A Firelit Room vs Progress Knight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A Firelit Room
An experimental game where players must discover mechanics and objectives through exploration and experimentation. Build a village, make choices, and explore diverse environments without any guidance.
- Discover gameplay mechanics
- Build a village
- Make important decisions
- Explore the world
- Fly into space
- No ads or in-app purchases
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The less you know about this game before you play it, the better. If you don't want to spoil the fun, stop reading this and just download the game. There are no instructions so you will have to figure everything out on your own. I'll give you only two UI-related hints — hold ⓘ button and swipe on the buttons with arrows. Some stuff that is waiting for you: • Build a huge village • Make important decisions • Explore the world • Fly into space • No ads or in-app purchases This game is based on an award-wining browser-based text RPG "A Dark Room" by Michael Townsend.
Progress Knight
Embark on a fantasy life-simulation where you progress through careers, gain skills, and manage expenses. Choose your path from commoner to military or magic, and eventually prestige for faster progression in subsequent lives.
- Fantasy medieval life simulation
- Career progression
- Skill acquisition
- Expense management
- Multiple career paths (commoner, military, magic)
- Prestige system for multipliers
- Idle gameplay
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Progress Knight is a life-sim incremental based in a fantasy/medieval setting, where you must progress through the career ladder and acquire new skills to become the ultimate being. You first start off as a beggar, barely being able to feed yourself as the days go by. However, over the years you learn new skills and gain plenty of work experience to enter new high paying jobs while managing your living expenses... Will you decide to take the easy route of doing simple commoner work? Or will you go through harsh training to climb the ranks within the military? Or maybe will you decide to study hard and enrol in a magic academy, learning life-impacting spells? Your career path is open-ended, the decision is up to you. Eventually, your age will catch up to you. You will be given an option to prestige and gain xp multipliers (based on the performance of your current life) for your next life at the cost of losing all your levels and assets. Fear not though, as you will re-gain your levels much, much more quickly than in your previous life...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Progress Knight at Free against A Firelit Room's $0.99. Progress Knight also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (257 vs 7). A Firelit Room's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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
Progress Knight is free to download; A Firelit Room costs $0.99 up front. Progress Knight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. A Firelit Room asks for nothing beyond the download.
Progress Knight holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Progress Knight has 257 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of A Firelit Room's written reviews are positive against 72% of Progress Knight's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | A Firelit Room | Progress Knight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (7 ratings) | 4.4 (257 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.4% of reviews | 72.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 257 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Denis Tokarev | Noe LE PHILIPPE |
Customer experience
A Firelit Room
Progress Knight
Bugs and requests
A Firelit Room
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Progress Knight
Reported bugs
4 issues- Progress and data loss issues
- Skill level resets after transcendence
- Autopause not working as expected
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More content and updates
- Auto-purchase feature for the store
- Offline progress tracking
- Improved autopause functionality
In-app purchases
A Firelit Room
No in-app purchases
Progress Knight
- Remove the ads$2.99
Questions
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