Monocular Enemy vs Rogue Sword
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monocular Enemy
Embark on a retro 2D side-scrolling adventure as a robot fighting to save the world from monsters. Navigate traps, defeat enemies, and overcome bosses to restore peace. This free game offers a complete experience without waiting or billing elements, featuring auto-save functionality.
- 2D side-scrolling gameplay
- Robot protagonist
- Monster and boss battles
- Trap avoidance
- Auto-save functionality
- Free to play
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Monocular enemy is a 2D action game of side scrolling. A robot got up to save the world dominated by monsters. Defeat enemies, avoid traps, defeat the boss and regain peace to the world. This game has no boring waiting time or billing elements. You can play free of charge until the ending. It supports auto save. ■ Operation method Lkey: move left Rkey: move right Akey: Jump ■ Attack method Akey + Akey Pressing Akey while jumping attacks. Falling + Akey Pressing Akey while falling will attack. BGM: Pocket sound depeloper twitter: YUSEI MIYOSHI
Rogue Sword
Embark on a challenging retro adventure, battling monsters and collecting treasures across diverse locations. Master strategic combat, build unique characters with rich upgrades, and face epic bosses in this fast-paced roguelite.
- High-difficulty fast-paced action
- Intense and strategic battle
- Random character generation
- Rich weapons and spells
- Character upgrades
- Epic boss battles
- Retro CRT filters
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Pick up your weapon, travel through various locations, defeat the monsters blocking the way, and find ancient treasures. High-difficulty fast-paced action game. Intense and strategic battle. Control your own rhythm, hit a higher number of combos, get a lot of gold coins to buy weapons and magic to arm yourself. Challenge 7 epic bosses! **Pixel Perfect graphics **Beautiful pixel light and shadow **RogeLite **A completely random character every time (Tall? Short? As sensitive as a ninja? Even crazy...) **Different character skills **Rich weapons and spells **A large number of upgrades to create your unique character ** Lots of different enemies **Boss battle full of variables **Retro mode brings beautiful CRT filters and more difficult challenges! One More Game, Never ending.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rogue Sword at every 3 weeks against Monocular Enemy's every 15 months. Rogue Sword also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Monocular Enemy's advantage is ratings volume (93 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rogue Sword holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Monocular Enemy has 93 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Monocular Enemy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rogue Sword's.
Monocular Enemy ships an update every 15 months, Rogue Sword every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monocular Enemy | Rogue Sword |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (93 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | YUSEI MIYOSHI | 天旻 王 |
Customer experience
Monocular Enemy
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In-app purchases
Monocular Enemy
No in-app purchases
Rogue Sword
No in-app purchases
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