Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 11:23 pm
Idle Champions – Game Review
Idle Champions is a game from Codename Entertainment Inc., first launched in 15th May 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 708+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Champions Stand Out
ABOUT THIS GAME
Recruit legendary Champions for the ultimate endless adventure!
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a strategy management game that unites iconic Champions from D&D TRPG campaigns, video games, novels, actual plays, comic books, and shows into a grand adventure.
Optimize formations using over 140 Champions, each with unique abilities, to defeat countless monsters across hundreds of adventures. Mastery requires pushing formations further with every adventure – only the most powerful formations will complete the greatest challenges Idle Champions has to offer.
COLLECT ICONIC CHAMPIONS
Unlock unique Champions from across the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse, each with their own formation abilities and ultimate powers. Fan favorites include Drizzt Do'Urden and the Companions of the Hall, Minsc & Boo, Astarion and Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3, …and many, many more!
EASY TO LEARN, HARD TO MASTER
Manage multiple adventuring parties to test your Champions' mettle and earn even greater rewards. Your Champions automatically fight enemies until defeated, even if you close the game. Your Familiars automate basic gameplay like leveling Champions and picking up gold so YOU can focus on optimizing your formation strategy. Build powerful synergies and unleash the full power of your Champions to complete the most difficult adventures!
TRAVEL THE D&D MULTIVERSE
Adventure throughout the Sword Coast and beyond. Visit legendary cities like Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and Sigil, the City of Doors. Explore the mists of Barovia, brave the endless Blood War of Avernus, and sail the Astral Sea.
REGULAR CONTENT UPDATES
There are multiple content updates every month. Since launching in 2017, Idle Champions has introduced 140+ Champions, over 200+ adventures, 8 campaigns based on official TRPG releases, and introduced dozens of new features and systems to the game. The next big update is never far away!
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© 2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC. All Rights Reserved. Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Dragonlance, Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, Forgotten Realms, Wizards of the Coast, and their respective logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries, and are used with permission. The characters Arkhan and Chango are trademarks of 3:59, Inc. and are used with permission. © 2025 3:59, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Champions is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Various feature updates and bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Idle Champions is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle Champions 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:
This game is poorly designed for phone screens. Everything is far too small. While we only got 1/2 way through the tutorial, it seems to be pretty much a mindless button smasher.
Ive played on our iPad and on our MBP. Steam has a ton of giveaways and Apple Store hasnt given us anything. The game progresses so much faster through Steam.
GAME DOES NOT HONOR PURCHASES AND WILL NOT REFUND. THIS GAME IS A SCAM AND SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE APP STORE.
We're on an iOS device and the app crashes frequently to the point we're manually saving about every 2-3 minutes. Our phone doesn't feel hot so it's not overheating, just crappy code. We remember why we deleted this from our phone last time we played a couple years ago. Pity it hasn't improved.
We love the game been enjoying it for a while but it seems from time to time that we have super long loading screens and cant even get into the game.
Since the last update, game only works if on wifi. Gets stuck on "loading user account" when on cellular data. Please fix. Otherwise enjoy the game.
Game doesnt even fit on our iPhone 13 plus. Icons are the size of pinheads. Just overall accurate summation of the state of WoTC at the moment. Awful.
Still fun with D&D characters but devs dont care about iOS port. Crashes all the time.
We're enjoying it BUT it crashes sooooo much. If you can get past that it's not bad.
We love the gameplay but only just started playing. When we got back on today all save progress is gone. Not sure what happened but please investigate.
Difficult to play on our phone. Works great on PC.
Game can crash when changing zones. Game can crash when opening chests (so you cant be sure you got the loot). Game can crash while upgrading a champion. Game can crash on boss fights. Game can crash Thing is, theyve had a pop up disclaimer that its a work in progress forever. They need to stop making new features and playing with the interface and fix what they have, or just pull it from the store.
We have a 13, and half the buttons are literally cropped out of the screen, not to mention the way theyre microscopic and we cant press them with our huge fingers we just wanted to get Gale but we cant even figure out how to add members to our party beyond that dwarf guy.
Its a nice enough idle game though it could use some more we optimization for mobile, definitely a game designed for PC shoved onto the App Store. Our big gripe was we decided to try out the wild offers and it said 9.99 but charged us 35 bucks instead. Apparently the wild offer included a forced second bundle called geared champion. Feels weirdly predatory cause we only authorized Apple Pay on the 9.99 but looky here its more than tripled that. Still in the early game but oof man. That rubs us wrong.
Ive played Idle Champions since year 2. With time, of course they added new features and activities to keep you interested, but chipping away at the concept this is really an idle clicker game. Im fine with that, other than the period they added Seasons with daily tasks. While Seasons by and large were great once they got rid of the daily aspect, Idle Champions never properly supported idle gameplay with them. More than once, there would be a task with a counter revolving around kills or a feature that only works on an open, active party, not when running in the background or offline. Now theyve given us Events 2.0. Its overly long, tedious, convoluted and seems designed around offering 3x the micro transactions of Events 1.0. Of course we can just ignore Events (we are, and Im no longer spending the $30-50/month we used to on this game), but the problem remains that server connectivity for all gameplay is choppy and the game itself crashes more in recent months than ever before. If it wasnt for nostalgia, we dont think we would be playing it at all anymore.
We have been playing this game for quite a while now and for the most part we have enjoyed it, except that it often crashes on us and sends us back to the phone menu. Normally we would just try to preserve regardless, but lately the crashing has been so bad we cant even play the game. As soon as we load in to the game it immediately boots us out, we repeat this as many times as we like and the exact same result plays out. We can barely do anything at this point.
The game is fun, you can grind and do well without spending any money. Events, for the most part, are easy to understand and accomplish. Bad parts, the game is super crash prone. After the last update, we cant get into the shop without crashing the game. It now takes from 3 to 5 attempts to open the game, crashing out after downloading whatever its checking.
The actual gameplay is fine, opening up more complexity as the game progresses naturally, but the game will crash 3 times immediately after loading before it decides to actually run, and probably only for the next 10 minutes unless we lvl up a champion, load a new area, or do anything in any of the menus. Its unplayable.
Tried to play several times today. Some glitch is preventing the champions from appearing on screen. Hard to play when you dont have champions.
We really like this game, but the fonts are just so small! There needs to be an adjustment to increase font size. Would totally give 5 stars if there was.
We accidentally leave a scenario and go back and it starts us over. We lose all our party and stuff acquired. Honestly, if you have to rebuild your party constantly then this game is utter trash. We can understand very difficult creatures ever increasing but restarting? Bleh! In the trash bin this goes. Id hate to see the peoples faces that paid and losing everything.
This version of the game is a buggy mess. Constant crashes requiring the game to be relaunched. Dont try to open more than 10 chests. Dont try to read th3 Journal. Dont try to switch parties. The stability on iPhone or iPad is worse than Steam or Epic, and that is saying something. Gameplay wise it is what you would expect from an idle game. Straightforward gameplay for 5he most part, cash shop for cosmetics and boosts, and rotating challenges (chores) to keep people playing. Not horrible. Just a buggy mess on this platform.
Game seems fun, but its a full desktop interface. Impossible to see on a phone.
The tos and the date of birth scroll bar are completely broken.
Game takes forever to load on mobile or just doesnt load at all iPhone 12(always hangs at loading user) . Have to restart the app many times just for it to load . Love the game on PC but mobile is just frustrating.
We remember enjoying it when we played una few years ago. We worked for a while and now is completely frozen.
We havent run into any significant barriers to our enjoyment yet.
We could honestly recommend this game.
Multiple times within minutes of loading, the app suddenly crashes. It runs fine if we dont try to do anything or look through stats to help improve the performance of our teams. Its just one crash after another, every screen, every mode. Im enjoying the game but starting to hit frustration levels that make us not want to play.
Fun game but extremely unstable on iOS. Bugs everywhere and an insane amount of crashes every single time you play.
Developers have made a really fun game but the iOS version is incredibly unstable and buggy. Expect constant crashes no matter your hardware. You cant transfer your account to different platforms so youre better off playing it on PC where game performance is actually somewhat consistent and stable.
It is SO good we love D&D but plz fix the crashing problem.
Love this game, being a massive Forgotten Realms nerd this hits all the right buttons. The issue we have is the game crashing whenever we try to interact with the shop, time gates, or associated interfaces. Please fix.
On mobile device we cannot read fonts anymore. Even with prescription glasses. Please please add scaling for fonts. Im going to have to give up if you dont.
Corners are rounded off on the screen and the dynamic island is a constant distraction, was hoping this would work better on our upgraded phone but now its difficult to enjoy.
This is one of the most in depth and refined games we have played. This game will have you coming back for years and beyond. Get the combination codes by googleling them to get free rewards. There are really good sales for .99 that are a must buy.
Love it but the ui is hard to use.
We really wanna try this game but our phone gets stuck at the Age Verification page.
Unplayable because all the text is ridiculously tiny. At least we think that's text. To add insult to injury, it asked our birthdate in the same microscopic type. We're old enough we can't read this, okay? Game immediately deleted.
Firstly, we fully understand that your primary audience is between the ages of 20-40. If you intended to limit the app to people of those ages, by all means, Wizards. Lose customers. We dont mind. But Im 15 and been an avid fan of your products for 7 of those years, currently the DM of an ongoing campaign for nearly 2. If you dont want the younger fan base to play; dont label it in the App Store as ages 12+.
Just got game three days ago or so. Thought it was pretty cool so bought like 25 dollars in in game stuff to support devs. Tried to log in today for about 4 hours and cant. Go on twitch and the few streamers they have are able to play. Download and load it on our Xbox no problem. Try again on our phone and nothing. Spent money on a game we cant even play will be putting in for a refund. Maintenance is one thing but being down for extended periods with no easy way to find out if server under maintenance is crazy for a game people spend money on.
This game crashes nearly constantly. We really like the game, but am considering quitting after investing 3-4 months of every day play. When switching between parties crash When selecting time gates crash When coming back from idle crash Surprise surprise the shop has never crashed on us. Id give 4 or 5 stars for this idle game if it wasnt so difficult to play.
Stuck on age verification page.
Please stop scrolling all the way up or down every time we try to move a little bit >.< Text is VERY difficult to read on a phone Crash to desktop fairly often. We are happy to see this on mobile, as that is where we prefer to experience our idle/increntals, and have been curious about the title. Enjoy the game so far, but the port needs refinement.
HOW DO we PASS THE AGE VERIFICATION.
Games has potential but right now it is very frustrating to play because of the bugs. Played couple days and rage quit.
Icons and letters are way too small. Please optimize for phone screen usage or remove it for phones. Im using a iPhone 12 Pro Max and it still is horrible playing it.
Its a great game thats fun but it crashes almost every 3 minutes on iPhone. Briv jumps ahead and skips a level? Crash. Switch to the second party? Crash. Open chests? Crash. If the game didnt crash it would be 5/5 for us.
Some buttons are off screen or on the very edge. Some things are scaled way too tiny. This wasnt meant to be played mobile.
Cant even get pas the age verification no matter how many times we install it it gets stuck there and getting the year is a mess, seems too messy.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.637.1
- Size: 292.02 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Codename Entertainment Inc.
Last updated: 24th November 2025 | Genre: | Developer: Codename Entertainment Inc.