# Demon's Rise 2: Lords of Chaos — user reviews > 76 indexed App Store user reviews of Demon's Rise 2 by Wave Light Games Inc., rated 4.00/5 from 37 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/demons-rise-2-lords-of-chaos/id1153028211/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/demons-rise-2-lords-of-chaos/id1153028211.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 20 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of Demon's Rise 2? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Deep tactical gameplay - ✨ Great graphics and atmosphere - 💎 Impressive depth and character variety - 🚀 Smooth performance on most devices - ❤️ Active and responsive developer - 💡 Frequent and free content updates - 🌟 High replayability - 👍 Good value for price - 🎮 Immersive turn-based combat - 💯 Polished and well-crafted game **Cons** - 🐛 Game crashes frequently - 🐌 Slow loading times - 🫥 Unresponsive controls - 📉 Lopsided matchups - 🗺️ Small maps - 💰 High price for content - 🤔 Repetitive gameplay - 😵 Confusing UI elements - 🚫 Lack of tutorial - ⚖️ Balancing issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on startup - Crashes when loading campaign levels - Controls become unresponsive - Items vanish in shop/inventory - Fade-to-black transitions too long - Shop/inventory buttons delayed - Difficulty selecting multiple heroes - Font too small in certain screens - Enemy health regeneration and un-killable enemies - Loss of control over characters - Game continues indefinitely - Translucent tile indicators - Choppy slider and animations - Glitches with specific abilities (Mutation, Void Walker) - Status bars of enemies disappearing - Unable to select floor tiles - No sound or music on older devices - Crashes during tutorial - Crashes during gameplay **Most requested features** - More content updates - Additional character classes - Option to change screen orientation - PVP mode - More diverse adventures - Faster gameplay speed - More organized shop - Larger maps - More character variety - Multiplayer mode - Randomly generated maps - Expanded campaign - More stages and levels - Cloud saving ## Newest reviews (14 of 76) ### 4/5 — Можно обнову?👌 *2019-01-13, version 2.1* Чтоб можно было биться со своими сохранениями (команд по шесть персонажей разных, СВОИХ (важно подметить) сохранений)? А в целом игра интересная, но однообразная. После прохождения компании, нечего делать. А проходить одну и туже компанию с разным набором героев не интересно! Другое дело играть в режиме с рандомной генерацией героев, выставляемой по уровню сложности. Или хотя бы сделали мультиплеер, в который ни кто бы не играл, но хоть какое-то развитие, после прохождения КОРОТКОЙ компании. Люблю и целую человека, который придумал TBR со стороны хаоса (порядок уже надоел и я давно хотел попробовать себя в роле плохиша)) ), но вышеперечисленные «недочеты», не дают мне возможности поставить 5 из 5 😞😞. Но все равно, спасибо!!! 😊😍🥰❤️👍🏻✨👌💜 ### 4/5 — Great Job so far! *2018-03-30, version 2.1* I enjoy this game so very much! Great time consumer! As every other customer/reviewer, I have just a few requests. Only two though! One: would you mind making the maps just a bit bigger because with that many heroes and enemies on screen it can get kind of tight. Two: could you maybe add just a few more character to help finish off some of the heroes collections I already have, if y’all don’t mind that is. At least on giant female character would be cool like some elephant lady god or something cool idk, and one smaller deadly character like a red cap or an imp or deadly gnome or something. Other than that keep up the awesome work because I love it when devs update regularly so keep it up! Oh and thank you! UPDATE: okay I finally thought of something, can y’all add a Banshee, a powerful poltergeist, evil butcher (with like a huge cleaver), musketeer black dwarf with a spawnable cannon. Thanks and keep up the good work! ### 4/5 — Potential *2018-03-15, version 2.1* There is potential for something amazing in this game but I don’t know if the devs are ever going to pursue it. The mechanics are good but the maps are small. It would be great to see some open maps with options. Also wish they would’ve changed some things from the first game. They switched the characters and optimized some interface but it’s almost exactly the same. Not even sure why there is a “world map” when you can’t do anything four read about a place that you will never visit in game. I hope there is an update for it and we get to play more campaigns. ### 2/5 — Control Problems *2018-01-06, version 2.1* The game worked great at first and seemed even better than the first demon's rise. After awhile though, controls became unresponsive - I have to change magnification constantly and click and reclick on characters and desired spaces over and over before the game registers my choice. Don't seem to have this problem in Strike Team Hydra either, but it's making the game to annoying to play. IPad Pro. ### 4/5 — Nice characters n more stages pls *2017-12-14, version 2.1* Cool stuff. U get to chose many unconventional classes nev seen b4... also Txs for new add of more classes. More stages pls. Extend campaign pls? ### 4/5 — Awesome, but... *2017-12-09, version 2.0* ...just some things I'd like to point out. 1. The game crashes way too much, especially during Story Battle 10, where it is guaranteed to crash at least once (for me anyway). Whenever I reload the auto-save, I can carry on as normal but then it'll crash without fail. I cannot get past Story Battle 10 as a result. 2. The screenshots show a button at the bottom left that allows you to select your next hero. It's missing in my game, though. Was it removed in an update? 3. In the shop/inventory management screen, there have been more than one instance where my items vanish into thin air while moving them but accidentally click on an empty spot. It's painful because there have been some legendary items that I bought with my hard-earned cash, and all I did was tap the screen somewhere else by mistake and it's lost forever... 4. The fade-to-black transitions from menu to menu take too long. Should be much faster. Speaking of faster... 5. ...whenever I go to the shop or inventory management, it shows a message then after about five seconds the button to take me to the desired screen appears. Why can't the button be there right at the start? Why do I have to wait? There is a lot of unnecessary waiting in this game. 6. I should be able to select multiple heroes whenever I want to switch them out, not be forced to switch them one by one. Again, it wastes time. If I need to switch out my team, I don't want to have to go to the hero selection screen, pick a hero, go through another long fade-to-black transition before returning to the menu, then repeat the process for the other five heroes. 7. The font in the hero selection/status screens is too small. I'm using an iPhone 6, which to me is quite big so the font size should be appropriately big enough too. Perhaps if you make the font bigger, but spread the heroes' information over two pages, that'd be great. I really love this game, really I do. There is so much depth and strategy involved and leveling up my heroes is a lot of fun. But these issues hamper my enjoyment which is why for now I am giving it four stars instead of the five I'm itching to give. You're a great developer and I love what you're doing in the community so please hear me out and fix these in a future update. ### 4/5 — So good Game! *2017-11-23, version 2.0* Купил на распродаже за бакс, таких денег стоит 😄 Создаёшь команду из демонов ада и вперёд к мировому господству. Режим боя классический, пошаговый. Вполне оригинально перый раз играю за темную сторону и очень даже доставляет радость. Выбор большой представителей темной стороны. Прикольно 😂😂😂👏👏😂😂👏👏👏 Минусы нет русского языка и графика не адаптирована под планшет. Конечно на любителя, но мне понравилась 👍 ### 5/5 — In-depth tactical fun *2017-08-11, version 1.5* Enjoyable game with real tactical depth. Great response from developer on feedback about bugs. ### 4/5 — If you like Demons Rise, you'll like this title. *2017-08-08, version 1.4* Edit: So first off, I apparently can't read. When I read update notes (that just popped yesterday) I thought it said something different. My apologies! Now that the dev has released their third title (definitely check it out, as it's DR in space!) I'm hoping they will continue to update this app to further content, which it seems they are doing. I would be good with one time IAP add on content to add a expanded campaign too. Own every title this developer offers; all three are good games and impressive for an indie developer. Better than 95% of the games on the App Store. ### 3/5 — Bugged *2017-07-23, version 1.31* You get to level 5, the enemy team has a player with 140 health (that keeps regenerating) and is un-killable. I also lose control of my werebear, so although my whole team is dead, the game continues into infinity, as the enemy sees the werebear but can attack it. This spoils an otherwise excellent game. ### 5/5 — Enjoying this series immensely *2017-07-07, version 1.31* A great sequel that includes pretty much all the refinements added to the original, now with an evil-aligned class selection. Having loads of fun with it. This is easily one of the best tactical rpg series on the app store. Bring on demon's rise 3!! ### 3/5 — Should be cheaper *2017-04-11, version 1.31* Not a bad game, but not great either. It's fairly easy with the right team to complete the game on any difficulty. The screen gets cluttered late in the game making it difficult to choose proper squares for targeting. I wouldn't suggest buying this at $7 unless there will be additional content. ### 3/5 — It's ok. *2017-03-17, version 1.31* Strategy wise the game isn't great. It didn't take much thinking about to complete and I didn't really enjoy the experience very much. The story is pretty shoddy and towards the end you just face large creatures that take up lots of the screen and make it hard to click on things. Considering I paid full price for this and reading the other reviews I am a little annoyed at what I got. The shop is infuriating as well, it stocks random useless things and plenty of the items are over powered it was all too easy. ### 2/5 — Badly Needs Additional Content *2017-03-16, version 1.31* Loved the first game, but was very disappointed at how short the story and campaign was. For the price, it should have offered many more hours of new game play. I beat the whole thing by level 7 and it only took me a few days. Wasn't all that difficult either. I assumed that it was because Demon Rise 2 had been released and they stopped supporting the original. But then I downloaded 2 and found out that it has the same number of quests!! This is a sleezy way of squeezing a few more dollars out of the few fans that you have. Demon Rise 2 should have just been a content update for the first one, and the fans shouldn't have had to drop 7 bucks just to get it. But you can bet your sweet megabyte that if the developers don't add a substantial amount of content to Demon Rise 2, then this is one person who definitely won't be buying Demon Rise 3. And I will recommend the same thing to every single gamer I know. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — The worst *2022-11-22, version 3.0* Slow stupid and wrong for iPhone. Plus it’s all about being evil. I hate it and want my money back ### 1/5 — Crashes on startup *2020-12-22, version 3.0* Shuts down at 90% load time ### 1/5 — Don’t buy this. It is a waste. *2019-03-12, version 2.1* I’ll never get back the few hours I wasted on Wavelight Games. The developers should be ashamed of themselves. I’m a fool for buying this. ### 1/5 — Absolutely worthless game due to lopsided matchups *2017-07-19, version 1.31* Pretty sad when the author of this game cannot give a match where it's not you versus 15-20 enemies every match. Absolutely ruined by this. Not to mention the classes are just dumb characters the author came up with. Overall a very poor tactics game. There are much better options out there. I recommend avoiding this one. ### 1/5 — Crashing *2017-02-26, version 1.31* Crashes on loading screen after i select a save slot.. can I have my money back please and thank you? Have tried reloading and reinstall app. ### 1/5 — Unsatisfactori result *2017-01-08, version 1.31* I'm running the game on an Ipad 4th generation and the game, literally, has no sound and no life. I saw the review from toucharcade and from pockettactics and I don't know what they played but this game it's not worth the 12.99$. They even gave this game an award... but please, play the game first or, at least, be honest about it. When the game starts it lets you choose from a variety of characters and after that, you're on your onw. Forget about playing a tutorial cause, there's no tutorial. It exists inside the game, but there's no pop-up window or an arrow telling you where to move. Not even a sound when you complete an action. Yeah, there's a sound, but there's no joy about it. If you thought about been an evil overlord conquering fantasy lands and smash your enemies with your mighty horde of monsters... wait, what land? The environment is poorly modeled and it repeats itself over and over with some minor changes here and there and the characters are not even worth your precious eyes. Oh, and the campaign starts with some kind of monster telling you about your goal but... there's no intro, no animated scene... no life. Just plain text with a random gradient. Everybody knows how to ready and i know sometimes things can get pretty boring but put some love into what you do. One last thing, about the camera movement... no comments. The worst part about this is that nobody cares and nobody is going to do nothing to change it. Cheers ### 1/5 — What a rip off *2016-12-20, version 1.3* $3.00 more than demons rise 1 and it doesn't even have half of the characters. Hardly any good healing characters and some really corny ones. Highly disappointed considering demons rise 1 was my favorite cell phone app game of all time. I'll play that any day over this one. Do not buy. Not sure what the guy above me is talking about. Lots of characters? There's not even half of the original amount. Its terrible, they probably put all their money into a better graphics engine and ran out of cash. Now they have to raise the price to finish it. ### 1/5 — Мерость! *2016-11-14, version 1.0* Купил, не прочитав описание. Оказывается, нужно командовать отрядом мурзких чудищ, убивающих людей. Стер. ### 2/5 — Updates *2025-01-08, version 3.0* Will this game get anymore content updates….or not? There is still a 25th character class that has not made it over to this port yet. ### 2/5 — There’s a problem *2021-07-06, version 3.0* The game crashes every time it tries to load the sixth campaign level. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great game but… *2023-08-12, version 3.0* I love this very good game but the iPhone 11 Notch hinders the visualization of the items in the store, there could be an option in the game to change the side of the screen orientation! Other than that, the game is great! ### 5/5 — Very good *2020-04-08, version 2.1* For those who likes rpg, it is a good game. If could have PVP and more diferent adventures, and a litle bit more faster. The shop could be more organized. With you guys launch another one please let me know. ### 5/5 — Best RPG I’ve played on iOS *2019-12-14, version 2.1* Plays like XCOM transposed to a fantasy world. Tense strategic turn-based battles, amazing graphics and an atmospheric soundtrack. Every battle brings fresh challenges - it never feels repetitive. It really is my favourite RPG on iOS, pretty impressive achievement for an indie developer. ### 5/5 — Way underrated *2018-08-01, version 2.1* These demon rise games beat almost every other tbs game. Freemium, one time, and one time with in app purchases. If you min/max you will have to raise the difficulty as your party gets incredibly strong once you’ve got ability point generation and damage for auto attackers. But the story is ok. The champions are great and you know what you’re getting. You’ll get about 10 hours out of this if you grind, which is not necessary for normal difficulty. But it’s a good 10 hours with replay ability. It’s not FF tactics but there’s only one game in the App Store that is, that’s more expensive and most of us have already owned it twice. Highly recommend and will keep looking for Demons Rise 3 or other titles. I know there’s a new one and I didn’t fancy the way it looked, but having playing this again I’m going to take another look ### 5/5 — Rich gameplay, nice solo turn based strategy game *2018-06-15, version 2.1* Plenty of bugs, but mostly minor ones. A definite must have for everyone who likes challenging RPGs like Darkest Dungeon or Wesnoth. If the dev is reading this, here’s a quick bug list: 1. Help text of skills need an update badly. Lots of skills do different things to what the description says. E.g. bloodmage 2nd skill that says it has a chance to give more attacks, but actually has a chance of boosting dmg. Or cataphract 2nd skill that says it increases attack of the unit, but actually increases attacks of nearby units as well... plenty more than these couple of examples. 2. Boosted stats randomly displays as higher than max. Sometimes adding items boost hit/crit chance above 100% 3. Viewing stats of an enemy often shows the stats of the last focus hero unit instead. 4. Skills sometimes fire in the wrong direction. Sometimes when having a hero in focus and selecting a skill with area effect, it doesn’t take two clicks to trigger effect (one to aim, one to execute) but just one instead in a seemingly random direction. Other than the bugs, it’s a hugely enjoyable game, even though it gets a bit repetitive on the later levels and the game gets easy once you’ve got high level heroes with boosted items to match. A few hero skills are too good imho, most notably the orc “boost AP” skill, which is insanely good with high lvl heroes as you can replenish any hero from pretty much zero to full AP every single turn. It even works with the orc banner, you can throw a banner and boost the banner AP in the same turn, effectively allowing for an instant banner effect. Wherebear attack can be super charged as well by Orc by replenishing AP and ramping up his attacks with his zero cool down skill. So many unbeatable combos... I’d tweak down the orc skill to have a 2 turn cool down or something to make it less imbalanced. ### 5/5 — Cool Game *2018-06-11, version 2.1* Few rating may be from a price and terrible characters caused by being demon instead of hero. Good game keep moving. ### 5/5 — Loved demons rise but 2 is better, more polished *2018-02-12, version 2.1* Great game. Only “complaint” is I want moooar!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Demons rise 2 *2017-12-13, version 2.1* I have just did a quick play to see if freeze issue was fixed with last update and it appears to have fixed the issue. Game play is fun and immersive with visuals that are jaw dropping. I brought the second edition due to the fun and reply value of the first game. I gave 4 stars before but now the freeze issue been fixed I will give 5 stars now. Hard to see how a 3rd edition can be new but a larger map would be great even if this means smaller characters. Also try not be to linear with maps and game play. Try to have more than one path to an end point. Overall a very good game to while away many hours of play. ### 5/5 — download to support!! *2017-10-20, version 1.7* I downloaded the app to support the developer at its initial launch..a mistake I didn't do with the first one(got it november 2) and I'm planning to finish that before i try this. The first game proved started out great then got better with its huge roaster of characters, use of cover, lengthy campaign and graphical settings. this new entry packs that plus more as the game comes full circle with you playing as the bad guys from the first one. it just feels more polished and refined overall!!! upadate 12/16/16 my statement stills stands, even though the sum of the characters might be lowered compared to the first, the game outshines it in every other aspect!!! Update: Monday October 16, 2017 I just re downloaded Demons Rise2 to play it again yesterday after 10 months and to compare it to demon rise1. Demons rise 2 has come a long way, since i first installed it, with the addition of 5 new characters for a current total of 17, A major UI overhaul and better anti aliasing. Unfortunately, I have also noticed in my short time playing some flaws to the game now because of the new additions. First off, the title screen seems more fluent in texture as well as the menu which is still the same, But the problem lies within the gameplay itself because of the changes. The path finding has been reworked but the green tile indicators seem very translucent to the point where it seems like it was copied and pasted to the ground itself which is very disorienting. The ability to rotate the map with fingers is gone, which is not a negative, and instead is moved with the arrows to allow better map detection with the addition of a on screen slider for zooming in and out for better graphical details. The main problems are the translucent tile indicators and the choppy slider plus animations. All in all, the game has fantastic additions yet the flaws are that now it does not feel as smooth in combat. (Of course i still love it) Developers response update: Friday, October 20, 2017 Since the developer responded to my current review within 4 days, i shall like to point out that i have gotten used to the new tile system and update overall. The slider really does not clutter the screen since it's at the far side of the screen, and the zooming/panning still does work with fingers. This review is not meant to be negative in any way! ### 5/5 — Very good *2017-08-21, version 1.6* Worth money spent! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*