Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 01:23 pm
Daisho・Survival of a Samurai – Adventure Game Review
Daisho・Survival of a Samurai is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from Colossi Games Ltd, first launched in 21st June 2023.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,023+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Daisho・Survival of a Samurai Stand Out
Journey into historical Japan!
In the tumultuous realm of feudal Japan, where the spirit of the samurai reigns supreme, embark on a perilous quest for survival. Amidst the chaos of war and the fight for power in the Sengoku era, you must harness your skills and ingenuity to navigate the treacherous landscapes.
• Craft Your Way to Victory
As a skilled craftsman, transform the raw materials of nature into tools, weapons, and shelter. Gather wood from forests, mine precious metals, and harvest bountiful crops. With each crafted item, enhance your chances of survival and bolster your warrior spirit.
• Build Your Indestructible Fortress
From humble beginnings, construct your own fortified village, a testament to your resilience and resourcefulness. Walls will rise to protect you from marauding bandits, while sturdy structures will house your crafting stations and provide a haven for weary travelers.
• Explore the Untamed Wilderness
Venture into uncharted territories, where dangers lurk around every corner. Encounter evil predators, engage in epic clashes with rival clans, and navigate treacherous environments. Each challenge you overcome will strengthen your resolve and bring you closer to mastering the Way of the Samurai.
• Unleash Your Inner Warrior
When the call of battle echoes through the valleys, wield your katana with unmatched skill, defending your honor and protecting those under your care. Master the art of sword fighting, employing swift and deadly maneuvers, and unleash devastating ultimate skills to kill your foes.
• Embrace the Bushido
The Bushido is a path of unwavering determination, meticulous craftsmanship, and unwavering courage. Embrace the challenges, hone your skills, and forge your destiny in this epic survival adventure.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Daisho・Survival of a Samurai is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Update 2.1 is now live!
- PvP Arena: Fight in the arena with your legendary samurai heroes for a chance to earn valuable loot. Engage in intense battles with other players and aim to become #1 in the rankings!
- Picks & Axes Upgrades: Transform your rusty tools into brand-new iron ones with the help of a new craftsman and schemes.
- New Seasons: Prepare for the upcoming seasons and collect such heroes as Honda Tadakatsu and Ittosai Kagehisa!
Download & Availability
Daisho・Survival of a Samurai is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Daisho・Survival of a Samurai 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:
Great game, fun, engaging and keeps us interested – but this latest build keeps crashing during ads or freezes right after the ad so no reward is given.
This is a stunningly beautiful game. It has a solid story line, and excellent gameplay. Very excited to see a samurai game in this genre. Unfortunately, this game is lacking in content, and the developers need to hustle and add more events, quests, and locations. It is very difficult to achieve the basic building quests, as storage is grossly inadequate and the exchange for earnings, too little. For those willing to invest in the game, there is not a whole lot offered to purchase. A few deals pop up in the beginning only. The Dojo and Arena features are great. But all players old and new are just thrown together. So it is impossible to earn equipment and hero fragments for anyone aside from the handful that have been playing from the beginning. Or willing to spend an insane amount of money and catch up. There needs to be power tiers. It seems that customer support does not actually exist. There have been game bugs Ive come across, including not receiving earned rewards. We wrote to CS including screenshots- and Its been weeks without a response, nonetheless compensation. Overall, this game is fun to play and has a lot of promise. The developers will need to fix the bugs and add more content, to keep players interested. We really hope to see this happen.
Hands down the best mobile game for the Sengoku period! Cant stop playing it!! CJ Hightower.
So far, we are really enjoying this game. It does not appear to be pay to play or pay to win, although we have purchased a few inexpensive packs to support the developers and to enhance gameplay. Im not sure how long this game is been around, we do hope to see, continued in expansion and enhancements. Give it a try, we think you will enjoy.
Its a great game and we really like it. The only thing we wish for is character customization. Thank you.
Good job on this one guys! We love this game and find it interesting to play. The graphics are pretty good and the sound effect as well. Like others, we will say this game has great potential! Please work on improving the game and adding new things because we enjoy it and would want to see it improve. We have one suggestion. (PLEASE add better fighting skills with the characters!) You could add a dodge or a somersault button to improve gameplay experience. Because it can be very disappointing to fight people without real-life reactions. Make the game captivating and give it more action, and youll have more people downloading it.
Having played the first game and really enjoyed it! If you could add the choice to choose either a male or female character to both games it would make it perfect.
Game is interesting with a good storyline. We recommend you to play this game if you are a lover of samurai.
Hard to gain resource's to build, combat is slow , unable to dodge attacks.
Very nice game, it's better than the games with energy and having to wait to do stuff. This one is more of a wait for time to finish crafting, then continue. Good to pick up every now and again.
Well folks, we are deleting this after a couple months of play. Its a real shame because the graphics, music and overall experience are great at first. We always buy the upgraded battle pass and increased speed/ability pack to show support for the devs HOWEVER with the addition of the silly turn based heroes in lieu of any actual value added content, Im done. The game has potential but Im not gonna play the same go/fetch game while hoping for neat stuff and getting garbage. So long.
Eh average. We dont like that you cant change character appearance. You stuck playing a feminine asian. Cant even change the hair or skin, nevermind the facial features and gender. Also they make storage a nightmare. You basically have to spend at least $30 to get halfway decent storage.
Make the game ofline or add ofline mod.
Come on its 2024. Theres no excuse to not have controller support.
Im in college and sometimes we have time in between classes that is too short to do anything productive, but too long to just do nothing. We never get bored and we look forward to whatever the devs have planned for this game! Plus its not pay-to-win which is rare to find nowadays.
Love the grind and enjoy this a lot more no stamina limit and can upgrade inventory with golds. Thanks for making the great improvements and we will keep supporting.
Wish its easier to repair items and pick up flowers like 1 touch instead of picking up each flower consecutively. Makes it so tedious. The same goes for repairing. We mean cant you just simplify the repair process.
After about a week, maybe more, of server denial, the latest update finally finally has allowed us in without further tweaking! We will raise it to five stars tomorrow if we can keep it working! Update: after about two months we got an email advising us to let them know through the Customer Support button inside the game.
The game has so much potential but due to the sticky controls that feels like there is input lag and overall the control of the character and her attacks are so uncomfortable (one of the two main reasons we quit). We personally enjoyed the story even within the short intro we experienced, but the view of your character Is very uncomfortable especially since you cant change view at all. Along with the other uncomfortable aspects the game is held back. It could be something with the potential of chaos and order or even Minecraft or world of Warcraft but in single player version. Though since these issues are only the issues we noticed within the intro (about right after your father died) It quickly became unfun and not entertaining, we are sure there are other issues and the quality of life changes like character customization to change her look would be nice, same for a clearer input response system to tell you when you were going to add a point into a skill tree (like making it light up or even a sound), had these been solved and improved, the game would have been perfect and enjoyed by so many, much bigger success and fanbase. A great example and cautionary example of what happens when you focus on making things unnecessarily tedious and boring to make people spend more money. (The only way this could be worse than its version currently is by adding unskipable ads. Or other things for greed, which ironically had they gone for the player experience, they would have been so popular and had made SO MUCH more money.) This is a game that could have been so much more. Personally we love it and the story hooked us in the beginning, but in its current state we cannot recommend it, especially at the storage space it requires. Though if these aforementioned issues are fixed and improved greatly, we would be more than happy to recommend it to everyone. We will try to check in with the game in a year or so, if the game has improved by then enough to suggest we will be more than happy to do so. Thanks for reading this and we hope you have a great day. Good luck finding the game(s) you are looking for and that is perfect for you. (:.
We like the game, it keeps us centered and fun to stream when Im on YouTube but our only headache is the fact we cant upgrade tools, we want a stronger hatchet and pickaxes Im running around with purple tier etc; with rusty tools but sadly upgrading almost everything else if this cant be fixed then Ill leave this game and Im not trying to but hey its not like it would change till feel like necessary and with that wait ya will lose numbers.
Slow build. No male character though. Main reason we havent been playing.
We wont say its perfect; but, not bad at all.
We were expecting a lot less than this game actually has to offer. Resource gathering, crafting, selling, building, fighting all jam packed in this little app. We can tell its going to take a good while to finish this game, too unlike other games that we complete or bore from in a week. Amazing job, developers.
We love this game its so cute! Just wish we could swim in the water and customize our avatar.
Game has potential, unfortunately the time investment is ridiculous given the 3x combo to upgrade + quests for money with large quantities of items and never enough storage for them. There is no option to sell junk directly, and recycling weapons/armor give next to nothing. In short, grind is tuned way up intentionally to slow progress to either make up for lack of content or to boost IAP. We gave up after estate level 5 unlocking night/day mode and more items – making storage even more impossible than before.
Just started, but its fun for the moment.
Replaced counting electronic sheep for a week. Very slow in early game…Zzzzz.
First mobile game Ive played in a long while that feels fresh.
The game looks good, but we cant advance & we cant restart. We are stuck on the A Friend in Danger Quest. Update: Support was able to resolve the block.
We dont want to hate, but so far the game has been: press 1 button until enemy dead. Theres something blocking the way. Fix it. More random bad guys. Theres something blocking the way again So, judging by how easy everything is, the super glossy look, and that we just got some gems, this is likely an pay to win game Even if it wasnt that, Im into the survivalist thing. We wish it were an action/adventure RPG like we originally thought. It looks like there were maybe some people who worked on this that actually wanted to make a cool game, but there were project leaders or whatever that pushed to make it just another app to get kids to buy in-game gems.
While the gameplay is fun, there is a problem with some of the music not matching the culture. Some of the names also arent very naturally Japanese. Otherwise, the game is quite good.
We love this game. There is no energy system nor travel/wait time like a lot of the other survival/hunting and gathering games. If you like a good building game, this is for you. Since it is rather new, there arent a lot of quests out. Theres not really a central story line (yet) but it is extremely fun to play.
This game is a time investment, we dont recommend if you have things other than playing the game to do in your life. Lots of work to level up and most of the time when you watch an ad to make things easier the whole game crashes. When you restart, it doesnt give you what you watched the ad for and you cant watch the ad again. We wish we had the time because we dont really want to uninstall it, we just have to get back to our life.
We started playing Dashio and find it very entertaining and sometimes difficult to put down. We have enjoyed playing now for over a week and we are still enjoying it.
Mostly getting stuck on loading screen. After we get the materials when we have to go to base it goes to loading screen and sometimes it ends up loading in 1 minute. Sometimes its stuck even after 5 mins. So we lose all the materials. Wud give 5 stars if the loading screen issue is solved.
The game runs very slowly with very limited storage unless you are will to buy in game gems to expand it. But we cant proceed with our quests because the tools needed to fix the walls wont drop from traders. Lastly the dojo is bugged. It only registers our first win and then if we try to do a second or third wave when we go to leave the arena the game freezes on the loading screen. When we exit the game and restart the coins needed to fight and our health dont reset but the dojo coins are gone from our inventory.
Just played for a few minutes but so far liked it very much, nice music and theme lets see how it goes.
This game has a lot in common with the survival games from a few years ago, but it is definitely its own unique game. It keeps you returning to its hunting areas to gather resources to rebuild and to sell for money. So far, 20 or so hours in, that's the gist of the game. We are glad to see there is now no energy system, thanks.
Very nice game, would be nice to see a open map or something like that, please bring multiplayer. Good work keep it up.
Just amazing thats all we got to say amazing.
We have only just started playing an this is one of the best games we have ever played! Thanks devs:).
This is a great game, and we can see ourselves playing it for a long time. Id really enjoy it if the option to play as a male character instead of female was added to the game.
Overall the game is great but the combat mechanics can be better like how you cant move and hit but overall pretty good.
From what Ive played so far, the game is really engaging.
So far so good. Im giving a 4/5 for now.
Really enjoying the aspects of this game so far. It has passion.
A survivor game that has as good as a story as it does its aesthetics, ( looks beautiful btw ) NEEDS to have controller support. This would easily be 5 stars for us from what Ive played so far. The directional controls work with the backbone controller but all you can do is move. Please implement. Great job otherwise.
Great graphics, and reasonably entertaining. Very poorly balanced though. Item durability drops super fast. For about 10 enemies, the weapon is broken The prices to sell loot are lower than the cost of the durability to procure them. Especially early in the game, you lose money by playing. There is a very basic talent system but the talents do not feel meaningful. The benefit they add is miniscule The way to upgrade your gear is by finding lower quality items and combining them into higher tier ones. Great system but the inventory space is so limited and so expensive to upgrade, that this is more frustrating than it needs to be There is an energy system used for collecting raw materials – this one actually feels well balanced There should be a way to collect the currency for upgrading storage through watching adds even if it's very limited. Overall, its a game which tries very hard to make you spend money by making most gameplay elements as frustrating to use as possible. Nothing wrong with the goal of making money, but we'd be more inclined to invest in a game we enjoy playing with added QoL improvements than one where all basic mechanics require constant spend.
The game is nice aesthetically. However, advancement is slow and the inventory system is designed to make it really hard to advance without significant gem expenditure. We have been trying for three days to obtain a tool required to repair one wall and its too low probability unless spending like a whale.
Decent gameplay, but the game gets boring very quickly. You visit the same two areas to collect resources in order to rebuild the estate, and thats all you do for like 20 levels. No real sense of advancement, and lost interest after a few days.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.18
- Size: 583.34 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- Developer: Colossi Games Ltd
Last updated: 19th December 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Colossi Games Ltd