Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 05:38 pm
Tap Force: Retro RPG – Strategy Game Review
Tap Force: Retro RPG is a Strategy/Roleplaying game from Race Cat, first launched in 24th August 2022.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 2,837+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tap Force: Retro RPG Stand Out
Travel back to the nostalgic '90s era and bring justice to the streets of Metro City in this all-new auto battle RPG!
Recruit a team of retro 16-bit pixel fighters and watch them battle enemies, bosses, and other players from around the world. Arm your citizens by expanding your weapon shop business that runs even while you are offline!
• Recruit & train 16-bit pixel fighters to form the toughest fighting team
• Sell weapons to your citizens by opening a variety of martial arts weapon shops
• Fight through hundreds of levels in the campaign which span multiple unique stages
• Face off against other players in the PVP Arena and climb the ranks for special rewards
• Join clubs with other players where you can chat with friends and compete in special group events
• Beautiful 16-bit retro pixel art aesthetic
• Featuring music from Mitch Murder
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tap Force: Retro RPG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Update Notes:
- Bug fixes and polish.
Download & Availability
Tap Force: Retro RPG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Tap Force: Retro RPG 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 this game so but we want to see a indie fighting game so we helped you come up with the roster. Team Kodiak will have masune, kotaro, leene, djinn and pocky and also a custom character that will created by fans. For team mantis there is teepo, lily, magus, spike and vex and another custom character created by fans. For team howler there is Otto, mazu, baron, mogu and zura and another custom character created by fans. Team crane will have xeno, chancer, face, okami and glacio and another custom character created by fans. For team cobra there is Dax, zemus and nyx and another custom character created by fans. And finally team griffin will have jasper, Tseng and safros and the final custom character created by fans. You could add more or less if you like because it is you game but that is all we can come up with so far we hope your game becomes successful and let us know if you will make it or not we wont be upset because its your choice after all. Love timajae white.
We love this game, but it would be nice to see automatic progression in campaign and sewers because having to click continue to move on to the next is very annoying. Please consider adding this massive QOL one day.
We have a tendency to cycle through games, often finding them boring or having too many adds. But Ive now been playing this gave for over 500 days and Ive got to say its a great constant. We dont usually write reviews but this is the longest Ive have a single game on our phone with out deleting it. And the game is super simple and also super addictive. We havent spent any money on the game and easily was able to progress. So 100/10 would recommend for those looking for a game to stick with.
The game is good but it has some annoying features. Devs, please consider changing the elite cartridge draw pool to exclude rare characters. We cannot count how many times we have redeemed our elite cartridge stack only to get a zedd or eve. It feels like youre getting cheated out of an actually helpful character.
Its really unlike any other mobile game Ive played. Once you progress up to the higher levels you get to a point where it doesnt plateau, but it gets even better with more mechanics to keep in mind while building your team.
F2P player for almost two years now. Game is chill and very easy to pick up. User friendly, consistent and constantly changing events, easy-to-use interface, simple gameplay. There can be small hills here and there when dealing with higher tier heroes and current events like the Technodrome, but outside of that it's a great 30-45 minute game to play everyday. If you play several hours daily, you may run out of stuff to do, but the game itself doesn't seem to be designed for the hardcore players. You can absolutely pay to get tons of other stuff and the VIP daily will reward in kind just like any other "time based" game. No base building required and no way to lose resources to other guilds or factions. Seriously, try it out.
Love the involvement of the game. And the nostalgia of the sprite graphics is awesome. Very balanced gameplay. Hope you try it you will like it.
Its ok at best, every aspect of this game is built to make you want to spend money. We hit a wall within the first few days of playing. Ive stuck it out for a few weeks with barely any progression. So unless you like to spend hundreds of dollars for a small amount of progression, avoid this game.
Our main fighters keep un-equipping their dragons and gears when fighting in the arena could this please be fixed.
Game is simple yet addictive.for a time. Eventually, after 1-2 hours of play, you hit a serious paywall. Even if you pony up a couple of bucks you end up stuck without nothing to do. It was fun while it lasted but after 2 days Ill be moving on.
We just lost all of our progress, like 70 some levels because we signed in using our email thinking it would link but instead it went to a previous account that was only level 13. To which we then deleted that account hoping it would go back to our other one it didnt. We dont know what to do.
Even tho this game is heavy with P2W options some of the games best players are free to play just like any game anyone can be the best the only thing is going free to play just makes it a little harder even tho the game is greate is it was p2w or not.
Our main dislike is theres no store to use the gold in. Its just to level up the fighters?? Like sure make it expensive but let us use gold to buy fighters or parts that we need to upgrade the shops. Im at a stand still, we cant upgrade our fighters anymore. Theyre maxed out at 160. We have 70mil gold and nothing to spend it on.
Meaningful rewards slow to a crawl after the first 2 hours of gameplay; all to incentivize MX purchases. Its a con, not a game.
If prices got decreased and everything was a bit overall less expensive/ easier to obtain. Prob would be a 5 star game.
Very heavy p2w if you want to excel unless you have the patience. Otherwise the irrelevance of power levels is jarring and discouraging.
We have been active and playing this game constantly since the second we downloaded. Great time killer, fun characters, and always something to do and play, WITHOUT ALL THE ADDS!!!, that seems to always make us get tired of it and just want to delete it! If you grew up playing the first NES, or the old school computer games, you will understand the characters and the graphics! Please keep updating and making this game better then it already is.
Very good game. Very time consuming in a good way.
Really enjoyed this game for the first couple days of playing and it seemed like it would be something we could continue to play without dumping loads of money into it. Then all of a sudden we finally hit the wall. We cant progress the campaign levels or the sewers because we cant level up our people any further because we cant get enough gold. And you get gold by progressing the levels. We can still get gold by checking in every few hours to get a couple thousand but when it takes 20k gold to level a character one time, it would probably take a week of checking in constantly in order to get our characters leveled enough to keep progressing. Was fun for a few days but we think Im giving up as we are not willing to dump that amount of money. Fun game though. So if youre willing to spend the cash Id say give it a try.
The game barely tells you how to do anything and has no recommendations to better yourself. The club events and overall gameplay are extremely repetitive and dont feel rewarding. The arena is confusing you can have a significantly higher overall power compared to your opponent and still lose. Only things this game has going for it currently is they dont force ads on you and some of the character designs and graphics are nostalgic.
We like it once you get your team level up.
Was five stars until they added the daily campaign limit, which will turn away Wales and new players, because they are limiting the amount of resources you can get in the early stages and how fast you can progress by a large margin.
Clearly some pay to win options in this gacha, but Im having fun so far. Will re-evaluate when we hit the paywall. Edit: finally hit that point in the game where the devs flip the bird to the loyal old players and try to cash grab new players by waving shiny things in their faces. Was fun while it lastedI have deleted our account and uninstalled.
Ive played multiple games that always seem casual at first, but become heavily p2w the deeper you go. Ive played this game for a couple weeks now and never felt pressured into buying anything. You can play the game free and still get rewarded. Gems come easily through daily rewards, leveling up, and constant on going events with achievements that reward you gems. Just by doing things each day, you also accumulate VIP points (FOR FREE) which give more daily rewards. Im sure p2w players would spend money to try and become the top player at all times, but if you dont mind not being that competitive but still want to have a relatively good team.you can do that for free. We dont see ourselves losing interest in this game anytime soon.
Im level 113 now, The game is fun and always up to date but they keep releasing new fighters that seem to get more overpowered per update. For example Locke. Just way to overpowered with his freezing and crazy damage and makes him even stupider that he can resurrect, if hes in a rhythm he can just freeze you and wont give you an opportunity to attack until youre dead. Its pure RNG and if you get bad fighters youre just screwed from the beginning. If we were to give a recommendation we would focus less on releasing new and more powerful fighters and more on different ways to focus on fighters you want to upgrade or like a challenge based system that can help unlock fragments of specific fighters or a different game mode that utilizes fighters to a different play style perhaps requiring more player interaction or decision making to rely less on rng. Anyways overall fun game with a really loving development team which you dont see much in mobile games.
Game was playable on edge not rewarding and very hard to get every single rescource available in game until a month ago, greed overcame developers and they ignore every community players opinions and it became even worse, they made huge p2w updates although many players were disagree and still not happy about game changes. Its even not a pay to win now, its more pay to be able to play. Ive been playing for six months and we quit.
Toro has to be nerfed in campaign and sewers. Absolutely ridiculous and seems like a way to try and get people to spend insane amounts of money. Otherwise a solid game that we play daily for 10-15 min or so.
Official disgusting tampering with player data, help gold players live the first place in the association, listen to any comments of the gold father, seriously against Asian players plus a variety of prejudices, as well as racial discrimination, Asian players questioned the official remarks, all were officially deleted, we are also a gold player, experienced is the official attitude of treating players according to nationality, paid data was maliciously tampered with, Please a country's gold father.
First of all, congratulations to the golden warriors to use special means to overcome the Chinese club, all thanks to the brilliant planning team, you can change the points obtained by the Chinese club, do not care about our pay and sacrifice, the team consumes a total of millions of diamonds, At the end of the event, the official initiative to change the points of the Chinese club, Chinese club reduced 300 thousand points so that the United States won the first place. We believe that this is not only a bad behavior with racial discrimination, but also with national prejudice. From now on all members of the Chinese club out of the game and through a reasonable way to protect their rights, SNK official complaints and reporting information we have been fully prepared, plagiarist shall never be born, there is such a bad behavior will never be able to get the respect and forgiveness of players! All members of the Chinese club declare.
This game was fantastically made. Youve got cute & cool characters, fun, action-packed gameplay, a great story, and not too much stuff going on in general. Kudos to you for making this absolute masterpiece.
Very disappointed in the direction this game appears to be heading. New mech event change is super frustrating and demoralizing to the whole player base. Tempted to go ahead and drop to 1 star.
This game is fun, Ive played this for quite some time now we dont see that many issues with it BUT, the only thing that makes this game not that fun to us is the RNG. We feel like Im not being rewarded for all the grinding that we do as a free to play player. We save up so many gems, capsules, orbs and get absolutely nothing but garbage summons. It just doesnt seem rewarding enough for all that effort. So please increase the chances of getting higher tiers summons and this game would be a 5*.
Retro, fun and simple. Been playing for the longest time. Was buggy, but the guys have been working hard everyday on app. Keep it up guys! *Update-Still going strong.
Ill be honest Ive been playing this game for months now, and we havent spent a penny so dont trust people saying your forced to buy stuff. In our honest opinion the game is cool for a casual grind for like 10-20 minutes a day there are a few problems ofc like the orb system or the rng of any draw, but lets be real its a fun game and we give it 5 stars for being a fun game its not perfect but it gets updated so frequently that most problems will be fixed soon, if you question if we have any Room to talk just look at our account its FunnyNinjaYT youll see how long Ive played the game.
Hey to those looking for an honest review here it is. For some reason this game is very very addictive the gameplay loop feels fun and the events keep it fresh. We will say rng does plague progression which is frustrating.. Overall id say the good outshines the bad.
Ive been playing this for months and probably have spent around $250 on it. 100% worth.
Within the first five minutes the game forced us to click a button to reconnect, and then right as we open the app after that, and the button does nothing now. We should have known it was too nice looking to be true.
As casual free player, this game is great for a daily log in kind of game. You check in, collect rewards, fight NPC and PVP, and log off and continue again in a few hours or the next day. Reason being, generating coins to level up your characters take 15mins to almost an hour between multiple stores that you unlock. You dont need to spend money unless youre impatient or competitive in PVP(you can completely ignore if youre not into that). Gems which are premium ingame currency can be earned for free daily and you can easily buy dozens of characters after a week or two of saving up. Its definitely a grinding game and requires patience. The art style is radical and mini games are fun and rewarding. Definitely give it a weeks worth of play and youll enjoy it.
We just got done installing the update since then we can not open the app. Screen flashes and app wont open very disappointed.
The game itself is reasonably fun and there are a ton of cool characters. The problem is that it is such a stingy game. Every reward is minimal and progression is spaced out so far that its near impossible to do anything fun with your squad unless you just buy everything. They need to find a balance that rewards free play while still proving meaningful perks for purchase. People will happily drop a few bucks here and there on a mobile game if the mechanics dont hit them over the head when they arent spending.
If you have ever played the old retro Ninja Turtles games then THIS is for you! Thank you creators for this masterpiece! Its so rewarding and you can collect Epic heroes easily.
This game is fun, the first 7 days. After that, if youre not willing to spend some money (at least $10), you will be behind FAST. The game does not reward people who does not spend. We understand, games have to make money, blas blas. But, this game specifically, is for the whales, or spenders. Every week is a new offer thats very rewarding, but is $20USD-50USD. Not including the weekly in-game events every week as well. Those have the usual In-Game transactions. Thats every week on repeat. Also, the games drop rate is absolutely terrible (Ive seen worse we hear you Genshin and WoW players. We played 7DS in its prime for 2 years. We get it.) but this game doesnt have a pity system, so youll literally summon 5x getting 5 cards each summon, so thats 25 total, and you wont see a purple (Epic) card. The highest rarity to Summon and develop into Legendary (Orange) is Epic, but when you do summon an Epic, theres not a guaranteed chance itll be a Viable Epic, or an Epic that starts out at actual Epic Grade, and not an upgraded Blue Rare unit, that its final stage is Epic and you summon that. What am we supposed to do with that? They made an update recently, where we can upgrade the trash units from blue to purple now, so we guess that helps with food in the game, but they didnt add a pity system. So they game is still trash. Ive summoned 10 times 1 time, and got 50 units, not 1 epic. Until we summoned 2 more times and finally got an epic, that was a food unit. We were 65 days in, F2P, not worth it. We Chose not to spend after we realized this game wasnt worth spending after 7 days in. The way the game is, just doesnt seem like itll survive without a drastic fix in a lot of things. Also, the VIP system is terrible.
We love the game we play everyday. But we were looking at the fighter. We have a question about two fighters. Is Xeno and Face brothers? Bcz they look the same.
Became ptw immediately barely had been playing the game for 3 days and immediately got stuck on the campaign, the tower, and the arena good concept, not such a great execution.
In our opinion this game is very good the action is fun and its nice to get new fighter Ive only been playing for about two weeks but it a great game. Also its fun to upgrade fighters and see them win.
Nice game, cool art- 100% pay to win garbage like most gacha games. Free to play lasts less than an hour then youre stuck doing nothing or paying money. Good luck.
Good game, bit of a cash grab if you want to progress further than a few days of gameplay and not have week long stagnant periods. That we can handle, seems to be the MO currently. What drops this rating down two stars is the fact that we can battle someone in arena that is 7000 less power than us and lose. This game needs some serious balancing and an overhaul on the team power system. Devs buffed Glacio a while back and now anyone with that character in vs seems to win, no contest. If Im 21k+ power there should be 1 in a few thousand chances that RNG will allow a 14k team to win. Not the 50/50 shot Ive been seeing. (21,334 and we just got defeated by a 9000.) sorry, we cant continue to give you a play count when that system is not being fixed.
You quickly get to the point where you cant move forward without spending money. Attempts to get you to spend at every level. Theres better gachas that are more generous.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.17
- Size: 436.50 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Race Cat]()
Last updated: 12th November 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Roleplaying | Developer: Race Cat