Comparison

'Normal Club vs MUDBasher

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

Head to head
About

'Normal Club

Investigate paranormal hot spots in Buckcreek as part of a high school club. Build your team, overcome challenges, and make choices in an interactive narrative with immersive audio. Compete against academic rivals to uncover a big scoop.

Highlights
  • Explore paranormal hot spots
  • Build your investigation team
  • Overcome challenges and collect clues
  • Interactive narrative with choices
  • Binaural audio for immersive soundscapes
  • Comic-like interface
Features
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Explore Buckcreek in search of paranormal hot spots. From author Philip Armstrong, winner of the Windhammer Prize 2013 and the studio behind The Frankenstein Wars and Heavy Metal Thunder -among other adventure gamebooks. ‘Normal Club is an investigation adventure in which you build (and play as) a team of three members of the West C. High School Competitive Paranormal Investigation Club as they investigate a big scoop and try to beat their academic rivals. "For a perfectly normal American town, Buckcreek sure has an unusual amount of paranormal hot spots. While the team might be tempted to stake out the first spooky graveyard or haunted zoo they come across, it might be better if they narrow down their options and actually figure out the location of tonight’s big discovery." FEATURES · Explore Buckcreek and the mysterious surroundings in search of paranormal hot spots · Build your team (including Jim Morrison -the Club’s pet chupacabra and mascot- or not) · Overcome challenges to progress and collect the right clues · Comic-like, simple interface · Binaural audio to create immersive soundscapes · Interactive narrative with hundreds of (funny) choices Your team needs the final trophy to knock out the rival team! Adapted from the gamebook by Philip Armstrong, winner of the Windhammer Prize 2013 for Short Gamebook Fiction. Color Illustrations: Àlex Santaló. Binaural Audio & Ambience: Albert Murillo.

About

MUDBasher

Experience a reimagined classic text-based adventure game. This app offers a faster, more visually appealing, and feature-rich version of a beloved program from 2012, built for modern devices. Dive into new adventures with enhanced performance and design.

Highlights
  • Classic text-based gameplay
  • Rebuilt for modern iOS
  • Faster performance
  • Improved visuals
  • Enhanced features
Features
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"A Classic Returns, Reimagined" The story of MUDBasher is the story of MUDRammer—a beloved app created with love in 2012, named after a friend's ridiculous character name, that brought joy to text gamers for years. When it could no longer keep up with modern iOS, rather than let it fade away, it was completely rebuilt from the ground up. Same heart, new soul. Faster, prettier, more features, and ready for the next decade of adventures.

Screenshots

'Normal Club4 screens
MUDBasher4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MUDBasher at Free against 'Normal Club's $0.99. MUDBasher also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 35 months). 'Normal Club's advantage is rating (3.3 vs 2.9) and review sentiment (46% vs 28%). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MUDBasher is free to download; 'Normal Club costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

'Normal Club holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of 'Normal Club's written reviews are positive against 28% of MUDBasher's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

'Normal Club ships an update every 35 months, MUDBasher every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
'Normal Club versus MUDBasher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter'Normal ClubMUDBasher
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (16 ratings) — better2.9 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews46.2% of reviews — better27.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1626 — better
Update frequencyEvery 35 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCubus GamesAndrew Goldfinch

Customer experience

'Normal Club

All ratings16 ratings
Positive37.5%
Neutral37.5%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive46.2%
Neutral23.1%
Negative30.8%

MUDBasher

All ratings26 ratings
Positive34.6%
Neutral15.4%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive27.6%
Neutral13.8%
Negative58.6%

In-app purchases

None

'Normal Club

No in-app purchases

None

MUDBasher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 'Normal Club free?
'Normal Club costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MUDBasher free?
MUDBasher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 'Normal Club or MUDBasher?
'Normal Club is rated higher. 'Normal Club averages 3.3 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while MUDBasher averages 2.9 from 26 ratings.
Do 'Normal Club or MUDBasher have ads?
Neither 'Normal Club nor MUDBasher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 'Normal Club or MUDBasher?
'Normal Club ships an update every 35 months, and MUDBasher every 6 days. Most recently, 'Normal Club was updated on October 24, 2026 and MUDBasher on October 21, 2026.

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