Abandoned World - Urbex Reviews

by Prushinfox

Don’t waste your time. AbandonedWorld is counterintuitive and a complete hassle on and off the field. You can’t load a profile. You can’t filter your own finds. Images are heavily artifacted after uploading and can only load one image. You can’t use satellite view. Images of a particular area don’t load smoothly and map scrolling is quirky. No lat or long coords. People are also loading images and map spotting things that have nothing to do with urbexing.

by Bigdog1199

Years ago it used to show these house symbols which represent abandoned places and now there’s none at all but there was a lot of them I think AbandonedWorld is having problems fix it now

by The Vulf

There’s not many places on AbandonedWorld yet

by Niightshade

I like the concept but i don’t understand the “listings” in my city. One of the “abandoned” places is an open restaurant, another was pictures of a man sitting on a bench and stickers on a light pole. These are not abandoned locations i’m not sure what is going on here

by Commander Sisgo

I love the idea for this and was super excited to see what it was about. However the actual experience is weird, only a handful of places on here in my city of 1 million people and one of those was a can of soup. A CAN OF SOUP.
AbandonedWorld has so much potential but it’s just not there yet. I also think it is hilarious that every review mentioning how the places on here aren’t abandoned or don’t make sense, just gets an auto-response about thanking them for their input. Way to make your user feel unseen and unheard.

by Deeashley

Abandoned App:

This is a helpful tool that I’ve used when in an unfamiliar area with some time to kill, but it needs some improvement in areas.

The issues:

1. Inaccuracies. As far as I can tell, AbandonedWorld looks for keywords with GPS data and adds them to the map. The result is a LOT of inaccurate or irrelevant information that you have to sort through.

2. No ability to comment (more of a suggestion than a complaint) or edit locations. I think this ability would help a lot so that other people can correct some of the errors that are posted.

3. AbandonedWorld would be far more useful and save a lot of time if the map included an option to view in satellite view. As it is currently, to view in aerial/satellite (like to see if the place is even still there), you have to exit AbandonedWorld to do so. This is a huge pain.

I would suggest either more (human) curation of the locations and/or allowing the users to interact in more useful ways with the locations that are posted.

As it stands, perhaps 30-50% of the posted locations seem accurate or interesting enough in reality to be worth looking into further. But, hey! That’s something at least.

Despite the above issues, I would say it’s worth a download if you’re new to exploring or a stranger in a new land. This is one of only two apps that I’m aware of that cater to this niche.

Last but not least...

The new pop-up ads are intrusive and need to go! There is no feature in an app that will make me delete it faster off of my device than pop-up ads that keep unexpectedly popping up and forcing me onto their site.

Nope!

Cheers,

DA

*UPDATE: The devs did actually include an edit (after review period) option for specific locations it looks like, so hopefully that’ll help with some of the issues listed above!*

by S-WangA

I wanted to add some places near where I live but I have no way to view my account or see my submissions. Also the pictures crop a little much. So far I like the idea

by JohnR14

I’m happy with AbandonedWorld , it’s a brilliant concept. Although I’m having a hard time finding anything in my area...

by GAJeepers

It’s a really cool app and everything. I just am wondering if you could add a feature to where you can search by description or something of the sort?

by Lock_Dude

There are some places on here that no longer exist. Is there a way to delete it? I’m sure I might run into more places that are wrong.

by KatyPishellaAwes0me

Actually a decent amount of posts on here, and it’s just a very cool and helpful app if you’re into this type of stuff!

by Anelise P

It would help if you made it so they were all abandoned places or along those lines instead of some being stores or just random streets 👍

by Tdragon50

Good ideas but when I tried to get a hold of some support the emails do not work.

Update!!! Awesome feedback very quick as well. Look forward to adding more local places.

by Arcadia845

AbandonedWorld is amazing. I never knew so many abandoned places were close by. Adventure awaits! Only thing that would make AbandonedWorld better is the ability to search by keyword or search places by categories (eg “warehouse” or “factory”)

Glad to have found it!

by Luis366262

Amazing helps me a lot with urban exploration. Fast and useful App, I recommend it to everyone to check it out.
Big community and daily updates 👍📍
Developer is really responsive and considerate end user input via email 🙌

by NOLA Diogenes

Any app that helps me find awesome stuff is a ten in my book!

by Tom Sachin

Fast and useful App to discover abandoned places 📍
Good design and user friendly, I recommend to everyone to check out places.
It seems that the content and the community is growing fast as well in Europe.
The developer is very responsive and considers end user input via email 👌👍

by Fdcisdcnfgdkcvkd

Pretty good but could you add a satellite view?

by Insta @benvaughn14

AbandonedWorld has a great concept and great users. It can be very useful. It would be even better if AbandonedWorld was a little faster or easier to use. Some things are slow and there’s bugs here and there, though it’s a great app and I can’t wait to see it grow and improve, as I already have.

by Megans84

Great app love it good job!

by Mobile V Gaming

It’s a good app found a couple of cool places and documented them on my YouTube channel but it would help if it had updated places in California near gold country hopefully some abandoned mine locations? That’d be a cool add on