Tomb Busters

Tomb Busters Review: Lethal Company for Phones, With a Bill for Dying

Four Busters, One Cursed Ruin, Extract or Lose Everything

The loop is the extraction genre's: drop in solo or as a squad of up to four employees of the Supernatural Company, loot relics from an ancient Eastern ruin, and leave before the monsters or the traps finish you — go deeper for rarer relics, push too far and the run is lost. Roles are Explorer, Supporter and Fighter, tools split into exploration, attack and support items, and proximity voice chat is built in. The monsters are the hook: more than 20 creatures from folklore with their own origin, skill and weakness — a Ghost Bride who hunts one player and is visible only to that player, a Puppet that copies a teammate's voice, the Queen of Jingjue — and some can be captured alive. Giant Games says the Chinese release reached 200 million downloads and 10 million daily players before the May 27, 2026 Western launch; the US Play listing shows 100,000 installs and 1,890 reviews at 4.4, with 945 App Store ratings at 4.6.

Cross-Play With PC, 100-Hour Players, and Lobbies That Stay Empty

The mobile build is the same game as the PC version with full cross-play, which matters because the genre lives on population. The early reviews split on exactly that. A June 22, 2026 Play review with 16 helpful votes reports more than 100 hours and calls the high-rank dungeons impossible to clear alone — the loot does not cover a solo extraction — which is the intended pressure toward a squad. A September 15 review makes the opposite complaint: with random matchmaking almost nobody joins, so the reviewer plays only with known friends, and the levels are too hard for that. Giant Games replied the next day that death costs, pet usefulness and matchmaking are all under review. A May 27 launch-day review with five stars still hit a progression bug at level 16 of the season track. Version 1.32.27 arrived on September 16, 2026; the player count is the open question.

Aurion to $49.99, Mystic Boxes, a VIP Tier and Gear That Dies With You

Money enters at death. Gear lost on a failed run has to be bought back, and the September 2026 review calls that pricey; Google Play prices items from $0.99 to $99.99, and the App Store ladder shows Aurion currency from 60 for $0.99 to 3,330 for $49.99, a Deluxe Mystic Box at $11.99, an Exalted Mystic Box at $21.99 and a Luxury VIP tier at $9.99 — Apple flags Loot Boxes, and the boxes are the loot boxes. The same reviewer bought a pet with real money and found it useless against monsters, a complaint the studio acknowledged. Neither store shows an advertising badge. Google's data-safety card lists Location, Personal info and two other types collected; Apple's tracking list adds User Content and Identifiers. Rated Teen on Play and 13+ by Apple, in 12 languages, with iOS 13 and Android 9 as generous floors and 1 GB on iPhone. Prices are regional and the Mystic Box contents rotate.