Comparison

Fighting Fantasy Classics vs Dice Builder

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Text-based roleplaying adventures
  • Automated adventure sheet
  • Map your journey feature
  • Collectible artwork gallery
  • Atmospheric music
  • Unlimited bookmarks
  • Dice accelerometer support
Features
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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!

About

Dice Builder

This app is a versatile dice roller designed for tabletop role-playing games. It allows for quick rolls of individual dice or the creation and saving of complex dice pools with modifiers. Features include a unique tabletop mode for shared use and a detailed roll log.

Highlights
  • Eight standard dice types (d3-d100)
  • Custom dice pool builder
  • Modifier application
  • Save and name custom rolls
  • Tabletop mode for shared use
  • Roll log with undo/redo
  • Control Center and lock screen integration
Features
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A dice roller made to sit on the table with you. Dice Builder is one screen of eight dice: d3, d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, d100 on a single glowing dial. Tap one for a quick roll. Switch to builder mode and assemble the pool you actually need, twenty dice and a modifier, then roll it. No menus to dig through mid-combat. TABLETOP MODE Most dice apps assume one person looking at one phone. Turn on tabletop mode and the phone lies flat in the middle of the table: the dial rotates to face whoever needs it, and a mirrored results bar reads right-side up to the players across from you. Tap the control to turn the wheel, hold it to choose the step. Turn it off and everything comes back around to you. THE ROLLS YOUR TABLE ALREADY MAKES Dice Builder is specifically designed for you to create complex build outs of multiple dice combinations sprinkled with an ensemble of modifiers. Save them, name them, see their usages. - Keep highest or lowest: advantage, disadvantage, 4d6 keep high 3 - Reroll dice at or below a threshold, once or until they behave - Exploding dice: once, chained, or compounding - Success counting for dice-pool systems - Modifiers that show themselves, active rules ride the hub as lit badges SAVE THE ROLL YOU MAKE FORTY TIMES A NIGHT Name a build, file it in a group, re-arm it in two taps. Two builds can hold the same dice and still be different things, so your two 8d6 spells keep their own names and their own history. Some pre-assembled builds are already there when you install, including Advantage, Stat Roll and Percentile. IT REMEMBERS A running roll log with break points and subtotals, so a long fight stays readable, and historical steps of undo and redo for when it doesn't. MADE OF EMBER AND LIGHT Built for the pocket sized screen, not a mimic of physical dice. Ember line work on near-black, drawn as light rather than shape. A torch burns at the hub until the dice are rolled. Dice land one at a time, however many you trigger. The whole app ignites from a single spark when you open it. All of it respects Reduce Motion, and the content type scales to S, M or L without ever shrinking the dial. QUICK ROLLS Fire off rolls straight from Control Center and the lock screen, to either provide results right there or jump to app.

Screenshots

Fighting Fantasy Classics4 screens
Dice Builder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dice Builder at none against Fighting Fantasy Classics's 18. Dice Builder also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Fighting Fantasy Classics's advantage is ratings volume (425 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fighting Fantasy Classics sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Dice Builder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dice Builder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fighting Fantasy Classics has 425 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Fighting Fantasy Classics versus Dice Builder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFighting Fantasy ClassicsDice Builder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (425 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings425 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTin Man GamesRivet Rune LLC

Customer experience

Fighting Fantasy Classics

All ratings422 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral2.1%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews202 reviews
Positive80.7%
Neutral6.4%
Negative12.9%

Dice Builder

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Fighting Fantasy Classics

One-time18
  • 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
None

Dice Builder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fighting Fantasy Classics free?
Fighting Fantasy Classics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dice Builder free?
Dice Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fighting Fantasy Classics or Dice Builder?
Dice Builder is rated higher. Fighting Fantasy Classics averages 4.7 out of 5 from 425 ratings, while Dice Builder averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fighting Fantasy Classics or Dice Builder have ads?
Neither Fighting Fantasy Classics nor Dice Builder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fighting Fantasy Classics or Dice Builder?
Fighting Fantasy Classics ships an update every 2 months, and Dice Builder every 2 months. Most recently, Fighting Fantasy Classics was updated on October 29, 2026 and Dice Builder on October 31, 2026.

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