Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 02:46 am
Last Stronghold: Idle Survival – Roleplaying Game Review
Last Stronghold: Idle Survival is a Roleplaying/Entertainment/Casual game from SayGames LTD, first launched in 26th September 2024.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 18,309+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Last Stronghold: Idle Survival Stand Out
►GOT BRAINS?
Everyone’s worst nightmare has come true: things have gone nuclear, and the zombie apocalypse has arrived! With survivors few and far between, you’ll need to navigate between driving back the walking dead, building strongholds and bases, crafting supplies, and just plain survival! This idle simulator has it all, from the thrill of bashing in zombie heads to collecting resources.
►BRAINS OVER BRAWN
Start off by building a base that you can take refuge in, then venture out to take out these zombies, stalker style! Don’t forget about defense though – your survival depends on making friends with the other humans and adding them to your team so that someone always has your back. Together you’ll be able to craft, explore, and kick zombie butt till the cows come home!
Fun Features:
● Zombies Galore: As a lucky survivor, you’ve been thrust into a nightmarish world where the walking dead roam the land in overwhelming numbers. Armed with limited resources and unyielding determination, navigate the treacherous post-apocalyptic landscapes and fend off hordes of undead to both stay alive and defend your base. The sheer volume of zombies to kill ensures that you’ll get to experience both offense and defense in this exciting test of strategy and survival instincts.
● Get Crafty: As you navigate the simulator, you’ll have the chance to collect all sorts of resources that will come in handy for constructing buildings, healing yourself and team members, and driving out the zombie hordes. Thanks to the idle aspect of this game you’ll be able to take some breathers from the chaos and just focus on gathering items and stockpiling resources.
● Explore Some More: The world is your oyster, the only thing keeping you from sitting back to enjoy it are all these zombies! In driving them from their hideouts, you’ll get to explore tons of great locations and neat areas, as well as build various strongholds in them. Different locations offer up different resources too, so keep your eyes peeled for these and more as you explore.
● Great Storyline: This simulator was created with an open-ended storyline that just keeps evolving, meaning there are always fun new locations, and not so fun new zombies that want to eat your brains. Survival doesn’t have to be boring!
►WILL YOU SINK OR SWIM?
With the ability to build and defend strongholds, craft supplies, and form alliances with other survivors, every moment of survival is packed with both excitement and strategy.
Download Last Stronghold today to dive into this exhilarating idle simulator and see if you’ve got both the brains and the brawn needed to survive the zombie apocalypse and rebuild society!
Only the toughest can make it through – can you?
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This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Last Stronghold: Idle Survival is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- hot fix
Download & Availability
Last Stronghold: Idle Survival is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Last Stronghold: Idle Survival 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:
Gg but we want customization for your character and also add armor and new areas less raids and more weapons and recruits and more guns and other stuff.
Ive never left a review before but we absolutely love this game and it deserves it. This game is so fun and addictive. We downloaded 3 days ago and Ive played so much. Ive never been interested in zombie games before but we played the ad for this game through another app and we had to try it. Its so fun. You build your own little paradise and then you defend it. Theres so much exploring and crafting and building and collecting to do. You never run out of stuff to do. We love how simple it is. You can collect weapons and armor and level up but its all so simple to do. Nothing too complicated. We love it. You can even have companions to help you fight zombies. Our favorite is the guy with the pointy gray hat and the katana swords. We call him Katana Guy. The only thing we would say this game needs is to have the option to make your character female. The ads dont even bother us, because half the time you get a free reward whenever it plays a random ad. Brilliant job with this game. Its so fun. We recommend 10/10.
Excellent first piece game and Im making money doing it.
Im on day 28, still the honeymoon phase but gotta say, 28 days committed to the game is a feat! Thanks devs for such an amazing experience.
Game is fun but amount of ads is absurd. Even if you pay for no ads, you still have to watch them just to pick up ammo and boosters. You can get 15 skips daily (if you pay/only up to 30 days) but you go through those quick.
When we first downloaded this game, it was very fun, but they did an update and changed things that make the game unbearable. We used to play it every day, but we had to delete it because it is just so bad now. You cant even play the game more than four minutes without having to watch an ad. Not to mention having to watch ads to get things like bullets and other boosts. Also they made a change where if you are too close to a zombie you will melee instead of sh0oting them. So we could take them out with two grenades but instead we have to swing at them 20 times to kill them because they keep moving close to us. Just sho0t them! The zombies are too strong now so expositions take too long. Why did they ruin this game?? Please take out the ads every 5 minutes and it wouldnt be so bad.
This game bombs you with forced ads literally 2 minutes into the game. There are options to buy no ads but how about giving new players like 30 minutes before the ad fest. They are frequent too. We got 4 ads in 12 minutes and knew it was time to delete. Even at the bottom of the screen are more ads. No thanks.
This seems like a nice game. Graphics are simple and works really well for the game. Game play seemed relatively simple. But Im not into forced ads, so we moved on. Maybe youll enjoy it.
We never do reviews but we had to do one for this game, we use to play this all the time until the update and now Im not able to switch the gun out that we want or when we want the zombie attacks are done but makes it hard to even switch the gun out in time, then in the missions you dont even give out enough products and were not even able to get behind the mall or the food mart, this game is actually pissing us off now just rewriting it. The game lags and your not even able to confirm if you want to spend your gems they just take it if you mistakenly press that button its not fair and it takes forever to level up or get a new islander.
We just started playing this game and its so much fun.
Its a really cute game bbuutttt you have to constantly watch adds Ill play for ten minutes and iv watched 7 adds just to get something/restock/bring back a dead character/repair clothes that constantly break. And theres a mandatory add every what seems like 5 minutes.
We love this game, but more so we love the developers. What sold us on the game was seeing the developers engage and take into consideration what their players are saying. We love that you have a reward for every ad. We don't even mind watching them because they're short and you get rewarded! We second wanting character customization, though.
We love this game! Its so addictive.
Ive been playing for 30 days. Its the best game ever. We love love love it. We see green little things when we close our eyes.
Without a doubt this is the most fun game out there.
This game is really amazing. We only have one critique about it, we wish that the character gained experience through gameplay instead of having to go to a separate part of the game and update your character.
Finally an app where (with the power of ads) you can accomplish anything you want to within the game. Enjoying the updates as well. Thankful to have found a game that isnt a cash grab.
We played this game all the way through in its first iteration then restarted with the big update a few months ago. We love 95% of the game but have been annoyed lately how our helpers get stuck in the island expedition sections. They get stuck behind things and dont catch up. Otherwise the updates and extensions of the storyline are great and Id love a female main character to choose.
Allll the ads! Unnecessary excessive advertising of garbage on an otherwise good, if not great, game.
The game is a lot of fun! There are challenges to complete.
We love this game! Its so much fun and great for killing time.
Cool game. However Im not a dude with a beard and so far every single recruit/partner is male. Women are half the population. It would be nice if someone thought to include them in gameplay. How hard is it to make a second avatar? And she doesnt have to be half naked either. Not great for zombie protection. Cheers.
Would also love to be able to change the main character to a female.
We really like the game we play any time we get to but there is one problem why does our weapons and armor have durability but aside from that the game is really really fun.
We really love the game, its very addicting to play lol. We play every chance we get especially at work . The only problem are the amount of ads the pop up every 2-4 minutes now. It wasnt like this when we first started playing.
We wrote a long elaborate review that went into our issues with some of the aspects of this game, but we lost all of our progress and therefore lost our interest in doing it again so Ill just drop a TLDR As a note prior – any review that mentions no forced ads in the current mobile gaming industry are either fake or are of people who play 5 minutes before writing a review. A VERY common practice is you get an ad free version of the game until you proceed through what is essentially the tutorial then the forced ads (and now the resurgence of the white ad bar) and the true nature of the game shows up. To get a good idea of a game, never go off by the 5 star reviews plastered on the front, go to RECENT to get a better idea. We have 3-4ish hours of game time as of now and am early on in the expedition and we think Im somewhat close in finishing the car repair. The reason why we cant give it higher than a 3/5 are due to 2 main things (had more detailed review but yeah.) 1) forced ads. We are completely against forced ads. We hate them and to us it is a sign of a team that cannot make a good enough game where the perks of the optional ads are appealing enough to make people want to opt into it WHILE maintaining a base game good enough to play without the NEED to opt into ads to progress. That being said this dev team has been the lesser of two evils. The forced ads are short and are not AS frequent as its fellow games. You also get some small reward (pretty insignificant) after the ad. Although it doesnt amount to anything it is a nice thought for a practice that we find quite annoying. To be clear the current mobile gaming ecosystem is a joke and complete garbage in both what is released and the practices that are taken place. Usually the existence of force ads is an automatic 0/5 for us so it shows that we did indeed enjoy this game enough to give it a 3/5 (as of now) 2) there are quite a few annoying mechanics. We dont have the interest in rewriting our review that was lost so Ill make this as concise as possible. -companions are dumb – get stuck, involved in unwanted combat and no way of healing them. They need to die and be revived through an ad within a time period. We had our samurai guy die off screen and we havent been able to find his respawn. Hes way better than the first bozo. -bullets are hard to get – as of now we can craft one type but it delays our base progression and we run out FAST. Why does our character start shooting and ask questions later? Whether in the middle of drilling in a safe spot or IN BASE, our character will lock into the zombie and waste our ammo -weapon system feels bad. Often needed to use bat to slowly and painfully kill the stronger zombies. Not enough trash weapon drops to scrap to repair the weapon we want to keep (EDIT: At the point we are at now you need to spam expeditions for materials so we get enough scrap to repair our items BUT its at the cost of needing to watch ads constantly to keep bullet supply up) There is also one interaction we came across bug where the elite jumpers can die in the air mid jump and make its drops unlootable. In short tldr conclusion, of the resource gathering + base progression games that we have tried this one is BY FAR the best as of now. That being said, this game also suffers from the same problems that the current mobile gaming industry is plagued of. It just happens that it is not as bad and annoying as its current peers. Worth a try? We would say so, but mileage will vary. Will update as we get further along. Update 1: still going to play it a bit more but starting to get bored of it. Materials needed to upgrade some of the most basic stuff like a bed takes a lot of resources despite its simplicity. At this point its just a lot of going on expeditions 4+ times to farm the item at the end to craft something at the trader 5x times. At this point there should be a way to make stuff in batches at the trader. Here are some of our gripes right now -companions are unbelievably stupid. They get stuck and constantly run off on their own just to lose health. Your ranged companion stands in melee range just to die -Poor scaling. Its understandable that you increase the amount of resources needed to make stuff as you progress but it needs to be done in a way that doesnt make it a drag for the players. The resource drops need to increase more so players dont feel like theyre repeating the expeditions over and over and over and over again for minuscule gains each time -poor scaling pt2. WHY do facilities become LESS efficient as you upgrade it? For example at the base level it took 3 scrap metals to turn into 1 bar. When upgraded it turns into 7>2 then we believe 11>3. ??? Why are things becoming less efficient when you need more and more items in order to build things? -combat. We originally said combat is good but we may have made a mistake. You have that sludge zombie spitting at you through doors but you cant hit it. You have the crossbow shooting a lot of arrows into dead bodies wasting ammo. The machine gun seems to shoot through walls. Characters seem to have god vision. Monsters will agro onto you from out of vision and similar to your melee companion so many of the times your guy is up against a wall fighting zombies just to lose HP. – melee weapons are complete garbage, its shotgun or bust which means more optional ads for ammo -ads. We stand by that the forced ads are done in an okay way for what it is, BUT the game is already really boring and tedious to play if you dont watch ads for ammo so zombies dont take a decade to kill. So whats the point in forced ads when optional ads are pretty much not optional if you want to progress the game at a reasonable rate? Update 2 (final): after some more time with the game we think Ive seen all that it has to offer and decided to delete it. Ive run out of words in the review : as said before, too much grinding that doesnt feel well scaled.
We like the game, so we paid to remove the ads that kept interrupting our fun. Now we get special offers that CONSTANTLY pop-up about as much as the ads did we dont have to watch a video, but we paid to get rid of the pop-up bull, not just switch to a different type of begging for money.
We never leave reviews whether the app is good or bad or bad but this game is so much fun, we just had to! Im literally addicted. We play every chance we get. While Im in bed. While Im on the . While Im in McDonalds drive thru. While Im walking around the store. Lol and we hate zombie games, but here we are. We put all our other games on the back burner. Love it! We only wish we had the option to change the main character to female or male. Itll be lit seeing a girl do all the zombie slaying too.
This game is so fun and fun and so addictive.
We really dont like how theres durability maybe make a upgrade system that once a epic is unbreakable.
Fun game that would be incredibly fun if it didnt require us to watch a 1 minute long ads every two minutes. Stop being greedy, cut the ads by half and youll have a great product that we can recommend. We mean seriously, being forced to watch these ads over and over makes us hate whatever product these ads are pushing. Stop being greedy.
In the first 20 minutes of having the game, Ive had at least 8 forced ads. Theres no way to decline watching the advertisement, so we are forced to close the app and reopen it to avoid watching. The game seems like it could be a fun way to pass some time, but we are deleting it because we are literally bombarded with advertisements everywhere we go, all day long, and we wont play games that force more of them on us.
This game got us in a chokehold!! Just as advertised!! Very simple but fun to play.
So, we just wrapped up everything thats currently available after upgrading our axe today. We started over from scratch after the last big update and it took us 21 days to finish all the content. Honestly, to make things smoother, we ended up watching thousands of ads just to get axe/drill energy, ammo, crystalsyou name it. We seriously hate spending forever driving or diving just to ours stuff, so watching ads was still faster. Most of the time we just let them play in the background while doing something else. The further you go, the more resources everything needs. At our peak we had around 30,000 wood and scrap, but by the time we finished, both were down to just a few thousandeven though we were actively gathering the whole time. Other materials ran low too, which means you really have to grind a lot to keep up with building. We dont really mind though, because the game itself is fun. We love the design and visuals. But Ill admit, by the time we got to building the train, it started to feel a bit repetitivethe material requirements were crazy high. Luckily we had stocked up a lot, but it still took forever to finish. Hope the devs can lower the resource requirements for building in future updates.
We watched adds to get good rewards, now it doesnt allow us to watch adds. Why.
We paid for the ad free version but you still have to watch annoying ads to get useful resources. Luckily the game is fun enough to suffer through it.
We like this game, definitely a time killer and entertaining, however there are so many glitches. We have had to re-start the game and in tern the level we are on. We lose all the ammo we used so far but doesnt save progress so essentially we feel like its trying to force us to spend money to keep up game play. We have stopped playing as much because of this. We will hop on and see how long we can play w/o it freezing, but once it does Im done for a few days. We have notified Spygames of this a few times already.
Ive been playing for quite awhile almost 2 years (which tells you its a good game. We even reached the end of the content and was excited for new releases when they came out. We decided to take up your offer of gems to start over the amount of gems were NOT enough to get us even close to where we were (maxed base and character (work out/exercise level up). Now after the forced update for hot fixes the amount of energy to speed up the drill/axe we get from watching a video (now that all our gems are gone) only runs the drill from r a short time. It went from 1200ish to now 200ish. We know the story line and Im really contemplating playing other games that dont force adds and cut rewards so drastically to get us back to where we were.
They should let other friends connect with you as well.
We hate the ads for every little thing. If it werent for the ads, this game would be sooooo much better.
So far im curious about the $2.99 supply drop. Is that forever? Or do we need to buy it every day to get our 3 items.
We enjoy playing this game so much to the point we spend hours playing it and dont even realize it. Its easy to progress in this game and theres a whole variety of weapons and gear to choose from and we absolutely love it, but what would be nice is for when you have to craft screws and etc itd be nice to have a slider to allow you how many you want to craft instead of always crafting 10 and the more screw you want to craft the more material youll need. We think this might be an awesome feature but other then that keep up the great work on this game.
Once a game throws 3 ads at us in one gameplay, we immediately quit and uninstall. We got the mandatory ads removed because the beginning really grabbed our attention. Once we got further along, we started abusing the ad system to revive companions and get lots of spare ammo. Im barely at the tractor repair, but so far, the attention to detail is really great. Lots of these style of games use fake screenshots, but we can confirm that the gallery on here is (mostly) from gameplay. The cinematics and gameplay graphics are the same, which is really nice.
This is our favorite game challenging but fun.
This game is awesome! Free gear, ammo, uniforms by watching an add. Endless zombie fighting with easy game play.
We love it however its too many zombies & take too long to defeat them especially the boss. We should also be able to select which ammo we want to make at the base along with not having to repair the weapons.
Ive been playing this game for since December of last year, but this new update we fear is taking away the uniqueness it carried in the beginning. It was entertaining without the weekly challenges / daily prizes update and such make it feel like too many other games out there. We love the new bosses and new areas to adventure but we truly hope this doesnt take the formula that so many other games do to commit a player for a few weeks until they get bored and delete the app. We guess we really like this game. Please dont change it too much Especially because Ive paid for no ads, youve got our money. Hear us out.
This is by far the best gathering game Ive played so far. The only thing Ive paid for is the ad free option which is definitely worth it, if you can afford it. What we like about this game is that its very easy to repair weapons/gear & Ive yet to spend any money in order to advance. A lot of games similar to this make it impossible to find powerful enough weapons/gear without needing to constantly purchase new loot boxes, but so far (we have 18 survivors), the free loot boxes in the game itself have been more than enough. It also tells you exactly where items you need are, so youre not constantly searching aimlessly. The zombie designs are also unique & fighting them is pretty simple, so if thats your main interest, you might be disappointed. If youre looking to gather & build a little community then youll have fun, though. Anyone else think the main character looks like Vaush? Lol.
Love the game, we're hooked but it keeps crashing on us. It freezes and then shuts down. Very frustrating.
We desperately wish the ads werent so LONG.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6.4
- Size: 1,259.69 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: SayGames LTD
Last updated: 18th December 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Entertainment | Developer: SayGames LTD