Comparison

Alien High vs A Thousand Faces

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

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About

Alien High

Survive an alien invasion at your high school in this interactive story RPG hybrid. Your choices shape the narrative, determining who lives, who dies, and the fate of the school. Explore multiple paths and endings through engaging dialogue and combat.

Highlights
  • Interactive story choices
  • Multiple paths and endings
  • RPG elements
  • Humorous dialogue
  • Combat and leveling up
  • Unlockable story lines
Features
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Aliens have taken over your high school! In this interactive story role playing game hybrid, you must survive the onslaught as your school is attacked by alien forces. Along the way, the choices you make will determine how the story unfolds, who lives, who dies, and whether or not the school is saved. Alien High features many different paths and possible endings, with playthroughs ranging from brief to long. The choices you make will determine how the story unfolds. Multiple playthroughs are suggested to unlock all endings and reveal all story lines. There are strong interactive story elements in Alien High, with humorous dialog and many different impactful choices you are required to make. There are also RPG elements in the game, related to fighting enemies, finding items, and leveling up your player. Do you like the game? Let me know in the comments and I will be happy to expand the content even further, adding more choices and more story lines. This game is for you guys! March of the Spoons Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Aggressor Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Killers Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Myst on the Moor Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Summon the Rawk Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

About

A Thousand Faces

Embark on a text-based RPG adventure where you wield cosmic powers and face nightmarish creatures. Navigate a dream world, uncover a society's dark secrets, and make choices with devastating consequences. This game offers a rich narrative experience for those seeking an alternative to passive entertainment.

Highlights
  • Choose-your-own-adventure gameplay
  • Wield cosmic and dream world powers
  • Battle unique mythical creatures
  • Explore five distinct dream realms
  • Uncover societal secrets
  • Engage in strategic combat
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You are riding across a vast desert, but you don't remember why. You only know that if you look behind you, you will die. Your horse is a demon from some nightmare realm and charges across the sands as his red eyes illuminate the twilight. You do remember this: you were holding someone’s hand just now. His last act before he passed was to make you promise to not give up, to keep going. You don’t remember why he’s important to you, but you feel a keen grief. And you must ride north, towards the city of Panarch. In A Thousand Faces, you are a hero in all the most unexpected and twisted ways. You have the power to fearstrike reality into compliance. You can wield the First Fires of Creation, which ignited the Big Bang. And you can walk the five realms of the dream world: Reverie, Prophecy, Consensus, Jubilee, and Terror. But your enemies are fifteen-foot-tall wolves who wander the void between worlds, medusas whose gaze casts you in the stone of grief, and bleeding books whose passages can corrupt your mind. Most of all, you are in a society with so much outward beauty but with a festering secret worse than mere monsters. Take on the role of a warrior who loves the unloved things of the world, the feared things, the hated things. You are the horror barring the path when the peasants with pitchforks go to burn the witch. And you are on a mission with devastating consequences to all involved. There is no winning, only ensuring the enemy loses more than you do. A Thousand Faces is a choose-your-own adventure role-playing game that aspires to the storytelling richness of amazing titles like Expedition 33, Baldur’s Gate, and Final Fantasy. It is from a solo indie dev who wrote the story, composed the music, designed the combat, and created the app. There is a growing community of players on Discord, fan art, and sharing of combat (and dating sim!) strategies. Stop doom scrolling. Read literature and solve puzzles instead. Join us. “We will all ride past death as one.”

Screenshots

Alien High3 screens
A Thousand Faces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: A Thousand Faces at 100% against Alien High's 0%. A Thousand Faces also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Alien High sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and A Thousand Faces sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

A Thousand Faces holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Alien High's written reviews are positive against 100% of A Thousand Faces's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alien High ships an update every 10 months, A Thousand Faces every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and June 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Alien High versus A Thousand Faces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlien HighA Thousand Faces
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.7 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings413 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB158 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperBrandon SteckleinHouse Lawlez LLC

Customer experience

Alien High

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

A Thousand Faces

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Alien High

One-time2
  • 100 Ape Coins$0.99
  • Alien High Premium$1.99
1 purchases

A Thousand Faces

One-time1
  • Complete chapters$4.99

Questions

Is Alien High free?
Alien High is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is A Thousand Faces free?
A Thousand Faces is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alien High or A Thousand Faces?
A Thousand Faces is rated higher. Alien High averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while A Thousand Faces averages 4.7 from 13 ratings.
Do Alien High or A Thousand Faces have ads?
Alien High shows ads; A Thousand Faces does not.
Which is updated more often, Alien High or A Thousand Faces?
Alien High ships an update every 10 months, and A Thousand Faces every 10 days. Most recently, Alien High was updated on September 29, 2026 and A Thousand Faces on June 8, 2026.

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