Comparison

Dungeon Pets vs Midgaard by SmartMonsters

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

Head to head
About

Dungeon Pets

Explore infinite dungeons with your trained digital pets, battling monsters to reclaim stolen eggs. Discover over 60 magical creatures and their unique forms in this roguelike RPG. Compete on leaderboards and trade pets with friends.

Highlights
  • Discover 60+ Dunpet kinds and 200+ forms
  • Train and care for creatures
  • Explore unique roguelike dungeons
  • Engage in challenging RPG battles
  • Compete on Game Center leaderboards
  • Trade Dunpets with friends
  • Nostalgic pixelated interface
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Get ready to explore infinity dungeons with your favorite digital pets. Take care and train your Dunpets to fight against terrible monsters that have stolen their eggs and discover more than 60 kinds of this magical creatures. Features - Discover more than 60 Dunpet kinds. Over 200 creature forms! - Take care of your creatures and train everyday to make them stronger. - Complete the adventure mode and discover lots of secrets. - Compete in Game Center leaderboards and get 64 achievements. - Exchange Dunpets with you friends. - Explore unique dungeons everyday: Dungeon Pets is a powerful roguelike game! - Fight monsters in RPG battles: fast but challenging. - Customize your game user interface and extend your refuge to take care of more Dunpets. - Revive the nostalgia of digital pet devices with pixelated screen in black and white. - Available in English and Spanish.

About

Midgaard by SmartMonsters

Experience a retro text-based MUD adventure with a focus on community and accessibility. Explore a magical world, manage your character, and interact with thousands of players globally in a friendly, blind-friendly environment.

Highlights
  • Retro text-based MUD emulation
  • Graphical character state displays
  • In-app game and account functions
  • Blind-friendly accessibility
  • Friendly and inclusive community
  • Cross-world character movement
Features
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Swords! Dragons! Castles! Magical fireballs! Inns with ale! Retro gaming at its most retro! Midgaard is our homage to the text MUDs of decades past. Running on the TriadCity platform, it's an emulation of the classic DikuMUD adventure tradition circa 1994. Midgaard is a labor of love for us. It's where many of us first encountered MUDs and were astonished by their engrossing play and extraordinary potential. It's full of clever ideas, many of which became standards as the tradition evolved. Most importantly, it's fun! It's completely FREE to play, is blind-friendly, and has more women players than men. Best of all, it's friendly! For twenty years SmartMonsters has been free of the flame wars, misogyny, and mean-spiritedness prominent in some other environments. Even our bulletin boards are safe! Visit us today - we can't wait to meet you! As a member of the SmartMonsters universe, Midgaard is one linked World among others. Your characters can move freely between Midgaard, TriadCity, Dungeon, and future Worlds all with quite different "laws of physics". Meet you there! * Simple, straightforward graphical interface with minimal controls. * All major game and account functions available in-app, without having to exit to the Web site. * Graphical displays of character state: health, energy, attributes, skills, etc. * Manage chat channels, natural language parsing, and other features. * Character maintenance: health, energy, experience, Skills. * Store login creds in the Keychain; share them among devices via iCloud. * Access the Players' Guide, FAQ, Message of the Day and other website resources directly within the app. * Create new characters. * Fully mobile: works happily over WiFi or cellular data. * Blind-friendly: thoroughly tested with Voice Over by volunteers from audiogames.net and elsewhere. * Female-friendly: we've had more women players than men for over 20 years. * Very friendly community - apparently all the mean people go to WoW 'cos we have none; even our bulletin-boards are safe! * Thousands of players from all over the world.

Screenshots

Dungeon Pets4 screens
Midgaard by SmartMonsters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dungeon Pets at 100% against Midgaard by SmartMonsters's 0%. Dungeon Pets also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.6). Midgaard by SmartMonsters's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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. Dungeon Pets sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Midgaard by SmartMonsters asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dungeon Pets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Dungeon Pets's written reviews are positive against 0% of Midgaard by SmartMonsters's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dungeon Pets ships an update every 2 months, Midgaard by SmartMonsters every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dungeon Pets versus Midgaard by SmartMonsters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDungeon PetsMidgaard by SmartMonsters
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB5 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperCristobal MataSmartMonsters, Inc.

Customer experience

Dungeon Pets

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Midgaard by SmartMonsters

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Dungeon Pets

One-time10
  • Gigasea Egg$0.99
  • Lucegno Egg$0.99
  • Marmorti Egg$0.99
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  • Nebulo Egg$0.99
  • Nonamet Egg$0.99
  • Paradise Pass$0.99
  • Protection Star$0.99
  • Random Eggs (x3)$0.99
  • Rescuer Kit$2.99
  • Salvation Card$2.99
None

Midgaard by SmartMonsters

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dungeon Pets free?
Dungeon Pets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Midgaard by SmartMonsters free?
Midgaard by SmartMonsters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dungeon Pets or Midgaard by SmartMonsters?
Dungeon Pets is rated higher. Dungeon Pets averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Midgaard by SmartMonsters averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Dungeon Pets or Midgaard by SmartMonsters have ads?
Neither Dungeon Pets nor Midgaard by SmartMonsters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dungeon Pets or Midgaard by SmartMonsters?
Dungeon Pets ships an update every 2 months, and Midgaard by SmartMonsters every 3 weeks. Most recently, Dungeon Pets was updated on October 4, 2026 and Midgaard by SmartMonsters on October 9, 2026.

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