Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 04:44 am
Skul: The Hero Slayer – Action Game Review
Skul: The Hero Slayer is a Action/Adventure game from Playdigious, first launched in 4th June 2024.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 405+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Skul: The Hero Slayer Stand Out
Skul is a fast-paced action rogue-lite where losing your head is encouraged.
Featuring 100 playable characters each with their own unique abilities and a ton of items that can create wild synergies, the battles are as electrifying as they are challenging.
The Demon King's Castle in Ruins
The human race attacking the Demon King's castle is nothing new and has happened countless times before.
What makes this time different though, is that the Adventurers decided to join forces with the Imperial Army and the 'Hero of Caerleon' to lead a full onslaught in hopes of wiping out the Demons once and for all.
They attacked the Demon stronghold with overwhelming numbers and succeeded in its total destruction. All of the demons in the castle were taken prisoner except for one lone skeleton named 'Skul'.
Dark Mirror Mode
Once you're through with the main story, test your skills and limits in the new challenging 'Dark Mirror' mode!
FEATURES
-You’re the last hope of the entire demon race! Play as Skul, a tiny skeleton on a path to slay the pompous heroes and save the demon king from the corrupt army of Carleon.
-Losing your head never felt so right: try on new skulls to borrow the powers and dashing outfits of their previous owners and create synergies with unique items to defeat your enemies.
-What is dead may never die: you will not rest until you have faced all the challenges of this action-packed rogue-lite platformer.
-Let your hollow eyes feast upon vibrant, cartoony pixel-art 2D animations as you help all sorts of demonic creatures return to their original state.
-From the Mummies of Egypt to the Minotaur of Greece or even an official Dead Cells crossover… Will you spot all the fun easter eggs scattered across the game?
CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE
- Revamped interface – exclusive mobile UI with complete touch control
- Game Center achievements
- Cloud Save – Share your progress between iOS devices
- Compatible with MFi controllers
- iPhone 15 Optimization (including Pro Max)
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Skul: The Hero Slayer is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Thanks for playing! We’ve made some performance improvements and added a security fix.
Download & Availability
Skul: The Hero Slayer is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Skul: The Hero Slayer on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone XS / iPhone XS Max / iPhone XR / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 12.9-inch, Wi-Fi) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 11-inch, Wi-Fi) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 12.9-inch, Cellular) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 11-inch, Cellular) / iPad Mini (5th Gen) / iPad Mini (5th Gen, Cellular) / iPad Air (3rd Gen) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Enjoying the game so far!! Really fun game! Every aspect of it keeps us engaged for hours. Hoping that the DLC content also comes to the mobile app sometime in the future.
The game is amazing 10/10 in every category but theres one problem theres a DLC on console that just isnt here. Its only like five dollars and it adds new skuls and equipment Its just like a quality of life thing that we would really love for consistency. Can you give us an update please.
Finished the game, DM10 complete. Needs the missing content updates since the price is not all that different from other platforms when it goes on sale.
The game is good, but it's not smooth. It's very smooth to play Xiaogu on Android because it can be set to high frame rate, but on iOS it can only be set to low frame rate. When will iOS support high frame rate.
It has been more than a month. When can the game content be updated? It's a little boring to play at present.
Its a game where the humans are the bad guys and you play a little pathetic skeleton with the ability to gain powers through wearing other skulls of former heroes, legendary figures, and sorcerers, even the prisoner from Deadcells is playable here if you can find his skull. We havent beaten the game yet but Ive gotten most of the upgrades and defeated many of the bosses. The game can get kinda hectic at the end though, sometimes youll lose track of your character and realize youve been standing on traps on the floor and thats what ended your play through, it can get pretty irritating. Also some enemies will hide in the lower right of your screen where the buttons are, and will be very hard to see unless you use a controller. Either way. Its a 8/10 game in our opinion, $7 is a pretty easy asking price for the game.
Im really into this game and was wondering when the devs are gonna roll out the high frame rate mode for mobile.
We need 120HZ on iPad Pro please.
Skul is a amazing game we could not be more happy with it. Our only concern is the crashing. At first the crashing would only happen when youve completed a boss and opened the chest. Now, ever since Ive entered the dark world Ive recently made it to the final boss the Dark Hero. We cannot even enter the area because of the constant crash. We thought about restarting but Ive worked so hard just to make it there and it was our first time trying to face the dark hero. Anyway even if we wanted to restart now we can no longer even enter the game without it crashing. Once we tap to start it loads then crashes. Some time of update to fix this is definitely needed and a constant problem with several players. We would not be complaining if we could at least play the game. We would definitely love some suggestions to keep on our journey or any type of fix for the issue.
We beat the first dark mirror 4 times and even have the achievement, but it wont let us get the second lvl and keeps glitching out.
We're enjoying the skul game a lot, but when we finish the Johansson II boss and open the reward box, the game continues to be forced to shut down. How can we continue to enjoy the game.
We really really enjoy this game except for one MAJOR issue. The game consistently crashes around the 3rd and 4th major boss. We have beat the 4th boss many times and not once have we seen the death animation because it crashes the moment before.
When we reached level 4-3, after beating the boss and opening the chest, the game automatically exited. We tried to re-enter and play again, after beating the boss, the game still exited. It's been like this 10 times. We're so frustrated that we're waiting for a fix.
We love this game so much but we play this game on iPhone 16 pro max but the game have a very low fps we dont know why + its dont have an option for fps.
Last patch was 167 days ago according to the in game support. Still having issues with opening chests leading to the game crashing. We love the console game just wish the mobile version would work but it seems like the rumors are true the devs have abandoned this version of the game. Rip.
Even on an iPhone 14, the game crashes at least three times a run. We are stuck on dark mirror 0 because the game crashes after we have already beaten dark hero. We have reached the win screen in dark mirror 5 times and the game crashes every single time. We dont understand how you can sell a game for 7.99 when players cannot progress the game due to consistent crashes.
All in all an okay game. However, Im using an iPhone 12 and we got to the 1st hero in dark mirror but it keeps crashing, we cant even restart the run, the moment the game is turned on, it crashes. We read other reviews and they told to reach out in in-game chat, where is it? We need this fixed since we literally can not play the game.
We do love this game, we have played this on our pc and have beaten the game and am now on the dark mirror, and we found a mobile version and we excited to play it on mobile and when we started playing it. It wasnt easy compared to pc, the buttons are too small for us to press and we keep having trouble using the skills for how small they are. We were thinking if you can add an adjustment to the button sizes, hopefully thats not too much work for you guys.
The game is and can be more fun but, we have yet to beat a full run yet because of crashes. The most notable one is during boss fights, opening boss chest after the the fight, before or after area switch, or in act 4 crashing going though the boss door and never getting to the fight proper.
Game constantly crushes at later stage. **crushes everytime when completing dark mirror run.
When will it be updated? Always flashback.
Awesome game! Please add controller support in an update.
Ive finally made it to Grand Priest Joan. Ive killed him 5 times. FIVE!!! Every time we killed him and tried to rise up in the lightthe game crashed. Finally he got a crit hit on us and we died on the 6th attempt and boom all of a sudden the game registers and we have to start back from the beginning. The games amazing but this is beyond annoying and why we wont give it more than 3 stars.
Great game! We recommend highly if you like rogue like games! We do have one qualm though. If we have to set the phone down for an extended period of time when going afk in the shop or after upgrading with the first station, we lose our skulls and then revert back to regular skul on the continue. Ive lost some good builds with it that we were excited to resume. No biggie. Only seems to happen after buying something or upgrading. At least for us. Again great game! Im sure things will smooth out.
The glitches we noticed were at the spider lady; when you transform, sometimes Skul will go to the place where she wrap him in web and just shake. We play with a controller so we found to tap the screen get him out of that shake. Another we noticed; we were using the Biker Skul and we added a lot of poison and Crit items to that build. Every time we used his chain as a whip ( special move of the biker Skul) the game froze only for like half a second and caught up. Last its not a glitch , when your 9 of 9 on items for your build and have to swap one out we cant cancel the swap with the controller, we have to touch the screen. This last one is not a glitch to be clear just a rant. Had this game on another system before; liked it enough to purchase it this time.
We killed all 3 phases of first hero in 42 secs.
The game gets better after the update.
One of the best developers in the mobile industry Playdigious we have all your mobile games. Well most yall never disappoint. Im not lowering our rating bc the first update addresses the box issue. Im sure it will get smoother and better each update. Thank yall for being all these good games from console or computer to mobile we appreciate it. We will tell anyone if you want good mobile games bc we play a lot on mobile. Go to Playdigious and buy anything they help make or port and you will be happy.
This game needs to be optimized, now the game is generally 60 frames, players are used to playing with 60 frames, the computer side also has 60 frames, how to transplant to the mobile phone side only 30 frames? Urgently need you to hurry up 60 frames to move up, there are some players fingers are relatively small, the game keys can not adjust the size, some keys can not be pressed, it is very uncomfortable, these two points in particular need of adjustment, with these two points, players can have a good experience.
Game crush frequently ina act4 please fix.
Action is great, lots of cool upgrades. Disappointing that the game often crashes causing lost progress or to get stuck on a boss without being able to fight him. Hope they fix it soon.
This game is fun, it has all the mechanics you could ask for of a side scrolling hack and slash rogue-like rpg. However, due to it being a mobile game, the UI is often in the way of the gameplay or unresponsive, and occasionally when we try to do an action, we end up pressing another and COMPLETELY botching our run. This game is fantastic, but exists on a poor platform for showcasing all that it is. UPDATE: Forget what we said earlier, the game is COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE. Regularly closing before and after main story bosses, causing us to lose our collected skulls that we spent so much time grinding up to legendary, AND making us completely redo the fight. Fix your game devs. Because this trash is unacceptable.
Sweet game we love dead cell. We havent ever played this game before but its worth it amazing job great game.
Had the game for about a month on PlayStation 5 got it for free with PlayStation plus . We love this game difficult sometimes but that might be our fault. We like to trade damage instead of dodging all the time lol. Great purchase for anyone.
Thank you so much for bring the game to iOS and iPadOS we had enjoy it on pc steam and on switch and now Im enjoying playing it again on our iPad Pro M4 we only having little lag in the toxic area + we hope we get 120 fps if the m4 can handle that.
We have over 100+ hours of this on our steam account excited to have it on the go!! We know it just came out but will you be planning on dropping the new DLC on mobile as well? Such a good game.
Steam 1. 2.iPadiphone Advantages all on steam, here we wanna share some disadvantages 1.We need simplified Chinese 2.The savings are not the same on iPad and iPhone.
Great game but the constant stuttering is extremely annoying. The buttons are a little small and sometimes partially hide the enemies. This game needs optimization, and option to edit the buttons size and visibility.
How can we use the keyboard to play games? And how to change the key position.
Hello, just wanted to say great job on the game everyone from the developers, artists, voice actors, programmers and music crew. One thing we have a concern about. There appears to be no respawn at a certain checkpoint and so if we were to die far ahead. We would have to restart our whole journey and that just seems like a hassle but we see what you guys are trying to do. You did the same thing with dead cells and we were fine with that but please incorporate more shops or items that heal the player more often. Thank you.
At least for now we don't think they had let anyone test this game before it released. Size of all buttons are extremely small and easy to misclick even you move them around. And due to the complicated UI the curve of the game is a disaster compare to the PC Skul experience.
Founded a bug: In Magic Mirror level we ,when u killed final boss,u just staying there and do nothing.
This game needs update to save the progress like skul and items. After we stoped the game app and played the game again, there was no item left and was only basic skul.
The game is actually pretty fun. We like it. However, when defeating the fourth boss, the game always shut down by itself, making us fighting with the same boss over and over again. Please fix it as soon as possible. It really hurt our gaming experience.
Cant resize or make darker any buttons except the joy stick pad which is crazy for a game like this. The optimization is horrible, frame rate drops all the time. There is a bug where some giant scroll thing appears in our game when we jump and cannot do anything but start over.
This game seems to have been released with iphone 15 in mind, its near unplayable on iphone 12 we have frequently ran into frame drops, stutters, and crashes while playing resulting in significant progress loss including a run where we almost beat the first hero but it crashed halfway through, also a total lack for controller support is a massive let down considering this game does support controllers on the other platforms its on.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.11
- Size: 2,042.01 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, KO, PL, PT, RU, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Playdigious
Last updated: 23rd October 2025 | Genre: Action, Adventure | Developer: Playdigious