The Arena Draft vs Loop Hero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Arena Draft
Practice building Hearthstone Arena decks and save them to import into the game. Easily share your creations with friends for friendly battles. This companion tool is completely free and ad-free.
- Draft Arena decks
- Save decks
- Import decks into Hearthstone
- Play with friends
- Free to use
- No ads
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The Arena Draft lets you practice your deck building skills and save your Arena decks in Hearthstone to battle friends. • Draft an Arena deck using cards from your collection • Import and save your deck into Hearthstone • Use your Arena decks to play with friends • 100% free • No ads Hearthstone assets used in this app are copyrighted and/or trademarked material of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. This app is not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Loop Hero
Embark on a roguelike RPG adventure where you strategically place cards to create enemy encounters, buildings, and terrain. Equip your hero with powerful loot, expand your camp, and unlock new classes and cards to break an endless cycle of despair and save a forgotten world.
- Randomly generated expedition loops
- Strategic card placement for trials
- Loot collection for hero progression
- Camp expansion and reconstruction
- Unlockable classes and cards
- Retro pixel art dark fantasy story
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*Try Loop Hero for free and unlock the full game for the whole adventure!* The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. In this roguelike RPG, wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero. Recover and equip powerful loot for each class of hero for their battles and expand the survivors' camp to reinforce each adventure through the loop. Unlock new classes, new cards, and devious guardians on your quest to shatter the endless cycle of despair. FEATURES - Explore an endless number of paths: bring your hero on randomly generated loops and never experience the same run twice. - Shape your expeditions into darkness: build your deck and place your cards to script your hero’s trials and tribulations. - Loot as you loop to rebuild the world: recover your memories as you collect equipment and resources to become stronger, reconstruct your camp and get your reality back. - Plunge into a gloomy universe: discover a melancholic dark fantasy story told through a retro pixel art direction and recollect the memories of this world. - Break the cycle: triumph over mighty bosses to free the world from the Lich’s neverending time loop. CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE - Revamped interface – exclusive mobile UI with complete touch control - Game Center achievements - Cloud Save – Share your progress between iOS devices - Compatible with MFi controllers - iPhone 15 Optimization (including Pro Max)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Loop Hero at 75% against The Arena Draft's 0%. Loop Hero also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 months). The Arena Draft's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Loop Hero sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. The Arena Draft asks for nothing beyond the download.
Loop Hero holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loop Hero has 3.9K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of The Arena Draft's written reviews are positive against 75% of Loop Hero's.
The Arena Draft ships an update every 4 months, Loop Hero every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Arena Draft | Loop Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) | 4.9 (3.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 74.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 3.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 195 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Robert Burton | Playdigious |
Customer experience
The Arena Draft
Loop Hero
Bugs and requests
The Arena Draft
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Loop Hero
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes after defeating first boss
- Unplayable after initial progress
- Inability to progress past trial version
Requested features
4 requests- Portrait mode
- More classes/build diversity
- Improved UI/overlay customization
- Chinese language support
In-app purchases
The Arena Draft
No in-app purchases
Loop Hero
- Unlock Full Game$6.99
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