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Bugsnax

Creature collecting adventure

Ratings

Age

9+

Category

Action

Languages

English

Welcome to Snaktooth Island, home of the legendary Bugsnax! Invited by the explorer Elizabert Megafig, you arrive to find her missing and her followers scattered. Hunt and capture all 100 species of Bugsnax using specialized traps, explore diverse biomes, and help the inhabitants of Snaxburg. This quirky adventure blends puzzle-solving with a rich, character-driven story.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

95/100

Bugsnax is one of the most delightful and surprisingly deep adventure games on the App Store. At first glance, it looks like a colorful, whimsical game about catching snack-shaped bugs. However, once you land on Snaktooth Island, you discover a compelling mystery and a cast of Grumpuses that are written with incredible emotional depth. The core loop of discovering a new Bugsnak and figuring out the puzzle of how to catch it using your various tools is constantly engaging.

The mobile port is exceptionally well-handled. The touch controls for deploying traps and snapping photos are intuitive, and the vibrant art style looks stunning on Retina displays. Feeding Bugsnax to the islanders and watching their limbs transform into food is both hilarious and slightly disturbing in the best way possible. It’s a rare game that manages to be both a great puzzle-adventure and a heartfelt story about community. Don't let the cute exterior fool you; there's a real story here.

Dinsun reviewed on: Sun Jan 19 2025

Features

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100 Species of Bugsnax

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Character-Driven Story

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Diverse Tool-Based Trapping

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Deep World Exploration

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Full Voice Acting

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

No, once downloaded, Bugsnax can be played entirely offline.

Ratings & Reviews

App Store Editors’ Notes
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Bugsnacks the other world
Thu Sep 05 2024 Emerick b

So you and the friends are back in the city so you had to get a new life since you I mean, your boss kinda told everyone that you were dead you got apartment you shared it with her nice friend the mayor and everyone else apartments right beside you help the one who likes to get snoopy and figure out what the little guy that likes to ranch with snacks does at night and it turns out he listens to funk and cries and he says I wish you were still here wiggle and I think you and your friend that caused you to figure out how to get to snaggletofIsland And sincere is the one that’s a lot allergic to bug snacks and you don’t transform. You’re the only one that can go so you go get your friends and turn them back into people and tell Liz and I forgot her friends name and they once you they are your friends back you’ll get Liz and her friend out of that bug snack monster thing and then it turned alive, but it was above a launchpad so the launchpad automatically sprung then it all onto the volcano and then it multiplied in the multiplied version of it guide sent to the city the way you know that is multiplied is that only has one little rice that Liz and her friend was in and then you guys worry about how it guide to the sea so you put a border on the on iPad and it launches it to the one that’s on the volcano and it falls in then you go home and that monster thing is attacking you and making like bugs snacks all around and then she the science one she told you that how it fall into the volcano was bad and then a bunch of bugs next come out from the sky in the monster thing, ate one the bugsnacks and grew two eyes again. It starts lunch and even more bug snacks out on the world in every BM that shoots normal food that gets hit by. It turns into a bug snack like a peanut butter and jelly gets turned into a p.Bee in.J

This game is Amazing! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
Mon Apr 28 2025 Deez Pups are The Best!

This game is sooooooo good! I love this game so much! And I love that you don’t need WI-FI for this game! But I have a lot of Questions! Like, who are the snackolytes?What happened after the Strabby got to the city at the end of the game? There are so many things that should be involved in a Bugsnax 2 if you can make one! I’d also love and I think other people would love it too, if you could let us be able to actually Meet Alexander Jamfoot, and if you guys can also make the next game a multiplayer game! Me and my cousin love playing this game and we would love if you guys can make it possible for us to play it together and see each other in the game! I also ask that you guys can be more Specific on the genders and somehow fix how a lot of grumps are lesbian are Gay. One more Request, is that we are able to Design our own character and be able to see them! That is all the ideas I have for a Bugsnax 2, if you guys make one! (plEaSe YOuNg HoRSe!!! MAKE A BUGSNAX 2!!!!!!!!!) 🥺🥺🥺

Bugsnax 2 or no Bugsnax 2?
Sun Mar 03 2024 BswDmaj

I made this review because the ending was really sad and I wonder if there will be way more tools if there is a Bugsnax 2🤔 and if we can see lizbert and eggabell again too will there be more Bugsnax in the Bugsnax 2 if there will be. And more grumps too. And a world in the city like when we got out of snaktooth island when we escaped. and more bosses but keep all the stuff from the first Bugsnax and make the new stuff with it you know what I mean like a bigger game with more stuff if are wondering how Is there going to be Bugsnax on the city. We’ll just since there was a Strabo on the boat maybe it made more strabbys and all the fruits became Bugsnax and floaty found a cure how to not make the body parts turn to food by just not eating the google eyes and how about a science grumps made a cure for lizbert and eggabell. Can there be a mama meson in the Bugsnax 2 but it’s a giant orange and it little mates are small Mando orange’s that are bumpy. I hope you make a Bugsnax 2! And use my ideas😃

I LOVE THIS GAME WITH ALL MY HEART ❤ (a couple suggestions for a sequel)
Sun Jul 07 2024 TheCreature>:3

first off, let me just say that WOW thi game is PEAK FICTION. I love the designs of all the bugsnax, the grumpuses all have very unique character traits and LORE?! Also youre expectations are ALWAYS thrown out the window with the twists, turns, loops and whatnots! I personally LOVE this game AND the dlc! Also, I'm just here to talk about what I think would be cool if not, that's okie 👌 But I feel like for the sequel would be a good idea that once you've consumed bugsnax as lizbert said, "they turn you into them" it would be a good idea if the previous grumpuses were all stuck like that and becoming bugsnax monsters like Lizbert and eggabell, but as the Journalist we would be tasked with trying to find a cure to the snax, while also protecting other grumpuses from the monsters. If you've read so far, thank you for listening to me ramble on about my favorite game, this will always have a HUGE place in my heart : >

BUGSNAX
Tue Apr 15 2025 TaraWDM

Amazing game 5 stars!! If any devs see this please reply somehow. I have some amazing ideas I think people will like. #1 BUGSNAX #2! I know it would take a lot of money and work but please don’t leave us hanging! PLEASE AT LEAST CONSIDER IT!?! #2 being able to eat the snax, when I could not I was so disappointed and I know how the game ends but still NOT being able to eat the thing the game is named after, come on. #3 you got this I love this game and I WILL buy #2 if you made one and so will many other people. #4 multiplayer? It would enhance gameplay a ton! And if your in it for money then more then one person would have to buy it! So please if you see this consider it and please reply somehow even if it’s a no I would love to hear from you. 5 stairs!! Please consider my ideas and let me know if you like them or if you want more, I’m really good at this! <3 😃❤️🐜🍟 BUGSNAX FOR EVER!! :)

they need to and new bug snax and they need a chapter 2
Wed Feb 26 2025 mika cross

I love this game but the fact in the end of the game how people die is really sad 😭 but I am really good at this game but every time I start a new world I have to do the same thing over and over it is pretty boring because I know everything in the game but if they added a chapter 2 I know what the second chapter would be about but this is my idea so once we escape the island we are found at are home and we go out with filbo and we are in the city are what ever it is but after we do quest or whatever we have to do then the yellow guy will warn us that they see Bugsnax swimming in the water then we won’t have to evacuate everyone while we fight like in the first game and then we have to write our ship again and find a new civilization so what do you think of my idea

I want a update or a part 2 but I love it’s a 10
Thu Jan 22 2026 Cyrus 🐓🦩🦤🦤🐓🦩

The ending is sad and want to see lizibert and in part 2plz I’m begging you young horses and u could add ucould add part three 3️⃣ in 4 years I love the story of Bugsnax but maybe you add part three ur done but I love it ty u but maybe you could add duos I love u young horses inc and I heard 2 voices and that’s how u know there is part 2 and if we hear another voice it will keep going on in till he or she is done so yeah I love it but how or what Bugsnax or will it be a something different am I right ? One more thing yes I’m getting annoying but we are begging for part two and three and maybe part 4 but if you don’t put in those chapters I get bored 🥱 so please every time I tell a game I never does it poppy playtime has more chapters then mainly because u don’t have any chapters but I’m begging you

controller support issue?
Sun Aug 27 2023 sneebles mcgee

this is such a high-quality port! love that yall are making your great games accessible to a wider audience 🫶 very glad that both this and octodad support nimbus and other phone controllers as well! though, from what i can tell, there seems to be no way to run with a controller? granted, you can crouch with B, which you seemingly can't do with touch controls (noticed how many crouch-only areas have been tweaked for this), so i guess it's just a tradeoff unless i'm missing something? maybe have an update where players can map their own buttons if possible? if not that's fine! just was curious about this little quirk that's likely to the fault of the controller and not you guys. again, fantastic port! runs and controls smooth as butter as any other version.

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