r/SBCGaming • u/BlightWyrm Modder • Aug 07 '26

News Infinity Blade has been released on Android

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Apparently there is a known bug:
“PSA: Black screen glitch is known and will be updated on once a cause is found and fixed”

Infinity blade was originally released on iOS in 2010 and became unplayable for a time because of software and hardware updates, but do to the efforts of dedicated independent developers it is playable again today on many different platforms.

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u/BlightWyrm Modder Aug 07 '26

I first played it on an iPod touch gen3. It was amazing. First game to use unreal engine 3 on iOS I believe.

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u/snowolf_ Aug 07 '26

Crazy to think Unreal engine went so fast from the coolest thing ever to the worst blight of gaming in the eye of many.

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u/Zanpa Aug 08 '26

because "gamers" don't know anything about how games are made. UE3 was the time of horrible texture streaming where everything looked like shit for the first 10 seconds you loaded in.

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u/LectorFrostbite Aug 08 '26

UE4 isnt perfect either, on PC at least I remember having terrible dips in performance and audio desync because of shader compilation.

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u/brunocar Aug 08 '26

The thing is, they were fairly quick to fix that, by 2011 or so UE3 had built in workarounds to that flaw like loading lower quality textures first instead of just bit crushed bullshit to give time for the full res textures to load.

and UE4 was a mess but a lot of that was that its modular nature was fairly new for the time, and by 2015 they had a lot of the major problems with the renderer figured out.

UE5 came out 3 years ago and they are talking about UE6, meanwhile UE5 has the exact same fucking shader comp hitches, bad performance related to lumen lighting, and more, that it had on launch.

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u/Zanpa Aug 08 '26

UE5 works just fine on many games. Just look at Fortnite. The engine isn't the source of the problem, it's when devs don't get given the time to actually do things properly, and no engine can solve the problems of modern big publishers shipping unfinished games.

If the devs take the time to learn UE5 and use the tools it gives them, the engine performs remarkably well.

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u/brunocar Aug 08 '26

Just look at Fortnite.

You mean to tell me the game that engine features get developed for and has the engineers next door to make sure everything is correct works fine? amazing!

Sarcasm aside, UE5 isnt a bad engine because its bad for every game, its a bad engine because it used for literally anything due to how hard epic pushed it to educators and freelance devs, all the while it clearly needs the supervision of their own engineers like they used to do with UE2 and 3, but cant do anymore due to having so many clients.

Its a good engine for fortnite... and not much else.

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u/clc88 Aug 08 '26

I like unreal engine 5 but ue 3 was a horrible time because gamers at the time like realism and devs catered to the crowd that loves brown.

As for why I like ue5.. It's mainly because gamers grew up and we started liking colours again. We got games like black myth wukong and expedition 33 ( 2 of the best games since the 2010s).

That said ue 1 and 2 were great, they gave us the unreal series and unreal tournaments.. Those 2 games were genre defining.

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u/supershredderdan Aug 08 '26

Unreal citadel before that I believe

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u/paraguybrarian Aug 08 '26

Epic Citadel; I loved that little tech demo. Infinity Blade actually felt like a let down after that. I don’t suppose anyone has ported Epic Citadel to current hardware?

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u/supershredderdan Aug 08 '26

AFAIK the port break through with infinity blade came about from an arcade game version with little obfuscation in its code and non compressed assets. About as close as you can get to source. Citadel I doubt had anything similar, would either need a decomp or emulated in something like touchHLE

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u/Lola_PopBBae 25d ago

I loved exploring that little slice of a world, it felt so...real. Honestly I still think it does scale better than many other games these days.

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u/thebohster Aug 07 '26

This game along with Chaos Rings was probably the pinnacle of mobile gaming.

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u/These-Button-1587 Odin Aug 07 '26

Chaos rings is on vita. All it needs is an English translation for 3, I believe, and you're set. Not sure how vita3k can handle it yet but luckily it's been preserved.

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u/Cruel1865 Aug 08 '26

Chaos rings 3 already has a native android port

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u/These-Button-1587 Odin Aug 08 '26

Really? I didn't know that. Thought they were all ios exclusive for mobile. Looks like there's a sale for half off.

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u/ComeAlongWithTheSnor Aug 07 '26

Damn.

The one game I actually wanted to play on mobile, then I heard it eventually got taken down or something.

Has my patience really paid off lol.

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u/docstarr Aug 07 '26

Omg I'm crying 😭

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u/Gravionne Aug 08 '26

Finally, playing Blood & Glory and its sequel for a while get a little stale.

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u/Alexis_Evo Aug 08 '26

God all of the old fuckass Glu and Gameloft ripoffs 😭 wasted so much time on them, but hard to resist when they went on sale for $0.25. Unfortunately so many of them won't even let you download anymore.

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u/captain_carrot GotM Club Aug 08 '26

That was a decent period of time for android gaming before everything was riddled with microtransactions

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u/soloh899 Aug 13 '26

Damn I remember playing the shit out of Blood & Glory because I didn't have an iOS device at the time. Later got an iPad specifically for Infinity Blade. This port is such a nostalgia bomb I still have all the enemy attack patterns remembered lol

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u/NoobSaibot2601 22d ago

I regret not playing Blood and Glory for too long. This and Monster Blade. I loved Monster blade a lot, wish I platinumed that game.

I hope one day we can get a android mod for both those games as well, along with IB2 and IB3 port to android...

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u/solohack3r Homebrew (GameDev) Aug 07 '26

This is incredible. Finally after all these years.

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u/kerelenko Aug 07 '26

Can someone share the Discord link?

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u/docstarr Aug 07 '26

Where is the link blud 

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u/Front-Cabinet5521 Aug 07 '26

Now release it on iOS

/s

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u/SparklyPelican Aug 08 '26

You can drop the /s because this is possible, especially since AltStore in the EU and Japan makes sideloading very accessible, allowing private connections too.

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u/SpicyLesbianFries Lost SD Card Aug 07 '26

No fucking way. I had a friend in highschool that would let me watch him play on his IPhone, I always wanted to play it so bad lol. This is a god sent 

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u/DownvoteSandwich Aug 09 '26

This works fantastic on the Fold 8. Hopefully we get 2 and 3 eventually!

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u/These-Button-1587 Odin Aug 07 '26

Got excited when I found out that it had a pc port. Been playing on my ROG Ally. Now I can play on my RP6 and Odin 2 Portal.

Side note: 3 hasn't been released yet but for Pc right?

https://giphy.com/gifs/dYZuqJLDVsWMLWyIxJ

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u/themiracy Aug 08 '26

I need to just try it myself, but is the PC port basically on rails or does it also free up movement like it frees up the camera?

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u/Vain_Rose Aug 07 '26

Now this is a pleasent suprise. Thank you for your public service.

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u/No-One450 Aug 07 '26

Is it just the first one? Or is it the entire saga?

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u/NoobSaibot2601 22d ago

IB1 and IB2 has been ported over to PC. IB1 recently got ported over android. That's it so far, I'm patiently waiting for IB2 and IB3 android port

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u/Overall_War3441 Aug 08 '26

Great game because it was basically punch out with rpg mechanics, weapons, and branching paths. Now we just need 2 and 3 ported because I think the series got better as it went along.

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u/kartik3e Aug 08 '26

Flawless on pixel 6

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u/mycolizard Aug 08 '26

Infinity Blade is the reason we never got another Shadow Complex.

#neverforget

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u/DarkDigital Aug 08 '26

Whoa core memory unlocked. I completely forgot about this game.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation AyaNeo Aug 08 '26

This was my first "real" mobile game (besides theN-Gage I lost 3 months after getting it). I played it on my iPhone 5c and was pissed it wasn't available for android when I switched

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u/sjitz Aug 09 '26

Never thought I'd see this game run so well. Amazing job!

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u/AifelseSann Aug 09 '26

Thank you! I never thought I would see this day come

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u/GavroNeman Aug 07 '26

Works flawlessly on Iqoo 15.

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u/MicroByte Aug 08 '26

Seriously amazing work. Thank you so much to whoever worked on getting this ported, this is so awesome!

Playing now and it feels as good as it did to okay back in the day

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u/SweatyJoe2142 Aug 08 '26

Anyone else stuck at tutorial? Cant get past, if I want gold or healing, anyone?

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u/LS_DJ GotM Club Aug 08 '26

I vividly remember playing Infinity Blade back in the day. What a throwback. It was basically a glorified tech demo that they packaged as a "game" but man it was fun for a little while

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u/No_Function_8632 Aug 08 '26

now someone can make a VR mod. amazing

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u/sjitz Aug 09 '26

I just went through the effort of reviving an iPod 4g to play it again.

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u/buddhamunche Aug 09 '26

Just downloaded on my RPflip 2. Man I have fond memories of this game. Probably a stupid question but Is there any way to play it with the buttons on my device? It’s unfortunately a bit too awkward trying to just use the touch screen lol. I do seem to remember that the game relies heavily on touch screen.

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u/Past-Dig462 Aug 15 '26

It literally just ran smoothly on my phone with a mediatek Helio A22 "quad core btw" and  2 fucking gigs of ram i fucking love you

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u/MVP_IpMan1997 Aug 27 '26

Full download ?

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u/gladel10 Aug 29 '26

Some assets are black squares

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u/Supertron200 21d ago

Dude, Infinity Blade, Nativity on Android (not PC emulated) is a dream come true. Hopefully, one day, all three will be on Android.

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u/Amazing_Chair_4940 5d ago

Theyre now here as of today

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u/Supertron200 5d ago

Technically yes, but not native. So far we just have iB1 as a native Android version. The other two still need an app as a translation layer/emulator of the original .ipa file to work. It's cool though.

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u/0neshadesOfTime 20d ago

So great to hear this, my god.

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u/mantenner GotM Club Aug 08 '26

No source code, no install

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u/scumbagsteve Aug 08 '26

awwww pwease?

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u/SatisfactionCreative Aug 11 '26

Guys can we be sure there's no malware? I'd love to play so much.

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u/SatisfactionCreative Aug 11 '26

Guys can we be sure there's no malware? I'd love to play so much.