ENYO

Name: ENYO
Rating: 4.7 (447 reviews)
Author: Arnold Rauers

Turn based tactics

Free · In‑App Purchases

447 Ratings
Age Rating

9+
Years
Category

Puzzle
Developer

Arnold Rauers
Language

EN
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Size

187.7
MB

ENYO is a tactical roguelike about hook & shield combat. Grab your hook & shield and descend as Enyo, the Greek goddess of war, into an ever-changing labyrinth to recover 3 legendary artifacts. ENYO's gameplay is based on indirect combat. Enemies can only be defeated by pushing or pulling them into burning lava pits or onto deadly spiked walls. A limited set of actions per turn keeps ENYO accessible, while its core is highly tactical turn-based battles. Master your weapons and chain powerful combos through clever maneuvers to climb the highscore leaderboards across all 3 game modes.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

447 Ratings

Surprisingly Compelling
02/17/2023
random9q
Gameplay is extremely simple and straightforward. Graphics are two dimensional and stylized cartoons. The soundtrack is short and on repeat. There’s a total of only ten levels in normal gameplay. Those might be reasons you’d be tempted to pass this over as a tactical game. This is a brisk, brutal game where you likely will fail many times. It rewards, though. It’s addictive. The music and the graphics fit the mood and the theme perfectly, no matter how seemingly simplistic. While simple, challenge escalates quickly, and there are modes beyond the normal mode to explore. And the gameplay hits that careful sweet spot where it’s just challenging enough to keep one playing at it over and over (and still fail most of the time) yet incredibly approachable and rewards being observant and experimenting. Really, my only lament is that this game is a huge battery drain when playing. It means my attempting to binge play it as I return to it has a governor on the binge length. And that’s the real tragedy of the game. At some point, you have to take a break because your battery will force you to.
Surprisingly Compelling
02/17/2023
random9q

Gameplay is extremely simple and straightforward. Graphics are two dimensional and stylized cartoons. The soundtrack is short and on repeat. There’s a total of only ten levels in normal gameplay. Those might be reasons you’d be tempted to pass this over as a tactical game. This is a brisk, brutal game where you likely will fail many times. It rewards, though. It’s addictive. The music and the graphics fit the mood and the theme perfectly, no matter how seemingly simplistic. While simple, challenge escalates quickly, and there are modes beyond the normal mode to explore. And the gameplay hits that careful sweet spot where it’s just challenging enough to keep one playing at it over and over (and still fail most of the time) yet incredibly approachable and rewards being observant and experimenting. Really, my only lament is that this game is a huge battery drain when playing. It means my attempting to binge play it as I return to it has a governor on the binge length. And that’s the real tragedy of the game. At some point, you have to take a break because your battery will force you to.
Awesome gladiator style strategy
02/21/2018
LadyLylaSky
I love how the game is strategic in your moves and attacks with the different enemy attacks, the placement of obstacles, and your own planning abilities. The art style is awesome, and the monsters are really cool in their design. I have two ideas to add tho1 - Add power ups such as a sword to be able to run into enemies and kill them with one hit, health power ups, and maybe even bombs like the alligator type bomber enemies. I think adding this mechanic to getting the Golden skull for three kills would be the best way to incorporate power ups like these, and have them drop on a random square that you have to get to so you can get and use them to add a little more challenge to using them.2 - Add some kind of monetary system to be able to buy power ups to start off with or to buy retries and resurrectionsCould you see about adding these ideas? It would really enhance the gameplay
Awesome gladiator style strategy
02/21/2018
LadyLylaSky

I love how the game is strategic in your moves and attacks with the different enemy attacks, the placement of obstacles, and your own planning abilities. The art style is awesome, and the monsters are really cool in their design. I have two ideas to add tho1 - Add power ups such as a sword to be able to run into enemies and kill them with one hit, health power ups, and maybe even bombs like the alligator type bomber enemies. I think adding this mechanic to getting the Golden skull for three kills would be the best way to incorporate power ups like these, and have them drop on a random square that you have to get to so you can get and use them to add a little more challenge to using them.2 - Add some kind of monetary system to be able to buy power ups to start off with or to buy retries and resurrectionsCould you see about adding these ideas? It would really enhance the gameplay
What happened?? (Update)
Oct 9
CoolCuttz
Will gladly change review. I've poured plenty of hours into Enyo and it is very much worth your time and money. Arnold Rauers and Tiny Touch Tales have some of my favourite mobile games- I have at least 4 installed- that I always turn on when I need a distraction in gameplay or the wonderful art he uses. However, this new update has ruined several key functions of what I loved about Enyo. The sliding function being exchanged for a tap is one of my biggest issues. Personally, I don't always hit enemies at full force- sometimes hit them to a certain distance for strategy. It feels much nicer to slide; however I can see how tapping can be good accessibility-wise, and hopefully there can be a toggle for that. The coloured tiles for indicating the enemies' available paths are also good for people first starting the game, but I feel it should also be toggle-able. The main menu change is an odd choice. The new layout feels more inconvenient for one-handed playing, I liked it better in the middle of the screen. Stranger still is the new way to start a new game. Tap a difficulty you already have a game going in, and you get a prompt to continue with only one button to continue. To start a new game, you exit this prompt and tap the difficulty again. I'm worried for people that will lose their progress by accidentally tapping a difficulty, and immediately lose their progress when they habitually leave that prompt to tap the one they wanted. I want to believe the menu and the colored tile indicators stress are simply incomplete updates, and I really hope these are fixed. I'd love to love playing this game again. Kudos, thanks for reading.
What happened?? (Update)
Oct 9
CoolCuttz

Will gladly change review. I've poured plenty of hours into Enyo and it is very much worth your time and money. Arnold Rauers and Tiny Touch Tales have some of my favourite mobile games- I have at least 4 installed- that I always turn on when I need a distraction in gameplay or the wonderful art he uses. However, this new update has ruined several key functions of what I loved about Enyo. The sliding function being exchanged for a tap is one of my biggest issues. Personally, I don't always hit enemies at full force- sometimes hit them to a certain distance for strategy. It feels much nicer to slide; however I can see how tapping can be good accessibility-wise, and hopefully there can be a toggle for that. The coloured tiles for indicating the enemies' available paths are also good for people first starting the game, but I feel it should also be toggle-able. The main menu change is an odd choice. The new layout feels more inconvenient for one-handed playing, I liked it better in the middle of the screen. Stranger still is the new way to start a new game. Tap a difficulty you already have a game going in, and you get a prompt to continue with only one button to continue. To start a new game, you exit this prompt and tap the difficulty again. I'm worried for people that will lose their progress by accidentally tapping a difficulty, and immediately lose their progress when they habitually leave that prompt to tap the one they wanted. I want to believe the menu and the colored tile indicators stress are simply incomplete updates, and I really hope these are fixed. I'd love to love playing this game again. Kudos, thanks for reading.
Good but needs polishing
07/27/2025
N8 Jones
As far as dungeon puzzle games go, this one is decent but needs some polishing to be great. There’s a good variety of challenging enemies and floor layout situations, but I have to knock off a couple stars for several reasons. The tutorial isn’t nearly long or thorough enough because it doesn’t fully explain all the different enemy types, what they can do, and how they can be defeated. Thus you’re left to figure it out by trial and error, sometimes at the cost of valuable turns or lives. The ‘Help’ menu that provides a breakdown of each of the enemies isn’t actually very helpful because it isn’t accessible while in-game, forcing you to either memorize all the different enemy types or guess and check and hope whatever you try works. Additionally, the descriptions as they are now aren’t the clearest and should be re-written for better clarity and specifics. For example, a relatively easy fix for this could be a symbol system that represents each of the move types and a table adjacent to each enemy that shows the respective move symbols that are effective against them. Also, the swiping controls are buggy at times where it will either make you stop shorter or take you further than where you intended to go. This could be fixed by replacing the swiping motion with the multi-tap sequence used for jump stuns. I.e.: tap move type -> tap tile where you want to go -> and then tap to confirm move. It should be noted that I’m playing this game on iOS, so it’s possible the current swiping based controls are better suited for iPadOS, which I haven’t tried. Finally, there’s no way to save your progress in a multi-level dungeon, so if you have to break away for a bit, there’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to pick back up where you left off. If these issues could be fixed or improved, it would be a near-perfect game.
Good but needs polishing
07/27/2025
N8 Jones

As far as dungeon puzzle games go, this one is decent but needs some polishing to be great. There’s a good variety of challenging enemies and floor layout situations, but I have to knock off a couple stars for several reasons. The tutorial isn’t nearly long or thorough enough because it doesn’t fully explain all the different enemy types, what they can do, and how they can be defeated. Thus you’re left to figure it out by trial and error, sometimes at the cost of valuable turns or lives. The ‘Help’ menu that provides a breakdown of each of the enemies isn’t actually very helpful because it isn’t accessible while in-game, forcing you to either memorize all the different enemy types or guess and check and hope whatever you try works. Additionally, the descriptions as they are now aren’t the clearest and should be re-written for better clarity and specifics. For example, a relatively easy fix for this could be a symbol system that represents each of the move types and a table adjacent to each enemy that shows the respective move symbols that are effective against them. Also, the swiping controls are buggy at times where it will either make you stop shorter or take you further than where you intended to go. This could be fixed by replacing the swiping motion with the multi-tap sequence used for jump stuns. I.e.: tap move type -> tap tile where you want to go -> and then tap to confirm move. It should be noted that I’m playing this game on iOS, so it’s possible the current swiping based controls are better suited for iPadOS, which I haven’t tried. Finally, there’s no way to save your progress in a multi-level dungeon, so if you have to break away for a bit, there’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to pick back up where you left off. If these issues could be fixed or improved, it would be a near-perfect game.

Hey, based on your feedback, we made a few changes to the anniversary edition to address some of the concerns. A few gameplay changes have been adjusted to better fit the classic game style, while keeping the ease of use of the updated version. What's new? Added: Setting to turn off the danger tiles. Added: Precise shield bash and shield throw: tap a free tile behind an enemy, barrel or bomb to push it exactly there. Tapping the enemy itself still pushes with full power. Added: Precise hook: tap a tile between Enyo and the hooked enemy to pull it only that far, or a free tile behind Enyo to pull it past her and land it there. Added: “No” button when the game asks whether to continue your last game. Changed: Throwing the shield at an empty tile now lands it on that tile instead of at the end of the row. Changed: On phones and tablets, tap an enemy to open its info box and tap anywhere to close it. You no longer have to hold your finger on the enemy. Changed: Stun leaping or jumping onto your dropped shield now earns a skull, the same as walking onto it. Changed: The Cyclops can only be hooked with at least one free tile in between, like turtles and rings. Changed: The shield now comes back when only turtles are left, also when there’s more than one turtle. Fixed: The game froze when the Satyr pulled Enyo and she bumped back into him. Fixed: Crash and broken shield bash after the shield came back with only a turtle left. Fixed: Stun leaping a flying enemy into lava didn’t count toward the kill streak at 2 skulls. Fixed: The Odyssey day and skull counter at the top of the screen didn’t fit on small screens. Fixed: Bombs and other units were sometimes drawn on a different tile than they were actually on, which also made the Minotaur seem to move onto other enemies. Fixed: The Frogger’s landing tiles and the tiles right next to the Monkey were wrongly marked as dangerous. Fixed: Arrow tiles destroyed the Monkey’s barrel instead of redirecting it. Fixed: The Monkey’s barrel didn’t stun Enyo when her back was against a plain wall, but did when the wall had spikes. Fixed: The Monkey could step aside before the other enemies attacked, opening a line for them. Fixed: The Minotaur charging into a stunned enemy next to Enyo didn’t stun her when she was against a wall. Fixed: Stunned flying enemies over lava died later when pushed against a plain wall, instead of falling into the lava right away.

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Seller: Arnold Rauers
Size: 187.7 MB
Category: Puzzle
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

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Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 5 more

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Age Rating: 9+

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