Last updated on January 30th, 2026 at 09:30 pm
Vainglory – Action Game Review
Vainglory is a Action/Strategy game from Super Evil Mega Corp., first launched in 16th November 2014.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 52,297+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Vainglory Stand Out
Vainglory is an award-winning free-to-play cross-platform MOBA with the strategic depth and mechanical skill that you’d expect from a PC title, but playable with your friends anywhere on any device.
Featuring incredible graphics, precision controls and competitive gameplay parity across all platforms, Vainglory lets you party with your friends and match up with players around the world on desktop or mobile!
Sound intense? Only if you want it to be. Have fun your way with casual and competitive experiences ranging from 5-minute BRAWLs to the full 5V5 battle arena experience.
Vainglory is built on the proprietary EVIL cross-platform game engine – offering beautiful, smooth graphics, superior performance and unrivaled control accuracy across the widest range of devices.
At Super Evil Megacorp we believe all gamers deserve to play together in beautiful, responsive and deep AAA experiences, whichever their native platform or control mechanism. By insisting on gameplay parity across billions of mobile phones, PCs, consoles, next-generation hybrid devices and more, we are building toward a vision where gamers can play and be competitive with anyone, anywhere.
A NEXT GENERATION MOBA:
- Unique set of 48+ heroes with unique combo systems and play styles
- Achieve strategic mastery through macro play, objectives, team comps, and vision control
- Outplay opponents mechanically with playmaker heroes and a unique adrenaline system, allowing for attack speed bonus from accurate stutter steps
- Ability overdrive system that provides powerful bonuses for selected fully maxed abilities
- Multiple competitively viable playstyles for each hero, depending on build path and overdrives
- Real line-of-sight Fog of War, 120 FPS support
- Objective-rich maps
- Free Camera
- Last-hitting
- Wave Control
- Teleports
- Active items
- Intricate vision system
- Original fantasy characters and storytelling
"This is one of the best multiplayer experiences on mobile. Vainglory is a totally legit MOBA experience, available any time in the palm of your hand." —IGN
“Best Mobile Game” —2016 Global Mobile Awards
Features:
== The Next Gen MOBA is now Cross-Platform ==
Play with anyone, anywhere, on any device. Competitive gameplay parity across PC, Mac and mobile platforms.
== Deep Strategic Battles or Five Minute Brawl Modes==
Vainglory offers real-time MOBA combat with and against bots or live players. Whether you’re ranking up with your guild or just just have time for five minutes of fun, Vainglory has the gameplay style for you.
==MOST POWERFUL ENGINE==
Best graphics & highest frame rates across widest range of devices.
== 48+ Playable Heroes & Unlockable skins ==
Master heroes across a variety of themes and playstyles. Make unforgettable plays as a high-damage carry. Attack from the shadows as a menacing jungler. Soak up damage and save your friends as a front-line captain. However you like to play, Vainglory has unique, captivating heroes you’ll love — along with a hunt for skins you can earn through play without spending any money.
== Vibrant Community ==
Vainglory is a global community in 14 different languages that thrives on the support of active players. We are a highly engaged group of gamers who are passionate about learning, playing, and mastering Vainglory. Our community is top five on Discord!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vainglory
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/vainglorygame
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vainglorygame
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/vainglory
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/vainglory
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Vainglory is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th September 2022
Recent improvements include:
Players are now able to select skins and talents in matches that support them.
Download & Availability
Vainglory 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:
We played this game since we were in middle school, and we have a lot of great memories with it. Its still alive and you can find a match in a few minutes at any point in the day. SEMC you are leaving money on the table by either not selling it or deciding to keep it in its current state. Please find a way to monetize the game, include ads, bring back season pass, cut 5v5 to save money. Maintenance costs would be minimal while the game continues to grow. Idk the longer SEMC waits to revive the game the less probable this game can come back. Truly no other game like VG exists, y'all got a gem still USE IT.
The best MOBA to ever be on a phone app.
A great way to pass the time whoever you get a free 20-30 minutes. Ive been playing since 2017.
No mobile moba comes even close. So sad they dropped it. We would pay to play it.
Theres a certain rumor someone rich is going to buy this and bring back the servers.
Bring it BACK !!! Perfect 2 of our friends okay with us perfectly 3 ppl also we think there should be more coins given out per match and some lil editings otherwise Great game.
Theres nothing else like this a game. It has a loyal fan base, including ourselves. We spent years learning it and it never got dull. We only wish 3v3 and 5v5 had been split into separate apps that are balanced separately. (we never had interest in 5v5 and never will. 3v3 is just right.) We would be happy to pay a subscription for the game just bring it back.
Best game ever to play with our friends between classes and after tests, best mobile moba, no one can or will beat it, amazing graphics and animations, particle effects better than league, and the characters synergies are so fluid. Ill always love this game.
This game was amazing. We played the Neko chick quite a bit, and we remember meeting a long time friend on here, and still friends to this day. It hurts us that the company left this game to rot, but its so good.
We remember playing this game when we were younger , we havent touched it in years but we miss it , progamerYT lol we miss it tho and our account and skins and the game brah we need something like this again.
Please bring vain back we need it.
Please bring the game back or would you consider selling to a private group that just wants in for the love of the game? (Serious question).
In all our years of playing games when vainglory launched we were already hooked on it when it fell we almost killed ourselves watching the community leave.we have not lose faith in the game there are still ppl playing the game in 3v3 and im still playing it regardless of no lvl increasesplease help bring this game back to its full glory.
And still ahead of its time LOL.
To this day, theres no game like it. It is made for touch controls but also offers joystick controls if you prefer that. Unfortunately, the developers abandoned it BUT ITS STILL PLAYABLE and has a fairly active playerbase. However, lately there has been some pretty rampant cheating and some crazy in game names due to the lack of moderation. Also, everyone still playing is kind of an expert at this point, so being new is going to be met with negativity (remind anyone of early 2000s League of Legends? Lol) because they will think you are trolling or a bot. Its still quite fun though. It doesnt use a lot of data or battery power and its our go to for a quick 5 minute match when Im bored or on break at work.
We miss you everyday Vainglory. We get on league and get a 10 game winning streak but we still think of you when we were in Middle and High school playing blitz with krul. Probably wont ever come back but damn we wish bro.
Please bring this perfect game back it wass best game we ever played . It maked our life happy Plase bring if back.
This was the best moba Ive ever played and its sad see the devs let this game go to waste.
Best MOBA ever hands down. Still havent played one better.
The best MOBA for mobile hands down.
We can honestly say we regret not giving this game a second chance its our favorite moba and now we can never play against others and dominate them.
This game needs to come back we were so good at this game any knews.
We loved this game id pay money for someone to pick it up and start working on it again.
This game brought so much happiness to our childhood, so many days and nights, and we met many good friends when playing this game. But we were sad that it ended its update. This used to be our favorite mobile game, and it will always be.
An amazing game played in our childhood we loved koshka so much.
All we ever wanted was a mature themed MOBA we outright own (no sub-plot where they're trying to annoy us into spending money every time we log in). The game, all characters, all content… Just give it to us so we can drop in and play when we feel like it. People act like the servers are dead but they're not. You can find matches and we know they're real people because we found the people on Discord. No upcoming content and long match wait times don't bother us nearly as much as money hungry corporations trying to trick their way into our wallet. This is in fact the greatest moba out (imho) with a somewhat small roster being our only small complaint (it's still pretty good).
Really set the bar high for competitor game companies, SEMC.
Bring this game back. It tops all mobile device games. Id pay money for this game.
The character's, skins, abilities are untouched by any other moba. Vox was a masterpiece. BRING IT BACK.
This was a gem back in the old days what its missing is updates please bring updates to the game.
PLEASE BRING THIS GAME BACK- BEST MOBILE GAME EVER- please also bring to PC.
The only MOBA we enjoyed the most. Miss playing it. One can only hope it gets brought back to life.
This was the most amazing game! We loved playing this! We need it back.
Bring it back, we Invested $300 into the game. We miss all of our legendary skins and our cute diamond and gold dragon :(.
We used to play this game all the time. We absolutely LOVED it. PLEASE BRING IT BACK.
Why did this game die? This game was truly fantastic and Ive found no MOBA that compares. So sad.
Our first moba and it was fantastic, took a break came back and it was shutting down.
We miss this game so much its been years! So many memories.
One of the best MOBA games ever.
It 2025 and this game still remains the most goated moba ive ever played. The lost of this game and community is truly a tragedy. Only can play bot matches now and it is disheartening. Our main was Skaarf. No other moba has had the level of success or care. We honestly believe some backwater deal was made esp with LOL so they can avoid competition on mobile. We truly feel for the ppl for never got to experience the joy of this game.
Its a great game. We mean we had to delete it during school because we really love playing time to time. And now with blitz being 5 min, we can play short games when we can. Awesome new set ups, we just wish the "reroll character" in royal was cheaper. Also we really like the videos on each character. It doesn't hurt to expand on what items are good for each character though.
This was our favorite game and we hated that it got shut down. Please bring it back.
Hands down the best MOBA that ever was, regardless that is was all tap to play. We would love to see the game become playable again, wait times are just not there. Literally wait forever. Please come back.
We need yall to bring this game back the best mobile game out there just wanna play with our friends again and keep it to 3v3 that is the unique part about this game.
What a gem this game was. We only wish we could play it one more time to feel the nostalgia. The best MOBA game hands down.
This needs to come back. Will always be the best moba to us.
We just started to taste this game and is amazing, we are so sad the company stopped, we would like they open again with all their features.
This was by far the best mobile game ever! Why did it die it was amazing and the community was helpful.
All the memories, the countless hours, the updates and asking our parents to buy us skins. Ive spent so much time and effort into this game. Im all grown up now but we remember being a kid just playing this sun up to sun down, and boy was we getting good at it. What we would give to tear up the jungle with our Rockstar Krul just one more time.
Tried it out someday but every match takes >5min which is actually forever. So the game is dead because nobody else is playing! However,ir is really awesome after we tried the play with bot, cool.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.13.4
- Size: 2,243.03 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Super Evil Mega Corp.
Last updated: 9th September 2022 | Genre: Action, Strategy | Developer: Super Evil Mega Corp.