Last updated on November 22nd, 2025 at 10:42 am
Shakedown: Hawaii – Adventure Game Review
Shakedown: Hawaii is a Adventure/Action game from Vblank Entertainment Inc., first launched in 20th December 2024.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 15+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shakedown: Hawaii Stand Out
A brand new open world adventure from the creator of Retro City Rampage DX!
The entire island is up for grabs. Build your own "legitimate" corporation by completing missions, acquiring businesses, sabotaging competitors, "re-zoning" land, and shaking down shops for protection money.
Explore the 16-bit open world by foot, by car, or by boat. It's filled with arcade challenges, side quests, stores to shop at, houses to burgle, civilians to interact with, and secrets to discover.
Build your empire and destroy the competition… in Shakedown: Hawaii.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shakedown: Hawaii is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd January 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Shakedown: Hawaii is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Shakedown: Hawaii 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:
We remember in the RCR DX iOS review about adding Backbone controller support & ending it with asking if Shakedown Hawaii would come to mobile. Its awesome to finally be able to play the game again on our phone.
Essentially you have a pixel 2d version of Grand Theft Auto. Pretty great though.
Ive been playing it for almost 4 hours now thats what the game says and honestly, the game is awesome. Ive never played it before and Im in love with it. Ive been using an Xbox controller to play. And its great. Zero bugs zero glitches so far. Its getting four stars for a few reasons though. ( No cloud save. Or game Center achievements when youre using controller, it does not tell you what each button does when it tells you to perform specific action you will have to figure this on your own ) not a single one of these things should be a dealbreaker for you we highly encourage you purchasing this game just putting this out there so hopefully the developers take this into consideration and add these features to their next game if they do, Im 100% willing to pay way more for the game and you should too hopefully though they will add some of these missing feature with future updates to the game.
Played this on Switch when it first came out and knew it would be perfect for mobile. Imagine GTA for the SNES, or if youve played Retro City Rampage think of this as a sequel. Giving it 4 stars for now only because we wish there were cloud save support to keep our progress between devices.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.2
- Size: 123.91 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Vblank Entertainment Inc.
Last updated: 3rd January 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Action | Developer: Vblank Entertainment Inc.