Comparison

Serania vs Rustbloom

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Rustbloom

Features
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The sky is broken. You woke up in the wreck of a fallen star with no memory, and a strange little machine called ECHO is the only one who knows why. Rustbloom is a big single-player open-world adventure: explore it on foot, by glider or in your own mech, fight Blight monsters and Dominion soldiers, and uncover what really happened to Veyra. A WORLD TO EXPLORE • Seven regions: rust forests, glass deserts, a stormy coast, a swamp, frozen mountains, volcanic slopes and the shattered crater at the heart of it all • Fourteen towns full of people: shopkeepers, gossips, riddles, buskers, fortune tellers, arm-wrestlers and dozens of side quests • Explorable ruins and giant landmarks with one-of-a-kind treasures, plus caves, mines, shrines and hidden caches • Day and night, weather, and a narrated story that slowly comes together SEVEN DUNGEONS • Huge dungeons with branching tunnels, locked doors, keys and a boss at the end • Each one gives you a new ability (Grapple Hook, Power Gauntlet, Frost, Fire, Siege Seal, Tide Bell and Rift Step) that you need to solve its puzzles, and old abilities keep coming back YOUR MECH • One mech, seven modes: walk as a war-walker, race as a car, fly as a jet, and more • Upgrade each mode with its own parts FIGHT, CRAFT, GROW • Sword combat with dodges, parries and special moves, a Pulse Caster with fire and frost, and bombs • A skill tree, gear and charms to find, food to cook, and towns with their own specialties Plays fully offline. No ads, no accounts, no in-app purchases. Touch controls, game controllers, keyboard and mouse all supported.

Screenshots

Serania4 screens
Rustbloom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rustbloom at none against Serania's 1. Serania's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Serania sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rustbloom asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Serania versus Rustbloom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeraniaRustbloom
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (162 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings162 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB414 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperPeter RavnholtGaurav Tandon

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

Rustbloom

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Serania

One-time1
  • Access to the full story$3.99
None

Rustbloom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Serania free?
Serania is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rustbloom free?
Rustbloom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Serania or Rustbloom have ads?
Neither Serania nor Rustbloom shows ads.

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