Last updated on November 29th, 2025 at 11:35 am
Phoenix 2 – Entertainment Game Review
Phoenix 2 is a Entertainment/Action/Casual game from Firi Games, first launched in 28th July 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 25,287+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Phoenix 2 Stand Out
Save the galaxy in this classic arcade shooter that everyone can enjoy! Blast wave after wave of menacing invaders in exciting missions to achieve glorious victory. Start playing Phoenix 2 right now with all these great features.
- Blast invaders with over 100 unique ships.
- Build your own ship collection and upgrade your favorites.
- Experience an action packed campaign with 30 exciting story missions.
- Discover special abilities like Mega Laser, Missile Swarm and Personal Shield.
- Short game sessions: Launch whenever you have a minute to play.
- Complete daily missions of different skill levels, from casual to bullet hell.
- Get the high score on global leaderboards and show you are the best of the best.
- Engage with an active community to help each other and discuss ship tactics.
- New missions are generated every day.
- Stunning and smooth 120FPS graphics powered by our custom game engine.
- Create a group for your friends and play your own unique missions.
- Cross-platform saving and cross-platform play.
Phoenix 2 is developed by a passionate indie studio in The Netherlands and delivers the handcrafted experience of a retro space shoot’em up with modern gameplay. Phoenix 2 is your new daily visit to the arcade!
Internet connection required to play.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Phoenix 2 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th April 2025
Recent improvements include:
We are celebrating Kingsday, or Koningsdag, down here in The Netherlands. April 27th marks the King's birthday and we have added new player tag options to join the festivities. Check them out while they last!
Meanwhile, we are hard at work on a major new content update. We can't wait to share it with you when it is done, stay tuned!
Download & Availability
Phoenix 2 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Simple but addictive. We need not say more.
You heard it first here, folks.
We havent played this game in 5 years and opened the game back up to find an amazing update that added a campaign and a bunch of quality of life improvements. 10/10.
Everything about this game is perfect. The mechanics are great, the difficulty range is great, the ships are cool and fun, it's great.
Its pretty standard-Lee good for a quick play.
We like it (said in scottish accent).
Best game bar noneso much fun and its free and no ads! We love it.
How hard and long is the update? It should be 3 months.
Phoenix 2 delivers great visuals and a solid concept, but the gameplay is heavily unbalanced in later stages. The current weapons are not strong enough to withstand the overwhelming storm of bombs, especially in Acts 4 and 5. Even after upgrades, the firepower doesnt keep up with the intensity of enemy waves. While the game offers upgrades, the number of points required per upgrade is too high compared to the low amount of points earned in each game. This makes progression feel slow and unrewarding. It would be much more player-friendly if the game awarded more points per mission or reduced the upgrade costs. The shield system also needs improvement. It should be more responsive and activate instantly when triggered. Currently, theres a noticeable delayby the time it kicks in, its often too late. Extending its duration and increasing sensitivity would make it a more reliable defensive tool. Phoenix 2 has a lot of potential, but better weapon balancing, a fairer upgrade system, and more responsive shields would make a big difference in gameplay satisfaction.
Its a great game, but it could get more levels for the campaign. It would be really nice but Ive been playing this game since it came out and its a really good game lost action not so easy either. And we like a good challenge in this game is a challenge. Do you think you got what it takes go ahead and play it.
Still waiting for a real update that doesnt have to do with bug fixes and the menu screen and are you guys ever gonna make new ships its been a long time.
Simple this game is off the hook. Everything about it. The colors animation, ships, sounds.. Ahh man ITS MY STRESS RELIVER.
We hope to continue the first warship that eats energy crystals and continues to evolve equipment. The first one is so classic that it is very similar to the meat pigeon game. We bought an Apple iPad to play the first classic Phoenix fighter. We originally played the Android system. If the first one can continue to update the original meat pigeon mode, then we love it very much. The second one makes us feel a little unplayable. We still love the epic work of the first one. The first one really hopes that the author will continue to update it. Its so perfect.
Once shot, the level must start completely over! What the heck.
No matter how good you think you are and how fast you legitimately complete daily missions, youll never find yourself close to being 1st place in rankings list to get that badge. Why? Because you will find the same players who somehow complete the mission in about less than a minute every time. How they do it is beyond us, because some of the boss ships take at least 5 seconds to get in the fight. FIRI Games dont do anything about it other than say its legitimate – unless those players dont even get shot at there is no way. Do better in vetting these cheaters @FIRI.
We really enjoy playing this game before we go to bed. Its relaxing and fun to play.
All iOS games should strive to be this fluid.
Whats that game? Im losing progress we made because Im not playing enough? Guess Ill just stop playing. Its a fun game, but Im not going to go out of our way to make sure we play it every day. And we dont feel like getting nagged about it either.
Amazing game not any longer, all our ships we bought have had gone disappeared gone from long time we bought it last 4,5,6 years back we bought from the money and they took it all our ships which we spent we dont know almost 80dollars to purchase once and unlock xps with it. Not resists any longer in gameplay anymore any longer. Too disappointed in it.
So at level 30 you get a phoenix. The graphics: The game is so fun. You get 100 varieties of ships.
It's fun to play, and they have put some good updates so far. Lots of ships, moderate difficulty. The levels are a little repetitive, but the last update helped a lot. Overall if you like these type games, it's worth downloading. They really get the whole 'fun to play' concept.
The game play loop is addicting and this game gives a good challenge and a huge variety of ships for different play styles. However there are so many ships and you can only buy they happen to show up in the shop every so many hours and you can only choose from three. Most of the time they will feature ships you already have also, we wish you could earn more credits every day. We think this would keep the player base playing more. Either way its a good time.
Its a good game and the graphics are great. Problem is that if you rank up to Marshall you wont earn any more credits but the missions will be MUCH harder so it pays to be demoted. Thats really dumb. Also three missions per day and an alliance mission every few days just isnt a lot of content. Would be cool to see a co-op mission or something. Otherwise its awesome.
We really like it we can really be on a roll we just downloaded it today Ive already completed four levels in like 20 minutes.
Not lots of games that can distract us but, this one definitely can take your mind off anything if u let it.
Dont get us wrong, we know there are many other fantastic phone games. For us though, this one is our one and only phone game so far. The sounds, effects, graphics, and many other aspects Im not sure how to describe, keep us enthralled when we play this game. Thank you Firi.
Best space shooter ever. Even better than the 1st.
We have played all the maps and now there is nothing left to play, please quickly update more new maps.
This is the one game that Ive continued to come back to over and over again for many years as it continues to be challenging, enjoyable, and rewarding. Kudos to the developers for making such a great game and thank you for continuing to release updates.
After update be sure to switch back to your daily mission in middle of screen. Still a great game.
Awesome game cool APEX forms and different abilities change the play style so much! Doomsday weapons make this game way more fun.
The thing we love about this game are the hundred different combinations of arsenals and how no matter the ship, it will be good if you fully upgrade it. Meaning, there are no bad ships. We love how there is diversity within each mission and how you can go up against the same ships(or different) and it doesnt get old. We just wish some things where different. First of all, some of the missions are very difficult(which we understand; its a game, thats the point!) but it shouldnt take us over 30 tries to beat one mission just because one wave requires too much luck to beat. Another thing we think should be changed is the amount of coins we get per day. Currently the maximum is low in our opinion.but we understand why it is that way so If you were to ask us, they should add rewards to certain places on the leaderboards of each mission. For example, the top 500 should get so and so amount of coins and ect. This would make the game more competitive but also very rewarding for those of us willing to try. Meaning we get more coins the more we play. Another thing that should be worked on is player interactions. Maybe add some way to directly compete or even work together with our ships (which would honestly be the coolest thing ever!). We understand this would change the dynamic of the game but it would still be cool to see.Either way, this is one of the best games we have ever played. Nice job Firi Games.
Been playing this game for years. Stopped playing for year and came back and theyre updated it better. Best shooter.
We like the game its fun and stress reliving it really takes away anger and anxiety and its a great game.
The only bullethell that doesnt crush our spirits. Love the community (JUB and Boost Im talking about you).
This is one of those games we played at best buy and an all time favorite definitely worth 5 stars, try it out and enjoy yourself.
This game is pretty fun, the graphics are great. We have some red/green vision issues, and it is very hard for us to see the enemy bullets on some levels.
This games graphics is awesome and we love how it doesnt go to impossible and we love the ships also can you add a exchange system where you can exchange revives for credits since theres already a exchange for credits into revives.
So many unnecessary updates latelyHow about some new ships? Its been forever since weve had some new content.
The gameplay is fun, but as you rank up and get harder levels, the payout remains the same so why bother with the harder levels?? If youre going to force us into SS and SSS levels at least add some kind of benefit. Now we have to tank our ranking back down so that we can actually complete levels and have it be worth our time.
Best of its class. -No Forced Ads -Unique Gameplay -Best Of All, Unique Ships And Weapons.
While the cosmetic changes are nice and all, its still really not playable on our iPad. The top of the screen is still cut off. Try fixing that. And we still dislike the current revive system.
Ive been playing this game for almost 5 years now over this time we think we spent about $300 in upgrades but its been entirely worth it. You dont know until you dig deep how rewarding this game can truly be if you are a space shooter fan it doesnt get any better than this.
There are a good amount of galactic shooters out there on the market, but this one is different from all the rest for all the best reasons. It doesnt take much to realize how much hard work and care the developer's put in this game to make a high quality and fun. From the visuals, the graphics, the animation, the complex mechanics that require strategy to win. The sound design. All the details come together to intrigue you to the best sci-if cosmic experience. We love the new 6.3 update. A great improvement.
This game used to be really exciting, but after removing on-demand revives, the ability to buy ships whenever, and nerfing so many mechanics and visuals? Its become quite a grind. Especially Apex forms, which youll be lucky to unlock in a year.
Like the game. Very challenging. Dont like the fact that some missions will only allow certain ships, which means you have to upgrade or buy new ships, which is the way you spend more money. So only 4 stars because you are forced to spend more money.
Good graphics – good fx- good variety of ships and weapons -excellent gameplay – smooth -.
We'll give it 5 stars because it is a very smooth and functional game. Simple rules and gameplay however don't expect to be upgrading or buying apex load outs. Not really feasible to afford with in game currency or even cash. Outright over priced no idea what the devs where doing.
Best space fighting game for iOS.
Ive been playing this for a few years now. We havent paid a cent for it, and Ive unlocked all the ships and now we feel like we at least owe a review. The daily missions change things up enough to be interesting each day, but there isnt so much that we get addicted and cant put the phone down. Its satisfying to get better over time, and the F2P system feels generous enough that we dont have to pay to advance. At this point, we cant pay to advance even if we wanted to; we already have maxed out the ships we need.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 7.3.2
- Size: 277.71 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Firi Games
Last updated: 25th April 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Action | Developer: Firi Games