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Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival

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66%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, story
66% User Score Based on 1,140 reviews

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Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival is a single player casual role playing game. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Experience unique action Idle RPG gameplay - Choose your class and fight

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66%Audience ScoreBased on 1,140 reviews
graphics35 positive mentions
monetization279 negative mentions
  • Visually appealing with good art and animation quality.
  • Fun and addictive idle gameplay suitable as a time killer.
  • Offline play supported allowing progression without constant online presence.
  • Excessive and long ads mandatory for most game actions, leading to frustrating gameplay.
  • Highly pay-to-win mechanics with expensive in-app purchases, including overpriced ad removal.
  • Game progression is slow and often regresses due to balance changes and frequent nerfs, reducing player motivation.

  • monetization

    294 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    4% positive mentions, 1% neutral mentions, 95% negative mentions

    The game's monetization is heavily criticized for an overwhelming number of mandatory, often lengthy ads that significantly hinder progression, with many players feeling forced to watch ads or pay steep prices—up to $30—to remove them. Rewards and key gameplay elements are frequently locked behind ad viewing, leading to frustrating slow progression for free players. Though some find the ad rewards fair and the game visually appealing, the aggressive ad frequency and expensive ad removal pack make it feel like a cash grab rather than a balanced experience.

    • “Very fun, very easy, no ads for me, amazing graphics. I'm already high level, I love this game. The game is good, easy, and fun.”
    • “Great game, no ads and good picture with awesome battles.”
    • “I like it so far, no ads as much which is perfect.”
    • “The amount of ads this game requires you to watch after a few days in order to make a negligible advance is the most I have ever seen on any mobile game. It gets super boring, and you'll be watching more ads than playing the actual game. This only happened after the last update. You have to support and maintain, oh well surprise so does literally every single app on this store, but this game is the worst and most others don't have glitchy ads that make you watch them without the close button.”
    • “There's way too many required ads to play as a free user: 3 ads to unlock the second character, to claim mail, to claim half of the daily rewards even though you have completed the task, to use dungeons after 3 runs even though you have keys for them, for a lot of extra summons which you will desperately need if you don't do the other ads. 10 minutes a day to claim everything you can, then you just watch ads and don't play.”
    • “To remove ads permanently is 30 USD (and another 5 USD for another permanent optional feature). Also, a significant portion of rewards are locked behind ads, which makes that price point more frustrating.”

  • graphics

    51 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    69% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 6% negative mentions

    The game's graphics are widely praised for their beautiful, detailed, and appealing art style, often described as stunning or gorgeous. However, some users feel the recent shift to a more cartoonish style is a step back and note that the visuals resemble other similar games, lacking uniqueness. While the graphics enhance the experience, complaints about heavy ad presence and paywall mechanics somewhat overshadow the visual appeal.

    • “The graphics are stunning, the gameplay is smooth, and the controls are intuitive.”
    • “Beautiful graphics, cool skills to try out, and crazy looking bosses to overcome.”
    • “The graphics are amazing and the colors and details of the game is the best I've ever seen.”
    • “But the most recent update is such a step backwards, moving to a more cartoon style of graphics - just not my style.”
    • “This is one of the worst games I've ever played; the creator concentrated on the graphics rather than the gameplay.”
    • “Could need some better graphics and a more complex system.”

  • gameplay

    33 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    36% positive mentions, 55% neutral mentions, 9% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally described as repetitive and lacking depth, often criticized for being a typical idle experience with minimal player interaction beyond tapping upgrades. While some users appreciate the smooth controls and good visuals, many feel the mechanics are copied from other games and artificial elements like excessive ads and slow progression detract from enjoyment. Overall, it offers basic, familiar idle gameplay that may appeal to fans of the genre but disappoints those seeking more engaging, unique mechanics.

    • “The graphics are stunning, the gameplay is smooth, and the controls are intuitive.”
    • “I like this game and the gameplay movement; the game has good features, a bunch of items I can get, and auto mode for relaxing without pressing with my hands. The game is interesting and impressive. Keep it going and make more updates. Good job!”
    • “This game is actually good with graphics, story, and gameplay. Unlike other games that don't give any effort and only care about money, this game is different.”
    • “The animation for this idle RPG survival game is beautiful; however, the mechanics and features are extremely poor and repetitive.”
    • “You literally just tap upgrade buttons while the character fights in the background. It's the most pointless gameplay I've ever seen.”
    • “There's no gameplay, as per usual, just watching numbers go up and the game plays itself.”

  • story

    33 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    9% positive mentions, 79% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions

    The game's story is minimal and uninspired, with many users criticizing the heavy reliance on mandatory ads to progress through daily quests and unlock missions, which interrupts any narrative flow. While a few mention a decent storyline and enjoyable graphics, the overall experience is marred by ad walls and enforced waiting, making progression feel more like a grind than an engaging story-driven adventure.

    • “Good storyline.”
    • “This game is actually good like graphics, story, gameplay, not like other games that doesn't give any effort to the game and only cares about money but no this game is different.”
    • “Love the graphics; storyline is very good all in all good time waster awesome.”
    • “Shadow wars has no real story after a brief intro.”
    • “There's no story, no excitement.”
    • “Actually doodoo, no story, no character, no good power creep nor good rewards.”

  • grinding

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

    The game is heavily grind-focused, requiring extensive time investment and often pushing players toward ad rewards or paid options to progress efficiently. While it suits fans of AFK farming and long-term grinding, many find the leveling and upgrade process repetitive, slow, and sometimes frustrating due to RNG mechanics and costly in-game purchases. Casual players or those seeking a strong story may find the grind tedious and unsatisfying.

    • “However, it's extremely grindy and expensive upgrades kinda make ad rewards necessary, and even then, the effect is extremely minor.”
    • “It's too grindy later in the game and you get stuck after passing dungeons level 20 if you don't pay real money. Trying to get higher gear, skills, or pets is way too RNG-based; at level 10 summons, it's only 1% to get anything higher than purple gear, skills, or pets. Summoning only one type for a few days resulted in absolutely nothing more than green. If you want to play casually and not pay money, this game is not for you.”
    • “There's just too much to try and keep up with, not enough satisfaction for actually 'doing anything,' and it became tedious just to try and grind through daily tasks at an agonizingly slow pace.”

  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The music in the game is generally well-liked for being enjoyable and fitting the gameplay, though some users find it repetitive and uncreative over time. Overall, it contributes positively to the game's casual and fun atmosphere.

    • “It is good already, love the music and the control is easy. A good tap play to make the day go by. I can't wait for more.”
    • “Love the game so far, it's fun and I really like the music.”
    • “The graphics and music are nice, making it a good time killer.”
    • “The same waves of enemies and the same repetitive, uncreative music over and over again.”

  • stability

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

    The game's stability is compromised by frequent freezing issues specifically occurring when watching ads for rewards, requiring users to restart the app without receiving their expected benefits. Aside from this problem, no other bugs or glitches have been reported.

    • “For some days now, when I try to watch ads to get rewards, the whole game freezes and I have to close and reopen it.”
    • “Game freezes every time I try to watch ads for gems or other rewards; I have to restart the app. Why add ads if they don't even work?”
    • “The game freezes on ads, forcing me to restart every time, and I don't receive the rewards.”

  • humor

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

    The humor in the game is mixed, with some users finding the advertising ironically amusing while others criticize it for lacking originality and being a League of Legends ripoff. Overall, the humor aspect seems to evoke sarcastic or critical reactions rather than genuine laughter.

  • optimization

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

    Users criticize the optimization, describing it as poor and problematic.

    • “Your optimization is terrible.”
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2h Median play time
2h Average play time
1-2h Spent by most gamers
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Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival is a casual role playing game.

Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

On average players spend around 2 hours playing Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival.

Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival was developed by ZITGA.

Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival for its graphics but disliked it for its monetization.

Shadow War: Idle RPG Survival is a single player game.

Similar games include Epic Stickman: RPG Idle War, Legend of Slime: Idle RPG War, Monster Slayer: IDLE RPG Games, Slime Village, Zombie Strike：last war AFK RPG and others.