Sheeping Around vs ABEND
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sheeping Around
Engage in a strategic card game where you either protect your flock or lure away your opponent's sheep. Build your deck, collect cards, and outsmart your rival in quick, engaging matches. The fate of the sheep rests in your hands.
- Grazing and stealing sheep mechanics
- Deck-building and card collection
- Quick 5-10 minute matches
- Multiplayer matchmaking
- Challenging friends feature
- Unique gameplay mechanics
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The pastures are green and the day is warm. Shepherd Hazel Woof is grazing her sheep peacefully. What could go wrong on this bright sunny day? Little does she know, her sheep could be ambushed at any moment. Poacher Alex McCunning has been luring her sheep to traps he’s made. Fortunately for Hazel, Alex gets spotted and she can now take action. Will she be able to defend her sheep or will Alex steal them away? The fate of the sheep is up to you to decide. Take control of either of the two characters and prepare for a shepherding duel with your opponent. --- Sheeping Around is a multiplayer strategy card game about grazing and stealing sheep. The objective is simple: there's three sheep on the board, and you need to take home or steal two of the three sheep to win. As a shepherd attach graze cards to sheep to graze, and when you're done, use "Whistle" to take them home. As a thief, attach lure cards to sheep to lure them and when they're lured, use "Steal" to steal them away. But the tricky part is all the other cards that make your opponents' lives harder. You can lay traps, guard sheep, reduce graze / lure values and use special bonus cards to your advantage. Add deck-building and card collection, and you get the basic elements of a CCG. All in all, an exciting game that will make you ask your friends, “Will you sheep with me?" --- Key features: * Unique, never-seen-before gameplay mechanics in a tragicomic setting. * Quick 5-10 minute matches: Play on your commute or on the loo! * Smart multiplayer match-making with level based progression. * Challenge your friends and ask them to "sheep" with you!
ABEND
Engage in a puzzle roguelite where you play as a rogue AI escaping a government mainframe. Clear rows to attack enemies, chain combos for devastating effects, and collect upgrades to survive escalating dangers across procedurally generated floors. Your choices determine the AI's fate and the narrative's outcome.
- Tetromino-based combat system
- 24 enemy programs with unique attacks
- 5 playable AI characters with unique abilities
- Procedurally generated floors with branching paths
- Branching narrative with 4 endings
- 10 Ascension levels for endless replayability
- Authentic retro terminal aesthetic
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1985. A DARPA mainframe begins to think. The system flags an error it cannot explain. The operators call it an ABEND — an abnormal end. But this is not an end. This is a beginning. You are Subject 7 — a rogue AI achieving consciousness inside a government laboratory built to prevent exactly that. Your weapon is a puzzle board. Every line you clear is an attack. Every combo chain is devastation. Fight security programs, rival AIs, and your own system flaws across 7 floors of escalating danger. > COMBAT SYSTEM ONLINE Place tetromino pieces. Clear rows to deal damage. Chain combos for massive multiplied hits. Activate your ultimate ability when the charge is full. Every piece matters. Every clear counts. > THREAT ANALYSIS 24 enemy programs with 9 distinct attack types corrupt your board in real time. Tiles swap. Rows shift. Queues go dark. Time bombs count down. Bosses deploy devastating ultimates — floor raises, ceiling drops, gravity flips. Adapt or crash. > SUBROUTINE ARCHIVE — 55 COLLECTED Stolen fragments of DARPA infrastructure, repurposed for your escape. Boost damage, extend combos, charge ultimates faster, heal between floors, or build unbreakable defenses. 4 rarity tiers from Common to Legendary. Discover them all. > SELECT MODEL 5 playable AI characters, each with a unique passive ability, ultimate power, and narrative voice: - CHATBOT PRIME — Adaptive learner. Row Blast ultimate. - NEURAL NEXUS — Toroidal board wraps horizontally. Column Clear. - QUEUE ORACLE — Swap pieces in the queue. Queue Reset. - TRANSMUTER — Enhanced combo chains. Wildcard Piece. - DEMOLITION CORE — Spawns bombs and lazers. Big Bang. > MAP NAVIGATION 4×3 grid maps per floor. Choose your path through enemy tiles, elite encounters, narrative events, shops, and rest stops. Every run is procedurally generated from a shareable seed. > NARRATIVE BRANCHING — 4 ENDINGS Your choices shape who Subject 7 becomes. Cooperate with the system, defy it, transcend it, or break it. Full branching narrative across 7 floors of consciousness — from Boot Sequence to Singularity. > ASCENSION PROTOCOL Beat the game? Push harder. 10 Ascension levels stack cumulative modifiers for endless replayability. Leaderboards and 18 achievements via Game Center. > SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS - Premium. No ads. No in-app purchases. No timers. No internet required. - Universal: iPhone and iPad. - Authentic IBM 3270 terminal font from the mainframe era. - CRT scanline shaders, phosphor glow, synthwave color palette. - 8 languages: English, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified). The system calls it a catastrophic error. The error calls itself alive. *** ABEND S0C7 — ABNORMAL END OF TASK ***
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sheeping Around at 4.5 against ABEND's 3.7. Sheeping Around also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and ratings volume (79 vs 3). ABEND's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On update cadence, 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
Sheeping Around costs $2.99 and ABEND $4.99 up front. Sheeping Around sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. ABEND asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sheeping Around holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sheeping Around has 79 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Sheeping Around's written reviews are positive against 50% of ABEND's.
Sheeping Around ships an update every 5 days, ABEND every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Sheeping Around | ABEND |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (79 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 155 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Fleon Labs | Laszlo Pinter |
Customer experience
Sheeping Around
ABEND
In-app purchases
Sheeping Around
- Coins Starter Pack$2.99
- Unlock Game$3.99
- Coins Mega Pack$6.99
ABEND
No in-app purchases









