Comparison

Bleak Sword vs True Skate+

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

Head to head
About

Bleak Sword

Embark on a dark fantasy adventure across cursed diorama battlefields. Battle creatures through nine chapters, lifting a legendary curse by upgrading your hero with magic and items. Challenge yourself further in Arena Mode with unlockable achievements.

Highlights
  • Diorama battlefields
  • Nine tense chapters
  • Powerful magic invocation
  • Item discovery
  • Character leveling and stat upgrades
  • Arena Mode
  • Unlockable achievements
Features
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Developed by more8bit Bleak Sword is a dark fantasy action game tasking players to struggle across compact, cursed diorama battlefields. Through nine tense chapters, heroes must lift the curse of the legendary Bleak Sword by striking down all manner of creatures in every forest, swamp, castle, and dungeon on their journey. Invoke powerful magic, uncover helpful items, and level up your character to upgrade your stats before facing down menacing guardians. Once the curse has been lifted the challenging Arena Mode and thirty unlockable achievements await even the most accomplished warrior. Bleak Sword is designed to be able to play it easily with elegant controls allowing heroes to roll, parry, attack and counter-attack using basic movements on gamepads and touch controls. Scored by award-winning composer Jim Guthrie with sound by famed designer Joonas Turner.

About

True Skate+

Experience realistic skateboarding with intuitive finger controls that mimic real-world foot movements. Explore numerous skateparks, customize your skater and board, and perfect your tricks with advanced replay editing.

Highlights
  • Realistic physics-based controls
  • Unlockable skateparks
  • Skater and skateboard customization
  • DIY park creation
  • Advanced replay editor
  • Daily challenges
Features
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True Skate+ is the closest feeling to real-world skateboarding, with a decade long evolution as the ultimate skateboarding sim, now on Apple Arcade! PURE PHYSICS CONTROLS Use your fingers like you would your feet on a real skateboard. Flick the board to make it react exactly how you would expect and drag your finger on the ground to push. - Play with one finger, mind skate with 2 fingers, or play with 2 thumbs, now with Gamepad! The skateboard reacts instantly as foot and finger, thumb or stick feels truly connected whether pushing, popping, flipping or grinding. - True Axis's instant and unified physics system listens for swipe, position, direction and strength from the player and processes how the skateboard should respond in real-time. So the same flick in two different points of the skateboard will react very differently. - Literally any trick is possible with TRUE CONTROL of the skateboard, so if you can dream-it, you can do-it! SKATEPARKS Complete Park Objectives to generate keys to unlock Skateparks. Park Objectives include completing Missions, making Gaps or simply rolling and grinding! Start at Underpass and then choose your own path to unlock 8 True Skate+ parks - Inbound, Schoolyard, Factory, Alley, Mondo Ramp, Double Infinity, Warehouse and the Valley. Or follow the path to real-world parks - MACBA, SPoT, Havasu and the Berrics. OFFICIAL COMPETITION SKATEPARKS Go to Events in the Community tab and play missions to unlock all Street League Skateboarding Championship Courses from 2012, World Skate and Skateboard GB courses. Keep a look out for Live Events to skate the course the same time as the real-world Pros! DAILY BOLT CHALLENGES Complete challenges to earn Bolts to purchase boards, apparel, DIY objects and Boosts more. Challenges include Missions, Tricks, Lines, Gaps and Sequences. CUSTOMIZE YOUR SKATER AND SETUP Choose one of six characters and the apparel to match your steez. Customize your skateboard with decks and grips from Santa Cruz, DGK, Primitive, MACBA Life, Grizzly, MOB, Independent, Knox, Creature, Nomad, Capitol, ALMOST, Blind, Cliche, Darkstar, Enjoi, Zero and more. Customize your wheels, trucks and baseplates. DIY Choose from over 50 DIY objects, then spawn and multiply to create the park of your dreams! Start on empty spaces at the Warehouse or Glasshouse or tweak any of the parks you unlock. Stay tuned for new DIY objects dropping in the Shop. EDIT YOUR REPLAY True Skate+ is about nailing the perfect line; timing, strength, precision, angle, late corrections all make a difference. Replays are next level, with multiple cams and capability, including a fisheye lens that can shake on impact. Insert keyframes on the timeline to blend between cams. Select from: - 5 preset Cams. - Custom Cam with FOV, distortion, distance, height, pitch, pan, yaw and orbit options. - Tripod Cam with auto, fixed, and follow options. PLAY SECOND SCREEN Play with your iOS device or Gamepad as your controller and enjoy True Skate+ in landscape mode on the Big Screen!  - Connect your iOS device to an Apple TV (or AirPlay compatible smart TV), via wi-fi, or via cable using a Lightning Digital AV Adapter. - Pair your Gamepad with your iOS device via Bluetooth. Terms of service can be found at http://trueaxis.com/tsua.html Privacy Policy can be found at https://trueaxis.com/tsspp.html

Screenshots

Bleak Sword4 screens
True Skate+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bleak Sword at 4.5 against True Skate+'s 3.9. Bleak Sword also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 53%) and ratings volume (903 vs 39). True Skate+'s advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bleak Sword holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bleak Sword has 903 ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Bleak Sword's written reviews are positive against 53% of True Skate+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bleak Sword ships an update every 8 months, True Skate+ every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bleak Sword versus True Skate+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBleak SwordTrue Skate+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (903 ratings) — better3.9 (39 ratings)
Positive reviews79.9% of reviews — better53.1% of reviews
Number of ratings903 — better39
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013
Further details — not scored
Size467 MB513 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDevolver Digital, Inc.True Axis

Customer experience

Bleak Sword

All ratings899 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews553 reviews
Positive79.9%
Neutral7.4%
Negative12.7%

True Skate+

All ratings39 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral17.9%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews81 reviews
Positive53.1%
Neutral12.3%
Negative34.6%

Bugs and requests

Bleak Sword

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Controls becoming unresponsive after app switch
  • Inconsistent blocking mechanics

Requested features

5 requests
  • Landscape mode support for tablets
  • Ability to skip credits after first completion
  • More enemy and boss variety
  • Customizable controls
  • Expanded story and lore

True Skate+

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Bleak Sword

No in-app purchases

None

True Skate+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bleak Sword free?
Bleak Sword is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is True Skate+ free?
True Skate+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bleak Sword or True Skate+?
Bleak Sword is rated higher. Bleak Sword averages 4.5 out of 5 from 903 ratings, while True Skate+ averages 3.9 from 39 ratings.
Do Bleak Sword or True Skate+ have ads?
Neither Bleak Sword nor True Skate+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bleak Sword or True Skate+?
Bleak Sword ships an update every 8 months, and True Skate+ every 3 weeks. Most recently, Bleak Sword was updated on October 21, 2026 and True Skate+ on October 19, 2026.

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