Comparison

Zombie Exodus vs Eldrum

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

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About

Zombie Exodus

Experience a text-based survival-horror novel where your choices shape your destiny during a zombie apocalypse. Create a unique character with diverse professions, skills, and backgrounds to navigate a collapsing society and confront the undead.

Highlights
  • Text-based interactive story
  • Character customization
  • Multiple professions and backgrounds
  • Skill progression system
  • Encounter other survivors
  • Crafting and scavenging
Features
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Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit "Zombie Exodus," can you survive the first few days of the zombie outbreak as the dead rise, society collapses, and the living struggle to survive? "Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven" is a series of thrilling interactive survival-horror novels by Jim Dattilo, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without animation or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Customize a character using a variety of professions, backgrounds, special challenges, and skills to survive in a brutal and chaotic city as the Zeta virus spreads. Will you be an honorable soldier, searching through neighborhoods to aid survivors? Or will you be a ruthless bandit who loots and robs others for needed supplies? How about a paranoid hacker, psychopathic con artist, pragmatic scientist, or idealistic teenager? Dozens of options allow you to play the character of your choice. Set in the "Zombie Exodus" world, the first part of "Safe Haven" focuses on the first few days of a viral outbreak which changes the infected into mindless zombies. Explore the changes to society at the start of the pandemic. Board your house, gather supplies, meet over a dozen other characters, and survive encounters with the living dead and even other survivors. Scavenge numerous locations, craft items, and use a variety of skills to survive the many challenges of the apocalypse. With three brand new chapters and another 310,000 words, "Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven" is now more than than 900,000 in total! That's more than 72,000 each time you play. Given the number of paths from beginning to end, you can have a unique story every time and still never see all there is in "Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven!" The "Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven" series will continue with future stories in new locations in the coming years. • Play as male, female or nonbinary, gay, straight, bi, asexual, or aromantic. • Nineteen backgrounds/professions including Soldier, Teenager, Professional Wrestler, Bank Robber, and Doctor. Or create your own custom class. • Choose your skill levels in eighteen different apocalyptic skills such as Stealth, Ranged Weapons, Scavenging, and Survival. Level up your skills after each chapter and choose from hobbies to round out your character. • Select optional challenges for your survivor. Take care of a dependent child or a pet, or deal with a phobia, compulsion, addiction, or affliction. • Meet other survivors each with their own personalities, motivations, desires, and flaws. Even form romantic relationships with those you meet. • Enjoy 15 optional character portraits, drawn by various artists.

About

Eldrum

Embark on a dark fantasy text-based RPG where your decisions forge your path. Explore a war-torn world, uncover secrets, and shape your character's destiny through branching narratives and multiple endings. This immersive experience offers deep gameplay reminiscent of tabletop RPGs.

Highlights
  • Text-based choices adventure RPG
  • Nostalgic table-top RPG style
  • Character building and equipment
  • Multiple endings based on choices
  • Secrets to discover
  • High replayability
Features
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Dive into a dark, immersive world where your choices shape your destiny. Eldrum: Red Tide is a gripping text-based RPG that combines the depth of D&D, the strategic gameplay of CRPGs, and the narrative freedom of CYOA gamebooks. Eldrum: Red Tide is a dark fantasy story about a former soldier who is searching for his family in a world ravaged by war. Your brother is gone without a trace. What happened to him? The answer to this question lies at the end of a long and dangerous journey. The world has changed. The place where you were born was burned to ash. People out there are struggling to survive. You are a shadow of your former self, having suffered grave injuries during the war. But the past is the past. What matters is the here and now. You have the freedom to shape your own destiny. There is always a choice. FEATURES - Nostalgic table-top RPG style - Many secrets to discover - Equip and build your character - Multiple endings that vary depending on your choices throughout the story - Replayability with different play styles opening up different locations, NPCs and gear - Text based choices adventure RPG - Supports both phones and tablets - Accessible to blind and low-vision players Eldrum: Red Tide is the second game in the Eldrum series. The games' stories are linked and there are references between the games, but they can be played in any order.

Screenshots

Zombie Exodus4 screens
Eldrum4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Eldrum at none against Zombie Exodus's shown. Eldrum also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). Zombie Exodus's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zombie Exodus sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Eldrum sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eldrum holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 779 and 433 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Zombie Exodus's written reviews are positive against 95% of Eldrum's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zombie Exodus ships an update every 3 months, Eldrum every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Zombie Exodus versus Eldrum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZombie ExodusEldrum
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (779 ratings)4.9 (433 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews94.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings779 — better433
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB198 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCAct None

Customer experience

Zombie Exodus

All ratings778 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral3.3%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews245 reviews
Positive82.0%
Neutral7.3%
Negative10.6%

Eldrum

All ratings433 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews95 reviews
Positive94.7%
Neutral1.1%
Negative4.2%

User reviews

Zombie Exodus

From 779 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great in-depth story builder
  • 👍 Highly immersive and engaging
  • 👍 Excellent character customization
  • 👍 Meaningful choices with consequences
  • 👍 Wonderful writing and storytelling

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive per-chapter pricing model
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔒 Lack of save/restore functionality
  • 🔒 Difficulty transferring progress across devices

Eldrum

From 433 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great story
  • 👍 Immersive and engaging
  • 🎨 Excellent visuals and atmosphere
  • 📚 Detailed and well-written lore
  • 🎮 Compelling gameplay with meaningful choices

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional combat balance issues
  • 🕹️ Challenging combat system for some players
  • 📱 Not optimized for larger screens (iPad)

Bugs and requests

Zombie Exodus

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Saved progress not loading correctly
  • Certain choices not registering properly
  • Dialogue/text issues (typos, inconsistencies)

Requested features

5 requests
  • More free content or demo chapters
  • Ability to purchase the full game upfront
  • Improved save/load system with multiple slots
  • More character customization options
  • Faster content updates and new chapters

Eldrum

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent enemy shield/evasion chances
  • Difficulty spikes in certain encounters

Requested features

2 requests
  • Sound effects for combat
  • More content and story expansions

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Zombie Exodus

One-time8
  • Skill Point Bonus2 variants$0.99
  • Attribute Points Bonus$0.99
  • Stories from the Outbreak$2.99
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  • Stories from the Outbreak II$2.99
  • Part One$7.99
  • Part Two$7.99
  • Part Three$7.99
  • Part Four$11.99
3 purchases

Eldrum

One-time3
  • Upgrade from Basic to Premium$2.49
  • Basic$6.99
  • Premium$7.99

Questions

Is Zombie Exodus free?
Zombie Exodus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eldrum free?
Eldrum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Zombie Exodus or Eldrum?
Eldrum is rated higher. Zombie Exodus averages 4.5 out of 5 from 779 ratings, while Eldrum averages 4.9 from 433 ratings.
Do Zombie Exodus or Eldrum have ads?
Zombie Exodus shows ads; Eldrum does not.
Which is updated more often, Zombie Exodus or Eldrum?
Zombie Exodus ships an update every 3 months, and Eldrum every 9 days. Most recently, Zombie Exodus was updated on October 29, 2026 and Eldrum on October 27, 2026.

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