Comparison

The Complex vs Plague Doctor

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

Head to head
About

The Complex

Experience a sci-fi thriller where your choices shape the narrative and lead to one of eight endings. Navigate a locked-down lab after a bio-weapon attack, managing relationships and your character's personality.

Highlights
  • Interactive gameplay
  • Multiple endings
  • Relationship tracking
  • Personality tracking
  • Branching narrative
Features
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After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. With interactive gameplay, your actions and your relationship with other characters will lead you to one of eight suspenseful endings. Having treated the victims of a chemical attack in the totalitarian state of Kindar, Dr Amy Tenant is a leader in the advancement of Nanocell Technology. Now, in London, news breaks of a blood-vomiting civilian whose identity is far from coincidental. Reunited with an old friend, Amy is trapped in an impenetrable HQ of laboratories—a womb of scientific advancement with a perilous secret. The Complex is written by Lynn Renee Maxcy, part of the Emmy award-winning writing team from The Handmaid’s Tale. The interactive movie stars Michelle Mylett (Letterkenny), Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones) and Al Weaver (Grantchester). Relationship Tracking Throughout the game you will interact with characters and — depending on your choices — will either strengthen or weaken your relationship. The relationship scores are calculated from the start right through to the very end and will affect certain scenarios as well as having major consequences in the concluding scenes. Personality Tracking For every decision you make, every interaction, your character’s personality is being tracked. At the end of each playthrough, you are rewarded with a Personality Score and a breakdown to see how you played the game. Discover the five basic dimensions of a personality; openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Which of those will your character play?

About

Plague Doctor

Experience life as a medieval plague doctor. Gather ingredients, craft remedies, and treat villagers in a dark cure simulator. Complete patient care missions using doctor tools and medieval clinic methods.

Highlights
  • Gather herbs and ingredients
  • Prepare and brew medicine
  • Treat sick villagers
  • Use doctor tools
  • Complete treatment tasks
  • Medieval clinic gameplay
Features
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Step into the role of a plague doctor in a dark medieval cure simulator. Gather herbs, prepare remedies, grind ingredients, brew medicine, make healing paste, and treat sick villagers inside a mysterious medieval world. Visit patients, follow case objectives, use doctor tools, and complete simple treatment tasks such as lowering fever, preparing cure bottles, and applying paste on burns. Plague Doctor: Cure Simulator offers task-based doctor gameplay with ingredients, remedies, patient care, and medieval clinic-style treatment missions.

Screenshots

The Complex4 screens
Plague Doctor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Complex at 4.4 against Plague Doctor's 1.6. The Complex also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (46% vs 11%). Plague Doctor's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. The Complex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Plague Doctor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Complex holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Complex has 187 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of The Complex's written reviews are positive against 11% of Plague Doctor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Complex ships an update every 3 months, Plague Doctor every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
The Complex versus Plague Doctor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe ComplexPlague Doctor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (187 ratings) — better1.6 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews45.8% of reviews — better11.1% of reviews
Number of ratings187 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size2.0 GB213 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWales Interactive Ltd.Naeem Akhtar

Customer experience

The Complex

All ratings187 ratings
Positive82.9%
Neutral8.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive45.8%
Neutral20.3%
Negative33.9%

Plague Doctor

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive11.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative88.9%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

The Complex

One-time1
  • The Complex - Unlock Full Game$4.99
1 purchases

Plague Doctor

One-time1
  • Remove Ads2 variants$4.99

Questions

Is The Complex free?
The Complex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plague Doctor free?
Plague Doctor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Complex or Plague Doctor?
The Complex is rated higher. The Complex averages 4.4 out of 5 from 187 ratings, while Plague Doctor averages 1.6 from 5 ratings.
Do The Complex or Plague Doctor have ads?
Plague Doctor shows ads; The Complex does not.
Which is updated more often, The Complex or Plague Doctor?
The Complex ships an update every 3 months, and Plague Doctor every 6 weeks. Most recently, The Complex was updated on November 11, 2026 and Plague Doctor on November 5, 2026.

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