Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 04:45 am
DEEMO – Adventure Game Review
DEEMO is a Adventure/Music/Music game from Rayark International Limited, first launched in 13th November 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 5,045+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes DEEMO Stand Out
"Never Left Without Saying Goodbye."
The world acclaimed, mobile rhythm game that's touched over 10 million players. Created by the team that brought you Cytus, the original Rayark team has created a whole new texture to the piano rhythm game DEEMO.
A girl who fell from the skies and lost her past;
Deemo, who plays the piano all alone in the world of the treehouse;
an accidental encounter between the two.
The music flows as the fingers hit the piano keys.
The start of a fairytale journey has begun…
Game Features:
-60+ free songs in story mode, including more than 220 songs
-Unlock more tracks as the game progresses, experience a story that will move you
-Accompany Deemo and engage with this stunning, modern fairytale
-Plenty of original piano songs in various music genres, many composed by famous composers from around the world
-Simple and intuitive gameplay, experience touching emotion through music
-Through tapping and sliding, follow the rhythm to play along
-Explore the scenes, piece together the clues, and obtain hidden in-game elements
-Stand-alone game; no need to have internet connection to play
-Twitter and Facebook score sharing function. Proceed to Youtube for official videos.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, DEEMO is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd September 2025
Recent improvements include:
DEEMO 5.0.8
- Fixed several previously known issues.
Download & Availability
DEEMO 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:
Wish we can buy all the sound track and play it on a record players.
This game has a good story amazing music and really fun gameplay. We like the customization of the notes. This allows players to adjust the game the themselves. All in all 5 star game100%.
From time to time we had played games in the App Store that were simple rhythm games with generic pop music with press the tiles or follow the ball, but when we played this game for the first time around 2013/2014, and took years to beat it, it not only grew on us in such a short amount of time, the heartbreaking story and beautiful art as well as music, not only change our music taste, but love for this game, as it remains as one of our favorites to this day, and most definitely one of the best rhythm games (at least story wise) made to this day. A truly unique and memorable experience Ill never forget nor regret. Its soundtrack we hold extremely close personally.
Always fun listening to the music on this. Peaceful.
This was our childhood game that we would play in the car on long trips and is the game that started our love for rhythm games and made us want to continue playing violin and pursue music. Now here we are 11 years later and still holding onto that same passion. We owe so much to this game, thank you Deemo for bringing music into our life for the first time.
After us not playing this game for 6 years, we still find this game amazing from its song choice alone. And the difficulty levels match for however you choose it to be.
After so many years this game still holds up as cute and fun and challenging for players seeking to build their skill in rhythm.
One of the best games Ive ever played. Honest.
One of the most relaxing and entertaining games Ive ever played. The music is beautiful and the development is masterful.
We have been playing this game for now 5 years and still playing lol.
We had this game as a kid, we still listen to the music, we redownloaded it recently, its probably our favorite game ever.
This game is our childhood and Ill gladly give it a 5 star review.
We had gotten this game for the first time years ago. Like, way before covid. We love this game and all the memories we have tied to it, and we hope this game becomes find in the memories of many others.
We just love it Deemo if u see this we love yall keep it up we love it.
We missed this game when it came out never heard of it when it was out we never had a phone recently we seat down with some friends and we watched the anime and they told us about the game and we fell in love.
We didnt actually full combo it because we got distracted by our sisters cat videos on tiktok but we got 90% score yay.
We really enjoyed this game so far we havent played that much but we really like it.
We have gone years with not writing reviews for something but this game has broke that. We played this game years ago but we recently came back and Im so glad we did. This game is beautiful, from the Story, Gameplay, Art, and the wonderfully composed songs (Few in our Spotify Playlist to this day). If you have any love for music and these types of games this is a must play. A staple of Rhythm Game.
This game is truly amazing, we are so addicted to it, our uncle showed us it and we wanted to try it out, spending the we think $1.99 is worth it.
We actually started playing this game a long time ago, probably around the time when the game first came out. There was only the first album and the few songs in it at that time (no album division). No storyline either we think? Its been too long. We remember this game as one of our old games lost with our old device. Because we didnt remember the name of the game we couldnt download it again so its been a really long time since Ive played this again. Im so happy to find this game and that it is still in AppStore and even developed a second version! Yay! Its quite rare to find an old game we miss in the past and even up to date. We cant explain this excitement!!! XD.
Its funny to read the comments and see how not only ourselves but others have played this when they were young and to come back and still have strong feelings for the game is immeasurable. Though we played this before you had to buy it but nevertheless its worth way more than the $1.99.
We played this on the PlayStation Vita and we are so happy to play it again. This is a great rhythm game with a mysterious yet cute story.
We love Deemos music songs as they are all fire with our favorite song from Deemo being Myosotis but as we play its songs and growing the tree, it only stops at 20.00mm and doesnt grow any further. It seems impossible to get to the Forgotten Hourglass if you cant get to the maximum height of 50.00mm and this exactly happened to us as we were trying to grow the tree over 20.00mm but it didnt work. To get to the Forgotten Hourglass, youll need to reach to the Top Floor to Alices Room but it doesnt let us grow the tree higher, this is becoming a problem and we hope the problem gets fixed soon but overall, it has very fire music but the tree is the issue so we rate this game a 3.8/5. Deemo gets a 3.8 out of 5 for very fire music and collaboration with Cytus and other rhythm games but it gets a rating lower than a 5/5 because we unexpectedly saw the tree height stop at 20.00mm as Im supposed to continue growing the tree to the max height of 50.00mm and its not functioning right. Overall, its a 3.8 out of 5 (slightly to a 4/5) but we wish that the issue of the growing tree in Deemo can be entirely fixed and functioned right.
Im on a new device, same icloud and gamecenter as the one we used to complete the game, yet when we downloaded deemo again it restarted and our data reset. On our achievements it says we have 11/12 achievements but somehow everything else isnt back, please help. Thank you.
Great music and artwork. Minus 2 stars because there is only a small selection of free songs, with about 80% you need to pay for The remaining free songs are a bit tedious to unlock as well.
So we downloaded this game for the first time back N in 2014-2015 timeframe. Back then we were in high school and was still diagnosed with leukemia. This game was a godsend for us back then. The beautiful music and art helped us through some very rough times. We know that sounds like Im exaggerating, but think a 14-15 year old kid who is living B through a life and death scenario that most people wouldnt wish on anybody. This game was easily one of the most important to us at that time. It practically forced our mind to not think about all the different medications and possible side effects. We mean the music itself has enough feelings behind it that they helped our mind create vivid stories. The art on top of each of these pieces very clearly help describe the story and feeling behind each and every song.
Safe to say that deemo is a key component of our childhood. We grew up playing the game when we were aroumd 6/7 and the memories of the music brought us back. Im now a musician and we can greatly appreciate the music. Phenomenal game and everything in it.
We remember being a little kid and playing this on our IPod not really understanding the story but loving the music and the challenge. Now that Im 20 years old its hard to find a good game that will keep you coming back on a mobile device. Once we found out that Deemo was still available in the store, we bought it immediately and started to unravel the deep and meaningful story through flawless or full combo play throughs of the songs. This game has truly stuck to its guns and made an amazing and impactful game that we are willing to come back to on the basis.
We played this as a kid in middle school, we think it was free at the time. Now Im 26 and it actually holds up today. Very glad we bought it, its a really beautiful game that bring us back.
We really love the song in the collection. Although it is expensive, it worth that price.
This was our wifes favorite mobile game. We still go back and play it, it is bittersweet. We lost her in 2020, and this is 5 stars for a game that we watched her love the most, and now it comforts us.
This game makes us cry and sob like a little baby. We would sell our soul to be within the Deemo universe. There is nothing better than this game, this is the best game on the entire store, or at least, this is the best rhythm game. This is the only rhythm game, or one of the only rhythm games that Ive seen that has an actual story, a beautiful one at that, and just amazing characters. We love Deemo. Thank you so much for making this game. We play this game when Im depressed. No.
We have played and known about Deemo since we were 12. We never had the closure to finally play the game entirely until this year. Its been 6 years but we finally finished the game today. And Ill say this- it gets a little tedious at the start to get the tree to grow to certain heights in order to progress to the story, but it is worth every second and time to play this game. Deemo is a lot like a fairy tale of some sort- it had beautiful graphics, the soundtrack is beautiful, and we just love everything about this game. 2 dollars for a game that has one of the most beautiful and emotional stories out there is a steal! Im in love with this game and Im so happy to have finally finished this game and finished the second chapter of Deemo 2 today. We will do our best to continue to support the game.
Love this game. Have played for almost 8 years.
You need to get it because you will be attached its like one of those games instead of playing clash of clans you will play this one for the rest of your life we would really recommend it because of how detailed it is but.. When we first started playing we were hoping to play it on our actual computer so we were pretty bummed also theres a rapper in one of the songs but other than that you will cure all depression if you played it to the whole world.
We absolutely love the game and the song collection is a great mix of many styles and rhythms.
The songs in the game are immaculate, the quality of the game is crazy good it doesnt lag at all! The story is insanely good! And the art style is probably our favorite part about the whole game.
This game is an absolute classic. It was a large part of our childhood, and its 100% worth the 5 dollars now it takes to play this game. It has a TON of in-game content, and even more paid content, which you should buy because it supports these developers so they can keep making more games like this, such as Deemo 2! Excellent game, in our eyes it has infinite replay value, especially with the addition of the hourglass. Though they updated it, we still have a preference for the old UI, just because its nostalgic. Rayark continues to exceed our expectations. 10/10.
Its beautiful, its fun, it has character. Best mobile game to this day.
Ive adored this game since our childhood. We redownloaded it recently and it still moves us. The music is beautiful and the story, though simple, will bring you to tears. Truly a one in a million game.
We have not been playing for long, but the music, the graphics, the story, everything about it is beautiful. We could play this game for hours and might even listen to the music outside of the app. Some things being blocked by a paywall bothered us at first, but then we remembered that it was very cheap to begin with. So a full 5 stars for this.
So we were bored and decided to get a rhythm game we found out about DEEMO II so we downloaded it and played it we finished the first chapter then remembered that their was a game before it we bought the game and Im obsessed The music is amazing and the levels are so well planned out its challenging but not to where u rage quit Honestly its worth ur $2 trust us.
Aww so cute characters like deemo.
We played this game sine we were middle school, and now we are Senior college student. This game has not been a game anymore to us but a cure. It has given be strength when there were rough times in our life. The musics in this game has a such a great healing effect. One of the best game in our life so far.
Got us started on playing rhythm games. Easy to pick up for beginners but does get difficult later on. Story is nice, love marigold and in general awesome.
With DEEMO II out at 60(?) fps, it would be great if DEEMO got the option for players who are disoriented from switching back and forth.
This game, its early 2000s charm, its style of music, they all make us feel right at home. We first discovered this game and when it came to an end we were moved to tears. Fantastic game, definitely in our top five and the greatest mobile game Ive ever played, no question.
Unlocking song required High score. No matter how many times we calibrate this game we still cant hit those correctly on [Normal] mode (maybe its the refresh rate on our iPhone SE not good enough).
Loved Deemo to death, hadnt found the time to get into the sequel. But hearing that the company fired humans to replace their hard work on the games beautiful art with AI art has soured our memories of the first game and destroyed our interest in the second. When all artists are out of work, who will the AI steal from to produce its inferior junk art, have you considered that? Hire back your human artists and PAY THEM PROPERLY. (VERY) old previous review: we love this game and even though we've had it for months and have gotten full combos on most easy/normal tracks, we keep going back to favorite songs again and again – not trying to improve our score, just for the fun of playing and listening to them. But we want to find out what happens next, so please add more to the story! :).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.0.8
- Size: 2,819.10 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Rayark International Limited]()
Last updated: 22nd September 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Music | Developer: Rayark International Limited