Red Sword vs Counter Knights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Red Sword
Engage in epic battles by enlarging your sword and unleashing a multitude of skills to defeat legions of monsters. Power up your abilities, equip numerous skills, and discover rare items to achieve ultimate strength. Explore bonus and hidden stages for an enhanced gaming experience.
- Enlarge sword for powerful attacks
- Activate numerous skills
- Equip any number of skills
- Obtain powerful weapons
- Power up abilities
- Discover rare items
- Bonus and hidden stages
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Power up the various abilities! Activate a large number of skills to defeat enemies!! ■ Game description ・Enlarge your sword and attack many enemies! ・Obtain powerful weapons to attack legions of monsters! ・Activate a large number of skills to attack many enemies! ・You can equip any number of skills! ・Obtain rare items to achieve unrivaled power! ・You can power up the various abilities! ・There are bonus stages and hidden stages!
Counter Knights
Engage in thrilling real-time counterattack battles in this action RPG. Master enemy patterns to unleash powerful counterattacks, customize your knight's growth, and equip unique weapons to suit your playstyle. Explore a rich universe with an engaging story and collect artifacts for permanent buffs.
- Real-time counterattack system
- Strategic boss fights
- Knight growth and customization
- Weapon enhancement and skills
- Artifact collection for buffs
- Extensive universe and story
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◈◈ Well-made Realtime counterattack action RPG!! ◈◈ ▶ Simple yet in-depth thrilling counterattack! ▶ Counterattack? Guard Break?, Life-stealing? Equip weapons tailored for your play style! ▶ Enriched environments with growth factors and collectibles! ▶ Elaborative storytelling and relics/weapons for its extensive universe! ◈◈ Game Mechanics ◈◈ ▶ Counterattack system - Breath-taking counterattack mechanics! - Analyze an enemy’s pattern to counterattack at its precise moment! - You will be invincible when you counterattack. ▶ Sensational Boss Fight - Unique attack patterns styled for each of the bosses - Analyze their attack patterns with strategies! ▶ Rich environment for growth and collectibles - Knight Growth: Growth system allows Knight to develop to match the player’s style. - Artifacts Storage: You can obtain relics upon clearing stage with 3 stars. Collect them to gain permanent buffs and reveal the world’s secrets. - Weapon Management: There are weapons inside ancient relic boxes! Customize via weapon enhancements and passive skills for your play style! ▶ Fight in your style! : Growth and weapon changes - Players can develop their character with enhancements that strengthens their play style. - Knight will learn passive skills upon certain level-ups after an attribution enhancement. - Each weapon comes with a different enhancement bonus and skills. You can equip desired weapons. Ex) For stable hunting: : Prioritize stamina level up + life-steal weapons Ex) A rampage style : Utilize weapons that converts basic attack and skills into area attacks Ex) To disarm enemies : Equip Empire weapons to fill up the enemy’s knock-down gage twice faster. ▶ Extravagant universe and breath-taking stories! - Explore deep into the story as you defeat enemies! - A story of the Knight fighting to find out the secret of the universe.
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Verdict
Red Sword and Counter Knights both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Counter Knights's written reviews are positive against 78% of Red Sword's. Counter Knights also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Red Sword's advantage is ratings volume (278 vs 66). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Red Sword sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Counter Knights sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Red Sword against 4.8 for Counter Knights. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 278 and 66 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Red Sword's written reviews are positive against 93% of Counter Knights's.
Red Sword ships an update weekly, Counter Knights every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Red Sword | Counter Knights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (278 ratings) | 4.8 (66 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.2% of reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 278 — better | 66 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 302 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tatsuki | Youna Kho |
Customer experience
Red Sword
Counter Knights
Bugs and requests
Red Sword
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Counter Knights
Reported bugs
10 issues- Cannot purchase in-app items
- In-app purchases not working
- Cannot open instance 3 on iPhone
- iOS players not getting updates like Android
- Countering boss patterns is inconsistent
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- Game crashes or cannot play
- Grammar and spelling errors
- Translation is not perfect
- Game screen not fitting iPhone notch
- Need to restart app after watching ads
Requested features
15 requests- Update the game regularly
- Add more content
- Improve companion stats and damage
- Add more stars or uses for extra companion materials
- Fix in-app purchase issues
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- Add more stages or levels
- Improve English translations
- Add an online system
- Add more avatar skins
- Add more items with new options
- Add more things to buy with gems
- Allow saving progress with Facebook
- Add a feature to skip boss intro screens
- Add more universe expansion concepts
- Make AFK rewards unlimited
In-app purchases
Red Sword
- RingEx1$6.99
- playercolor1$6.99
Counter Knights
- Informal Resource Requrest$0.99
- Advertisement Removal Set$4.99
- Resource Set - Rich merchant$9.99
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- Large Scale Resource Request$9.99
- Dovotion of Friar Knight$9.99
- Golden Pickaxe Set$9.99
- Double Resource Set$19.99
- Resource Set - Nabob$19.99
- The Agent of Church Set$19.99
- The Chosen One Set$29.99
Questions
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