Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 06:22 pm
Magic vs Metal – Entertainment Game Review
Magic vs Metal is a Entertainment/Strategy/Action game from Foursaken Media, first launched in 30th November 2022.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,349+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Magic vs Metal Stand Out
Centuries after a meteor impact nearly wipes out mankind, two factions evolve – one biological, the other mechanical. Now, both are locked in a desperate war for survival. Choose your hero, summon an unstoppable army, unleash devastating powers, and wipe out the enemy in this action-packed real-time strategy game.
REAL TIME STRATEGY (RTS) OR THIRD-PERSON-SHOOTER (TPS)
Choose your faction, choose your hero, and go to war. Play with one hand while commanding above the battlefield, or join the battle in an action-packed third-person shooter – the choice is yours!
MASSIVE CAMPAIGN
Wage war across a post-apocalyptic world as you attack and defend in a massive single-player campaign.
POWERFUL SPELLS & HEROES
Choose from six unique heroes, each with dozens of powerful spells to bring into battle. Crush your enemies with the Berserker, disintegrate them with the Nova, overwhelm them with the armies of the Necromancer, and more!
CRAFT POWERFUL ITEMS
Collect items and use them to craft rare and powerful artifacts that supercharge your heroes, spells, and troops!
GRAPHICS
Experience incredible 3D graphics, dynamic lighting, and detailed particle effects. You'll be immersed in this dark and war-torn fantasy world!
FANTASY MEETS SCI-FI
Summon fantasy creatures, or build sci-fi war machines. Cast spells, or unleash firepower. Use magic or technology to win the war – the choice is yours in this unique merging of genres!
SOCIAL MEDIA
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Magic vs Metal is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Crash fixes
Download & Availability
Magic vs Metal is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Magic vs Metal 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:
This game we came across by accident. We played it and was thrown off by how immersive everything is. The abilities for each character and the way each character is. What would top this off even more is if you added costumes for each character or added a vs play with your friends if possible. So far this game has us hooked.
This game has great graphics and gameplay. You dont have to pay to win, but you might have more fun.
Similar gameplay, but more polished, like a shiny new car. Immersive, smooth and freaking cool. Great leveling system, unique troops to summon. Thanks for allowing it to function (like your older games) without constant internet, because we travel and this works better for that. We support this by watching some ads, but Ill gladly buy some upgrades in game too Awesome work.
When we first started playing the game. We instantly got with it. And never seen a good graphic mobile game like this. Very good but also hard and strategy game.
NO FORCED ADS, we literally love this game so much because it gives you just enough stuff to play the game actually normally and its not one of thoughts pay to play or pay to win games.
This game is a very unique take on the rts genre, and we really think its cool. Having two playable factions, each with different strengths and weaknesses, is a very cool design. As a budding 40k fan, we really like the technology faction, as it reminds us of the mechanicus. Keep up the good work.
At first its boring, but grind and unlock spells. Then it gets very fun.
Coming from a PC player that casually plays mobile games here and there this is an absolute labor of love. We first found Forsaken Studios when Noblemen launched and from there on they have been our #1 in mobile games. It has a very intriguing story line thats easy to get into, streamlined gameplay and a good bit of strategy to go along with it. Just like every other game these guys have out Forsaken studios have managed to hit yet another homerun with Magic vs Metal.
Ive played Noblemen, Heroes&Castles2, B.E, but this is one of the newest and our personal favorite game by far. The way it looks, operates, battlefields could be changed so it isnt repetitive, and it even has its own backstory/lore. A few levels get very, extremely hard when they have enemies(we are playing as Mecha solely right now) like the Nightmares. For some reason shooting a nightmare never kills them or quite frankly damages them. They seem to be invincible from our attacks half the time and it feels like only our troops do damage. But all in all this is a game that should win awards for being the mobile game needed to be seen in the App Store more often.
We were losing a lot but these spins boosted our minions, we can just chill in the back while our robots do all the hard work. We were using two handed which was fun and all but we want to speed through the levels so we recommend one handed to get though levels and unlock abilities faster then you can use two handed when you're bored or want that first person experience. _()_/.
We dont see the 30 extra levels in campaign mode.
Over all, the game play is a little tricky in the beginning. But like all games it takes time. This is definitely a strategy game, but it is also very fun and intense.
We downloaded this game from the screenshots thinking it was going to be either a scam or a bust. We have never been more happy to be proven wrong. First day we got it we played until 3am and lost track of time and have had a hard time putting it down since. Easy to grind levels and materials, and each character feels different enough to make each one fun to play. We absolutely recommend it.
This is fun and addicting! Reminds of us a lot of the classic Heroes and Castles 1. Dear developers, PLEASE. PLEASE. BRING BACK NYZ 2 !!! It would very popular today.
We give it 5 stars its pretty new we recommend anyone should play.
We wish there was more units. There is just three wizards and three robots.
Love the game. Way fun! We play all the Foursaken Media games, including Block fortress and Block fortress War. This is just the latest in a legacy of fantastic games. Please fix the glitch where it crashes when you use to many powers at once, though. We are often almost at the end of an attack, sometimes mana storms as well, when we use a lot of powers to finish off the enemies, and then it will just go black and crash. It erases our progress and we have to try the attack again. Over all, though, amazing game.
We got this game a long time ago and we havent played it since but now Ive downloaded the game again and it kept all our progress from when we first got it. If the developer is still paying attention to this game we would like to know how to reset everything. Other than that great game.
Loving the game so far, but it doesnt fit the whole screen. Please update to support iPad mini 6. Thank you.
Very cool, havent felt the need to spend money.
Game is a solid play through either top down or sideways. They excelled In creating a fun and solid game you dont need to spend money to beat. But the devs deserve it Cheers.
The game is great but for the last week it has been unplayable !All text replaced by jumbled symbols! It is impossible to read. How to fix this.
Very enjoyable. Im glad we downloaded the game.
And thanks for another rad and addictive game with the usual great mechanics and fun graphics.
This game is great and has idle resource collection and the ads actually give you great rewards. The balancing of heroes is also really good. The only thing to make this game better is a bigger hero selection and coop. It would make the game perfect.
Very generous free to play title with the polish the developer is known for.
Almost reminds us of bug heroes, also Im still waiting for bug heroes 3.
We got this game because of the title and trailer. It is a very good game and it has excellent graphics its not a pay to play type app (Like Mech wars or mech arena) and in our opinion it seems like a strategy game but not just that you can also fight while thinking of strategies to defeat the enemies (or fortress). So far what Ive gotten through seems interesting and fun (although no story so far) we think a story is really the only thing this game is missing Thanks for reading this we hope it helped you in your decision to get this game.
Add some co-op and rank and it be on its way.
Im really enjoying it so far. A bit grindy but its definitely engaging.
Magic v Metal is SUPER FUN TO PLAY AND we GIVE IT 10 STARS. We HAVE NO COMPLAINTS WHATSOEVER. NOT A PAY TO WIN AT ALL. JUST GRIND IT OUT AND HANDLE YOUR BUSINESS ON THE BATTLE FIELD AND WIN. THAT SIMPLE. GRAPHICS ARE TOP OF THE LINE AND THE COMPETITION TO THIS GAME DONT STAND A CHANCE . DONT EVEN BOTHER. PERIOD.
This game is so fire. We love it!!!! The necromancer is crucial.
This game is fun and has epic character detail and abilities. The impact you feel from the skills and fighting is awesome. Enjoying this so far, and the missions are quick.
Good overall, but when we equip the crusher weapon on berserker we lose the ability to self heal.
Would give 5 stars if there was a button on the main HUD for changing between 3rd Person and RTS views. Very cool idea.
A few suggestions to improve: Major: campaign needs a fast forward button (arena already has one). campaign needs an auto-play or a way to destroy the enemy tank/ summoning circle on defense levels. Many levels are tedious to play because theyre too easy, so auto or a way to destroy the enemy base would alleviate the tedium. (Or if you really want to be generous, a auto-win if hero & abilities > X and skip playing a level entirely.) Minor: it would be nice manage inventory on one screen, so we can see (and use?) hero/power tokens and break down weapons/runes all in one place, without switching heroes to CHECK if they have tokens to be used or digging through each specific tab to find the rune to break down. a replace option when viewing a card in the deck. Tap a card > tap replace > see eligible options. Sometimes we know we dont want a card in our deck but Im not sure if we have anything to replace it. This would help us filter our available cards and know what the options are.
Its pretty but it needs controller support. Might as well be an auto-battle game.
All the makings of a great game are advanced progression across multiple systems to strengthen the characters, abilities, and weapons. The world building has potential to become something really interesting. We have followed these devs for a long time and played all their games for iOS so far. The problem is that all the potential this game has to be truly great isnt being met due to all the time constructing the OTHER systems to add monetization to the game. Its understandable to a degree, but the mechanics are actually anti-player. Theres a predatory factor to some of the games monetization practices in the form of loot boxes disguised as crafting. You need to pay real money for in game currency to pay for crafting materials which give you randomly generated gear. In addition, there are difficulty spikes that make it difficult to progress without a fair bit of grinding or the purchase of currency to help quicken progression. In addition, theres a battle pass system, a daily login system (to promote habit forming) and basically some form of utilization of all the psychological manipulations that make up mobile monetization. And who could blame them? They need money just like anyone else. The problem is that they have such a good idea on their hands that if correctly implemented could make a truly great game. Their original works offered a paid purchase path that basically let you play the game without the other monetization theatrics. This and their prior title have taken the turn for heavier and more manipulative monetization strategies which we personally deplore. Still. The game is a lot of fun for the majority of the time and we highly recommend it to those who dont mind supporting malicious monetization schemes that has become the staple of mobile gaming. Thanks FarmVille.
We hate auto firing in games and we need there to be a setting that lets us disable it.
Great game and a ton of fun. AAA graphics. Our only complain is the season pass. $10 a month is just too much for what is offered. Change the seasons to 30 days an we would gladly support the game. But $120 a year is a little outrageous when that doesnt even remove all ads.
We would have liked to give this game a try. However, the download was riddled with bugs. First, we choose single hand control and the app would not load from that. Then, with two-handed control the app loaded. However, the attack on our base started and we were without defense or attack controls. When options for defending and attacking finally appeared, we could not properly choose a target. After being defeated in the battle (obviously) the app would never transition out of the Defeat window and locked up. We tried loading it several times and checking ways to get this app to work with no joy. We used the latest version of iPad Air with a ton of free memory space. This one was a big loser.
We dont know if we missed something but it will not let us play the 4th attack of chapter one. It says we have more to do before playing again but we cant see anything else to do.
Very fun to play in our down time. Only thing is Id love to purchase the battle pass but once we click to buy it just continues to say loading Ive tried closing and refreshing the game, still nothing happens. Regardless. Super fun to play. Thanks.
These guys have been making excellent games for as long as Ive been playing on iOS back since they released the first heroes and castles. This game is also excellent as have been effectively every release theyve had. We appreciate you all still making these releases, keep it up.
Ive always been a fan of forsaken media games. This game takes the cake. We love the ability to switch between one hand and two hand and the fact that it feels like 2 different games after you switch. Amazing job devs! Please keep up with some updates and Ill give you our time and money.
A game just like big heroes 2 and heroes and castles 2 combined with first and top down compatibility all yall need is multiplayer or Co op to make this one best games yall made.
Same as the garbage castle games they made . It is fun at first but becomes extremely overbearing after about a hour of play . Endless hordes of over powered troops get sent at you and you have absolutely no hope . You will constantly be on a huge grind of barely making it past a level and even if you do the next one is so hard you either have to buy things or watch 100000000 ads just to barely scrape by for another level of 2 at best . Some of you might have the time and patience for this trash can of a game but we sure aint gunna sit here and grind our butt off just to barely make it another level . And we got better things to spend our hard earned money on than on a phone game that barely lets us make it . Pfff.
The game is amazing and it is refreshing to see something new from our childhood favorite game studio forsaken media. We would prefer a game based on japanese, greek or any of those historical wars like sieging bases , etc not fictional characters.
Another great foursakenmedia game. Its of a similar feel to heroes and castles, with fantastic graphics and is the most optimized game to date. Ive had no performance issues.
This game is the spiritual successor to Heros and castles 1 & 2 by the same studio. Just 4k years in the future :) NO FORCED ADDS in the game! :)) micro transactions are present but not needed, they give you plenty of resources to lv, craft, and upgrade. The game is a 3rd person shooter/ hack n slash with different classes to play, with troops/abilities. On a 3rd battlefield. Ingame mana system (for abilities and summons) is much like clash royales. Theres differnt game modes, and a campaign for magi and machines (the 2 races each with 3 classes) You can craft runes and weapons. The weapons are quite unique, were one might shoot a death rayanother summons drones to attack for you. And the runes do anything from give your base weapons, give your hero abilities, or give your minions buffs -and a lot more that we havent leveled up to experience yet. Great game great developers.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.2
- Size: 981.27 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Foursaken Media
Last updated: 15th September 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Foursaken Media