Comparison

Highlands, Deep Waters vs Broadway

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

Head to head
About

Highlands, Deep Waters

Unravel a dark mystery in a Scottish town, uncovering cultists and abyssal horrors. Your choices shape the narrative of this text-based interactive novel, where you play as a detective, criminal, or scholar.

Highlights
  • Interactive text-based story
  • Choice-driven narrative
  • Deduction system for clues
  • Sanity system
  • Character role selection
  • Hand-drawn maps and lore
Features
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While investigating a murder in a small Scottish town, you’ll find yourself embroiled in a world of secrets, cultists, and abyssal horror. What are you willing to do to solve the case? And what will you do when you don’t like the answer? "Highlands, Deep Waters" is a 340,000 word interactive horror novel by Fernando B Neves and Lucas Zaper, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. • Play as an insightful Detective, a resourceful Criminal or a mysterious Scholar. • Gather and interpret clues with the Deduction system. Will you solve the case? • Face the hidden truths that derange your mind with the Sanity system. • A carefully crafted town including hand-drawn maps, unique history and peculiar inhabitants. • Play as a male, female, gay or straight. The Abyssal Ones treat everyone just the same.

About

Broadway

Manage a 19th-century New York theatre, navigating business, romance, and danger. Make critical choices to achieve box office glory or succumb to the city's challenges. This text-based adventure offers a rich narrative experience.

Highlights
  • Manage a theatre
  • High-stakes business
  • Dangerous romance
  • Risky alliances
  • Text-based adventure
  • Character customization
Features
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Fight your way to box office glory, while fending off the gangs of New York! Manage a theatre in a game of high-stakes business, dangerous romance, and risky alliances set in the rough-and-tumble world of 19th century New York. You'll brave riots, fires, and political spies as you take on a city of jealous rivals, brilliant artists, and stalwart politicians. "Broadway: 1849" is a 150,000-word interactive historical adventure novel by Robert Davis. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Will you succeed by your smart business sense or enlist the city’s gangs to push your competition out of business? Can you manage the diva personalities of your actors? What about a ghost haunting your theatre's stage? Are you a flashy producer playing to please the crowd with circus acts? Do you try to earn the respect of the city's leaders with fine art? Can you wrangle the press into writing the best reviews? • Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, or asexual. • Compete with rivals to stage the biggest shows and gain the largest audience! • Choose a cast from the city's brightest talent. • Investigate the hidden secrets of your theatre. • Rush to defuse a deadly bomb, or let it explode and plunge the city into chaos. • Nurture young talent or feed your own ambition for the spotlight. • Rub shoulders with the city's most notorious criminals, or bring their misdeeds to light. • Help a deserving friend escape the clutches of an unscrupulous businessman. • Join forces with a criminal gang or side with the mayor’s push for order. When forced to choose you'll decide whether to fight for peace or let the city burn.

Screenshots

Highlands, Deep Waters4 screens
Broadway4 screens

Verdict

The call

Highlands, Deep Waters and Broadway both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 95% of Highlands, Deep Waters's written reviews are positive against 75% of Broadway's. Broadway's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 13 months) and price ($4.99 vs $6.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Highlands, Deep Waters costs $6.99 and Broadway $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Highlands, Deep Waters against 4.6 for Broadway. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 25 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Highlands, Deep Waters's written reviews are positive against 75% of Broadway's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Highlands, Deep Waters ships an update every 13 months, Broadway every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Highlands, Deep Waters versus Broadway: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHighlands, Deep WatersBroadway
Price$6.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.6 (28 ratings) — better4.6 (25 ratings)
Positive reviews95.5% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings28 — better25
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB29 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCChoice of Games LLC

Customer experience

Highlands, Deep Waters

All ratings28 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.5%

Broadway

All ratings25 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Highlands, Deep Waters

No in-app purchases

None

Broadway

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Highlands, Deep Waters free?
Highlands, Deep Waters costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Broadway free?
Broadway costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Highlands, Deep Waters or Broadway?
Highlands, Deep Waters is rated higher. Highlands, Deep Waters averages 4.6 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Broadway averages 4.6 from 25 ratings.
Do Highlands, Deep Waters or Broadway have ads?
Both Highlands, Deep Waters and Broadway show ads.
Which is updated more often, Highlands, Deep Waters or Broadway?
Highlands, Deep Waters ships an update every 13 months, and Broadway every 6 months. Most recently, Highlands, Deep Waters was updated on November 3, 2026 and Broadway on November 4, 2026.

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