VoxelRogue vs Akindo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VoxelRogue
Embark on a roguelike adventure where your primary goal is to find powerful equipment. By acquiring better gear, you'll grow stronger and be able to delve deeper into increasingly challenging levels. This game focuses on character progression through item acquisition.
- Roguelike gameplay
- Equipment hunting
- Character strengthening
- Deeper hierarchy progression
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"VoxelRogue" is simple roguelike game. You look for strong equipment. You will become stronger. You can proceed to a deeper hierarchy.
Akindo
Engage in real-time battles and develop a deteriorating island in this comical pixel-art RPG. Explore, gather resources, build facilities and roads to revitalize the economy and increase the population. Unlock new islands by meeting development deadlines.
- Real-time auto-battles with finger tracing controls
- Explore and gather materials/gold
- Invest in industrial facilities
- Craft equipment for companions
- Build roads to revitalize economy
- Boost and enhance escort characters
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This is a real-time battle RPG focused around themes of "reconstruction and development" in a comical and fun pixel-art world. Explore a deteriorating island, gather materials, invest in industrial facilities, and build roads to revitalize the economy. ◆ Real-time battle that you can enjoy with easy controls! Just trace the map with your finger and specify the route you want to explore, and the game will move and fight automatically. If you are at a disadvantage in battle, activate the skills of your escort characters. You can also damage enemies with the coin gun, which can only be used by the main character, the merchant. ◆Gather materials through exploration to develop the island! You can get materials and gold by exploring each area and defeating enemies. Invest the gold you get in industrial facilities to develop the island's economy or craft materials to create equipment for your companions. ◆Invest in industrial facilities and build roads to encourage distribution! By building industrial facilities and roads with the materials and gold you acquire, the island's economy will be revitalized and the island's population will increase. By liberating the island within the amount of days set by the merchant guild, you will be able to explore new islands. ◆ Boost your escorts! During battle, the player themselves has no means of attack. Your companions will automatically fight for you. There are various types of guards, so you can organize your party according to the route you choose to explore. You can even enhance the rarity of your guards by leveling them up or synthesizing them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Akindo at 4.6 against VoxelRogue's 4.0. Akindo also leads on ratings volume (198 vs 12). VoxelRogue's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Akindo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VoxelRogue asks for nothing beyond the download.
Akindo holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Akindo has 198 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of VoxelRogue's written reviews are positive against 48% of Akindo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
VoxelRogue ships an update every 4 days, Akindo monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VoxelRogue | Akindo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (12 ratings) | 4.6 (198 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.8% of reviews — better | 47.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 198 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mitsuhiro Okada | zoo |
Customer experience
VoxelRogue
Akindo
Bugs and requests
VoxelRogue
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Akindo
Reported bugs
12 issues- Game freezes after 1-2 hours of play
- Game freezes after watching reward ads
- Exploration progress lost after freezing
- Ads appear without user interaction
- Game won't start offline
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- Freezing during gameplay
- Game won't start (white screen with version)
- Display bug when gacha ticket is used immediately
- Game freezes when entering combat at date change
- Character becomes immobile during boss battles
- App crashes during gameplay
- Laggy on the biggest island
Requested features
24 requests- Update content (new maps, weapons, characters, dungeons)
- Increase boss material drop rate
- Add automation for bigger maps
- Add buy full game option
- Add extra armor slots (Head, Torso, Neck, Legs, Boots, Artifact)
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- Increase armor and weapon drop rates
- Add special boss/mob dropped weapons and armor
- Implement player classes with unique skills
- Add artifacts that can be upgraded
- Implement weapon and armor rarities
- Implement weapon and armor enhancing and enchanting
- Add abandoned structures that can be taken over
- Add iCloud save functionality
- Make 100 gems always get a 3-star item
- Add more updates and content
- Add more unique actions to partake in
- Make paid ad removal offer more benefits (e.g., constant battle speed-up, double drops)
- Implement character unlock system with stone purchases instead of ads
- Add a creator support option for a small fee
- Add machine change transfer function
- Allow collecting resources from offline hours and other islands
- Improve UI for resource collection summary
- Add more islands
- Add more variety to islands
In-app purchases
VoxelRogue
No in-app purchases
Akindo
- Ad Hiding Pack$7.99
