Roguelike deckbuilder Phantom Rose 2 Sapphire (Free) is now available on mobile (via Gematsu). Phantom Rose 2 Sapphire debuted on Steam last year, and I enjoyed my time with it a lot on Steam Deck. I even featured it in our Steam Deck genre awards as the best deckbuilder of 2023. Phantom Rose 2 Sapphire is a project by developer and artist makaroll, and it was published on PC by Playism while the mobile version is self published as a free to play game. Your aim here is to defeat phantoms with no random card draws during battle. You deal with card cooldowns instead to strategize on the go. Watch the Phantom Rose 2 Sapphire mobile trailer below:

Phantom Rose 2 Sapphire is priced at $19.99 on Steam. The mobile version is free to play, but the in app purchases aren’t what you’d expect in an actual free to play deckbuilder. I’ll be digging into this tonight to see how it compares to the PC version. Right now, it is free with ads, but you can remove ads and get a boost with a supporters pack priced at $4.99. There are also additional skin packs available. The Sapphire Pack brings more content as well. Just looking at the in app purchases in-game, it seems like this mobile version aside from skins gets you the full experience for under $9.99, but I need to play more to see if that’s the case. If you’d like to try Phantom Rose 2 Sapphire on mobile, you can get it on the App Store for iOS here and on Google Play for Android here. When I played it on Steam Deck, it felt like it would be better on iOS, and I’m glad to see the port here. Have you played Phantom Rose 2 Sapphire before and will you be checking it out on mobile today?