Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 10:35 am
Darkest AFK: IDLE RPG Arena – Entertainment Game Review
Darkest AFK: IDLE RPG Arena is a Entertainment/Roleplaying/Strategy game from Alice Games FZE, first launched in 6th July 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,556+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Darkest AFK: IDLE RPG Arena Stand Out
Greetings, Hero!
Welcome to Darkest AFK — a dark fantasy Idle RPG filled with magic, dungeons and epic battles. Summon heroes, form your team and fight through endless auto-battles, even when you're offline!
• Collect and upgrade heroes
Knights, Paladins, Archers and Mages — each with unique skills and powerful equipment. Build the ultimate squad!
• Explore a vast world
Travel through cursed forests, ancient ruins and dark dungeons. Face PvE challenges, conquer levels and prepare for brutal boss fights.
• Enjoy effortless auto-combat
Tap to unleash special attacks or let your team battle automatically. Perfect for both casual players and experienced RPG fans.
• Discover an epic story
Unravel mysteries hidden in a grim world full of secrets, monsters and ancient evil.
• Play your way
Level up, collect loot, enhance your gear and become the hero this world needs.
Darkest AFK is free to play with optional in-app purchases. The game supports English, Español, Français, Русский, Deutsch and Italiano.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkestafk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkestafk
Discord: https://discord.gg/ksfpxCYbnA
About subscriptions:
The “Heroic subscription” gives you access to the following privileges within a particular period of time:
- Hero Exp earned in IDLE is increased by 25%
- Hero Exp earned in the Mines of Abyss is increased by 25%
The “Golden subscription” gives you access to the following privileges within a particular period of time:
- Basic gold earned in IDLE is increased by 25%
- Gold earned in the Mines of Abyss is increased by 25%
Each subscription costs $ 0.99 per week and is automatically renewed when the initial subscription term expires. (Price may vary depending on your location.)
The Subscription cycle is 1 week.
Purchasing the Subscription requires the same methods of payment used to make any kind of purchase in the app.
How to cancel the Subscription: to cancel or modify your Subscription, you need to open your account page in the app store and change the corresponding settings.
Subscription Renewal: at the end of the cycle, the Subscription will automatically be renewed for one more cycle.
User Agreement: https://darkestafk.com/terms
Privacy Statement: https://darkestafk.com/policy
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Darkest AFK: IDLE RPG Arena is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
A brand new update has entered the Darkest world. Learn about the new features below.
• New Chapters
• New Global PvP season
• New fan videos
• Fixes and gameplay optimization
Download & Availability
Darkest AFK: IDLE RPG Arena is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Darkest AFK: IDLE RPG Arena 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 think its the only game Ive seen where the devs give you resources, and a good amount too, just for liking the game, not even rating it. That says player appreciation to us.
Pretty straight forward idle game interesting story with straightforward guide cool game.
We had DD on Steam years ago but after moving a few times we lost/forgot our account login there. This is a solid substitute for those who cannot buy the original. The only downside is that the interface is rather invasive and keeps pulling you aside from the actual game.
The game is fun if youve just woken up in the morning and are trying to wake up.
After playing similar titles, and seeking for a time killer while we lay in bed at night looking through the App Store, we found Darkest AFK. After searching for a hit game of a similar title, we came upon this harmless "art copy" variation or twist to Darkest Dungeon. At first you're doing tutorials, and running the storyline, unlocking new nodes, quests, dailies, weeklies, dungeon modes, towers, and mini games. Suddenly though, it all comes to a screeching halt. We're stuck in the story mode because we're vastly under leveled, and the only way we can progress our characters is through what is essentially "loot box" mechanics. This mechanic we're speaking to relies on our buying of gems, to then hope we obtain a copy of the character we use to merge. Mind you, there are dozens of characters. We'd gladly support the game more if it weren't so restrictive with progress. How is a player supposed to stay engaged? We're supposed to sit the game aside for 24-48 hour periods and hope the daily login rewards will boost our progress? It's nonsense, based solely around investor profits. Which have ravaged the mobile gaming industry, this title is marred by it's desire to pull money out of your wallet, in hopes of pushing you character to the next place, only to do it again, and again.
So this game need. Little more color and some women and maybe a way to get money and xp constantly without doing story.
This is an Amazing Game With a Bunch of Features To Keep You Playing But its Extremely P2W And Eventually You Get Softlocked Unable To Advance Forward Unless you pay an exorbitant price for minimal progress and it becomes an endless cycle. But you could Exploit The Daily Rewards in the Inbox and Gift Codes To Push Forward but when you start stagnating again the cycle repeats. Although its an amazing concept and okay storyline at the start its ruined by a horrible p2w system that eventually leads to some of the most devoted players to quit.
We wish there was a way you could form an area where as long as you wanted so you could level up your characters not just the ones you use but the ones you get that are extra so everyone could be busy Because this game is really awesome and we have so many awesome characters.
Love it! Doesnt force you to watch ads or spend money. Feels like if you do all the daily quests you still get the chance to feel like you are progressing. We have spent some on the game, but we find supporting free games that are being updated frequently deserves a few extra bucks! You do get a lot of offers but you dont have to buy them. Highly recommend this game for anyone looking for a fun strategy game, where you get to collect cool unique characters. Love the art design.
Hi, we found the interesting game with beautiful art and great story. But the only part we supposed could be improved is language. If you could add Chinese language, it would be great.
If you are doing this to burn time there are more enjoyable ways, sitting and managing dozens of properties isnt what should make a game a game. No activation of brain cells just another hyper focused use of time management to waste your life on. A common trait among mobile games. Waste of time even writing this review because we know it will just be piled on top of by bot reviews to even out the score to remain above 4.5. Maybe someone will see and learn though.
Please add traditional Chinese.
Im having a very hard time going through the chapters. Im using the best characters and equipment we have, but its hard to level our equipment/characters. Getting copies of characters is kinda tough but thats expected. Some struggle is good keeps us coming back, but too much struggle makes it frustrating to play. We love the game the art everything about it (waiting for Grut to be released) because hes a MUSHROOM. It could just be us struggling but idk. Anyways we love your game and thank you for your guys creativity.
We honestly really enjoy this game, wish we started sooner! This is our type of game that we can always come back later while its (idle) and use our resources to upgrade characters. Theres enough content where its not overwhelming but also a good Home Screen no over burden of pop ups. We hope the devs keep this game alive and more players join the community, we played a game in the past and then it got discontinued so we hope thats not the case here Awesome game and really enjoy playing it after a long day of working.
(Dont mind grammar) we have invested large amounts of time & money into this game. We have to say this is a great game with a lot of potential we just think the game need a bit more content overall. It can get repetitive and your daily tasks do seem to get boring after a few weeks. We feel as though certain characters need to change or be reworked like Wukong live the character but he just dies way to quickly in high level content even with upgraded legendary armor and evasion buffs. Overall great game just wish there was more to do.
Great game for a while it might get boring but we havent gotten very far. Seems like the devs care abt the players and the game.
Can you please please pleaseeee make a skins for may, basion , and sun wukong.
Enjoyable. Hope to play it on our plane ride later.
A lot better than the other one you had on here. Good job.
Im a big fan of the art style and the gameplay feels very smooth. No bugs and a good game to pass the time! Highly recommend if you like games like afk arena.
Love the game! Its a little bit of a pay to win, hard to get a lot of upgrading and enhancing equipment. And just to get a single summon scroll is little and few between. Still a great game and plan on spending some money just in the hopes to get some good updates.
The game put us back at the very beginning after an update, we had put too many hours into this game. Wasted our time.
We always see people say first review Ive ever wrote and wonder if its a bot. Im a real person swear on our momma and have never wrote an App Store review. Other than Clash Royale in high school this is the only game Ive ever played for over a year. If you have patience this is truly just a single player game you will always slowly be making progress towards getting better. Devs are responsive and always wanting to improve. Theyre not constantly changing whats super powerful and if you get a good squad they will stay good. Love this game.
We put money into this game, but dont know if Ill do anymore with how many ads it starts pushing. We dont mind micro transactions, but dont hold rewards behind watching ads please.
Another typical internet-required rpg loaded with options for iap, lots of menus, confusing and not completely playable offline. Deleted.
Its been our addiction these last 4 hours cant put it down! Obviously going to keep playing it. Cheers.
Very fun game. Just hope the devs continue to add new features and keep the events rolling.
Been playing this game for about two months and we only stop playing it when theres nothing left to do for the day. Devs – PLEASE NERF GABRIELLA.
Ive only been playing for a while, but we like this game more than the other games of its genre. The heros look cool, the combat is simple, all around, its pretty good game.
Play every day hopefully you guys can put this on ps5 in the future we would love to have this on our game console and play everyday game is the best rpg game ever played.
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Amazing game! The art is great and there is so much grinding to do, which we love. We always feel like our team is getting stronger in each step of the game. Also, please bring fullscreen support for iOS! We used to play on our Samsung Galaxy S9 which had fullscreen support, so it feels claustrophobic and is odd that it isn't a given feature for iPhones.
The base gameplay loop seems fairly solid (for the all of 2 hours Ive invested so far), but it seems like theres 12 different subscription lists where you could earn this hero or dont you want all these rewards?. It makes a good game fee cheap and cash grabby, like the devs are afraid that the player will get bored after a few weeks so throw all the cash options at them at same time and maybe one or two will stick. We make a habit of spending at least a little money on games that are enjoyable and free to play to support the devs, but this particular game feels so unnecessarily needy that we might not in this particular case.
The art of Darkest Dungeon is great (love that game) so having a free rpg thats afk is good in our opinion, the only reason we give it 4 stars though is due to in app purchases (just not a fan of them) it just kinda reminds of pay to win games, luckily we havent had that experience but its a concern for future updates. Overall we think this game is a good time killer and fun. Great job devs.
Love the Darkest Dungeons-influences art style. Ive tried other idle games and this one has really kept us for that piece alone. The features also unlock and at nice pace and theres enough to keep you busy on a daily basis. And you can make good progress without spending a ton, (though please try to spend a little something if you can; game devs need to eat, too!) It is missing social/clan sort of features but those will come with time. Excited to see how this shapes up.
How do we even redeem codes when theres no redeem button in settings.
This game could be great which is why we only gave 4 stars, im hoping this is a fairly new game and many updates will come with new adventures or battles, leveling up has almost come to a stand still because the game lacks more to do.
…in a mobile AFK game. Love the dark themes, live the casual interface, not feeling pressured to buy but aware of the option. Good stuff.
Im about a week in so far. Lol The game is actually fun. No random adds and we get to enjoy the game. Ive spent about 100 bucks on it and we hope they continue to improve it. There are some glitches in the story and some of the additional content like, characters fighting off screen and powers not activating but other than that pretty great game.
It does off some F2P aspects but overall an unpolished and money making focused game Im 5 chapters in and Im calling it quits reasons: its map progression and hero ascending is exactly like afk arena not to mention the pvp and tower aspect. The hero art isnt an issue in fact the theme was enjoyable and keep us going but there is a major lack story focous we feel.
Us encanta el juego time una jugabilidad vistosa.
Easy to level up and gain spoils.
We love this game so good and so fun no ads just a beautiful game.
God awful gameplay and in-game shop. Tries to consumers by mimicking the game Darkest Dungeon.
Hey give it a chance you may like it its pretty fun the art style is what drew us in.
30 minutes in and Im hooked, now time to get everyone we know hooked.
Honestly the core of this game is really enjoyable as idle games go, theres a lot of charm behind the characters and the simplicity of the game itself. Acquire characters and gear and level them up respectively to advance and grow in power- a reoccurring formula with games like these, which is fine and to be expected. Most assets required to grow in power are very attainable simply by playing the game itself. Where the game truly starts to become a problem is when you start leveling your characters. Often times youll find yourself in a match where the opposing teams power level is only displayed by ????- in these instances, the enemy is scaled to match the power of your strongest character in your team at that moment, so instead of having predetermined power levels with expected increases in difficulty with stages such as the ones youll see in Conquerer of Stars, youll be immediately met with an unnecessarily overpowered enemy team right from the beginning, making it a chore to even attempt to progress past the first 3 missions. This is where the formula of leveling up your character and gear becomes a fruitless labor- your level and gear becomes meaningless because of this scaling system. Entering these levels with maxed out epic gear and a team sitting at 175 should not result in the group getting wiped in 2-3 hits by the first wave of survival within the first 3 missions. Its ridiculous and insulting, and frankly it stops being enjoyable to play the game in its current state. The game itself is good, we cant stress this enough- but this mechanic is ultimately a deal breaker for long term success. We really hope this is something they look into and change the system to reflect stages with predetermined power levels to progress through, in its current state we just dont feel like its an enjoyable experience in the later stages of the game itself.
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Loved darkest dungeon and this is quick and fun to play.
Idk what happened we were playing the game for about 3 weeks and then we randomly lost all our progress and the game started from the very beginning. Idk why that happened so it made us very upset.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.105
- Size: 275.02 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, RU, ES
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Contests
- Developer: Alice Games FZE
Last updated: 4th December 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Roleplaying | Developer: Alice Games FZE