Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 04:00 pm
Grimnight Heroes: Survivors – Action Game Review
Grimnight Heroes: Survivors is a Action/Entertainment/Roleplaying game from Gold Helm Games, LLC, first launched in 15th June 2022.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,114+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Grimnight Heroes: Survivors Stand Out
As one of the last descendants of the Grimnight Clan, you must travel the land and defeat the Undead Horde!
Level up and choose your skills as you progress through each stage. Will you choose Swords or Sorcery? The choice is yours!
• 7 Mighty Heroes with Unique Abilities
• 8 Stages, 25+ Skills, 40+ Quests
• Unlock Powerful Magical Books
• Combine Skills and Demolish Your Enemies
• 16-Bit Graphics and Original Retro Soundtrack
• One-Handed Gameplay and Controller Support
• Unlockable Game Modes: Extreme and Insane
If you like Retro Games and Action Roguelikes, then Grimnight Heroes is for you!
What are you waiting for? Download today!
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Grimnight Heroes: Survivors is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st December 2022
Recent improvements include:
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New in this Version:
• Added Final Boss Intros
• Bug Fixes
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Download & Availability
Grimnight Heroes: Survivors is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Grimnight Heroes: Survivors 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:
You see these kind of games are on the top of our list of fav. Games. 1 thing we dont like though is you only have 1 life and we havent found (if there is) any extra life while playing. But thats not enough to make it any lower than a 5, if we could we would rate it higher! Classic 8-bit style,sound,look ! Its an awesome game! Thank You.
It berry good No but seriously this game is great, play it!!!!! Thank you Devs for making it.
This is one of those games that is actually fun! If you like the top down games such as smash tv, vampire survivor, this is your next game.
Its a VS type game but its done even better in almost every aspect. Ive played so many of these VS clones and they all push micro transactions on you. This one doesnt because the developers are cool. They charge 1 dollar to remove ads completely! :).
Love the old school look. Plays great.
Watch out Vamp Survivors, this game gives it a run for its money.
This really scratches the VS itch once you finish the original. Some novel ideas in here as well as borrowed. The remove ads is $1 and permanent with boosts. Very worth it.
Great game, lots of fun. Keep up the good work.
It's quite a different feel than Vampire Survivors, and we think that it has a very fun and unique feel to it. It's a blast to pay, ads are intrusive whatsoever and the ad-free version is only 0.99 Absolutely worth a download! Just be mindful that this handles a lot more old school and also has a much slower pace than Survivors. It does stand on its own though. We're making our way through the Insane mode atm while we watch/listen to a podcast! You can definitely feel the work and passion put into the game, from what we assume is a very small team. We've seen one of them interacting with players on forums in 2022, and they were so nice and engaging. They really valued players direct feedback and went in and made changes based on that. We saw it hasn't been updated in a year we think, unless we're mistaken. It's definitely in a polished state, but it would be fun for a harder, or even better, a more unique mode which makes you play a bit differently. 5/5 for what it is.
Solid VS clone with pay to remove ads.
This is a great game. A lot like vampire survivor. Only comparing it with that cos we know it's well known. But anyway this game grimnight heroes is a lot of fun and definitely worth the $1 to unlock the full game. We're just not satisfied with the attack direction. It's only 8 direction attacking. It's a bit annoying trying to aim attacks with only 8 directions. This game is controller compatible so we don't see why there can't be all direction 360 attacking. Just add that and this game will be perfect. There's all direction movement which is great. Just needs all direction attack now. Thanks for the game and the hard work.
Fairly inspired from VS. Gameplay a little less addictive because your powerups dont combine into anything crazy. We guess they made the weappn system more balanced, but we also wish the drops don't disappear after some time passes. Still a good time waster and the price was reasonable to support a dev gamer who probably enjoys playing their own game. We would make the combos more transparent and give more options to expand the VS playstyle. Maybe a mania mode where everything goes insane and you have to rely on weapon matches.
Its a great version of vampire survivor, best Ive played on iOS. Only feedback we have so far is we think the scythe should hit enemies on the way up and not just the way down. They only want $0.99 for no ads, absolutely worth it.
Im old enough to have come up in physical arcades, so we love games with that simple reflex based play. Grimnight reminds us a lot of Robatron or Smash TV. Good variety of monsters, great pixel graphics, and perfect music and sounds. Its favorite game currently. Our only request would be to add a character that comes from the future, like a robot soldier with a laser or something.
Samson gigachad. The game is good too.
We just had our 12 pro max die on us, Im using an iPhone 7 till the 14 pro max comes. We found this gem of a game in between upgrading phones, and we are coming from having played Diablo immortal religiously on iPhone and pc and this little rogue like game along with a few others are exactly what we needed. We unlocked Samson and beat the first boss, now we unlocked the wizard Ellius and the game feels even better on the new crypt map. The design of this game is perfect. We wish there was a small mini map showing red of the waves and boss markers. Maybe even have chests marked too.
Pay the $0.99. Well worth the money. We are on the extreme difficulty with 2 levels left. Then on to extreme difficulty. Thank you for bringing this to iOS. We have played with a controller and without controller. We would suggest pairing a Bluetooth compatible controller for best gameplay.
Nothing too fancy with the game but if youre looking for something to pass the time its fairly fun. It doesnt bombard you with ads and doesnt constantly ask you to buy from them.
Its been 87 years since we downloaded this. We cant stop playing. Send help.
We are a gamer, and getting older now. Played Everquest, and hundreds of games over the years. Reminds us of Heretic and Hexen, and we have tried a lot of phone games that gate or throttle you unless you pay. This is just fun.
Definitely better than stray, never played stray, don't have to. We know this game has 100x more replayablity . Good stuff.
You probably know what youre looking at here. Wander around, wreak havoc among the undead, try not to die. The speed is right, timing is fun. Not too hard, not too easy and ways to progress and keep gameplay interesting. Well done to the developers.
Grimnight heroes is a 2d survival rogue like where you select one hero arch type and try to survive hordes of horror movie monsters. Let there be no confusion: this is a full blown rip off of vampire survivors. But where VS gets caught up in its complicated system of unlocks, power ups, and meta story elements, Grimnight heroes is a more straight forward experience that gets the player exactly where they wanna be as fast as possible: killing evil demons that lurk in the night. We found the balance of this game to be significantly better than VS as well, seeing a more enjoyable experience for both beginners and seasoned players. Ps: theres actually vampires in this one (IYKYK).
Our initial impression is that this game is great. Ive played a few games and reached Draculas Castle. However, theres one problem Id like to see the devs fix: 20 minutes is too long for a mobile game. People dont even play Magic Arena for 20 minutes at a time – they jam best of 1s that take 5 minutes or so. And thats a game that was made to be played in-between other engagements. Remember Mark Rosewaters lesson: too short is better than too long. Id like to see games shortened or broken up into 5 minute intervals or shorter.
We were looking forward to grinding our way through all the characters and figuring out all of the skill combos. We actually liked the old school 8-direction controls. The problem we have with the game is that we paid to remove all ads but it still played ads nearly every time for the double coins bonus after a run. We just deleted it.
Dead game. No more updates. Dont bother.
No more updates. Dont download.
Literally the most fun Ive had playing a mobile game in forever, 10/10 take our money when we get paid haha.
Great game, very similar to the fantastic Vampire Survivors! Highly recommended.
The developer keeps updating so we cant put it down. Each character is a different play experience. Love, love , love this game.
This is so fun- it satisfies the hand eye reflexes with some brain food for decision making and just easy going fun to watch the combos you can make we can already tell Ill be going max level for the pixel fun of it.
Its pretty fun, and a good time waster. However the grind is pretty bad. Definitely makes progress way slower than it has to be. Which is okay to an extent, we personally feel like its a touch too slow to advance but the devs gotta make money somehow. Still we think increasing the gold earned by a tad wouldnt hurt.
Fun and addicting. Not pay to win which is nice, just old fashioned fun lol.
Great game, satisfying and fun. Perfect for offline play and long airplane rides. Runs are about 20 minutes long and the gold earned can be used to buy permanent upgrades from the shop. No micro-transactions just the option to watch an ad if you want to double your rewards after a run, or to get a discount on stats boosts before starting a run. Only negative feedback is gameplay loop is basically the same each level, the only thing that changes is the background and monster art. The strategy that worked on the first level works for all levels. Could use different size/shape maps and atleast one unique enemy AI per new level.
A well-made, and even improved upon, mobile vamp survivors clone.
Edit: problems were fixed its balanced and fun again.
The game is really fun. But the most amazing thing is there arent constant ads. In fact you never have ads unless you want to watch them and its not necessary to even do so. Just if you want a little bit of coins daily, or to 2x your coins after a play through. Ive never written a review before but this game really deserves it. Even if its not a game that interests you, check it out to at least see what games should be as far as ads.
Good version of vampire survivor for iOS. Thanks.
Overall not terrible for a free game. At the end of the day however, the main competitor does everything 100x better and for only a couple bucks. This genre has blown up in the last year and we cant lie when we say they have majorly failed to really compete with the original. Touch controls on a phone certainly dont help. On top of that the item evolutions are pretty garbage(and some just plain dont work).
If they added more levels and quests and characters we would still be playing it.
Game is rigged, the Desert level has many rigged mechanics, such as: -your attack clips thru some enemies (they take no damage) -they literally give you no chance, swarm you and spawn right in front of you, and they also STICK to you! YES they block you from going anywhere and you get repeated hits (that applies to bosses from and after min 7) -Some same type of enemies has more health than the others Its a disappointment, because we enjoyed it at first till we encountered this. Not one star deserving either. Edit: Developers are lying, and they didnt answer our question and mixed up our words with somebodys else.
Just found this gem of a game an Ive already put at least 3-4 hours in without even noticing the time go by. The game is simple but it keeps you interested and focused. The amount of characters, levels and power up are great. Cant wait to see how this game evolves more. Keep up the great work.
Its fun, challenging and looks great. The sprites are creepy and theres a lot to start out with. Its on the go mayhem.
We love this game. It is so fun.
No other game has the vampire survivors feel like this one does, we seriously urge you to play this. Its so good.
Not sureI keep coming back even though Ive played similar games where the gameplay is better. They have a good product and a great formula here! Very F2P friendly and has a fun grindy aspect. Not works shattering but very solid.
Fine game, the desert level on insane feels way too unbalanced. Have had no problem beating all the other levels, but desert is very punishing with hardly any way to level up. Biggest issue we have is that it feels like the skills are too focused on balance rather than fun, we hardly ever feel powerful. Vampire survivors is a lot of fun because of the different builds give you very strong attacks and powers, this doesnt.
The three items youre given to pick from when you level up is random, and you only get 9 items total, so if a few of your lvl up options are worthless there is no way you can win a level. Its frustrating to get 10 minutes in and realize theres no way you can win with what youre given. We would rather skip leveling up or pay gold to get another 3 random items to choose from.
This game is super fun and the updates just keep getting better and better.
Very fun dont have to pay to play.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.30
- Size: 157.22 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Gold Helm Games, LLC
Last updated: 1st December 2022 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Gold Helm Games, LLC