Serania vs Planet Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Serania
Embark on a text-based role-playing adventure to uncover your past and escape pursuers. Make choices, explore a fantasy world, and engage in combat and skill development. The first part of the story is free to play.
- Engaging fantasy story with choices
- Explore a detailed story world
- Interact with characters
- Complete missions and improve skills
- Manage inventory and combat
- Uncover ancestral truth
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Escape the Blackblades and search for answers about your mysterious past in this new, fresh take on the text-based role playing genre. You can play the first 1/4 of the game for free. If the game is for you, you can buy access to the full story. FEATURES: * An engaging fantasy story, where you choose what to do * Freely explore the world of the story * Meet and interact with other characters * Go on missions, improve your skills, and fight deadly battles * Manage your inventory, use items, buy, sell or use in combat * Follow the clues and find out the truth about your ancestry! AWARDS: Best Narrative - Silver Winner NYX Game Awards 2021 Best Storytelling - Silver Winner NYX Game Awards 2021 PRESS: “... a stunningly well-written and enthralling text adventure.” - GameBookNews "Serania: Path of the Scion is a Must Play if You Like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books" - GameSpew "Serania – Path of the Scion excels as an engaging narrative experience that you can enjoy anytime, anywhere, with a streamlined interface that seamlessly integrates all aspects of the game naturally." - IndieHive
Planet Life
Embark on a cosmic journey as a planet seeking companionship and growth. Explore the universe, manage resources, upgrade tools, and battle through dungeons to discover yourself and gain favor with space gods. Features include a stock exchange, a gold fish, and more.
- Planet resource management
- Universe exploration
- Dungeon crawling
- Tool upgrades
- Stock exchange
- Friend finding
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In Planet Life you are born again as a planet. Being a planet in space can be very lonely, but fortunately there is life out there. Search the corners of the universe, for new friends, who will help you on your quest to become a happy little place to live. Manage your resources, and upgrade tools to advance. Fight your way down a deep deep dungeon leading to the core of yourself, and gain the respect of mysterious space gods. NOW WITH PURCHASABLE BROCCOLI CHAPTER! Featuring: - A ghastly stock exchange - A precious gold fish - More dungeons! - More friends! - An evil quiz show - More space travel
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Serania at every 10 days against Planet Life's every 2 months. Serania also leads on iOS requirement (9.3 vs 14.4). Planet Life's advantage is ratings volume (4.1K vs 162) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, ads, 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. Serania sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Planet Life sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Planet Life holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planet Life has 4.1K ratings behind it against 162, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Serania's written reviews are positive against 93% of Planet Life's.
Serania ships an update every 10 days, Planet Life every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Serania | Planet Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (162 ratings) | 4.8 (4.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 162 | 4.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 14.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Ravnholt | Northplay |
Customer experience
Serania
Planet Life
User reviews
Serania
From 162 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great story and narrative
- 👍 Immersive and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Excellent voiceover support
- 👍 Good value for money
- 👍 Innovative text-based adventure
Room to improve
- 😞 Combat mechanics are frustrating
- 😞 Combat is too luck-based
- 😞 Final boss is too difficult/impossible
- 😞 Limited choices feel arbitrary
- 😞 Story can feel contrived
Planet Life
From 4.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 👍 Charming and quirky characters
- 🎨 Retro pixel art style
- 🎶 Enjoyable soundtrack
- 🔒 No ads or microtransactions
Room to improve
- 💰 Locked content behind paywall
- 🔁 Repetitive gameplay after completing main story
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
- 🔍 Lack of clear progression or objectives after main story
Bugs and requests
Serania
Reported bugs
10 issues- Combat options disappear
- Enemies can dodge while 'paralyzed'
- Life doesn't fully restore upon leveling up
- Stuck in temple ruins without a boat option
- Final boss is impossible to hit/beat
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- Choices are arbitrary, leading to death and reverting to checkpoint
- Constant misses in combat, reliant on RNG
- Difficulty spikes significantly at the end
- Hint doesn't provide enough information for progression
- Continue button sometimes delayed with voiceover
Requested features
19 requests- Add a dodge button
- Add a defense button
- Add more combat options (e.g., quick thrust, sideways cut)
- Fix bug with disappearing combat options
- Make the next game free
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- Add more choices to the story
- Add a boat option for crossing the lake
- Create a Serania part two
- Allow revival in the story
- Add more sound effects for combat
- Expand the story after claiming the throne
- Add a freeplay or challenge mode after main story
- Add hidden areas with new enemies/weapons
- Implement New Game + with increased difficulty
- Add a gender option other than man and woman
- Loop music tracks and add more scene-specific music
- Add a map for better navigation
- Make the full story free
- Allow watching ads to progress instead of paying
Planet Life
Reported bugs
2 issues- Voiceover issues with certain UI elements
- Progression reset after purchasing new chapters
Requested features
4 requests- More free content and chapters
- Offline mode to continue progress
- Ability to earn premium content through gameplay
- Improved accessibility for screen readers
In-app purchases
Serania
- Access to the full story$3.99
Planet Life
- Small Soft Donation$0.99
- Medium Hard Donation$2.99
- Unlock Chapter 2$2.99
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- Unlock Chapter 3$2.99
- Unlock Chapter 2 + 3$4.99
- Big Massive Donation$9.99
