Comparison

Mage Mania vs Wordactle

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

Head to head
About

Mage Mania

Embark on a dungeon-crawling adventure where you collect elements to cast spells and battle monsters. Explore a world filled with dragons, collect powerful equipment, and utilize over 20 unique spells in this 8-bit styled game.

Highlights
  • 8-bit style graphics
  • Tap and clear gameplay
  • 20 unique spells
  • Over 200 equipment items
  • More than 100 monsters to battle
Features
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Dragons ruled the world once. Now they are sleeping in the dungeon with endless wealth and waiting for the adventurer's challenge. Grab your staff and dive into the dungeon. And use your spells to fight the monsters and dragons. The rule is simple. Collect elements by tapping and casting spells for attack. An interesting adventure is waiting for you. FEATURES • 8-bit style • Tap and clear, simple and straight. • 20 spells. • More than 200 equipment. • More than 100 monsters.

About

Wordactle

A word puzzle game where you decipher a secret five-letter word using other five-letter words as clues. Offers unlimited puzzles with varying difficulty and daily challenges, playable offline.

Highlights
  • Secret word guessing
  • Clue-based word puzzles
  • Unlimited puzzles
  • Daily challenges
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Offline play
Features
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Wordactle is a challenging word game that combines logic and vocabulary skills. Test your wit by finding a secret five-letter word using a series of clues. Each clue is another five-letter word that might share some, none, or all of the letters from the secret word. If you love word puzzles, you will love Wordactle. This app offers unlimited access to Wordactle puzzles on your device, with various levels of difficulty. You also get four fresh Wordactle puzzles every day, from easy to expert, that you can print and solve offline. To use this app, you don't need online access to play on your device, but you will need Internet access to retrieve your daily Wordactle puzzles, as well as a printer to print them out. Unlike other puzzle or game apps out there, the Wordactle app does not have any advertising, subscription fees, in-app purchases, or tracking. In other words, you can use this app every day with no surprises or extra costs. Think you can decipher the clues and uncover the secret word? Put your word skills to the test! Download the app and play Wordactle today!

Screenshots

Mage Mania4 screens
Wordactle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mage Mania at Free against Wordactle's $0.99. Mage Mania also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (100 vs 2). Wordactle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Mage Mania is free to download; Wordactle costs $0.99 up front. Mage Mania sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Wordactle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mage Mania holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mage Mania has 100 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mage Mania versus Wordactle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMage ManiaWordactle
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.2 (100 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews81.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings100 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB1 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJampot Software co., ltdH Valeur

Customer experience

Mage Mania

All ratings97 ratings
Positive75.3%
Neutral15.5%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive81.7%
Neutral8.5%
Negative9.8%

Wordactle

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Mage Mania

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Translations are funny/need fixing
  • App stops podcast/music playback
  • Ads never give reward
  • Tutorial starts without equipping spells
  • Thrown weapons listed for zero gold in shop
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  • Game not playable offline

Requested features

6 requests
  • Fix translations
  • Allow offline play
  • More characters to use
  • Build chains diagonally
  • Choose number of pieces in a chain
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  • More content/updates

Wordactle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Mage Mania

One-time6
  • 1000 Coins$0.99
  • Double Experience$0.99
  • Double Earning$0.99
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  • 2200 Coins$1.99
  • 5500 Coins$4.99
  • 12000 Coins$9.99
None

Wordactle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mage Mania free?
Mage Mania is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wordactle free?
Wordactle costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mage Mania or Wordactle?
Mage Mania is rated higher. Mage Mania averages 4.2 out of 5 from 100 ratings, while Wordactle averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Mage Mania or Wordactle have ads?
Mage Mania shows ads; Wordactle does not.

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