Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 03:52 pm
Heroes vs Hordes: Survival RPG – Entertainment Game Review
Heroes vs Hordes: Survival RPG is a Entertainment/Action/Adventure game from Swift Games GmbH, first launched in 23rd September 2022.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 31,076+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Heroes vs Hordes: Survival RPG Stand Out
Heroes vs. Hordes: Survival RPG is the ultimate battle for survival in Midlantica, a fantasy world on the edge of annihilation. Heroes rise from every faction to face the relentless Horde — an ancient evil pouring through rifts between realms. Only your strategy, your upgrades, and your Heroes can hold back the darkness.
Survive the Horde
Endless enemies swarm the battlefield. With one-hand controls and real-time combat, every run is a test of reflexes and strategy. No idle auto-play — every dodge and upgrade is your choice.
Deep Strategy, Custom Builds
Over 100 heroes, weapons, and skills to unlock and master. Create unique loadouts, discover devastating synergies, and adapt each run to your playstyle — from armored tanks to explosive spellcasters.
Endless Progression
Loot, level, and upgrade with every fight. Heroes evolve, weapons forge into legendaries, and your squad grows stronger with each battle. The grind never ends — and neither does the thrill of mastery.
Explore the World of Midlantica
Journey through cursed forests, frozen wastelands, and arcane battlefields. Each chapter brings new enemies, hidden treasures, and epic boss encounters with unique attack patterns.
Multiple Game Modes
• Campaign – Roguelite progression through story chapters and bosses
• Adventure – Monthly 30-day events with exclusive heroes and weapons
• Arena – Competitive weekend arenas with unique upgrade resources
• Boss Brawl & Hero Clash – League challenges against rival players and titanic bosses
• Guild Missions – Team up with allies to fight hordes and earn rewards
Play with the Community
Join millions of players around the world. Share builds, climb leaderboards, and push further with your guild. Heroes vs. Hordes isn’t just a game — it’s a squad.
Why Players Love Heroes vs. Hordes
• 100+ unlockable heroes, weapons, and skills
• Endless waves of enemies and epic boss fights
• Strategy-driven roguelite progression
• Monthly events and fresh content
• Built for community with guilds, leaderboards, and co-op missions
Midlantica’s fate rests in your hands. Can you outlast the endless horde and become a legend? Download Heroes vs. Hordes today and begin your fight.
Stay Connected
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Join the conversation on Discord: Heroes vs. Hordes Official Server
Supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action as part of the federal funding for video games.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Heroes vs Hordes: Survival RPG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Version 7.2 — What’s New
We’re closing out the year with fresh events and setting the stage for what’s coming next. This update features the Krampus event, additional seasonal content, and a first look at powerful elemental weapons arriving soon.
Seasonal Events
The Krampus event is live, bringing holiday chaos to Midlantica. Battle through festive but dangerous encounters, face seasonal enemies, recover stolen gifts, and keep the action going as we roll into the new year.
New Weapons Coming Soon!
Two elemental weapons are approaching, each with its own playstyle and build potential:
• Fire Crystal: unleashes straight-line bursts of fire that reward aggressive positioning and high damage builds.
• Water Crystal: releases flowing, curved water projectiles that control space and scale with movement and area.
• When evolved together, they fuse into the powerful Steam Crystal, combining heat and flow into a devastating hybrid weapon.
•These weapons will be available through upcoming events.
Bug Fixes
Fixed incorrect jewel icons appearing in event shops
More events, more builds, and more power are on the way!
Download & Availability
Heroes vs Hordes: Survival RPG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Heroes vs Hordes: Survival RPG 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:
It worth the 3 stars but they bury other reviews. No matter how strong your character the ai will always adapt and be twice as strong. Even if you go back 20 levels to try and farm coins, the ai will be just as strong as it was on the higher levels but with far less coins from the end stage. Most times the ai is so op that u cant get past the 1st stage of a level without reviving or using gems. It will also adapt to the skills u normally use and eventually make u use gems to reshuffle the perks. These losers copied from another source, changed it to their preferences, and proceed to greet players with outrageous and ludicrous pricing. Seems like greed in everyone has increased 10 fold.
Very fun and well made! Ive played a lot of games but this one is next level.
Addictive strategy game, Im enjoying it more than we expected we would have. Dont plan on deleting the game anytime soon.
Game is awesome and there is a lot to dive into and is super fun. The issue is that they limit your event progress so that even if you do everything for the event, you will always fall short and never be able to reach a bigger reward unless you pay.
Im only playing this to earn money on another app, but honestly its a pretty fun game. We honestly enjoy it.
The demo or advertisement for this is terrible and we only actually downloaded this for Mistplay but Im so happy we did it is definitely a 5 star game for us, we rarely write reviews but it was so much fun and it is even better to know Im making money on Mistplay while enjoying this one!! Definitely recommend this game highly.
Such a nicely designed game with lots to do. So happy we found it bcuz we cant stop playing.
We really do like this game. At first we wasnt sure because we kept having to watch videos to revive the first hero you get but once we unlocked the knight it got much better and we dont have to keep watching a ton of videos just to get to the next level. Its pretty fun.
This game is so much fun we have been on here for hours and we hade money and we got a lot of wins.
The game is fun and its also raging but we would recommend it.
As a free to play, you will find yourself watching ads as much as you are playing. They lock the double rewards, mid stage heal+ magnet and some of the dailies behind the ads. For $20 you get the ads removed permanently so you can click+claim everything that was hidden behind an ad. If this feature wasnt 20 dollars, we think Id give the game more than 3/5 stars. For 20 dollars you can buy a complete game like this with no gacha or ads. After several hours of dealing with the ads, the 20 bucks doesnt seem like much, thats why we dont mind giving it 3 stars instead of lower. If we had to pay 19.99 to download the game outright, we wouldve passed but alas thats why a lot of games are free to play.
The game is sort of engaging, but Just like so many other games that insult you by offering you something free but you have to watch an advertisement to claim it. Our time isnt free. Your assertion that it is free is an insult. Stop lying and insulting people who support you.
So far so good. Makes you want to keep playing and leveling up to see what your heros really can do.
We feel like if you spend 50 bucks on gems for an event you should get what you want Ive done this for multiple events and failed to get the hero This game is kinda a rip off when you spend money.
We just started playing this game for five minutes in Im already hooked.
The game is simple and fun. Great job!!! Beautifully made.
Hi! Still really enjoying this game so far. BTW, our HvH username is KingM. We now have six special weapons and am now saving up gems for a seventh one. Our favorite event is Mystery ours, and our two favorite premium weapons, Borer and Whistle, are both awesome! That being said, Ive noticed that the Weekly Gems gift is missing from the new Web Shop. Could you fix that please? Id really like to get our weekly gems before its too late. Also, we liked how we could keep bosses frozen during Revive Rage in Boss Brawl, and now that feature is also missing. Could you please bring that feature back? Also this third request is optional, but we really missed when we were able to slow bosses in Boss Brawl as well, so if you decide to bring it back, it would be much appreciated. That being said, we still like the game, its just that certain pre-existing gimmicks and features now seem missing and Im kinda concerned about that.
So far this game is really cool. Its a true fighting game. No random ads pop up. You can choose to watch ads to double your rewards at the end of each level but you dont need to.
The game is really fun to play when it comes to fighting the hordes but we would like it if when we do the coin rush if we can get more weapons to use when we search around rather than just having to wait until we upgrade to a new level.
Awesome game keep up the good work.
This is a great game with easy to comprehend rules and limited commercials.
Ive been playing this game for over a year now and its only gotten better over time. Theres a pay to play element but you can still progress without paying anything. Love all the different heros and tons of game modes. Playing this game never gets stale and its updated regularly. We havent seen any bugs since Ive been playing and we love the perks you get for vip. The auto play in vip 3/4 is a game changer in normal mode! Thank you to the creators for such a wonderful game.
We love the fact that the game offers a lot of ways to participate and there really no shortages of new characters but Id like to see more time and effort put into the regular levels. Im topped out in level progression and its become boring. Please bring new level progression and bosses. 4 out of 5 stars.
Such a fun and engaging game!!!! We ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT.
Ive been playing for over a year now, and Ive spent a lot of money. Our only complaint is that when we first started playing, they never gave us the sword master hero after successfully completing the 7day login mission to earn him. Im still a little salty about it.
Fun game, only reason for 3 star is the pay walls.
Addicting game thats both challenging and exciting. Lots of side games to keep you engaged. Plenty of upgrades except its too challenging to get new characters. The developer makes money through both in-app purchases as well as advertisements. Pick a lane, people.
Game is awesome and there is a lot to dive into and is super fun. The issue is that they limit your event progress so that even if you do everything for the event, you will always fall short and never be able to reach a bigger reward unless you pay. Yeah its possible to roll good stuff on a wheel rarely, but This is all to try to get you to spend more because they hang you close to a bigger reward knowing you cant reach it in the time limit they set. They are lying if they deny this.
Ive been playing the game for a long time, but the ever increasing pay structure is over the top. The latest tie in event with Avatar would take hundreds of dollars to unlock the heros and make them useful.
Love it so far – first time playing.
Game play and design are quite fun. If you are going to play, youll want to pay to get rid of the ads as there are a ton of em plus rewards for em. So that is $20 just for that. As you play, evvvverything has lengthy and difficult upgrades. You could spend $100s and not fully upgrade. You upgrade pets/armor/weapons/characters/skills all separately and all costly. You would have to spend $1,000s to fully upgrade. However if you look at this as a grind game, its still fun as we imagine eventually you can earn enough in game to max out. Maybe There are a lot of events where you can earn characters and weapons for free, so thats nice. Improvements: One of our biggest dislikes is you cannot increase VIP other than spending real money. Other games allow you to slowly increase your VIP with daily/weekly logins. Another area needing improvement are explanations. Do events repeat? Are our Avatar coins only good now or can they be saved? (If they cant be saved youll never earn enough to get Aang without spending $$). Youd think 100 shards gets you a character but we dont think that is the case. There are all sorts of different items you can get for exchanges but a lot dont have helpful descriptions of what they are used for. Anyways: Fundamentally this is a fun game. Just realize its a long grind even with some $ spending as its a VERY high cost if you want to do it quickly.
We were really enjoying this game until they just made every little thing ad based. The final straw was having to watch an ad to get your experience between each level or youre stuck with whatever you can pick up. Before that even with some ad stuff we would have rated a 4/5.
We got addicted to MegaBonk at home and wanted to do something a little similar at work on our phone. This is not too bad.
We constantly turn to this came to kill time and it is addictive.
Im really enjoying ourselves. Good combat, skills, and a variety of enemies. Also, depending on your build, you are almost unkillable.
We dont do reviews. We also download almost any ad game just to see how bad they are. We play them and delete within a few minutes because they usually are awful. This game is just like the ad!! Its so fun!!! And you do t have to watch any ads if you dont want to!!! We are so pleasantly surprised. Great game so far.
Absolutely amazing game been playing it for less than a year and we already love it so much.
Fun game, looks nothing like the ads.
We like the progression and the rogue like aspects of the game, its super fun and satisfying to kill all the hordes. We wish they had less ads but we dont mind a small purchase.
Ok ok we haven't played it in a while but saw an add about and like we should reinstall it and well we played it and we love we're a huge atla fan and it's the best game for mobile if you like collabs.
Love the game only dislike is that royal kingdom ad sometimes its the length of a wave we just close app and play later.
Make it easier to unlock new characters n remove or add more Add blockers.
This game is entertaining and fun but it has some of the most micro transactions Ive ever seen. There are three different premium pass models in the game right now and two of which have two tiers reaching upwards of $50 a piece. Among numerous other hero packs, currency purchases, gacha tickets and several other items that you typically see in mobile games. We could t recommend playing it for long due to the absurd amount of transactions pushed on you. We had a blast for a day or two playing as the avatar but Im deleting it after this review.
One of the greediest collaborations Ive ever seen in gaming. There isnt a single thing in the AtlA event that youre guaranteed to get by playing the game. You either need to gacha or directly pay for all of it, with the gacha rates being worse than a HoYo game. 120 rolls for Appa, and you can only get rolls for him by doing rolls on a separate gacha system that costs $2 a roll, hope you get enough coins/eggs from it, then you can pull for Appa. Even if you spent a hundred dollars youd be lucky just to get Katara. So disappointing and unrewarding.
Unfortunately the game hasnt let us proceed past wave 1.
Wont progress past the tutorial stage unless you go to menu and skip tutorial. Upon arriving at the dashboard youre bombarded with shops and weekly chests etc. Try to push the game more before asking for money.
This is actually a fun game and we enjoy playing it but would make it way better if it would stop crashing every few minutes , we hop back in and play for a bit then crashes and kicks us out.
Soooo many ads. Never seen a game with so many ads that are all 1-2 minutes long. Gets extremely annoying quickly.
Would have given a higher score but the app keeps crashing, and since the last update it wont even load the title screen. Its very frustrating especially since Ive put so much into this game and we really want to play the avatar event. Please fix.
How come the exp doesnt come to our character after each level please put it back the way it was before.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 7.2.3
- Size: 908.73 MB
- iOS: 15.2 or later
- Languages: DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Loot Boxes
- Developer: Swift Games GmbH
Last updated: 29th December 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Action | Developer: Swift Games GmbH