AMON vs Wumpus Cave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AMON
Embark on an epic journey solving optical illusion puzzles in augmented reality. Explore ancient 3D scanned sculptures from museums worldwide, using binaural audio to guide your quest. This immersive experience moves you, literally, as you connect a world of puzzling illusions.
- Augmented Reality puzzles
- Optical illusions
- Ancient 3D scanned sculptures
- Binaural audio for puzzle solving
- Immersive exploration
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Follow Amon, the God of Air, on his quest to connect a world of puzzling optical illusions using Augmented Reality. Look around, move around and play around with ancient 3D scanned sculptures from museums around the world. Be sure to put your headphones on when putting together the historic pieces, as Amon is built with Binaural Audio to help you solve the puzzles. It will be an epic journey that moves you. Literally.
Wumpus Cave
Navigate a dark maze filled with treasures, keys, and lurking dangers. This game offers a modern take on a classic text-based adventure, featuring updated controls, graphics, and sound effects.
- Modernized controls
- Graphics and sound effects
- Varied cave layouts
- Treasure and key collection
- Avoid bottomless pits
- Encounter multiple wumpus
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Inspired by a 1970's text-based creation, Wumpus Cave adds iPhone controls, graphics, sound effects, treasures, and varies the cave from game to game. Find your way through the pitch-dark maze of twisty passages to the treasure, the key, and back out again, while avoiding bottomless pits and letting your grimble deal with the multiple wumpus lurking in the cave. English only. Free. No ads. No wifi required. No tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wumpus Cave at 100% against AMON's 29%. Wumpus Cave also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.8 vs 3.6). AMON's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (89 vs 6). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Wumpus Cave is free to download; AMON costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Wumpus Cave holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AMON has 89 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of AMON's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wumpus Cave's.
AMON ships an update every 2 weeks, Wumpus Cave every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and July 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AMON | Wumpus Cave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (89 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 89 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Lykkegaard Europe Limited | Jeffrey Scott Watters |
Customer experience
AMON
Wumpus Cave
Bugs and requests
AMON
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes frequently, especially after first/second puzzle
- Pieces do not move or fit together
- Game closes after completing a level
- Progress is reset after crashes
- Camera placement is buggy
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- App crashes on startup
- Floor detection issues
- Menu options are lost
- Erratic performance due to poor optimization
- App crashes when shaking device
Requested features
5 requests- Add a tutorial or in-game instructions
- Allow for piece rotation for users with limited space
- Improve AR tracking and object recognition
- Fix bugs causing crashes and progress loss
- Add an uninstall and refund option
Wumpus Cave
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AMON
No in-app purchases
Wumpus Cave
No in-app purchases
