Gladiator Rising vs Everbound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gladiator Rising
Engage in strategic turn-based combat against procedurally generated opponents across five chapters. Equip and utilize a variety of items to hone your warrior skills and achieve ultimate victory in this challenging roguelike RPG.
- Procedurally generated gladiators
- Five chapters of progression
- Item buying and equipping
- Turn-based RPG combat
- Strategic gameplay
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Fight through five Chapters of constantly changing, randomly generated gladiators. Buy, equip and use items as you compete to become the ultimate warrior. Strategy is key to success in this mix of rogue-like and turn-based RPG mix.
Everbound
Embark on a turn-based strategy RPG roguelike adventure. Explore a procedurally generated map, battle diverse enemies, and conquer six unique bosses. Collect and upgrade a vast array of loot to prepare for challenging encounters and achieve victory.
- Turn-based strategy combat
- Procedurally generated maps
- Defeat 6 unique bosses
- Collect and upgrade loot
- Multiple player classes
- Adjustable difficulty
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This is a turn-based strategy RPG roguelike. Traverse the expansive map and defeat all 6 bosses to claim victory! • Battle hostiles • Conquer all 6 bosses • Collect loot • Gear up with armor, accessories, weapons, potions, and items • Upgrade your equipment with Enhancers • Purchase from Merchants • Accept offers from Traders • Recover your stats with Restorers • 6 player classes available • Pick your difficulty • Beat your high score Every game is unique with a generated map layout, custom bosses and loot, different hostile types, and tonnes of unique items, armor, weapons, accessories, and potions to discover.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Everbound at none against Gladiator Rising's shown. Everbound also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (81% vs 65%). Gladiator Rising's advantage is ratings volume (2.6K vs 98) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Gladiator Rising sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Everbound sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Gladiator Rising against 4.6 for Everbound. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gladiator Rising has 2.6K ratings behind it against 98, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Gladiator Rising's written reviews are positive against 81% of Everbound's.
Gladiator Rising ships an update every 4 months, Everbound fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gladiator Rising | Everbound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.6K ratings) | 4.6 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews | 81.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K — better | 98 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Happii Gamer Studios Inc. | ANDRE K PHAM |
Customer experience
Gladiator Rising
Everbound
User reviews
Gladiator Rising
From 2.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun gameplay
- 👍 Challenging and addictive
- 🤺 Gladiator theme
- 💎 Good value for a free game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔨 Progression-blocking issues
- 🕹️ Unresponsive controls
- 🤯 Frustrating difficulty spikes
Everbound
From 98 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay
- ✨ Refreshing and unique concept
- 💎 Great value for a free game
- 🚫 No ads or microtransactions
- 🎨 Beautiful art and animations
Room to improve
- 🔇 No sound or music
- ⏳ Game feels too short
- ⚖️ Balancing issues
- 🤔 Some mechanics are nonsensical
- 🧩 Lacks depth and items
Bugs and requests
Gladiator Rising
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes when opening ad chests
- Unable to progress past 3rd or 4th fight
- Character instantly dying when sleeping
- Inventory and skill issues on reloading
Requested features
4 requests- More character classes and abilities
- Improved save/load system
- Better in-app purchase options
- Expanded post-game content
Everbound
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes when clicking shop
- Thieves steal gold but don't drop it
- No sound in the game
- Blacksmith improvement bug leading to overpowered weapons
Requested features
18 requests- More options and content
- Class descriptions
- Stats page with equipment bonuses
- Expandable equipment descriptions
- Endless mode
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- Clearer tooltips for teleportation nodes
- Ability to backtrack to previous nodes
- Run away mechanic
- More weapons, items, and potions
- Class-specific items
- Music and sound effects
- Dialogue
- More map and combat variety
- Cosmetics for armor and weapons
- Perpetuity/carry-over between runs
- Add skills
- Make fists usable with weapons
- Description of class effects at selection
In-app purchases
Gladiator Rising
- Small Donation$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Medium Donation$2.99
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- Large Donation$8.99
Everbound
- Tip$0.99
- Tip$2.99
- Tip$5.99
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- Tip$9.99
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