Humphrey vs Retro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Humphrey
Embark on a unique adventure as a movie star seeking retirement, only to find your mansion overrun by obsessive fans. Use your paint supplies to complete unfinished rooms while evading pursuers and navigating hazardous environments.
- Joystick and tap controls
- Story-driven gameplay
- Fan and fly enemies
- Interactive environmental tiles
- Power-ups and collectibles
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GamePad MFI Compatible -------------------------- Controls --------- Use Joystick on Screen to Humphrey move. Tap button to Jump. Story -------- Humphrey you take the role of a movie megastar, who, being at the very edge of madness due to his fans mercyless besiege, goes for a quiet retirement on his brand new mansion. The house's forty rooms are not finished yet, his fans have located and invaded the place, all rooms are no painted. Humphrey wants to stay on the world of sane men, he will have to get his paint bucket and his paintbrush and do the work by himself, avoiding the hordes of mad fans that are hunting him down looking for an autograph... The fans. Fortunately enough, most of them are not very intelligent and just wander arround, but other ones actively hunt you down (although they usually can't see you while youare on the air, jumping). The flies. Those are not fans, just local fauna. They are not interested at all on you and just fly arround, but they have a lethal poisonous sting, so you'll better don't jump on any of them! Electrified tile and switch. Stepping on an electrified floor tile is a bad idea. There are very little ways of loosing a life more stupid than this one. Stepping over the switch will disable them for a short while. Bomb Stepping over this one will set up a bomb that will explode on a few seconds destroying everything arround. That includes you, so be careful! Stop Using this tile, your fans will be paralyzed for a while. But don't trust them, touching them is still a bad idea! Soap Don't step on this tile if you don't want to get a bad sourprise. Don't tell I didn't warn you... Mobile plattform You can use this to travel trough vast areas of empty space unable to be traveled trough by any other ways. Your fans never go on it, so it's a safe place to be at. Glass and Burguer There's nothing like a nice sip to calm your nerves; get those two objects and you will getting a lot of points :) Extra Life Stepping over this tile you get an extra life. I bet you already had guessed that before I told you :) First aid kit. Contains a powerful tranquilyzer that will let you have contact with your fans for a short while withouth being driven mad. Tele Trans This one work in pairs: if you use one, you will be teleported to the other, on other place of the room. Just as the mobile plattform, this is a safe place where your fans can't get you.
Retro
Navigate a treacherous pyramid maze, collecting treasures and avoiding deadly creatures. Use your gun to defend yourself against ghosts, mummies, vampires, and skeletons. Discover helpful cheats to aid your escape.
- Pyramid maze navigation
- Treasure collection
- Enemy avoidance and combat
- Multiple enemy types
- In-game cheats (POKEs)
- 6 levels of increasing difficulty
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Escape from the pyramid and discover its treasures. Find the exit at the top level of the maze while avoiding deadly creatures and collecting objects. You can shoot your gun to scare ghosts away, make mummies disappear and kill vampires and skeletons. Press back to access the in-game menu and enable helpful cheats (POKEs). Fred was originally developed for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1983 by Fernando Rada, Paco Menéndez and Carlos Granados and distributed by Indescomp. It was licensed, together with Bugaboo (The Flea) by Quicksilva near the end of 1983. It was initially published in the United Kingdom, and shortly after in Spain by Investrónica. Retro-Fred is a modern port of Fred. It aims to replicate the original game as closely as possible. A version developed in Scratch is also available. Retro-Fred is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is available for free. It does not store any user data and it does not need any usage permissions. Visit https://www.8bitfred.com and https://github.com/8bitfred/retro-fred for more information. The game The objective of the game is to reach the exit of the pyramid, located in the top level. The game has 6 levels of increasing difficulty. Each level has more and more difficult enemies: * Ghosts: they can go through the maze walls. They cannot be killed, but when they are shot they change the direction of movement. * Rats: they move laterally. Fred must jump vertically to avoid them. They cannot be killed. * Acid drops: run quickly to avoid getting hit by them. * Mummies: they walk slowly on the horizontal passages and fall quicky down the vertical corridors. They disappear when they get hit by a bullet, and reappear in a different location. * Chameleons: they walk on the side of the vertical corridors and jump from one side to the other. * Vampires: they fly in the maze and change directions randomly. They can be killed by shooting them. * Skeletons: they walk on the horizontal corridors and climb up and down the ropes, trying to follow Fred. They die when hit by a bullet. Objects There are different types of objects that Fred can collect inside the maze: * Treasures: they are worth 500 to 1500 points, plus extra bonuses when you reach the exit. * Power-up: increases the power level. * Ammo-up: recharges the number of bullets to the maximum level. * Map: shows a map of the section of the map near Fred. The corridors are shown in white and the walls in blue. After finishing a level you will get 5000 points, and 1000 bonus point for each treasure collected during the game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Humphrey at 10.0 against Retro's 15.6. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Humphrey against 5.0 for Retro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Humphrey ships an update weekly, Retro every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Humphrey | Retro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ivan Cerra de Castro | Miguel Catalina |
Customer experience
Humphrey
Retro
In-app purchases
Humphrey
No in-app purchases
Retro
No in-app purchases









