Last updated on February 12th, 2026 at 02:30 am
Rival Stars Basketball – Card Game Review
Rival Stars Basketball is a Card/Sports/Sports game from Prodigy Design Limited T/A Sidhe Interactive, first launched in 23rd October 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,720+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rival Stars Basketball Stand Out
Rival Stars Basketball gives you the control. Draft extraordinary players, plan your strategy and unleash your team on real opponents from around the world in thrilling card battles. Make heat of the moment plays to gain the lead as tension builds. Then at pivotal moments get thrown into 3D on court action! Do you pass or do you go for the 3 pointer? Your choice can make or break your success.
There are tons of ways to win powerful rare players and a world of ever-evolving rivals to pit them against. Shoot for Stardom, with Rival Stars Basketball!
Rival Stars Basketball features:
· Hundreds of fully-animated 3D player cards to draft, collect, and evolve. Intensify your team with special skills, bonuses, and more!
· Immerse yourself in deep card management with infinite strategy and plays
· On court action moments with steals, passes, shots, and dunks. Can you make the buzzer shot for the win?
· Thrilling live global tournaments have you battling real-world opponents! Work your way up the ranks and challenge the very best for bigger rewards!
· Heaps of other game modes with prizes galore!
· Sweet achievement rewards for expanding your card collection and games well played!
· Regular bonus events and promotions brought to you by the Rival Stars live team!
Rival Stars Basketball is free to play but offers some game items for purchase with real money.
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Monthly subscription for 1 Month with great daily in-game benefits. This subscription will auto-renew every month and must be cancelled at least 24 hours before renewal.
Monthly subscription will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Renewal costs 9.99 USD/month (or local equivalent).
Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a monthly subscription, where applicable.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rival Stars Basketball is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Thank you for playing our game!
Your support has been so encouraging!
We've been happily fixing bugs for this update.
Download & Availability
Rival Stars Basketball is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Rival Stars Basketball 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:
Its a really good game its fun.
We love basketball so we love playing basketball games specially like this. We love the graphics bro like the players are so good we mean like sometimes it can work on a math but besides that this game is so good most definitely a 10 out of 10 you have to play this and we love this game is our favorite game ever bro download it now and you dont even have to pay for nothing, barely any ads and bro its just so fun bro play now.
It is a awesome game to play! You should download it right now.
We played this game 4 or 5 years ago and we picked it back up just last week and we can confirm it is the best basketball game out there.
We love sports so this game we definitely like.
It is fun. But we wish you could do 4 or 3 power plays , update it more and that is about it Im forgetting something but we would still give it like a 5 out of 5 just get more players on the game! And do something with like real players.
Ive loved this game ever since we got it, keep up the good work.
Very enjoyable game just wish it was still being updated :(.
We love this game been playing it for a few months, never lags or exits the app for us, we love basketball so this game is perfect for that, we definitely recommend playing this game, but the only thing we wish they do is expand the campaign mode.
We had an account when we were younger we lost it ofc but Im got back in to the game and we linked our stuff this time lol love this game tho.
This is by far the most addictive mobile game we have ever played in our entire life. Big ups to the developers and whoever else that helped make this masterpiece.
Cool game we hope they make more.
Been playing for years, love it.
Ive played this game for 4 days ,And we play it every day.
Its a great way to pass time and have fun.
Absolutely love this game we wish they had a football addition to exactly the same.
Beautiful work of art and masterpiece.
We havent had this game long, but for the time that we have had it, its fun.
We just rediscovered our childhood, Ive been searching for this game for years and finally found it. Its been a good day today.
Ok gamers if your looking for a better game than madden and Fortnite DOWNLOAD this game and it will take the time to give you a toutorial,card,and something to kill time.
We gotta show Michelle this game.
Now, we know that when people first download the game, sometimes its harder to progress to get good players. Its ok. They literally give you a gold player soon in the campaign. And play in tournaments!! You get good people there too. And you dont need to be playing all the time. Just come back to the game once a day and play a few matches. We had played this game sense 5th grade, as im now a junior in high school. Its ultimately a very satisfying game.
This game is so fun but the one issue and in our opinion the issue is on the power play most of the points come from jump shots if in the next update you guys can add more dunks in the power play that whould be amazing.
Amazing game ( btw they are paying us 360k to write this).
Its a fun game to play when your bored and you can also get some good players.
Its so fun we cant put it down.
Best game ever this game is so good we played for 5 minutes and already had a super team.
This is the most fun Ive had in a game for a while.
Fun to level up and improve your players and build a dynasty.
We have been playing this game since forever and the only problem we have had is the fact that you can exit the ads. Every time we get an ad we have to swipe out.
We think the game is the best mobile game ever made. It would be even better if the campaign expanded again cause we feel like it is a bit outdated. The final match in the campaign is a gold match but now everyone has super gold and whatever the cool purple cards are. This game is sick though. Sometimes it does crash and glitch with the leaderboard and stuff. The game itself is a great idea. If you dont want to expand the campaign then maybe add more modes. For example like a mode where you play the whole game as a power play or something that would be cool. Also, it would be really cool if we could play longer defense somehow. The final thing is maybe like increasing how many types of packs there are. But anyways we love this game, always have and the purple player cards are sick. Greatest concept for a mobile game ever.
The game still plays well, and is still pay to win in some aspects. However some of the Power Plays dont give you a chance to win, and there arent enough events that can give xp to your players. Great game if you have a lot of patience or money.
We fell in love with the graphics, Im hoping to see an interesting upgrade and we wanna play it multiplayer.
Great game but the shooting is kind of hard to control.
The game is great, we loved playing it through the earlier phases of our team, but once we got maxed golds, the game slowed down a lot and the only way to play was tournaments. It got boring after a while.
Hi the game has been working fine for us but our brother has had trouble getting in to the game and he has been kicked out permanently. Please fix the bugs and allow players to play please. Ty.
We think they should add a new mode, like something to play. They should add some new campaigns. We love the game but we personally think they should add more things to the game, because most people completed all the campaigns. We need more to the game.
Make more exotic players more to play.
The trick is to spend at your coins in the beginning on packs so you can get all silver and or gold players then only use the coins on energy.
Tengo problema para recibir el premio del torneo.
This is a good game to play every now and then. It has a lot of good strategy to the card play and is exciting to play, though it does have some problems that bring it down. Firstly, the power play system is good in concept, but in execution it isnt handled as well as Id like it to be, for two reasons. 1. They are very buggy on newer phone models 2. The only rewards for winning them is an energy drink for xp relative to the amount of energy you spent doing the level. The second main issue is the tournament system. The first few tiers are fine, and they will match you with teams that consist mostly around what youll most likely have when you get there (gold players and the odd super gold player) however once you get to the superstar league, things are thrown way out of balance and youll be matched against teams with diamond and legend players, and if you just got into the superstar league and havent spent money on the game, you more than likely wont have any, thanks to their laughably low drop chance in pro and ace packs. The last main problem we have with the game is the energy system. We already dont like this system in mobile games and this game reinforces that notion. They way it works in this game is you are given a set amount of energy to use on any battle. You can either pay gold coins to refill it or wait for it to recharge. Leveling up with also increase your max energy by 1 and refill it. The problem is that if you dont level up (which towards the 60-70 levels becomes much harder) and you dont have any gold coins, you have to wait 5 minutes to recharge 1 energy, which is absolutely ludicrous. We feel like the energy system would be fine if it was worked like another mobile game called The Battle Cats, in that game, you recharge 1 energy every minute, and you are commonly given items in that game that recharge you energy to full, completing stages recharges your energy, and they even give them out for free for absolutely no reason. This would have been a great way of putting the system into the game without making it into a chore. So, in conclusion, this game is a good game to play every so often, but its not one we can say we would commit to, because of how the game prevents you from doing so anyway.
The shooting in this game is to hard the ball to heavy for rim and you have to use strength we bet yall tried to make it realistic but failed so fix your game.
Randomly forcing you to watch ads with no benefit is perhaps the biggest peeve we have on any game. Theres also WAY too many things you need to touch between matches (click ok, click reward ok, close the invite people, click out of the ad if there is one, click out of the ranking page, click the tournament, click the team you want to play, click to ACTUALLY play). Its a fun game but its driving us nuts.
We played the game for 1 hour and spend 77 dollars on it then the game crashed and never loged back in . When we reinstall the game all our progress and money was gone and support just said sorry you should connected your game to Facebook . They dont even listen we dont play the game even for 1 day we didnt have time to connect to anything we buy three packs and the game was gone !!!!!!!!!!! Thats just fraud. We feel stupid to put money on this trash game . Dont be like us and don't waste anything on this game.
We played the whole week the get the first tier rewards for the tournament. The games just disconnected and then we cant claim it whatever we do. The customer server is also a piece of **, we emailed them for three days, only got 2 messages back and it did nothing to solve the problem. We regretted to recharged the disappointing game, thats what you do to the gamer, frame dropping and endless disconnection.
Love this game but since the iOS update, this game will not load in after we open the app.
We love this game and we played it for years but, when we tried to play it for some reason we cant get passed the tracking part please update.
This game is a really great game. The only problem we have with it is loading in. Every time we try and load into a game it just freezes. We then have to delete the app and download it again. Hopefully this will get fixed.
Game does not get past loading screen causing us to delete and reinstall the game would give 5 stars but this is the only issue Ive experienced.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.10.5
- Size: 391.28 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Prodigy Design Limited T/A Sidhe Interactive
Last updated: 20th November 2025 | Genre: Card, Sports | Developer: Prodigy Design Limited T/A Sidhe Interactive