Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 01:59 am
SwordArtOnline: IntegralFactor – Entertainment Game Review
SwordArtOnline: IntegralFactor is a Entertainment/Action/Roleplaying game from Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., first launched in 27th March 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 11,869+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes SwordArtOnline: IntegralFactor Stand Out
The newest Sword Art Online game!
This time, the protagonist is…you!
You appear in this online RPG as a member of an Assault Team, working with other imprisoned players to reach the 100th floor of Aincrad!
What if you were trapped in a game of life or death?
You can experience meeting familiar characters and connecting to the original SAO story from your own POV.
Experience behind-the-scenes stories not seen in the original SAO, and completely different story developments! Live out a "what-if" story where you affect Aincrad!
Battle System
Fight through the sprawling fields of Aincrad with your partner Koharu, trapped together in a game of life and death!
You'll need to cooperate with Assault Teams across the land and battle together to beat powerful monsters and tough quests! Forging stronger weapons, using skills with all kinds of effects, and preparing for each enemy's weak points and attack patterns are all key to your success!
-Boost Mode is a monthly subscription that gives you the following boosts:
-Important
・Boost Mode is valid for a month starting from the purchased date and will be automatically renewed each month.
・If cancelled during the validity period, you will continue receiving effect of the boosts until you log out after the expiration date.
・You cannot make duplicate purchases during the validity period.
・Please be aware that deleting the app does not cancel this subscription.
-Payment, Duration, Renewal
・Payment of this subscription will be made through Apple ID.
・If cancellation is not made 24 hours prior to the expiration date, the subscription will be renewed automatically.
・The one-month subscription will be renewed automatically within 24 hours before the expiry date and monthly charges will occur at every renewal.
-Cancellation
・This subscription must be canceled at least 24 hours prior to the expiration date.
・Cancellation may be completed through the following procedure.
- Tap Settings ＞ [your name] ＞ iTunes & App Store
- Tap "Apple ID"" at the top of the screen.
- Tap "View Apple ID"" then ""Subscriptions"
- Tap "Boost Mode" purchased on "SWORD ART ONLINE: Integral Factor"
to see the purchase history. - Cancel subscription by tapping ""Cancel Subscription""
Other Precautions
・There is a possibility that connection problems may occur when purchasing, so please do not close the application while purchase is still processing.
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Note:
This game contains some items available for in-app purchase
that can enhance gameplay and speed up your progress. In-app
purchases can be disabled in your device settings, see
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304 for more details.
This application is distributed under the official rights from the license holder.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, SwordArtOnline: IntegralFactor is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Implemented new skill: Link Skill
- Chapter 2! Aincrad 89F!
- Drop rates have been increased for specific Labyrinth Dungeons and Chaos Showdowns!
- Chaos Showdown 195 dungeons can be challenged with a party!
- Other small adjustments and corrections.
*Please check for more details from the notices in the app.
Download & Availability
SwordArtOnline: IntegralFactor is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get SwordArtOnline: IntegralFactor 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:
We love SAOIF and we want to play and be part of this gaming community forever! And what we love the most is the stories! But we noticed some of the event stories haven't bin returning, like New years event with Alice and Eugeo, Anniversaries, Persona 5 Royal, Songstress Festival, Tales of Series SAOIF Collab: Stories From the Floating Castle. We'll like to suggest something and it is that can you make another Story Replay NPC for ALL the past and new event stories so not only to be less worried about the time limit and also for permanent open events like the Crimson Sword and Silver Witch and The Alicization, we really think these memories should be preserve like the main story. We believe in this game infinite potential and want it to keep evolving. Also Can you make another floor story where Koharu and MC becomes temporarily parents sort of like Kirito and Asuna, and please make a story that there will be a wedding ceremony for Koharu and the MC then getting the chance to dance together and we think it should be at a tropical beach because we know Koharu love the beach, ocean, and the sunset and the best gift is finally buying a house on a tropical beach floor or give different options of houses on a floor, and also please make a Bed Scene with Koharu. Please and thank you, we love and support SAOIF! Can you fix and make sure the boss fights in the bulletin board are fair because so far they show only doing 1 damage with each strike even with high level skills and weapons, if you can only defeat the board bosss with a specific element and weapon then it just makes it complicated, not to be offensive but to us it looks unfair and frustrating since its mostly a solo battle, especially if it cant allow to continue to reread the stories in the characters quest, please fix it! Can you please update the Squad Jumble story event, making it into a full event story and explain what happened to LLENN and Pitohui, did they somehow return to the real world or are they permanently in SAO until their truly free. And please the game will continue to GGO and Alicization worlds.
We think we should be able to have a cabin like kirtio, Asuna and Yui just saying that way we can lay down , make food and all.
Hey, our name is Davonte Iruna, we just wanted to say we really appreciate the simple fact you answered the review about selling or even trading. It was very hard touching Indeed. Its like you answered our wish and we didnt think it would ever happen but like As you can see it really help other players besides ourselves Im still playing the game and Im still trying to help on what you could add because we do as much as the developer we just wondered do you still think about considering a scythe weapon even though one character scythe possessed, maybe it could be upgraded with that way so many players have the same weapon besides that overall Im just here to say thank you for adding market will do our best to support this game (.).
So good Im actually addicted like we cannot stop playing if youre in a sword or online fan play this.
This is not the first SAO MMORPG and you guys know that there were others that came before this one.
The game is great we just wish we could play it with some Bluetooth controller support.
Super good, the fighting is fun and collecting cards and outfits. The problem is we cant wear any of the male clothing we get because we have a female character. We WANT TO WEAR PANTS PLEASE!!! We dont get why the characters cant wear both. We really like the male clothing. Please let us dress our characters the way we want. Other than that we really like this game. Surprising for an anime game but its good.
We tried using our backbone controller and its not compatible can we change this please it would help the play style of the game so much better.
Sword art online black swordsman ace – please release this game.
Rebuff shield of loyalty!!!!! Increase the cd by a ton we probably wouldnt even mind, but one second isnt enough to pair it with anything but instant mod skills. Which we only know of a few that we dont have. Its our favorite skill and Kizmel is our favorite character. This skill deserves to be good.
All around great game. 7years and they refresh content regularly. Many many options for your setup if you want to spend the time to learn. Reroll for your best starting options but first play for a month to get a good understanding.
We love this game but we wish wan you making your character you can Make your partner a boy or girl for us a boy because Im a girl it feels weird having a girl as a partner and just like Asuna and kirito and please update the house with kitchen and more fun like you can clean up your house or bye furniture or get food and sleep it would be more fun like that so please think about it.
Been playing the game for a while. We love the story most of the time. But we know this is a problem a lot of people have and we want to see it get done. We so wish that the story adapted around your choices rather than your partner just making all of your decisions for you. We also would like to see more interactions with the characters like Asuna and Klein and whatnot and you could go through the story with them and from a different perspective rather than your basic partner just kinda watching the other characters go by as you and your partner do your own quest in this little nook of the map all alone. We feel like despite the game is hyped up to be your own unique story it still feels like Im a side character to Kirito and your partner most of the time. We also think that adding more weapons would be great too. Ive grown to appreciate big two handed weapons in games, but unfortunately our two favorites just dont exist in the game, the greatsword and the greathammer. Its just the axe. Also a one handed spear would be pretty great too. But we also understand theres only so much you could do with a mobile game. All in all, we think an Aincrad SAO game on the console or PC where its genuinely your story and you can make genuine choices for yourselves and relationships with the characters would be an incredible gaming experience IF they do it right. Still amazing game though.
We finally found a way to prevent us from restarting all you have to do is put your email above transfer and if the app is having problems and u have to wait just put in your email and your account should recover.
Great but should add appearance change feature for partners.
This game is fun we enjoy the game however we have two problems 1 after we just updated the game it keeps telling us to leave the guild from the previous world but wont let us in the other problem on our main account we were on floor 50 and our game glitched and we wasnt able to do anything because we had no one to talk to and YouTube videos indicate we needed to talk to people please fix this and we will continue to play this masterpiece of a game.
The beginning was overwhelming to say the least but it opened up into a beautiful and very thought out story/world. The starting floors 1-10 were fine basically just learning and equipping a lot of stuff 11-50 was drawing new skills crafting armor and learning you Still have more to unlock! 50-61 this is the last of the tutorial in our opinion you now must traverse the events and wikis for some helpful guides bonus points if you can read and just learned that already if you know you know! 61-100 wow it was AMAZING no spoilers Just we super enjoyed the experience and hope you make it this far!! Most of you think okay nothing is left now but youre mistaken there is a chapter 2 and we believe 3 in the making Underground labyrinth (endgame content/bosses loot) Chaos bosses (levels pass 200 lots of exciting craftable gear) Tons of free outfits and resources we were never pressured to spend money during our journey through the story where you get skills to help during the level your on! We will admit we have spent money since floor 100 but we like to support our favorite games <3 Overall 10/10 free to play Storys a 10 lots of story Combat is a solid 8 this is mainly due to mobile restrictions however next explanations why Skills are a 1000/10 animations to different types of skills Craftable gear outfits 10/10 Fishing. As of 2025 this took us around 3 weeks to reach endgame and do massive guild activitys casuals might take a couple of months 1-3 dont feel discouraged reach that floor100.
This game is amazing, been playing it for about 6 years now and honestly Ive met so many nice people to help us out or help them out. This game really lets you interact with others in unique ways and the co-op is fun!. During a raid we ended up meeting the love of our life haha but yeah this game holds special place in our heart and we totally recommend it to all those who love to meet new people and fight bosses together and grow stronger to even show off lol.
We love this game a lot u should make a ggo game pls pls gun gala online would be amazing!!! Pls see if u can make that pls.
Got excited when a friend told us about backbone game controller bc this seemed like itd be easier with contols not on the screen.
Using our email to connect to SAO like World of Tanks uses an Email in order to save information on users could be useful. We have made more than 10 accounts reached lvl 40 twice and have had to complete objectives on first floor lvls multiple times. Has SAO thought of using an online Browser to make accessible online through web browsers on the cellphone or computer.
Its good, but we do wish the ones who play as a female player can have a male partner as their companion! And the ones who play as the male player can have the female companion! If that makes sense, it would add a bit more fun and depth as well into the game and story line! Its an idea but please consider it if you can! Thank you! We love the game by the way.
We had this game a few years back so we wanted to redownload it and our its still good. Unfortunately we had to delete it cuz how much storage it was taking since we were playing on iPhone and not on our iPad. We heard many complaints of the game but we didnt have any problems with it whatsoever. This is our review.
Been off and on for a very long while games pretty good storys good but once you get to about lvl100 the game becomes a grind fest grind for better gear grind for lvls grind for premium currency to get new skills im okay with the grind but like we said off and on for a very long span of the games life and am only lvl 107 the grind kills the pace Im at a point where trying to get to the next floor is a very big challenge and we dont always wanna grind but we have to grind hours at a time to make a dent in our exp or or material to get better gear we recommend at floor 13 farming the lava genie boss often to get integral weapons asap then grind for the dark armor sets in chaos dungeon just routinely dont wait till its a must do it whenever you want but do it occasionally.
So the abilities are cool, we read some other reviews and agree and disagree on certain aspects, we're not sure if you can pay to win but we're almost certain you can and sorta have to, you can get up to level 100 easy without paying anything but you will have some trouble past a certain point, and it's going to take like 10 minutes to kill a boss, problem is you start getting to a point where it takes like 15 minutes just to kill a weak opponent and the better weapons can't be obtained unless you're cool spending 10 years give or take, we're like level 141 and have a level 121 sword and we can't kill something within a reasonable amount of time, our skills are all powerful but after some floor idr which, we went from killing everything with one skill to having to execute 3 skills to stand there for like 5-10 minutes for the basic opponent and like 30 minutes for a boss most of which will kill you in one hit like 50 times per fight, so short of having someone carry you so you can get the materials you need for some decent gear it's definitely a pay to win.
This RPG isnt as similar to other ones Ive played. So Ill list the pros and cons of the game. Then how to fix them. Cons: – Youre stuck in a confined space, which makes the game feel rough, and dead. Although its a mobile RPG, other games like Genshin Impact, Minecraft, and others manage to let you explore an open world without restrictions aside from buildings. – The enemies are very bad. They dont attack you on sight like they would in the anime or other games, they do very little damage, and their attack patterns are predictable. The enemies are one of the biggest part of any game, especially RPGs. It really bummed us out to see this aspect done so badly. – The camera movement. Thats self explanatory, you need to swipe to look around instead of simply moving your finger around to look. It gets frustrating and you confuse the controls in other games if you play long enough. – The person that follows you around, in our case her name is Kenzie, should be able to be changed as well. Im unsure if you can, because Im not too far in the game, but itd be nice to change her gender, facial features, and maybe her name if you need to. – In our case, we watched the anime so we dont really care for the dialog. There is so much to read every time you finish a quest or a fetch, and while there is a skip option, its still annoying to deal with. Pros: – we really love how you can customize your character to however you see fit. Whether that be the appearance, abilities, or weapons. Its not found in many RPGs, like Genshin where youre stuck using a group of characters that have their own powers set. Granted its for the story, but still. We find it to be our favorite part of the game. – The GACHA is great too, its fair, easy to use, and very appealing. Especially because you dont need to worry about the gems, as you get them constantly in big amounts for just playing the game. – The weapon mechanics are astounding. You can choose to use two of, we believe, 7 weapon types, and they dont mess with your gameplay experience at all, because you decided to play with them. – The enhancement system is very similar to Genshins, but even then its still great. It works great, you receive quite a bit of the enhancement materials at the start, and its up to you as to how to use them on what weapons you use. – The graphics are wacky, but fun. They make up for it in terms of gameplay. Suggestions: – we believe they should expand the floors, even the slightest bit so that it makes the floors feel alive. Many players would prefer to have a bigger area to explore, areas not filled with annoying quests, where they can just farm XP and have a good time. – They should give the enemies 3 different attacks, where they surprise the players. This might already be a thing, but its not noticeable in the first couple floors. They should also give the enemies better AI, because it feels like youre fighting a giant snail in almost every battle. Give them smarter AI every floor you go up, itll make the game fun. Make them faster, make them harder to beat, make their attacks do REAL damage and leave the player on 400 out of their 13,000 HP so they actually use their potions, rather than 20 damage that heals in seconds. Im really counting on them to improve the monsters. – Add an option to change Kenzies appearance, name, and gender, many players want this. – Add an option to look normally, please. – we, and many other players, would prefer if you added an option to skip dialog that isnt important, such as side quest dialog or miscellaneous main story dialog. Thats about all we have to say, thank you for listening. We hope the game improves.
Ive downloaded and deleted this game like three times now it is a really fun game but we dont like the fact we would have to change the Gender of our Character to wear the non dress outfits but over all, the game does have a lot of fun things to do during the process of making it to the top floor.
This game looks amazing for a mobile game and it's SAO! Please add backbone and other controller support.
Keeps crashing tho, csnt get past thr loading screen.
Love the game when it first came out but now the game keeps shutting down.
This is a great game in our opinion. Ive had this game for years and Ive never had any issues with it. There is one thing we dont particularly like which is whenever youre buying the clothing, itll give you the opposite gendered clothing and you cannot use them and they dont replace it therefore its a waste of the arcane gems.
You guys need controller support like you guys already had.
Love the story and events but hard to level past134 even with leveling items its hard wish a experience event where all monsters give a lot exp.
We were disappointed on how they set the banner for the third step to be a 4 star guaranteed and not as new 4 star guaranteed knowing players we have waited 7 years for that skill to be released and it wasnt set up for us to get up on the 3 step like most new skills are on banners and this our many players spend lots of money for a chance of not getting it with that system when the drop rates are already bad as is on banners when new skills come out and we already spent $120 for that banner and didnt get the skills it comes off scammy all because of the third step not being new skill guaranteed like it usually is on banners with new skills the next banner they release need to have the skill on it for new and older players that dropped $$$ to get it and did can give them another opportunity for the grab next time instead of ripping players off with not getting a guaranteed new skill from that banner just to make money off players with no reward for what they wanted.
We love the game and the tv series.
Can yall add controller support for this game.
Recently SAOIF released a notice that they fixed a bug that prevented players from moving after they completed quests and we are still experiencing this bug. We just finished the treant boss on iPhone whereas our tablet account was in act two of the game without that bug years ago but it wouldnt let us transfer our account data to our phone so Im back to square one on our phone still fun game worth 5 stars P.s please make Koharu canon in the SAO universe.
We cant move out of one place an we believe everyone else is having the same issue, and as in Im cant walk even a inch.
It's a great game, we would just like thos bug to be fixed. Every time we exit a cutscene for a mission we're unable to move and have reopen the game just to fix it only for it to happen again. Please fix this.
We been playing this game for a long time an now after missions we get stuck an when we try to run we run in place an can move an all the attack button works we just can run an Im tired of it cuz we have to quit our game an go back into it just to b able to move again.
This is a pretty decent mmorpg style game but it does get a bit repetitive and is a bit annoying where every floor you get access to gear thats always better than the last floors unless you spent all your resources on upgrading. And because of this it isnt rewarding to upgrade a floors her very high because youll just get better next floor. Also Im having trouble where if we go through dialogue we end up getting disconnected but it doesnt say that, our character just runs in place and we have to exit to menu or close the game and relaunch, this gets very annoying when trying to grind exp. All in all pretty good game but if the devs see this please fix some of the bugs cause it makes it unenjoyable to play.
We enjoy playing the game however im a little disappointed thats its not controller compatible like any of the other mobile games we play is there a possibility that will happen in the future? PLEEAAASSSEEEE GIVE US CONTROLLER SUPPORT.
You can literally make your own character in the game without having a (little bit) of limits. The fighting style is kinda slow, but over all it has a fantastic story between the game.
How does this game not have controller support.
We beat the chamberlain dogs and then our screen keeps loading and loading and we cant progress the story. Whats happening.
Imagine fighting chaos for 243 times and for integral weapon 110 times and still no crystal and stone for it, dont get us wrong the game is great but the amount of hours you have to put in just for the rare items not to drop is crazy.
We wasnt expecting much when we downloaded it, but this game is actually really good. There are a few problems with the game, but that is to be expected. We would definitely say this game is not for takes some grinding and luck with arcana draws. The only major complaint we have is that sometimes after a dialogue scene our avatar is stuck running in place. Fortunately we just have to go to the title screen and then start it again and we can move again. Overall we would say the game is not for everyone, but it is fun. (Note it may also be fun for us because we havent seen the anime so everything is new for us unlike those who have seen the anime).
Dont get us wrong, this game is addictive and we dont mind that at all. We love to play games where you can be the hero of the story and we love role playing games. You can choose any weapon you want, wear any clothes of your choice, and you can chat with friends and be in party or even a guild. We love that!! Now, heres where we got some issues: 1: Why couldnt we be a solo player? In this game, you have to have Koharu as your partner and to be honest, we dont want her or anyone as our partner. Believe us, not everyone in this game wants that. And we hate to give out a spoiler alert, but you have to marry her later in the game? Seriously?! No offense, but Im a girl and our character is a girl. We dont want our character to be gay!! 2: Drawing out skills and the rating of getting a new skill are ridiculous!!! Every month youd get new skills and the scouting is five steps. And for 1250 for one step and the rest is 2500? Thats too much!! Again, the rating is so ridiculous and unfair because one time, we were saving gems and we worked so hard to reach 2500 and when we did and scouted, Id usually get poor skills or the ones that we got before and we were angry!! THAT WAS NOT FAIR!! We deserved to have a new skill. And the free drawings every few months? We dont get it. Why cant we do that everyday? Its been six years since this game is launched. Heres a suggestion, why cant we choose one skill for once a year? It could be our birthday or the anniversary of play here? That could definitely brighten us players. Think about it! So, is this game worth playing? Of course!! In fact we played this game everyday. But for us players we dont get too much of a say and we have to go along with the story and thats a problem.
We love SAO and everything about it but we get to the downloading screen and the game just crashes very single time and nothing fixes it.
The game is near perfect except for the fact that after a cutscene you could just freeze in place. You still function normally, except the fact that you run in place when you try to move.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.9.4
- Size: 368.08 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, KO, ZH
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Contests, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
Last updated: 28th November 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Action | Developer: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.