Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 04:38 am
Shattered Pixel Dungeon – Roleplaying Game Review
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a Roleplaying/Adventure game from Evan Debenham, first launched in 17th August 2021.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 3,629+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shattered Pixel Dungeon Stand Out
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike dungeon crawler RPG that's simple to get into but hard to master! Every game is a unique challenge, with six different heroes, randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use. ShatteredPD is also updated with new content roughly every three months, so there's always something new.
◀ Choose Your Hero ▶
Each of ShatteredPD's six playable heroes has their own unique mechanics and gameplay style. Cut down foes as the durable Warrior or deadly Duelist, fry your enemies as the arcane Mage or divine Cleric, or use terrain to your advantage as the stealthy Rogue or the markswoman Huntress!
As you progress through the dungeon you'll earn points to spend on talents, choose a subclass, and gain powerful lategame abilities. You can turn the Duelist into a dual-wielding Champion, the Cleric into a righteous Paladin, the Huntress into a precise Sniper, or explore loads of other possibilities!
◀ Explore the Dungeon ▶
ShatteredPD's dungeon is procedurally generated with random layouts, room types, items, traps, and enemies. In each game you'll find equipment and collect or craft consumable items to power you up or help you out in a pinch. There is a huge variety to what you might see from run to run and region to region.
As you progress through the dungeon you'll find equipment that can be enchanted, upgraded, and augmented as you outfit your hero. Set foes ablaze with an enchanted weapon, wade through enemies with upgraded armor, or gain powerful damage, defensive, or utility benefits from one of the many magical wands, rings, artifacts, or trinkets.
◀ Succeed or Die Trying ▶
The Dungeon is filled with enemies, traps, hazards, and bosses intent on ending your run! Battle hostile wildlife in the sewers and caves, mad thieves and guards in the prison, occult servants in the fallen dwarven city, and maybe something even worse further down…
All these hazards can make the game quite tough, but don't be discouraged! You probably won't win on your first try, but there are many tricks and strategies to discover and learn on the path to getting your first win. Afterward, there are optional challenges and achivements if you want to put your skills to the test!
◀ Over A Decade in the Making ▶
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open source game based on the source code of Pixel Dungeon by Watabou (first released in late 2012). It started in 2014 as a project to rebalance Pixel Dungeon but has steadily grown into its own game over the last 10 years!
Features Include:
• 6 Heroes, each with 2 subclasses, 3 endgame abilities, and over 25 talents.
• Over 300 items including equipment, consumables, and items crafted via alchemy.
• 5 dungeon regions, 26 floors, over 100 room types, and trillions of possible floor layouts.
• Over 60 regular enemy types, 30 traps, and 10 bosses to test your skills.
• An in-game catalog to fill in, with just over 500 entries.
• 9 stackable challenges and over 100 achievements for completionists.
• Interface modes for large and small screens, and support for multiple input types.
• Updates roughly every 3 months with new content, fixes, and improvements.
• Support for many languages thanks to the game's dedicated communities.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shattered Pixel Dungeon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Shattered Pixel Dungeon has been patched!
This patch contains bugfixes.
This patch contains translation updates.
Download & Availability
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Shattered Pixel Dungeon 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:
Just beat our first boss, and we feel like this is a great place (also because we got a message from devs to review) to make a comment. We feel like the mechanics are great, we love the puzzles and the enemies, the way they have weaknesses and all the different effects they do. Honestly really fun, interesting, and a great game for $5.
Played the open source as a teen & jumping back into the polished & refined version as an adult now has been a pure delight.
We have been playing this game for 10+ years. Its gone thru a few different iterations. SPD still has some things that Id like to see, but its great.
We found this game from a long time ago and was looking for it for a while after we broke our old phone, finally found it, fun game, and a good time killer. Props to the Devs.
Pretty fun so far! Great gameplay loop and diverse items. Our only complaint is there is no Safe Zone modifier in the graphics. We play on a IPhone 16 Pro and the top corner icons are partially cut off and the Dynamic Island cuts out a decent amount as well. Theres nothing we can do to fix it. Its especially difficult to press the menu button as theres only a fraction to select.
Stunning visuals, fun gameplay. Two thumbs up.
This game is pretty fun so far, we made it to the fourth floor after like fifteen tries. Lots of fun mechanics and items, it feels really alive, like the devs put a lot of love in it, definitely gonna keep it around, who knows maybe one day Ill clear the dungeon.
Worth the cost, good tempo or learning and very addictive loop for each run. It doesnt get easier, instead you learn more about how to play and about the dungeon that you can bring forward into subsequent runs that are deeper and more satisfying.
Its challenging but in a way that makes progress rewarding.
Its simple art style makes it seem like a typical mobile game but its far from that.
Best of both worlds with this game. Easy to pick up but still with plenty of depth.
Love this game and the characters abilities but would think a necromancer or dark mage would be a cool new addition.
We played this game when we had an android and it was free so we were surprised it cost money on iPhone but we remember ha such a blast o bought it anyway. Just as great as we remember.
This is a great little game with tons of replayability.
Never beat the game, but we like the game. Good boredom game.
Ive been playing this game since early development and am so impressed with where it is now. The developer truly cares about this game and every update is intentional and well timed. The gameplay is so unique with new players able to explore and learn more about the dungeon with each run and experienced players given the option of extreme challenges. There is enough content to play for hours without the gameplay getting dull.
Simply put, the best game Ive ever played.
Let us set the scene: our husband downloaded this game years agolike, somewhere between fidget spinners were still cool and TikTok wasnt yet a thing. Hed rave about this free little dungeon crawler on his phone, and as a lifelong gamer, Id roll our eyes and mutter something about real games having controllers. Fast forward to now. For years hes played it off and on, never really obsesseduntil recently. Suddenly hes in deep. Id catch him mumbling about armor, scrolls, and potions like he was training to be a pixelated wizard. So this weekend, we were bored and decided to give it another shot on his phone. We think we made it to level 3 and died oh, about 20 times. We had no idea what we were doingbut we couldnt stop playing. The dungeon had us. So, we caved. We downloaded it ourselves. It cost us five dollars. FIVE. Was it worth it? Absolutely. 100%. Buy it. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is one of those rare games that feels simple at first but keeps surprising you the more you play. Its challenging, strategic, funny in its own punishing way, and so satisfying when you finally make progress. Its the perfect blend of just one more run and how is it 2am already? Moral of the story: listen to your spouse. Sometimes, they do know what theyre talking about.
Much better than original pd or original shattered.
Loved the game! Real RPG like, love all the content and lore.
Been looking for this game for so long before we found it.
This is a fun and challenging game that can be quite addictive. Takes a bit to understand the dynamics but once you have it this is a wonderful repeatable play game. Prepare to die though. A lot.
This is a great pick up and play roguelike. Good for a break or a wait. The alternate characters unlock based on certain accomplishments in dungeon, so there is something to try for, and feel different to each other.
Ive played this game for years, the literal GOAT. We cant stress enough how much this game means to us. Also the best devs cuz this game updates a lot.
Found this game in 2025 and we are afraid Im hooked.
This game has a million built in mechanics that make it almost infinitely playable. Remember to inspect everything if youre not sure about what it does.
Ive been on and off this game for years, we love it, Im looking forward to more to the game in the future.
We once had the OG pixel dungeon and we forgot about it for awhile. Now we got this game and its totally worth the money. One of our favorites.
We used to play this game in Federal Prison all the time its very addictive and a great time consumer. Hoping to see more of this game in the future.
This is one of the best class-based roguelike dungeon crawlers we have played. It will provide hours of fun and a good distraction for certain. The only caveat is the controls for mobile can be suspect once in a while. Definitely worth a play.
We used to play these back in the day, we used to love the swipe to move instead of the tap to move we find ourselves having a harder time moving around the map.
Ive been playing this game for a few years and while Im overall happy with the game, this might be the point at which we stop playing it. The UI changes and random targeting added have made the interaction and quick slot buttons smaller and force character movementwhen Im going to hit or utilize a button and miss, Im clicking on the map half the time and the other half of the time Im hitting quick swap and hitting something empty and then move our character by accident to a random point. We have joint issues. This is unplayable for us now :/.
This game starts if deceptively simple and is so easy to pick up and play but the more you do, the more you discover systems and items that make for such a rich and varied combat and exploration system. It hits the just one more floor itch in such a satisfying way. And every time we come back theres a whole addition of Quality of life and balance changes. Well worth your time and attention.
Was a long time player of pixel dungeon and this is a great follow up to the original. The additions have made the game more engaging and we are loving diving back into the dungeons.
Game has been out for a while but just discovered it a few weeks ago. Bit of a learning curve but once past that its a blast.
Simply a good game that has consistent development over time.
Id been playing PD since the first game released and before it because unavailable. This dev kept the game alive and improved on it so much and continues to improve the system as time goes on. Its a perfect roguelike experience that offers so many ways to play, Im always looking forward to a run every time we start up. Cant wait to see what new things come in the future and can not recommend this game enough.
Ive been playing this game since the beginning, and before that we were playing pixel dungeon. No gotcha mechanics, no p2w, dev(s) have a love for the dungeon and we have a love for their game.
Been playing the original for years, didnt know this was still being updated we love this game its so much better than the original.
We feel for the price point there should be more classes and better support. There is no iCloud saves, so if you delete the game you also delete your saves. Cant get the game refunded either, so a heads up to those considering purchasing. Otherwise its a good pixel dungeon mod. Maybe Ill try playing it again if theres more content/saves added. Until then, we wasted our money.
We keep going back to it for years.
This is the most frustrating game Ive ever played. Absolutely worth the $5.
Awesome Mobile game, played a lot of highschool and now playing again.
This game is a fun surprise the timekiller but also something you can just pick up. Felt a strong vibes like when we were playing Pokmon mystery dungeon as a kid.
Very challenging game some characters are definitely better then others and it shows in the difficulty but it doesnt explicitly say strength potions are way more important in leveling up and there quite rare so when u reach level 5 its kinda hard.
Strategy, customization, skill, and all without the ability to simply put the game down for a moment if we need to take a call, or go back to work. Lots of fun, highly reccomend.
This is a fantastic find on the App Store. Ive been having a great time diving. Im an old time net hack player and this feels very familiar.
We keep coming back to this game cause its awesome. We do wish there was a way to modify the difficulty though. We have never gotten close to beating this but we keep trying.
This game js really good and ive been playing for a long ahile.
We have found no other game that has captured our attention like Shattered Pixel Dungeon. What we like most about it is every time you play, its a new game. The layout is different every time and nothing is the same from the game before. We have been playing this game almost everyday for 3 years.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.3.1
- Size: 122.29 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: [Evan Debenham]()
Last updated: 11th December 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Adventure | Developer: Evan Debenham