Last updated on November 25th, 2025 at 02:55 pm
Heroes and Castles 2 – Action Game Review
Heroes and Castles 2 is a Action/Entertainment/Strategy game from Foursaken Media, first launched in 25th June 2015.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 3,491+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Heroes and Castles 2 Stand Out
To your left, lumbering Giants smash into hordes of skeleton warriors. To your right, Knights cut through lines of Goblins with their lances. Behind you atop your castle walls, Dwarf Riflemen unleash a salvo of musket fire into the incoming Orcs. The enemy has only one intent: to destroy your castle, and you, hero, are its only hope!
Enter Heroes and Castles 2, a 3rd person action-RPG, strategy, and castle defense mash-up! Choose from one of three powerful races, customize your hero, summon a massive army to fight beside you in battle, defend your castle, conquer lands, and ultimately destroy the enemy stronghold!
—–FEATURES—–
CASTLE DEFENSE, STRATEGY, AND ACTION-RPG GAMEPLAY!
Take to the battlefield in an immersive 3rd person perspective, summon entire armies to fight beside you, and defend your castle to the death! Fight in the middle of a huge battle that you control!
CUSTOMIZE YOUR HEROES!
Choose one of three races, level up, learn new skills and abilities across 9 classes, forge weapons, armor, and shields, and destroy your enemies!
SUMMON HUGE ARMIES TO FIGHT BESIDE YOU!
Summon Dwarfs, Elves, Archers, Pikemen, Giants, Knights, Catapults, Mages and much more to aid you in your defense. Watch them battle the enemy right beside you in massive, epic battles!
BUILD AND UPGRADE YOUR CASTLE!
Build Towers, upgrade your castle walls, and defend! Conquer new lands and build outposts to secure them.
EPIC SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN!
Defend your castle through 30 waves, all while taking control of an enormous map by capturing and defending new outposts. Ultimately lay waste to the enemy castle in a final, glorious siege battle!
COOPERATIVE MULTIPLAYER!
Team up with a random ally or one of your friends and compete in the GameCenter leader boards!
PVP COMPETITIVE MULTIPLAYER!
Battle against other players – defend your castle and destroy theirs!
TONS OF ENEMIES TO BATTLE!
Fight against dozens of enemies on screen at once, from hordes of the Undead, to Orcs, Goblins, Ghouls, Spiders, Trolls, Catapults, Mummies, and more!
ADVANCED GRAPHICS AND TONS OF FEATURES!
Incredible mobile graphics and lighting, fight with dozens of units on screen at once, hi-resolution assets for top of the line devices, iCloud saving, MiFi controller support, and more!
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Heroes and Castles 2 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th August 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed a bug with gun cooldown text overlapping other ui elements
- Added a new premium IAP that removes ads, gives you crystals, reduces cost of heroes, increases crystal earn, and more!
Download & Availability
Heroes and Castles 2 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Heroes and Castles 2 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:
Amazing game, great overall. We love that the game doesnt require wi-fi, so its great for roadtrips. We think sometimes it gets a little too hard, but not too complicated. We love the insane amount of weapons. Again, overall, amazing.
Wish they would make a heros and castle 3! Also wish cross play would be better playing with android players will out of sync every match. But the level of detail and graphics and also play style wouldnt change any of it amazing games and difficulty is nice that it gets way harder as you get higher waves. And amount of units is insane.
We had played this game for a long time now and, we would love to see it grow further because it does deserve a glow up. Add a multiplayer content where up to 4 players could participate. More classes for more diverse builds. More weaponries.
Ive played this game for years. Game has so much potential to be huge, and Ive seen you guys starting to add games like noblemen and war tortoise to pc. Please add this game to your projects and dont leave it in the dust Ive always loved this game.
We used to play this game when we were 5 at our grangmoms house this brings us back a lot of nostalgia.
Really like the game there are almost no adds and it has lots of different stuff.
Easily one of the best mobile games of all time. Ive been playing it for years since the first heroes and castles came out. We love it and we desperately need heroes and castles 3.
Make a third game even tho it took us a couple years to beat a certain level.
We really love this game! We really do! It has good graphics, it is not pay to win, and it is very challenging! However, can you bring back the siege mode from heroes and castles 1? Because we think it would make the game a lot better! Because some players like us probably want to play as evil sometimes. But overall, great game. Well worth the $20 we spent on it.
Good game, they did pretty well, its unique, optimized well. Its sad they are not going to ever port it to pc, or release a 3rd installment. (They stated in an email we sent years ago the brothers had no intention to do so, at least as of then) If they were to make a third our recommendations would be (((((1.)))))Bring back the siege mode so friends can pvp each-other in a fun stupid way again. (((((2.))))) Bring back all the races from 1, maybe even add more (((((3.))))) Keep the 3 class system. If needed reuse a couple between races. (((((4.))))) Utilize the steam market place and make items tradable. To capitalize on the 85/10/5 split (seller/developer/steam) (((((5.)))))add maybe a rouge like element as a secondary unlock-able mode. With unlock-lockable (random events) (think for the king lore book stuff) have it function just like this ones map nodes does without locking the boss area behind waves completed, randomized unit unlocks or have nodes level the units as gems typically would. Have stat buff instead of treasure / gem rewards. Have a slider for length of the rouge like mode, short to long, rewards pre-listed for winning. And have the characters not recover and get temporary ones for the mode through nodes. Have fixed hero's at the start of the mode vs using an existing ones for balancing. And maybe allow gems to be used to prevent hero death or for temporary buffs (like 3 rounds) we know this is just very random but meh just a brain fart rant ((((6.)))) Like how the first one had skins, maybe try capitalizing on it in a 3rd game. Equipment slots and visual slots.
This game has many opportunities and combines strategy with being able to actually participate in the battles. The graphics may not be great but the game runs smoothly and we really enjoy the campaign.
This game is our fav mobile game but please add formations, like to make shieldwall with footman in front of gate and stand archers behind the shieldwall, formations on troops would be amazing.
Really fun game – we can tell the developers actually really want us to enjoy the game. We would appreciate a way to increase ground and wall population – and we would like the designs to change more noticeably when troops are leveled up. Great game though.
We like coming back to this game after a couple of years and it never disappoints. Although we are curious if theres a difference in versions.
We have been playing this game and multiple others from this developer. So far every single one of them was amazing. If they had more funding we swear these games could be hits. The only thing we wish was if some of the early waves were easier. Some of them go from relatively easy and then the next wave is 100x harder. Other than that this game is overall amazing and we will support this team forever.
This game has balanced weapons, good graphics, a wide range of npcs, and a versus and coop mode.
Its graphics are great for the time it was made and it performs perfectly. A great installation of the two game series. Would 100% recommend to complete at least once.
This game is so fun for medival people The game has pretty good graphics almost no glitches.the only issue is that not enough people play so you can play online.
Ive put in some hours on this one! Havent been able to play the online features but have had a good amount time in with the single player campaign. We absolutely LOVE that you can create different characters (races and classes) and have them all fight in the battle with the character you choose to play as out of the lot of them. Cheers to the devs and keep it coming.
Its hard to find good mobile games to play offline and by far this game and the 1st one are great games by far offline and online! We appreciate you guys for making the games and all the hard work put into it! We played the first game like 6 years ago and we still play it until this day. Wished this game could have got the love and money it deserved because it was a masterpiece.
Ive been playing this games for years and if theres one thing that we dont like is that you cant customize your armor or clothes. Your stuck with the randomized armor set/ weapons they give you and Id wish they changed that. Id like to make our heroes be in uniform, it looks cool when they are.
Heroes and Castles 2 is a fantastic game to play. You have a main castle to defend while also having to conquer outposts to eventually take down the enemies main castle. You get so much customization options in your heroes, and can develop many strategies with certain heroes/units against certain enemies. You can also choose what research you want to use that you would benefit the most in what you are facing off against. Ive had many accounts on this game and never got bored. This game is truly amazing. The issue is: lack of gameplay updates. We believe that once you enter New Game + that you should be able to see some brand new enemies. As for the heroes, it would be nice to see a new race and/or skill tree for each hero. Maybe have them utilize some weapons in the game that are not currently used by any hero. For example: the Scythe. Maybe have a new dwarf skill tree that is a miner who would utilize the pick-axe. This is an amazing game. Would recommend people to give it a try to tell friends about it. As for the devs, many people would like to see a new update. 5 STARS.
Enemies are made to be as annoying as possible, so you are forced to play in a specific manner with specific units that counter the enemy units. As a result, certain levels are extremely awful to play. However, there is a ton of fun to be had so we recommend everyone at least try it.
The game looks better than ever! Glad to see one of our favorite games get some love. Hope to see a third game one day.
Love the game and would love to play it more but it just freezes on some mission and it just tends to lag on some missions to it would be nice if yall could fix this bug and some times it just kicks us out of the game please fix.
Game is great. Its fun. We have started this game years ago. Ive played it for a while then deleted it because Ive gotten bored. Its been a long time since work has been done on it. In fact every time we try to do an online session we can wait for an hour and nothing happens. The graphics could be worked on a little more. The grind for loot and currency to upgrade is pretty hard but its not too hard. But after a while it becomes boring. It would be nice if an update or a least a part three came out to give us more.
Very immersive strategy game but most times we watch a add for loot it doesnt appear in our inventory.
So the game is good but once you get to the first siege level it just gets way too hard the enemy does not have a unit cap and can spawn as many units as they want as fast as they want we have tried everything but it just wont work please make the game more balanced in difficulty.
If you have another hero like it here with a shield you can use heroes to do many things like siege towers and have them help you in battle but out of everything even the units dont have this ability everybody on your side will have a shield well most of them they cant even use them. Shoes are useless at that point the enemy team knows how to use one handed sword to block shields to block for some reason our team does not possess the knowledge to even lift up the shield to block a singular arrow it ruins strategic planning sometimes even great losses.
It started out really fun, and was paced fantastically. But you start getting spammed by ads that are waaayyyy too long.
Ads are long and unskipable. Please add a feature to disable them. We would rather the app have a price than be littered with ads. Maybe just add a purchase option in the currency store that disables them to keep the app accessible to those who wouldnt pay.
Ive only played this game for two days and its bad we give them credit for trying but would not recommend within wave five the enemy is overpowering and you cant win battles Im not hard is a problem but this is stupid hard and its a game where you have to spend money to be good at it Its not a good game.
Game is actually kinda fun. Airplane mode helps avoid ads while flying, but as soon as we landed, the ads got crazy. The second you open the app, you are hit with ads. Immediately deleted the app. Would probably have paid a couple bucks to keep playing every once and a while, but have to watch ads to even look for the option (if there is one).
We loved this game, and we've always thought it needed an update. Some quality of life updates is nice too. Well, you delivered.. And you clearly broke something! *** First- the "movement" area sometimes glitches out and rather than move our character it moves the camera. **** Second- the camera clips into your walls more often making it hard to see. ** Third and more importantly- RANDOM PARRIES OUT OF NOWHERE. Doesn't matter what enemy you're attacking, there's now a bug where you'll get blocked/parried even if the enemy is normally incapable of doing so or doesnt have armor. Happens with almost all enemies. * Fourth- knockback has been dialed up to 200x. If we block a giant with a shield, it will FLING us across the field. Sure, we don't take damage cause we blocked it, but now we have to spend 30-40 seconds running all the way back to our walls. * Fifth- the AI seem way more stupid than usual. Like the AI has always been dumb, like attacking the wrong enemies (like fire wizards not attacking the high health enemies and oddly choosing some middle tier enemy. Or they won't coordinate and attack the same enemy as a pathfinder, meaning wasted damage potential) or being unable to hit a target they're SUPPOSED to be able to hit (ahem, siege archers vs wall units), but it was always somewhat manageable and you could always work around it. Now it's just worse. And before if an enemy got hit, they usually stop and attack whatever hit them. Well now sometimes they ignore hits and keep killing your precious bannermen at all costs. What's he point of footsoldiers then if they get ignored? Another thing, what's up with Dwarven miners adamantly REFUSING to kill ranged units unless it's the LAST thing in the field. Like mission 19, they're really great against the Rocketeers, but then they'll ignore the musketeers because a "siege" unit is present. Ranged units should be priority number two after rocketeers. They should go Rocketeers-> Catapults-> ranged units-> THEN armored melee siege units. Cause what happens is they'll slowly walk BEHIND the enemy siege units wasting time and damage potential, meanwhile we're getting pelted by musketeers that we DESPERATELY need them to target. Like obviously you can use shield knights to get around this but it's just super frustrating to see units do braindead things and waste valuable time when they're needed elsewhere. Also, why does MY ground ranged units move TOWARDS an enemy that they can't hit rather than move left or right to get a clear shot, while enemy ranged units DO THAT WITH NO ISSUE. Sometimes our elven hunters will shoot at a hill and not realize that they actually can't hit the enemy. Makes 0 sense, all of it.*** The game is just so incredibly frustrating, we honestly preferred it before the update. Maybe you didn't intend to do anything to the game mechanics but something has definitely broke and we're considering deleting the game. It's not worth our sanity (we also have like 5 high level characters with all godly equipment. We've played the game for a long time and know how to play. We're positive you guys broke something). **** UPDATE: The more we play the more we realize that the armor system is just broken. Enemies with 0 armor like goblin warriors are somehow blocking attacks. Even having higher armor piercing than an enemies' armor does no good, as the enemy will still have an absurd number of blocks (like 15 AP bow vs 5 ARM Orc Archer). You guys really need to release an update fixing this. It's annoying to shoot/attack the same enemy 15 times knowing very well that he should not be blocking this frequently (or at all if our AP is higher). Another thing, the beastiary info is SO inaccurate, with enemies having 2-3x the health or damage than it says it does. Please update that as well.
Nothing new to be said, Ive been playing with friends for years. Would love for new weapons, classes or even buildings to be added.
Did you guys ever fix the equipment issue.
Amazing game but every time it says equipment has been found it says error try later.
We were headed here a few days ago to write a negative review about the error and never receiving loot when found which is linked to the ad system that is no longer functioning then we saw the premium for 1.99 version. No ads and lots of extra loot which can be sold or used for diamonds makes it a pretty fun game. Im about half way thru and some waves are very hard but there always other lands to capture in between waves to acquire more xp and loot/diamonds. This version is broken and we wouldnt spend money on it. If you enjoy it on here youll like the premium version a lot better.
Fantastical game. Both 1 and 2 were really entertaining games. This one at first, is really challenging, but once you learn that this game focuses more on defending with ur troops versus ur hero, thats how it differs from number one, then youll start to get the hang of it. The elves and horse riders in our opinion are absolutely sick. The graphics are lot better too. Now Im just waiting for a third game cmon developers, we WANT A THIRD.
More people need to play Im tired of beating the bots.
Its old and needs some updates but its by far one of the best games Ive played.
An awesome and highly addicting game.
We would love to see a new race or two. Orc or an undead that defected to the hero side. Orc can be a shaman, brutal fighter, and an undead can be a necromancer, death knight, and so on. We already those are in the game but as a playable race with three different types of classes to play them as would be amazing. The game is truly underrated and needs to be shown more to people, its awesome. Granted though, multiplayer is basically impossible with the few to no players playing it nowadays, and trying to get the extra equipment at the end of a battle is also impossible. Other than those two kinks, the game is truly one of a kind, and we would really love to see a few more races added, please.
We have to say this game is amazing some people are driven away because of the darkness of the screen and the not so good graphics. But this game makes up for it in how good the gameplay is you get into it and its essentially a 3rd person tower defense. You build your army to counter the enemy like you would in a Rock Paper Scissors format. But its not just Calvert beat infantry its each unit has about 3-4 ideal counters then a handful do well and the rest dont do well against the unit. If you just play this game you will find that it is one of the unique games you will play and is done better than a paid version that Ive seen like this we hope the developers will update or make a heroes and castles 3 but we know its not likely.
Everything is good on this game other than when you talk to the blacksmith he says "what can we do you for?" we don't know if this is intentional or not please fix this if it is not intentional please and thank you.
This game is freaking amazing only thing we would love to see is the option to play as the monsters in versus battles against your friends.
A third game and put up adds for it.
Its rly good also fix it so u can get the gear u earned after battle.
Any new updates coming soon or adding some new stuff.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4.1
- Size: 763.98 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Foursaken Media
Last updated: 25th August 2025 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Foursaken Media