Dancing with Demons vs Diabolical
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dancing with Demons
Embrace your dark desires as a succubus or incubus in this interactive story. Save the world from doom, explore dangerous locations, and forge relationships. Your choices shape the narrative and its outcome.
- Play as succubus/incubus
- Interactive narrative
- World-saving storyline
- Relationship choices
- Exploration of new worlds
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Follow your demonic heart and its dark wishes! Play as a contemporary succubus (or incubus) and have fun while saving the world from its doom. Participate in an invasion of a parallel world. Discover the dangers of an abandoned lab. Win the affection of your chosen, or have a one-night affair. It is all up to you.
Diabolical
Become the ultimate criminal mastermind in this text-based interactive novel. Make choices to build an evil empire, hire minions, and achieve world domination, or destruction. Explore different villain archetypes and romance options.
- Choose your villainous path
- Hire and manage minions
- Make impactful story choices
- Develop your evil empire
- Explore romance options
- Achieve world domination or destruction
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Start practicing your evil laugh! As the world's greatest criminal mastermind, choose a lair, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.) "Diabolical" is a 130,000-word interactive novel by Nick Aires, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Famous, feared, or filthy rich—why not all three? You've got the money and the motives to build an evil empire worthy of the most ruthless villain the world has ever seen. Crush the good guys and terrorize the populace! Stamp a big red "FAIL" on your enemies' foreheads! Plunder your way to world domination – or sit back and pet your kitty while your henchmen do it for you. Will you be a high-tech daredevil, a ruthless military soldier, or an apparition terrifying to behold? What calling card will you leave at the scene of your crimes? Whatever your choices, the results will be diabolical. • Play a villainous story of scheming, grandstanding, and laughing evilly. • Interview and hire the best possible (or best available) minion. • Decide when to use trickery, when to use force, and when to hide behind henchmen. • Choose the ultimate, guaranteed-to-be-infamous nickname. • Play as male or female, with straight, gay, and bisexual romance options. • Destroy the world!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Diabolical at 77% against Dancing with Demons's 27%. Diabolical also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.1 vs 3.3). Dancing with Demons's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Diabolical is free to download; Dancing with Demons costs $2.99 up front. Diabolical sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dancing with Demons asks for nothing beyond the download.
Diabolical holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 45 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Dancing with Demons's written reviews are positive against 77% of Diabolical's.
Dancing with Demons ships an update every 10 months, Diabolical every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dancing with Demons | Diabolical |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (16 ratings) | 4.1 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.3% of reviews | 77.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Choice of Games LLC |
Customer experience
Dancing with Demons
Diabolical
Bugs and requests
Dancing with Demons
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Diabolical
Reported bugs
1 issue- Bug fix???
Requested features
14 requests- Sequel needed
- More like this game
- Werewolf story
- More choices that affect story
- Choice of alien game
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- More vs hero interaction
- Longer battles
- More villain POV things
- Improved sequel
- More customization (lairs, sidekicks, stats)
- More interactive than other gamebooks
- More improvements to character development
- More content like this
- More interactive releases
In-app purchases
Dancing with Demons
No in-app purchases
Diabolical
- Chapters 3 through 12$4.99
Questions
Is Dancing with Demons free?
Is Diabolical free?
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