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Blade & Soul Heroes

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50%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
50% User Score Based on 439 reviews

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About Blade & Soul Heroes

Blade & Soul Heroes is a single player and multiplayer tactical role playing game with fantasy and anime themes. It was developed by NC and was released on September 24, 2025. It received neutral reviews from players.

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50%Audience ScoreBased on 439 reviews
graphics20 positive mentions
optimization15 negative mentions
  • The game features good visuals, attractive graphics, and well-crafted cutscenes that enhance the overall experience.
  • Combat offers an interesting mix of action and turn-based mechanics with strategic elements like parrying, making gameplay engaging for those who invest time learning its systems.
  • It provides a variety of characters to collect, a fun anime-style MMORPG experience, and is free-to-play friendly to some extent.
  • The game suffers from severe optimization issues, causing frequent lag, crashes, overheating, high battery drain, and poor performance even on high-end devices.
  • Controls and user interface are often reported as clunky, unintuitive, or poorly designed, negatively impacting the overall gameplay experience.
  • Progression is slow and grindy with many complaints about pay-to-win mechanics, frequent bugs, crashes, and region locks that prevent players from fully enjoying the game.

  • graphics

    60 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 55% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions

    The game features generally appealing and colorful graphics with a strong anime art style and nice cutscenes, praised particularly on mobile devices. However, it suffers from significant optimization issues, causing frequent crashes, lag, overheating, and poor performance even on high-end phones, which detracts from the visual experience. Users suggest the need for better graphic settings customization and overall technical improvements to fully enjoy the visuals.

    • “The opening cinematics and graphics honestly look really nice!”
    • “Game is awesome; the story and graphics are very good. If you like anime-like games, then this game is definitely one you should try.”
    • “Very good design and graphic, fun gameplay.”
    • “It crashed like 10 times before I reduced the graphics to lowest.”
    • “Graphics look very bad and choppy at 1440p on PC.”
    • “Max graphics on the most powerful gaming phone (RedMagic) will overheat it to exhaustion.”

  • optimization

    36 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    19% positive mentions, 39% neutral mentions, 42% negative mentions

    The game suffers from significant optimization issues across platforms, causing lag, frame drops, overheating, and generally poor performance even on high-end devices. Users repeatedly emphasize the need for better optimization to ensure smooth gameplay, particularly on mobile, where touch controls and graphics performance are also problematic. Improving these aspects is crucial for delivering a consistent and enjoyable experience.

    • “Please prioritize optimization improvements so that the game can run smoothly on all supported devices.”
    • “Good and interesting game but needs more optimization because it's a little bit laggy even after adjusting to recommended settings.”
    • “Many players are experiencing lag, frame drops, overheating on mobile devices, and unstable performance even on stronger phones (PC).”
    • “Terribly optimized game, even on lowest settings my decent specs can run above 15 fps.”
    • “Bad optimization of graphics; I have a high-end phone but it doesn't run smoothly.”

  • gameplay

    29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    31% positive mentions, 59% neutral mentions, 10% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a mix of fun, engaging combat with unique mechanics like parrying and combos, but it can be challenging and repetitive, leading some players to quit due to difficulty spikes or control issues. While some praise its colorful graphics and satisfying combat after mastering mechanics, others criticize the game for bugs, poor mobile controls, and a cluttered, inconsistent experience. Overall, the gameplay is enjoyable for those willing to invest time but faces optimization and accessibility challenges, especially on mobile.

    • “Fights have unique mechanics, a parry is introduced, and a combo system.”
    • “I think a lot of people get whiplash from the difficulty spike and quit, but if you take the time to learn the mechanics instead of expecting it to be easy, it's really a satisfying combat experience.”
    • “At first, the game made me believe it was just another autoplay RPG, but once the parry mechanic and boss fights were introduced, I realized the combat is actually involved with all the telegraphs to dodge and attacks to parry.”
    • “Otherwise, it becomes too big of a cluttered mess to both understand, update, and play without getting tired of repetition or irritated by interruption of gameplay flow.”
    • “Not mobile friendly, I can't even progress in the game; the dodge mechanic is built for PC.”

  • story

    25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    28% positive mentions, 60% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions

    The story is generally seen as average or unremarkable, with some players finding it engaging and well-acted, while others describe it as slow, tedious, and lacking depth. Many users appreciate the anime-style narrative but are frustrated by pacing issues and forced progression that impacts their enjoyment. Overall, the story has potential but is hindered by gameplay and design choices that affect player immersion.

    • “Edit: I'm bringing it up to 5 stars because of the storyline, the acting, and the gachas.”
    • “The game is good; the story is also one of the best but the optimization is bad.”
    • “Game is awesome; the story and graphics are very good. If you like anime-like games, then this game is the one you should definitely try.”
    • “The story feels like a cart dragging a dead horse, and it takes forever to unlock anything.”
    • “The power gain is still slow and you'll get left behind by the recommended power as the story goes on and gets stuck.”
    • “People don't want to do what seems like endless fighting before you even unlock the quest that opens up the materials to upgrade characters.”

  • stability

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from frequent bugs, glitches, stuttering, and freezing, leading to a frustrating and unstable experience for many users. Issues like login problems, poor controls, and region locks further impact playability, though some note minor stability improvements. Overall, the game is criticized for its lack of polish and reliability.

    • “Login and sign-up are glitched; you can't sign up. The game freezes, then restarts at the load screen. Also, the guest login button is blocked from clicking, so you can't bypass the start to play later. I deleted the app. -5★”
    • “With stuttering and freezes, worst experience.”
    • “So many bugs right from the start, glitches, and nonstop blinking.”

  • grinding

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The grinding in the game can feel repetitive and time-consuming, especially due to the gacha system and reliance on auto-battles, but it remains manageable and enjoyable for free-to-play players.

    • “The gacha system makes progress grindy at times, but it’s still enjoyable as free-to-play.”
    • “Just auto battle and super grindy.”

  • monetization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users criticize the game's monetization as a pay-to-win cash grab typical of its publisher, NCSoft. Additionally, they express discomfort with the inclusion of controversial content tied to cultural themes, which is also prominently featured in ads.

    • “P2W cash grab from NCSoft, not really surprising.”

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's humor is light-hearted and amusing, offering a playful take on the original Blade & Soul experience.

    • “It's a funny, light-hearted version of the original Blade & Soul.”

  • music

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music is beautifully composed, complementing the overall experience, and is praised alongside flawless English voice acting.

    • “The English voice acting is perfect, and the music is beautifully composed.”
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Blade & Soul Heroes is a tactical role playing game with fantasy and anime themes. Common tags for Blade & Soul Heroes include free to play, turn-based, immersive, stylized, third person and others.

Blade & Soul Heroes is available on PC, Phone, iPad, Steam Deck and others.

Blade & Soul Heroes was released on September 24, 2025.

Blade & Soul Heroes was developed by NC.

Blade & Soul Heroes has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked Blade & Soul Heroes for its graphics but disliked it for its optimization.

Blade & Soul Heroes is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include ASTRA: Knights of Veda, Exos Heroes, Dragon Traveler, Blue Protocol: Star Resonance, TRAHA Global and others.