Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 01:53 pm
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth – Roleplaying Game Review
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a Roleplaying/Action game from Nicalis, Inc., first launched in 9th January 2017.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 4,058+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth Stand Out
"When Isaac’s mother starts hearing the voice of God demanding a sacrifice be made to prove her faith, Isaac escapes into the basement, where he faces droves of deranged enemies, lost brothers and sisters, his fears and eventually his mother.
Gameplay
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the randomly generated action RPG shooter that started the new roguelike era. Following Isaac on his journey, players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form, giving him superhuman abilities and enabling him to battle droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Key Features:
Over 500 hours of gameplay
4 BILLION Seeded runs!
20 Challenge runs
450+ items
Integrated controller support for popular control pads
Analog directional movement and speed
Tons of feature film-quality animated endings
Over 100 specialized seeds
2-player local co-op
Over 100 co-op characters
Dynamic lighting, visual effects and art direction
Multiple Save slots
Poop physics!
A bunch of achievements
The ultimate roguelike
Uber secrets including:
10 Playable Characters
100+ enemies
Over 50 bosses
Mystic Runes
Upgradeable shops
Rooms FULL OF POOP!"
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th January 2024
Recent improvements include:
Added touch-screen touch-areas for the Tainted Cain and Tainted Isaac Inventory cycling.
Fixed a bug where the virtual sticks would not fade out if touches were active when the app is suspended and then resumed.
Fixed issue where two active/pocket items were triggered.
Virtual sticks on iOS now render over the left/right letterbox bars.
Fixed issue BOIOS-82 – Tainted Cain can't activate his pocket items
Fixed issue BOIOS-83 – Tainted ??? poop bombs not useable
Fixed issue BOIOS-84 – Jacob and Esau double pill/card use
Fixed issues with Pocket Items for Tainted Judas, Cain, and Eve, and other characters.
Fixed keyboard support for Mac Catalyst.
Fixed an issue with the save data in Mac Catalyst.
Fixed some bugs related to the Device ID on iOS and Mac Catalyst.
Added touch button to switch Forgotten and Soul for Repentance and AB+.
Fixed a crash bug in the video player.
Fixed a bug in the leaderboard display, showing too many entries per page.
Download & Availability
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 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:
Honestly cant say enough Ive only been playing for a few days going onto a week but we cant stop playing its so good. Every run is unique and different letting you experience a new run every time with each character also changing how you play with tons of secrets to discover. Its a lot to learn but a ton of fun to learn. Loved it so much we got it for our pc during the current steam sale just a great game with the dlc being a little pricy with the price of 40$ along side the games price is steep but the dlc also adds so much more content thats its basically a new game on its own. Only get the dlc if you love the game and just want more than youll get so much more main back your money in game time.
We are a mega fan of the binding of isaac so we were so happy to find out that a mobile version existed. Its just what we wanted but the joysticks suck. Reference enter the gungeons mobile version, they use joysticks without any issues but the joysticks in this have many issues.
Im being serious we have all endings but 19 and we have 54 out of 79 achievements on our account we love this game so much its the bets mobile game ever Isaac and his mother lived alone in a small house on a hill. Isaac kept to himself – drawing pictures and playing with his toys as his mom watched Christian broadcasts on the television. Life was simple and they were both happy. That was, until the day Isaac's mom heard a voice from above. "Your son has become corrupted by sin. He needs to be saved." "we will do our best to save him, our Lord," Isaac's mother replied, rushing into Isaac's room, removing all that was evil from his life. Again, the voice called to her. "Isaac's soul is still corrupt. He needs to be cut off from all that is evil in this world and confess his sins." "we will follow your instructions, Lord. We have faith in Thee," Isaac's mother replied, as she locked Isaac in his room away from the evils of the world. One last time, Isaac's mom heard the voice of God calling to her. "You've done as we've asked, but we still question your devotion to us. To prove your faith, we will ask one more thing of you." "Yes, Lord. Anything," Isaac's mother begged. "To prove your love and devotion, we require a sacrifice. Your son, Isaac, will be this sacrifice. Go into his room and end his life, as an offering to us to prove you love us above all else." "Yes, Lord," she replied, grabbing a butcher's knife from the kitchen. Isaac, watching through a crack in his door, trembled in fear. Scrambling around his room to find a hiding place, he noticed a trapdoor to the basement, hidden under his rug. Without hesitation, he flung open the hatch, just as his mother burst through his door, and threw himself down into the unknown depths below.
Love this game but could you make it formatted for the iPhone X and above for a fuller screen? Thanks.
Its Isaac. We all know its good. Hop on.
(Have a Dead God file on PC) Great game and no real complaints. Only suggestion is, if possible, allow for Bluetooth keyboards to be used with the original pc bindings because some items like blood bombs dont work here. Keep up the good work.
Im really happy with the game and am even addicted to it however we wish the joysticks had the option to be changed to stay still we often find ourselves dying because the left joystick has drifting g off past the screen and then our character stands still with renders the enemy to get a free hit on us, dont get us wrong though Ive been having fun with this especially the dlcs which brings more ridiculous content (in a good way).
BRING BACK VERTICAL MODE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS.
We love this game but we wanna know how we use co-op because we've been wanting to do it and we don't know how we have repentance and we still don't know how.
Beating this on hard mode is no small task.
We would love to see an update to mobile tboi we loveee the game of course, just would love to see the rest of the game ported and maybe a ui update. Preferably before the release of mewgenics.
We love the game and would love it even more if repentance plus could be added to the IOS version.
This game is so addicting once you finally get the hang of it.
If we were lost on a deserted island, The Binding of Isaac would be the only game Id need. Heck, we sometimes only find ourselves playing this game. Ive played and watched Isaac daily for most of our life at this point. And we wouldnt have it any other way.
The game is amazing, but the touch controls need some work. Sometimes they dont register our fingers and we get hit by our own bomb, and sometimes the sticks will move off our screen and we run out of space to move. It would be nice if the movement and shoot sticks are static once you hold down so that the joysticks dont move off the screen.
Every few days or so our progress is reset and we lose all of the characters we have unlocked. Very annoying and we hope there is a fix soon. Otherwise we probably wont play anymore but other than that great game.
We like the game a lot but we just cant because the controls move a lot and its really annoying too.
Ive loved this game since it came out, only gripe is that we cant choose if the dcl is active or not.
Will the Repetance+ realse,we cant wait to Know that.
This is our favorite mobile game, but the bugs are buggin.
This is the best game we have ever played in our entire life. We play this game all day every day, we often have dreams of playing this game. Issac is love, Issac is life.
Alright, so im not trying to say the game is bad or anything.. But its REALLY annoying when we have to restart by exiting the run and playing the same character and listening to the jingle. And some of us repentance user play with a controller AND with a keyboard. So PLEASE add a way to quickly restart a way without exiting manually. (ADD THE R KEY COMMAND PLEASEEEEEEEE).
Simply put, only rebirth unlocks seem to stay unlocked, everything else randomly reverts. Today we had launched the game after having 400 coins in greed machine, but we were very shocked and upset to find only 138 coins in the machine! Please fix save files for dlc.
We love this game, so much genuinely, the one problem we have is with the joysticks, why do they move with you? If you can change it to enable and disable that would be amazing, thank you for porting this to phone and keep up the good work.
We dont know if its our end or your guys but every time we unlock twisted pair and deaths touch our game resets after we close the app. Then we have to unlock them again. Even after we pick them up and use them in game and get the unlock in the items categorys. Not a big deal as we dont need those to have fun in game but we do enjoy both of those items.
The menu controls are mapped wrong for controllers but when we enter a run the controls work fine.
Theres an issue where your progress will sometimes get sent back a lot. We have unlocked the lost, completed all of the completion marks for Eden, and have done many challenges but for some reason the game will randomly decide to remove all of this progress and act like we didnt complete any of it, making us do everything all over again. We hope theres a fix for this soon because its a major problem as someone with Dead god on their first save and almost complete progress on the second.
We LOVE THIS GAME. Seriously, this game is amazing in many ways. Having a lot of replayability and the excitement of unlocking new items and content. And the mobile port greatly conveys the pc port to mobile. However while playing we have noticed some minor bugs. We're an AB+ player so all of the bugs we cover are in AB+. 1st bug is that for some reason whenever you fight the boss delirium The boss does a static event when you either defeat him or take a long time. And for some reason on mobile when delirium does this our game crashes sometimes. This can be really annoying at times. The second bug we'd like to report is that once you unlock the achievement Rerun and gain the ability to redo your previous run, You can never actually use Rerun on mobile. No matter how much you press it never allows you to rerun. So to summarize this review, The binding of issac is a great game. However it does include some minor bugs so we would consider getting the PC port. But over this is a great game in general. We hope that they can fix these bugs next patch.
Every time we try to download repentance it results in another family member has this app you get it for free and then it says an error has occurred so we cant download it. Please help us out.
Perfect mobile game all we ask is for you to update and add the newest updates/dlc.
The binding of Isaacs gotta be one of the best games we ever played except for crash and its frustrating, of course but whenever you get the tainted versions of all the characters and you know you finish the game you feel like youve done it all finished every task there is.
Its hard for us to control characters movement.
We absolutely love binding of Issak and we absolutely love playing it on our mobile device, its an overall great game with lots of strategy and lots of fun synergies. Our one and only issue is after getting repentance plus and unlocking the D- infinity we are not able to cycle between the different versions of the D-Infinity dice. We know it used to work by pressing in the upper left corner, where the dice is shown, but it no longer functions and its a little bit of a letdown to have a D1 in a secret room. It would be really awesome if you could fix this bug, thank you for the wonderful game.
The game is amazing and we love playing it but just a few problems we noticed is that its impossible to select a dice for the D infinity so its kinda useless, same for tainted Isaac you cant scroll through his items.
We keep on unlocking tainted characters or unlocking the lost but the game keeps taking away those characters and we have to re- unlock them. This also happens with the greed machine and our progress resets. Please fix this if you guys still care about the game.
We love the binding of Issac! And since it came out on iPad, and iPhone, we have been playing it alot! Its tons of fun but, there are so many bugs and issues that make it unfair, activate items and items like D infinite, and cables, used to work on the older versions, but in the new update they are impossible to use, on older versions clicking or holding on the activate items or item used to make it work/change like D infinite and cable, but in the new update it dont work, and makes some of the active items and items unusable! Also the controls feel unpolished and painful to use due to being buggy sometimes and being too simple, the game crashs alot and makes progress disappear, and multiple bugs that make it annoying to play, And some characters are still buggy on iPad and iPhone, and sometimes wont work, we love this game! Its a good gem! But with the problems we have with it, we would recommend getting the pc/console ports instead of this version.
When we have update on iOS ???? Or add the mod to the app?? There is a lot fan of game use iOS.
Whenever Im done playing we swipe up the app we check back the next day and some of our progress is gone like what happened d today when we beat greed mode 2 times unlocked the planetariums we were done playing for right now and latter we load back in and Cain doesnt have the greed mode completion mark and we dont have planetariums anymore please try to figure out why this is happening we dont wanna keep getting the achievements over and over again.
Game is very fun but keeps resetting our progress. Ive had to unlock the lost 4 times already and keep trying to get our greed mode donation machine to 999 but it keeps restarting progress.
We love this game on the go, we can play it on the bus and in a waiting room, this game IMO is great for on the go. But we will admit the dlc is so expensive, the dlc is a few bucks cheaper on steam, and Mr. Edmund McMillan we dont doubt that youve probably uploaded the game and doc on iOS and called it a day, but if you do read this its would be nice that youd actually put some care into the iOS game as well. We are a fan of binding of Isaac so this isnt coming from a negative place, its coming from a fan who appreciates the fact that we can bring this game with us wherever we want.
Ever since the bug fix on tainted characters and pocket actives d infinity hasnt worked. It did work before but now you cant cycle through the dice types. Other than that, everything seems to work fine.
Please!! We want to experiment fun things like pc players get to do.
Glad that we finally get to play repentance without buying all the games on our xbox.
Literally one of our favorite games we loved playing it on pc so for a while Ive had it on our phone now we just really wish the iOS version had some kinda import feature with steam so we could get our account and characters back otherwise our favorite game ever haha.
Whenever you pick up trinkets on rebirth it completely blocks the left walking joystick and makes it extremely hard to play if even possible.
With over 100+ hours on mobile and 1,400+ hours on pc, its finally time for us to review the mobile port! Its a full on port of the game, and it runs smoothly, which is absolutely amazing considering how its running on a phone! Though there is one thing we dont like about it.. Why is it so expensive? The app itself is already $15 which is a stretch, and each dlc costs almost as much of the base game, and that equates to a lot of money! We know the dev team needs to be paid for their amazing work, but this is too much we do have an idea for it though, maybe you can make the dlc on sale every now and again? That would certainly up the incentive to getting all of it. Still an amazing port, thank you lord Edmund.
D infinity button to switch through all the dices the other patch notes made the game more amazing 10/10 very good game.
We really want to know how to switch the infinite dice.
All things considered, this is a pretty good port for the game. Its a real life saver when it comes to killing time on the road. It doesnt drain that much battery life, runs shockingly smooth. Theres only really two issues that come to mind off the top of our head One, when it comes to touch controls, some things arent really that stated. Up until recently we didnt know you could drop trinkets for example. However you cant drop cards if you dont have a trinket in your inventory. One other minor thing is that we cant seem to find a way to swap out the modes of D-infinity using just the touchscreen that Ive found. Overall a very good port, just a few minor accessibility changes. You want to be running a controller or kbm which isnt fully optimal for a mobile phone you take on the go.
In general the port is good, but we think, there is few bad moments. Controls Its hard to move and shoot, would be great to rework them. Sound Sometimes sfx may just stop. Very annoying when you fighting with mom and cant hear her laugh to dodge attack.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4
- Size: 2,679.58 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Developer: Nicalis, Inc.
Last updated: 29th January 2024 | Genre: Roleplaying, Action | Developer: Nicalis, Inc.