Suddenly Lost vs ScummVM
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.
ScummVM
Play classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and RPGs on your device. This application includes two playable demos and offers access to many more titles through its website. Enjoy a vast library of beloved retro games.
- Play classic adventure games
- Play classic RPGs
- Includes playable demos
- Access to more games online
- Open source software
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ScummVM provides a way to play many classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and RPGs. The application is bundled with two playable demos, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (DOS Demo) and The Secret of Monkey Island (DOS EGA Demo), both titles copyright of Lucasfilm Ltd. You can find more information, demos, and some free-to-download adventure games on our website. See also an up-to-date list here: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Where_to_get_the_games Full documentation of ScummVM can be found at https://docs.scummvm.org/ Please visit our web forum where you can discuss the iOS version. https://forums.scummvm.org/viewforum.php?f=15 ScummVM is open source software available under the term of the GPL v3.0 license. The source code is available from https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ScummVM at Free against Suddenly Lost's $1.99. ScummVM also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (88% vs 50%). On ads, in-app purchases 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
ScummVM is free to download; Suddenly Lost costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScummVM holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ScummVM has 109 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Suddenly Lost's written reviews are positive against 88% of ScummVM's.
Suddenly Lost ships an update every 64 months, ScummVM every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Suddenly Lost | ScummVM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (109 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 87.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 109 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Greg Chaffins | Eugene Sandulenko |
Customer experience
Suddenly Lost
ScummVM
Bugs and requests
Suddenly Lost
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ScummVM
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes mid-game
- Save feature does not save
- Single-tap not registering as left click
- Two-finger tap not registering as right click
- Magic Keyboard touchpad not working
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- Trackpad from new iPads not working
- Cannot link OneDrive due to JSON response issue
- Recently added games graying out
- App crashes on second boot
- External keyboard not working
Requested features
12 requests- Easier game search
- Apple TV support
- Gamepad key mapping support
- Apple Pencil support
- Magic Keyboard touchpad support
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- Trackpad support
- Change icon color
- Support for Discworld Noir
- DOSBox and FUSE support
- NES interpreter support
- Better iOS support for Grim Fandango & Escape From Monkey Island
- More significant way to add games
In-app purchases
Suddenly Lost
No in-app purchases
ScummVM
No in-app purchases









