Last updated on January 2nd, 2026 at 11:58 pm
Blasphemous – Roleplaying Game Review
Blasphemous is a Roleplaying/Action game from The Game Kitchen Sociedad Limitada, first launched in 24th February 2025.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 195+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Blasphemous Stand Out
Fight. Endure. Break eternal damnation.
Blasphemous is an award-winning 2D indie action platformer with soulslike elements, offering brutal hack and slash combat and deep exploration across a dark, gothic world steeped in penance and suffering.
Set in the cursed land of Cvstodia, ravaged by a twisted curse known only as The Miracle, you play as The Penitent One, the last survivor of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow, bound to a cycle of death and rebirth.
Face monstrous enemies, navigate deadly traps, and uncover hidden secrets in pixel perfect handcrafted levels. As you fight for redemption, you'll explore desolate cathedrals, forsaken wastelands, and blood-soaked dungeons, encountering grotesque monsters, merciless bosses and tormented souls along the way.
Penance Never Ends.
MAIN FEATURES
- Explore a Non-Linear World: Venture through diverse platformer environments filled with fearsome enemies and deadly traps. Seek redemption across the dark gothic landscapes of Cvstodia.
- Brutal Action Combat: Wield Mea Culpa, a blade forged from guilt itself. Unleash devastating combos and skills, and hack and slash your way through hordes of twisted monsters.
- Executions & gore: Deliver savage executions with pixel perfect animations that celebrate brutal combat and grotesque detail.
- Customise Your Build: Equip powerful Relics, Rosary Beads, Prayers, and Sword Hearts to shape your playstyle. Experiment with builds and unlock new progression paths to survive the impossible.
- Intense boss Battles: Face off against colossal bosses and deadly mini-bosses. Learn their patterns, endure their fury, and crush them.
- Unlock the Mysteries of Cvstodia: Meet a cast of tortured NPCs. Some will help, others will test your resolve. Unravel their stories and shape your fate in blood, guilt and damnation.
ALL DLCs INCLUDED
This mobile version includes all free DLCs ever released for Blasphemous, expanding the core game with new content, features, and challenges:
- The Stir of Dawn – Unlock New Game+, encounter new bosses and enemies, and dive deeper into the lore.
- Strife & Ruin – Brave the brutal Boss Rush mode and embark on a crossover quest with Miriam from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
- Wounds of Eventide – Witness the conclusion of The Penitent One’s first journey and unlock an ending that connects directly to Blasphemous 2.
THE FULL BLASPHEMOUS EXPERIENCE – NOW ON MOBILE
- Includes every feature and content update from the original PC and console versions. Switch between precise touch controls or full controller support (gamepad compatible) for a seamless experience.
- No ads, no microtransactions.
MATURE CONTENT DESCRIPTION
This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Some Nudity or Sexual Content, Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Blasphemous is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Update 1.9
Thank you for your support!
Changelog Update 1.9:
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Unity security update.
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Fixed issue with touch controls.
Download & Availability
Blasphemous is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Ive played this game since launch in 2019 but we always struggled. After all these years, we learned how to play properly and learned to enjoy. The best game of our 2025.
Please add the second blasphemous Im DYING or it.
No complaints about the game at all, but please change the icon. Its ugly.
Just amazing. Works great for us.
Beautiful and waiting for part two.
Ive beaten this game like 20 times and we S+ ranked all the boss rush arenas. Its kind of a big chore collecting all the relics, beads, etc. But thats about the extent of the negative criticism we have about it. Everything else, the music, the pixel art, the bosses, the creative yet simple combat, the lore- its all amazing and beautiful in a grotesque and twisted way. HIGHLY recommend.
We love the game and everything about it but everytime we login to play it again the controllers seem to be off like the buttons are in the right place but its as if its the default buttons are invisible and its really annoying having to rest it everytime we want to play aside from that its a really good game just wish they issue was fixed.
We love this game with a passion and we really hope blasphemous 2 will get ported to iOS as well.
Please add full controller backbone support please.
Ive bought this game 3 times. Once on switch, once on steam for our friend, and here. We just completed our second playthrough of this game and did the DLC ending. Highly recommend going for all endings, the lore in this game is great. The music is so masterfully crafted too. Im a musician and great video game music get us excited. If youre reading this wondering if you should buy it, if you love metroidvanias, great boss fights, and great platforming, YES. We played with a controller so not sure how the touch controls feel. Few bugs here n there (like standing slightly above a platform or not attaching to a ladder properly), but it doesnt take away from the experience. Amazing game.
10/10 port, everything the console version has, true offline gameplay, achievements, customizable controls, plenty of replay value. Support these developers.
Hi gamekitchen the reason we are writing this review is because there are somethings that pisses us off every time we play this game 1- customisable controls If you add customisable controls the game would fell a lot better 2- there is a bug where the screen doesnt move with the character and its more pissing than small controls Please fix this 3- we thing you guys should make this game controller supported on mobile it would enhance the gameplay so much Please fix these issues so we can enjoy this masterpiece , thank you.
One, we would like to address every time we open it we have to reconfigure the controls for it to work properly Second, we want blasphemous 2 :/ Overall really good tho.
Its a very good game and we believe that the issue is on the backbone app, but we would love a solution. This game is amazing and VERY controller friendly.
Definitely has a unique art style and separates itself from the dime a dozen other slashers on the market. Music is also solid with its Spaniard touch and is oddly nerving/ relaxing at the same time. We also recommend switching the voiceovers to Spanish, its much more fitting to the overall atmosphere of the game. The cinematic cutscenes are top notch and was ultimately the reason we purchased, very few slide scrollers feature detailed full motion video (its a nice throwback to classics Another World/ Flashback etc). The only issue Ive encountered so far is our edited control layout. Works fine after editing but when app is closed then relaunched the button input spacing somehow glitches out. The buttons don't move visually but the input location is not accurate. The Fix:: Every time we start the game we slightly move one of our customized buttons just a little to get it to register then save and it recalibrates and all inputs back to normal.
We really like the story of game but Unfortunately, our experience with this game was not like the console. The screen size was not perfect and we couldn't see the left and right sides of the image even though the character was moving in and out of the frame, which made the game experience very difficult and bad for us.
Love it, now Im waiting for blasphemous 2:,).
Ive played this game numerous times on PS4, so glad to have it on iOS. Works great with our backbone controller. Never really noticed any bugs either. If you love Metroidvanias this is one of the all-time greats. Just cant beat the dark, twisted religious vibe and epic OST.
A lot of the negative reviews were from before the recent changes. As of now the devs have added complete control customization and stretched graphics that better fill out the screen. Amazing game overall and Im having a blast finally beating it. If only Konami learned from these guys and gave SOTN this treatment. The only bug Ive come across is sometimes your new bindings will mess up on game restart (IE lets say we swapped jump and attack. When loading a save both inputs will jump and neither attack.) Ive notified the devs, for now though all you need is to go back into control settings and wiggle the messed up inputs and they will be fixed.
What a beautiful and fun game. Yes its true you need a controller but if you want to play games you always need one. We love every aspect of how unforgiving and fun it is and it plays so well on our iPhone 16 pro max. We want more!!! Please.
Great game, sure the controls are kinda janky at times still a amazing game.
The devs have continued to go above and beyond to fix all game issues (no off-line play was our main issue initially) but theyve even added iPad support and control customization with this latest updateawesome! Cheers to the dev team for listening to their customers and for their continuous commitment to provide a quality port, you guys rock! If youve played this awesome MetroidVania on console/PC, you know what radness to expect, only now its portable! Highly recommend getting this fantastic iOS port of Blasphemous.
Its an vary good game but in the dlc stire and ruin in one of the levels you have to hit the lantern and to boost but at the same time have to move down which decreases your speed and makes you fall because it too hard to do 3 tasks at once so please change this and hit the lantern with out having to move down.
Im trying to get the skin by collecting the 5 gold skulls in the retro mini game but theres a bug keeping us from collecting items that arent in chest. It makes the mini game harder too because we cant always get more health after being hit. Other than that the game is awesome Im so glad it got ported to mobile.
This game is so good, other than mapping which is a lil bit confusing at the start of the game, IT IS SO GOOD. The bosses are awesome and the story is also awesome. We HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME to anyone that is looking for a game with loads of action and exploration.
Please put blasphemous 2 in the IOS store ASAP!!! We need it.
We bought the game, and its truly amazing. We really love its art style, and we hope the developers will release Blasphemous 2 on iOS.
Its works well, plays smooth, Ive beaten the game on our pc and on this port, true ending and NG+. The only complaint we have is that the movement isnt great but we dont really know how you would fix it.
It has its problems, but we would say altogether beautiful game totally worth it every penny Im better than most games that are coming out now cough cough assassins Creed Odyssey we always gotta say always support in the games at least they put effort into what they love like we said 10 out of 10 and if you dont believe us then believe the game.
Just being able to move the control buttons around would fix the only problem with the game. On our phone two of the buttons are halfway covered by the front facing camera so it doesnt always work. If they make it to where you can drag the buttons to where ever you want it would let for more control customization and fixing specific problems like ours.
Great game, itches that dark souls dark fantasy itch but needs controller support like yesterday l.
The only thing missing for this port is button size, opacity, and the button that makes lantern jump easier since its extremely wonky on this hud.
Thanks Devs for hearing us out and getting offline working, still not 100% on the iPad version but its a fantastic game, loved it on switch and here both.
Ive played and completed this on another platform so excited to see it and support on iOS. However, we are finding the controls very tricky and not responsive enough so far. We see theres an update on this coming soon so eagerly await that. Right now find it hard to get the character to move up or down without him also going to the side. Makes targeted jump and jump/slash really difficult. Being able to move the buttons on the right side around more would also help. Too easy to press the wrong thing currently. Thank you.
This game looks way too good but unfortunately the controls are just terrible. One thing that confuses us most is the separate jump button when it can easily be merged into the left joy stick. Seeing that we had such a hard time taking on even the beginning boss we knew we were going to be stressed out the whole way. Saw videos on this game and knew those videos didnt do justice, unfortunately these controls just arent it. But ofc we may eventually update our review after completion.
Its impossible to do the air impulse which is a very important thing because its needed to reach certain things its frustrating.
We love this, absolutely, beautiful and perfect game. We really love these types of games, although it makes we want to throw our whole phone or tablet out the window and kiss them goodbye, but we still love it.
Ive 100% both games on console. Its great to have such an amazing game on mobile. Only thing we have an issue with is when we beat Escribar/son of miracle, we go to the mountain of ash and all our controls no longer appear so we cannot finish the game.
We have this game on steam and only a couple hours put into it however now that its on the App Store we look forward to completing this during our free time. We enjoyed the game prior to its release on mobile so Ill be giving it a 5 star rating.
It is not only fun to play but definitely challenging Ive been wanting to play for months now definitely worth the money and wait.
Thanks for all the work you put into this, it's a great game. And we would like to ask you to improve the clarity of the Chinese text in the next patch, some of the Chinese text is too blurry, not clear enough to read the specific content. And if you can enhance the graphic thatwill begreat, because it looks like a bit blurry when we play on iPad. Thanks again.
El juego es una hermosura visual, solamente lo nico malo es que deberan de tener ms opciones para los controles tctiles para ajustarlos a nuestro justo, tanto como ajustar tamao, cambiar de posicin, e tener ms opciones para tener una jugabilidad ms ajustada.
This game is running smoothly and Im having a blast playing it, however theres some problems with controller registration, for some reason our right trigger button (R2) doesnt seem to work at all (which mind you is a very important button since its the dash button) however we did some minor changes in the settings and adjusted it to the point we dont require to use (R2) at all, and to assure you the controller doesnt have any issue itself because we tried our second controller and it also had the same issue, even though we personally dont mind it because the mapping of the controller wasnt really working for us anyway, other than that the game is great and we hope this issue can be patched by later updates (the controllers we used was ps4 controllers).
A game as beautiful and punishing as the Miracle itself. The incredible art direction of Blasphemous puts it on its own gilded, thorny pedestal. This game is incredibly challenging, and more controller customization options would be really useful, especially resizing different buttons and custom layouts. Thank you Game Kitchen.
No complaints. Handles well and supports every controller we tried from GameSir on up to Xbox elite. It looks gorgeous, still, and hasnt crashed. Very solid. Thank you for bringing it to iOS finally. Looking forward to the second.
One of our favorite metroidvania games, which was already borderline perfect, ported well to mobile with good mobile controls.
The game is very fun and Im using our backbone to play. But according to the app itself it doesnt support controllers official. It would be awesome if you can add that in! Also seems like the navigation controls dont work in the in game menu when using a controller.
Seen this coming to iOS and bought it at exactly midnight for the release lol. So excited to now have this wherever we go. Loved this game on console and now it just became the best Metroidvania / action-adventure game on this whole platform. Probably even the single best altogether. Hands down. Ive had some days with it so Im already through most of the game, and we didnt even know they updated!!! Every single issue Im reading in these other reviews (and experienced ourselves, dont get us wrong) have been 100% addressed. With these updates its absolutely perfect. A console is ultimately better and even on the phone, a controller is still the way to go, but say youve never played this game before; all this for $8??? EIGHT BUCKS!? Its a steal. Literally this game is worth a lot more than that. Ten outta ten.
Played this game on Xbox and Steam, absolutely love it. We hope they port Blasphemous 2 to iPhones as well. The game runs great, but the scaling is still a little off, even after 1.3 update. Other than that, the game runs as intended, if you havent, definitely check this game out. If you have, buy to support, this is always a fun game to come back to, time to time.
THIS GAME WAS GOOD PLEASE ADD IT OFFLINE.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.9
- Size: 921.06 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: The Game Kitchen Sociedad Limitada
Last updated: 24th October 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Action | Developer: The Game Kitchen Sociedad Limitada