Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Rogue with the Dead: Idle RPG – Roleplaying Game Review
Rogue with the Dead: Idle RPG is a Roleplaying/Strategy game from room6 inc., first launched in 7th September 2022.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 5,030+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rogue with the Dead: Idle RPG Stand Out
Rogue with the Dead is an original roguelike RPG where you command and power up troops on an endless, looping journey.
What kills you makes you stronger.
An innovative game from room6, the team that has brought you such successes as Unreal Life and Gen’ei AP.
◆Defeat the Demon Lord
Your mission is to lead an envoy of soldiers for 300 miles, in order to defeat the Demon Lord at the end.
Completing quests and killing monsters will earn you coins that you can use to make your troops stronger.
They fight automatically, and you can choose to either wait and watch them have at it or join the battle yourself.
Soldiers respawn after they’re killed, but you don’t. You’ll lose all soldiers, money, and items, except for artifacts, and you’ll have to start over.
To stand a chance against the powerful bosses impeding your progress, you’ll need to collect as many artifacts as you can. Defeating them, in turn, will grant you more artifacts.
◆Many different playstyles
・Power up soldiers, defeat monsters, and clear dungeons
・An endless loop of dungeons
・Hire healers, summoners, magicians, and more to fight for you
・Focus on knights for close-range attacks or upgrade your wizards to crush enemies long-range? The choice is yours
・Defend yourself from the incoming enemies in true tower defense fashion
・Power up quests to earn more coins automatically in idle mode
・No annoying controls required as most of the game can be played while idling
・Find even stronger soldiers to defeat tough bosses
・Collect many useful artifacts
・Gather ingredients to cook meals to enhance your soldiers’ powers
・Compete with other players in the online leaderboard
・Roguelite mechanics, making you stronger every time you start over
◆A beautiful pixel art world
Travel through a fantastic world and its story drawn in beautiful pixel art. Enjoy the journey to the Demon Lord’s castle together with your troops and your guide Elly.
Little by little, you’ll find out about what happened before your arrival, and Elly might know more than she lets on…
◆Watch the numbers grow
At first, you’ll deal 10 or 100 points of damage. As you progress with the upgrades, the numbers will grow in the millions, billions, trillions… Enjoy the exponential growth of your power.
◆A varied roster of soldiers
Swordsman
A basic warrior unit with high health who fights on the front line to protect other soldiers.
Ranger
An archer that can attack from afar. However, it is slower and has less health than warriors.
Pigmy
A tiny warrior with low health and weak attack, but very fast movement. It can quickly sneak close to enemies to attack them directly.
Sorcerer
A magician that deals high damage to enemies within an area. However, it is slow and rather fragile.
…and many more.
◆Artifacts that power you up
・Increase attack by 50%
・Protect magicians from 1 attack
・Increase all coins earned by 50%
・1% of all soldiers' attack is added to the tap attack
・Soldiers have a 1% probability of spawning at giant size
・Necromancers can summon 1 additional skeleton
…and many more
◆If you’re tired, just idle
If you want to take a break, just close the game. Quests will still continue even while you’re not playing the game. When you come back, you’ll have more coins to power up your soldiers and defeat that boss that has been giving you trouble.
You can play for a few minutes at a time, so it’s perfect to fill in those little pockets of time throughout the day.
◆You’ll probably like this game if…
・You like idle games
・You like “clicker” games
・You want something to do in your spare time
・You like strategy games
・You like RPGs
・You like pixel art
・You want the game to progress while you're afk
・You like tower defense games
・You like roguelike or roguelite games
・You like playing online
・You like endless dungeon exploration games
・You like seeing numbers grow exponentially
・You go hard
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rogue with the Dead: Idle RPG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Changed the position of the button to focus on treasure chests on the field
- Changed the text displayed when obtaining a "Proof of Forbidden Guardian conquering"
- Fixed a bug that prevented music from playing in certain parts of the special Einherjar story for Orphia
- Fixed a bug that prevented artifacts from being saved when closing the app while opening a treasure chest
Download & Availability
Rogue with the Dead: Idle RPG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Rogue with the Dead: Idle RPG 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:
Ad removal should be 5$ MAYBE 10$ if the game is actually fun, BUT 37$ In the big 2025? Thats outrageous.
Never spent a cent. Beat the main game. Having a blast continuing further. Events for gameplay breaks, but not over the top and mandatory like other games. Feels very chill for a mobile/idle game. And the story is good.
Endless improving replay and alternatives the same.
Love it this game is the perfect mix of grind and reward.
Could you add a way to reroll soldiers with coins instead of ads its just so annoying rolling the common ones or make a way to get rid of swordsman or archer when you unlock better troops cause they get 1 shorted or do no damage.
Though for the record p2w does help you progress a lot faster. Dont push for far runs, get as far as fast as you can in a few minutes and reset for money, spend, repeat.
It has amazing concepts and replay ability.
From what Ive been reading, the ads are outright ridiculous. Id agree with this, the art style and options of things to do are engaging. However, its overrun but ads that are optional. Lets be realif you dont watch them then youre missing out. This game is nowhere near $37 for an ad removal. We hope their team can rectify this. We feel that they would truthfully make more money and have more players if they lowered the cost to at least 4.99. Super sad because usually we spend a little on games but this one isnt worth it.
Ive played a lot of idle gacha games and what you usually get is either to many systems, boring, ugly or just greedy. This has none of that it throws you right in with a good story and a bit of mystery, the pixel art and animations are great and fun to watch, its not greedy, its not throwing 10 Different currencies at you and forcing you to pay to Progress. And it actually rewards you for letting it idle.
We just need the ability to fire and rehire troops in place of 2 stars.
If you want to fully unlock your character, you have to watch around 100,000 ads. Each ad is at least 30 seconds. Plus the 10 seconds it takes to actually press the X after skipping. Definitely has potential for a game based off 3 other games combined. Youll get tired of watching the countless ads and either eventually pay your way, or quit out and save time. Shame bc such a fun game.
Itd be cool if you and elly could both be together in elly mode after 900.
This is the first game Ive ever written a review for for an idle game it actually has a decent story as far as replay ability 8/10 the fact that you really have a lot of control over your own power scaling makes this very enjoyable as you find little combinations of heros that work really well on top of the fact that pulling a 6 star from a chest is very addicting.
Ive been playing this off and on since year one and have enjoyed it.
This game was absolutely perfect, the story was very easy and enjoyable to follow, we love the characters, we love the different music for each biome/area, everything. We never felt like the game was slowing down or getting any less enjoyable throughout the time we played, we love this game and wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wants a fun idle game and captivating story to follow along the way.
This has frankly kept us engaged with it for far longer than most – the pixel art is fantastic and honestly the story is pretty good too, only issue is that at some points it can be quite grindy but for a mobile game it isnt that bad – TLDR; one of the best mobile games you can get currently.
This game is really good if you want something todo instead of doomscrolling.
The best mobile game we have ever been played in our life.
We recently been on a kick where we try any interesting looking game that we see on mobile ads, this is by far the best. Just beat the main story and it doesnt feel like the game forces you to make an obscene amount of micro transactions.
Usually these games have auto tap and no ads for $10. This one has them separate for about $25. The value isnt there but as far as idle games go this one isnt as egregious as others. The story was interesting and is why Im still playing lol.
Probably best ad structure we have seen on a mobile game. The only thing ads save you is your time if you want to, you have the exact same progression and powers if you watch ads or if you dont. We ended up buying the ad removal cuz the game was so good we wanted to support the creator(s). Also they actually respond to your support tickets which is cool to us. Only gripe: the currency exchange and values dont seem very balanced. We can get 250k blue gems from rebirthing, or we cant spend 50 rubies to get 1000 blue gems, which is like $1. So every time we rebirth its equivalent to hundreds of dollars. Also the shop to spend rubies doesnt really have anything great or worthwhile.
This is one of our all time favorite mobile games the storys great, and they do an amazing job of adding new characters and dungeons. 10/10.
We NEED more story for this game! We wanna see what goes next and whatll happen next! We cannot wait for the next main arc of this game! Keep up the great work.
We never rate a mobile game even less write an review but this game is just way too good. No forced ads, there are a lot of strategy involved and it is grindy but they make it FUN. There are a lot of paid packages in the shop but it is understandable and the game is very f2p friendly imo. Did we mention that the art is amazing. Also the mechanics in this game are sooo unique, the story so far is very interesting too. Basically its a 10/10 game. Give this game a try, idk if you will like it but we sure love it.
Honestly one of our favorite right next to idle superpowers best mobile game.
We love this game but plz let us customize our hero with different stuff. Like being able to choose different weapons and armor and whatnot.
Its just a genuinely good game. It plays like an old 8bit side scroller but with idle components and its the only game we've ever played on mobile where in app purchases feel like a plus not a game play necessity. Its a genuine joy to play and Im so glad we found it.
We are happy with the game. Theres no excessive paywall to just get through the main story. Prices for things are pretty high but the developers still made the game F2P friendly with options and just grinding. No performance issues and overall solid idle game. Doesnt do anything really new but also doesnt do anything bad. Plus for the storyline that is usually discarded.
Fun game with interesting progression mechanics. Quality of life features such as 2x speed are locked behind a paywall, so we cannot give a high rating. The monetization is quite expensive for this type of game as well. Permanent ad removal is $37 for instance. Overall good game with nice visuals, but the monetization tactics really detract from the experience.
Its a fun game but as with all of these types of games you can get bonuses by watching ads which is fine if youre into that. Other games in this genre allow for purchasing a permanent ad skip pack which is the first thing we buy in these games. Seeing as your game does not offer one, we will not be spending any money here. Best of luck.
Sorreh Ja You wake up again and the princess is hovering over with her stanky musky breath; once again you died and the princess looms over you with a somewhat cutely forceful smile. Hello Commander Knowing this isnt the first time you talked to her; youll go through the usual introduction then take off from the castle to kill monsters. In the distance youll hear the faint farewells of the princess; sorreh JA.
Enjoyable game with neat graphics.
Good but once you get close to level 100 the grind sets in and youll start to wish you had put real money in or end up spending a billion per level to upgrade mediocre troops. We cant imagine what level 200 and above look like.. The scale is too dam big.
Devs frequently update game with new content.
The gameplay loop is pretty fun and it scales pretty well without soending money. Almost all the ads are behind bonuses and you can play the game mostly adfree. Really appreciate this setup. Fun game overall.
One of the most enjoyable idle experiences Ive had. Its definitely not too f2p at all, but we ended up buying the remove ads pack to support the devs. Seriously good work team.
Im not a huge mobile games fan, but his game is better than some console and computer games Ive played, it has a good story an a lot of things to do. All in all definitely a 15/10.
At first it took a little while to understand the game but soon after we realized the story is actually pretty interesting and we love the fact that the ads are never shoved into your face unless you want a cooldown or something thats equal benefits for the player and devs/dev team honestly great game we love the idle money part too.
Had the game for awhile now And ive not been bored once it is basically perfect.
Its a very well made idle game with good progression, a little bit of story to give you a goal, and a fair bit of charm It uses every micro transaction trick in the book (battle pass, limited time value packs, 2x game speed locked behind paywall and free 24 hour trials to get you used to them before charging you, multiple currencies, daily roulette spin, watchable ads, etc.) Most of them arent that bad honestly, games gotta make money somehow. Unfortunately the frequency of ads made us uninstall. It was fun to play but theres an option to watch ads for just about everything in the game. You can skip them of course but some of them feel awful to skip. You can get 1 relic to make you stronger or 3 if you watch an ad. Watch an ad to revive yourself and continue a run. Most egregious of all, watch an ad to reroll the hiring gacha where you cant choose to skip hiring a soldier if its not the one you wanted and you have a cap on how many you can hire. First thing we did was check how much it cost to remove ads. If it was $5-10, this game is well made enough that it could be worth that. But ad removal is locked behind a $30+ pack, maybe like $28 on discount. Thats too high for an idle game like this. Still, we stuck around and only gave up once the game gave us a free trial to try the game without ads and we realized how much better it felt to play without them. We really wish they had chosen to price the remove ad option lower and not tie it to such an expensive bundle.
Mr topduke keep playing youll be able to remove troops from your hiring gacha after lvl 300.
A game we found on the app store, we dont even remember how. Ended up playing it, Im a sucker for 8bit figures, would highly recommend. For the Devs, if you could add a feature where you can zoom in on the characters while they go across that would be cool. We love intricacy, pressing buttons to look at different stats is always fun. Absolute favorite part is the skins thing, love how they all look.
We really like this game and have a great time playing it but some friends of ours that just started playing it have a login bonus but when we started playing just a week or two prior we never got that and am wondering if it is just for newer players or if something is wrong.
We would love to see a option to buy with a set price limited editon heros that you start putting out instead of a super rare chance unless you plan to have set rereleases.
Just beat mile 300, heres too many more.
While it took us a long time to find this game, we feel it is well worth the wait. The game is quite fun for idle games, simple mechanics that are easy to understand, no bogged down extras, and is perfectly fair when it comes to micro-transactions (not too many, not too powerful, priced mostly fairly). The reason we think its one of the best idle games is due to the fact that the game isnt like other idle games. The outside waiting, where youll have to wait to get any resources at all to only wait even longer to use those resources is gone. Ive played since March and by now each reset is about 5-10 minutes depending on the mode. A perfectly reasonable amount of time to play and then come back to later.
Whoever make the character sprites along with the units did a great job on both design and animation. We have been in love with these types of games since MinuteQuest which was similar to this but got dull quickly whereas there always seems to be something to unlock. Have we mentioned the pixel art already? Yeah? Well Ill do it again. Although the choice between the pixelated style and regular style is an ok touch, for the most part we think the pixel art is leagues better, which makes the disparity between some things being regular art and the rest being pixel art kinda strange. Personally we think they should go all in with the pixel art as it looks much better to us and it fits the style better.
We enjoy the system of getting soldiers. Not very pay to win But do know that some stuff will be locked until after defeating the demon lord which does take a while like defense battles and the tavern which we havent unlocked. We do wish defense battles had more to it than just unlocking a single unit though since it rewards the top players. We dont really feel like contributing ~.o~. (Note) the unit in question is satisfying to use but doesnt do much more than a thunder wizard. (Note 2) ads can break sometimes and not let you out (note 3) we hate finance skill (Edit 1) we finally soloed the demon lord during the event of defeating him but didnt get any skills for the samurai.
We are very confused because we bought three forbidden guardian stones and bought the things to summon them but it isnt working it says we have 2 but when we get to 90 miles its just the normal boss.
Maybe a drink message, but a fun game with a really hooking system. Simple in appearance, but difficult to manage for someone like us. It strikes a good balance between idle and engaged.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.5.1
- Size: 557.08 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Loot Boxes
- Developer: room6 inc.
Last updated: 4th December 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Strategy | Developer: room6 inc.