Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

By Netflix, Inc.

  • Category: Games
  • Release Date: 2022-01-18
  • Current Version: 0.56
  • Adult Rating: 9+
  • File Size: 1.35 GB
  • Developer: Netflix, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 3.65269
3.65269
From 167 Ratings

Description

Available exclusively for Netflix members. Choose your heroes and embark upon an epic quest to save the world of Arzu in this open-world, roguelike strategy card game. Arcanium is a tale of fellowship and bravery, and is set in a fantasy world of anthropomorphic animals in which good, evil, magic and technology collide. This ambitious open-world, single-player strategy card game merges the roguelike and deckbuilding genres in exciting new ways. Form a party of three heroes and embark on a dangerous journey to defeat Akhan the Calamity and save the world of Arzu from destruction. But beware; should one of your party members succumb to corruption, your quest will come to its end.

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Reviews

  • Very underrated

    5
    By The Antisocial Darwinist
    Excellent strategic and tactical card game. As often seems to be the case here in the App Store, great games with significant depth get poor reviews because they aren’t a F2P match-3 or tower defense. If you enjoy thoughtful games like Slay the Spire, Monster Train or Wildfrost, you’ll likely have a great time with Arcanium. No crashing issues as of April 2025 on an iPad Mini (7th gen).
  • Amazing depth

    5
    By Vmack77
    Unique approach to these card type games. Unlike anything I have ever played. Very difficult, especially in the beginning. Very refreshing and interesting gameplay with zero micro transactions. Highly recommended and I’ve played just about every game of this type! Play it, stick with it, and you will love this.
  • Fun Overall

    4
    By Igivivyxt
    One of the better card game available on iOS. Significantly better than any f2p garbage. This is a real game in which strategy and tactics matter not your wallet or time. Only criticism is at the highest difficulty it seems to me only a small amount of the characters and strategies are viable, but overall it’s still fun to try different characters and builds.
  • Great Game

    5
    By ProGolferMark
    I think this game is great. I think the balance is good and I was able to beat it on normal in my second run. Haven’t experienced any crashes referred to in other reviews. I love Slay the Spire and this game adds somewhat more complexity with improved graphics and story. You now have three heroes instead of one to play and upgrade, the map is more open, and you have more selections of artifacts to apply to your heroes. Recommend for all Slay the Spire fans.
  • Great roguelike games

    4
    By Spam of I
    Form a team of three heroes, assemble your decks and power up as much as you can before facing the boss. Very formulaic gameplay, but enough content to keep you coming back for a while Pros: -16 different characters to unlock, each with unique cards and abilities. Additionally, for each hero, you can use one of three Heirloom artifacts that let you lean into a different playstyle/archetype for that run (e.g. tanking hits vs dealing backlash damage, summoning minions vs. applying burn to enemies) -Progressive unlocking system where you earn experience with each separate hero to unlock more cards for them in future runs, which keeps you coming back for more -Unlockable difficulty levels - you might struggle on the lower levels as you’re still learning the game, but now I can’t even imagine playing on less than level 4 Cons: -My only complaint about gameplay is that it is comparatively easier than other roguelikes. In Slay the Spire for example, you might win 1 out of 5 games in normal mode, 1 out of 10 once you get to the higher challenge level. But even at maximum difficulty in this game, I still win more than half the time. Part of this stems from the “open map” design where you can go back to a capital and heal whenever you want (though the price does increase every time). But the deckbuilding aspect is also very forgiving - you can edit your deck between battles, and it has to have between 9 and 14 cards. So unlike other games, there’s no “bad” choices, no times when you’re forced to dilute your deck. If anything, you get to replace your weak cards with stronger ones, and by the end of the game, you’re cycling through your entire deck every 2-3 turns. -My only other primary issues have to do with the user interface. While this is a game, it’s abundantly clear that it was not originally designed for mobile. For example, when you’re scrolling through your cards, you can’t tap and drag; you have to put your finger on the scrolling icon and move that. When you’re upgrading your cards however, you can tap and drag, but holding down your finger on a card is how you expand it so you can read it more closely, so if you take more than a second to scroll down, you get interrupted by a card blowing up in your face. It would also greatly benefit from a way to sort cards or artifacts (e.g., by rarity) instead of only displaying them oldest to newest. -Finally, the main reason I’m only giving 4 stars is because the game closes a lot. It’s not while I’m playing that’s the issue, but if I turn my iPad off, even for just a couple seconds, when I come back, the game is closed and I have to go back through the main menu. On the notes of both difficulty and game crashing, you cannot save your game in the middle of a battle. While this seems like a good idea, there’s very little RNG involved, so it’s not as though you could abuse saving in that way. What this does mean, is if you quit your game in the middle of a battle (whether intentionally or not), you go back to the map and you can choose not to go into that battle. Overall, very good game, but probably better enjoyed on a computer.
  • The best of Netflix games

    5
    By a reaview
    This game for having a mobile port is amazing one thing though is that at first it seems that it’s impossible but if you keep playing for long enough you will learn to love it
  • No longer works, not sure why it’s even in the App Store

    1
    By TigerMustard
    For over 6 months the game crashes when choosing a Netflix profile to sign in when. As soon as I tap the profile the app just closes. As far as I can tell there is no way to bypass this problem and I’m actually shocked it hasn’t been fixed in all this time. I’ve reinstalled the game and tried on multiple iPhones running the latest versions of iOS.
  • Please talk to Netflix we need more games like this

    5
    By bbuireo
    One are the best games? I’ve played in a long time. Good progression, good fights requires smarts. balanced beatable on every difficulty level. If you know what you’re doing, it’s great totally worth your time!
  • Reviews are right.

    2
    By nai249
    There’s a good game in there But the theme is so generic, UI is exceptionally clumsy, constant surprises that ruin a run simply because it didn’t tell you what would happen. It’s fine? But I wouldn’t bother with it
  • Broken

    1
    By dcapelan
    First tutorial mission doesn’t allow progression after selecting Ability reward, can’t even exit to menu (options grayed out).

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