Evertree Inn vs Simple Initiative
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Evertree Inn
Embark on a text-based murder mystery adventure in a magical tavern. Your choices shape the narrative as you explore, interact with characters, and uncover clues to solve a deadly secret before the killer strikes again.
- Text-based interactive story
- Open-world tavern exploration
- Multiple playable races
- Combat with weapons and magic
- Choice-driven narrative
- Character relationship building
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A mysterious tavern with a deadly secret! Check-in to this magical tale of murder and mystery where not everything is as it seems. Explore the tavern in secret or in style, meet and mingle with guests and staff, wield weapons and magic and uncover clues before the killer strikes again! Evertree Inn is an immersive 265,000 word interactive experience by Thom Baylay, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast unstoppable power of your imagination. What will you do when an overnight stay in a highway tavern turns into the biggest mystery of your life? Will you rise to the challenge, or will you resist your destiny? Are you in it for the money, for the thrill of the chase or are you secretly hoping for romance? Enter an open world, where the choices you ignore matter as much as the ones you explore and where every interaction has a reaction. Choose your path as elf or dwarf, human or halfling or even the elusive brownie and find out if you have what it takes to survive the night at Evertree Inn? • Immerse yourself in the fully open and explorable tavern where your actions have real consequences. • Play as any one of five races, each with their own unique abilities and dialogue options! • Overcome obstacles with brute strength, keen perception, natural cunning and even magic. • Battle with any weapon you can imagine or unleash an impressive arsenal of spells. • Boldly confront guests and staff or lurk in the shadows as you uncover clues. • Make enemies and friends and maybe even find true love. • Play as male, female or non-binary. • Play as gay, straight, bisexual or asexual.
Simple Initiative
This combat tracker streamlines tabletop RPG sessions for Dungeon Masters. Easily manage initiative, track hit points, apply conditions, and add monsters from a built-in database. Designed for offline use and a clutter-free experience.
- Instant initiative sorting and combat start
- Player and monster tagging
- SRD monster database integration
- Intuitive HP tracking
- One-tap condition application
- Smart turn order management
- Save and reload encounters
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Combat is supposed to be fun. Not a logistics problem. Simple Initiative is the combat tracker built for Dungeon Masters who want to spend less time managing turns and more time running the game. Add your fighters, roll initiative, hit Start Combat, and stay in the moment. No subscription. No ads. No account. No bloat. Just clean, fast, intuitive combat tracking made for D&D 5e, designed for the in-person table. ~BUILT FOR THE TABLE~ INSTANT SETUP Add players and monsters in seconds. Initiative auto-sorts highest to lowest. Hit Start Combat, and you're off. PLAYER + MONSTER SPLIT Tag combatants as players or monsters. At the end of an encounter, one tap keeps your whole party loaded and ready -- just add new monsters for the next fight. Added SRD monster database — DMs can now search and drop any monster from the 2014 5e SRD (334 monsters) or 2024 5.5e SRD (235 monsters) directly into an encounter. Initiative is auto-rolled using each monster's own modifier. HP and AC pre-fill automatically. Database is bundled in the app and works completely offline. HP TRACKING YOUR WAY Drag the HP bar to adjust hit points in real time. Every HP unit gives a satisfying haptic tick. Disable HP tracking for players who prefer to manage their own. CONDITIONS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Apply and remove them with a single tap, right from the combat screen. SMART TURN ORDER Active turn tracks by identity, not position. Drag to reorder mid-combat without losing your place. New creatures added mid-encounter slot in at the right initiative. SAVE ENCOUNTERS Quickly save and reload encounters to run multiple tables or stop mid-fight for the night and return later. ~ALSO DESIGNED FOR iPad ~ On iPad, Simple Initiative transforms into a split-screen command center. The initiative list lives on the left. On the right: the active combatant's name, HP bar, and full condition panel -- all in one glance, no scrolling required. ~ CLEAN. FAST. YOURS ~ - Works entirely offline -- perfect for the table where wifi won't - Dark and light mode with one tap. Font size support. - Auto-rolls initiative with modifier support if needed. - No ads. No tracking. No data collection. - One-time purchase -- pay once, own it forever Simple Initiative gets out of your way so you can focus on what matters: telling a great story. One purchase. Every session. Every fight.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Simple Initiative at none against Evertree Inn's shown. Simple Initiative also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 18 months) and price ($2.99 vs $6.99). Evertree Inn's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Evertree Inn costs $6.99 and Simple Initiative $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Evertree Inn against 5.0 for Simple Initiative. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Evertree Inn has 74 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Evertree Inn's written reviews are positive against 100% of Simple Initiative's.
Evertree Inn ships an update every 18 months, Simple Initiative every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Evertree Inn | Simple Initiative |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (74 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #196 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Benjamin Van Allen |
Customer experience
Evertree Inn
Simple Initiative
Bugs and requests
Evertree Inn
Requested features
2 requests- Sequel or more stories from this author
- Ability to save or go back after bad choices
Simple Initiative
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Evertree Inn
No in-app purchases
Simple Initiative
No in-app purchases
Questions
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