The Draugr vs Dawnmaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Draugr
Defend a town from magical reanimated dead using limited resources. As a lone hunter, you must slay the walking dead to protect the innocent. Engage in a challenging battle with various enemy types and an immersive soundtrack.
- Defend town from reanimated dead
- Use holy water and iron spikes
- Battle 6 original Draugr plus 3 expansion Draugr
- Optional difficulty rules
- Immersive haunting soundtrack
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The Draugr, reanimated dead imbued with magical powers, have come to the region of Trøndelag seeking to corrupt the town of Stjørdal. Only you, a lone revenant hunter, can protect the town and slay they who walk again. Armed with limited supply of holy water and iron spikes you enter the town square and prepare for the coming onslaught. Todd Sanders’ "dreadful" game pits you against any combination of the original 6 Draugr plus the 3 "expansion" Draugr. Optional rules add extra levels of difficulties, and a haunting soundtrack creates a completely immersive experience.
Dawnmaker
A solo strategy game blending city building and deck building mechanics. Rebuild a world shrouded in toxic smog by constructing buildings, acquiring powerful cards, and upgrading your lighthouse to reclaim lost lands and technologies.
- City building mechanics
- Deck building gameplay
- Resource management
- Lighthouse upgrades
- Smog reclamation
- Technology recovery
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Dawnmaker is a solo strategy game combining elements of city building and deck building to create a board game-like experience. In a world covered by a toxic Smog, only you can rekindle the ancient lighthouses and bring light and life back. Construct buildings, gain new cards, generate resources and improve your central lighthouse to unlock new building space. Optimize your deck - gain increasingly powerful cards as you improve your city. Your cards and buildings interact in various ways: choose them wisely to create the most powerful combinations! Build efficient cities - make the best of your limited space by optimally positioning your buildings. Improve your lighthouse to repel the Smog and expand your city. Manage your resources - grow farms, build industries, develop science and inspire your people to create the rarest of resources: Eclairium! Reclaim the lost continent - the continent of Heksiga has been covered by a toxic Smog. Repair and improve magical lighthouses to repel that Smog and reclaim the land, region by region. Recover lost technologies - explore vestiges of the old Empire and rediscover technologies that were lost to the Smog.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dawnmaker at 100% against The Draugr's 50%. Dawnmaker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). The Draugr's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $8.99) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On ads, 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
The Draugr costs $1.99 and Dawnmaker $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dawnmaker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of The Draugr's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dawnmaker's.
The Draugr ships an update every 10 days, Dawnmaker daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Draugr | Dawnmaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $8.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | RIGEL Initiative Inc, The | Acram Digital |
Customer experience
The Draugr
Dawnmaker
In-app purchases
The Draugr
No in-app purchases
Dawnmaker
No in-app purchases









