Comparison

Wilderless vs ASTER

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

Head to head
About

Wilderless

Explore a vast, procedurally generated open world with no enemies or quests. Enjoy peaceful moments, stunning natural landscapes, and a calming soundtrack. Customize your character, build shelters, and transform into various animals for a stress-free escape.

Highlights
  • Vast procedurally generated open world
  • No enemies or quests
  • Character customization
  • Placeable shelters
  • Shape-shifting into animals
  • PhotoMode with effects and filters
  • Calming soundtrack
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A HUGE PROCEDURALLY GENERATED OPEN WORLD No enemies. No quests. Just miles of beautiful, natural, untamed wilderness to explore and relax in. Enjoy a world of quiet moments and stunning views, with golden sunsets behind sky-high mountains, flower filled rolling green hills, and frost covered tundra and frozen lakes - Explore a gorgeous, vast open world wilderness - A true Open World. Go anywhere, anytime - A beautiful soundtrack covers many moods as you explore - Customize your character with hair, hats, outfits and more - Place shelters: choose from 2 tents, natural rock and a small house - Relax in a natural and calm stress-free environment - Ad-free, no in-app purchases or additional downloads - Take beautiful photos with PhotoMode - Tons of effects, filters, and options to customize - A solo indie project made with love - Run, swim, and fly through deep forests and rolling hills - Go skating on the frozen lakes of the North - Feeling anxiety? Take a quiet boat ride along the river - Fly through the skies as a mighty hawk - Shapechange into horses, bears, boar, foxes and more - Ride a pirate ship - fireworks included - Benchmark with extensive quality options and settings - Gamepad support SUPPORT Questions or Comments? : robert@protopop.com To reset game: goto Splashscreen-options-reset button. To optimize: goto Splashscreen-optimize TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x3DeLJyR3w FOLLOW ME - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/protopopgames/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/protopop - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProtopopGames/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/protopopgames/ SHARE Feel free to put footage of my game on YouTube or any other website. It helps me spread the word and reach more people, and I appreciate it. Thank you for supporting independent games:) Recommended Specifications • Devices: iPad Pro, iPad (10th Gen), iPad Air (6th Gen), iPad mini (7th Gen), iPhone 11 series, and later models • CPU: Apple A13 Bionic or newer • RAM: 4 GB or more • Operating System: iOS 16.0 or later

About

ASTER

Features
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An SOS from twelve years ago reaches your wrist. ASTER: The Final Twelve Beats is an interactive mystery made exclusively for Apple Watch. Interpret haptic patterns, answer through movements of your wrist, and use Watch sensor records to uncover the truth behind a fatal accident. Twelve years ago, an equipment failure occurred during a test of the ASTER haptic communication system at a remote mountain observatory. Leo, a seventeen-year-old participant, was declared dead at the scene. Twelve years later, however, a recovered record suggests that he may have survived for another thirty-one minutes while continuing to send an SOS. Leo’s sister, Mina, gathers everyone connected to the accident at the closed observatory. You were Leo’s designated ASTER receiver. Only your Apple Watch, carrying the original receiver ID, can verify the records he left behind. A blizzard cuts the observatory off from the outside world. Testimonies conflict. Video files have been erased. Equipment logs reveal unexplained operations. Then, during the investigation, a new incident begins to echo the past. HAPTICS BECOME WORDS Short and long vibrations combine to form messages. Haptics become communications from the characters, while movements of your wrist become your replies. • Interpret haptic patterns without relying on sound • Reply through natural wrist movements • Remain still to separate your movement from external movement • Use direction readings to locate hidden signals • Compare motion and orientation records with witness statements Your Apple Watch is more than a small screen. It is a communicator, a measuring instrument and a piece of evidence. CHOOSE WHO TO TRUST Every person tells a different version of the past. Who will you trust? Which record will you investigate? Who will receive the evidence? How much of the truth will you reveal? Your decisions change the evidence you obtain, your relationships with the characters and the ending you reach. • Chapters 0–7 plus an epilogue • Approximately 100–125 minutes for a first playthrough • Five endings • Cinematic pixel art • Automatic saving plus one manual save slot • No voices, music or sound effects ASTER requires watchOS 10.0 or later. It cannot be played on an iPhone alone and does not use an iPhone companion app. Some scenes require sensor-based wrist or body movements. There are no time limits for these actions, and they can be paused or retried. Always check your surroundings before playing. If haptics are disabled, every essential meaning can also be checked on screen. ASTER does not access heart-rate data or other HealthKit information. It does not record audio or the surrounding environment. Raw motion, location and walking-history data are not stored in save files. The SOS reached your wrist twelve years ago. Will you answer it tonight?

Screenshots

Wilderless4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ASTER at daily against Wilderless's every 3 months. ASTER also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Wilderless costs $4.99 and ASTER $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wilderless ships an update every 3 months, ASTER daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Wilderless versus ASTER: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWilderlessASTER
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.2 (254 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings254 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert KabweHOBEEC

Bugs and requests

Wilderless

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when changing graphics settings
  • Disappearing shelters and structures
  • Inconsistent weather and environmental effects
  • Stuck underwater or in terrain when respawning

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more animals and creatures to interact with
  • Introduce quests, missions, or a light narrative
  • Implement a save/load system for custom worlds
  • Add support for controllers and gamepad input
  • Expand customization options for character and environment

ASTER

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Wilderless

No in-app purchases

None

ASTER

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wilderless free?
Wilderless costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ASTER free?
ASTER costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wilderless or ASTER have ads?
Neither Wilderless nor ASTER shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wilderless or ASTER?
Wilderless ships an update every 3 months, and ASTER daily. Most recently, Wilderless was updated on November 11, 2026 and ASTER on November 5, 2026.

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