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Heroes of the Dark: Squad RPG

Collect Supernatural Monsters

Ratings

Age

9+

Category

Roleplaying

Languages

English

Set in a grim Victorian realm shattered by cosmic disaster, Heroes of the Dark tasks you with uniting legendary rival factions. Recruit powerful heroes from the ranks of mystical Vampires, ferocious Werewolves, and technologically advanced Human survivors. Construct a towering mansion fortress to research forbidden sciences, optimize squad tactics, and deploy forces to secure resources across a dangerous sandbox map in intense multiplayer warfare.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

76/100

Heroes of the Dark brings a highly polished and incredibly cinematic presentation to the mobile strategy landscape. Gameloft has done a phenomenal job crafting a dark, atmospheric Victorian universe that immediately stands out from the generic fantasy empire-builders that flood the storefronts. The character models are sharp, and the lore surrounding the uneasy truce between monsters and men is genuinely engaging.

The real highlight is the vertical layout of your stronghold. Decorating and constructing rooms inside a massive gothic mansion feels much more personal and stylistically compelling than managing a typical flat plot of land. Setting up your hero composition across diverse tactical grids offers genuine strategic decision-making in the early to mid-game.

However, it does eventually run into the classic pitfalls of the modern multi-user strategy genre, where progression slowdowns encourage in-app purchases to stay highly competitive on the global map. If you pace yourself, find an active alliance, and enjoy the gloomy, high-production gothic aesthetic, there is a lot of engaging strategic depth to discover here.

Dinsun reviewed on: Mon May 18 2026

Features

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A dark, highly detailed Victorian gothic universe crafted by Gameloft

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Strategic cross-faction alliance mechanics featuring distinct Vampire, Werewolf, and Human heroes

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A vertical mansion empire-building system that serves as your central tactical command base

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Massive real-time global multiplayer battles across an expansive kingdom map

Tips & Walkthrough

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Q&A

Alliances give you access to mutual construction timer assists, shared economic research pools, and massive cooperative raid wars that reward high-tier equipment.

Ratings & Reviews

Awesome
Wed Apr 05 2023 Ravena Angel

This game is fantastic. It is well balanced. The graphics are awesome. It’s fair. You can progress nicely without putting real money into it. The music is fantastic. I will give it a 5 star rating when they fix the glitchy chat on Apple IPad. It’s very frustrating. When they have a feature where guild leader and officers can email all players at the same time, when they add a save feature to save coordinates and when they have a search button to search coordinates instead of looking all over in the map. It is very tedious, time consuming and annoying. I love this game! Good job guys!

Missing features that would make this game great
Tue Nov 09 2021 dog soodoo

This game has the potential to be great. Here are some missing pieces that would make it phenomenal. 1. Add the feature to quick search for coordinates instead of having to scroll the entire map hoping to luckily find what we’re looking for. It should be located right under the coordinates section. 2. when plundering gold or dust let’s say we do the 8 hour and we’ve spent 5 hours total if we call our troops back home early; instead of losing everything we should gain 5 hours worth of resources. 3. Add more player plus guild challenges during events 4. Guild challenges, give us something to strive for within guilds 5. Also add the ability to search rankings for guide or players, kills & power 6. Better rewards and in game purchases. I’m a game tester and investor. Im looking to invest a lot of money into this game. It’s freshly new I currently like this game I think you guys are doing great but, like I said it can be great. Why settle for good when you can be great! :)

No option to choose servers to play with friends
Mon Nov 01 2021 KelsoTano

So this is supposed to be a social game where you play with others, join guilds, etc. Unfortunately they make it almost impossible to play with friends. When you join the game it doesn’t give you the option to choose a server and it doesn’t even tell you what server you are on. I didn’t realize there were different servers until I tried to join my friends guild and send a friend request. When I contacted support the only option they could do was to try to reset both of our accounts at the same time to hopefully get us on the same server, which is impossible since my friend is already very far and has spent real money. It is a unfortunate thing for a social game like this to not give you the option. Joining guilds and playing with friends are my favorite parts of these games. Many other games have server options so you can pick and choose if you want to be on the same server as friends.

Total pay to win
Sun Dec 05 2021 Ironworker84

If you are into games with a bit of challenge or luck this is one is ok. Yet of you want to throw those out the window and just lay down a card and pay your way to the top this is definitely for you. I spent two weeks grinding my character up to 160k power (if you play you know). Just to have a guy join the game and blow past me in less than two days. Sitting there reading in chat about what he’s spent to hit 200k and has almost every character in the game. Then there is the fact that you cannot progress as a team unless you disband your guild and join one of the stronger guilds. Since every guild in the second level and about ties directly into higher level guilds, and if you buck the system the high levels come down and wreck you (had this explained in detail by one of the 3 strongest guilds in the game)

2 thumbs down
Tue Apr 01 2025 REAPER AND SAMEDI

Let’s start with how these developers don’ do or know how to resolve any issues regarding this issue. For the past 2 years I invested in this so called game to build my characters but can’t sine I tried to get another platform. I get banned and place on hold for 4 weeks (1 month) without weekends. No communication, no emails ( even tho they ask for it) , no updates just so call apologies, no rewards leaving you all alone. I was a gm( guild master than intitate?, , I asked why they said only for security reasons your banned for this, and place with a new id . They kept stalling and never resolved this issue , as a paying customer no satisfaction, no explanation,no reimbursement of any kind so basically. DONT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME, put your money somewhere else, yours truly REAPER! Also I couldn’t put no stars to submit this so one lousy thing

Half a game.
Thu Dec 16 2021 -Skurvel

I have been playing this game for a over month now. Overall I like the game. Maybe the best feature is that all the hero’s seem well balanced there isn’t one meta that everyone plays. Many different team combinations can work well together. Legendary hero’s are truly difficult to get and mostly offered as prizes for top event winners. The developers have not yet fallen into the routine of putting out new more powerful hero’s everyone needs to buy to stay on top. The various game stages offer a good daily play. There are a few major things I don’t like that would change my rating if they were fixed. There is no way to store pre-set teams. Teams are automatically selected for battle by highest power first. You can manually rearrange them but you have to do so for every single battle. There is no way to sort gear. The game automatically sorts gold to the top and grey to the bottom but all gear also has levels so your purple level 20 gear will appear before your blue level 80. When selecting to recycle gear the only options are by color tier. So if you select all within a tier you wind up with your level 80 gear and your level twenty being recycled. The only option left is to manually select each individual piece of gear. The red dots. All my hero’s always have red dots on them. I hate the red dots. Make them useful or get rid of them. The events are extremely repetitive. Maybe randomize the order or run two or more simultaneously. It is a war game. Make it less costly and more rewarding to have skirmishes. As it is war costs so much everyone is focused on avoiding war through treaties and alliances. Maybe make cities harder to take and mansions more rewarding. Reduce healing cost. The same material is required to heal and to level heroes. Very difficult to war and raise hero levels. It’s an attractive game with good basis but missing some key features that would make it great.

Okay, not great
Sun May 08 2022 Yepthatme1

Decently fun game, a few things would make it better. 1: sort servers geographically, as is the main chat is almost entirely other languages and you have to click on each message to see the translation, these games are supposed to be social so that’s annoying. 2: give an option to enter coordinates on the map instead of scrolling around looking. 3: make crafting equipment simpler, it’s pretty convoluted right now. 4: have tiers for events that make it easier for small players to hit, as is the leaderboard is dominated by the big spenders, which is normal but there’s lots of new players that will never spend if they aren’t having fun.

Cheaters
Wed May 11 2022 Wireman134

Server 18 has a guild (PNX) that cheats. They have heroes at 35k power and then 30 minutes later they’re at almost 100k power, they’re mansions aren’t even at levels to do that with gear. Rumor has it that they came from a different server in which they were banned so please devs look into these cheats because they’re ruining it for everyone else Update: They just had a game update that messed up my gear for my heroes. I’m missing legendary gear and the legendary gear that I do have left I can’t add to my heroes. The developers response was it might get fixed when they update again. Totally unacceptable and if I were you I’d stay clear away from this game. Go download Land of Empires if you want a developer that has their stuff together. I wish I could give this game negative stars

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