# Shadow Hunter: Special Edition — user reviews > 140 indexed App Store user reviews of Shadow Hunter by ENIGMA SOFTWARE JOINT STOCK COMPANY, rated 4.75/5 from 316 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadow-hunter-special-edition/id1595739885/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadow-hunter-special-edition/id1595739885.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 279 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Shadow Hunter? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Engaging hack-and-slash gameplay mechanics - 😊 Fun and addictive combat with skill combos - 🆓 No pay-to-win mechanics in special edition - 🎨 High-quality graphics and visuals - ⚡ Smooth and responsive controls - 🔓 All characters unlocked from start - 📱 Works well on mobile devices - ⏱️ Quick-paced sidescrolling action - 💎 Reasonable progression and meaningful rewards - 🎯 Minimal bugs and stable performance - 🏆 Multiple game modes (PvP, dungeons, challenges) **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes (every 15-30 minutes) - 🎮 No controller/gamepad support - 😤 Extremely grindy progression system - 💰 Progression locked behind gear requirements - ⚖️ Unbalanced PvP matchmaking (level mismatches) - 🎯 Repetitive gameplay over extended play - 🚫 Cannot delete characters to restart - 📊 Slow progression at higher levels - 🎪 Poorly designed unfun levels - ⚔️ Weapon type limitations (gun vs flying enemies) - ⏳ Slow resource accumulation rates - 🔋 Device overheating issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes every 15-30 minutes - Device overheating causing crashes - Apple account linking not working (Game Center only) - Backbone controller support broken after update - Mystic store functionality issues - Arena unplayable with bugs - Spanish language listed but not implemented - Energy system imbalance - PvP arena and tower pass removal broke progression incentives **Most requested features** - Controller/gamepad support (most requested) - Gauntlet/punching character class - Additional boss varieties - Weapon skin customization options - Russian language support - Spanish language fix - Guild/clan system - Co-op multiplayer modes - 2v2 PvP matches - World chat feature - Dungeon sweep automation - Magic/spell-casting character - Character deletion option - Promo code redemption system - Shorter battle pass duration - Game wiki or build guide website ## Newest reviews (14 of 140) ### 2/5 — Difficult without iap. *2026-07-15* The free version you can buy upgrades and great. This paid variation you can’t purchase anything and there’s nothing in the shops that are payable without 2 hrs of grinding. It’s annoying i paid for the best version only to get annoyed acted chapter ones progression Pvp is dominated by pay to play, yet in this version i can’t pay for anything. It’s bs **Developer response:** Hi. We are sorry that you have such a terrible impression of the game. We are still trying our very best to keep developing and improving the game everyday. When you have the time, please give it a second chance. If you have any suggestion, please let us know directly at our fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/SHLostWorld ### 3/5 — 沒啥意思 *2026-06-28, version 12.136.2* 玩了一下 又退坑一下 遊戲很有趣 但是很空虛 ### 3/5 — Giết thời gian *2026-06-02, version 12.136.2* Dành cho tuổi 5-30 nếu quá rảnh ### 2/5 — Vũ khí thượng cỗ *2026-04-25, version 12.134.3* Sao không thấy vũ khí thương cỗ nữa rồi ad ### 5/5 — Good *2025-08-09, version 12.126.00.0* Game hay giải trí ### 4/5 — Great game *2025-08-07* This game is a lot more fun than I expected. Slightly repetitive, however, fun combos and skills so it’s still a lot of fun. For me personally, there is only one thing that would make this game get 5 stars from me real quick. That would be, to have a character who uses gauntlets to focus on punching and throwing the enemies. ### 3/5 — Waste of Time *2025-07-28* Gameplay is cool but the game is ultimately a waste of time. I was only able to reach the 3rd story before the game got to hard with my current gear. You need to have the best gear in order to progress but it’s impossible unless you pay. Don’t buy this game it’s a major waste of time and you’ll only end up deleting it after a couple of games anyways. Just save yourself the effort and don’t even download this game. ### 5/5 — Good game *2025-06-30, version 12.125.2.0* This is a really cool game u guys should add more bosses different skins for weapons ### 4/5 — เติมเพชรไม่ได้ *2025-06-28, version 12.124.2.0* ทำไมเติมเงินไม่ได้ ### 4/5 — Puede mejorar *2025-06-12, version 12.124.2.0* Es el mejor hack & slash que he jugado en celular, sin embargo debería de tener algún clase de ajuste para esta versión, ya que va a la par con la versión free. Debería de estar ajustado para que todo el contenido sea utilizable, ya que no se le puede meter dinero debería de tener más ventajas. ### 5/5 — Game *2025-05-25, version 12.123.3.0* Nói thật là 2025 lần đầu thấy game quảng cáo đúng sự thật, và chơi rất hay từ bản free tôi đã chuyển qua bản trả phí vì thấy rất chu đáo về đồ hoạ,… nói chung tht sự hay. ### 5/5 — Game hay nhưng lag quá *2025-05-19, version 12.123.3.0* Game hay nhưng lag ### 5/5 — Game *2025-04-22* Hello, I would like to ask you a question, why is there no donation in this version of the game? And in general, will he appear Donat or not and why if he won't be there? **Developer response:** Hi. Thank you so much for your love of the game. Please keep supporting the game in the future. You should also follow our Facebook page, Facebook Group and Discord to receive the latest giftcode, news and events. Our fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/SHLostWorld ### 4/5 — Nice Graphic Nice Game but Drop FPS and Suddenly stop game while playing *2025-04-09, version 12.122.2.0* Dear developers, game is nice graphic and very good to play. But my device ( iPhone 13) in room temperature , after playing over 10 minutes my device was too heat and game fps was suddenly drop , hang, and finally stopped and quit from games. Another types of games like as Dead Cells or Mobile legends or League of Legends are not occurring this problem. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Sucks *2026-07-02, version 12.137.30* This game sucks. I hate it. I can’t even get anything good. ### 1/5 — Events та Battlepass не працює. Вічне завантаження *2025-12-18, version 12.130.2.0* Events, battlepass not working ### 1/5 — thật phí phạm time , mọi thứ ko thể dễ dàng , tốt nhất hãy ngừng chơi và tải trò chơi này … *2025-10-09, version 12.128.2.0* thật phí phạm time , mọi thứ ko thể dễ dàng , tốt nhất hãy ngừng chơi và tải trò chơi này … ### 1/5 — Constantly encountering annoying kooix, must fix it quickly. Too bad! *2025-09-27, version 12.128.2.0* While playing the game I keep getting kicked out, there are too many bugs. need to fix it immediately! ### 1/5 — rác *2025-06-07, version 12.124.2.0* làm sk ncc ### 1/5 — Ko hay ho gì *2025-05-28, version 12.123.3.0* Cái game thiết kế kiểu để moi tiền người chơi, nhưng mà ko ai chơi nên chuyển sang đem bán, phí 129k của tao ### 1/5 — What a scam *2025-03-08, version 12.121.01.0* Special edition is a dumb down version that you need to pay to download. At first glance, it sounds like a good idea. After playing though you will realise you got the worst version. Farming diamonds take forever. Your progress is stuck until you get better gear. The current malice dungeon event is way too hard to progress and earn any diamonds. Your only choice is to farm boss for pitiful amount of diamonds with the sad amount of keys given everyday. Or wait for daily handouts. Tldr: DON’T BUY THIS ### 1/5 — 每次升級的鑰匙都被吃掉 *2025-02-25, version 12.120.2.0* 每次等級提升戰役鑰匙都不見 要不要修復一下 ### 1/5 — No controller support??? *2024-11-30, version 12.118.2.0* Why doesn’t a game like this have controller support $5 down the drain smh ### 1/5 — Broken *2024-09-14* Unless you roll some lucky loot early, the game basically dead-ends and your character can no longer make any progress. You see, the original game was pay-to-win, which required gems; once they took out the payment system, you still needed the gems to make progress, but now you can’t buy them — ergo you can’t make progress. Worse, you can’t even delete your characters and start over! I’m not joking. If you make a character, you can’t delete it. Bizarre. So basically, one of the 6 characters I made got lucky and picked up a nice weapon. He could make progress. The other 5? Dead end. Also, the game design is bad. If you have a gun wielding character, you can’t kill flying creatures easily, but if you have a sword, you can kill flying creatures easily. What is this game logic? **Developer response:** Hi. We are sorry that you have such a terrible impression of the game. We are still trying our very best to keep developing and improving the game everyday. When you have the time, please give it a second chance. If you have any suggestion, please let us know directly at our fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/SHLostWorld ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — И *2026-08-01* Тот кто придумал босса Лео… Ты конченный человек… ### 5/5 — Hỗ Trợ Tay Cầm *2026-06-24, version 12.136.2* Game hay nhưng tuyệt vời hơn nếu hỗ trợ cả tay cầm đó ạ. ### 5/5 — Hay *2026-06-06, version 12.136.2* Game rất hay ### 5/5 — lỗi *2026-05-19, version 12.135.2* tôi chơi 1 lúc là văng game thật sự quá thất vọng ### 5/5 — Đánh giá *2026-03-23, version 12.133.2.0* Oke, tiết kiệm hơn bản thường ### 5/5 — Thats really something new *2026-03-10, version 12.133.2.0* I enjoy this game for every dollar I spent, great movement animations, beautiful visuals and feel myself like in DMC slashing monsters However wish there were normal optimization for Iphones because dynamic island closes some of the menu buttons so I have to rotate my phone 180° to see what’s behind and I don’t know if everyone have this, but some buttons clipping through screen bounds(maybe thats because my phone is max size) ### 5/5 — Bản này k nạp tiền được *2026-02-06, version 12.132.2.0* Ae nào nạp thì nhầm bản rồi bản này k nạp được ### 5/5 — Jeu super mais manque joystick *2025-11-18* Le jeu est beau, très beau, fluide, complet, agréable à déplacer notre joueur Les niveaux se limitent à juste défoncer les ennemis qui se présentent. Et c’est tout: à chaque nouveau level les monstres varient très légèrement. Mais dans le genre hack’n slash il est sublime et très réactif dans le déplacement. Vraiment agréable. Très complet, on récupère de l’équipement à foison qu’on peut upgrader. Outre les pièces d’équipement nous avons un large choix de pouvoirs, et quand on avant dans le jeu on en débloque de nouveau, sachant qu’à la fin on en a 7 disponibles en même temps (des attaques spéciales). Pouvoir passifs, actif, on peut associer des runes à nos persos. Et il y a 6 personnages différents mais vraiment différents avec chacun ses armes et attaques : il faudra faire évoluer chacun des personnages, donc forte rejouabilité. Sans parler des événements de saison, avec des personnages dédiés. Vraiment c’est très complet et ça vaut bien 6€. Mais gros reproche : il n’y a pas de support manette. Dans un jeu de hack’n slash c’est vraiment indispensable. Surtout dans notre cas où l’on a au bout d’1h de jeu 1 attaques normale et 3 attaques spéciales. Et avec ces boutons il y a le saut et le dash. Sachant qu’à la fin c’est 7 attaques spéciales en plus des 3 boutons normaux (saut, dash et attaque) que l’on va devoir manipuler. Et en plus on n’a même pas la possibilité de disposer les boutons là où on veut. Franchement avec 7 boutons à droite qui servent tous à taper, pouvoir les placer là où l’on veut c’est le minimum. Mais pitiés mettez le support du joystick e. Le jeu serait vraiment le meilleur du genre si vous aviez le support du joystick. Et reproche : il est indiqué dans la description langue français (et aussi allemand et le russe) Sauf que ces langues n’apparaissent pas. C’est pas correct d’annoncer des langues qui ne sont pas prises en charge. Vraiment , faites en sorte d’implémenter le support du joystick please. ### 5/5 — 好玩 *2025-10-06, version 12.128.2.0* 好玩喔 ### 5/5 — Code *2025-09-25, version 12.128.2.0* Ko co code --- *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 2026-08-26.*