Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 07:57 am
Solomon's Boneyard – Roleplaying Game Review
Solomon's Boneyard is a Roleplaying/Entertainment/Action game from Raptisoft, first launched in 8th September 2010.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,717+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Solomon's Boneyard Stand Out
Twenty-Three years before the horrifying events chronicled in "Solomon's Keep," the Wizard's college first suspected they might have a problem with one of their new graduates. A battle mage was dispatched to put an end to this young "Solomon Dark" before he could grow in power…
In Solomon's Boneyard, you can play as one of seven young wizards, with over thirty skills to master. The game is a survival two-thumb shooter, where you will face wave after wave of undead hordes, while gaining levels and choosing new skills to fight with.
The game comes complete with a high score list, and an innovative perks system that will allow you to grow in power the more you play.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Solomon's Boneyard is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th January 2020
Recent improvements include:
o Compatibility with iOS13 and wider screens
o Fixes a bug that can cause game to save improperly and lose data
o Adds a setting in TWEAKS that permits you to adjust the location of the joypads and UI buttons to adjust for comfort and for notches.
Download & Availability
Solomon's Boneyard is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Solomon's Boneyard 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:
Ive been playing the game for years now, and the same things always come up, frost jet it amazing but the problem comes with the other skills. Every other skill has no way to deal with archers and playing wirh any character that u cant put chill wind on just means you'll die to archers. Passing 100,000 kills the game seems to glitch out after every wave making the waves take several minutes to transition making us just have to wait for some action we dont think this one is an issue anymore but we did post this before frost jet 25 seems to glitch out as damage doesnt increase past that still leaving a 5 star just cuz we like the game that much.
We love this game but we detest having our fingers on the screen blocking our view. Also, with sensitive skin, constant pressure on the glass starts to hurt. Ive played it less and less since it isnt as pleasurable on our hands as it once used to be. PLEASE consider adding controller support since we are now playing other games we dont love just to cut down on the pain.
We remember when we got this game years ago on our iPod touch and we immediately fell in love with it. Its been more than 10 years and we still love this game and we hope it never leaves the AppStore.
We would buy this and Solomons keep if it was on switch.
We absolutely love this game and put quite some hours into it back in the day. We originally downloaded this back in 2017-2018. After all these years, we found it again and was so happy we could download it and play it again. Thank you Raptisoft for not only creating this, but for keeping it going! The fact that this still works on iOS 16 is amazing.
We love this game but it would be even more amazing if it had controller support! Please and thank you! :).
Seriously, we keep circling back to Solomons keep and boneyard over the last decade (?!) and find a solid amount of game time spent in these games. Im so glad the developers have kept up with the iOS requirements and happy to aim still able to enjoy this game even though Ive been through 3 phones since this games release. Would love to see Solomon make a reprise appearance either on iOS or some PC format. Well done Raptisoft.
This is one of our favorites. Id love to see an update for the game with new characters, spells etc. Its been too long since the last update.
Ive been playing this since 2013 we never delete it. We always come back to it. Im just surprised theres not more reviews for it.
Top tier run and gun survival game.
We cannot understate how awesome this game is when it is literally the best twin stick shooter there is. Easily perfect for dozens of hours and more, this is a horde only version of the original game. Also like the first game, it gives you that feel of an apprentice wizard doing exactly what wizards are incredibly good at: destroying everything in their path. We will say however, that just like the original, there is definitely plenty of gameplay and balance adjustments that could be made to improve the game overall, and although they dont ruin the fun, it does limit it somewhat. This includes but isnt limited to how Fate Potions are expensive as heck, requiring multiple good runs to purchase, and yet only last a single run on top of also taking up a slot themselves, instead giving you the full two slots for perks. We could honestly give a list of ideas, but it would be much too long to list here.
As old as this game is its still 5 stars. Its also one of the first rogue like games released in iOS and with that genre so popular now we would think this would get some dev attention. Keep is goo but this type is the thing of the moment.
Been playing ever since we got our first phone a LONG time ago (we were about 9-10, so bout 10 years ago) this game is still a wonderful game no matter what, the soundtrack is awesome and the different characters, all awesome. Thank you for this game.
We left iPhones and was sad to see this isnt available on Android, we just got back into iPhones again and this is the first game we downloaded. The graphics were top notch then and they havent aged a day, same with the gameplay. To put it simply this is the best phone game we have ever played! We just wish they could add a coop and make it so our android brothers could play so they could see what they have been missing. It doesnt feel like we havent played in 3 years as we got it going and jumped right back in. Please please please never let this game die because its on of the only ones we play on apple products! If you add coop then 10 out of 5 but until then you still get a 9 out of 5. Stay amazing dev team :).
We went to Android for years, last iPhone we had was the iPhone 5c, we came back to iOS this time around and we had to retry this game. And years later we still love it. Please update it, this could be the best iOS game if yall would just update it.
Cool game and u r awesome developer.
We havent played in months and much to our surprise we log back in today and boom its optimized for iPhone X. YOU GUYS ARE FREAKING AWESOME and that means you guys are active any chance or news of a new Solomon.
We would like to say Ive been playing this game for years and it is very fun and creative. But one thing wont stop bothering us, where do we find the h@xxor codes?! Ive looked everywhere and even for clues in the game. Please help.
But we want to new version Any plans for next game.
Great game but when are yall gonna make another game. We love them.
We have kept these games our phone since iPhone 4! Fantastic, fun and tiny(they take up almost no memory)! And the in app purchases are totally optional, but we recommend them to show support for these kind of games! We need more like these! <3.
We love both Solomons keep and boneyard! We would recommend this game to anyone. For anyone wanting to kill time this game is for you. One thing we have noticed is they havent done any events for double gold for ads since 2018. It would be nice if that could start happening again since its a grind for gold already.
We really like this game, after dumping hours into it, we can say its absolutely our favorite on the AppStore. We just wish the developers didnt drop it and its engine, we would love to see a massive content dump in a future update with maybe a new game mode and items or something. Most of all we would love for there to be multiplayer. Its so stylized and would truly wish to see it more games like it out of Raptisoft.
We really wanted to play this game as we enjoyed Solomons Keep, but an update is needed – no matter which direction any of the wizards are facing, when we fire, the wizard shoots to the left. Really unfortunate. Please correct and ill pay for in-game items.
We played solomans keep when first released. We were lucky enough to have a back and forth email exchange with John @ rapitsoft just as the boneyard was coming outta beta and soon to be released to everyone. We will admit in 2010 that solstice arena took us away from both these games. Shortly after SA went under in 2014 Vainglory (MOBA) was released…..and up until last month was our go to game. VG has lost their server & with its limited functionality we found ourselves w/fingers crossed hitting up the ol Solomons keep. Totally enjoyable. Then we ventured into the boneyard for the first time in years. We are thrilled to see the new fates & skills options. However we will also begrudgingly say that we cannot get past level 19. It doesnt matter what character, skills, rings, we have bc those darn poisonous archers kill us every time. Alas we think in a time of such change, uncertainty, and social distancing we are GRATEFUL TO John & his crew at Rapitsoft for keeping both his creations going for over 9+ years.
A very fun game, lets you endless waves with multiple different characters. But it is an older game and the no Ads purchase appears to be broken. Had paid for it and was loving this game, but it vanished one day and restoring purchases doesnt work. With the ads interrupting the game play, the enjoyment factor decreases a lot, preventing us from giving the rating it used to deserve.
We love the game, but the dialog about the women in the game make us, as another woman, highly uncomfortable.
Game used to be awesome, an all time fave that we would easily come back to again and again, 7-8 years ago the game was fun, it had a lot going for it, great game. A few years ago we play it again, awesome, they added new maps a few different things in the game, still greatly enjoyable even with ads. Now, every level up is an ad, watch ads for pitiful amounts of gold, added an npc which was pretty much unnecessary, and now if you want to have more than 2 perks, unlike old Boneyard you just unlocked them at increasingly pricey intervals, it is now a shop where you have to reassign your perks EVERY ROUND, but you also have to rebuy some stupid tonic EVERY ROUND just to have more than 2 perks which, unless you consistently hit lvl 20 or above, will only ruin your early game experiences. What can we say, stereotypical really, throw in more ads or more reasons for people to potentially throw money at a game just to try and hurry the tediously unneeded aspects.
Ive had this game for years! The game used to be fun, now its a back and forth game when Im bored with other games but, now theyve added ads to it that you have to pay for to get rid of, which is annoying, Ive payed for all the add ones and now they want more money. Now every time you level up an add pops up. Makes this game horrible, otherwise this game would be 5 star. Also we want our purchases back.
Every single aspect of the game has been changed to cost more and more gold. Nothing is permanent. You no longer permanently use perks you have to pay each run for perks you bought or rings youve earned. Everything costs gold and gold drop rates have decreased so that you have to purchase it.
You know why. We spent money we didnt need to just to support you guys for making a great game. Now we have to start again? Ohn.
It was ok,but it deleted our old data all unlocked Wizards and we lost all gold and unlocked add ons how can we recover all our data and gold we had over 7 millions on goldcan you fix this bug this issue and.
Hi we love this game a lot but we are a little stuck and we would like some advice from the developers and we love Solomons keep even more so could you respond to us because you seem very nice to us.
We have loved this game since we first played it 7 years ago. At the present moment thou game is somewhat broken. Due to apples frequent updates on random bits of code, Solomons boneyard and Solomons keep both have their settings menu broken. But no need to fear, we emailed the Developer and he reassured us that a new patch would be released soon to fix the problems. The game is still functional. You can play thru wave after wave.
Love this game, and have been playing SB and SK for as long as its been out. After iOS 13 came out both games have very unusual bugs now. These bugs include: Mana and Health bar disappeared. Whenever picking an item off the ground, it does not state what item was acquired at the bottom of the screen anymore. Talking to NPCs does not show any words whatsoever but you can click on the options they usually have if you remember what they say and where the words are placed. we're sure there are a few more Please update these games as we love playing them when we have no service, Ive wasted so much gold trying to pick our bonus perks from the character start screen on SB, not being able to see any words and having to click on them randomly to choose.
Ive played this game for years, very fun. However, it looks like iOS 13 broke the game, specifically the scavenger and special abilities screens. Im running on a 7 Plus.
Its such a great game Id hate to see it leave the App Store. We hope the developers update the game with better graphics and optimize it for iOS 13.
Hey, this game is really fun to play, we play Solomons keep, and Solomons boneyard, and we really enjoy the games, theres plenty of perks and level up system is good. We want to know if there is going to be any more updates, or special events, and hope to hear back from you. Im telling our buddies about this one, its a blast.
Developers have a very quick response time and great customer service.
Game is amazing, but spewing an asevery time you level up? Too excessive and ruins it for us. Its like youre trying to force us to give you money. At least lower the ad spam to every death.
Ive been playing this game for over 5 years, and its remained a beautiful little doozy. You can spend hours on it.
We had downloaded Solomons Keep and this game when it first came out and throughly enjoyed it. But that was many phones ago. We got the iPhone X and was looking at our downloads and decided to check out these games again. Surprisingly there had been updates which hasnt been one for awhile. And we liked our purchased stuff did cross over for both of our games. If you guys made a PS4 version we would definitely buy it. Con/ bug: The Reduce Tonic Cost states you can repeatedly buy it but we are unable to buy it anymore. The Perk Tonic stays at the cost of 99. We thought their would be no cap since we can repeatedly purchase them. We have two suggestions that we would like to see. First, we would make it to where you can make the Perk Tonic cost 0 or for spending so much coins to make it permanent and have seven perk slots to have. Second, would be to have a shield health bar. That way we know when its about to pop or have health/damage number display whenever we attack or get hit.
To one such as us, so often disappointed by the magical offerings in gaming, this was a marvelous breath of fresh air. We have loved this game series ever since we discovered it all those years ago in college. We love building the wizard skills as well as the charming characterizations of the NPCs. Solomon Dark himself is deliciously hammy. Can not recommend highly enough, and we wish success to the current and future projects in development.
When it comes to classic twin stick shooters, no other app in the store even comes close to Solomons Boneyard. The simple fluidity of the gameplay, randomness of the level up system, and sense of progress of the perks system all combine to create a great unique experience with every run. This, combined with the developers relentless drive to make the game better (even pushing updates years after launch to improve the game), reveals a true hidden gem in the App Store. And the reviews dont lie, people love boneyard for the aforementioned reasons. Despite how great the game is, That isnt to say that there arent any issues with the game. First of all was the loss of data. Due to the nature of such conversions, this loss is understandable. If any of you lost data or gold, feel free to contact Rapisoft support. They were extremely helpful (and nice) to us when we were trying to get our gold back. Similarly if you bought bribe destiny/ other paid perks before, you now can restore for removal of ads which imo is a great compromise considering removal of ads costs $3.99. Our issue with data in this game is that it is 100% localized without any cloud save feature whatsoever. Please make a way to upload/link ones data to their FB/Gamecenter. This would make it so that people cant lose data even when deleting the app and saving your support team a lot of trouble restoring user data when they switch phones etc. Second issue was the introduction of ads. Ads definitely were a turn off to many, due to their intrusiveness. However in this case we would actually have to argue in favor of the developers. It literally only costs $3.99 to remove these ads. In our opinion $3.99 is a solid price for a game like this if it were to be sold. Instead, the creator lets your try the game for free and then let you decide if you want to purchase the game. If you dont want to spend money, worry not as you can play the full game without paying anyways. Similarly, during our time playing with ads, they only appear during level up and therefore do not intrude on gameplay. Our only issue with ads that that watching ads for gold gives you WAY too many gold. When we were watching ads for gold, we only got 6 second ads which usually rewarded around 300 gold. However, we got a few jackpots ranging from 2.5k to 10k gold. In around an hour we were able to accrue over 200k gold. This is terrible because you get WAY too much gold from watching ads and it makes it almost pointless to play the game for gold (or pay any money for gold) when you could watch and ad and earn 10-100 times more gold in the same amount of time. This ruined our sense of progress considering that originally you had to play to get perks and progress. Now its just watch ads for a couple hours and youve got everything. Therefore we think that ads for gold should be removed (or at least reduce the gold you get from them / limit the gold you can get per day like a 5 ads per hour thing). We do think that ads can be used for good purposes. For example, a player could opt to do a one time cheat death by watching an ad after they die. That brings us to our next point, cheat death. If youre getting mobbed, cheat death wont save you because recovering health means nothing when you cant move and youre surrounded. Cheat death should either cast a teleport or a flame ring to clear the enemies as soon as it happens in order to give you a true second chance. Finally the gold sink. Personally we despise the tonics that let you carry more perks. We believe that once youve progressed far enough in the game to earn your gold, it should be spent on things that seem fun and enjoyable. Therefore making the tonics cost up to 2000 gold for every run just so you can run a fun but not efficient combination of perks is downright distasteful. You can reduce the cost of tonics, but once you get around to 400 gold it becomes more or less pointless to keep improving it as the cost to reduce tonic cost by ~20 is 10000 gold. Therefore we believe that every time you buy cheaper tonics, the tonic price gets reduced by 50 until you hit 0. That gives players a huge upgrade chain with constant benefit (lots of gold needed to max) but also lets players have fun with crazy perks after they max everything out with little to no cost. The scavenger in its current state is also poorly done. You should only have to pay gold to retrieve certain items, not pay amounts of gold to look at all the rings. The price should increase based on the rings rarity. This is because most players only really care about retrieving one or two rings at most but the scavenger charges more to find all, which is unnecessary. We do believe that the bribe destiny is well made. If there should be a gold sink, we believe bribe destiny should be the only one due to it being heavily overpowered if used correctly. However, if maxed players want to troll (going max rush) or have fun, they dont have to do it at the expense of spending gold on perk tonics and other shenanigans. Multiplayer could be an interesting addition, but multiplayer networking and getting servers to route such data is time consuming and stressful. We doubt any such addition would be made soon and that is totally fine as Im sure Rapisoft has other projects in mind and not much time to focus on multiplayer. Overall the game is quite an amazing twin stick shooter with a addictive style of gameplay and progression. Its a solid 4.5/5 due to the gameplay and developer but a few areas can be touched upon which reduces the total score by about 0.5. We will round up in this review, however, because Solomons boneyard has always been one of our favorite games since years back. Hopefully the steam release of Solomons keep is going well. Looking forward to it! Potor10.
Good, addictive arcade style fun. Youll forget that every second you play is a second youll never get back.
If you run into an issue reach out to the developer. They provide excellent customer support. Could we please get iCloud save support.
This game is awesome, however, we would like to see the game updated to fit the iPhone 11 screen size. Having the black bars on the side gets annoying some times and not being able to see the health and mana bars make the game very hard to play. Other than that the game is cool.
We absolutely love this game, but unfortunately it doesnt work on our the newest iPhone :( we cant see all of the menus nor does any text display when dialogue or menus occur. It seems like it may be an spect ratio problem but we dont know these things. On top of that the game is placed inside a square in the middle of our screen. Doesnt fill. Please update so that we can continue to enjoy one of our favorite games since the iPhone 4.
We love this game. It is great to play when we need to pass some time. We love the magic and items. However just after updating to IOS 13 the text no longer works for conversions in the game. And the health and mana bars are no longer visible!!! With this issue Youll never know when youre flirting with death! Please fix so we can continue to enjoy this wonderful game.
This game is awesome and Ive been playing for 8 years. Now that we have an iPhone X, Id love for the game to be updated to fit the new screen. Only complaint we have and this review would be 5 stars. Same goes for Solomons Keep.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.92
- Size: 44.70 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Raptisoft
Last updated: 20th January 2020 | Genre: Roleplaying, Entertainment | Developer: Raptisoft