Retro Wanderer vs Bystanders
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Retro Wanderer
Explore classic puzzle levels with updated graphics and modern features. This game offers a challenging experience where every screen is a unique puzzle to solve. Save your progress and replay your moves.
- Classic puzzle gameplay
- Shiny new graphics
- Game Center support
- Game controller support
- 60 unique screens
- Saveable moves for replay
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Welcome to Retro Wanderer! Wanderer is an old PC puzzle game similar to Boulderdash, Repton, XOR and others. This is port of the original game from the original code. All 60 screens are available with shiny new graphics, game center support and game controller support. Each screen is a separate puzzle to solve, nothing is random and the game can save your moves for a replay. No monsters were harmed while developing this game. (This is open source - see https://github.com/teleportaloo/RetroWanderer )
Bystanders
This interactive story game prompts players to make choices when witnessing bullying. Explore the consequences of your actions and discover how you can help others in difficult situations.
- Interactive visual drama
- Choice-based narrative
- Consequence exploration
- Anti-bullying theme
- Action-oriented gameplay
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Bystander is a visual drama story to encourage you to take actions when you see bullying happens. Wouldn't it be great to help someone when that someone is being bullied? Don't you want to save someone's life? Find out what your actions will lead you to! Video Copyright : 2018 A Prime Capitol / Prime Pictures Production
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bystanders at none against Retro Wanderer's 1. Bystanders also leads on iOS requirement (11.4 vs 15.6). Retro Wanderer's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Retro Wanderer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bystanders asks for nothing beyond the download.
Retro Wanderer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Retro Wanderer's written reviews are positive against 85% of Bystanders's.
| Parameter | Retro Wanderer | Bystanders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better | 4.1 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Teleportaloo | Cifran . |
Customer experience
Retro Wanderer
Bystanders
In-app purchases
Retro Wanderer
- Donation$0.99
Bystanders
No in-app purchases
