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Puzzle & Dragons (English) – Roleplaying Game Review
Puzzle & Dragons (English) is a Roleplaying/Puzzle game from GungHo Online Entertainment, INC., first launched in 8th November 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,632+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Puzzle & Dragons (English) Stand Out
Step into the world of Puzzle & Dragons, an addictive, FREE match-3 puzzle game with classic monster-collecting RPG fun!
- INTUITIVE AND ENGAGING
Assemble a powerful team of monsters and take on fierce foes in the depths of thrilling dungeons! Attacking is simple–just match 3 orbs of the same color to trigger an attack from the corresponding monster on your team. Chain multiple combos and colors to increase your damage and unleash devastating attacks from other monsters in your team!
- ENDLESS MONSTER COMBINATIONS, LIMITLESS POWER
With over 10,000 unique monsters to collect—from the cutest to the fiercest—the possibilities for team combinations are simply endless! Monsters can synergize with each other to enhance each other's abilities and make your teams more effective in battle. Build the team that suits your playstyle!
- RECIPES FOR EVOLUTION
Monsters can unlock greater potential by evolving into new, more powerful forms. Choose from various evolution paths and optimize your monster collection to your liking.
- BRING YOUR FRIENDS INTO BATTLE
Exchange IDs with friends to recruit their monsters for support in battle and strengthen your lineup! Stay connected with the Puzzle & Dragons community with in-game messaging and social features designed to enhance your adventure.
- MULTIPLAYER DUNGEONS!
Puzzle & Dragons becomes even more fun with Multiplayer Mode! Team up with your friends and tackle enemies by challenging Multiplayer Dungeons in the ultimate test of teamwork!
- LEGENDS UNFOLD IN STORY DUNGEONS!
Venture into Story Dungeons and experience epic tales featuring powerful leaders and legendary dragons! Each dungeon brings a unique story, challenging battles, and rewarding adventures. Discover all the legends of Puzzle & Dragons!
The world of Puzzle & Dragons is ever-expanding, thanks to its thriving community and regular events and updates. It's also completely FREE to play, so start building your dream team of dragons and monsters today!
Note: Puzzle & Dragons is free to download and play. In-app purchases are also available to enhance your gameplay experience.
In-app purchases are available via the “Shop” tab within the app.
Please refer to In-App Purchases for prices.
*A network connection is required to play.
▼Terms of Service/Privacy Policy
https://pad.gungho.jp/member/app/en_tos/
https://pad.gungho.jp/member/app/en_privacy/
▼Official Website
https://www.puzzleanddragons.us/
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Puzzle & Dragons (English) is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Ver. 22.8.0 Update Details
- Multiple new Awoken Skills have been added.
[Self-Reliance][Move Time Change Resistance][Expert Multi-Match] - Select Awoken Skills and Latent Awoken Skills have received adjustments.
*Miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improvements have been made.
*For details, see [Others > Links > Official Site] from within the app.
Download & Availability
Puzzle & Dragons (English) is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Puzzle & Dragons (English) 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:
Please never get rid of this game! They gir rid of brave frontier and this is all we have left from phone game that we loved as a kid… THANK YOU CREATORS.
We love this game. We have been playing for roughly 5 years and we enjoy it as much as enjoyed it when we started. This game is fun who great graphics and fun story. It is one of our favorite game (P.S: Why doesnt Apollo have an Ordeal Evolution).
We live this game been playing off on on for years, but during highschool we had the thought of going against our friends, like a dungeon pvp, where at a certain level you and your friends can go against your monster box from weakest to strongest, and able to select the amount of floor from 5, 10, or select amount or all of their monsters, and depending on what level you are compared to your friends will be easy, hard, or the higher difficulties, if theres a way to bring this to life id really like to experience this.
We download all 38 English dub episodes on the first season.
In the 10 years of playing not like religiously but still we have never had a one piece collab if only we got a onep Collab it would be a 5.
We used to play this game YEARS ago! It was basic and cute and you just went into monster dungeons and they were actually challenging. Now its just random dungeons where you cant even use your own team. We miss the old version where it was just actually monsters, puzzles, and dungeons.
We used to really enjoy Puzzle and dragons however in the last 6 months we have had over 20 different accounts pirated or hacked. Id log in and id be missing units or stones or our account would sometimes just be wiped and id have to restart. Even with our recent account we have had units missing stones taken away from us or id be playing a dungeon and id be logged out for some reason.. And when id log back in id be missing more units or other things in our account im really puzzled as to what is happening as puzzle and dragons is actually a fun game, however lately it has been everything else but fun or enjoyable for us hopefully things can be fixed and or addressed ? As we do want to keep playing if possible.
Still playing classic very happy.
Do you bring back old collaborations.
This is by far the deepest and most interesting puzzle game there is. Make your teams from thousands and thousands of gods and monsters and improve them in a half dozen ways. Every day there are puzzles and challenges, and you are rewarded for playing regularly.
We use a vpn but you app rejected our attempts to use your marketing scheme to get a new game its illegal to require locations via gps or ip without concent but its super illegal to deny service because someone wants to protect themslevrs ehile still allowing people who pay to use vpn unless stated in the error message you only imply connection issues when there are non except for your own making , which is illegal.
Every now and then the game will just take the monsters you get. We had almost the entire Halloween event monsters from either two or three years ago got busy and couldnt get on for almost a year and all but one out of the 25+ from that event were gone. Then for a while we been thinking we were just overlooking our Gore Magala but then we looked in the monster book and we notice that it said that we had zero. Gore Magala is the fourth strongest dark dragon in the game and we dont sell our dragons.
Ive been playing this game on and off for years now and we decided to play it again. Except we cant as its telling us we need 1.3 gigabytes of free space on our phone, youre telling us we need MORE than 15 gigabytes of free space on our phone? Has this app ever been that big.
We love the new update look! We have been playing for years and we still do.
What we dont like is Ive been playing this game for a long time and when we do polls, you give us the worst original monsters for people that have been playing for so long our chances should be higher of the better monsters.
They finally added a collar to one of our favorite animes.
Been play since 2013 this game is stil amaze us.
We logged on today and it made us downbload game as a new owrson, we think it was dataloss. We played for weeks and now everything is gone.
The way the friend system is set up makes it almost impossible to complete stages. The random support friends are almost always useless and we usually have to do 5-6 stages we dont even want to play in order to even get a decent enough friend to do a difficult stage. Along with this it seems like they really dont want players to get magic stones easily without paying. Have fun spending the whole day playing a mobile game just to get a summon in which you have a 2% chance of anything halfway decent.
Still love the game but it lags so bad even on our new iPhone its almost unplayable. Very disappointing.
Game is good . Has annoying mechanics we cant get used to. It gets boring quick Drop rates are usually descent unless its a popular crossover / event The App Store is filled with trash games , so Im forced to play this , grand summoners, last Claudia. But these games are so old & played out Extremely toxic community in the gacha scene . We predict heavy loss of profit , for the whole gacha gaming scene . ITS ALL GG IN THE PLAY STORE : Generic Garbage.
Game used to be fun and decent now they give everyone countless eggs to get new op stuff like why give us a starter if youll give us a mega legendary demon thatll do 50k damage over 500 like thats so lame.
We were really loving this game, its very fun and engaging and there are some pretty cool creatures to collect. Unfortunately, at some point while playing we got a really big combo, and bright strobing rainbow colored words popped up all over the screen, and immediately sent us into a migraine attack. We looked all over settings and couldnt find any options to turn off the words that pop up, even though theyre not really a necessary part of the game. So we guess we wont be playing it anymore unless they add a photosensitivity option.
We started playing this game with our best friends in high school, clearing dungeons together. A few years later, college came and we all went our separate ways, most of the others losing interest in the game completely. We continued to login daily for the rewards and to maintain our streak. After over a decade of play, we have watched this game develop cooler mechanics to keep up with the insane power scaling that we have reached over a decade later. We love this game, having poured our fair share of money during our intense gacha days, but the NA dept seems to lack the same support the JP servers get. Many of the collabs and cards we see released in JP never make it to NA. There also arent many NA support websites (RIP PADx), and have to resort to using JP server websites to keep up with the current meta.
Why do jammers keep appearing in the green contract dragon dungeon!? (we want the dragon but jammers exist and they freak us out (dont judge us.)).
We played this mobile game on and off since high school, and now the game is actually more than a decade old. We recently returned because of nostalgia, and Im finding its still a great game. We think its so cool how the developers keep balancing the game. We last played the game like 3 or 4 years ago and when we came back this time, all our old units got powercrept, but it was easy for us to pull new ones from the event collabs. We saw even though the new units seemed so strong, the end game content still had new mechanics to make things challenging. Im grateful the game is still around and the community is very wholesome in the discord or on the small reddit. One thing we like about the game this time that Ive returned, is there is not too much to do. We played Cookie Run Kingdom and while it was fun, it made us feel forced to keep producing these items by always going back to the interface throughout the day. While we didnt have to do it, we would definitely miss out on key items. In this game, once we spent a few days getting a title and nothing else. It was a good challenge and not too much grinding. We tried the ranking dungeons for the first time for a crown since at the time it was at the end of the current event so not much else to do anyway, and it was cool cuz the ranking dungeon is challenging (its player against player where a small percentile can get a cosmetic crown) but also you can only do it so many times a day and then thats it for the day. Im just glad the game doesnt have too much pure grind stuff or pressure us into doing chores daily that will take a lot of time. There are some days especially near the end of the events (usueally has an event every 2 wks) where we dont even use our stamina and just log in for any rewards, maybe browse the reddit, do some easy dungeons. We think its a good game for people that want to be entertained for a long term. We like collecting things in mobile games and this game goes lots of collabs with animes like Demon slayer, Jojos bizarre adventure, hunter x hunter, spy x family. Its so cool to play a game and see characters you like in it. The art is so good too. For us the only con we can think of for the game is how the company gungho is removing all the site resources players like. When we played a while ago, there were these favorited websites Id go to for information about dungeons and many of them got taken down. We still do okay just going to the ones that still exist, some youtube content creators, or using google translate on the google chrome app.
Overall, great game. Good stories, generous gifts, new and returning content, its great. However, we often cannot complete a purchase even if we have enough funds. We once tried buying a collab bundle but wasnt successful until 4 days before said collab ended.
We have this game on mobile (both regular and Apple Arcade).. We have it on switch, and we have it on 3DS… And we'll probably never stop playing. It's Pokemon meets candy crush but on an entirely separate, more awesome level. The best part is getting to move the gems wherever you want. Candy Crush would crumble to pieces if it let you do that! Not to speak ill of your competition when they're not here. Keep up the good work, you'll always be a staple on our devices.
Beyblade Puzzle & Dragons collab Disney Puzzle & Dragons collab Frieren Puzzle & Dragons collab Minecraft Puzzle & Dragons collab Nickelodeon Puzzle & Dragons collab Sailor Moon Puzzle & Dragons collab (And when will those collabs comes in).
Pad is the only game we play through out the years the game play is awesome if you like matching puzzle format the characters are the best Ive seen on any mobile game, and the creators have been working very hard (imo) on creating new content as there is usually something new very often our favorite mobile game by far.
Gameplay is amazing, the embodiment of simple to learn but difficult to master. Teambuilding is very fun if you have the right units. Clearing difficult dungeons is always fun and rewarding. 3 star review comes from how gungho has managed the game over the past year or so. Power creep comes way too fast at times and not having a single unit can brick an entire team. Pacing of events also made it so that its very hard to come back from an extended break. Teambuilding has also become very restrictive for endgame. Dungeon mechanics have become uninspired, tiring, and boring. Team archetypes fall in and out of the meta constantly, invalidating any investment you made. Not to mention that the game is balanced around JP and they get many exclusive units that define the meta at times. Good if youre looking for a blast from the past but we sadly cant recommend picking up pad to play long term.
Hi In the future are you guy going to added Pokmon into the game too. We know you guy been added other anime into already that would be nice.
This would be 5* if the SOUND AND VOICES WORKED ON MY STUPID GAME!! Different characters get voices that we love and for some reason on our game, they dont work. Its extremely frustrating to us but that is the one thing that we dont like about the game, and its a tech issue. The gameplay of this game is smooth, the animations are flipping awesome, and its a really fun game overall. We have been playing since we were 5 years old, and it is still one of our favorite games! You have to think on the fly for it, and it is easier to beat up monsters in a game than people irl. Thats it. Have fun playing.
We played the game before when we were a child and you had to pull a lot to get super rare we might have done like a secret cheat code we dont know but we have ONLY GOTTEN 5 stars and above please help.
We honestly didnt even play the game we just didnt have enough storage so it has to be bad.
They refuse to transfer our account to a new phone despite the fact that Ive given them everything theyve asked for. Hours upon hours wasted simply because we got a new phone. We refuse to ever play this game again and you should never start.
We have been playing religiously for a long time. After adding so many additional enhancements and many other additional challenges to the new levels and side quest is a challenge. We dont mean that in a good way, it just raises the difficulty for no reason making it unplayable. Now we barely play and just log in daily. It is no longer fun with how high the difficulty is. Even the monthly quest is no longer doable unless you spend every minute of a whole week to dissect the level. What ever gungho is doing is making this pretty fun game to pass time into a olympic match where the bar is raised like we are trying to pass a bar exam. We do not usually write reviews but we love Puzzle and dragons too much to not say our piece before we also give up on this game. Do better Gungho.
Our bro was playing PAD and we were wondering how he plays the puzzle game and he told us that the orbs of each element had to be moved and since he let us try, during the JoJo collab event, we got some pretty good starters because we finished the tutorial and got many magic stones to roll for Jean Pierre, Okuyaso, Dio vampire, Dio and The World, Giorno Giovanna, and Joraro Kujo. That set eventually got us to finish Sonias chapters in only half a week! This game is still popular to us and we now learned from our brother who is a legend in the game. Keep up the great work developers.
Game expects you to pay ~30 dollars for a single roll. A. SINGLE. ROLL.
Na version of this game gets no respect like the JP version. They get more collaborations and events and we just dont get any of them. If you want more people to play this game again, put more effort into giving us more support and collaborations like JP. Not doing anything is going to help the current players and makes the game stagnant.
This game is literally amazing but the only problem is that whenever you trade you cant give your friends any character in the game. You have to choose one of the preselected characters that you want to get and what to give. Just fix that and Ill be happy.
Game is fun and layered but lately the company keeps making decisions to make the game more confusing. They take down resources like PADDB and PadX that make the game more user friendly. The game is a mess without those sites to help and they remove them without replacing. Greatly disappointed after years of playing.
Gung ho continues to shut down resources need to play the game and provide little to no in game help. Players must rely on a community of players to help them get trough different stages of the game. Inconsistent communication with the player base on up coming events-and promotions. Spend your hard earned cash on another game that appreciates their player base.
Dear GungHo, we have someone on our friends list named Mint. Im sorry to say that he passed away due to medical reasons and has been logged out for over 900 days. The reason why we started playing PAD again was because it reminds us of the days where he and we used to play together. Im writing this review as a thank you to the company for giving us good times and we wish you all the best. Again, thanks for the great content and we hope to have you all here for a while while we relive our memories. Much love, Random player.
We started out liking this game, we wanted to like it. Dragons and puzzles are a few of our favorite things. It got pointless really quickly though. We had enhanced, fused dragons and supporting fighters at high levels, maxed or nearly maxed, 1000s of hp and attack, but by the second wave of monsters they had to battle, Id get decimated. Ive never had trouble figuring out games like this before, maybe Im just too dumb for this one. Losing is fine once in a while, but losing every single battle every time unless we use up the magic stones is just a waste of our time, and not a good one.
Genuinely fun for quite a long time, until you start reaching the top dungeons in the game and realize its nothing but knowledge checks for awoken skill grind setups because otherwise enemies have impenetrable barriers and board-ruining gimmicks, rather than if you can set up for your leaders damage combos under fun conditions. Worth playing, but not at all worth maximizing.
The game itself is alright but one day a new update logged us out of our account and that's when we lost our account. We lost our account just cause we did not have our friend code. We have every other account info (including our 'secret code' which specifically says is used to recover accounts) . Submitted for help twice and had to wait around 1-2 weeks each time just for the support team to say they can't do anything just cause we didn't take note of our friend code. We lost 3 years of progress just because of this. Lost limited event collabs that we can't get back.
What happened with the experience of a lifetime normally 2 times every two months and now lucky if we even get one where is that please add it back not right.
Love to play this game in our spare time except for the fact that it keeps crashing on us and it doesnt even load in to the three quarters of the time.
Seriously who ever developed some of these difficult levels needs to rethink their formula. This game is painful hard. Theres no reason to be instantly killed by a unit that hits you 20 to 30 times in one go. Not only that but you cant save gems in this game as your gonna be spending them to recover in a mission where you were killed or restoring stamina. The WORST puzzle game in the store. Its greedy, way to difficult, and absolutely unfair. We suggest staying away from this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 22.8.0
- Size: 221.26 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: GungHo Online Entertainment, INC.
Last updated: 23rd December 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Puzzle | Developer: GungHo Online Entertainment, INC.