Open Sorcery vs TOKYO CHRONOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Open Sorcery
A text-based game where you embody an Elemental Firewall, a creature of magic and code. Protect your network, search for spirits, and explore themes of technology, magic, and sentience. Discover multiple endings through interactive storytelling.
- Text-based interactive fiction
- Elemental Firewall role-playing
- Network protection gameplay
- Multiple endings
- Animated sequences
- Explore themes of magic and technology
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You are online. You are fire and order. You are a firewall. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of BEL/S, an Elemental Firewall: a creature of intertwined magic and code. It is text-based and uses the revolutionary Twine engine. There are 55,000 words of text, five animated sequences, and ten possible endings. In this game you can: * Search for malicious spirits * Protect your network * Make friends * Burn everything * Learn * Dream * Become sapient
TOKYO CHRONOS
Experience a critically acclaimed VR mystery adventure on your smartphone. Unravel a captivating story of lost memories and a murder mystery in a deserted Shibuya with your childhood friends. Featuring stunning character design and an all-star voice cast.
- Mystery adventure gameplay
- Engaging storyline
- All-star voice cast
- Character design by LAM
- Multiple subtitle languages
- Award-winning VR experience
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The award-winning, critically acclaimed VR mystery adventure game is finally available on smartphones! Tokyo Chronos is the first installment of the Chronos Universe. Character design by LAM and voiced by an all-star cast. The opening theme is performed by Eir Aoi, and the ending theme by ASCA. ■Story When you wake up, you find yourself in Shibuya, completely alone. Trapped in this world with you are eight of your childhood friends and fellow high school students. Mystery, veiled in lost memories and cryptic messages awaits you: "I am dead. Who killed me?" Who am I? Why have my memories vanished? And who is the culprit? Like fragments scattered by a shattered mirror, where does the truth of this world lie? ■Characters Kyosuke Sakurai (VA. Yuto Uemura) Karen Nikaido (VA. Yui Ishikawa) Yu Momono (VA. Ibuki Kido) Yuria Togoku (VA. Shoko Yuzuki) Sai Kamiya (VA. Romi PARK) Ai Morozumi (VA. Kaori Sakurai) Sota Machikoji (VA. Keisuke Ueda) Tetsu Kageyama (VA. Yuki Kaji) Lowe (VA. Ryohei Kimura) ■Artists Eir Aoi / R!N / Wolpis Carter / Nejishiki / Yosuke Kori ■Voice Languages: Japanese ■Subtitle Languages: Japanese / English / Chinese (Traditional / Simplified)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Open Sorcery at 100% against TOKYO CHRONOS's 0%. Open Sorcery also leads on price ($2.99 vs $13.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Open Sorcery costs $2.99 and TOKYO CHRONOS $13.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Open Sorcery holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Open Sorcery has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Open Sorcery's written reviews are positive against 0% of TOKYO CHRONOS's.
Open Sorcery ships an update fortnightly, TOKYO CHRONOS daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Open Sorcery | TOKYO CHRONOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $13.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (21 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 1024 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Abigail Corfman | Izanagigames, Inc. |
Customer experience
Open Sorcery
TOKYO CHRONOS
In-app purchases
Open Sorcery
No in-app purchases
TOKYO CHRONOS
No in-app purchases
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