Comparison

Fallen Sword vs ShinyPokes

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

Head to head
About

Fallen Sword

Embark on an epic retro RPG adventure in a vast fantasy world. Battle monsters, master combat skills, forge powerful gear, and trade with other players. Join guilds and participate in community events for a truly immersive experience.

Highlights
  • Vast fantasy world exploration
  • Fast-paced combat and leveling
  • Deep crafting and trading systems
  • Guild system for social play
  • Regular community events
  • Cross-platform play
Features
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A LEGACY COMES TO THE APP STORE The classic web-based Fallen Sword is now mobile! Dive into fifteen years of history and join thousands of adventurers in the retro RPG world of Erildath. Whether you’re a veteran fan, a returning adventurer, or a new player with a taste for old-school fantasy, the vast realms of Fallen Sword are now available at your fingertips! ENDLESS ADVENTURE Battle through a massive and ever-expanding world! From snowy peaks to treacherous swamps, from fae-touched forests to volcanic plains, you’ll discover thousands of characters, quests, and monsters as you embark on your very own hero’s journey. SLICE & DICE WITH FAST PACED COMBAT Monstrous creatures bar your way at every turn! Level up your character, collect ever more powerful equipment with which to arm yourself, and develop new skills and abilities to enhance your strategy. Learn to duel and hunt other players in exciting PvP challenges! BECOME A MASTER OF TRADE Maybe you are a master blacksmith forging powerful gear from recipes, or a skilled alchemist turning magical fragments into potions that grant special buffs. Maybe you are just a dedicated hunter with a knack for finding rare items! Between a bustling auction house, multiple trading features, and a buff market for casting your own skills on other players, you are bound to find a channel for sharing your skills and earning gold! JOIN A GUILD Adventures are best when shared! With hundreds of thriving guilds, you’ll have no trouble finding or creating a team of like-minded adventurers to aid each other in growing stronger. Join forces with your friends to defeat powerful guild-only enemies, earn and trade gear, build and defend mighty structures, and compete against other players in Guild vs Guild events! REGULAR COMMUNITY EVENTS Rally for battle as Legendary Creatures appear for weekend-long events! Muster your Guild to bring the fight to monstrous Titans, who stride across the Realms! Fend off global invasions with the entire community to earn powerful rewards! PLAY YOUR WAY No need to create a new account! Simply sign in on the app to pick up exactly where you left off in your current Fallen Sword game. Then switch seamlessly between your browser and mobile devices for an effortless cross-platform experience. Game Features: - Thousands of levels worth of content, realms and creatures. - Hundreds of skills and abilities for your character. - Thousands of items and quests to collect. - Trading and auction systems. - Stay social with chat, messaging, friends lists and more! - Variety of exciting community events. - Regular updates and improvements. - An active and dynamic community of thousands of other players.

About

ShinyPokes

Track your shiny Pokémon hunts, manage your collection, and view in-game locations. Features include encounter counters, timers, and a Shiny Dex. Connect with a community of fellow hunters.

Highlights
  • Shiny hunt counter
  • Encounter timers
  • Shiny Dex and collection management
  • In-game location data
  • Multi-hunt support
  • Community feed and chat
Features
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ShinyPokes is an unofficial fan made tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or associated with Nintendo, Game Freak or The Pokemon Company. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are their trademarks. The app contains no assets from any Pokemon game. ShinyPokes is a shiny hunting tracker. It counts your encounters, keeps your timers honest, logs every shiny you find and gives you one place to look back on all of them. Free, no ads, made by one person who hunts shinies too. WHAT IT DOES Hunt counter. Pick the Pokemon, the game and the method, and the app checks the combination is actually possible before you start. Count with a tap, watch the timer, and see your odds update as you go. Run up to four hunts at once in multi hunt. Put a hunt on hold and pick it up later. Shiny found. When it happens, log the catch with the ball, the gender, marks and a nickname. The hunt moves to your collection and your Shiny Dex fills in. Collection. Every shiny you have caught, with the game, the encounters and the time it took. Edit them, log past catches you found before the app, import a list, and share a card for each one. Shiny Dex. All 1025 Pokemon, with the ones you own lit up. Dex and Living Dex views. Locations. Where a Pokemon shows up in each game, and where the items are. Gen 1 shiny check. Enter the stats from a Generation 1 catch and see whether it will be shiny when it comes forward. Hunter levels. Encounters give a little XP, shinies give a lot. Your level shows as a border around your avatar. Turn it off if you would rather not. Community. A feed of recent finds, live hunts happening right now, leaderboards, community stats and a chat with channels for hunting, trades and showing off. Community events like the Bank Run, where you fill a bingo card of shinies before the old transfer service closes. Notifications. A mention in chat or a reply to your message reaches your phone. Same account everywhere. Sign in with Apple, Google, Discord or an emailed link. Everything you track in the app is on shinypokes.com too, and the other way round.

Screenshots

Fallen Sword4 screens
ShinyPokes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ShinyPokes at 100% against Fallen Sword's 48%. ShinyPokes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). Fallen Sword's advantage is ratings volume (72 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

Both are free to download. Fallen Sword sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. ShinyPokes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShinyPokes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fallen Sword has 72 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Fallen Sword's written reviews are positive against 100% of ShinyPokes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fallen Sword ships an update monthly, ShinyPokes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Fallen Sword versus ShinyPokes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFallen SwordShinyPokes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (72 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings72 — better4
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size154 MB12 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperHunted Cow Studios Ltd.Trevor Buchanan

Customer experience

Fallen Sword

All ratings72 ratings
Positive70.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive48.5%
Neutral15.2%
Negative36.4%

ShinyPokes

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Fallen Sword

One-time5
  • Fallen Sword Bundle$4.99
  • Fallen Sword Bundle$9.99
  • Fallen Sword Bundle$19.99
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  • Fallen Sword Bundle$39.99
  • Fallen Sword Bundle$59.99
None

ShinyPokes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fallen Sword free?
Fallen Sword is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShinyPokes free?
ShinyPokes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fallen Sword or ShinyPokes?
ShinyPokes is rated higher. Fallen Sword averages 3.9 out of 5 from 72 ratings, while ShinyPokes averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Fallen Sword or ShinyPokes have ads?
Fallen Sword shows ads; ShinyPokes does not.
Which is updated more often, Fallen Sword or ShinyPokes?
Fallen Sword ships an update monthly, and ShinyPokes every 2 days. Most recently, Fallen Sword was updated on October 6, 2026 and ShinyPokes on October 8, 2026.

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