Abalon vs ArrowFall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Abalon
Engage in tactical turn-based combat and deck-building adventures in a tabletop-inspired world. Command units, cast spells, and unleash creative combos to outwit opponents. Explore diverse biomes and expand your card collection.
- Turn-based tactical combat
- Deck building strategy
- Top-down command perspective
- Over 500 cards and 225 characters
- Exploration of fantasy world
- Dice rolling for encounters
- Undo failed attacks
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Welcome to Abalon, a legendary tactical roguelike and deck building RPG! CARDS. DICE. TACTICS. Embark on epic roguelike adventures to explore a tabletop inspired world and discover its secrets. Abalon combines turn based tactical combat with deck building strategy. Defeat monstrous hordes and powerful bosses to reap the rewards of treasures, allies, and spells. Roll the dice and become a dungeon crawling legend! COMMAND LIKE A GOD Command from a top-down perspective that gives you ultimate control over battlefield tactics. Your characters look up to you (literally) as their god to indicate they are ready to receive your orders. Commands are intuitive: Drag cards to cast spells. Drag warriors to enemies to attack. Drag healers to injured allies to heal. Play fast and fluid with 3-5 minute battles and without having to wait for animations. You can even undo failed attacks to try different approaches. Endless possibilities are at your fingertips! OUTWIT YOUR OPPONENTS Defeat overwhelming odds by mastering tactical positions, backstabbing, feinting counterattacks, knocking enemies into allies to trigger combos, leveraging traps for bonus damage and exploiting spell synergies to manipulate the battlefield in your favor. Abalon is deceptively simple to learn with an unrivaled depth of mechanics that are challenging to master. Position matters. Facing matters. Terrain matters. BUILD THE PERFECT DECK Choose compelling characters like squirrel hurling druids, menacing liche kings, psychic lizard wizards and steampunk time traveling rats. Abalon has over 500 cards including 225 hand-crafted characters with distinct strengths and weaknesses. Select your favorite summoner, build your team and construct a deck of 20 cards. Abalon differs from other role-playing games by removing grindy leveling systems in favor of fixed character stats and abilities and interchangeable gear-based upgrades. Use everyone you have and experiment to create unique strategies. UNLEASH CREATIVE COMBOS Combine your units and spells to create game-breaking synergies: Hurl a squirrel at your opponent and command your critter to bite them in the butt. Cast Animal Growth to mutate it into a super hulk squirrel. Then use Breed to multiply it into an army of hulk squirrels and decimate your opponent in the most satisfying way! Discover something new each time you play. EXPLORE. ROLL DICE. MAKE FRIENDS. Explore an ever-changing fantasy world filled with colorful woodlands, frozen peaks, barren deserts, and perilous dungeons. Abalon is rich in lore, both gritty and humorous, and each biome offers its own characters to find and mysteries to unravel. Collect and roll D20 dice to determine the outcome of fate encounters and make friends with charming bears and birthday goblins. EXPAND YOUR COLLECTION Play for free and grow your collection with paid expansions. Abalon is a premium CCG and RPG that respects your time and money. There are no ads, randomized booster packs, cards to dust, or grinding to level up. Each expansion contains a curated set of content so you know what you are paying for upfront. Like a board game hobby, Abalon’s expansions enhance your existing content. We aim to support the game’s development for the next 10 years and beyond with additional cards, challenge modifiers, game modes and more for infinite replayability. PLAY ON ANY DEVICE ANYTIME ANYWHERE Abalon offers a true cross-platform experience with support for phones, tablets, computers, TVs, portrait and landscape orientations and offline play. ABOUT D20STUDIOS We’re a passionate indie game team who aim to inspire creativity, critical thinking and positive community in people around the world. We value player-driven development, quality products and excellent customer service, and we’d love to hear how we can make your Abalon experience exceptional. Discord: https://discord.gg/d20studios Email: contact@d20studios.com
ArrowFall
Engage in fast-paced roguelite combat with a bow and arrow. Explore diverse worlds, collect powerful abilities and equipment, and face challenging bosses. Progress permanently between runs to unlock new heroes and talents.
- Fast-paced roguelite action
- 12 distinct worlds with 240 rooms
- Challenging boss battles
- Combine 16 unique abilities per run
- Collect and upgrade equipment
- Unlock 30 heroes and permanent talents
- One-thumb controls
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The sky is falling. Ready your bow. ArrowFall is a fast-paced action roguelite built around quick runs and constant decisions. Move to evade incoming attacks, stop to fire, and find the right opening before enemies close in. CONQUER 12 WORLDS Fight through 240 rooms across distinct settings, from the Grasslands to the Sanctuary, each with its own obstacles, formations, and enemies. CHALLENGE INFERNO Complete a chapter in Normal to unlock its Inferno mode: enemies with 10 times the health and damage, double crystals and XP, two treasure-chest selections, and independent checkpoints. FACE UNIQUE BOSSES Learn projectile patterns, physical charges, marked leaps, impact waves, and increasingly intense attack sequences. Every boss rewards awareness and positioning—not just raw power. BUILD YOUR RUN Combine 16 abilities during each chapter, including multishot, ricochet, piercing arrows, elemental attacks, chain lightning, and more. Combat levels and abilities start fresh when the next chapter begins; equipment and permanent progression are kept. PREPARE YOUR INVENTORY Choose daggers, bows, spears, staffs, shields, and body equipment before playing. Tap pieces to inspect attributes in floating cards, equip items across eight slots, and find new equipment by defeating bosses and opening treasures. Collect Epic and Legendary pieces too. REFORGE YOUR EQUIPMENT Use coins earned in the game to roll one modifier per item. Results can include bonuses, mixed effects, or penalties. Odds, cost, and balance are shown before confirmation. In the shop, exchange crystals earned in the game for Normal, Rare, Epic, or Legendary chests, with each chest's price and odds disclosed before opening. Crystals and coins cannot be purchased with real money. GROW STRONGER Unlock 30 heroes with different attributes and improve five permanent talents using crystals earned in the arenas. PLAY YOUR WAY One-thumb controls, checkpoint progression, Game Center achievements and leaderboards, and iCloud progress sync. ArrowFall requires no account. No automatic ads interrupt starting or restarting a run. Rewarded ads are optional and appear only when you choose to watch them. Loading is cancellable and waits are limited to five seconds to load and three seconds to begin presentation; these limits do not change the video duration. Without tracking authorization, eligible rewards can be claimed without an ad. The current in-game interface is in Brazilian Portuguese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ArrowFall at none against Abalon's 5. ArrowFall also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Abalon's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 1). On price and update cadence 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. Abalon sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. ArrowFall asks for nothing beyond the download.
Abalon ships an update every 2 days, ArrowFall daily. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Abalon | ArrowFall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | +12 |
| Developer | D20Studios, LLC | Joao Marcus Dionisio Araujo |
Customer experience
Abalon
ArrowFall
Bugs and requests
Abalon
Reported bugs
2 issues- Bugs in second chapter dungeon
- Unable to use satchel items
Requested features
3 requests- Controller support for Backbone and other third party controllers
- More variation in encounter types
- Dark mode option
ArrowFall
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Abalon
- Animal Gear$3.99
- Angels & Demons$7.99
- Dark Legion$7.99
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- Mean & Green$7.99
- Space & Time$7.99
ArrowFall
No in-app purchases
Questions
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