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Ultra Blade – Action Game Review
Ultra Blade is a Action/Roleplaying game from Kyle Barrett, first launched in 22nd February 2023.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 72+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Ultra Blade Stand Out
Defend Mankind's last city from the endless hordes of darkness! Ultra Blade is a horde survival RPG with rogue-lite progression elements. Build new heroes to take on new challenges while cutting through 1000s of foes at once. New heroes unlock new powers, making runs more dynamic the more you play.
Drag to move and auto attack, release to execute a heavy attack. Swipe to dodge. The controls are simple, but the real complexity is in how you build your champion. Infuse flaming bolts into your bow, generate earthquakes with your slashes, or summon blizzards with your shield- the possibilities are almost limitless.
Built for short, action-packed sessions.
Core features Include:
- One-touch control scheme and challenging, skill-based combat
- Endless Challenge Mode that refreshes every hour
- 27 Unique arena gauntlets to master
- 12 Unique heroes to unlock by completing challenges.
- 5 core classes (Bow, Shield, Greatsword, Gun, and Staff) and 100s of weapons to mix and match
- 15 Meta-changing relics to unlock and upgrade
- Mutating enemies that change how they fight and behave.
- Fully offline
- Blood-pumping soundtrack
And more to come!
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Ultra Blade is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd November 2023
Recent improvements include:
Ultra Blade Fall 2023 Update!
- New "Spire Mode" that turns the entire game into a Vampire Survivors-like platformer!
- New roguelike "Journey Mode" that allows players to pick new world and enemy modifiers every 4 waves.
- 4 new challenge levels and an all new Dungeon biome.
- 7 new dungeon-type enemies and 1 new boss.
- 1 new challenge core that populates every world with tougher enemies.
- Teleport skill rework + various bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Ultra Blade 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:
Its good fun! Once you get going it is addicting and hard to stop playing as we just keep wanting to do better, try more play styles, and get more unlocks. Which very quickly you are able to unlock more characters, aka Blades. We did notice something that could maybe be tweaked is that when first starting out we found the level select screen a little bit confusing at first. It took us a moment to figure out how to start the game. But as soon as you play your first match the next time you are on the level select it becomes clear as gems begin appearing on the blade that represent the various levels you can play. We really like the character unlock/select screen that works as the main menu. It looks very sleek and the background imagery with the moving clouds are very cool! One bit of feedback for the dev we might mention for this and other works is that we love the bits of dialogue and lore backdrops within Immortal Rogue, and the little character bios and planetary backstories in Blast Waves. We are sure you try to limit the story elements both as an artistic choice and also so as not to overburden your workload, but you make great worlds and if possible we would love to see a little more of those elements in this and other games of yours! We hope that you will consider this. To other potential players we would definitely recommend this game, and others by this dev. Especially if you like rogue-likes. Edit: we want to try Spire mode! How do you unlock it, or access it.
An amazing roguelike bullet heaven game with simple controls but good depth and progression. Attacks feel weighty and it takes more involvement and technical skill than some other games in the genre. Love the art style and backgrounds of the levels. Loads smoothly and quickly, making it easy to jump into the game. Only complaints are about some UI things: – some buttons near the edge feel a bit too close to the edge, causing them to feel squished or even obscured by things like our iOS home handle – wish there was a way to quit the round instead of just letting yourself die (which is pretty easy to do, haha) – wish there was a way to go back to the main weapon/character selection screen after you reach the level selection Thank you for developing this awesome game.
Hey man love the game Ive completed the codex hit 20 waves on everything but we cant find the spire please help.
Loving the game overall. Only issue is we had a glitch after second time trying to open the game. When we pressed the app it went to a blank screen and we closed it multiple times and retried. No solution worked but to uninstall and reinstall. Not sure what the issue was. Otherwise enjoying the game so far and will update review as we go.
Updated Review (11/04/23) Thanks so much for doing that with the teleport and for all the new stuff. We cant wait to try out the new features as well. Thank you very much and we appreciate you replying to our review. Hope youre doing great and thanks so much :D You are a credit to great app developers on the App Store. We did notice just one thing with the update from playing the new update just now. Was the update supposed to reset your progress done on all maps? Because ours was for the most part. We still level 2 on the endless crusade map. Love the new update a ton. How do we access the new features? You rock! Thankyou so much Updated Review (09/05/23) Original Review Im having an ULTRA good time with, Ultra Blade. For a rougelite, Ultra Blade, ranks among the very top titles available in our opinion. Thats not just on mobile either. The pixel aesthetic is superb, we really dig the sound design and most especially the unique and quite exciting gameplay. If youve played roguelites, Ultra Blade, should feel pretty familiar we would think. But, even if you havent we would say this is one of the best in the genre to start your rouguelite journey with. We find it very fun and entertaining to keep playing, dying and then continually upgrading our characters and stats. There are a lot of characters and a seemingly endless amount of weapons and other items to unlock and mix and match for your play-throughs. As someone who has played other popular roguelites, such as Vampire Survivors and most especially, Dead Cells. Well, we personally would put this above Vampire Survivors and just a nano meter below, Dead Cells. But, for just pure fun to be had and the love of gaming. We have a hard time not awarding, Ultra Blade, the top spot over all of them. We keep telling ourselves, Just one more level and then Ill get back to real life. Haha. Its not easy to pull ourselves away from this game, though. We find it very entertaining and addictive. We dont say the latter about too many video games that we own or have played. Many thanks to the developer for all of the hard work, time and passion that youve no doubt put into this video game. Im enjoying it immensely and Im very excited to see that when we came to leave a review just now. That there is a huge new update that recently released. It appears to be chock full of a ton of new features, characters, items, fixes, weapons and much more. Woohoo! Thank you very much for all of that and God bless you and your loved ones. If youre on the fence about whether to buy this video game. Well, we cannot stress any higher about how we believe, Ultra Blade, is absolutely worth the asking price. And that theres a great chance that youll have just as much fun as ourselves and so many others have had with this title :D. Many thanks, again, to the games developer for creating and continuing to support what we believe is one of the best iOS titles ever.
Freezes and then error code and cant do anything. UPDATE: Shouldnt have blamed the game, was probably something else but the constant deletes and redownloads eventually worked or it worked after we updated from iOS 17 to 17.1. We really appreciate the dev reaching out to help. Wont hesitate to buy more from this dev. Game is also really fun now that we can play haha Thank you.
We have been playing this game regularly for a couple years. Unfortunately after taking a break and restarting the game we have a bug where we cant unlock any new zones. Everything else works perfectly but this keeps us from progressing and unlocking everything.
This game looks like it could be fun, but most characters use melee, but if you get close to enemies, you are guaranteed to take damage. You could try to use guns, but good luck aiming. You can have the enemy directly in front of you barrel, but somehow you miss. Regularly we are no where near any enemy attack, but somehow still take damage. Either the game is cheating, or the graphics dont match the hit boxes.
It keeps saying we need to complete 15 waves in 3 zones even though we have completed more than 30 in every one. We like the game a lot but cannot proceed. Will update review if this gets fixed.
Great game, unfortunately it started crashing every time we play, losing all progress. Will edit if it gets fixed.
Really good game. You do good work. How do you feel about a dash button? Movement is a little clunky when trying to combo light and dash attacks. We like the subtle changes to your movement as you add weapons and skills to your arsenal. But once again really wish there was a smoother transition between a light and a dash attack. Update Really good update thanks for the bigger storage size. The new control setting is really good. Noticed that if you start with the teleport item and your main weapon is a staff the teleport doesnt proc for the first 15 or so settings on the later levels. We think we were on the stage with the giant modifier when it happened.
We have an iphone 13 pro and this app just stopped working everytime we open it we see a black screen. When it was working the game was fire.
We like it but there are some bugs. We beat 1000 enemies in one run and through a combo but the specific character wont unlock and we did defeat a Void serpent, but that character wont unlock either. Hoping for a fix on this! Otherwise amazing game for passing the time.
Our favorite of this new reverse bullet bell genre. Im holding 1 star hostage until we get landscape/controller support. But seriously its awesome. Love the highly detailed pixel art.
Cant play the game anymore for some reason only got to do like 2 runs then it crashed, kinda bummed.
Our app froze and wouldnt open so we uninstalled the app an lost all of our progress. Can you implement a way to tie our apple account to the game so we dont lose progress.
We never leave reviews but had to for this game! Lots of content , a developer that cares, and who is adding more content regularly. This last update blew us away with how much was added! We love this genre/style of game, but most were lacking something that left us only enjoying the game for a couple hours at most. This game offers the best of others within the genre, but adds skill and a difficulty curve that is truly impressive. Attacks feel heavy and when you mess up you have even more incentive to jump right back in, since there are so many builds and combos to try. Im not even close to unlocking everything, but we can see our game sense and skill increasing each run, which MAKES us want to grind it out and unlock everything. No ads, no pay to win, just a one-time purchase for a well-crafted game with endless replayability. Thank you.
Let us start off by saying that we love this game. We spent hours on it, and it still found ways to challenge us and entertain us. Our one critique that we found is that we seem to get the same perk options when we level up were very similar ones with the 15 or so characters we have all at level 10, we would assume some more variety would be present. Other than that we have no complaints and the game is great.
Really good game. You do good work. How do you feel about a dash button? Movement is a little clunky when trying to combo light and dash attacks. We like the subtle changes to your movement as you add weapons and skills to your arsenal. But once again really wish there was a smoother transition between a light and a dash attack.
Really fun hack-n-slash with great graphics and perfect price point. For the most part, skills are self explanatory. We wonder how the options will scale as the game progresses but we keep unlocking Blades that will help other builds once we level them a bit. Always excited to see what the next blade will do.
Pretty much what the title says. Gameplay is fun, but when comparing to something like Vampire Survivors, this game doesnt seem to move as fluidly as VS. The controls make it feel a little wonky too. Would benefit from joystick like controls instead of the current set up in our opinion.
We dont write many review but this game is really fun. We love the art style, it reminds us of Risk of Rain 1 but in a survivor play style. We would definitely recommend this a must play. We do have a suggestion for the developer. Please put the re-roll button further up in the UI, it causes accidental re-rolls due to its placement. Overall, really enjoying this title.
This game nails the rouge-like survivor beat em up fun that is so hard to get right! Great sound design, art, unlockables, and RNG elements to give it replay ability. Excited to see it grow! One suggestion we have is maybe making it easier to find your chosen blade once you have a large stack of say 50+blades, maybe a grid of icons, Great game! Actually felt compelled to review because we dont see games like this ever.
This game is amazing and its so awesome that its made by someone who cares about the people playing it! We left some feedback, they said thanks, then they implemented everything we asked for! AMAZING we wish every developer was as responsive and had such an amazing ability to craft something with such care. Love the game, love the updates , love the developers. So excited to see how this game continues to grow.
Huge fan of all the games made by this creator, but honestly wish some of the original assets could be improved instead of just recycled, just seems lazy to keep using the same flat explosion effects that were around since immortal.
Fully agree with Teemberlands review. Ultra Blade has replaced VS for us, and Im looking forward to many hours of grinding and unlocking. We love the way each blade has subtle, unique tactics that take time and real strategy to master. Certain blades are better suited to specific zones, and it takes some experimenting to clear waves effectively. The camera shake on Rebus Prime and the tiny UI elements pushed all the way to the edges of the screen are problematic. Not sure how the game made it through beta testing without Kyle getting that feedback. Hopefully those issues will be addressed in an update. Bottom line: this is another gem from Kyle Barrett and 100% worth the purchase.
When we seen that this game was from the same team behind immortal rogue we bought it without hesitation and Im glad we did. The different characters and weapons makes the game super enjoyable. We like how different weapon synergies work so well. The game is great and has definitely kept us busy since purchasing. Definitely worth the couple dollars.
The start menu is a little confusing. We thought there was a bug but swiping on the sword started it for us. Very fun game and great art style.
We like it quite a bit. We really do. Thanks for this.
Im hooked! Its like reverse bullet hells, but the combat has impact to it, and we have more control over our characters.
Solid gameplay. The controls are very easy to use. Absolutely loving the game.
Its good fun! Once you get going it is addicting and hard to stop playing as we just keep wanting to do better, try more play styles, and get more unlocks. Which very quickly you are able to unlock more characters, aka Blades. We did notice something that could maybe be tweaked is that when first starting out we found the level select screen a little bit confusing at first. It took us a moment to figure out how to start the game. But as soon as you play your first match the next time you are on the level select it becomes clear as gems begin appearing on the blade that represent the various levels you can play. We really like the character unlock/select screen that works as the main menu. It looks very sleek and the background imagery with the moving clouds are very cool! One bit of feedback for the dev we might mention for this and other works is that we love the bits of dialogue and lore backdrops within Immortal Rogue, and the little character bios and planetary backstories in Blast Waves. We are sure you try to limit the story elements both as an artistic choice and also so as not to overburden your workload, but you make great worlds and if possible we would love to see a little more of those elements in this and other games of yours! We hope that you will consider this. To other potential players we would definitely recommend this game, and others by this dev. Especially if you like rogue-likes.
This completely replace Vampire Survivors on our phone! We like how the pace is a bit slower than VS. The control feels heavier than VS and in our opinion very intuitive. This game has the hook factor for us. There are plenty of characters to play with that we havent unlocked yet. Each character can be leveled up (not sure what the max is just yet). Some cons for us that can easily be fixed via update: Camera shakes a bit much for us when using Rebus Prime. We dont mind this effect, but maybe apply camera shake only on heavy attack. And keep the screen steady for light attacks. The other minor issue for us is the UI/UX. The settings button is tucked in the top left corner of the screen. There are times we had to tap it 3 times to access it. Lastly, there were times we could not see our character at all. Overall though, we love the art style, controls and progression (so far).
Tried on both phone and iPad min and we cant get past the character selection screen. Anyone lose having the issue.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.0
- Size: 59.13 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Kyle Barrett]()
Last updated: 3rd November 2023 | Genre: Action, Roleplaying | Developer: Kyle Barrett