Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 05:59 pm
Shadow Hunter: Special Edition – Action Game Review
Shadow Hunter: Special Edition is a Action/Roleplaying game from ENIGMA SOFTWARE JOINT STOCK COMPANY, first launched in 20th December 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 301+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shadow Hunter: Special Edition Stand Out
Hardcore Hack’n Slash Action-RPG.
The must try game for any real hack and slash fan who already got bored with just mindlessly smashing buttons on the screen.
Shadow hunter is an action-packed dark fantasy hack and slash game with an incredible combat system and awesome boss fights, assisted by a one of a kind character control mechanism and a perfect mix of RPG elements to make your adventure super immersive.
A DARKENED, RUINED AND FULL OF SUFFERING SHADOW WORLD
As the mortal world got invaded and destroyed by the horde of dark demons and shadow monsters, everything was covered in the darkness of hell and the constant insufferable noises that were the combination of the endless scream from those evils and the crying and mourning of the lucky few that manage to survive through this nightmare.
The player will be a Shadow Hunter in this world, which is someone who got blessed by the Ancient One with a special power to fight off those dark demons.
Through countless battles and obstacles, shadow hunters are destined to bring the light back to this mortal world.
EPIC BOSS FIGHT
Shadow Hunter's most exciting moments must be it's epic boss battle, in which the Hunters must defeat dark giant demons to collect their souls and advance to the darkest dungeon and the highest floor of the evil tower.
Without a decent set of equipment and highly trained techniques, any player could easily get wrecked by those big bosses.
However, the incredible feelings that players get from successfully overcoming those challenges will make it all worth it.
Furthermore, those dark demon souls are the key to upgrade hundreds of shadow equipment and weapons, turning them from just a common warrior sword to a legendary hero's blade that would be worshiped by the generations to come.
ENDLESS CHALLENGES
Shadow Hunter will have 4+ different PVE sections with multiple difficulty modes and a PVP arena for players to explore and conquer.
“Adventure” is where players start the game with. It may not be the most challenging part, but it is the most essential section in the game since you need to keep advancing through it to unlock further sections of the game.
Once you have passed a certain dungeon level, you can unlock “Altar of the Darkness” , “Boss Mode” and “Clock Tower of Challenges”. Those are where the true test of skill and power happens. For our shadow hunters to overcome those challenges, mastering the fighting technique is a must, understanding the characteristics of each demon and preparing a suitable strategy is needed and strengthening the shadow equipment is a huge plus.
At the end of the day, shadow hunters can not only liberate the mortal world from those dark demons but also can test their skills and mastery against other fellows of the shadow.
MULTIPLE CHARACTERS TO PLAY AND ROLL
Players will get to play as multiple different characters, each has its own unique skills, gameplay and assets. Each character is going to be a distinct way to play the game, a distinct approach to the strategy and the combat.
KEY FEATURES
Intense hack and slash combat.
Epic Boss Fights.
Multiple characters to play.
Hundreds of equipment and weapons to loot and upgrade.
4+ PVE modes and PVP.
Play anytime, anywhere even when offline.
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shadow Hunter: Special Edition is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- January Exclusive Ancient Weapon: Cold Agron
- January Exclusive Banner Spirit: Cold Agron
- January Exclusive Banner Equipment: Phantom
- January event: The Invasion, Chrono Keeper, Spirit Trial, Ancient Weapon Trial, Equipment Trial.
Download & Availability
Shadow Hunter: Special Edition is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Shadow Hunter: Special Edition 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:
The Shadow Hunter: Special Edition is the best game out of the collection. All characters are unlocked, you can collect and save gold and diamonds to make purchases. No one is a pay to play player! We will say, there is one downfall to this version in which we hope gets fixed. In the other versions you are able to collect diamond dust a lot easier than in this one. It takes longer in this version to collect the dust and to level up gear. Maybe have some ads in the shop to collect dust available a couple times a day after it resets.
Special edition version isnt that great, they dont give out enough rewards to get any of the banners in a reasonable time and since there r no micro transactions no lvl pass or campaign pass you rely on a crap ton of grinding. So u will prob miss certain banners u want because u dont have enough time to farm. For some reason you guys decided to keep everything the same gem price but barely give us any gems.
This game is great as is but it would be fantastic with a controller.
Cre que el Juego estaba en espaol, por qu en los idiomas dice espaol pero dentro del juego no est, arreglen eso si pueden.
This game is so much fun. Cant stop playing it. Though it use to work with our Backbone controller and now it doesnt. Please fix this issue so we can continue to enjoy this game.
Downloaded this version over the others due to all the great reviews and personal trial and it is absolutely worth it! All heros unlocked and drop rates seem significantly better for everyday goods and gear. Pretty early in but so far it is the best game of its kind by far and we try everything! Great job devs and thank you for a quality product! Worth every penny.
Nothing better than bettering life for your players than by saving them time with dungeon sweeps that youre gonna need to grind for anyway for equipment drops. That 40 a day manual mode is very off putting.
For awhile now Ive been playing the free version of the game for Year and we thought, This game is the greatest game Ive played in a while.Too bad we have pay real money to buy the battle pass. But we found out the game has a premium version of it so we got it and Id already got to level 50 in one day and can buy the battle pass for 4000 gems. We really suggest it to anyone who like dark soul like games this is just too fun to pass up. The only reason why we gave it 4 stars is because of this problem we still have with the even in the free version of it. And its the pvp. Its seems unbalanced a lot of the time like when am playing rank mode we always get matched up with a lvl 90 character while Im lvl 54 we just wish wouldnt have to fight because they have soooooo much hp and lll just be hitting for like 4 minutes straight and am still gonna lose because time ran out or they just instant kill us. We just hope they fix the problem later on in the future. Otherwise we still this is a great game.
So, we decided to pick up the base free version of this game to try it out and was overly impressed. Also, a major shoutout to the developers for making this version 5 bucks and you being able to unlock all the characters for 5, vs 25+ dollars on the free version of the game. Only request we have is an addition of controller support but other than that, the games solid. Not once have we been like this has a major difficultly curve, the progression is meaningful.
This game has 3 versions. Special edition unlocks all heros and no ads or Pay2Advance. We been playing for 4 months and really like this game. We just wish they add a Hero who can cast magic/spells. They have events every few months with good rewards, pvp, challenges and fair ways to earn equipment.
This game is a complete rip-off. Despite removing in-app purchases, the P2W mechanics are still present, making it impossible to progress without spending money. In the few months we played it, there were several events which just simply could not be completed on this version of the game. If the developers wanted to remove all in app purchases and put the game behind a paywall the Apple Arcade approach would have been much better.
Best free(after purchase) game Ive seen, its fun to play when your bored..it isnt demanding and its smooth and responsive actually get this bro.
Its not letting us link our Apple account to the game only Game Center.
Gameplay is great, pretty much the best Mobile hack n slash you can find. That said, the game is incredibly grindy, almost to the point where it becomes more of a chore than a game (especially as you progress to higher character levels). Update: 1/5/2023 Removal of Arena and Tower passes has dramatically reduced our desire to play the game. Theres now virtually no reason to play any of these modes. Unfortunately these modes were among the few reasons that we still regularly played. Had to take off a star because despite great gameplay, its too repetitive without any real incentive to play tower or pvp.
We have been playing this for 2 days and still playing. Based on skills including on pvp. No ads, smooth. Only thing we want for this game is creating a clan or guild however you guys called it, but it would be awesome bringing people together and show off your skills fighting each other as friends. It would also be nice if the passes are cut shorter for us to use our diamonds to work on our things. Im pretty good at our abilities and almost clap a lvl 70 when im at a lvl 16. Crazy right? Lol. Welp keep up the good work and we definitely recommend yall to just spend 5 bucks to download this game. Its worth it and your time.
Love this game . Started playing on the free version then found this one with all the characters unlocked. Its great time killing just running thru dungeons! We just got a Backbone controller and would love to be able to change our controls. You can use it but you have to figure out what button does what soooo PLEASE ADD CONTROLLER SUPPORT IN THE FUTURE.
The game is riddled with bugs and crashes. Arena is unplayable. Three months in and more problems with no fixes. Of course there plenty of ways to spend real money we. The other versions of course but still no fixes! Super disappointed.
We never play iOS games cause their never fun and full of ads but this game shadow hunter special edition is really fun and addicting definitely worth it best iOS game out there One thing it wont let us link our account via Apple If you see this developer please help we can only link via Game Center.
This game is great. It should be more multiplayer/pvp friendly. Maybe some co-op game modes or even 2v2 pvp!! Love the game and more players are needed.
Dont know how this game isnt more popular. We played a lot of mobile games and have only really enjoyed about 2, this being one of them. We like this version cause Im not tempted to spend money cause we dont like playing gotcha games. It give out the currency well so you can do a decent amount every day and the combat is really good. Hope the developer keeps coming out with new content! We do wish this game had controller support and a website or wiki to check out all the armor and possible builds but definitely 5 star game.
Gameplay is great, pretty much the best Mobile hack n slash you can find. Our only gripe is that this version of the game doesnt have any microtransactions, which would be great, if there wasnt a battle pass that can only be bought with premium currency. We want to buy the 8000 diamond pass, but in this version we cant because microtransactions arent available. Easy solution would be to give a secondary option to buy the pass with money instead of diamonds. Other than that we have no complaints, this is a great game.
Awesome game, love just a pure hack n slash game, do wish we could use our back bone controller with the game. If u can make it controller able then this game would really take off.
So theres 3 versions of this game. One is premium, one is regular, and this is special edition. Special edition is the best version because it doesnt have any in game ads, its easier to earn diamonds in game- therefore getting further on campaign mode faster. Also each character is unlocked from the beginning. This edition is made so that there is no pay to win system. Playing pvp on ranked matches there are a lot less hackers compared to the regular versions as you cannot buy any in game content (diamonds, coins, etc) through a jailbroken phone. One mistake we see a lot of new players doing is spending their gold tickets/cards right as they get them. Be sure to save up diamonds and gold cards for a good month or two until you have enough for a decent banner set the next round of the month. No app compares to this game.
The only thing they need to do in the game is make the actual character a little bit bigger he looks a little too small. We dont know when you reach level 40 you max out, and you cant level up your character anymore to get any additional power that you need which the game goes up to like level 60 we believe in power but at level 40 you max out and you cannot see if you continue to level up whats up with that.
Only difference is special edition has all characters unlocked and there is no p2w. However all the upgrades, prizes and all is the same cost as regular lost world. In lost world you can p2w if you want to but you have to pay or unlock the prem characters. So get this if you want to have all characters unlocked and dont want to p2w. Get lost world if you want to f2p or p2w. And in pvp all enemies are bots not real people in all versions. Imo the free lost world version is best unless you cant control your spending on games.
So much fun really enjoy stabbing monsters.
You can Barely progress without paying money but you cant. The game just removes the ability to pay for no reason.
Attack equipment is worn, but armor is not.
Every character is unlocked, premium currency is earned through game content. No p2w.
We love how theres no pay to win, and you have to earn everything. But, one thing we dislike is that you cant enter special codes that the devs give out. It makes us feel kind of left out of the community. Other than that, this hack and slash is great! Its like a hack and slash dark souls on your phone.
This game is a lot more fun than we expected. Slightly repetitive, however, fun combos and skills so its still a lot of fun. For us personally, there is only one thing that would make this game get 5 stars from us real quick. That would be, to have a character who uses gauntlets to focus on punching and throwing the enemies.
Gameplay is cool but the game is ultimately a waste of time. We were only able to reach the 3rd story before the game got to hard with our current gear. You need to have the best gear in order to progress but its impossible unless you pay. Dont buy this game its a major waste of time and youll only end up deleting it after a couple of games anyways. Just save yourself the effort and dont even download this game.
This is a really cool game u guys should add more bosses different skins for weapons.
Please add Russian language, please.
We enjoy this quick paced side scrolling hack and slash genre.
Totally love this, pure great quality.
More fun than a lot of games Ive been playing on console. Sidescrolling combat without the filler of exploring levels to find boring chests with nothing in them. We hope the developers port this to console and pc to draw in an even bigger audience to great gameplay and progression.
Needs more people too keep the pvp fun but overall super accurate Minimal bugs, great game.
We Love this game, played the original and when the next two additions dropped we kept upping the premium expectation and this game provides it. Honestly the only think left for this game is to add controller support to truly fix it up.
This game is tremendous! Graphics and gameplay are great, very addicting! Our only minor negative is the lack of controller support. We think if it had controller support the game would go to another level! Thank yall for making an great game.
UNBALANCED BOSSES and MULTIPLAYER the combat could feel more smooth, but overall not a bad game PLEASE remove the energy system.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 12.131.2.0
- Size: 1,251.07 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, RU, ES, TH, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Contests
- Developer: ENIGMA SOFTWARE JOINT STOCK COMPANY
Last updated: 29th December 2025 | Genre: Action, Roleplaying | Developer: ENIGMA SOFTWARE JOINT STOCK COMPANY