Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE
Roll, stick, and grow
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Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE reviews
4.3 out of 5, based on 1,248 reviews.
What people like
- Super fun and relaxing gameplay
- Great nostalgic visuals and music
- Unique live-streaming story concept works well
- Lots of cute character customization options
What they complain about
- Touch controls are frustrating and unresponsive
- Game makes your phone extremely hot
- Levels feel too short and hard
- Screen text blocks ruin the view
Nistoga
To good! I just can’t! And I also got all achievements and unlock all levels!
Absolutely terrible
This is legit terrible to control and absolutely sucks I love normal Katamari games but this really drops the ball.
Good game
Good game sound effects can be less gross in fish ones candy to hard to get sometimes.
Fun and clunky
A fun premise but there are just so many issues. The controls are awkward, adjusting the joystick positioning is buggy, (and why do I even need specific joystick locations on a touch screen in the first place?), your character gets stuck a lot, the camera angles and perspective are bad, dialogue appears SOOO slow (letter by letter, which can’t be sped up) and when in a level it actually affects your controls bc tapping changes to advancing the dialogue instead of controlling your character. Overall the devs didn’t bother with some basic modern quality of life upgrades to make it playable
Okay but missing things
Fun to play but definitely needs work still. No one wants to roll around the same three bathhouse levels for a single candy. No one wants to grind these levels for a singular candy in an attempt to get any of the absurdly priced presents. Why not give candy as a reward for completing a collection? Why is the mask not available? What about the hat? Why not show us how the commenters work or what videos they're connected to considering they're the only way to get any somewhat substantial amount of candy? Why have the shop so filled up at all when there are plenty of levels that give players nothing but stars? Why not have some of these items be found? Or why not offer different items within the levels that currently have nothing? Also, give Kuro his extra antenna back, as that was a horrid mistake of a design change. So many of the cousins look the same and yall had to take away the one thing that made him unique. Good game but could be great with some more care and thought put into it.
best game ever
no seriously. best game ever. another beautiful game made by a team who enjoyed making it. i know beautiful things take time to create but i need more levels nowwww such a good game.
Needs work
Terrible unresponsive controls, tons of dialogue, interruptions, and loading screens. 90% of this game is not actually playing this game for no reason.
Made me say “What the ACTUAL HECK” 🤣🤣
I’d heard of this game but was late to the party, so I found this, and dude, it’s as weird as it looks. But I freaking looooooove Katamari!! So fun! Controls aren’t great but that’s ok! Ty for this game :3
OH meh GAH
The king makes me all 😞 so I have to beat a level the first time or I have to take a one day break from it and because of that I forget the layout of the level and lose again and ⬆️
Unplayable Without Controller
A classic Katamari game, but there’s no substitute for a physical controller. The on-screen controls are horrendous.
Best game ever
Hi so I like that you can unlock new streams and that some things move and that it’s awesome. Wish you can add a level creator. Add more things too:) I got this a couple years ago and deleted it but installed it again not that long ago. It’s a game with a lot of fun. Peace out.
too demanding for iphone (hot battery!)
great game, but should not be on Apple Arcade if iOs is unable to handle
The reviewer is roleplaying as the King of All Cosmos. Please understand.
You would expect one who is helping Us with rolling Katamari without the ability to use a Game Controller? We remember when We started, we were on a game console. Controllers standard. Yet on this Macintosh computer, far far superior to what we began on? Players must use the keyboard. We are disappointed. It is probably The Prince’s fault. He should do better.
Great game, awful controls
The controls make this game a pain to play, the camera is always in the worst possible position and moving it around is clunky and unintuitive
I so wish I could play it with a controller.
This is a fully-fledged Katamari game. It has all the hallmarks of the series, the incredible music, the charming humor, the small dense levels full of visual gags. That's the problem, really. Katamari games game are designed from the ground up to be played with a controller. They have come up with four different control schemes in an attempt to make it work on a touch screen, and none of them work amazingly well. The best ones for me are the twin stick ones, but I keep feeling frustrated by them. Having to control the Katamari using tiny virtual joysticks with no tactile feedback means I constantly end up moving at an angle slightly different to the one I wanted or grabbing the stick halfway into its zone instead of dead center, so when I drag the stick all the one in one direction, the camera moves slowly. It's just so frustrating. I have these tiny joysticks I have to keep my thumbs on. I can't look at them because I have to keep my eye on the game, and they obviously feel exactly like every other part of the touchscreen, so I have no sensory feedback whatsoever that can help me keep my thumbs on them. When my thumbs do inevitably slide off them, nothing happens immediately, because the game is perfectly capable of tracking my touch no matter where on the touch screen it is. However when my touch briefly slides off the screen and onto the panel above or below the screen, the stick snaps back to neutral. Because this is a momentum-based game, I don't notice that my inputs are no longer registering until my katamari slows to a halt, at which point I have to look at the sticks to see which one is the problem, put my thumb back on it, and get my momentum going again. Meanwhile these tiny sticks are surrounded by vast swathes of touch screen that do NOTHING. These areas of the screen are absolutely capable of taking input, and I know this because they LITERALLY DO as long as I touch the sticks first. I just don't understand why it was deemed necessary for most of the phone's touchscreen to be converted into a giant dead-zone! Why can't the entire left side of the screen act as the left joystick, and the entire right side of the screen act as the right joystick? That's literally already how it works as long as you touch the sticks first! Just get rid of the sticks and make it work like that all the time! Neutral can be whichever spot on the screen I touch! There is a control mode that uses the entire screen, but it involves sliding in the direction you want the katamari to go and is just impossible to use with any precision. You might as well be playing with voice commands. It's a good game, certainly worth playing. However it lacks the responsive controls that made the previous games a joy to play. I don't find myself motivated to try each level over and over chasing that perfect score. Doing so is actually really aggravating as attempt after attempt is ruined by bouts of your katamari completely stalling out while you try to figure out why your controls aren't working. Just play it once and move on.
Great but issue
I really like this game but I can’t beat the you won’t believe this Katamari 2 level, that’s not the issue, it’s that sometimes when I open it there’s no sound but closing it out fixes it so still five stars edit: now I’m a top 1% player, great game!
dude
stuck on the loading screen for a literal hour. i had to keep my phone running and it turn it burned my legs
I like this game
I don’t really play this game that much but I do recommend it because I think it’s pretty cool, so how about you just give it a try,and maybe you like it!
Difficulty ruins the atmosphere of the game
It’s a great looking well put together Katamari game apart from the fact that the difficulty just seems ridiculous for no apparent reason. Time limits are crazy short and I’ve reached a point where I can barely make it to half the required sizes and just fail. It’s become an exercise in frustration vs what Katamari should be about, which is a relaxing silly slightly challenging game about running around picking stuff up!
Battery Drain/Overheating
Love the graphics and stages. Reminds me of the old Katamari games but the controls really need to be changed. You can’t play long because it physically hurts. My biggest issue is the battery overheating and draining that this game causes. 30% in around 30 minutes and the battery is so hot that it doesn’t want to charge right away. I hope they fix these problems because Katamari is one of my all time favorites.
Oh, we are so back with the old game The old version
This game is very fun entertaining. I like the king where he gives you different quest and other stuff is really enjoying. You guys should play. It not only that I love where you could roll the ball and get more objects by rolling them into each other something like that this is probably the best game I’ve played in very very long time. It’s really enjoying and. if you fail on one level. The king will do a very purpleish dark scene. I like the animation. of the king and all the other different outfits, you can customize on your avatar. Not only that, but there’s millions of different outfits, you can customize on your avatar. This is my review. Hope you read it.(developer
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i h@te this so much
Kinda hard
The first level was easy, but the other levels are too hard so can you make them easy?
The stupid update caused the game lag!
The update caused a severe drop in performance. Please fix this!
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Why do I need to tell you NOT to put the joysticks UNDER the instructions on the first screen? I wonder how many have quit right there because they don’t see the joysticks and logically don’t want to touch the instructions.
Great fun
Relaxing and silky and silly and skilly
Does not work on Apple TV
Was working great and lots of fun until after the third level and the game wanted me to access the fan club and the controller which is a nimbus bought from the apple does not work and I can’t play anymore.
Can’t access “secret level”
I love this game, I truly do Katamari has been a part of my life since the first game. This is fun and nostalgic that being said there’s a level where you need at least 450k followers, all the cousins, excluding the candy shop collected. I have all of the cousins and I have about 1 million followers. I have every level completed, but I cannot access this hidden level. It just keeps giving me the requirements. I’ve reached out to Reddit YouTube. No one can explain to me why so I hope to support and whoever is reading this can get back to me.
Wrecking my phone
Great game but it overheats your phone like crazy and uses an insane amount of battery. To the point my phone stopped working from overheating.
slow
I know it’s the king’s style… but I have a life
Na na na!
Hi Namco! Im your ultimate fan! Thank you guys for putting this game on apple arcade! So I love the glow sticks level and the tag level! Very fun. This game is still fun as a katamari veteran. So far in the game, no complaints. I also like the King's design in this game. Especially the head pattern. Also, one suggestion. Can you make a level in "Wish Upon a Katamari", that you collect valuable objects for a king or a dragon? That would be cool. Also I, as a fan, want Eternal mode for lots of levels. Thank you guys! This is Arcadia, signing out!
DOES NOT WORK ON APPLE TV!
Be wary if you want to enjoy this game on your Apple TV. It does not work with neither game controllers, nor Apple TV remote. Stuck at save game screen loading screen but can’t select the save to load. Really wish they would fix this ASAP as they advertise it working with controllers and they work on other Apple devices.
Good but…
This is a great game but one level is too annoying the character is too annoying and it’s saying stuff like lol trendyyyyyy style and omg! It’s the most annoying character in the game pls take her out
Um……..
Not gonna lie it’s creepy when the streamer opens his eyes it’s hard to control and the songs creep me out srry but other than that it’s pretty cool like AMAZING! Also the animation looks great but is glitchy. Amazing job tho! There is no other games on Apple Arcade besides this one that are creative enough to make a game bout live streaming! Love,????
I love the series, but the touch screen controls are horrible
I’ve played the original PS2 game, a PSP sequel, and a Switch remaster and loved all of them. I was stoked to play a new one, but it feels like a constant struggle with the touchscreen controls. Getting more than one star in some later levels (one to three stars is their level scoring system) feels virtually impossible, and I feel like playing with a proper controller could change my review of the game from 3 to 5 stars, but I don’t have a Backbone or whatever. I love the live-streaming angle for the ”story”. It’s quirky and fits well.
Very fun
It is a very good game for when you just wanna destroy things, though it is kind of hard to control the calamari but is a still very good game so yes, I still do recommend.
It needs more rooms
Its nice but i am stuck and there is no more to descover !!
Great katamari game!
This game is great Its definitely not as good as the original katamari damacy or we love katamari damacy on console though I much prefer playing with a controller and i would probably like the touch controlls more if there was an option to not have more buttons (kinda like the controller controls) where everything is done with the joysticks To others reading this to play with a controller on your phone grab your nearest ps5 controller and a usb c cord and plug it in between your phone and the controller that way you can use it without disconnecting it from your console (or use bluetooth) There other thing i dont really like in this game (but its ok) is the level selection screen The other katamari damacy games had really quirky level selection screens and this game is more boooring in that regard i mean its nice to quickly choose a level but i miss the personality that the other katamari damacy games i played had but like its fine
Cute but controls are awful
The game is cute, but controls are awful.
Buggy game means it's not as fun as it could be
The gameplay is much the same as it was on the PS/2, with some additions that are significantly less fun. It's rather buggy on my system, with the katamari showing up as a spinning black rectangle when the King looks at it after a round. There's even one level that simply does not let you win the level at all, even when you meet the win condition (the eating contest).
One of the greatest revivals
Katamari Damacy was the first game I’ve ever played and I loved it. The sequels were also fun, but I loved We Love Katamari the most. It’s sad there were no new games for almost 15 years, but this revival is a great way to bring it back. The only downside is that it has a bit too many As Fast As Possible missions or my tastes but I’m able to ignore that with the incredible maps in this game. (My personal favorite is the bathroom map) Even though this game wasn’t perfect, it’s nice to see Katamari back. Can’t wait for Once Upon a Katamari.
Controls are awful
I was hoping it would be more fun to just roll the ball around and pick up stuff, but the controls just get in the way massively. There are 4 control layouts and somehow none of them just let you swipe left to turn left. Instead you get up = left and down = right for all 4 layouts. Insanely unintuitive.
Amazing! Wonderful! Ow, my thumbs!
4.75 stars This is the old-school Katamari dopamine dump that I didn’t know I was craving. Love this new edition, enough is different to keep it fresh, but the look and feel are exactly the same. Highly recommend to anyone, (with a disclaimer about how life-suckingly addictive the game is). However, I can’t play this to its potential while using my phone screen as a controller. It’s playable, and getting one- or two- star level passes are possible, but the screen seems to become less and less responsive while the gameplay goes on. I had to use a separate analog controller to continue onto to higher levels and find Easter eggs.
Good but bad
I love the game play but I want to know who thought it was a good idea to have the majority of the screen taken up by the inane text blocks that interfere with your view and scunner your game. Grant an option to turn that off if you choose. It was funny on console it’s annoying on mobile
Amazing vibes, touch controls are lacking
Honestly I was so excited for this game, but my enjoyment has been let down by the fact that the controls are seriously janky, going forwards is difficult, let alone turning or avoiding obstacles The sensitivity/response for controls needs some real work
Katamari!
Hey Bandai Namco, I just wanted to say thank you. This is the first Katamari Damacy game I’ve ever played, and I love it. It is really therapeutic and fun to play after a long, stressful school day, and the graphics are great! This game is worthy of Apple Arcade status!!
Breaking bug in the eating contest level.
Even when you reach the 300kg required for the first star and even if the king tell you’ve reached the minimum size the game still make you fail.
Missing cousins
My cousins I unlock in the levels keep disappearing and I have to unlock them over and over again. I can’t start the mission that requires all cousins.
Katamari Fun!
I absolutely love the Katamari series, I recall playing this on console about 20years ago. However the mobile port / version has a few balancing issues, even if played with a handheld controller, I think to the added complexity of touch etc, the levels are (time wise) are too short at current they need extending by a further 60-90secs. As it stands it’s very hard to progress when it’s too challenging to get two starts a round let alone three. In its current state it’s great fun, but that wares off quickly as you find yourself repeating the same level over and over trying what seem impossible and that’s to roll more stuff up in the limited time. Worth a look but prepare to get frustrated more than enjoyment in this version.
Overheating phone
Love the game, makes my 15 pro HOT - to the point it burns my fingers.
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- Yes. The app is free, in all 172 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
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Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE sells in 172 countries. It was released 1 year and 6 months ago, on 3 Apr 2025. It holds a 4.3 rating from 1,248 reviews.
Supports 12 languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish.
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