# Grim Defender: Castle Defense — user reviews > 340 indexed App Store user reviews of Grim Defender by BYTEGHOUL GAMES, rated 4.70/5 from 1,060 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grim-defender-castle-defense/id1378304905/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grim-defender-castle-defense/id1378304905.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 874 · 4★ 127 · 3★ 34 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 17 ## What do users think of Grim Defender? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and fun gameplay - 🕹️ Satisfying progression and upgrades - 💰 Generous free-to-play model - 🕰️ Great time-waster game - 🎨 Customizable defense strategies **Cons** - 🔍 Dark gold is too rare to obtain - 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs - 🔒 Account progress loss issues - 📺 Intrusive ads in some cases - 🤖 Lack of multiplayer/social features **Commonly reported bugs** - Progress/purchase loss after updates - Crashes and freezes during gameplay - Inability to close ads after watching **Most requested features** - More diverse enemy types - Additional tower/weapon options - Prestige system or resets - Improved dark gold acquisition - Multiplayer/co-op gameplay ## Newest reviews (10 of 340) ### 4/5 — Ads *2026-07-17, version 1.91* I mostly remember playing the original version of this game, however when the ad showed up on my YouTube feed with a musical number I felt the need to see what’s changed ### 4/5 — Game is Great, Could Use Some Rebalancing *2026-07-06, version 1.91* I enjoy the game. Has a fun repetitive loop. It's a bit grindey but you feel like you make progress... except the dark gold. The drop rates for those are INSANELY low even with a maxed out Holy Grail. Once you reach around wave 700ish and stagnate, the drop rates are SO low that you can do 2-3 10-15 minute runs and maybe get ONE dark gold. The higher tier upgrades require about 10 dark gold each so it makes it a pain to grind for them. This also means that the "trade" feature is almost pointless cause you're gonna want to hoard your dark gold to ever make use of the feature. Bump up the dark gold spawn rates please. ------ Next I'd like to talk about the new rivals and arena modes. Rivals is insanely unbalanced. The rivals you get are always insanely over-leveled compared to you. I understand the point is to level yourself up to eventually overcome them but the amount of time and resources you have to invest to beat them is way too high, ESPECIALLY compared to the rewards you get for beating them. Lower the difficulty OR increase the rewards you get, cause the juice is not worth the squeeze. The arena I don't have much to say. I can't really find a match and when I do get one it's always against a bot (and you can tell it's a bot by how they spend their skills or target acquisition). ### 4/5 — Add Swipe Protection *2026-06-01* The first spell slot is right next to the "swipe bar" for iphone, so when you try to drag and cast it frequently swipes you out of the game which in turn wastes the spell. gets quite frustrating to use tbh ### 3/5 — Fun game *2026-02-20, version 1.89* Darkgold is too hard to get making it a pay to win game. Wish we could get bpackgold thru ads or else its too rare and needed to upgrade so much ### 2/5 — Hthr *2024-11-04, version 1.86* Logged in, and my account simply restarted, been playing for years, daily and investing, how did this happen? Help please. I did not reinstall or anything. ### 5/5 — Be aware! Before you update always write down your recovery code do not lose your progress!! *2024-10-18, version 1.86* Write down your recovery code before the update!!! Update: the Grim Defender team helped me get back my account. These guys amazingly helpful. Thank you again! ### 1/5 — Грусть печаль *2024-10-17, version 1.86* Играл пол года , сегодня зашёл и прогресс был сброшен игра началась заново ((( ### 1/5 — Слетел весь прогресс *2024-10-16, version 1.86* Игра интересная - месяц потел в итоге захожу 1 лвл и ноль прогресса . Спасибо за потраченное время удалил . ### 1/5 — 봐주새요 *2024-10-16, version 1.86* 갑자기 한국어로 패치되고 전에 했던것 다 날라갔습니다. 광고 유료도 결제했는데 ,, 데이터 싹 다 날라갔네요 어떻게 해야되나요 ### 1/5 — Déception *2024-10-15, version 1.86* J’ai perdu mon avancement et mon compte avec la dernière mise à jour ! J’attends quelques jours pour voir si ça revient car le jeu est bien mais je ne recommencerais pas du début sachant que j’avais presque tout débloqué !!! Dommage mais je sens que je vais devoir le supprimer définitivement… Sérieux faites attention quand vous faites une mise à jour ! Trop déçu… ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Slow growth *2026-01-31* By slow growth I mean you will have to play this game for entire day in daily basis to have better equipment. Game should relax the mind not irritate of being lossing ### 1/5 — Оценка 3 из 10 *2026-01-29, version 1.89* Игра посредственная, без души, тупо конструктор на скорую руку,толкающая на обязательный донат, очень душат рекламой, ее там мега много, решайте сами, играть или смотреть бесконечную рекламу ### 1/5 — Progress and IAPs deleted - beware *2025-08-17, version 1.87* I left this game installed on my phone and took an extended break from it. When I checked it today, all of my progress was gone, along with the darkgold I’d purchased. Devs get one shot on that kind of thing with me, because of it happens once, what’s to stop it from happening again? At any rate, don’t get too attached to your account, it would seem. ### 1/5 — Ads are so bad. No way to exit them until clicking 100 different things. Ad filled garbage *2025-06-05, version 1.87* It’s okay, but if you watch the ads it’s not just a video. You have to wait and click 100 times before you can go back playing. Not worth it. ### 1/5 — Исчез прогресс *2025-02-14, version 1.87* Очень долго не играл в игру, захожу, поиграл, решил обновить игру, а при обновлении весь прогресс сбросился... Естественно, восстановить я его никак не смогу. Спасибо за классное обновление, больше никогда не вернусь ### 1/5 — Все пропало *2025-01-23, version 1.87* Зашел сегодня, не заходил около месяца, а сейчас началось все с начала… что случилось?? Разработчики ответьте пожалуйста! ### 1/5 — Верните акаунт *2024-12-23, version 1.87* После последнего обновления пропал весь прогресс!!!!!и что естественно кода от акаунта для восстановления у меня нет,так как я и не собирался выходить или еще что либо.интересно много у кого началась игра с 0?!!! ### 1/5 — Last update erased everything *2024-10-27, version 1.86* Last update deleted my progress and purchases. I lost my recovery code so I guess that’s that. ### 1/5 — Don’t play *2024-10-19, version 1.86* I have spent a lot of money and months of time on this game and it deleted my entire account for some reason and there’s no way to recover it ### 1/5 — No support, not reliable platform *2024-10-17, version 1.86* Played this for a week. Purchased items to speed my progress and drop the ads. Suddenly one day I open it and it has lost everything and reset to level 1, with ads. Sent a note for tech help to recover my progress and/or my purchase and no response. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — крутая игра *2026-08-22, version 1.91* хорошая игра и очень затягивающая но почемуто арена не работает игра супер советую ### 5/5 — 보너스 코드 b4o9e8m 입력하고 받아가세요 *2026-01-30, version 1.89* 굳굳 ### 5/5 — Hay *2026-01-21, version 1.89* 6imox9k ### 5/5 — 2orw635 темное золото *2026-01-06, version 1.89* 2orw635 темное золото ### 5/5 — Игра топ Вводи код ut833gn 3000 золота и 2 гема *2025-09-26, version 1.87* Игра топ Вводи код ut833gn 3000 золота и 2 гем ### 5/5 — شخص عادي *2025-08-29, version 1.87* The game is very nice. I hope you put the Arabic language and reduce the money inside the game and put monsters and characters inside the game. I hope you ask. You are the best game as quality, quality and many things. Greetings to everyone. ### 5/5 — Good Game But *2025-07-15, version 1.87* Got far into the game and now I can’t beat the flying dragon ✌🏻 ### 5/5 — Just so great *2025-04-30, version 1.87* I had played this game for a few years ago. Then had enough of it. But now I missed it and came back. Still better than other castle defense games in term of simplicity, yet complicated. ### 5/5 — Geiles Spiel immer wieder *2025-02-20, version 1.87* Das Spiel macht richtig Laune, ob schnell mal ein paar Level zwischen durch zocken oder bis zum bitteren Ende im endlos Match. ### 5/5 — Класно *2025-01-16, version 1.87* ge34j9g введіть отримаєте бонус гра топ --- *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 2026-09-03.*