Comparison

Eternal Return vs Pet Alliance

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

Head to head
About

Eternal Return

Engage in turn-based strategic battles against monsters and yokai in an anime-style fantasy world. Improve your hero, weapons, and magical pets through card collection and leveling up to restore the eternal return cycle. Enjoy an offline RPG experience with optional in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategy battles
  • Hero and Kami (monster) leveling
  • Card-based weapon and magic upgrades
  • Fantasy anime-style story
  • Offline gameplay
  • Optional in-app purchases
Features
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The perpetual day has fallen upon the earth. Fight terrible monsters and yokai in the turn-based battles of Eternal Return, a turn-based strategy rpg. Use your hero's magic and your kami's (pokemon like monsters) magic to create the best strategy. Improve your weapons and magic thanks to card crawl. Eternal Return's battle system is similar to a board strategy rpg with turn-based battles. As you progress through dungeons, the monsters and bosses will become more and more powerful through almost infinite levels. Level up your hero, earn rewards and open chests to collect the game cards to improve your eternal sword and spells. This way you can choose between multiple types of weapons and attacks with the most diverse magic effects. Follow a fantasy story in a world of anime style, dystopian and with an atmosphere of japanese rpg. You’ll have to defeat the sun queen and the yokai hordes, so as to recover the eternal return cycle. Eternal Return takes the best things of other rpgs and great turn-based strategy games. You'll find multiple kami pets, magical monsters that fight for you. You can use them in turn-based battles, to defeat the most powerful monsters using their special magic. You can level up your Kami and teach them new attacks with very different effects that will allow you to define completely new fighting strategies. You can play Eternal Return as an offline casual game, as your inventory is saved offline only a couple of features require connection. All the content of the game is available and can be obtained for free, it depends on your expertise and strategy that you get to unlock all the secrets. There is no limit of stamina or energy. Purchases are optional and useful to complete your collections faster.

About

Pet Alliance

Embark on an epic monster-collecting adventure with hundreds of unique creatures to capture, evolve, and enhance. Engage in turn-based RPG battles, solve puzzles, and compete in real-time PvP duels. Team up with friends, trade items, and participate in daily boss fights for valuable rewards.

Highlights
  • Over 400 pets to capture
  • Pet evolution and enhancement
  • Turn-based strategy RPG combat
  • Real-time PvP arena duels
  • Real-time voice chat
  • Life skills and trading
  • Daily boss fights
Features
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**Description New scenes, new animations, new content! Carrying a generation of classic memories! **Feature - More than 400 pets waiting to be captured - Evolve, enhance, and upgrade your pets into more powerful and complex forms; - Solve puzzles and fight in this round-based strategy RPG; - Compete in PVP arena and duel with others in real-time fight; - Chat with your friends in real-time voice chat; - Learn life skills & trade in markets & create clan and team up with your buddies; - Daily Boss fights to win things like senior pet hatchers!!! **What's new - New Function: Science & Sub Attribute - New Event: Pet Wanted and King of Pet **Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GWLMFUKE

Screenshots

Eternal Return4 screens
Pet Alliance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Eternal Return at 4.7 against Pet Alliance's 3.8. Eternal Return also leads on review sentiment (57% vs 36%). Pet Alliance's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Eternal Return sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Pet Alliance sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eternal Return holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 54 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Eternal Return's written reviews are positive against 36% of Pet Alliance's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Eternal Return versus Pet Alliance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEternal ReturnPet Alliance
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (33 ratings) — better3.8 (54 ratings)
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews — better35.7% of reviews
Number of ratings3354 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size230 MB358 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperNestor Dominguez VarelaShanghai Fangcun Information Technology Company Inc.

Customer experience

Eternal Return

All ratings33 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

Pet Alliance

All ratings54 ratings
Positive72.2%
Neutral3.7%
Negative24.1%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive35.7%
Neutral8.9%
Negative55.4%

Bugs and requests

Eternal Return

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pet Alliance

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • 🐛 Lost pets in training room
  • 🐛 Game is buggy
  • 🐛 Lost pets when training
  • 🐛 No fix bug
  • 🐛 Account gone
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  • 🐛 Server deleted
  • 🐛 Lost account
  • 🐛 Missing 37
  • 🐛 Game changed drastically
  • 🐛 Lost gold coin and vigor
  • 🐛 Overcharged debit card
  • 🐛 Did not receive purchased items
  • 🐛 Account recovery issues after update
  • 🐛 Game not translated properly
  • 🐛 Many things saying ????

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add Vietnamese language
  • Add English language
  • Update Vietnamese
  • Hope for update
  • 希望有怪物X聯盟2

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Eternal Return

One-time9
  • Fistful of crystals$1.09
  • Push Up Pack$1.99
  • Pouch of crystals$4.99
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  • Starter Pack$4.99
  • Sack of crystals$7.99
  • Sack of crystals$9.99
  • Barrel of crystals$17.99
  • Wagon of crystals$35.99
  • Mountain of crystals$54.99
6 purchases

Pet Alliance

One-time6
  • 400鑽石$0.99
  • 2000鑽石$4.99
  • 4000鑽石$9.99
Show 3 more
  • 8500鑽石$19.99
  • 22000鑽石$49.99
  • 45000鑽石$99.99

Questions

Is Eternal Return free?
Eternal Return is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pet Alliance free?
Pet Alliance is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Eternal Return or Pet Alliance?
Eternal Return is rated higher. Eternal Return averages 4.7 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while Pet Alliance averages 3.8 from 54 ratings.
Do Eternal Return or Pet Alliance have ads?
Eternal Return shows ads; Pet Alliance does not.
Which is updated more often, Eternal Return or Pet Alliance?
Eternal Return ships an update every 2 months, and Pet Alliance every 2 months. Most recently, Eternal Return was updated on November 2, 2026 and Pet Alliance on November 3, 2026.

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