Comparison

Evil Doll vs Deadly Nightmare

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

Head to head
About

Evil Doll

Step into a haunted mansion as a schoolboy to solve puzzles, avoid traps, and escape a terrifying doll. Uncover the mystery of a cursed family and choose your escape route. Can you survive the horror?

Highlights
  • Explore huge haunted mansion
  • Solve challenging puzzles
  • Avoid horror enemies
  • Unravel thrilling story
  • Multiple escape endings
  • Customizable gameplay
Features
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--- Over 500000 players have already felt the horror --- As a schoolboy, step inside a haunted house filled with secrets, horror traps, and mind-bending puzzles as you try to escape from the Nun's Evil Doll and uncover the mystery of the cursed Gerritsen family. Explore an enormous, eerie mansion, filled with mysterious rooms and hidden places waiting to be discovered. Your mission? Solve challenging puzzles, avoid deadly traps, and escape before the Nun's Evil Doll catches you. Only a few players manage to escape on the hardest levels—can you survive? What Awaits You in Evil Doll? Explore Huge Locations: Discover every eerie corner of the Gerritsen house, from dark basements to hidden rooms, each filled with terrifying secrets. Challenging Puzzles: Use your brain to solve tricky puzzles that change with each playthrough. Horror Enemies: The Scary Evil Doll and other spooky surprises lurk around every corner, ready to test your nerves! From a scary doll to a creepy spider, this game has it! Thrilling Story: Unravel the mystery of the haunted family and the curse of the Scary Evil Doll. Different Endings: Different cut scenes, escape through the front door locked with multiple locks or take the garden escape. Easy to Play, Hard to Master: Choose your difficulty: play at your own pace in ghost schoolboy mode or test your limits on higher levels for the ultimate horror challenge with the nightmare difficulty mode. Special Features for Horror and Monster Fans! - Creepy Atmosphere: Enjoy a horror environment with realistic visuals, eerie sounds, and terrifying music. - Customizable Gameplay: Unlock skins, weapons, and more to personalize your horror experience. - Suitable for All Players: Simple controls make it easy to play, but survival is far from guaranteed! Are you ready to face the Nun's Evil Doll, it's monsters, and escape the nightmare in this remake? Download Evil Doll now and see if you have what it takes to survive!

About

Deadly Nightmare

Embark on a terrifying survival adventure in a haunted manor. Uncover family curses, craft spells, and gather tools to break them before time runs out. Explore supernatural locations and confront the queen of curses in this engaging horror experience.

Highlights
  • Explore a scary manor
  • Break family curses
  • Create spells and curses
  • Gather materials and tools
  • Use poisons for powers
  • Confront the queen of curses
Features
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Deadly Nightmare is an exciting and engaging Horror/Survival game where you play the role of a boy living in a big manor. You need to use all the tools at your disposal in order to explore the world, find mysteries and explore a variety of challenging, scary and supernatural locations. Do you have what it takes to uncover the truth? Only you know that, so go ahead and enjoy this frightening, yet exciting and eye-opening story! Exciting story In Deadly Nightmare, the grandmother of our main character died and she writes in her will that some curses are tied to their family. After they died, the curses go into her body. It’s up to us, the boy to break the family curses. You have 6 hours to stay alive and survive, then the curse will go into the maid’s body, and then into the boy. We need to explore the game world as much as possible in order to find the book of curses. Powerful, rewarding gameplay What we need to do is to explore the manor and find the book of curses. Once we do that, we need to make spells and curses in order to protect ourselves from the evil’s power. We also need to finish our main mission, which is “The Gate of Curses”. That means finding the right materials that we need in order to make the curse and open the gate of curses. In doing so, we will find and try to defeat the queen of curses. It’s a challenging, yet great adventure that you can be a part of today. Experiment with various spells Some of the Deadly Nightmare spells are actually available in real-life, they were used as an inspiration for the game. But most of them are fictional spells that fit into the story and provide that unique, exciting and interesting appeal you would expect. Find and use tools and materials These are very helpful and you will need them in order to move onward into the story. It’s exciting and rewarding, fun and also easy to get into. However, you can also find some poisons that you can use to get supernatural powers as well. The manor itself is very scary, and it comes with its fair share of challenges. Do you have what it takes to explore it and solve this once and for all? Try out Deadly Nightmare today! Features: Explore the manor and remove the curse Create curses and spells with cool effects Grab materials and tools Use poisons to get supernatural powers

Screenshots

Evil Doll4 screens
Deadly Nightmare4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Deadly Nightmare at none against Evil Doll's 16. Deadly Nightmare also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). Evil Doll's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 5). On price, rating, ads 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

Both are free to download. Evil Doll sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Deadly Nightmare asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Evil Doll against 4.2 for Deadly Nightmare. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Evil Doll has 1.9K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Evil Doll's written reviews are positive against 100% of Deadly Nightmare's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Evil Doll ships an update every 4 months, Deadly Nightmare weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Evil Doll versus Deadly Nightmare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvil DollDeadly Nightmare
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (1.9K ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews66.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.9K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size263 MB352 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperRoy van den PolElectrical Eagle Studio Ltd

Customer experience

Evil Doll

All ratings1,896 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral6.2%
Negative14.5%
Written reviews175 reviews
Positive66.3%
Neutral10.9%
Negative22.9%

Deadly Nightmare

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Evil Doll

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Battery doesn't work in safe
  • Items disappear
  • Combination safe doesn't open
  • Key doesn't show up
  • Glitches at the end
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  • Kid gets stuck in certain spots

Requested features

9 requests
  • Add old clown skin and area back
  • Add sewer update, new pet, car escape ending, and better game over scene
  • Add practice mode
  • Make the kid do more (e.g. randomly stab the air)
  • Increase walking speed
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  • Add new game over ending (e.g. involving the cauldron room)
  • Add more puzzles and content
  • Lower skin prices
  • Add ghost mode

Deadly Nightmare

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Evil Doll

One-time16
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Galactic$1.99
  • Zombie$1.99
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  • Demonic$1.99
  • Cat$3.99
  • Pink$3.99
  • Clown$3.99
  • Alt & Pink$3.99
  • Demonic & Steampunk$4.99
  • Ice$4.99
  • Anime$4.99
  • Alt & Artistic$4.99
  • Steampunk$4.99
  • Galactic, Ice & Artistic$6.99
  • Demonic, Zombie, Steam & Ice$6.99
  • Anime, Clown, Ice & Art Doll$8.99
None

Deadly Nightmare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Evil Doll free?
Evil Doll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deadly Nightmare free?
Deadly Nightmare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Evil Doll or Deadly Nightmare?
Evil Doll is rated higher. Evil Doll averages 4.2 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Deadly Nightmare averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Evil Doll or Deadly Nightmare have ads?
Both Evil Doll and Deadly Nightmare show ads.
Which is updated more often, Evil Doll or Deadly Nightmare?
Evil Doll ships an update every 4 months, and Deadly Nightmare weekly. Most recently, Evil Doll was updated on October 21, 2026 and Deadly Nightmare on October 24, 2026.

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