bitDungeonIII vs SOULVARS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
bitDungeonIII
Embark on a 2D action-adventure with rogue-lite elements. Explore randomly generated worlds and dungeons, forge alliances or engage in PvP for loot. Discover powerful items and enchants to enhance your character in a world facing inevitable doom.
- Randomly generated overworld and dungeons
- Permadeath with soul retrieval
- Online co-op and PvP
- Unique weapon power attacks and stat scaling
- Character augmentation via stat runes
- Controller support
- New Game Plus for replayability
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bitDungeonIII is a 2d action adventure game with rogue-lite elements. Randomly generated overworld and dungeons. Make allies with other players or kill them for their precious inventory items. Discover random items that greatly enhance and affect your character. Save a world that can't be saved. Features: Permadeath. You get one soul and only one chance to retrieve it when you die. Killing Bosses also grant souls. Randomly pre-generated overworld, dungeons, secrets, items and humanoid npcs. Online play using P2P networking,co-op and pvp. Each weapon type has a unique power attack and stat scaling. Level up based on which weapon you use. Change weapons to start leveling up that weapon type going towards your general level. Powerful weapon enchants dropped from bosses. Augment your character through changeable stat runes collected throughout your adventure. Boss & quest weapons. Giant difficult dungeon bosses. Original soundtrack by Houzatosis & Stress_TN. Controller Support. New game plus for endless replay value.
SOULVARS
Embark on a deck-building JRPG adventure where souls are converted into data to combat deformities. Master strategic card-based combat with dynamic pixel animations and deep customization. Explore dungeons, collect enchanted items, and uncover a rich story.
- Deck-building combat system
- Dynamic pixel animations
- Rich customization
- Dungeon exploration
- Random enchanted item collection
- Strategic soul bit combinations
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Deck-Building JRPG "SOULVARS" is now available! 15-20 hours of playtime (+50h to go deeper) Dynamic pixel animation and battles and a rich customization system No In-App Purchases. While having a deep strategic sense, the vertically held smartphone controls allow for simple and exhilarating battles, training, dungeon exploration, and collection of random enchanted items. ▼ Story A world line in which even the fictitious concept of the soul can be converted into data. In return, people's lives are threatened by the sudden appearance of deformities. The protagonists use the Soul Driver, a device that converts souls into data. They are responsible for the elimination of the deformities that threaten people, and work in a certain town... ▼System Overview Number of save slots: 3 (Saved in device and manual save) Estimated scenario completion time: 14 to 20 hours 50 to 100+ hours of post-clearance challenge Features Soul bits (handbills), which are the data of the soul power that resides in gear (equipment), Players can combine them in battle to make special attacks and combos in a successive manner. The characters are characterized by their action with dots that move around. ▼Gear and Soul Bits Soul bits (hand cards) can be drawn from gear (equipment) and used as actions during battle. The combination of main weapon, subweapon, armor, and accessories Strategy (deck) is determined. ▼Arts During a battle, only one soul bit can be selected on the first turn, but The number of soul bits that can be selected at one time increases depending on the opponent's weaknesses, guarding, evading, buffing, debuffing, and various other conditions. The combination of soul bits (cards in hand) selected at the same time activates a skill called Arts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SOULVARS at 4.8 against bitDungeonIII's 4.2. bitDungeonIII's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On review sentiment, ratings volume, 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
bitDungeonIII costs $1.99 and SOULVARS $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SOULVARS holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 47 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 81% and 81% positive.
bitDungeonIII ships an update every 3 weeks, SOULVARS every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | bitDungeonIII | SOULVARS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (19 ratings) | 4.8 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.8% of reviews | 81.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 47 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 279 MB | 377 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | KintoGames LLC | ginolabo Inc. |
Customer experience
bitDungeonIII
SOULVARS
In-app purchases
bitDungeonIII
No in-app purchases
SOULVARS
No in-app purchases
Questions
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