Comparison

Cold Crash vs Help Me

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

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About

Cold Crash

Guide a plane crash survivor through a treacherous mountain blizzard in real-time. Make critical decisions via a chat interface to help her find resources and reach safety. Your choices determine her fate and the story's outcome.

Highlights
  • Real-time chat interface
  • Branching narrative with multiple endings
  • Survival and adventure gameplay
  • Over 200 pages of text
  • Decision-based story progression
  • Real-time storytelling mode
Features
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4,000 meters above sea level. The last survivor of a plane crash. It's -20 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit), and Anna has only the uniform of a flight attendant - and an old transceiver. The storm of the century is coming. Can you save Anna? Cold Crash is a survival game that takes you on a hellish ride through the Alps. Keep in touch with Anna in real time like in a chat app and bring her safely down to the valley. Take on the role of the experienced but aged mountain rescuer Marcus in this adventure. Anna's time is running out. She was the only one to survive the crash of the small private plane. But she lacks warm clothing, equipment and mountain experience. Huts and hotels are nailed up, ski lifts have stopped, tourists and even the Alpine Mountain Rescue are hiding in the valley in front of the Blizzard of the century. How much time does Anna have left to search the plane wreckage for anything she might still need? How can she survive this adventure - and maybe even find out why the plane crashed at all? Was it an accident or sabotage? Anna has no choice but to rely on what Marcus can convey to her through the old transmitter- - and somehow get through to the valley before all hell breaks loose... Cold Crash - the interactive novel in the style of a survival game. • Over 200 pages of text • You decide how Anna’s story ends • Grown-up dialogue for grown-up readers: Marcus is the last Mountain Rescuer online. Experience Anna's story as a real conversation between two people. A woman and a man, both under a lot of pressure and doing a lot right, but also a lot wrong, depending on how the player decides. • Eight different ends - can you achieve a happy ending? And if so, which one? • Real-time storytelling: Cold Crash takes place in real time. Anna won't get in touch with you all the time. She may even won't let you hear from her for minutes or hours. Like the story's really happening right now. • Easy to learn - just a tap of the finger is all it takes to help Anna • Easy to use - You have reached a dead end? No problem, just scroll back and choose another answer, anytime! • Difficult to master - on Anna's way many dangers lurk, for inexperienced ones without equipment and appropriate clothes the mountains hold many dangers ready, completely particularly in the blizzard... • Don't want to wait? Turn off the real-time mode and play Cold Crash on a (long) afternoon. • Make another decision? You can always just jump back and go another way. • Survival and adventure - real actions, real decisions, real consequences. Cold Crash remembers which objects Anna finds on her way, which decisions she makes and which opportunities she rejects... • The story adapts to your decisions

About

Help Me

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Help Me: Chat Thriller is an interactive story told entirely through messages. Late at night you receive a text from a young woman called Agatha. She’s stuck in an isolated place with strict rules and no freedom — and she somehow manages to contact you in secret. She insists that something is very wrong, that people around her are hiding the truth and that she can’t trust anyone on the inside. You are the only person who answers. Your words matter. Sometimes you calm her down, sometimes you push her to act. Sometimes your advice leads to new clues… or to new dangers. What’s inside • Immersive chat interface — as if you’re texting a real person in real time • Psychological thriller atmosphere without cheap jumpscares • Choices that change Agatha’s state of mind and the direction of the story • Different outcomes depending on whether you trust her — and whether she learns to trust you • Short pauses between messages that keep the feeling of a living conversation You don’t know who is lying and who is telling the truth. Agatha, the people around her, the messages you receive — everyone has something to hide. Type carefully. Every answer can bring you closer to the mystery… or push Agatha closer to danger.

Screenshots

Cold Crash4 screens
Help Me4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Help Me at none against Cold Crash's 1. Cold Crash's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 14.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Cold Crash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Help Me asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cold Crash versus Help Me: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCold CrashHelp Me
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.3 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB108 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJoachim MertensNadiia Aksonova

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cold Crash

One-time1
  • Teil 2$0.99
None

Help Me

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cold Crash free?
Cold Crash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Help Me free?
Help Me is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cold Crash or Help Me have ads?
Neither Cold Crash nor Help Me shows ads.

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