Comparison

Dancing with Demons vs Diabolical

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Play as succubus/incubus
  • Interactive narrative
  • World-saving storyline
  • Relationship choices
  • Exploration of new worlds
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Choose your villainous path
  • Hire and manage minions
  • Make impactful story choices
  • Develop your evil empire
  • Explore romance options
  • Achieve world domination or destruction
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Dancing with Demons4 screens
Diabolical4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dancing with Demons versus Diabolical: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDancing with DemonsDiabolical
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (16 ratings)4.1 (45 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.3% of reviews77.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1645 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 months — betterEvery 13 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB30 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCChoice of Games LLC

Customer experience

Dancing with Demons

All ratings16 ratings
Positive56.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative72.7%

Diabolical

All ratings45 ratings
Positive75.6%
Neutral6.7%
Negative17.8%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive77.0%
Neutral6.6%
Negative16.4%

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
Show 9 more
  • 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

None

Dancing with Demons

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Diabolical

One-time1
  • Chapters 3 through 12$4.99

Questions

Is Dancing with Demons free?
Dancing with Demons costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diabolical free?
Diabolical is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dancing with Demons or Diabolical?
Diabolical is rated higher. Dancing with Demons averages 3.3 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Diabolical averages 4.1 from 45 ratings.
Do Dancing with Demons or Diabolical have ads?
Both Dancing with Demons and Diabolical show ads.
Which is updated more often, Dancing with Demons or Diabolical?
Dancing with Demons ships an update every 10 months, and Diabolical every 13 months. Most recently, Dancing with Demons was updated on October 24, 2026 and Diabolical on October 22, 2026.

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