Support
Need a hand, found a bug, or have an idea? Here’s how to reach it.
Report a bug or request a feature
Donpa Squad is developed in the open. The best place for bugs and requests is the issue tracker:
Please include your device and OS version, and the steps to reproduce — it makes fixes much faster.
Donpa Squad is free with no ads or in-app purchases. If you’d like to support the work, you can sponsor the developer on GitHub — entirely optional.
Common questions
Where are my scores? Scores and career stats are saved on your device. If you turn on Sync in the Service Record (High Scores) and are signed into iCloud, they follow you across your devices — it’s off by default.
Can I play on Mac, iPhone, and iPad? Yes — it’s one free app across all three, from a single App Store listing. Get it once and it’s on every device you own.
How does sharing scores with a rival work? From the Mess hall, tap Nearby with another player in the same room — your score cards swap both ways in one handshake, straight from your device to theirs. Each of you gets a snapshot of the scores the other chose to share; there’s no server and no account, and a copy updates only when you swap again. Removing a rival deletes their data from your device.
Nearby won’t connect, or the swap keeps failing — what can I do? Nearby uses the same short-range Wi-Fi that AirDrop does, so if AirDrop is also flaky on a device, that’s the thing to fix. On the device that’s struggling:
- Turn on Local Network access. Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network → switch on Donpa Squad. If this is off, the two devices can find each other but the swap can’t complete — every time.
- Reset the radios. Turn Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off and back on (or flip Airplane mode on, then off). Keep both switched on for the swap.
- Make sure both players are on the latest version. An older app can’t read a newer score card.
- Still stuck? Settings → General → Transfer or Reset iPhone → Reset → Reset Location & Privacy clears a wedged Local Network permission. It also fixes AirDrop when that’s misbehaving for the same reason.
What stops someone cheating their scores? Nothing does, and that’s deliberate. Your scores live on your device and are yours to keep; there’s no server checking them and no global leaderboard to game (a leaderboard with no way to validate scores would just fill with impossible ones). Sharing works on mutual trust between people who know each other, not bullet-proof anti-cheat — you swap cards in person with rivals you choose. Anyone editing their own numbers is only fooling themselves.
How do I actually play?
The in-app guide (the ? on the home screen) covers the basics; the long
version — chording, the mine counter, forced guesses, Drills — is at
How to play.
What counts as a “forced guess”? A click made when the board gave you no way out: either no safe move existed anywhere, or the cells you faced sat in a sealed pocket that no amount of play could ever resolve — an eventual coin flip, taken early. The percentage shown is the survival odds your click had at that moment, computed from exactly what the board showed. Chords count too (the gamble is every cell the chord opens at once). The bookkeeping is exact but conservative: a recorded guess always carries its true odds, but a rare position too tangled to analyze goes unrecorded rather than mis-scored. And if you die guessing and the game says nothing — a safe move still existed somewhere.
I got a new device — what happens to my scores? If you set up the new device from the old one (or a backup), Donpa just carries on: your scores and career move with it and keep counting as the same device. If you keep both devices in use, open the Service Record → Scores by device on the new one and choose Start as a new device — each device then keeps its own tally, and nothing you’ve already earned is lost. If you skip that and play on both, the app notices and points you to the same option.
I changed the language and nothing happened. The language setting takes effect the next time you open the app — the system loads it at launch. Quit and reopen Donpa and it’ll be in the new language.
My daily-challenge streak didn’t go up, or a daily time isn’t in my best times. Both are on purpose. A streak counts days you actually showed up: playing a missed day later from the calendar records your result, but doesn’t repair the streak. And daily times are the day’s own competition — kept separate from a board’s regular best times, so a board you’ve memorized from a past daily never turns into a personal record.
When does the daily challenge change? At your own local midnight. It’s the same board worldwide for a given day — the puzzle doesn’t differ by place — but the day rolls over on your device’s clock, so a friend in another time zone may be on “today’s” board a few hours before or after you.
Is there any tracking or ads? No. No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. See the Privacy Policy.
Privacy
See the Privacy Policy for what’s stored and where (short version: nothing leaves your device except optional iCloud sync to your own account).