Last updated on November 28th, 2025 at 03:56 pm
Shadowverse CCG – Card Game Review
Shadowverse CCG is a Card game from Cygames, Inc., first launched in 17th June 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,891+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shadowverse CCG Stand Out
"One of my favorite games this year" – IGN
Shadowverse is a AAA multiplayer turn-based card game with a fun–loving community of over 1 million daily players!
- BATTLE real–time opponents from around the world, or enjoy the fully voiced story mode
- STRATEGIZE with innovative mechanics that guarantee epic battles
- MASTER eight character classes each with unique paradigms and killer cards
- SUMMON 2000+ cards, each lavishly illustrated with jaw–dropping fantasy art
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This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shadowverse CCG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Shadowverse CCG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Shadowverse CCG 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:
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A GOOD ENTRY AND MAINSTAY FOR CARD GAME ENTHUSIASTS/PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING INTO CARD GAMES Has good balance with how the meta is. Different playstyles for anyone who dives in. Great overall story, with lots of easy ways to make currency. Art style is amazing with voice acting to boot!! Definitely a game that has surpassed the timespan of most mobile games Anyone before us who left a review, giving it a 1 , are people who either had the impatience to let the entire game download or are unwilling to read the text in front of them to figure out why said problem is happening.
Came back to this game after not playing for a while and none of the cards in any of our decks can be used for some reason??? Not sure what the problem is and we highly doubt every single card we own is a banned card,not to mention even if they were youre telling us we cant even use them in a practice match!? Nah this is garbage dont get this stupid game.
The card game itself is amazing. We almost quit Yugioh over this. But, the problem sprouts from the fact we have more than one account. Each account has different decks, so if we want to play a certain deck we may need to switch accounts, but if you make too many attempts to switch accounts, it blocks that feature for a full hour, which is something Master Duel from Yugioh doesnt do. We get why they did this, to stop people from logging into accounts that arent theirs, but we dont see why making successful switches blocks you too. If they changed this, the game would literally be perfect.
Fun game , lot potential but some decks are overly used. Definitely the spell deck taking turn after turn need to limited to one.
To be honest, we first got here from the Shadowverse anime like some recent ones, but definitely did not disappoint! There are a lot of cards and the starter gifts are very generous, allowing 10 card pulls for each existing set+more! The mechanics of each class is very unique and interesting, plus for rotation the deck always changes so you don't really get bored. And next, the story is really good! We highly recommend this game! (Do the first chapter first so u can experiment with all the card classes and find the one you like!) -Forestcraft player, out.
We played a long time ago and invested a lot into nice cards and decks (those cards are long lost because years ago the devs wouldnt/couldnt let us re-access our now-lost account). We just redownloaded to get back into it and our old school ways are not much of a match against the new sets. The new cards are too powerful and its not fun watching the ai opponent do 50 things in one turn. The game is turning ridiculous. By the way, ill never get over the cards/decks that we lost a long time ago.
We like how there are different leaders for different cards.
Im going straight to the point if your not going to spend money on this game do not even play it. Even with 50 free card packs thats right 50 packs it never feels like you can build anything worth really playing! Ive used guides and played several different times on separate devices and we are being sincere IF YOU DONT PAY YOU CANT PLAY, the alternative is an incredibly long slog to get what you need just to be good enough to play against other people that do. Just warning you.
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Just avoid this game.Unfair matchmaking,cheaters,p2w and boring.Developers doesnt care anymore.
Update 3-22-23 The quality of the artwork has seriously gone down. When the game first started there was beautiful artistic fantasy art with the likes of Zeus, Lucifer, Daria, Bahamut to name a few. The last 3 expansions the art looks like cartoon quality, sketchy, cheap quality to it. Even the legendary cards look like bronze art now. Its a shame. They should mix in new artists to add new life into the game. Instead they repeat the same look, same voices, same art recycled over and over again. It is getting stale. Also they censor your opinions on their reddit forum, so you cant share your real game exp there. Lastly, The card draws are rigged when climbing the ladder. You will notice as you play in arena your opponent will always have the right counter card and a perfect play curve while your draws will be either high cost cards early on or poor counter cards even though you have good counters in your deck you simply wont draw them on a curve. Also the turn right before you make your winning move your opponent will pull the exact card they need to beat you to it. Been playing fora year, happens repeatedly and too often to be random.
Could be better with events and also wished there were more better cards for the forest deck.
This game could be fun but difficult to actually enjoy! Game is unfairly balanced for computer to always win. No matter what, computer magically get the exact cards needed to boost health back to 20 after youve whittled them down then beat you while you cant even draw any of your hood cards. Its definitely not a coincidence! Cards are overpowered and gets boring because EVERY player uses the exact same card combo strategy. You cant actually enjoy playing a deck you put together because of this. Spending money is a waste, you dont get any good cards! Save your money. Liquifying cards is a joke! It takes forever because you cant bulk liquify when cards have a thousand duplicate s. Its the only way to get the cheat cards to barely give yourself a fair chance. Youll lose 30 times in a row before you win 2 or 4 matches. Game is seriously tilted in favor of the computer, its no fun. We hate it. We REALLY want to like this game but just get used to losing a bunch of times and Im the exact same strategy from the computer, we mean other players.
Ive been playing this game for about 2 or more years. Games very fun and Honestly our favorite card based battle game. Great art and visually appealing. The only problem we have with the game is how unbalanced it can get with like 3 move defeat, how every match is bloodcraft, and the same deck. But none or less game is fun when you learn how to play it or you get a good deck yourself.
Before this starts Im a f2p player, so keep that in mind. We dont get why everyone is hating on this game. People say its unbalanced and sure we agree. However, its very easy to win even if its unbalanced or you go against a hard counter. Now you might be reading this thinking, this guys an idiot its not easy at all. But let us tell you about a secret thing called YouTube and the tournament winning deck option. These are both great options for deck building and with these decks we guarantee (As someone who owns a tournament winning deck) youll win a lot more often. Now some people reading are looking at other reviews maybe making their own and yelling about how it costs too many of those red vials. But theres an option in cards called liquefy. Heres how to get a good deck as an f2p. Step 1: Open your free 10 packs on all the pack options. Step 2: Make a deck from those packs of your choice. Step 3: When you choose who youll make a deck with, liquefy every single card that is not of that class excluding neutral cards. Step 4: Beat all the ais in single play practice match in elite 1,2, and 3. The last one has no elite 3 so just elite 1 and 2 for him. Step 5: Collect the achievements for around 5k gold. Step 6: Use all the gold on the latest pack. Step 7: do the same thing you did in Step 3. At this point you should have enough, if you dont move on to the next step. Step 8: Complete all the chapter 1 story with every character. Use the gold to buy packs. Then repeat what you did in step 3 and step 7, this time doing neutral cards as well. Congrats, now you have enough for a f2p tournament winning deck. This is why this game is 5 stars.
Please, spare yourself the headache. Its one of the many CG that devolved into having a single unstoppable card that instantly wins the game, with no practical way to counter when placed. We say without exaggeration, theres a card that will GUARANTEE your opponent takes 12 damage when placed. The very next turn, if they cant deal 21 damage, they take another 13 damage. Max HP is 20.
For some reason, studios get the bright idea to censor content. You lose more than you gain. It literally never works.
We cant even play the game because it wouldnt download and keep telling us there was a connection error even though there wasnt. We even reinstalled it and still wouldnt work. SCREW THIS GAME.
Bring our precious machina bloods back mono / daybreak vampire MB.
We love this game n the anime series but will there ever be a wolf type leader our deck only contains wolf cards n wolf type cards.
We hate ladder-based games, but Shadowverse has an amazing(excluding Chapter 9) story.
PvP isnt skill or level based, youll run into insane people. After probably 2 weeks of constant play Im pretty decent, even with a very well hand picked deck for our type, under the best circumstances youll lose to cheap decks sometimes in one turn. Lost ranked fights against a resonance player from full 20 health to 0 while he did 2 damage every card play while spending no cost to even play the cards. Fun game. Super unbalanced for multiplayer unfortunately, Ill still be playing but, it goes to show certain deck types are pretty much trash, even under the best circumstances.
The developers of this game are going to rob you of your money. The Meta they have designed has ruined the playability of the various classes. Unlimited has cards that cant be played, absolutely useless packs we purchased from the past cant be used to win matches. Rotation has new cards, but those new cards are to refresh the stagnant play of specific classes. We have been waiting years to fully review this game and we have been playing consistently and purchasing packs. This game is worse than yugioh when it comes to the purchasing of packs And the way cards are drawn, its obvious the AI has a plan for both players to play whats in their decks according to their algorithm. Sad.
This game is so fun Ive played it back then for quite some time and it is such fun, love the strategy and story and progression and everything its perfect we love you.
We can say we honestly do enjoy the game. On that note it is on the newer side we would say and there are also different formats as well. So we suggest that if we are to loose we would like to be able to go back and view the screen and the effects of the card or cards that where on the field to get a better understanding of the game. In contrast to have to replay the whole match over again and fast forward until the end of the match.
This game is for people who like to use their head and create stuff based on their own whims, we will admit there is a learning curve , but the same can be said for most games. Its a fun game you can always hop back on and enjoy , not as sweaty as Yugioh so its also a nice change of pace.
Great game but not enough deck save space.
If anyone took a break from this game and was not playing during the last year or so, and got a new device within that time, say goodbye to your in app purchases and progress. With no User ID saved or a link code from playing before 2017, you are straight out of luck because the Shadowverse team will tell you that they cannot confirm that you are the owner of the account. Even with proof of purchases provided, we were still not able to get our account recovered. Unfortunately we will probably never come back to this game unless that account can be recovered.
The game is simply unbalanced in PvP, if youre a casual and just wanna have fun, Story Mode is fun and all, but the moment we get into matching against other players whore more experienced and highly built with the best combos and all, were done for. Ive played as a casual within PvP and 95% of our games is us losing. The 5% us winning is from those who out of no where conceded or from other players like us who play casually or first time. The game is fun and addicting, even when losing most of the time. But itll get real frustrating when losing too many matches. Fun but not satisfying is what we could say for most of our games. Dont know about other peoples experiences.
The animation is phenomenal for a phone game, and the artwork and story is superb. You dont come across games like this once in a blue moon. If your a big fan of CCG games, and like story elements and fast paced, animation packed, and adrenaline racing games, we urge you to download this game and at least give it a try. You will not regret it.
It's enjoyable, matches offers a wide variety of emotions and the meta is tolerable at times. Best ccg on the market right now, the occasional anime colabs are a big plus.
Much, much better than hearthstone, or any other online TCG we've tried. Also extremely generous with packs, so, for true FtP, it's probably the easiest option. Most of that generosity is in the elite AI mission rewards, or the special events where they give out packs. Gameplay is awesome, and still at least as good as it was when we started, way back during it's second expansion.
EZ, just pick portalcraft, runecraft , buy packs, and boom you beat everyone else in the game regardless of time spent. Sad. The balancing is garbage, and everyone copies the top decks so theres no effort or originality to decks, unless u want to either spend alot of money on the legendary cards, or get stomped. Dont download save yourself the hassle.
As a f2p player who sunked countless hours in this game… We will tell you the matchmaking in this game is seriously rigged… You are f2p? Great we will match you against someone who is playing a hard counter to your deck… Adjust your deck list or use another deck? This time you will get new, but still unfavorable matchups… This game has too many issues and the devs will never fix them… MM system being the most obvious one, but there are also the outdated UI, repetitive boring events, daily missions that take forever to grind, and bad card designs one expansion after another… There is a reason why this game is dead outside of Japan… Don't touch it with a ten feet pole unless you are a kissless Japanese nerd.
Whats the point of playing if you dont get anything from leveling the class level up when you lose.
Every time we come back to this game we expect the meta to be enjoyable and playable, but its the opposite. This game is disgustingly pay to win with each meta deck containing at least 20 or more legendaries. Each decks win condition involved bursting your opponent down from full health without ever interacting with the board. Theres no skillful decision making, every deck is a different variation of the same win condition, runecraft and portalcraft are literally all you need to win and its just a miserable game to play. SKIP. FIND ANOTHER CARD GAME.
So, uhh, seems fun. Tutorial fun. Story missions fun. Go into multiplayer, starting lowest of low, unranked. Every time go up against some crazy high level player. Im neither good enough, nor have good enough cards to beat people that kill us in 3-5 turns. This has always been our problem with games like these. No balance for new players. Get gud they say. Yet Im never given the opportunity to play people our skill level, so we never do. Its disappointing. These card games seem really fun, but Ill never be able to play them because we cant magically start of as an amazing genius in them.
We have been playing this game nonstop and we honestly wished we learned about it sooner. The stories are engaging, the characters are fun, and the different decks are a joy to play. We love all the strategies Im able to up with and testing them against other players. Highly recommend it to anyone who loves stories, card games, anime, and everything in between.
This game is not newcomer friendly unless you wanna sell a kidney for a meta deck then go else where.
Listen, we've liked Shadowverse itself for a while now. However, we recently reinstalled it after a very long break. Let us say, as a havencraft player, we no longer have any fun in the game. Back when we first played it was balanced ok enough we could win some games with an auto havencraft deck and it was fun! But now… We dread seeing any other deck, so much so we had to change our main preference to Swordcraft because we just cannot get the cards needed for a good havencraft deck. Which is sad because we have a lot of decent cards. But because of the card effects given to literally every other class, haven is impossible to play now it feels to us. We could be winning and finally have some wins, but then slammed in the face with a Ralmia card which is nearly impossible to recover from. Plus the Portalcraft deck offers the repeated copies of this card. What we mean is, we played for seven. SEVEN. HOURS. STRAIGHT. Trying to tweak and fix our deck to withstand SOMETHING but we loss almost all day. Tonight we played for at least 3 hours and got 3-4 wins.. In 3 hours.. And it's not even our fault, we'll have everything going perfect and almost make it and then these broken cards that are so hard to get get played (Ralmia being one of them but there was another that doomed us earlier from Forestcraft) and we're just wondering when the havencraft players will get some balancing? :| None of our cards have inflicting damage to enemy leaders every time a follower dies? We get very little cards to help us play the way havencraft is meant to be played?Literally cannot stand a chance against any other deck because they're all so quick to drain our leaders… It's just tiring and disheartening. We only play to pass time, but it doesn't mean we enjoy losing game after game in both PvP and PvE. We need some balancing done so badly. We miss when this game was somewhat fun and not just…. Whatever it is…we don't care for the story or anything, please fix something. Even the matchmaking is pretty difficult.
Ive been playing this game for a while. Racked up somewhere between 70-150 hours. It is very fun to play, with enough grinding you can get the vials and temporary crystals needed to build a somewhat meta deck. Even then, you can still do pretty well with non-meta decks (we played rally sword up to B3). The temporary decks, offered for free, are very solid and provide a good starter for anyone looking to learn the game.
Ive been playing Shadowverse for several years now, while also having playing many other CCGs on and off. There are some that are quite stingy and make it hard to progress your collection or make any decks without investing some real money (Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering come to mind.) Others shower you with rewards for regular play, but usually make it almost impossible to get any nice cosmetics without coughing up (Gwent and Legends of Runeterra come to mind.) Shadowverse rewards regular play by making it trivial to create at least one or two meta decks, and easy to make even more than that with dedicated play. They also gate some cosmetics completely behind real money, but make most attainable through significant time invested. Nearly all sleeves and emblems can be obtained this way, and loads of cool leaders are available via the gacha style card packs, but with a pity counter. On top of the generous monetization it is simply a fun card game with some unique mechanics and a focus on game-warping permanent passive effects. The evolution system does some work to balance the advantage for going first that so many card games struggle with. We highly recommend giving it a shot. Focus on Unlimited at the beginning as it is easier to complete decks.
Not new player friendly. They don't give you enough cards for you to make a decent deck. No balance match making system. Playing take two and got matched with master's all 5 rounds as a new player. Gives you pennies and dimes in hopes for you to stay and continue playing this games.
This game used to be fun. Now it has so many OP and Dave roll cards its literally a joke. You will have 0 fun played online. Even if you spend money or work hard to get a good deck, it wont matter. The devs who make this game have no idea what a practical card is or should be. Save yourself the download and go play hearthstone or something.
So Ive been playing card games our whole life and we started this one about a month ago and Ive been having so much fun playing we just wish the guild system would notify us when our guild mates would message or message friends. Other then that this is an amazing game and Id recommend to anyone.
We were play last night finally got pass a level that took week or two to bet. And maintenance happened now we have try an bet that level again.
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App Details
- Version: 4.6.2
- Size: 3,551.14 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, KO, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Cygames, Inc.
Last updated: 15th October 2025 | Genre: Card | Developer: Cygames, Inc.