Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 10:11 pm
The Lost City – Entertainment Game Review
The Lost City is a Entertainment/Puzzle/Adventure game from Joe Kauffman, first launched in 31st January 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 207+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Lost City Stand Out
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Grandma was right.
Nobody really believed her. Not even you, her favorite grandchild.
But she was right. And more so than you could ever imagine.
The city before you, deep in the mist shrouded forest, can't be found on any map. It shouldn't even exist. Though it's been asleep for a long time, you feel a mysterious power begin to awaken from the ruins around you.
Legend has it the civilization that built this place could somehow control the seasons. But nobody listens to legends.
Nobody except Grandma.
And she was right.
You look again at the artifact she gave you. Close to this lost city, it almost seems alive in your hand.
The city does exist. It's real.
Could the secret magic, powerful enough to change the seasons, be real too?
Features:
• Inspired by classic point and click adventure games!
• Beautiful graphics that draw you into this mesmerizing adventure!
• Lots of items to collect and puzzles to solve!
• Original soundtrack and sound effects!
• A journal that keeps track of all the symbols and clues that you encounter.
• A dynamic map that shows all of the areas you have explored, as well as your current location.
• A complete hint guide and walkthrough built right into the game.
• The Lost City has been translated into several languages.
• Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad!
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Lost City is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th February 2024
Recent improvements include:
Big fixes!
Download & Availability
The Lost City is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Lost City 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:
This game was our childhood and just as wonderful on replay. Literally bought all the other games because this one is so good. If Fire Maple STAYS AWAY from AI art and looks back on their classics, the world would be a better place.
Oh Ive loved this. Its one of the only games we return to, and wish very much there were sequels to. Beautiful artwork, graphics, puzzles, music. A conception of changing seasons that effectively offers four worlds in one. Elegant puzzles, great interface, immersive and peaceful. Beautifully and lovingly created.
We remember playing this game when we were 8-11. This is such a hidden gem, back when developers prioritized the game over making money off of ads and people buying features. You can tell how much thought went into the game, and the images are stunning.
This game is good if you have a great memory for places and directions, but frustrating if you don't. We're great at puzzles but found ourselves wandering all over the place trying to get back to a place where we'd seen something that we needed to complete a puzzle. The map wasn't that much of a help, what with all the toggling back and forth, scrolling to get to the section we needed, and no teleporting option. Also, we put the silver bowl on the flowers but didn't get any key. So now we're stuck and can't move forward. Waiting for a reply to the email we sent to customer service….. We've loved other Fire Maple games and will try more, but we're not loving this one. Beautiful graphics, though…. Nice music and very moody in a good way.
Gameplay was awesome and enjoyable (kinda short tho). And the story was great puzzles werent to hard to figure out.
We have played this game since it first came out, and after about 50 playthroughs we have never gotten tired of it. Best game ever.
Bought this app with high expectations. However, the icons to access the hints and the map dont work at all. Not sure whats going on, but its a major glitch. Please fix. Until fixed, we cant recommend this app. Such a shame, too, because it has lovely visuals, a nice soundtrack, and an intriguing storyline. NOT RECOMMENDED.
It used to be a great game, but it doesnt work anymore.
We love this game we love this game we love this game we love this game we love this game we love this game we love this game we love this game, we dont know where to start.
The Lost City is an incredible experience from beginning to end. The game has incredible hand drawn visuals, gripping puzzles, an ever growing and changing environment for you to explore and to this day the experience isnt outdated! For the price you pay, The Lost City is an absolute steal and an incredible game.
This is what we think of when we search for adventure or anything like that. This game is absolutely amazing and deserves 5 stars. We play it once a year and recommend it to everyone else because it is worth it. We hope the game developers continue to make more games like this because we will buy them ALL.
This is so nostalgic for us. We played these as a little girl and we just remembered them. We bought them immediately, as we have so many good memories playing these.
We LOVE this game, we grew up playing it and redone loading it every year or so is still such a fun and fresh experience. We thoroughly enjoy this game and Id suggest it to anyone who is questioning buying.
This is just the type of game we enjoy: puzzle solving. We just discovered this and Im happy to say it still works perfectly fine on our ipad. Our only complaints are 1. If you leave the game to go to another app and come back, it goes to the initial splash screen instead of where you left off. For this game you really need to take notes on where things are, so having a delay every time you went back from consulting a note was a little annoying. 2. We wish the hint icon was set off by itself. We kept hitting it by accident when we meant to hit the bag. 3. We wish the hints were more subtle. Instead they tell you exactly what to do. But other than those minor things the game was great. Beautiful scenery, a creative storyline, and puzzles that were challenging, some more than others. The hardest part was remembering where things were even with the map. Thanks to the creator for numbering all the map cells.
We are a fan of the Fire Maple games. Lost City benefits from the forethought that went into making the puzzles fit in with the story and the environments. Solving puzzles by changing seasons is clever, and so are many of the puzzles themselves, which are at a medium level of difficulty (just hard enough to make you think, but far from exasperating). This game, like all of Fire Maples games, is a welcome relief from the gloomy, creepy settings and atmosphere in most of the games in this genre. The music is pleasant and the visuals are colorful, which makes for a stress-free puzzle-solving experience. The journal and the map are useful features, as well. Overall, this is a nice, calm way to spend a few hours, and scratch that puzzling itch.
Ive played it so many times, we know where everything is.
We love all the fire maple games, but this one will always be our favorite.
We played the game for a few hours, usually waiting for the hints but although they took ten minutes to get they were always helpful so the waiting was worth it.
We got this game when it was pretty new…we were probably 8. Im 14 now and playing again was really fun because it brought back great nostalgia and it seemed almost d j vu like. Really fun game, makes you think, gameplay is about 45 min.-1hr. And it gets really exciting. Obviously its not new animation but it was made in 2012 so… Also hand-painted graphics. Very cool.
We love this game. We've played and replayed it so many times.
We need help please. We cannot find the floating box as the hint says for'scene 22. We can't go further in the game until we find this. Please anybody. The clue says to use the rusty key to open a floating box in screen 22 in the spring. There is no floating box in screen 22 that we can find. We have changed it to Spring & have examined other nearby screens and no floating box. There is only the open empty box in the lower half of the picture. We love the game and have completed other series of the Maple Tree adventure game series and am more than half way through another one. But in this one we are stuck. Please developers we could use some help here or if anyone who has completed this puzzle would sure appreciate your expertise. We mistakenly presses only 4 stars. The game deserves 5 stars. There is no problem with the game but user error. We the user am apparently having eye problems or trouble seeing boxes. Or this box is floating too fast, high, low or too much as we are missing it entirely Thank you anyone Candy.
Nice long game – we really enjoyed playing.
Anyone who loves adventure games will love it!!!Yes,the graphics are not that good but the game is so fun. We highly recommend it P.S.anyone who is having trouble getting around try using the map,to access it,tap the bag,and then tap the map on the lower left.
We thought it it was one of those free full of ad games that you play for ten seconds then get bombarded with ads then immediately delete. NOT THIS ONE. No ads and it kept our attention. Just short of three hours in 4 days of spare time to complete. We had a hard time putting it down. 5 stars to Fire Maple Games! Thanks.
This was a high quality game. It took about 3-4 hours to play and it was fun. The puzzles werent hard but the tricky part was figuring out where to go n what season you needed to be in since you cant use the map to jump. There is a hint button that takes 10 minutes to refill. We only needed it once because we didnt realize you could switch seasons! Overall a really well made game. That being said, we got this game for free due to their new game being out. We wouldnt pay full price for this as its a bit outdated but thats to be expected as it came out in 2012. We may buy their latest game though because this is a great game and the developer has probably fine tuned his craft over the past 7 years. Kudos devs.
This is a nice little game. One weird glitch. The first time we played it a journal entry from another game showed up. Its the painted Easter egg on first page and torn number on the facing page. We thought it looked familiar but we could never find it in the game. Later we realized its from another Maple Fire game, Grisley Manor we think. We replayed the game and did not have those pages in our journal second time. Not a big deal but it did confuse us for a while.
We LOVED this game; highly entertaining.
This game is a few years old but still runs great in (almost) 2019. Its well done and offers a lot of value for the money. You can finish a lot of these types of games pretty quickly, but this one goes on well past where you expect it to (thats a compliment). Highly recommended.
This game is beautiful and magical. Even though we know every bit of it, we still will play it again sometimes just because it makes us feel peaceful and happy.
We bought this game when it first came out, maybe 5-6 years ago. We played right through the whole thing and loved it so much and then after a couple years of changing iPhones and downloading more games, it had been deleted and forgotten until just recently. Im so glad to see its still on the App Store and is still being kept up-to-date with the newest iOS updates. Thank you, developers! Reinstalled this game on our phone and Im excited to play through it again.
Enjoyable puzzler. Would be nice to go back and wander the island after the games ends. In-game hints better than any walkthrough. The walkthroughs we found were basically random collections of lists or chaotic instructions. Because there is more than one way to finish this game, its nearly impossible to make a coherent walkthrough.
But for this game we had to write one !! This was hands down THEE best game like this we played thus far. And we are a legit gamer. We been playing these type of adventure seek and try to figure out games for years. And this was the best one we ever played yet. It want too hard where u needed a walk through and it wasnt too easy where u just ran threw it . Good game. Thanks developers! LOVED IT.
We LOVED this game!! We hope they come out with a sequel.
Great graphics, clever puzzles, cool story. Please make more.
This is the closest game we have found to our favorite puzzle game, Myst! It's point and click, super challenging, but solvable! You have to write down clues, because the game changes seasons and you have to go back and forth to solve. Amazing game.
This is a fantastic, immersive puzzle adventure game that had us hooked immediately. We loved the atmosphere and unique nature of the puzzles…once you figure it out it's really a very cool concept! We recommend it to any puzzle game addicts. Please make more.
The game has a story and enough complications to keep us very involved . Enjoyed it completely…frustrations and all.
Pure adventure puzzling fun? Yup. This game is really well done.
This is the best point and click adventure hands down.
We enjoyed this puzzle/adventure game: not too hard and not too easy, and a good length. Note that it's not a hidden object game. The graphics are the only weak spot, as they're low-res (not retina) but it's the gameplay that matters.
We really like this game and the graphics are great! One comment would be to allow the hints to refresh at any time, not just when playing the game.
Nice graphics, puzzles were easy enough once you understood the premise. Our only real criticism was there was no danger or thrill in the story line. Great for kids.
Honestly whos idea was it to put the home button on top of the inventory arrow button.
Game locked up and couldn't finish.
We finally got all the way to the last puzzle, no matter what solution we followed, with video walkthrough assistance, in the season of summer, as instructed, nothing worked. We,had to abandon that game without finishing it. It was part of a paid bundle. We hope the other two games will allow us to finish. We regret the purchase.
Please make more of these types of games. We enjoyed all three and wish there were more. The difficulty of the mysteries are just right–needed a few hints, but mostly could figure it out on our own. Very fun. Thank you.
Very well done. Beautifully designed and scripted. Gr8 job.
This is a super fun puzzle game, with an interesting twist. The best part, though, is the mood. The graphics and music are both gorgeous. Very immersive–almost meditative. Quite enjoyable.
This is an excellent puzzle game. The graphics are superb, and the storyline is intriguing. The difficulty level is just right unless you're into impossible-type puzzles. We've played all of their puzzle games and hope there's more to come soon. Thanks for hours of challenging yet stress free entertainment.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.16
- Size: 111.45 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: AR, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, NB, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Joe Kauffman
Last updated: 17th February 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: Joe Kauffman