Comparison

Wizard Swipe vs Dash Heroes

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

Head to head
About

Wizard Swipe

Engage in a magical castle defense by flinging elemental fireballs at incoming skeletons. Master five elements and unlock powerful abilities through an extensive talent tree. Enjoy endless, procedurally generated levels with increasing challenges and boss encounters.

Highlights
  • Swipe to fling fireballs
  • Hold for powerful blast
  • Enormous talent tree
  • Five elemental magic types
  • Procedurally generated levels
  • Boss levels with unique tactics
  • Objective completion for rewards
Features
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Do you love Fire and Balls and want to relax a bit? Then play Wizard Swipe and throw Fireballs at skeletons! Features: • Simple control! Fling fireballs by swiping, or hold them to get a powerful blast! • Enormous talent tree! Become a master of all five elements: fire, ice, air, acid and lightning! • You won’t get bored! The levels are generated from scratch every time! • Unlimited amount of levels! You get bigger rewards and stronger monsters the further you progress! • Do you want to show your skill? Complete objectives and get additional rewards! • Levels with bosses! Choose a specific tactic and defeat them with the help of guile and spell combos. • Are you still wondering if it’s worth playing? Try it – it’s free!

About

Dash Heroes

Embark on an epic quest through a vertical labyrinth, gaining the ability to scale walls. Navigate treacherous traps and enemies across 1000 levels, choosing from diverse heroes with unique skills. Compete in races, collect coins, and enjoy multiple game modes, including a level editor.

Highlights
  • Vertical labyrinth exploration
  • Wall-scaling abilities
  • 1000 challenging levels
  • Diverse roster of heroes
  • Level editor mode
  • Competitive racing
Features
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Swipe once and your hero dashes until it hits a wall. That single move is all it takes to play Dash Heroes, a pixel maze escape built for one thumb. Grab the key, reach the portal and get past every skull, spike and trap in the tower. The catch is that your hero does not stop halfway. Every swipe is a commitment: the dash keeps going until something gets in the way, so you read the maze before you move, not after. Speed along the arrows and time your run past turrets, flames, spears and patrolling skulls. In some stages you guide two heroes at once and swap between them to reach the exit. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY • Classic: hand-built stages across three towers of brick, ice and stone. Grab the key, open the portal and collect the gold to earn up to three stars on every stage. • Arcade: an endless climb through a maze that never runs out, with the water rising behind you. Your five best runs are saved, with the hero who set them and the day you did it. • Blitz: generated stages, one after another, with the water on your heels. • Race: 32 heroes race up the same tower. Get through two qualifying rounds and win the final. A MAZE ESCAPE THAT FIGHTS BACK • A key, a portal and gold in every stage, and traps that shoot, burn and patrol in between. • In Arcade the maze gets tighter the higher you climb, and the water does not wait for you to think. • Fast to read, easy to misjudge. It is a reflex game as much as a labyrinth. 60 HEROES, 10 POWERS • Collect 60 heroes, from common to mythic, and unlock them in the Hero Machine with the gold you pick up in the towers. • Every hero brings a power: more gold from every coin, a magnet that pulls coins in, a chance to start with a shield, slower rising water, a higher Arcade score and more. • Level your heroes up to make their powers stronger. • Take a team of two on every run. Both powers count, so the pair you choose changes the way you play. SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY • Nine daily missions, plus a bonus for finishing them all. • A daily reward that keeps growing as long as your streak lasts. • Arcade boosts to pick before a run: shield, slow water, magnet or double score. • 50 achievements, from your first stage to the very long haul, and a sheet with all your stats. ONE THUMB, NO INTERNET • Swipe controls made for one hand, in portrait. • No internet connection needed, so the maze comes with you anywhere. • Keyboard and gamepad work too. • Separate music and sound volume, and screen shake you can switch off. If you like a pixel maze game where one wrong swipe sends you straight into a spike, this is your kind of maze escape. Pick two heroes, swipe and see how high the water lets you get.

Screenshots

Wizard Swipe4 screens
Dash Heroes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dash Heroes at none against Wizard Swipe's 10. Dash Heroes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). Wizard Swipe's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 39 months). 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. Wizard Swipe sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Dash Heroes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dash Heroes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wizard Swipe has 437 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Wizard Swipe's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dash Heroes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wizard Swipe ships an update weekly, Dash Heroes every 39 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Wizard Swipe versus Dash Heroes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWizard SwipeDash Heroes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (437 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings437 — better3
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 39 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.1 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerniceplay gamesCHORRUS GAMES S.L.

Customer experience

Wizard Swipe

All ratings432 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral4.2%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral6.2%
Negative8.8%

Dash Heroes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Wizard Swipe

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on certain devices
  • Glitches in the store/upgrade system

Requested features

4 requests
  • New game modes
  • Bestiary or monster encyclopedia
  • Difficulty settings
  • Multiplayer or online features

Dash Heroes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Wizard Swipe

One-time10
  • Handful of Gold$1.99
  • Spellbook$1.99
  • Inferno Castle$1.99
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  • Necropolis Castle$1.99
  • Twilight Castle$1.99
  • Pile of Gold$4.99
  • Bag of Gold$9.99
  • Inferno Castle$9.99
  • Chest of Gold$24.99
  • Mountain of Gold$99.99
None

Dash Heroes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wizard Swipe free?
Wizard Swipe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dash Heroes free?
Dash Heroes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wizard Swipe or Dash Heroes?
Dash Heroes is rated higher. Wizard Swipe averages 4.6 out of 5 from 437 ratings, while Dash Heroes averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Wizard Swipe or Dash Heroes have ads?
Dash Heroes shows ads; Wizard Swipe does not.
Which is updated more often, Wizard Swipe or Dash Heroes?
Wizard Swipe ships an update weekly, and Dash Heroes every 39 months. Most recently, Wizard Swipe was updated on November 6, 2026 and Dash Heroes on November 3, 2026.

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