Suddenly Lost vs Hell and Back
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Suddenly Lost
Embark on an interactive adventure novel with over 40,000 words, exploring diverse locations and facing challenges. Discover over 32 unique achievements and navigate seven distinct paths to escape. The game features an autosave function and supports multitasking on tablets.
- Interactive adventure novel
- Over 40,000 words of script
- 32+ unlockable achievements
- Seven different escape paths
- Autosave functionality
- Multitasking support on tablets
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Suddenly Lost is an interactive adventure novel with a hand written script by yours truly that is over 40,000 words alone. You will explore many interesting places and have many adventures, all within the wonderful world of the written page. But that's not all. We all know that adventure stories can be hazardous to your character's health. In Suddenly Lost, we not only acknowledge that fact - we celebrate it! Each time something unfortunate happens to your character, we call that an achievement. There are over 32 achievements to get in this adventure story, and we challenge you to find them all. Not only that, there are seven different paths that you will have to solve before you can escape. The challenge is not a light one. Suddenly Lost uses an autosave mechanism to make sure that you can escape any time you can and pick up where you last left off. And Suddenly Lost supports multitasking features on capable tablets so that you can be productive and adventurous at the same time.
Hell and Back
Embark on a sci-fi roguelike RPG adventure to close a portal to hell on Mars. Fight, loot, and upgrade your gear in turn-based combat, recruiting mercenaries and making critical decisions to survive.
- Procedural and handcrafted levels
- Weapon and armor upgrades
- Mercenary recruitment
- Challenging quests and bosses
- Deep RPG progression
- Turn-based combat
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A sci‑fi roguelike RPG where you descend into hell to close the portal. A portal to hell has opened on Mars Base - and you’re the only one left to stop it. Fight, loot, upgrade, and survive in a turn‑based roguelike RPG where every run is different! - Procedural + handcrafted levels for endless replayability - Upgrade weapons and armor using power cells - Recruit mercenaries to build you squad - Challenging quests and bosses that evolve as you progress in this dungeon crawler - Deep RPG progression with stat points and gear builds - Classic roguelike tension - every decision matters - Turn based RPG action Do you have what it takes to descend into hell and come back alive?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hell and Back at Free against Suddenly Lost's $1.99. Hell and Back also leads on update cadence (every 7 months vs every 64 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.7). Suddenly Lost's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume 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
Hell and Back is free to download; Suddenly Lost costs $1.99 up front. Hell and Back sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Suddenly Lost asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hell and Back holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Suddenly Lost's written reviews are positive against 25% of Hell and Back's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Suddenly Lost ships an update every 64 months, Hell and Back every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Suddenly Lost | Hell and Back |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Greg Chaffins | Brandon Stecklein |
Customer experience
Suddenly Lost
Hell and Back
In-app purchases
Suddenly Lost
No in-app purchases
Hell and Back
- 100 Ape Coins$0.99
- Hell and Back Full Upgrade$1.99
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