Merchant vs Spellers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merchant
Embark on a fantasy adventure where you manage a guild, send heroes on quests, and craft valuable items. Trade with customers, gather resources, and collaborate with friends in this unique RPG experience.
- Guild management
- Hero quests
- Item crafting
- Customer sales
- Resource gathering
- Online multiplayer
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Blending together traditional RPG systems, management mechanics, and a fantasy overworld, Merchant Guilds aims to reimagine the traditional mobile RPG. Play with your friends in a Guild as you send heroes on quests, craft equipment from your winnings, sell items to customers, and send workers out to gather more materials. Including online multiplayer functionality and developed by a team that is focused on this game for the foreseeable future
Spellers
Engage in a chaotic roguelike deckbuilding defense game with real-time strategy elements. Make critical decisions about unit deployment and skill unlocks to achieve victory. Experience massive battles with hundreds of 3D units clashing on the battlefield.
- Roguelike deckbuilding strategy
- Real-time unit deployment
- Massive 3D unit battles
- Skill and unit progression
- Strategic decision-making
- Tower defense gameplay
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A Chaotic Roguelike Deckbuilding Tower Defense with Real-Time Strategy ◆ Play the most intense and chaotic defense game in mobile gaming history! Make precise decisions. Summon at the perfect moment. Which units will you grow, and which skills will you unlock? Will you choose an elite squad or swarm tactics? Victory or defeat—all depends on your strategy. ◆ From the creators of "Lost Pages," the award-winning deck-building hit Developed by Jiffycrew, winners of Google Indie Game Festival Korea 2022, Spellers mixes the best of deck-building strategy and tower defense gameplay. It’s still in early access, with more relics and units to come, but this is the game that real gamers have been waiting for. ◆ A Cutting-Edge Tower Defense Game Powered by Advanced Tech Spellers harnesses the power of modern game engine technology to deliver massive real-time battles. Hundreds of 3D units move, pathfind, and deploy in real time, with layered abilities and complex interactions. Experience dynamic formations and intense combat as 500 units clash on the battlefield—fluid, strategic, and spectacular. Experience the undeniable fun for yourself. --- By downloading, you agree to our Terms of Service. ◆ Discord: https://discord.gg/wUE3PX69bX ◆ Contact: lostpages@jiffycrew.com ◆ Privacy Policy: https://jiffycrew.com/privacy_en ◆ Terms of Service: https://jiffycrew.com/eula_en
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spellers at every 4 days against Merchant's every 2 weeks. Merchant's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 5) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Merchant sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Spellers sells 45 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Merchant holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merchant has 53 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Merchant's written reviews are positive against 54% of Spellers's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Merchant ships an update every 2 weeks, Spellers every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Merchant | Spellers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (53 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 54.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 410 MB | 388 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Retora Game Studios | Jiffycrew |
Customer experience
Merchant
Spellers
In-app purchases
Merchant
- Extra Daily Challenge$0.99
- Extra Daily Challenge Upg #2$0.99
- Hero Slots Unlock$1.99
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- Additional Inventory Slots$1.99
- Second Inventory Upgrade$1.99
- Extra Crafting Slot$3.99
- Extra Hero Loadouts$9.99
- Ad Free Mode$9.99
- Unlock All Upgrades$29.99
- Unlock All Upgrades$34.99
Spellers
- Today Epic Rune$0.99
- Today Fire Unit$0.99
- Today Ice Unit$0.99
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- Today Earth Unit$0.99
- Energy +50$0.99
- Key x 100 (1+1)$0.99
- Game Speed$1.99
- No Ads$1.99
- Limited Key Pack I$1.99
- Rune Slot Pack I$1.99
- No Ads$2.99
- No Ads Pack$2.99
- Skill Slot$2.99
- Fire Continent Pass (Normal)$2.99
- Ice Continent Pass (Normal)$2.99
- Air Continent Pass (Infinite)$2.99
- Ice Continent Pass (Infinite)$2.99
- Fire Continent Pass (Infinite)$2.99
- Spellers Package 2$2.99
- Skill Slot$3.99
- Battle Reward Booster 2.5X$3.99
- Air Continent Pass$3.99
- Ice Continent Pass$3.99
- Energy Saver$3.99
- Energy Production +1$3.99
- Energy Tank$3.99
- Key x 500 (1+1)$3.99
- Skill Slot$4.99
- Earth Continent Pass (Normal)$4.99
- Earth Continent Pass Infinite$4.99
- Air Continent Pass (Normal)$4.99
- Skill Slot$5.99
- Game Speed Pack (2.5X)$5.99
- Battle Reward Booster 3.0X$5.99
- Spellers Package 1-2$5.99
- Spellers Package 3-2$5.99
- Spellers Package 2-2$5.99
- Today Legendary Rune$6.99
- Game Speed Pack (3.0X)$9.99
- Key x 1200 (1+1)$9.99
- Excavate Package IV$12.99
- Key x 2500 (1+1)$17.99
- Key x 6600 (1+1)$39.99
- Excavate Package V$69.99
- Key x 15000 (1+1)$89.99









