Last updated on January 19th, 2026 at 03:00 am
Dark Summoner – Adventure Game Review
Dark Summoner is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from Ateam Entertainment Inc., first launched in 23rd February 2012.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 285+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dark Summoner Stand Out
Garnering Critical Acclaim from Around the World!
Dark Summoner, a Dark Fantasy Social Game Gem!
Downloaded over 9 million times worldwide!
Overwhelming Quality Recognized Around the Globe!
【Game Introduction】
Bring about an end to the war that's plunged the world into chaos!
Summon powerful Rare Monsters and power them up to be mighty warriors for your cause.
Form Clans with your friends and aim for the top rank!
■Featuring artwork by many famous Japanese and international artists!
A large number of artists from Japan and other countries have contributed to the game.
Gorgeous illustrations and intense CG movies deepen the game experience.
■Features over 5,000 Monsters!
Featuring more than 5,000 types of monsters designed by famous artists!
Monsters are frequently added! Get them all to complete your collection!
■Power up your monsters!
Make sacrifices to the monsters you've collected to create the strongest team.
Raise epic monsters and become the best!
■Team up with friends to defeat legendary Dark Lord Raid Bosses!
Summon legendary Dark Lords using items gathered from completing missions.
Cooperate with friends to defeat the Dark Lords and their unbelievable power!
Defeated Dark Lords will join your team!
■Form Clans with your friends!
In the newly implemented Clan System,
create and develop Clans with your friends to gain bonuses!
Battle against your Clan mates in future in-game events!
Secure your spot in history alongside your friends!
■Craft Relica that can influence the outcome of Battle!
Monsters aren't the only vital part of Battles!
Gather Magic Crystals to Craft powerful Items,
and equip them to boost your stats!
There are endless combinations! Find the one that suits your play style!
■Only have a few minutes free? That's OK!
The game is playable even if you only have a few minutes to spare.
Play at your own pace — on the train to work or school, before bed, whatever fits your lifestyle!
■New free events and updates added monthly!
New events and content are added to the game each month.
Dark Summoner is constantly evolving!
※This game is playable on iOS 13.0 and higher.
※The game may not run if your device's time and date settings are not correct.
※The game's initial load time may take a few minutes in areas with a weak network connection.
In such cases, please wait for the load to complete and do not close the application.
※A Wi-Fi connection is recommended for the optimal Dark Summoner experience.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dark Summoner is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Various bug fixes
Download & Availability
Dark Summoner is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dark Summoner 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:
The game is being mean! Kicks you off, wont let you log in, lag is unbelievably annoying!!!! Can you please FIX IT so we can get back to enjoying it.
Most common lag, just like the individual iphone16 , we have the iphone15 and the same thing, the game does not properly fit the screen. We also have cards as old as this game, but the value is unknown.
Use this invite and together we can receive rewards Guild: Sin Player ID: 1665246991.
Havent played in years and didnt realize we could recover our old ID. Which we were able to do, however we cannot find a place in App to assist with uploading that old info. Couldnt find a contact us in app.
This game was amazing when it first came out why did Ateam ruin it. :(.. Relaunch the game as Dark Summoner Year 1.
Great app fix the crashing please!! We have iPhone 6+ and the game crashes after the loading screen.
Always loved this game just wish we could remember our original account login and password from 8 years ago lol. Still its a great game to download and play.
The game is a lot different than it use to be. Its our third time downloading it over all but the general of game play is still the same but with some new added creatures . How ever, what Im not liking is the in ability of being able to log back into the game and instead get taken to a testing page . Hopefully it fixes its self cause Ive tried every fox possible.
So we just updated our IPhone with the newest 14ProMax. Successfully transferred our data, but when we open it up, the icons are much smaller and only uses half the screen. Looked through the features in the game and didnt see a way to make it full screen. And FYI, this is the only app to do this.
We played this game when it first came out 10 years ago, and recently rejoined hoping to get our account back. Unfortunately we wasnt able too, but we kinda expected it. Overall, the game really hasnt changed at all, from what Ive noticed so far. Not a bad game, but not the best.
Keeps crashing please someone update this game.
We got a iphone 14 max pro and its not compatible.
Crashes and freezes all of the time. Please revert back to last version before the most recent update. This is just horrible. And Ive been playing for YEARS. :(.
Add us in the referral and we both can get rewarded! Ive been playing this game for years and its still one of our favorites! Guild: Rancor Player ID: 2639793454.
Loved the game! Wish we could remember our old account though, rip Omni Seta and our first cypher Selene . Warning IOS update that allows zoom for ease will throw off the game and it needs to be switched to standard of you want to play this game.
Ngl we just play it for the artworks.
Love it been playing for almost 10 years.
Should definitely play this game its amazing.
Had to write a review to admire the effort yall put in the card illustration.
We have played several of these types of games. This one, we coming back to after a while of being away. Join up. Enter our we'd # Guild: Tyranny Player ID: 2304047879 .Get some free monsters. Look us up and well do some basic trading.
Its not clear on how to get golden cups for the current raffle, the 10th Autmnal Advent Summoner raffle? Like its says you need them but theres no info on how to get them? And it does seem like the game is starting to become a pay to win since theres no truly easier way to get soul points.
Just upgraded to iOS 16 with a new phone access now we cant play the game anymore.
Ive played dinner games but we enjoy the nostalgia. We wish we could get our old accounts back but this game isnt returning player friendly Guild: Rancor Player ID: 2755023157.
Hi, Ateam, long time supporter here. On the iPhone 14 and latest version of iOS at time of writing, the game has trouble displaying properly and only fills the top left corner of the screen. Id appreciate it if you guys could fix asap.
Loved the game when it first came out. Now we cant even get the game past the opening screen. Pops up with a close button that cant be clicked.
We used to play this back in 2012 when it was still playable and we had a really fun time playing. We would like to see the state that it is in now but our game wont even load in past some text that says something about personalized ads. Sad to see.
It has gone to crap .. Game updated and now only fills half screen .dont waste your time.
Game isnt even optimized for iPhone you literally have to view everything in a tiny corner of your screen while the rest is blacked out.
Doesnt display full screen on iPhone 13 max. Cant gift any high ranking monsters. Need tons of money to be any decent.
It wont even let us past the beginning pop up about allow tracking we cant even click the close button cmon ateam.
This game used to be one of the greatest mobile games years ago. We played it upon release and was hooked for many years. The game died when they killed trading to make the game pay to win. We recently remembered the game so we came back to check it out and its even worse than before. Such a great game gone to waste, but the memories are the best we have of a mobile game.
Game would be great fun again if it would open.
The art is pretty great even if the animation is as expectedly simple. Good chance for rare items. Use our code and you will get a god tier summon stone by just reaching level 100 which is surprisingly fast. Guild: Rancor Player ID: 1929933710.
Guild: Rancor Player ID: 2455489609.
Guild: Sin Player ID: 2771062422 When you start the game and input the Player ID above, you will receive an Invite Bonus.
Great game always evolving with new tasks and warriors.Fun even if you are a free player the rewards are worth the time spent in game.
The recent update has the Key Exchange deleting all our rewards except for 2 Xeno Monsters. Ive lost out on over 100,000 gold and 200 free SP. Ive played this game since launch and is you can tell the devs barely care. Its a fun game but fix the bugs, give us the missing rewards, and fix the key exchange glitch.
Ive been playing since 2012 and we still find the game to be very fun and addictive! We feel like you guys should revert to the older battle sound effects because they sounded a lot better. The skill Sound effects now just dont sound as satisfying now.
Its not bad now but its not as good still fun to pick up once in awhile Guild: Tyranny Player ID: 1207397731 add us if youd like you will get some bonuses that can help you if you are just starting out.
This game was amazing when we first started playing it six or so years ago, we remember it the other day and decided to download it and see what was new. Its still the same tried and true game that we fell in love with all those years ago BUT it doesnt fit on our phone screen (iphone12) when we launch the game the playable screen area is roughly 1/3 of our screen and its difficult to play that way. Im hoping this gets fixed eventually but until then we cant play.
As our title says the game overall is decent but the UI is clunky and needs a major update. It hasnt changed since they released this game many years ago. We have been unable to collect rewards from several events due to the collect screen not appearing. Im using an iPhone XS Max and Ive also tried on our iPad. Please fix.
Nice Art just hasnt changed since last we played 7 years ago. Needs better optimization.
Ateam! Yall really gotta fix the screen size on the newer iPhones its annoying that we have to play on a little portion of our screen.
We had this game 7 years ago, on a different device, and it still performs the same as back then. Slow and buggy. 7 years later and its the same laggy game, different phone. Lot of bugs but other than that, we play it for the nostalgia. Its a game where you dont have to put much attention in to and it has a lot of cool art in it.
So we gave this game a 2 star rating because every single time we open our game it starts then closes so we have to reopen the app. It never lets us play for more then 2 minutes and sometimes it will shut before it even loads the game its driving us crazy. We love love love this game and would be glad to make it a 5 star rating as soon as the problem is fixed.
This game used to be great ! But now you cant even play it for 2 sec before it force closes the app sometimes before u even make it into the actual game !! And for some reason it doesnt fit the whole screen which is kind of annoying.
For some reason we cant even get past the create user name screen? We set our name then it bring us to an invite Bonus screen then it freezes? Plz fix.
Has the game not been opening for anyone else recently? Everytime we open it we get an unknown error.
Keep saying dark seminar unknown error when we try to log in with alt is using email.
Lazy staff working on this game. No update, buggy and keep getting Unknown error in game after downloading this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.02.01
- Size: 106.14 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Unrestricted Web Access, Loot Boxes
- Developer: Ateam Entertainment Inc.
Last updated: 3rd December 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Ateam Entertainment Inc.