Serania vs Cthulhu Master
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
Cthulhu Master
This tool helps you create and manage campaigns for Cthulhu RPGs. Organize characters, NPCs, monsters, locations, and events. It also includes player aids and a chat room for dice rolls.
- Campaign creation
- Character management
- NPC and monster management
- Location and event organization
- Player aids
- Dice roll chat room
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With this tool you can create campaigns for Cthulhu RPG. You can manage the characters of the players, non player characters, monsters, beasts, aliens gods, ... You can also manage locations, events and certain player aids, and chat rooms where you can see the throws made by all players. The application contains everything you need to organize your games. if you have any questions, you can ask us on our twitter @darklabyrinth_ or email thelabyrinthdark@gmail.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Serania at 4.6 against Cthulhu Master's 4.0. Serania also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 18 months). Cthulhu Master's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Serania sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cthulhu Master sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Serania holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Serania has 162 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Serania's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cthulhu Master's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Serania ships an update every 10 days, Cthulhu Master every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Serania | Cthulhu Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (162 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Ravnholt | Carlos Vlchez Domnguez |
Customer experience
Serania
Cthulhu Master
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
Cthulhu Master
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Serania
- Access to the full story$3.99
Cthulhu Master
- Update to premium$2.99
