Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 06:19 am
Monster Dash – Casual Game Review
Monster Dash is a Casual/Action/Entertainment game from Halfbrick, first launched in 19th August 2010.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,110+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Monster Dash Stand Out
Sprint, Jump and Blast your way through Monster Dash, an action-packed game by the creators of Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja.
Experience the classic game resurrected from the dead! With simple controls, just two buttons, making it easy-to-learn but hard to master. Join Barry Steakfries and his iconic Machine Gun Jetpack in a world full of menacing monster mayhem, as you run and gun your way through hordes of zombies, vampires and more with the most explosive and powerful weapons you can find!
UNIQUE FEATURES:
• Clear your path with punchy and powerful Weapons!
• Uninterrupted gameplay without ads or in-app purchases
• 5 different exotic worlds to survive
• Unique enemies to defeat in each world
• 62 Hidden Awards and Accolades to discover
Download Monster Dash now and embark on an action-packed, monster-slaying, adventure… with a dash of nostalgia. Do the dash, do the Monster Dash!
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This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Monster Dash is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 31st July 2024
Recent improvements include:
We've addressed some minor technical issues to improve performance across the board. Thanks for playing and keep the feedback coming!
Download & Availability
Monster Dash is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
The last message we sent was good. But when we watch monster dash 2014 gameplays and seeing the ghostbusters event makes us want to play that version so we changed our mind are you and you team okay with that to make us happy.
This has been our most favorite Halfbrick game since we first played it in middle school, and Id love to be able to play it again sometime. However, since its only under subscription, we unfortunately would no longer be able to (especially because we dont have any money to pay for it). Just a suggestion, though: for non-subscription members, we think it would be fair if youd allow us to play this game for as long as we want but with ads. Thank you.
We use to play this game a lot, and it was really fun, but now its just endless mode. No level or anything anymore.
Add some unlockable cosmetics to grind for like jet pack joyride and we think this game would be a success.
We think we got an idea to make this game better 1 use coins to buy upgrades 2 missions 3 events and collaborations Thank you hope this helps.
Hey halfbrick we LOVE your game its one of the bests,it is fun but it would be even funner if yall added the events section like on JJ classic or atleast like Fruit Ninja where yall still add updates and events.Thank you for our childhood we hope this gets heard thank you.
Nice game but we liked the original there so much like the most importan part the soundtrack image us playing and then BOOM Barry is shooting monsters while the intense music plays.
We like how they saw the complaints about the art style so their solution was just to wipe the entire game and reset it back to the very first version for some reason. Its essentially just a very limited arcade game now thats fun for about 20-30 minutes.
When we were a kid we used to play the old version of this and it was great until they made it all kid friendly and it was bull crap we literally uninstalled it and was so disappointed that day but now they update its new and it reminds of the old stuff but its a bit different we really like it though but we think they should keep adding more stuff for this game but we love how its back in a better place and we love this game :).
We loved this game the very first playing it but it got old very fast its literally the same thing you do over and over and you always have the same guns . You should make a way for us to purchase guns.
You guys updated the game overnight we like the old styles but the menu is bad and wheres the classic monster dash music.
The music was WAY better we don't know why they changed it. Also we think it's too fast we're getting motion sickness and can't even see what's happening.
This game is very good and fun, reminds us of when we played it as a kid, but why did we suddenly get kicked out of the game.
Halfbrick we are going to take a wild guess and say you not going to update this game again because your gonna remove it and when you remove your gonna restyle the game to match the original version and port back to Halfbrick plus. If read this which we hope you do pls reply with a yes or no P.S. Remove Betty we understand that you want to have woman character for people to play as and thats fine, but Betty is literally a gender swap Barry, like cmon yall didnt even try with her design.
Please bring back age of zombies.
No ads unless you watch one for a free trial of skins/weapons.
This was a good game but it's gone now.
Good to see this come back, and while Im not as big into the new changes, its still the same game in its core. Please rerelease the zombies through time game and Colossatron, but just dont try to force grindy mechanics into them as well. Please release them again, they were so important to our childhood.
This game would be a 5 star if they started updating it again.
Loved the game in its prime. Came back to it and cant really get past these boring new graphics. The visuals were so classic 8-bit, and now it just looks like one of those lazy mobile dedicated to swarming you with ads until you pay. Would be nice to at least have the option to swap in preferences.
We downloaded this game because we wanted to get some memories of when we used to play this as a little kid, but it seems like a lot of those memories are gone because of the update. A lot of the features we used to love seeing have gone to the garbage, and now they have expensive skins that Im not willing to buy.
Glad its back but there are a few bugs.
This version looks ghetto and we really want the old 8-bit version back. The game doesn't give the same fun feeling anymore with the new design.
We remember this was legit our favorite game. Then a big update came out, and literally stripped away every element we played the initial version for. We played for the music, and the art style, and a bunch of the mechanics that has since been altered/changed. Deleted it right after. Its not a bad game in itself, we just was burned by whatever choices the developers made with an update. Like if youre gonna change that much, make a separate version. Theres a reason why things like Temple Run have multiple games in a series.
We feel like the mechanics and the glossy sheen of the revamped version of this game take away from its initial charm.
They ruined the art and the feel of the game absolute trash.
We honestly thing this version is worse. Too complicated, enemys spawning way too close, too much micro transactions, and we personally like the old graphics better. At the very least we feel like there should be an old graphics option.
This game used to be our favorite. We feel like it has been completely ruined.
Love the game but its causing our iphone 7 to overheat. And heavy stuttering and crashes when playing.
We love the game but the art style is kinda bad because it used to be pixilated and now it is ruined and it keeps crashing so can ya fix it.
Its fun but it kicks us out every 30 seconds and we dont like and if the game doesnt fix it we wont play and half brick games again.
We love this game but it temporarily lets us play on the game. For example, the game quits itself in an instant and it takes us back to the home screen idk y the heck this happens but this is a great game.
Bro we remember playing this game when we were young and we are so happy that the game is the same as it used to be. Also its a great game overall.
This game was the best game ever when we were a kid we love it and when we gave it a try the game was to kid friendly the lobby there use to in the back round boom guns bullet zombies hands in the window and when we play it made us a bit sad we miss the old thing that it was in the game but it a good game.
We're impressed after this game being out for so long it still holds up all in all we love it.
What did you guys do to this game?? We loved it before so much and now its ruined.
Bring back colossatron it was one of our favorite games maybe it wasnt bringing in money as much as jetpack but if you could just give it a second chance we would be happy and Im pretty sure other people will be too.
Not sure how we could describe it better, just a blast to play when youre kickin monster butt and checking out a well variety of weapons to kick monster butt in style.
Its a great game but after you get the bronze and silver medalist costumes it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a gold medal on two of the levels without using 30+. Please fix wipe em out level and snow problem.
Plays about the same, miss the old art style. (Also all our progress in the missions disappeared)Fun game, Enjoying the ghostbusters missions.
This game used to rock but then they made an update that got rid of all our progress and ruined the graphics and got rid of our favorite part of the gamelucky charms we loved this game but now its just alright we beg of you not to do this horrible thing to Jetpack Joyride.
Only ogs will remember the old monster dash.
We were really excited to redownload this since we had a lot of fun playing it when we were a kid. But the new update is just really not good at all. The speed it wack, everything is way too expensive coin wise, and the cliff falling mechanic is trash. Really sad that they turned a fun game into this mess.
Theres no reason to have this game track and collect the players location data. Love the game, love Halfbricks dedication to all their IPs.
This game has so many levels with different challenges to push the player to adapt.
We love this game a lot and when they released the ghostbusters update, (while there were aspects of it that we like) it took a very simple arcade style game and made it too complicated for the type of game it was. This update is basically that but taken a lot farther, the new character and monster designs just dont work as well as the old ones and it just kinda makes us sad. At least they couldve made Barry look like he does in Jetpack. Or at least put a retro Barry skin in the shop.
We like it but it infuriates us because enemies are spawning next to us making it almost impossible to not take damage and we feel like everything is way to expensive in the game.
We miss the old days we think they should add the charms back.
The most boring game Ive ever played.
Just filled with micro transactions.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.64.00
- Size: 127.23 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Halfbrick
Last updated: 31st July 2024 | Genre: Casual, Action | Developer: Halfbrick