Last updated on November 30th, 2025 at 12:33 pm
Swords and Sandals 2 Redux – Adventure Game Review
Swords and Sandals 2 Redux is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from eGames.com LLC, first launched in 27th January 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 418+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Swords and Sandals 2 Redux Stand Out
Swords and Sandals Gladiator,
Are you ready to unleash hell in the gladiatorial arena?
The world's favourite gladiator game has returned, bigger and more action packed then ever. Swords and Sandals 2: Emperor's Reign returns, remastered with all new graphics, music and powerful new skills and Arena Champions.
Enter the Arena of Doomtrek and do battle with the best gladiators in the realm. Game features:
- Fast turn based tactical combat with over 30 different battle skills to learn.
- Wizard or Warrior? Create and level up your gladiator, learning devastating attacks in the process.
- Wield powerful over 200 different weapons and armour pieces on your journey to greatness.
- 20 Arena Champions both classic and new to fight against, including the formidable Pharaoh King, the
classic favourite John the Butcher and the exciting pro wrestler Ultra Flavius! - 6 Arenas to do battle in from the underground Battle Pits to the heights of the Emperor's Palace.
NOTE
This is a FREE game with a one-time In App Purchase to remove advertisements and unlock higher level tournaments.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Swords and Sandals 2 Redux is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th January 2021
Recent improvements include:
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All battle skill essence costs have been HALVED
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Increased the base hit chance of all arcane offensive skills by 15%
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Reduced the difficulty of enemies on hard/ironman and sprint modes
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Halved the distance gladiators can be knocked back / pushed in a single hit
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Halved the rate at which strength affects knockback power
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TAUNT attack and defend hit chances now properly scales with Charisma instead of Magicka stat
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Increased the chances of successful TAUNTS doing physical damage (instead of enraging/stunning etc)
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Increased the damage of successful TAUNT attacks to 8-16 HP per Charisma point put into taunts
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Reduced hit chance of any one single attack to 90% (down from 99%) unless stunned/resting etc
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Resistance values now max out at 80% (down from 99%) unless a gladiator has 100% resistance ( which means they are IMMUNE)
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Enemy gladiators can now no longer be of equal to / higher level than the reigning Arena Champion's level
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Increased the chance of gladiators falling into spiked pit to 10% per turn spent
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Ghost Tournament Champions now have unlimited Essence as an added challenge
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Damage to enemies now is cumulative. If an enemy has 25 armour and you do 100 damage, not only does the armour go down to 0, you also take an extra 75 points of damage.
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Added a shake screen if you one-shot your enemy.
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Gold rewards for rolling a 20 when resurrecting have been reduced to 50 gold + 25 gold per level
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Made damage splat image popups smaller
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Removed knockback effect from Molten Death spell
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Reduced damage of enemies in all difficulties except normal
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Reduced max health of enemies in all difficulties except normal
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Magic Missile cooldown improves with each point spent on skill
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Removed error logging for most users as it throws up too many 'false flag' errors that do not affect the game but still show up in error reports
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Removed elemental resistances. These were stats introduced in S&S V that ended up affecting gladiators in S&S 2 ( because they use the same engine/codebase ), so gladiators would be immune to some of your spells and you had no way to combat it. (You only have 'magic' resistance in S&S 2.
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Changed how magic resistance works. Spells that fail to hit now show a "MISS" icon (instead of RESIST). Successful spells damage is reduced by whatever your magic resistance is. (A fireball spell that hits for 200 damage against a character with 50% magic resist will only do 100 damage, for example)
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Fixed a bug where Falcon Eyes skill used melee damage instead of ranged damage values
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Increased damage power of Winters Core per point spent on skill
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Fixed a bug where the game forced you to start up in Fullscreen mode even after you had chosen Windowed mode.
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Fixed a bug where gladiators did not play their special 'spiked' death animation when falling onto spikes
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Potential fix for enemies sometimes receiving 2 turns in a row
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Fixed a bug where enemies appeared to half leap/half fumble (then get cut off) randomly during the battle
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Fixed a bug where choosing the helmet of a defeated Ghost Champion would give you the next champion's helmet
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Fixed a bug where Arena Champion Gaiax appeared to have two eyes instead of one
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Fixed a bug where duels were reported as being deathmatches and yield animations were not playing
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Fixed a bug where arenas sometimes scrolled past where they should and sky was visible behind
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Fixed some jittery camera bugs while in the arena
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Fixed a bug where the first fight after a loss to a Ghost Champion would be against a ghost regular gladiator
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You can now choose Redux backgrounds or classic backgrounds seperately from redux / classic shopkeepers to customize just how you want your game to look. Just toggle these from the * Settings screen ( you may need to set this manually the first time you load the game again.)
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Fixed a bug where the game would tell you it was nighttime but the town background showed daylight
Download & Availability
Swords and Sandals 2 Redux is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Swords and Sandals 2 Redux 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 never had the full game. We always played the little demo on the browser. We bought the full game on here, and got all the way to Antares and beat him first try. But our god he was strong. Legendary armor saved the day. Thank you for creating this.
A lot of bugs and glitches have been resolved. We just played a few hour straight and had no issues. Thank you team for the hard work and letting us live a childhood dream of playing the full game.
Played this on the computer when we were young brings back great memories, after all these years we were finally able to beat the game and it was still as fun as we remembered it! Always been a cool game.
Ive been playing swords and sandals on those unblocked games sites at school now Im finally playing the real thing so fun before even playing we bought the hardest difficulty cause Im just kinda like that regular hard aint enough for us umm very fun love figuring out how to beat the first arena boss.
Love this game we played it as a kid and Im still loving it but theres an issue where if you try and leave a shop the game wont load back to the town.
We used to play this game as a kid in the computer and we just found it we want to play it and we just start it passed the first fight try going into any store and we come out of it and it just never loads please just patch it up you dont got to add anything else just fix the bugs so we can play this legendary game please.
We have loved this series of games since we were little! This is the ultimate gladiator game, and we have played many, even expensive ones. This is probably our favorite game of all time. We are 22, and just wanted to let you know some people really appreciate you.
We dont care about the bugs, we feel it gave it more character. Been playing this game since we were ten and found the flash game. Now Ive played it on mobile and this game just holds a special place in our heart. Trust us. Get the game, its worth it.
Ahhhhh the age of flash games. Good times. There is an issue we have run into, where we enter a shop, and when we exit, the screen just goes black. Help.
We love this game and Ive been a fan for ever since yall started but can yall please fix the loading screen glitch every time we leave the armory? Thanks.
Swords and sandals 2 was our favorite computer game growing up besides big name games like club penguin, toontown, bloons tower defense, etc. It just confuses us why this developer choose to change everything that seemed to work well in swords and sandals 2. Dont change the layout and graphics and characters builds so much. Keep the characters consistent and game consistent like it was successful previously. You could add more swords, axes, bows, spells, armor. Create a different emperor. Make new bosses. Guarantee this could even make a great xbox or playstation game. Theres just so much potential.
We really did enjoy the game buy we did not like the fact that we will have to pay in order to continue but maybe one day we will bit we loved every bit of it we could play.
But we dont like how u can only play so far for free and when u actually get good have you to pay.
This game is incredible. After its most recent update so many improvements and bug fixes were made, any past complaints are gone. This game is nearly perfect. Allowing you a long lasting strategy game on your mobile device. Its a thing thats hard to come by nowadays. With the new update so many new play styles have become viable, adding a ton of new replay-ability. If you were burnt by this game in the past, nows the time to check it out. Understand that all the negative reviews that plague this game are from another era when this was just a bad port of a flash game. Mobile users just dont update their reviews after patches and bug fixes. Now S&S is running smoother than ever. Countless hours of fun. Ps. Try a Taunt build with all Charisma. Can be fun.
Great game but we just bought the Maximus upgrade and in the old flash version we buy an outfit and then leave the shop and our screen is black.
This game deserves 6 stars if we could, love it and have played it since our childhood. Only problem we are having is the shop glitch taking away the enjoyment and functionality of the app/game. Hopefully corrections can be made for this glitch. Without glitch a no question 5 star. Please correct asap.
We used to play this game all the time at school, and when we saw this we were ecstatic and downloaded immediately. When we first got an ad we were a bit bummed but we bought the ultratus edition and it was cheap but still a bit much for some nostalgia. The bug is that whenever we leave a store after buying some items the game either works or just softlocks us on a black tinted screen and we have to restart the game and we cant buy any better armor. Please fix this devs.
Fun game but there is a bug when you enter any store and the screen just goes black when you exit.
We love this game sm, our only issue is that everytime we buy something from the armory, our screen goes black and when we close, we have to restart from the day we were at. Is there any fix for this.
We use to play this game on our computer when we were younger and we were excited when we saw it got added to mobile. We grinded through all of the bosses but when we got 3 away from the Emperor our character maxed out. No better weapons or armor in the shop to buy, no more skill points to spend, no more progression besides playing. And with the tournaments brings 12 duels each its pretty frustrating not being able to level up anymore. Other than that its a really good make of the game we use to play.
Good game but crashes every time we have the old shopkeepers & the gear you get with buying the whole game is weak and provides barley any armor. Overall still fun just fix the game crashes and gear.
Loved it we used to play this game on our computer years ago!! We have one question though and Im curious to know if anyone has experienced this but we feel like the game lagged out or something because we completed about 6 or 7 tournaments and dont know how to advance in the game.we purchased the Maximus edition too and we literally reached level 60 and it says all we have to do is fight the emperor but like the game never progressed us forward is this normal? We really want to continue with the story but idk what to do now Maximus edition mentions 20 tournament so Im confused any help? Also we never got the Maximus armor either so Im kinda bummed about that. Thank you.
The game is really good but theres a bug in the game where when you exit the shops the game wont load. Please fix this bug because we can hardly even progress meaning we cant get new weapons or armor due to the fact we cant even buy anything. If we did buy something and exit the shop. Our screen goes black and the game soft locks itself.
Love the game, but when we purchase something in the armory or the sword shop and we go back to the main menu it gives us a black screen.
The game continues to run but its just a black screen. Pretty annoying.
It is just like the old game! A little too much, this game carries over bugs and glitches from the original, and we still love it.
This game brings us back to 2008, in college lit courses playing swords and sandals. Glad to be playing it. Since we used to play it back in the day we figured Id support and buy the full app. It was great, started off with gear and all that. Now we are at the point where we have to upgrade to keep competitive. The problem is the app freezes every time we purchase a weapon or armor. Other than that its fun. Basically we are stuck at this skill level for this character, need to start over. We will see if we are able to progress through the game as promised with the full purchase.
The same game we remember dumping hours into as a kid, but Oh our God it is endless ads. After every single 30 second fight, you get a 15-30 second ad. Every fight. We get they want you to buy the premium version, but holy good god there is no need for it to be every single fight. Ridiculous. 5 star game, ads make it 2-3 stars. Completely takes you out of the game.
We cant get past this one part do to a specific bug that took place after defeating son of stolionis(or whatever his name is) and now when ever we try to load our save it plays the you just won the tournament song(which is awesome) along with a logo at the top of a green circle and two swords pointing vertical and worst of all you can get out of anything in this celebratory limbo.
This game would get 5 stars if it played smoothly. Every time we go into the armory or the weapons shop we get a black screen when we leave Every-time! We payed 5$ for the deluxe version because we know its a good game from our pc days it needs an update.
We loved this game when we were younger and still love it to this day, going as far as to buy Maximus. This game has many things going for it, especially as a mobile game but, we dont like how when we try to get the Maximus armor the game soft crashes. The screen will freeze and only show blackness. Otherwise, this game is well worth the money.
We bought the super edition and tried the old flash graphics. But its been instantly crashing . Super sad ! Please fix Ill give 5 when you do.
For all our ppl looking to fix the shop blackaout bug just go to settings and click classic shopkeeper it will change to redux and you can just keep going.
The game is great just as we remember playing in the past, the feel and the gameplay still aged well, only problem Ive experienced is our game going black screen and staying this way after purchasing armor and exiting shop. Ive tried to bypass this by closing app and opening the game up again but the app doesnt save what we buy so Im basically unable to keep any items and progress. UPDATE: the game apparently does this when we switched to classic shopkeepers and classic graphics doesnt appear to go black screen on redux graphics and redux shopkeepers.
Wwaaayy to many adds people its ridiculous. Its like they force you to pay for the ads to go away.
Yes,that makes perfect sense!!!! Send us in a tournament at level 3 while the enemies have greater stats than us!!! Oh and the only way we can get experience is to do the tournament? Such a smart move.
After we leave any store the screen black out. We can do battles just without armor which is pointless.
Love this game, since we were a kid this has been the go to , sadly when we exit a shop screen turns black and have to close the app most of the time this game rocks but that detail messes it up,.
Its a good game but we dont think you should we have to pay to play through the entire game. We think they should just have just kept it how it was before.
There is a glitch where when entering the shops to buy weapons/armor, youll get stuck in an infinite black screen and none of what you purchased will save. Everything else is pretty much spot on from what we can tell so please fix this.
Loved this game as a kid. Would have loved to rate it higher if not for one really annoying bug. Almost whenever we leave a shop the game just black screens. We frequently have to force close and relaunch the game 5 times or more in a row, trying over and over to buy new armor or weapons before it finally works.
Should have just remade the old one instead of this ad filled game.
After we got to tournament VI we went into a shop and our game refuses to load when we exit, we even started a new character, that didnt work, then we uninstalled and re-installed and it still was crashing! Please we love this game we remember playing it when we were 9, Im 21 now and Id love to continue playing, we even bought the ultimate edition so we dont want this to be a waste of money.
Could be really good. We bought the max upgrade and the game crashes every time we leave the sword shop. It just completely black screens and we have to restart. Please fix this bug, it is still happening when we try to use old graphics.
We played this game as a kid and Im really happy its in the App Store today! We think overall this has never been a 5 star game so we cant really expect it to be one today but we would definitely like to see big fixes and balancing fixes. We like the new skill system thats introduced but its overshadowed by the fact that your progression of skill points cant keep up with the gladiators in the arena unless you know metas. This game wasnt really intended to be hard as much as it is luck based but Im over here dumping stats into our attack still and we still come up with %30 chances to hit endgame. The daily quest mechanic is really nice however its annoying to click through the day in order to access it. There should really just be a button to access the daily quest so we can quickly get random skill points when we are struggling. Overall high scores could be presented by how many days it takes for people to beat the arena that way there isnt necessarily a punishment for going on a quest but you should be striving not to go on them.
We just bought the ultratus edition and now the game is glitchy. It always crashes and blacks out every time we exit any of the stores. Please fix.
Game keeps freezing after we leave a shop.
Whenever we try to exit a shop it just goes to a black screen so we cannot really advance with better weapons etc.
For nostalgia purposes we purchased the $5 version and we cant use classic graphics for everytime we enter and exit a shop we get a black screen. Randomly im battles our chances to attack will drop to 25% not due to our stats because at first they will be normal. Please fix.
Anytime we leave a shop the game stays in the black screen – we want to play but cant :/.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.5.0
- Size: 91.70 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: eGames.com LLC
Last updated: 29th January 2021 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: eGames.com LLC