# Shadow Fight 4: Arena — user reviews > 1,108 indexed App Store user reviews of Shadow Fight 4 by Nekki Limited, rated 4.80/5 from 46,378 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadow-fight-4-arena/id1479050948/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadow-fight-4-arena/id1479050948.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 42,150 · 4★ 1,601 · 3★ 618 · 2★ 368 · 1★ 1,641 ## What do users think of Shadow Fight 4? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent graphics and gameplay - 👍 Variety of characters and fighting styles - 🎮 Competitive PvP experience **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent connection issues and server disconnects - ⚖️ Unbalanced matchmaking and character power levels - 💰 Heavily pay-to-win progression system - 🤖 Overpowered AI opponents **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent fight results and loss of trophies - Glitches and animation issues during fights - Crashes and freezes during gameplay **Most requested features** - Add offline/training mode - Improve rewards and progression for free-to-play players - Implement better character balancing and matchmaking - Add more social features like clans and chat ## Newest reviews (15 of 1,108) ### 3/5 — Game crash *2026-08-30, version 1.9.83* When I play the game for a while it crashes and kicks me out of the game. once I have seen this problem happened for a friend and he wrote a review but the developer said lower the graphic, but my phone is 17 pro max, now you think it cannot handle your ultra graphic?? Leave that ultra I have changed the game graphic to the lowest possible but still game crashes. I don't think it's graphic's fault. We would be happy to this bug be fixed by developers. ### 2/5 — Imbalanced characters *2026-08-25, version 1.9.83* devs need to listen to the fans more ### 2/5 — Imbalanced characters *2026-08-20, version 1.9.83* characters are not balanced, it’s not that you need to “train” with them some characters like the monkey are not as good as other legendary characters. his talents do not make up for the gap. if you put a lvl 13 itu against the monkey king itu has way more advantages ### 3/5 — Missing character customization *2026-08-18, version 1.9.83* Good game but but I don’t want to fight with set hero’s and combos. I want to fight with my character like in 3 ### 2/5 — Unbalanced game *2026-08-16, version 1.9.83* How tf are we to counter some attack with certainty characters I’m tired getting defeated because my character movement is slower and the other character I’m fighting against is faster doing fast kicked and I’m backed against the wall..I hate that I have to stick to a certain character only because of its speed I know I will win 🤬😡 ### 3/5 — Good but, ads… *2026-08-08, version 1.9.83* It’s a really fun game. Many things to do and a nice number of characters. Unfortunately, the ads are a pest, borderline brain washing: I have counted 12 times the ad over and over. I wish there was an option to forfeit and skip it. I get that it’s needed to support free player but, 12 times, com on, that’s a bit too much. ### 1/5 — Pay to win, worst matchmaking( specially if a beginner) *2026-08-08, version 1.9.83* Title speaks enough ### 1/5 — Muito ruim *2026-08-08, version 1.9.83* Nos torneios fica saindo toda hora Dae atrapalha seu progresso no jogo tem q corrigir isso ### 4/5 — Co-operative *2026-08-08, version 1.9.83* It’s all good but Can you please bring 2v2 co-operative mode too. I am tired of playing against my friends. I want to play as a team with them also. ### 3/5 — The lag needs to be dealt with *2026-08-07, version 1.9.83* This is a great game and I only have one issue. When I am fighting and there is multiple lax bikes that aren’t on my end it is interfering with my ability on mobile to fight with people on PC. There needs to be someway where when there is three lax bikes or something it adjourns the game until there is proper connection or at the very least it stops the match and no one loses any trophies. It is incredibly frustrating to try to put in my inputs faster than someone on PC when it’s not possible and the one-sided lag makes the game and not fun at all especially when the lag is not from me. ### 1/5 — Pure P2W *2026-08-07, version 1.9.83* All 5 star comment are fake, don’t believe them. This game is 100% pay to win. You have skill, guess what, you will meet an opponent that have max talent max lv, and they will crush you easily. Game always crash during fighting making you lose, money are hard to gain which makes you cannot upgrade your character, unless you use real money ### 2/5 — Imbalanced characters *2026-08-06, version 1.9.83* characters like the monkey king needs to be buffed, new characters like shogun need to stop being OP off the bat. The developers need to listen to the players instead of doing cash grabs. Add new stories. People are slowly losing hope in the game. ### 1/5 — Жалоба *2026-08-06, version 1.9.83* Игра дизбалансная, только начал играть, а подбор уже пихает противников выше уровнем прокачки, не на 1 уровень, а сразу на уровня 3, а тиневые испытания невозможно играть, я даже ещё особо не разобрался в механике, а противники ничего даже сообразить не дают, уровень игроков выше, чем твой ### 1/5 — Why give our information to so many vendors *2026-08-06, version 1.9.83* Why put a player in the position of un ticking all the vendors that you list on accepting or not accepting affecting trust of playing ? Seriously over 100 vendors Legitimate interest (73 vendors) is just one of many. No thanks ### 4/5 — Shadow fight 4 *2026-08-04, version 1.9.83* It’s if you put Shadow fight two and three and Shades and put them together you get this really fun game with fast combat in the 3 and 2D art style of the character design really really good and character, designs and I hope we get a shadow fight five cause if it’s better than this, it could probably be one of the best free, mobile games so really really good game ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Too many pop ups *2026-08-30, version 1.9.83* I only played this game for about 20 minutes and the amount of pop ups for this type of game is insane, every time I went to the menu, boom 80% off deal, like I don’t care how many times you show me I’m not getting it, ads are pretty normal but c’mon stop being so greedy ### 1/5 — Wow *2026-08-29, version 1.9.83* Shadow fight 4 has not worked in 3 weeks!!! ### 1/5 — Micro transaction pay to win trash *2026-08-25, version 1.9.83* This game is unplayable if you don’t want to constantly drop more money on it. It’s genuinely the worst addition to the entire franchise, and it absolute slop for anyone who doesn’t want to drop insane amounts of money. There is no path to success by just working at the game and playing - you can’t even play for more than a few minutes before you have pay for more tokens or crystals or tickets or what have you. Disappointing trash. ### 1/5 — Game is pay to win *2026-08-21, version 1.9.83* Heavily pay-to-win. Do not recommend for long-term play. It starts out fun, but you will eventually hit a massive wall where you cannot progress without spending real money. Skip this if you want a fair fighting game. ### 1/5 — fps drop while playing the game *2026-08-17, version 1.9.83* The game is deliberately being slow down so opponents can strike you even on the challenges my phone is freezing up and fps is dropping ### 1/5 — Really sad *2026-08-16, version 1.9.83* LITERALLY EVERYONE JUST SPAMS ### 1/5 — Pay to win and matchmaking *2026-08-14, version 1.9.83* I don’t usually make reviews but this game is very pay to win and the only way to win your ranked rounds is to spend money ### 1/5 — Just it *2026-08-11, version 1.9.83* This is not a fighting game, but just a numerical development game ### 1/5 — Pay to win trash *2026-08-11, version 1.9.83* Would be a very fun game but every match you play against pay to win people using the same character with unblockable multi combo attacks, which is stupid. ### 1/5 — Campers and unfair matchmaking *2026-08-09, version 1.9.83* Deleting the game after playing it for a while, just coz the developers can’t do anything about the campers and matchmaking, ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Engaging *2026-08-16, version 1.9.83* Very entertaining and I enjoy the process of learning techniques ### 5/5 — Thnx for making my childhood dream come true *2026-08-11, version 1.9.83* I always wanted to prve myself better than othera in sf2 and through this game i finally can.this game is not that balanced but for the sake of my memories i rate this game 5 stars.but for anyone who never played sf2,this game is fascinating at first and disappointing at the end.matchmaking system isnt good enough.also for new player s having to play thousands of bot matches to meet real ppl is rly sad.i hope u guys try to make this game a game that will create memories rather than another boring pvp games that makes u win if u spend money on it.overall thanks ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-08-09, version 1.9.83* Like the way u got to play Jerrad ### 5/5 — Animated Series *2026-08-07, version 1.9.83* We all love the game sooo much. Now give us an animated series! ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-08-05, version 1.9.83* Fun phone game. I’m sure it scales to be difficult without buying thing eventually, but it does let you spam matches. Sooo if you get timing right you can beat people more powerful than you. So big thumbs up. ### 5/5 — Huh *2026-07-28, version 1.9.80* Great game ### 5/5 — .. *2026-07-17, version 1.9.80* Love it ### 5/5 — 79/100💓 *2026-07-15, version 1.9.80* It’s almost perfect just needs a little enhancement ### 5/5 — 재밌습니다 *2026-07-10* 현질을 해야지만 더 즐길 수 있지만, 재미를 위해서 충분히 가치가 있습니다. 즐거운 게임 감사합니다. ### 5/5 — Shadow fight 4: arena *2026-07-07, version 1.9.80* Very good game I recommend you should play --- *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 2026-09-05.*