Fighting Fantasy Classics vs Serania
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fighting Fantasy Classics
Embark on epic text-based roleplaying adventures where your choices shape the narrative. Explore magical realms, battle monsters, and uncover mysteries with interactive storytelling and remastered classic tales. Features include automated character sheets, map tracking, and collectible artwork.
- Text-based roleplaying adventures
- Automated adventure sheet
- Map your journey feature
- Collectible artwork gallery
- Atmospheric music
- Unlimited bookmarks
- Dice accelerometer support
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Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests of epic proportions where YOU choose what happens next! Journey a magical realm, fighting monsters and unravelling mysteries in Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered. FREE GAMEBOOK FOR EVERY PLAYER Receive Jonathan Green's swashbuckling pirate adventure - Bloodbones - for free when you download the game. MULTIPLE DIFFICULTY SETTINGS Make the gamebooks as easy or hard as you like with a range of difficulty settings to suit the needs to every player. AUTOMATED ADVENTURE SHEET Which keeps track of your equipment, stats, inventory, and knowledge gained during your journey. MAP YOUR JOURNEY Auto mapping feature makes it easy to keep track of everywhere you have explored during both current and previous playthroughs. COLLECTABLE ARTWORK GALLERY Featuring classic, original artwork from Iain McCaig, Russ Nicholson, Malcolm Barter, Ian Miller, Brian Williams and more! ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC Specially composed ambient tracks immerse you in your adventure, transporting you to the game world. UNLIMITED BOOKMARKS Allow you to revisit difficult sections of the story as many times as desired. DICE ACCELEROMETER SUPPORT Roll your way to victory with accelerometer support - shaking the device will allow you to reroll your dice! All this and more as you play through classic adventures including: Bloodbones, Caverns of the Snow Witch, Citadel of Chaos, City of Thieves, Deathtrap Dungeon, Forest of Doom, House of Hell, Island of the Lizard King, Trial of Champions and Warlock of Firetop Mountain, with more titles to come in future updates. Originally presented by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone in the 80s and 90s, Fighting Fantasy Classics brings these timeless tales to your phone or tablet using our critically acclaimed Gamebook Adventures Engine. Traverse the realm of Allansia, using your might and magic to hunt down evil demisorcers. Brave the dangers of Darkwood Forest to help save a doomed village of dwarves. Seek vengeance from the Pirate Lord who stole your family and destroyed your life many moons ago. Save a port-town from the wrath of an undead lord and his ghostly hound minions! Part story, part game, in these adventures YOU ARE THE HERO!
Serania
Embark on a text-based role-playing adventure to uncover your past and escape pursuers. Make choices, explore a fantasy world, and engage in combat and skill development. The first part of the story is free to play.
- Engaging fantasy story with choices
- Explore a detailed story world
- Interact with characters
- Complete missions and improve skills
- Manage inventory and combat
- Uncover ancestral truth
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Escape the Blackblades and search for answers about your mysterious past in this new, fresh take on the text-based role playing genre. You can play the first 1/4 of the game for free. If the game is for you, you can buy access to the full story. FEATURES: * An engaging fantasy story, where you choose what to do * Freely explore the world of the story * Meet and interact with other characters * Go on missions, improve your skills, and fight deadly battles * Manage your inventory, use items, buy, sell or use in combat * Follow the clues and find out the truth about your ancestry! AWARDS: Best Narrative - Silver Winner NYX Game Awards 2021 Best Storytelling - Silver Winner NYX Game Awards 2021 PRESS: “... a stunningly well-written and enthralling text adventure.” - GameBookNews "Serania: Path of the Scion is a Must Play if You Like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books" - GameSpew "Serania – Path of the Scion excels as an engaging narrative experience that you can enjoy anytime, anywhere, with a streamlined interface that seamlessly integrates all aspects of the game naturally." - IndieHive
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Serania at every 10 days against Fighting Fantasy Classics's every 2 months. Serania also leads on iOS requirement (9.3 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Fighting Fantasy Classics sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and Serania sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Fighting Fantasy Classics against 4.6 for Serania. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 425 and 162 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Fighting Fantasy Classics's written reviews are positive against 83% of Serania's.
Fighting Fantasy Classics ships an update every 2 months, Serania every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fighting Fantasy Classics | Serania |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (425 ratings) — better | 4.6 (162 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.7% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 425 — better | 162 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 202 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tin Man Games | Peter Ravnholt |
Customer experience
Fighting Fantasy Classics
Serania
Bugs and requests
Fighting Fantasy Classics
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Serania
Reported bugs
10 issues- Combat options disappear
- Enemies can dodge while 'paralyzed'
- Life doesn't fully restore upon leveling up
- Stuck in temple ruins without a boat option
- Final boss is impossible to hit/beat
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- Choices are arbitrary, leading to death and reverting to checkpoint
- Constant misses in combat, reliant on RNG
- Difficulty spikes significantly at the end
- Hint doesn't provide enough information for progression
- Continue button sometimes delayed with voiceover
Requested features
19 requests- Add a dodge button
- Add a defense button
- Add more combat options (e.g., quick thrust, sideways cut)
- Fix bug with disappearing combat options
- Make the next game free
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- Add more choices to the story
- Add a boat option for crossing the lake
- Create a Serania part two
- Allow revival in the story
- Add more sound effects for combat
- Expand the story after claiming the throne
- Add a freeplay or challenge mode after main story
- Add hidden areas with new enemies/weapons
- Implement New Game + with increased difficulty
- Add a gender option other than man and woman
- Loop music tracks and add more scene-specific music
- Add a map for better navigation
- Make the full story free
- Allow watching ads to progress instead of paying
In-app purchases
Fighting Fantasy Classics
- Forest of Doom$3.99
- Island of the Lizard King$3.99
- Caverns of the Snow Witch$3.99
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- Warlock of Firetop Mountain$3.99
- Citadel of Chaos$3.99
- City of Thieves$3.99
- Deathtrap Dungeon$3.99
- Trial of Champions$3.99
- House of Hell$3.99
- Freeway Fighter$3.99
- Return to Firetop Mountain$3.99
- Scorpion Swamp$3.99
- Eye of the Dragon$3.99
- Starship Traveller$3.99
- Creature of Havoc$3.99
- Port of Peril$3.99
- Armies of Death$3.99
- Temple of Terror$3.99
Serania
- Access to the full story$3.99
Questions
Is Fighting Fantasy Classics free?
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