively early development. It is a blast and you could waste hours upon hours playing it. Although the price is a kind of high one for a mobile game, it is worth it. The game wont stall on its monstrous excitement.
Update the guards round and formation so we can have better strategies.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.3
- Size: 1,107.31 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Xigma Games
Last updated: 20th March 2023 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Xigma Games