Last updated on November 23rd, 2025 at 07:35 pm
Spellstone – Strategy Game Review
Spellstone is a Strategy/Roleplaying game from Kongregate, Inc., first launched in 16th September 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 514+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spellstone Stand Out
Spellstone is a fantasy card game with beautiful hand-drawn art and rich lore! Collect hundreds of striking cards to battle through a compelling story and unravel the mystery of the Void.
FANTASTIC STORY
Capture Spellstones to unleash ancient and powerful creatures! However, there is dark magic at work on the island. Will you become a Hero or be consumed by the Void?
STUNNING ART
Heroes, creatures, monsters, demons, animals, and more are brought to life with a stunning hand-painted style.
BOUNTY HUNTERS WANTED
Do you have what it takes to rise to the top of the Bounty Hunter charts? Battle players around the world for huge bonuses, powerful unlocks, and bragging rights.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Follow the world of Spellstone through a series of special stories and events, with branching tales and powerful treasures.
FEATURES:
Three factions of heroes and creatures to battle and control. Do you favor the Powerful Wyld, Nimble Aether, or Fiery Chaos?
Over a hundred different creatures to collect, upgrade and fuse!
Master powerful card skills to win an edge over your opponents.
Battle thousands of other users around the world to prove who is the best!
96 levels and 8 levels of mastery with endless player rewards for each.
Hundreds of hand-drawn character cards that evolve as they become more powerful!
Spellstone is optimized for Phones and Tablets.
PLEASE NOTE: Spellstone is free to play, but some extra game items can be purchased for real money. You can disable in-app purchases in your device's settings.
A network connection is required to play.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spellstone is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th July 2023
Recent improvements include:
Internal fixes and improvements.
Download & Availability
Spellstone is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Game just randomly disconnects in the middle of a match. Happens extremely often and its not just a connection issue because we plenty of other mobile games and they do not disconnect. Would be greatly appreciated if this was fixed. Other than that great game.
We see great potential in this game, however it always is reloading and crashing, always taking you to the loading screen, restarting fights and overall making the game unplayable, and then the balancing issue, right away everyone you go up against has legendary cards so it means youll get stomped everytime.
Like this game a lot very simple but still entertaining, 5/5.
We remember we found out about this game through a certain quest in another game and we were just trying to get it done but we found that we couldnt stop playing, it was so addicting to us and we still play it consistently to this day. Such an underrated game with so much work put into it.
First of all we want to say we really like this game its quite fun to play and the crafting mechanics are nice. The only problem that we have seen is that there arent any ui scaling options for the iPhone X that account for the notch in the screen which can cover some important elements like enemy health. Additionally there seems to be a bug where we are unable to select the right-most card in our list when we are trying to upgrade/dust/add them to our deck Hope these get fixed soon and keep up the good work.
Very fun game, looking forward to new updates.
Love this game. Now we can take it noble!?! Even better.
Good game, standard graphics in battles (nothing too fancy) but cool status effects and special abilities. Download this because Phylol and SunnySplosion had featured the game on their YouTube channels. Worth the download :).
This is a app is one that everyone should get.
Update 7/11/17: The arena timer was shortened, but at 25 seconds it's still too long. If a player doesn't attack it's supposed to put them on auto, but some just disable it Another issue is that you may be playing a computer controlled zombie that always takes the full timer. This is a bigger problem now, because you lose arena Xp if you lose, so you probably won't quit Finally, on an iPhone 6, this game is now slow to load screens. Not sure when it happened. Reinstalling doesn't fix the issue Update 10/3/16: They've added a daily bonus for logging in, which is good. They also added a PVP arena which is great in theory, but as implemented is a chore. The time to attack us a minute and anything over 15 seconds is painful. Subtracted 1 star for the arena Original: You're likely to progress faster if you make in game purchases, but at level 12 it's not necessary. It's fast fun and addictive yet casual.
This is a bad game because it's hard to get arena coins and you never get the card you want.
This game carries on the legacy of Hearthstone while keeping its own format for the players to enjoy!! There is nothing more to say other than that this game is amazing.
Really fun game to collect cards and get stronger.
Extremely addictive and great story, very engaging. We'd like a little more maneuvering in combat instead of attacking across but still a fantastic game.
The game is good but in typical FTP fashion the prices and sunk cost fallacy work together to tempt the player into spending way more money than it is worth. Additionally, you'll be punished if you don't log jn once every few hours.
Pay to win model. Cannot progress past a certain point without cash infusion.
We played the game on pc and enjoyed it but it was extremely laggy and delayed. Someone in game recommended that the app doesn't lag. So we try this out and he's right. It doesn't lag, but we have yet to play a match in days because the bounties seem to never load and if we go to adventure it keeps saying challenger approaching. Overall , 3 days and no gameplay. Extremely unsatisfied with our results. Game can be fun but what's a fun game that we can't play.
Incredible fantasy style artwork. Great campaign and PVP. You can play and do well without IAP.
We don't write reviews often, but we wanted to for this game. We have played this game for over a year, and we still love it. Fun to play, runs smoothly. One of our favorite apps.
Yes you please send it back and send them goons to your phone and you get it all day long before Christmas is over again.
This light hearted very fun card game rpg is just what we were looking for. You can play for hours or just a few minutes. The only down is you must have internet connection to play.
Until all the bugs started happening… Just wanting decent game play.
Absolutely love this game! Hard for f2p, but worth spending some cash.
A must try for anyone. Great for playing for hours or for minutes! Give it a try! You won't regret it.
This has to be one of our new fav games.
The game has core elements and evolves as time goes by to make it interesting and engaging. Buying options are pricey though. Nevertheless a good game.
Actually just gave this game 4 stars for the review below until we seen they have a $100 purchase option. ANY game. NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, automatically gets stars counted off for a $100 purchase option. We will NEVER pay $100 for an iOS game when we could get an Xbox/PS game for $60 brand new. Never. This trend has to stop and it's going to start here. Original review: Really fun for a freemium game. Wish it was just pay once and play but hey we can't always get what we want.
This game is great–simple and fun to play every day. However, there are 1 or 2 drawbacks. First, the in-app purchases are RIDICULOUSLY overpriced. A smaller, but still obnoxious problem is the "energy" to play in career mode. You can play a few levels before running out of energy, and then you have to wait ages for the energy to refill unless you purchase refills at a RIDICULOUS price. We think the game is great, and we would love to give it five stars once these problems are addressed.
With this last update, we can do nothing at all. Way to go. It's been 3 months now and it's still not working for our iPhone. Knocking it down to 1 star.
Addictive and balanced. It will keep you busy for at least a year.
Passes time and is a good fun game to play.
Really fun don't need to pay to play.
Downloaded it on a whim haven't stopped since.
Enjoyable card game. Worth checking out for free. If you want to progress faster and get beefier cards quickly you can pay money but so far we're enjoying playing for free.
Simple, addicting, upgrades, animations of the cards(makes a huge difference) , fast paced so much fun! Thank you Kongregate for this gem.
The app does have a good story and good cards but we were expecting the duels to be a bit more strategic like Yugioh. Also this game frequently crashes on us before we can do anything and that is a huge pain.
Looks great at first but once you learn the "grind" the game essentially plays itself. And if you spend $$ it will play itself even better. No strategy, just throw your best cards in a deck and "when" you hit a roadblock, open up that wallet!! Lol what a sham of a game. Pretty graphics though.
We have been playing this game since it came out and honestly idk why we're still playing it. To get anywhere close to being a top 100 player requires you to spend at least 350$ a month on his game. The very best players spend that much a week. The game constantly makes every new set of cards stronger than the last set so that you either keep buying or fall behind as your cards get weaker and out powered by the new ones coming out every week.
Wow, greedy game! Totally boring card fighting in the tutorial and then out of energy. Good luck with this one, developers.
This game needs to be fixed and then they need to give out a big reward or something cause this game is completely screwed up right now and everbody is missing the good holiday sales as well as not being able to play at all! And some people have dropped some crazy money on this game.
Overall the game is exactly what it seems like But the April fools event, we M M A C U L A T E, Im only halfway through it but had to come here to write a review bc how could we NOT praise something so beautiful.
Amazing game that allows a lot of different ways to win battles and cards.
Ive never rated a game before but this game is one that is definitely worthy of five stars. And not very many games are. First of all the game is fantastic. It has an outstanding story with quests to go with it. And the level up system is great with a lot of different characters. But the best part is the fact that when we emailed the game that we wanted to change our username, they personally emailed us and asked us what we would like to change it to. (If the producers of this game read this) we think it would be really interesting if you added a card where you have a set attack, health and wait time. And you customize them. As well as choose its special skills such as berserk, vengeance, etc. With a max of 3 specials As well as choose if it is a frog, angel, etc. And as you upgrade it gets better. We think it would make people attached to that character that they customized and upgraded. This would make them want to come back and play the game more. Also it would cause them to show other people how awesome there special character is. Anyway, just a thought. If anyone else thinks this is a good Idea say something.
We adore this game to bits, from the enticing stories, to the amazingly humongous cast of cards that you collect to optimize the strongest team, this games the golden standard of card games! You can either buy your way to victory or simply G R we N D your way to the top depending on your play style, and other mechanics and gimmicks this game holds is beneficial, like the upgrade and rune systems which strengthen your team for the better, so we are proud to say that this games great. Also, there are other sets you know, so can you please make all but set 5 cards and mythical cards in the common, gold purchased spellstones? Itll be the convenience, thank you! Another issue is that the card battles sometimes lag out, and when they stop lagging out, they send us to the campaign map. Can you please fix it? If you cant, thats ok.
We never have login issues with this game.its ad free and keeps you fighting people your own size. We like how it mixes the old fashioned WAR and many modern strategy games. The story doesnt make much sense but Im in it for the brawl. In conclusion we would easily recommend this game to as many people as possible to get its rating and its fame as high up as Fortnite.
This game is perfect for us. We just love it for some reason. Definitely recommend.
We dont see any flaws with this so far. Ive gotten to the point of just unlocking bounties and we really enjoy it. No ads that Ive had to deal with either. U dont need to pay to play either. We love this style of game and Ill be playing it for awhile. It low key is like similar to what we would think would be Rise Of Mythos mobile but with a cartoon look but in some ways cooler.
This game will easily kill hours and leave you with ambitions to to reach the highest of levels, with its huge variety of cool creatures and its strategic battle, this card game is definitely one you want to play.
Like most games there is a bit of a learning curve but this one is pretty straight forward collect cards join a guild battle other guilds for better cards. Not overly simple are complex strongly recommend.
It is fun but later in the middle you have to do the get different games for shards, or you pay or your goth is slow.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.6.3
- Size: 381.54 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, RU, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Kongregate, Inc.]()
Last updated: 5th July 2023 | Genre: Strategy, Roleplaying | Developer: Kongregate, Inc.