Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 09:50 pm
Punishing: Gray Raven – Action Game Review
Punishing: Gray Raven is a Action/Roleplaying game from KURO TECHNOLOGY HONG KONG CO. LIMITED, first launched in 14th July 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 8,501+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Punishing: Gray Raven Stand Out
Punishing: Gray Raven is a Fast-paced Sci-fi Action-RPG.
Mankind is almost extinct. Earth has been conquered by a robotic army—the Corrupted—twisted and warped by a biomechanical virus known as The Punishing. The last survivors have fled into orbit, aboard the space station Babylonia. After years of preparation, the Gray Raven special forces unit leads the mission to reclaim their lost homeworld. You are their leader.
As commandant of the Gray Raven unit, you are tasked with assembling the greatest cyborg soldiers the world has known and lead them into battle. Unravel the dark truths behind the Punishing virus, push back the Corrupted and reclaim the Earth in this stylish Action-RPG.
LIGHTNING-FAST COMBAT ACTION
Immerse yourself in stylish, high-speed combat action. Directly control your squad members in real-time 3D battles, tag between your squad members mid-fight, master each character’s special moves. Parry, dodge, and pin enemies down with rapid combos then crush your foes with your strongest techniques via an easy-to-use match-3 ability system.
A POST-APOCALYPTIC SCI-FI EPIC
Dive deep into a ruined world, and uncover the truths behind this dark cyberpunk setting. Featuring dozens of chapters of visual novel-style storytelling, this is a bleakly beautiful world with many wonders to behold. The daring might even unlock hidden chapters, letting you experience the story from a much darker perspective.
EXPLORE A RUINED WORLD
Explore through a wide range of stunning environments, from abandoned city streets to desert warzones, towering megastructures, and abstract virtual realms. Take the battle against the Corrupted to harsh polar battlefields and even beyond Earth’s gravity in a continually expanding cinematic story.
STUNNING POST-HUMAN STYLE
Mere flesh and blood aren’t enough to battle the Punishing, so the soldiers have become something more. Known as Constructs, they are human minds encased in powerful mechanical bodies. Recruit dozens of these living weapons to battle against hundreds of enemy types, all richly detailed and animated in full 3D.
AN AUDITORY ASSAULT
Dance across the battlefield in a symphony of destruction, accompanied by the pulsing beats of the stunning soundtrack. From ambient, atmospheric tracks to pounding drum & bass, Punishing: Gray Raven is as much a treat for the ears as the eyes.
BUILD A HOME BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD
Relieving from cruelness, let the super cute characters and warm dorms seamlessly ease your pressure. Decorate each dorm from a diverse style of themes. Immerse yourself in the peace you're fighting for.
— CONTACT US —
Please feel free to contact us via any of the below:
Official Site: https://pgr.kurogame.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PGR.Global
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PGR_GLOBAL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PunishingGrayRaven
Discord: https://discord.gg/pgr
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Punishing: Gray Raven is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
[New Character] Liv: Limpidity
[New Weapon] Ripples of the Aloft Sea
[New CUB] Levvi
[New Memory Sets] Natasha, Poincare
[New Story] Where Nightmares Dwell
[New Coatings] Lotus Ballad for Limpidity, Graffiti Code for Oblivion, Hunt of Retribution for Crimson Weave, Nightfall Finale for Parhelion
[New Events] All-Loving Compassion, Death's Net, The Godfall Revelation – Desperado Clash New Season, Babylonia – Commercial District, Stellar Rush, Fluffy Snooze, Tactical Analysis Compilation, 6th Anniversary Serial Events
Download & Availability
Punishing: Gray Raven is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Punishing: Gray Raven 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:
Porque cuando uno carga el juego en el men siempre es tan lento deberan de hacerlo rapidsimo.
This game actually makes a gacha game seem fun and the animation gameplay is insane.
The graphics would be INCREDBLE.
This game is amazing we love it but it takes so long to load when you first sign in but it worth itthanks for the game.
We absolutely love this game. Its fun, and its super easy to get good at it! Personally, compared to Wuwa, we can go with this games vibe better, Wuwa just feels a bit off, no hate though! Its super fun and we love playing! Tysm for such a fun game.
Started in 2021 then stopped after a month then came back in 2024 during Winter Shackles to now. Anyone that complains its a P2W is dumb cause they lack the amount of grinding for all the things in the game you can unlock. Havent bought a single thing in the game. All it took was plug the game daily and constantly claiming rewards and being patient.
This is one of the best games with the best combat. We have been playing this game for years and its only getting better.
Been playing since 2022, its grindy, fun, and interactive. The characters have their own stories along with several side stories and main chapters. Its so worth clearing out 40gigs for this game. Gacha is very gambler friendly, dont need to P2W. And its easy to level up and get insane power within a week or 2.
The game is good but the storage size is way too large for just a mobile game.we hope you guys somehow make a way to reduce file size because the game doesnt seem to need 36gb just to play.
Ive been playing PGR for quite some time, started back during the collab with nier, stopped playing and came back again when crimson weave was revealed. Since then we consistently played PGR just about every day. We really enjoy the combat, the characters and their designs, end game content, and the improvements made to the main story. The global sync plan made it feel even more enjoyable with the increased rewards. But now with the newest update and things going back to normal, Im not sure exactly how to feel with the direction PGR is headed in. The new limited banners are choices we disagree with, as PGR has never left us with an impression of FOMO. As far as rewards going back to normal, well thats how the game was before the global sync plan, so now Ill have to be patient and see how characters are once theyve released before pulling them. Ill probably come back to this review a while from now to see how this new patch fairs, but in general the biggest disagreement we have is the limited banners.
Everytime we take a break due to little time or lost interest, we always come back with our mind blown. This game constantly exceeds our expectations with its animation and tremendous improvement with its character designs (except for veronica). We cant wait to see what each year will hold for pgr. With that being said, kurogames is a bit picky with what they listen to. A lot of their plans feel too rushed and inconsiderate (the biggest example being livs banner). Another issue is the lack of storage compression or the choice to delete past resources- its becoming even more storage heavy than an open world game. There are continuous little things that keep dragging the rating down, but overall this is a game worth investing time in.
The game is great and all, but the amount of size it takes up is out of hand. Im having the same problem with both Punishing Gray Raven and Wuthering Waves. We would appreciate a cloud version for these games so we can start playing once again. Despite that, the games are awesome.
El juego es genial solo agreguen idioma espaol.
Make black character to beat genshin yes.
Story is boring to us but what keeps us coming back is the 10/10 graphics and animation (minus the fan service stuff).
We really love this game but we hate how many times we have to download the new add ons to the game, but extremely fun overall.
Plays like a dream, the DmC collab was sweet hope they do more.
The game keeps crashing every time we try to log in please fix as soon as possible.
The graphics are great just a little bit too much fan service for us.
The game itself is great, ive been playing for years, but am now forced to quit because theyve neglected storage optimization for too long. The game requires 34GB in order to play with the most recent patch, it is physically impossible to install now – even with everything else uninstalled. It genuinely saddens us that im forced to quit like thisI wasnt displeased with the game at all, we enjoyed the dmc collab last patch.
Please keep the collab banners in game for at least 1 more day we rlly need Vergil this is literally our first collab in this game and we rlly need Vergil.
Love the game, very good graphics, not a lot to say its just a really well made and written game.
Im only here for Vergil and Dante.
Favorite game with the best fighting style effects and cool character design, only game we come to play when bored and quit others.
Punishing Gray Raven is one of the best anime gatcha games out on the market. Kuro games is very generous with its players you get a lot of awards and ways to get in game currency to poll and level up your characters. The mechanics,level designs and boss fights are very good. The mechanics isnt just your typical gatcha game combat. The combat is very complex and you actually have to learn how to do combos as well learn the each gimmick of the game. Its soo good.
The beginning story is harder to get into but give it time and youll be addicted to the game. Love that they offer male character skins and have a large roster of male and unique characters. Daily check in is simple and they have auto battle for some things which is nice. No more loading into easy fights.
Hello Kuro Games. We are a big fan of thr game and we love playing it so much, but we got a problem for about 2 months ago. When we updated the game and tried to download it its stuck at 99% and then kicks us off. When we rejoin the game the download is stuck. Its not a problem from the WIFI or from the phone storage. Please fix this problem as fast as possible because we cant wait to play the Collab. Thank you.
Stopped working without vpn in our country 3 days ago Upd: Fixed, good. But it didn't work like that for about 3 weeks. There is no support email address to write, that's strange.
Im not tryna to play this game on mobile and then take half our storage we got other things to on our phone and with our storage being full it makes our phone act weird and the game lag we would heavily appreciate it if it releases on PlayStation we dont see a reason why it shouldnt, Im a console player not a mobile player.
Crashes when we try to download the rest of the game. Cant even play.
We heard noting but good things about this game but when ever we try to download it it takes TOO long really even just a simple download takes HOURS not collecting resoures like how some games say in the loading menu its too slow please devs fix it we really wanna get dante and vergill :3.
This game has skill testing, patients, and leveling! Dont miss out, stay tuned.
Love the game sadly our iPad is only 64gb and its full sigh cant play anymore.
Most fun we ever had playing a mobile game. The dmc collab is such a treat to us fans of the franchise. Keep it up Kurt.
We love this game to death and back, easily one of our long time main stay games. Amazing characters, gameplay, very F2P friendly, and really only thing that costs money is skins. But this game is getting a bit too large to fit on a mobile. Unless you have a top of the line phone that can handle top of the line graphics & you have 50GB of storage, just play the PC client version. TLDR: PC client is probably easier to manage than the phone version.
We have many reasons why we can't play this beautiful game on our phone. We're terrible at playing on phones and we never adapt to the gameplay. We think this game would be incredibly brutal on PS5 to fully exploit it in both gameplay and visuals.
Came for DMC, stayed for the waifus. Pls add Nero.
Ive been playing this game since global launch 3 years ago and we dont see ourselves quitting. Kuro is a generous company and its the first time we have never felt ripped off by in game purchases. The characters are fun, the graphics are great, and it fits easily into our daily schedule to where we dont feel like we need to sink a ton of hours into it. Highly recommended. 5 years later and Im still playing as much as ever. Kuro had done a great job with this title and they e really made a name for themselves.
Im a 2 year player thats spent thousands on this game because it is the best mobile combat experience in the App Store. Ive given this game at least three 5 star reviews in the past two years, but this time Im giving it a 4 star review because Ive noticed how very little the devs seem to care about making money. Why would you add like six new types when it takes THREE S rank characters of each type (yes, some have multiple use, but get replaced every 6-18 months) ? This is the last thing we would do as a dev to draw new players in. Sure, youll catch a few guppies that enjoy the 30k free in game currency per month but thats only enough for two copies of one character + using ppc mode skills for another free copy, 3 copies of 1 character free per month, but it takes roughly 70k currency for an S rank character to be relevant and competitive, at SSS rank, and you typically need SSS3 (two MORE copies for 50% more damage increase on signatures, which is massive) at this rate we hate to say, the game is going to die. Ive enjoyed it, but until we see this game do something to draw in newer players, giving them a chance, or at least create new modes where old and new players can compete on an even level, this game has no future. Its already dropped off the gacha revenue charts for June, so thats that. Gameplay: 10/10 Music: 10/10 Art: 9/10 Gacha: 3/10 Adaptability: 1/10 New player friendly: 2/10 Note: if you are a new player that just likes to collect, this is the perfect game for you then because you will have plenty enough to get 1 copy of each character. However, f2p will never be able to compete on warzone, ppc modes etc. The competitive scene is strictly p2w.
The game is fine but In story mode it makes you play weak boring characters especially chapter 14 we wanted to dig out our eyes all of chapter 14.
We are in love with this game but Im broke because thats how good it is keep it up and every time when new character is announced Im so excited to see them in the lives.
Nothing to say, but we enjoy the character and storytelling.
God Of War Reference if yall were wondering.
The game is very good but when we try to download it back it keeps kicking us off so pls fix that.
Bests Action mobile game ever that made in this world.
Not much left to say, the early-game is tedious as you will be forced to play with the older characters. The more you progress, the better it gets.
We are a day 1 Wuthering waves player, but we only started playing this game 3 days ago and wow, it;s a slow start and getting used to, we almost quitted but now Im in awe. This game has more soul than Wuthering waves, which we love but lets be honest its a Genshin/hsr copy. This game tho. Its unique. The combat is unique and more complicated than wuwa, the characters are better written and have much stronger personalities. For instance, Lee and Vera made Xiangli Yao and Yinlin seem more boring and one-dimensional than they already are in Wuthering waves. The story, though its not voice acted and animated like those in wuwa, the visual novel is really, really good once you switch your focus onto reading. This game feels like it has a soul and the devs are dancing with shackles, they dont have loads of budget and manpower like wuwa and Genshin but they really, really are making the most out of it. Story wise wuwa is catching up tho in 2.2, but -re 2.2, pgr stories and characters are clearly better than wuwa! Overall Im just very impressed at this amazing game.
PGR is insanely well-optimized. Max settings on our phone and it barely gets warm around 35 – 40 degree .The gameplay feels super smooth, the graphics are top-tier, and the character stories actually hit hard (to us). Some of them even feel healing in a weirdly emotional way. Honestly, it looks like a console game but runs cooler than most 2D or casual games. Huge respect to the devs this is how mobile games should be made.
Most generous game you can probably find that give high quality gameplay and treats player with the respect you most definitely deserve. Game mechanics wise, for new people it will definitely take abit of time to get used to but eventually you get used to it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.0
- Size: 3,571.37 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: KURO TECHNOLOGY HONG KONG CO. LIMITED
Last updated: 13th November 2025 | Genre: Action, Roleplaying | Developer: KURO TECHNOLOGY HONG KONG CO. LIMITED