Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 05:30 am
20 Minutes Till Dawn – Action Game Review
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a Action/Entertainment/Roleplaying game from QI YU SG. PTE. LTD., first launched in 6th November 2022.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 7,095+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes 20 Minutes Till Dawn Stand Out
Survive the onslaught of an endless horde of monsters for 20 minutes!
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a roguelike, shoot'em up where you mow down endless hordes of monstrous baddies.
【Unique Builds Every Run】
In this roguelite survival game, select from a variety of upgrades to create a unique and overpowered builds every run. You can be a fire wizard, for example, and ignite monsters with every pump of your shotgun, or an agile ninja who controls magic knives to pierce your enemies.
【Select Your Hero】
Choose from a diverse selection of characters and weapons that offer a variety of gameplay experiences.
【Features】
Over 80 different upgrades to choose from for a unique experience every run!
Wide cast of characters, with more to come post-launch.
Casual quick 10-20 minute play sessions, for busy gamers.
Rune System helps you become stronger
【Contact Us】
Discord: https://discord.gg/efTYchSsHZ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Erabitstudios
Twitter: https://twitter.com/erabit_studios
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, 20 Minutes Till Dawn is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- The Christmas Celebration is now live, featuring limited-time scenes and festive monster skins.
- Improved overall game performance.
- Fixed several known issues.
Download & Availability
20 Minutes Till Dawn is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get 20 Minutes Till Dawn on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game and how many choices it has to play the many different ways to play with the game and how it plays out in the end.
Bought this for Switch and IOS. Worth every penny. Wanna burn time like its made of paper? This game is your gasoline. Prefer it to Vampire Survivors. Its THAT good.
Its challenging and fun and free.
If you like upgrades, youll adore this game, its that simple really fun game.
Fun, free roguelike shooter with interesting upgrades and synergies.
Thas it, your just gonna have to take a chance.
Quite fun! However, the amount of ads you need to watch and make your build viable takes away from the game.
The game is alright, no ads are necessary, but if you do want to watch an ad to get some bonuses, the game bugs and there is no way to leave the ad, and closing the game resets the run.
Firstly awesome game secondly there is a glitch (as of December 17 2025) with the new reindeer girl and the cyclone sword. After the reindeer effect ends, shooting make the sword do the spin attack constantly with every shot, it reloads and turns back into the reindeer like normal, but so far nothing reverts the glitch. Its also super op cuz every normal enemy dies. So you just gotta kill the shooter guys and bosses.
This is such a fire game instantly curing our boredom fire fire fire.
Definitely worth $5. We are jut leaving this review because we went from we are losing every round quickly to we full cleared all the levels very fast. We still have a lot to do but Im a little sad that the initial levels were all cleared so quickly.
The game is riddled with ads in the ftp version. Cant even complete a run without having to watch multiple ads just to continue. We understand having to watch ads in between runs but this is absurd. Waste of our time.
We played previously the demo version on an unblocked website and Im so happy we downloaded it.
Typically these type of games are so cartoony and geared towards children. This game less kiddy and really fun.
Its genuinely difficult to find a game with this much love and effort put behind it. The mechanics are well made for the most part and you can unlock nearly everything for free. That said, theres a few things that we feel werent done quite right from a player perspective. First, locking unlocks behind ads, when its just one or two we dont mind and have gladly watched a couple to check something out. However, almost no one wants to sit down and watch 20 ads just for a single unlock, especially if it doesnt count towards other unlocks that require you to watch ads. Now, in terms of gameplay the game is mostly well balanced. That said, the boss health scaling in Endless is insane. By the time Im 10 minutes into a run its basically a necessity to have % damage in order to kill it before the next boss spawns. On top of this scaling, bosses begin to spawn with resistances, which paired with the scaling makes it near impossible to kill bosses before another stronger one appears. Other than those two things we have no problems with the game and have been enjoying it so far, even with the absurd health scaling in endless so we cant really bring ourselves to lower to 4 stars just because of those.
It has ads but this is the best game Ive played that allows you to us the ads to your advantage and unlock skins or weapons. Ads also unlock skins and extra rewards but some you have to watch and wait to skip or order to progress. Great game tho and Ill be keeping it.
Vampire survivors but for mobile.
Ive been playing the 10 Minutes Till Dawn version on our school Chromebook on an unblocked website for a very long time, we love how we discovered this game and can finally play the full version! Thank you so much.
This game is so basic but so fun to play.
Lots of stuff and buff :3 better try.
Not quite as peak as PC but pretty solid.
We wish there were more games that felt like this one does. Very addictive.
If you like brotato its just that but better and edgier and requires more skill.
A great time killer waiting for a doctors appointment till dawn is there bored there to its easy and fun.
Watched 10 ads to get a cool gun and beat the first level by focusing ok summoning.
Great game. Keeps you on your toes and needs a lot of attention. We played your 10 minutes till dawn, the first game, and we thought we knew how to play. Then you added all of these new aspects. Like the new game mechanics, more enemies, and more time. Overall, fantastic game, definitely should play.
This is indescribably good. Also, this aint no bot review. Because.
Everything about this game is so enjoyable.
Not gonna lie this game is peak. Its really fast paced, and not only that its a rogue game meaning if you die you lose everything. One problem we do have with this game tho is the lack of content and lack of maps and stuff. We would love to see more game modes in this game but it might already be a thing on steam tho. Anyways tho amazing game modes.
One of the few games where you can wind down without getting money grubbed.
This game is very fun and enjoyable Im able to play for such a long time without getting tired of the game.
The game is fantastic. Plain and simple. Its easy enough to get the hang of, but not easy to master. Its simple, but not bland. All of the characters can be unlocked PERMANENTLY with ads or tokens that you earn by playing. All of the weapons can be unlocked PERMANENTLY with ads or tokens. Many cosmetics are available for watching x# of ads. There are multiple maps. Our main complaint is the low contrast. With all of the effects happening on the screen, it can get difficult to tell where we are and whats going on. We do wish there was a color swap option (or additional palettes in the store!) to accomplish players with less-than-stellar eyesight and low vision disabilities (if theres already an option, obviously we missed it). But other than that, the game is phenomenal. Genuinely one of the best games Ive played this year. Unique, fun, and something Ill be keeping on our phone for a while.
Just a little game where if you play your cards right, a runaway power climb is possible to the point of nuking the entire screen.
Awesome game just too many ads.
Its a well made game with a neat art style and excellent sound design. One minor issue though: there are too many enemies during boss fights for how limited of an area you have to work with. We keep getting cornered and dying because of this. The music during gameplay is great, but we would suggest changing the menu theme. Otherwise its a great game thats constantly fun to play.
Its a very good game in fact we like it played but we know where it is we were on a plane flight but we couldnt really play it so we had to drawl our iPad that was bad but whatever but what we really really really hate is that the twilight upgrade thing before like that but we dont like about it is that you need a Nadias and we actually like it in the toilet upgrade when we start so we have a pet story but its very hard to get out of the ad and we didnt mean to say toilet upgrade and all the other stuff that like the Nadias and Mom toilet thats what we meant to say anyways the ads are really long and you cant really do anything so thats very bad and Im gonna start it but what we dont like is it takes like so long to get into like the photo be very exciting you need to be on the eight minutes like eight minutes left and we think that just ruins the entire game because if they got like a faster upgrade then we could get into more so thats why we read it three stars or maybe four.
Should make movement speed upgrades counter stillness.
We like it a lot but wish we could buy to remove ads.
Its a good game and Im sure the next levels are cool but we could not get past all these ads. Its insane how many there are.
**** Latest review update: **** There is still no save game feature. If you leave the game for any reason, the run you were playing will restart as if you had never played it. we have tons of credits that we can't spend on anything, and none of the permanent game upgrades apply to endless mode (making them basically pointless). *No matter what the description says about "endless combinations" in endless mode, you are actually locked to having exactly 3 of everything, so there is no such thing as "specialization" and your options dwindle quickly in endless mode. You actually do seem to get "endless" options after getting 3 of everything, but you are essentially forced to pick upgrades you don't want if you'd like to play 1hr+ runs. ** First and foremost: The game IS fun, but not as fun as it could be. The Frustrations: There is no auto-fire. Why? This should be a toggle in a corner of the screen. There is no directional indicator to show when a chest or upgrade has dropped, you have to just stumble across it. There is no way to view your stats ANYWHERE. Neither in-game nor overall. In the pause menu, where all current upgrades are displayed (as they should be), there are no tooltips – no descriptions available for what the upgrades do or what their current values are for their synergies or affected stats. While selecting upgrades, there are no indicators to show you which upgrades you already have. This should simply be shading or highlighting on the icon. There is no way to view the list of synergies while selecting upgrades. IMO, these should either be long-press tooltips or a dynamic list elsewhere on the screen that reflects the choices currently available to you. What happens to xp that disappears as the game hits the object limit? Is it lost forever? Do they not simply merge into more valuable xp drops? Not knowing is frustrating. It just feels wrong to not be able to collect all of the XP that drops without watching ads. <- Is this is on purpose? It sure feels like it. Pair that with a lack of "endless" modes, and you end up with a pretty stringent soft-cap on what level you can achieve before the game ends (which is ~50). <- Significant decrease in replay value. The wants: More game!! More maps, weapons, characters, and upgrades. More permanent upgrade trees and choices per tree. Weapon-specific, character-specific, and map-specific upgrades. More enemy types (including weapon/character/map specific enemies) 5 more difficulties. It just feels wrong that there are only 15. We'd really like to see a way to endlessly spend credits on permanently "upgrading" specific maps, increasing spawn rates for enemies, the number of bosses, xp gain, etc.
This is just an ad farm with no way to buy the full game – super cringe.
No matter what it makes you watch adds to progress. We miss the itch version of this game.
Use to love the game but we cant select any of the items that appear. It doesnt let us choose anything during gameplay.
At the beginning when there is an interruption such as accessing control center or getting out of the app the game would always pause and the resume menu would pop up. Now we're 550+ hrs in the Endless mode run we can no longer access to the menu to "give up" and save our points. The "pause" button doesn't work either.
Its genuinely a good game. Having ads for mobile is actually a HUGE benefit when compared to pc (for levels, twilight, characters, etc). By far our favorite Shoot Em Up style game of all time.
We love this game in every single aspect. But what we think would make it a little better is some LORE. Like a story, or maybe we can get to see what the characters are like and how they ended up in this situation in the first place. Other than that, this games basically perfect.
Idk if this is the full game if it isnt we hope the full version is free other than that this is the best mobile games we played in a while.
Very engaging, we prefer playing with summons.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 7.3.b31
- Size: 272.20 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: QI YU SG. PTE. LTD.
Last updated: 19th December 2025 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: QI YU SG. PTE. LTD.