Forgotten Tales vs Elder Heroes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forgotten Tales
Embark on a retro-style fantasy adventure in this massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Explore a vast open world, customize your character and home, and engage in both PvE and PvP combat. Features community-driven development with a built-in map editor.
- Retro 2.5D isometric view
- Character and house customization
- Built-in map editor
- Community-driven development
- PvE and PvP combat
- Vast open world exploration
- Multiple skills and classes
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MMORPG game with players from all over the world. Explore the great open world. • Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game • Old school experience, classic fantasy MMO. 2.5D isometric view. For these who prefer more pixel games than 3D. • Customization! Customize your outfit, get your own house, get unique equipment! • No ads, free to play. • Dozens of different pets and followers! • Built-in map editor. Help develop the game and create your own map, quests, items and monsters and share it with other players. • Community driven development. Join testers, game master, map makers, translators or just play and enjoy. • Ally with other players to defeat strong monsters. • Join or create your own clan, build your base and conquer the opponents. • Vast open world. • PvE and PvP combat. • Day and night. Torches, campfires. • Multiple skills, fishing, farming, chopping, mining, building, crafting. • Multiple classes: mage, swordsman, dwarf, ogre, archer. • Events! • Meet the players from all over the world on the same server. • Trade, fight, build. • Increase your level and skills without limits. • Regular updates! The game is in active development. • 900 different monsters are waiting for you. • Find the best equipment. Over 1300 items. • Solve hundreds of quests. • Explore the dungeons. • True cross-platform MMO experience. Play on desktop or mobile with all players on a single shared server. • Join active Forgotten Tales community. We have lively forum and discord.
Elder Heroes
Embark on an adventure in a magical world filled with secrets and treasures. Assemble a team of unique heroes, strategize battles, and explore dungeons for rewards. Compete with friends and climb the leaderboards in this classic RPG experience.
- Unique heroes with distinct strengths
- Strategic team building and development
- Dungeon exploration for rewards
- Vast world map for adventure
- Competitive arena rankings
- Equipment and gem collection
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【The unique IDLE HERO RPG on App Store. Gift codes: NEW2026】 Greetings, hero! Start your adventure here, in a magical world full of secrets, dangers and treasures. Enjoy with your friends an immersion in a classic RPG and explore forgotten lands where evil reigns and chaos flourishes. Features of the game: - A large number of different characters, each is unique in its own way and has its own strength points. Choose the development path of your heroes. Assemble a team, strengthen them with powerful equipment and deal a crushing blow to your enemies. -An incalculable number of combinations and types of strategies that will help you outwit the enemy on the battlefield and come out of the fight victorious. - Explore the dungeon, which holds a lot of generous rewards and the deeper you go down, the more of them! But do not forget about the dangers that await you at every corner. - Immerse yourself in a fantastic world of adventures on a huge world map, together with your friends and comrades in arms. Plunge into history and unravel all the secrets of this world. - Take a leading position in the ratings in a variety of areas. Fight in the arena, get the highest rank, and leave your competitors behind. - Collect a set of equipment, heroes and gems acquired from the dungeon. Your collection is the key to strength, power and recognition..
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Elder Heroes at 4.3 against Forgotten Tales's 3.7. Elder Heroes also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 63%). Forgotten Tales's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 6) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Forgotten Tales sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Elder Heroes sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Elder Heroes holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Forgotten Tales has 31 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Forgotten Tales's written reviews are positive against 80% of Elder Heroes's.
Forgotten Tales ships an update fortnightly, Elder Heroes every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Forgotten Tales | Elder Heroes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (31 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 230 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mateusz Dworak | Vitaliy Mayorov |
Customer experience
Forgotten Tales
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In-app purchases
Forgotten Tales
- Extra level$0.99
- Change your character skin$0.99
- Pet/follower$2.99
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- Full gear set$2.99
- Upgrade item$2.99
- Extra backpack$3.99
- Premium skin$7.99
- Extra 10 levels$8.99
- Skin recolor$16.99
- Exta 100 levels$84.99
Elder Heroes
- Newbie pack 1.$0.99
- Common equipment. Set 2.$2.99
- Privilege card.$4.99
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- Character skin.$9.99
- Rare equipment. Set 1.$9.99
- Privilege card Premium.$14.99
- Skip Ads.$14.99
- Special Equip Pack 5.$34.99
- Guild pack 6.$69.99
- Essence pack 3.$69.99
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