Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 09:38 am
Moonshades: dungeon crawler – Roleplaying Game Review
Moonshades: dungeon crawler is a Roleplaying/Adventure game from Viktor Domonyi, first launched in 20th December 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 10,028+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Moonshades: dungeon crawler Stand Out
Moonshades is a dungeon crawler RPG to restore the immersive atmosphere and experience of the old-school role playing games.
Recall the fun of the genuine adventure games inspired by D&D – embedded in 3D surroundings with a deep, captivating story. Discover an enigmatic realm loaded with ancient magic and myths – grand legends are reborn as you venture into the epic journey!
The conquer's tale leads you beneath the ruined towns – toward grim, eerie dungeons and nesting monsters in the ghostly light. Some descendants of Harten still resist with all their might, enshrining the secrets of the ancestors' magic. Join the mission to bring the liberty and the radiant, lost wisdom back for these rich and mystic lands! The Crown's glory and treasures are buried, many kingdoms of darkness has invaded the realm, but the hope for changing the threads of the history has not been forlorn in the deepness of the dungeons. Finally, the reward for your efforts will be fabulous!
Essences of the Moonshades RPG:
- Mythic beasts and other fantasy creatures come to life in a massive, cryptic dungeon environment.
- Armour yourself for the battles, and find your best strategy to attack their enemies' weaknesses.
- The adventures provide you thousands of upgradable items (weapons, armors, accessories); use miraculous artifacts to make them stronger!
- Action and story-telling both play vital roles during achieving quests and puzzles.
- Fight in real-time combats for fabulous loots, magical items and otherworldly abilities!
- Learn plenty of devastating, protective or remedial spells & skills, and master the status effects for advance!
- Roam around the fantasy RPG realm, follow your insight, and keep an observing attitude – the help would arise sometimes by surprising sources to solve the riddles and puzzles – don't leave a path unexplored!
- Discover other wanderers traces; talk and trade with NPC's through your quests; search for meaningful hints to find out the puzzles.
- Envision the fairy past by the haunting memories of the fallen heroes! Find the scrolls of Harten and Aesthirya to unearth legendary episodes from the greatest empires' history.
- Be aware of the crafty & deadly traps!
- Experiment the wonder of Magic Forge: make powerful potions, craft epic, legendary or even relic items, and enchant your gear!
- Dive into the challenge of Arcane Dungeon's grim labyrinth for marvelous treasures, when the hallowed Moons let you enter!
- Try your luck: dicey deals await you with the vendor of the bewitched chests.
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This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Moonshades: dungeon crawler is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- The Gate
- Bugfixes
Download & Availability
Moonshades: dungeon crawler is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Moonshades: dungeon crawler 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:
Love this game!! Has all the elements we used to love in rpg!! Thank you.
A very interesting and fun RPG so far. We are still getting used to how the controls work, but overall a game worth getting. Check it out.
This old school RPG is awesome. No micromanagement, and just the right amount of skills. Good way to pass time.
Been on internet almost 30years!! Yea, Im old school! We bought first Zelda and earlier. Best.
If you enjoy dungeon crawlers then you will love this game. Great content and dungeon layouts. Hats off to the developer.
Old school dungeon crawler with all the polish of today.
Great simple controls, we like the idea of the game and we would love to see something like an open world RPG game like this, something akin to Daggerfall. Great art style and direction, we love it.
Reminds us of the ancient Eye of the Beholder and even more ancient Dungeon Master games. Its a little IAP-focused for us, Id prefer to just pay say $15 for it, but we recognize that Im part of a tiny minority these days and deal with it. And its an amazing effort, especially from just one person.
Very dungeons and dragons sequel,,.
This is an awesome game if you enjoy old school D&D. We looked for a game like this and am really glad we downloaded it. We enjoy that it can be played on our phone. The updates are great too.
You can choose to pay some money or play for free. Items that cost money are not excessive like other games.
We are really enjoying the nostalgia this game is bringing us so far.
We had no idea that an old retro style like this would be so dang good for mobile. Enjoying it so far.
It is great to find an old fashion dungeon crawler game where you have to actually explore, find items and solve puzzles for your self. Way better than being drug around by your nose with no choices or challenges.definitely not enough games like this out there anymore.
We agree 100% with all the great things everyone says about this game and more. Unfortunately the port to ios/Apple has some interface problems that destroy the game for us. Having worked tirelessly to find the items needed to create slots for runestones on our one item of Legendary equipment we were extremely excited to add them to the 2 slots created by using the recipe. Sadly it was just another interface failure in the Apple version. There is no way to actually put any runestones into the slots. Really guys? Really. We have gladly donated money to play this great game but after a series of interface failures, we won't throw good money after bad. Unless you enjoy frustration avoid this game on Apple/ios. Hal Norman Update: we were wrong. All the interface failures we were experiencing were just our lack of understanding of how to do accomplish the things we thought impossible. We have changed our rating to 5 stars and contributed money once again to a truly awesome game.
We love dungeon crawler games like this, and this one is a classic. Well done.
This game hits all our retro faves right on the head, keep up the great work.
Thank you for this epic game! By far the greatest game we have ever played. You have a special talent and we hope to see a lot more like this. Now you have to get to work on come up with the next levels, ha. Thanks again.
Love is crawler . Great work on making this game.
This game is amazingly in depth and clearly a passion project on a good path for success, best of luck.
For a game that was created by one person, it is awesome. We really enjoy this game. We recommend it.
One of the better ones out there.
This game is very polished and very fun. There are zero predatory mechanics. You never get locked out for hours unless you pay, its not pay to win, there are ZERO ads! There are a few reasonably priced microtransactions you can do for convenience perks like more inventory, but they arent a requirement. We did buy some inventory space just to support the dev. We believe this game is made by either one person or a very small team, which makes the game that much more impressive. If youre like us and you love loot grind RPGs, youll love this game. Never dull or unfair, always rewarding.
This is an awesome game but it is hard to play in screen due to neuropathy in our hands which make it slip out and fall a lot. IF it was set up for play with a controller, itd be easier for us to play as Id be able to hold it and not drop it or have it slip. Thank you.
There are definitely low fi elements to the game and some of the puzzles are a little less about intelligence than remembering where a lever was hidden in a passage way. But the game is addictive.
We are enjoying this game a great deal, thank you for your time, work and your love you put into this game. We would recommend this to anybody. Thanks again for a great game.
As said in the title you should rad this first so Ill be to the point its a offline adventure maze action game it is hard so your not just gonna past every puzzle some you hav to kill monsters some you dont theres a few bugs tho theres a time once in the dungeon where we have to kill giants that drop jewels and then it disappeared from our inventory pls fix that we got stuck and had to quit but overall great game that passes time.
We have just restarted the game and will let you know at a later time about our rating going up or down.
There is no room to include all of the different crafting items and questing/items/armor/weapons.
Love this game but we also want to play it on our iPad but the cloud save doesnt work and gives no option to enable it Id like to play this this on a bigger screen and start over.
Good at first. Like the concept. Gets stupid difficult to were we hate playing it now. Game is also not updated anymore.
We want to give this game a 5 star rating, but we feel that we cant clear out many locations as it is difficult to open all of the hidden doors, walls, etc. Furthermore, the detect skill does not work. When you press it, nothing happens on the map or the screen to indicate that you are detecting anything. Occasionally words will appear that say something strange, but you dont need a detect skill to for those. The skill does absolutely nothing and there are no help forums that are currently active to provide guidance. Also, there are no videos that answer these questions. There are a lot of old videos of individuals personal walk throughs, but all of these were either created when the plays first started playing and hadnt acquired any skills; or they are players that have advanced far into the game. None of these videos actually cover all of the hidden walls, doors, etc of the first level locations. We wish there was more guidance and help available to get get beyond these points, but there just isnt any. We attempted to reach out to the creator, but we guess she is now making to much money to care.
We absolutely love this game, it is a bit hard in some areas but we would not trade it for easy. This game is truly amazing! We wish it was on Xbox too. You would definitely make a killing there lol its such a good game and we highly recommend it to anyone who loves rpgs and great story lines. Our second time playing and always new things to discover. We also love the card game in it, wish there were more levels or a restart to it though.
Not Complicated Just Fun!. :).
Remarkable. AD&D2 back back back back in the day was our starting. Did this and that. Some sweet console games etc. Getting the real deal game with so much fir so little free, thats a sweet deal Id say. Extensive, great attribute characteristics, graphics, sound and dialogue is what it is- bit funny (hit sounds) and over played music- if we had to find a gripe. And its monomial at that. And really no gripe takes away the quality and creative approach to putting players in that feeling of world and dungeon crawling. We bought some gems for storage space. The offer by the developers to reward our gaming for FREE. So to support them is reciprocal and not a burden. Sweet. Thanks.
Not far into the game, but we like it so far. Easy controls, nice to have a duo team seek we can make one damage and other focus on healing. Well see how it goes.
This game has been really great so far. It is worth it to check it out and play this game for sure.
Very good game. Thank you for create a dungeon crawler like this. Cannot wait until you create more levels.
Everything is perfect would prefer turn based combat though.
Old school turn based scrolling and active combat. Fun to add dungeon visuals to the imagination.
Just downloaded and like the game so far. The UI could be better but we think the movement controls should be tweaked some more first. We like having the swipe controls on, but we find ourselves accidentally pressing the turning buttons in combat which can be frustrating. We think if you added a button scheme for movement that only consisted of up and down, or a way to customize and take some out, that it would feel very fluid with the swipe controls. Otherwise great game so far. Thank you for the hard work.
You be a fool not to play this game.
Its good to find a dungeon crawler thats not a turn based we also really like the soundtracks and we would appreciate if the game had a option where it told the player the name of the soundtracks or even allowed the player to download it.
Im thoroughly enjoying this old school dungeon crawl.
Great dungeon crawler with fun leveling, great rewards, fun puzzles with rewarding completion. Good time. Its got an old school feeling combat and movement system which works well for mobile. Worth a try at the least.
This game brings back a lot of memories of Dungeon Master for the Amiga computer. Only this is better! A must for those classic veteran gamers.
Its like being a few decades younger stuck to the computer playing old SSI games like Eye of the Beholder except the game is on raging steroids. We love turn based games with puzzle solving, character progression you can customize, and a decent mapping system to boot. We have really enjoyed this game and we hope to see it grow.
We absolutely feel this is the best game on iPhone we have played. It keeps you going and crawling along to see what comes next. Hard enough to challenge even the old school minds and easy enough for us computer challenged individuals. Thank you and we will play any other games this developer puts out.
Moonshades is a wonderful throwback dungeon-crawler RPG! We have just begun playing it, but it has been great fun so far and we are excited to keep playing! Whether you grew up playing games of this kind or you find it a retro-cool blast from the past, we thinl you will love it! Our compliments to the developer.
Fun! Fun! Fun! Super easy to hit the ground running. Overall, just a great dungeon crawling game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.10.0
- Size: 618.71 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, HU, IT, PL, PT, RU, ES, TR, UK
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Viktor Domonyi
Last updated: 15th October 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Adventure | Developer: Viktor Domonyi