Comparison

Hosted Games vs Heart's Choice

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

Head to head
About

Hosted Games

Explore a vast library of text-based interactive novels where your choices shape the narrative. Engage in diverse genres from horror and fantasy to romance and sci-fi, all powered by your imagination. Create your own stories using a simple scripting language.

Highlights
  • Vast library of interactive novels
  • Text-based storytelling
  • Choice-driven narratives
  • Multiple genres available
  • Create your own games
  • ChoiceScript programming language
Features
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The choice is yours! Joust for love and glory, solve an eldritch murder, find romance, or battle aliens with Magitek? "Hosted Games" is a magnificent library of interactive novels, written by authors like you. Hosted Games are entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Try a few of these fan favorites: • Zombie Exodus — Fight your way out of a zombie-filled city in this interactive horror story! • Fallen Hero — Step into the shoes of a telepath turned villain and explore the dark side. • Wayhaven Chronicles — Something stalks the shadows, and it's up to you to find out what! • Sabres of Infinity — Step into the boots of a Royal Dragoon in this tale of war in a fantasy world. • Golden Rose — Explore a medieval Europe where history took a different turn! • Soul Stone War — Fight for the future—your own, and the world's! Your fate is yours. • I, the Forgotten One — Can you defeat the rebellion in your kingdom before your past consumes you? • An Unexpectedly Green Journey — From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Are you destined for glory? • Fields of Asphodel — Join the ranks of the Underworld's misfit gods and make it your home! • Tin Star — Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal and craft a legend. Authors just like you have developed these games using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Learn more at https://hostedgames.org

About

Heart's Choice

Immerse yourself in interactive romance novels where your choices shape the narrative and lead to your desired happily ever after. Explore diverse stories with fully developed characters and complex plots, catering to various preferences and orientations.

Highlights
  • Choose your own path
  • Interactive romance novels
  • Branching narratives
  • Player-driven endings
  • Diverse characters and orientations
  • Multiple spice levels
Features
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Become the main character of a romance novel! Choose your path to passion and find your Happily Ever After. Since 2009, the team behind Choice of Games has created high-quality interactive novels in all genres. Now, our new Heart’s Choice label puts romance at the center of the story, and you at the center of the romance. There are no graphics or sound effects, so we can focus on the story. Every game is filled with vivid, fully-developed characters and complex narratives that respond to your choices. Every path is always open to you: we never charge extra for the best options or most interesting storylines. Unlike other games where you have to work your way through "failure" endings to get to the "good endings," in Heart's Choice, you'll always be able to choose a Happily Ever After with the character (or characters) you desire. Whatever gender or orientation you want to play, there will be a Heart’s Choice game for you in our catalog! And whether you like your romance sweet or smoking hot, you’ll be able to find a story that you love. Let your heart choose!

Screenshots

Hosted Games4 screens
Heart's Choice4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hosted Games and Heart's Choice both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of Heart's Choice's written reviews are positive against 77% of Hosted Games's. Hosted Games's advantage is ratings volume (956 vs 291). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Hosted Games sells 33 one-off in-app purchases and Heart's Choice sells 22 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Hosted Games against 4.7 for Heart's Choice. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 956 and 291 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Hosted Games's written reviews are positive against 86% of Heart's Choice's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hosted Games versus Heart's Choice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHosted GamesHeart's Choice
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (956 ratings)4.7 (291 ratings)
Positive reviews77.4% of reviews85.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings956 — better291
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 10 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB87 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCHearts Choice LLC

Customer experience

Hosted Games

All ratings956 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral1.7%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews212 reviews
Positive77.4%
Neutral6.6%
Negative16.0%

Heart's Choice

All ratings291 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews90 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative10.0%

Bugs and requests

Hosted Games

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Heart's Choice

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatibility issues with older devices
  • Occasional loss of progress/save data

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more gender and sexuality options across all stories
  • Implement a 'back' or 'undo' feature for choices
  • Increase the number of free or low-cost story options
  • Improve app stability and reduce crashes
  • Provide character bios and story descriptions to help users choose

In-app purchases

33 purchases

Hosted Games

One-time33
  • Dragon of Steelthorne$2.99
  • Side Stories 21-30$2.99
  • First Bull Run$2.99
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  • Tokyo Wizard$2.99
  • It Takes Three to Tango$3.99
  • Divine Ascension$4.99
  • Samurai of Hyuga$4.99
  • Keeper's Vigil$5.99
  • World War II Armored Recon$5.99
  • Life as a Lich$5.99
  • Velocity: The Race Begins$6.99
  • Keeper of the Sun and Moon$6.99
  • Samurai of Hyuga Book 6$6.99
  • Fallen Hero: Rebirth$6.99
  • Hero or Villain: Genesis$6.99
  • A Kiss from Death$6.99
  • Kitsune$6.99
  • Whiskey-Four$6.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One$7.99
  • The Soul Stone War$7.99
  • Leas: City of the Sun$7.99
  • The People's House$7.99
  • Scales of Justice$7.99
  • Tale of Two Cranes$8.99
  • Breach: The Archangel Job$8.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two$8.99
  • Saturnine$8.99
  • The Golden Rose: Book One$11.99
  • Diaspora$11.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles Three$11.99
  • Fallen Hero: Retribution$11.99
  • An Unexpectedly Green Journey$11.99
  • Fields of Asphodel$11.99
22 purchases

Heart's Choice

One-time22
  • Bonus Stories 3: AWPW$2.99
  • Jazz Age$4.99
  • Remove Advertising$4.99
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  • Belle-de-Nuit$4.99
  • Brimstone Manor$4.99
  • Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure$4.99
  • Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion$4.99
  • Spellbound: Malachite Coven$4.99
  • Haunted Hearts Hotel$4.99
  • Dawnfall$5.99
  • Their Majesties' Pleasure$5.99
  • Vampire's Kiss$5.99
  • Love Undying$5.99
  • A Pirate's Pleasure$6.99
  • Heart of Battle$6.99
  • All-World Pro Wrestling$6.99
  • Freshman Magic$6.99
  • Devil on Your Shoulder$6.99
  • Ink and Intrigue$6.99
  • These Thieving Hearts$6.99
  • Changeling Charade$7.99
  • Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes$7.99

Questions

Is Hosted Games free?
Hosted Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Heart's Choice free?
Heart's Choice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hosted Games or Heart's Choice?
Hosted Games and Heart's Choice are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 956 and 291 ratings respectively.
Do Hosted Games or Heart's Choice have ads?
Both Hosted Games and Heart's Choice show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hosted Games or Heart's Choice?
Hosted Games ships an update every 10 days, and Heart's Choice every 10 days. Most recently, Hosted Games was updated on September 23, 2026 and Heart's Choice on September 23, 2026.

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