DEATHSMILES
Step into the gaming world with DEATHSMILES, one of the top $5.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by CAVE Co., Ltd., this captivating Action game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 12+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 7th July 2011, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 23rd October 2019.
Whether you have a liking for Action, Casual, or Entertainment games, DEATHSMILES is sure to keep you hooked!
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Now updated for iOS 11 or later!
Enjoy the bullet hell with your new iOS!
DEATHSMILES
Gothic Horror Shooter “Deathsmiles” finally arrives on your iPhone! Once more, the Angels descend upon Gilverado!
● The unique sliding maneuvering just with Smartphone.
Controls adapted to the iPhone feature slide controls for comfortable play!
Several button layouts are available in the Options so that even beginners can handle complicated controls.
●PRACTICE MODE AVAILABLE
And those who are just starting out. Practice Modes are also included for learning the stages!
● TWO GAME MODES
Two fully-featured game modes: Smartphone Mode,with a new character, revamped character designs and original story! and Arcade Mode, a port of the arcade shooter classic.
Players can power up their Princess by using equipment and items bought from “Sakura’s Shop”, as well as those dropped by enemies in stages throughout the game.
● COMPATIBLE WITH GAME CENTER
Rankings are included for each game mode and character!
Compete with players all over the world for high scores, and unlock achievements by completing in-game challenges!
Go for a full achievement list!
Important ###: Please read the following before downloading this application.
●Compatibility: iPhone5S or later, iPod touch 6thGen. or later and iPad Air or later.
●Compatible OS: iOS 11 or later.
●This application will use mass volume of memory. Please note the application may not function properly or shutdown without any notice when used with limited memory space.
●Turning ON the accessibility option setting may cause malfunctions in certain features.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of DEATHSMILES on 23rd October 2019:
Several bugs fixed.
Hear from the Players – DEATHSMILES Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about DEATHSMILES:
Great characters/atmosphere, exciting gameplay. One of the best shmups for us. Really liked it. Hoping Deathsmiles 2 comes to ios. Thanks.:) Edit: May 21, 2020. Dear Cave, there is no longer any background music when we beat The final boss.:( Music returns during ending credits. We hope you can bring back the music for the ending scene. Thanks Cave.:)
As a first time virgin gamer to the Cave SHMUPs this game was a delightful treat, we love the music, gameplay, and overall style of the whole thing, definitely worth the $$$
We totally recommend this for people who like shmups. The controls are easy to learn, and all characters are fun to use. Totally worth the money!
DEATHSMILES is our favorite all-time SHMUP and this version is bliss. Ill buy anything CAVE co. Publishes till the end of time. Perfectly suited for touch screen. 10/10.
Once we passed the second level or stage whatever it was game over for us.
Great replay value. With good controls, good visuals, awesome soundtrack, and extra content, this game is a must have!
The game itself is still high quality fun and overall a blast as its transition to mobile is perfected. Our main worry is that the game might be very well unplayable in the coming years due to os updates on this smarthphone among others. We IMPLORE YOU, DEV TEAM PLEASE KEEP THIS GAME UPDATED COMPATIBILITY WISE!
Thanks for the fix. Can control on curtain area now. Bug panic please! And bug princess!
Thanks for the ios11 update. It would be great if the same happens to bug princess.
We love you and your beautiful games, Cave, but please please please update Bug Princess for ios 11 to 15? If not, that’s okay, too. Like a fondly remembered lover from the past, only bittersweet memories remain.
We’ve really enjoyed the Cave shooters but their titles keep falling off the store and Im done paying $6 for a game the wont be supported within a couple of updates, then another iteration pops up and Im expected to fork over another $6. Great shooters but we wont keep getting gouged.
We purchased this game specifically so we can use our Backbone controller but it doesnt support, Please add Backbone support to this game.
(updated after the October 23, 2019 update) ::: STILL… For some reason, with the Lucky Charm equipped, we are only getting gold treasure items. Not one equip item after playing through a whole game. We have no idea why the developers have changed this in the update. We just checked our old version that’s on our iPhone 5, iOS 7, and we got 10 equip items in 1 novice game. This new version? ZERO! Zero in an ENTIRE GAME! We had to play 3, 3 entire playthroughs to get ONE equip item. WITH THE LUCKY CHARM EQUIPPED!!! Why?!?! Why in the world would you change this?! Building up 9 of one item in order to get the bonus will now take upwards of who knows how many playthroughs (I’m going to go ahead and give a rough estimate of AT LEAST 30) instead of 9-15. We will say thank you for fixing the unresponsivness when touching the borders and re-enabling screen rotation, but really, these should not have been issues/removed from the game in the first place. It’s so disappointing. Whoever is going in and literally changing code to make the game worse in these ridiculous ways is REALLY dropping the ball.
Cave, we love your games but you seriously need to update all of them to work on iOS 12+ we paid a lot of money to get every one of your iOS games and now we cant play most of them! Please do your fans a service and update them all! We miss Bug Princess the most. Thanks for updating Dodonpachi and Deathsmiles, but you must support your fans an update these games!
CAVE makes the absolute best shoot-em up games, and this one is no exception. Deathsmiles, especially, is unique in that its a horizontal shooter that can fire in both directions. For the last few years these masterpieces were unplayable on modern iOS devices, but in a surprise, they added 64-bit compatibility recently. Do yourself a favor and pick up all of the CAVE shooters available – you wont be disappointed! And, CAVE, PLEEEEAAASE update Espgaluda 1 & 2 as well!!
Thank you for the update! This is wonderful! Please bring back Mushihimesama Bug Panic too please!
We rarely rate games, but we will make an exception for making this great game compatible again! Pls bring Espagluda next :) Blessings.
So glad youve updated your classic games! Cant wait for the rest to be updated as well, and perhaps more releases!
Loved this game it was one of the best on our old iPod touch. Was so excited to see the new update to try on our iPhone X. Unfortunately they just put a frame on the sides but didnt make it a control area so only the play area is usable for movement. Even without the actual game stretched out it would be fine but please let us use the entire screen to control. Save your cash and get One of caves Dodonpachi games. They stretched gamescreen and updated controls.
Boy was we excited to see Deathsmiles return. We love this game, we love the smartphone mode with upgrade equipment, and bullet hell games just feel right to us with the immediacy of a touch interface with no lag. We missed this game a lot when it woulf no longer run on current OS versions, so we were ecstatic to see it revived from the dead. Sadly, there is one massive issue for longtime players and several really annoying UI issues on an iPhone X. The biggest problem by far is that, upon opening, we got an error message in Japanese that the save file is corrupt… And had ALL our smartphone mode goodies vanish. Given that we had spent many, many hours grinding literally all but a single item, this was frustrating to put it mildly. At least our purchased items restored correctly. The remaining annoyances: – On an iPhone X the curtain graphic extrnds all the way to the edges of the screen, but the touch area does not. This is s disaster, since it means you still need to keep your finger on top of the gameplay to control, and if you drift too far your character just stops moving. – Likewise on the right side, the buttons arent in the extended screen, instead blocking the gameplay area for no reason. – It doesnt hide the swipe bar on an iPhone X so if you dont use the Accessibility trick for licking yourself in the app or shrink the gameplay area needlessly, you will keep bumping it when trying to hit buttons. – You cant rotate the screen. This is notably annoying because in the orientation they chose our left hand is on top of the bottom side speaker so we lose the left channel of audio. Flipping the screen like 99% of landscape apps allow would fix this. – Button targets at the bottom of the screen are wonky, so it is difficult to tap some shop buttons and almost impossible to get the shop previews to display. – The word long in any cutscene text is replaced with Int32, which is possibly the most hilarious find-and-replace error ever. On the positive side, this new version fixes text clipping errors in the shop, and you can full screen it and move the screen to the left or right as well. Cmon, Cave, at least fix the UI bugs. The save loss bug makes us afraid itll happen again if we spend hours grinding rare items.
We downloaded the free version on our IPod(broke) and it took us two years to find it for our new IPad. Love it ^w^
One of the best iOS game ever. Only 1 cons… Why the home screen had ads?
This is one of the funnest games ever. People who are complaining of the cost think of it this way. First off you’re being an A**. Second, the arcade version cost about $3000. Third, games that arnt an app cost about $30 or more unless it’s a crappy game. So just by the game, you never know they take games off the app store and this will eventually be off because people are too stubborn to buy it. So please buy this app, because it won’t last if you don’t buy it. And this is for Cave can you make it multiplayer over openfeint because the Xbox version is multiplayer and we would love to play with friends.
Cave’s usual goodness, but we really wouldn’t mind seeing the Black Label features. Especially if we paid $12…
Definitely worth (for us at least) Dear CAVE, please do an update patch with the Mega Black Label. SPOILER WARNING STARTS HERE we want to play as Sakura, play the Ice Castle level and some others stuff!
Not just an outstanding shmup, one of the best iOS games we have ever played!
While $12 is a lot, especially for an iOS title, it is still a worthwhile game that you will actually find challenging and fun. Consider it at 12, but if it goes on sale, get it as soon as you can. To Bdog19. Give a better explanation of your troubles, because the game is supposed to save coins, not level progress. And what bugs? We never encountered any. Be specific or be ignored.
Was a 5 star game until u added ADS to the home page! We paid $12 for this game to see ads? Boooooooooooooo!!!!!
For such an expensive game it sure has its share of bugs. We’re so sick of it not saving our progress. Regret this buy…
Been playing this for 2 hours straight. This game is amazing with the smartphone and arcade mode. The smartphone mode was designed to give you a very lengthy game experience. Trust us, this smartphone mode alone will give you weeks of gameplay. There’s about 200 items to collect and trying to master the stages expands the game length. Really worth getting because you’re getting pretty much 2 games in 1. Hoping for Deathsmiles 2… To think how much more amazing it could possibly get because this one already delivered danmaku gaming at it’s prime.
An amazing game, but the price might draw some people away.
Was hesitant about plunking down $7 for it, but the game just looked like so much fun. We’re not great at shmups, but even we’re having a great time with the game. Read a complaint about Open Feint, but the banner only appears on the very first title screen. Don’t worry about banners in-game. Great shooter, controls great, lots of gameplay and entertainment for the money.
Terrible. First of all, the full game includes an ad banner for openfeint even if you disable its use. Second, Leaderboards are worthless because you essentially BUY your score through in app purhases that are superior to anything you can EARN in game. Btw, these in app purchases literally total around $40! CAVE clearly has no shame in completely de-legitimizing a score-based game in order to milk loyal (to a fault) fans of the genre. Shame on Cave and shame on anyone who feels good about BUYING top scores through in app purhases. We were hoping for ports of our favorite Cave STGs like Ketsui, DDP DOJ, and Mushi Futari, but if this is how Cave treats its fans, they can go to hell. We’ll stick with console ports, while not perfect, are not nearly as big a cash grab as this.
Great game. It would be really nice if there was an update with the black label features….(lv.999, extra stage, Sakura playable)
The real deal, as seen on xbox360, simply awesome. Even more catching than Dodonpachi and Espgaluda, thanks to lite rpg elements!
This is a fantastic port of Deathsmiles, and the new Smartphone mode seems like it will be very accessible to newcomers. Controls are very smooth and there are plenty of configuration options. Worth the asking price.
It now works on iOS 5. Thank you for the recent update. :)
We are so glad we shelled out the money for this game. Very cute and fun. We have the one for xbox and this one is very comparable. It’s also a bit easier on easy mode for a newb such as myself. If you like arcade shooter games or just something to pass the time, go for it.
Latest update 1.0.5 supports iOS 5.0 THANKS SO MUCH CAVE! We played through a lot! We truly enjoy this one it’s a MUST HAVE. We hope to see a Deathsmiles 2 Port!!
Needs a save game option for iPhone version. Everytime we quit we have to start over.
This is a great way to pass time on the iTouch but the iOS 5 update has it crashing when trying to start a level. Already uninstalled it and reinstalled but no luck.
Really fun, enjoyable music, high replay value, but costly and has you pay for some extra "fun" items. Worth having, easy enough for anyone to play.
What can we say? The game is incredible. As expected from Cave and the legendary Deathsmiles. The only problem we have with it, is that there is no option to flip the screen. Which is incredibly irritating, because our hand covers the speaker on our iPhone, which completely mutes the audio while playing the game. Fix that, we’ll gladly give the game a five star rating. Other than that one problem though, the game is perfect. Controls fantastic and looks fantastic. Update: Ever since updating to iOS5 and an iPhone 4S, this game no longer runs. It boots up, and the menus run fine, but as soon as you attempt to start a game, it crashes every single time. No exceptions. Please update asap for iOS5 and 4S support!
Can’t play!!!!! Crashes every time since software update.
Great controls, fun story even though there isn’t much of it. The characters and accessories are great too, the only thing we don’t like are the weapons and accessories you have to spend money for. Other than that, it’s perfect.