Card Crusade vs Forager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Card Crusade
Embark on a roguelike deck-building adventure through a winding dungeon. Choose from eight character classes, assemble powerful decks, and battle monsters to level up and defeat the final boss.
- Roguelike deck-building gameplay
- Eight unlockable character classes
- Ten-floor winding dungeon exploration
- Assemble powerful card combos
- Battle monsters and gain experience
- Level up characters
- Defeat the final boss
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Card Crusade is a roguelike deck building game. Unlock eight different character classes as you explore the ten floors of a winding dungeon. Assemble your deck to unleash unstoppable combos on your enemies. Fight monsters, gain experience, and level up your character to defeat the final boss and become the Card Crusader! Send feedback to feedback@pollywog.games, or in our Discord: https://discord.gg/KUMqunQ
Forager
Explore a vast 2D open world, gathering resources, crafting items, and building a base from scratch. Level up your skills, solve puzzles, and discover secrets as you expand your territory and forge your own path.
- Resource gathering and management
- Item and structure crafting
- Base building and expansion
- Skill progression and learning
- Puzzle solving and dungeon raiding
- Open-ended goal setting
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Forager is a 2D open world game inspired by your favorite exploration, farming and crafting games. - Gather, collect and manage resources. - Craft useful items & structures. - Build and grow a base out of nothing. Buy land to expand and explore. - Level up and learn new skills, abilities, and blueprints. - Solve puzzles, find secrets and raid dungeons! - Achieve anything you want! The choice is yours, you set your own goals to work towards! Start small and improve your base, skills, equipment, network of friends (and enemies!) and build your future as you see fit!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Card Crusade at Free against Forager's $7.99. Card Crusade also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (84% vs 61%). Forager's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Card Crusade is free to download; Forager costs $7.99 up front. Card Crusade sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Forager asks for nothing beyond the download.
Card Crusade holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.4K and 692 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Card Crusade's written reviews are positive against 61% of Forager's.
Card Crusade ships an update every 3 months, Forager every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Card Crusade | Forager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.4K ratings) — better | 4.2 (692 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better | 60.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 692 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #116 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pollywog Games | Balor Games |
Customer experience
Card Crusade
Forager
User reviews
Card Crusade
From 2.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Engaging gameplay loop
- 💡 Surprising depth and build variety
- 🚀 Easy to learn, challenging to master
- 👍 Charming and nostalgic visuals
- 👍 Addictive and replayable
Room to improve
- 🐛 Lack of volume/audio settings
- 🐛 Unbalanced enemy encounters
- 🐛 Tedious pot-breaking mechanic
Forager
From 692 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Addictive gameplay
- 👍 Charming pixel art and music
- 🕹️ Satisfying progression and crafting
- 💰 Good value for money
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy save system and data loss
- 🤖 Clunky and unresponsive controls
- 🧱 Difficult item placement and building
- 🕰️ Lack of updates and new content
Bugs and requests
Card Crusade
Reported bugs
2 issues- Red Knight encounter not functioning as expected
- Inconsistent leaderboard behavior
Requested features
4 requests- More content (new floors, enemies, cards)
- Ability to speed up animations
- Retreat/escape option from battles
- Leaderboard/progression system improvements
Forager
Reported bugs
4 issues- Islands and purchased land disappearing
- Saving issues causing progress loss
- Inability to place certain items or structures
- Glitches with locomotive and nuclear reactor
Requested features
4 requests- Multiplayer mode
- More customization options
- Improved controls for building and item placement
- Ability to resize or hide droids
In-app purchases
Card Crusade
- Unlock Viking$0.99
- Unlock Sorceror$0.99
- Unlock Bishop$0.99
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- Unlock Soothsayer$0.99
- Unlock Hoodlum$0.99
- Unlock Nomad$0.99
- Unlock All Characters$3.99
Forager
No in-app purchases
