Serania vs Queen Amina
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
Queen Amina
Embark on a historical adventure as a young woman destined to become a legendary queen. Explore ancient trade routes and witness the rise of female leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Play as young Amina
- Rise to become Queen
- Journey through spice routes
- Explore seven city-states
- Learn about female leadership
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Play as young Amina and rise to become the fearless warrior Queen! Take a journey through the ancient spice routes of the seven city-states of the Hausa Bakwai starting as a young Amina till her ascension to Queen. This tale sheds light on one of the first ever recorded evidence of female leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Queen Amina at 5.0 against Serania's 4.6. Queen Amina also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Serania's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (162 vs 17). 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 Queen Amina sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Queen Amina holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Serania has 162 ratings behind it against 17, 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 100% of Queen Amina's.
Serania ships an update every 10 days, Queen Amina every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Serania | Queen Amina |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (162 ratings) | 5.0 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 207 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Peter Ravnholt | BisonPlay Limited |
Customer experience
Serania
Queen Amina
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
Queen Amina
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Serania
- Access to the full story$3.99
Queen Amina
- All Chapters$0.99
- Zobo$0.99
- Zobo pack$1.99
Questions
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