Comparison

Afterplace vs Downpour

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

Head to head
About

Afterplace

Embark on an open-world adventure on your mobile device, exploring a vast landscape filled with hidden secrets, treasures, and quirky characters. Engage in combat, uncover mysteries, and forge your own path through a world without waypoints.

Highlights
  • Open world exploration
  • Hidden secrets and treasures
  • Combat with monsters
  • Interactive characters
  • No virtual buttons
  • Dynamic control adaptation
Features
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An open world adventure game filled with silly characters and terrible secrets. Afterplace is an adventurous indie game for mobile devices. It's a huge open world, full of hidden secrets, treasures, and creatures. You'll run around the woods, fight monsters, and talk to ostensibly shady characters! All from your pocket! Be warned though - you never know what the forest might be hiding, and not all trails are paved. Labyrinths and dungeons are tucked away in the most concealed nooks. There are no waypoints in Afterplace. You'll have to forge your own path. Afterplace has been designed from the ground up to be a fast, fluid, beautiful experience for mobile. There are no virtual buttons. You can move and attack by touching anywhere. You can tap objects directly to interact or attack, use two thumbs like a traditional controller, or control the game with a physical gamepad. The game will adapt dynamically to your play style. Pick up and set down the game at your own pace, it will always save your progress. Afterplace is made to feel like a full-fledged indie adventure game that fits in your pocket. About the Author: Afterplace is made by one person, Evan Kice. A former software engineer from Austin TX, Evan quit his job (to the dismay of his friends and family) and has been working full time on Afterplace since early 2019. The initial game released in December of 2022, but Evan plans on continuing to support and polish the game when he can!

About

Downpour

Easily create interactive games and websites on your phone. Combine photos, drawings, and text to build branching stories and unique pages. Share your creations with others or host them elsewhere, all without coding.

Highlights
  • Create games and websites on your phone
  • Add photos, drawings, and text
  • Link pages together for branching stories
  • Style and decorate pages
  • No coding required
  • Share games via link for browser play
  • Offline creation
Features
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Downpour is the best way to make games on your phone. Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them together into a branching story. It's genuinely quick and easy to use — you can make a game before your tea has gotten cold. Once you've made a game with Downpour, what then? You can share it within the app, allowing other people to play games and follow you, or you can share the link and anyone can play. "for the first time in years, I feel like I want to make art again" - The Verge • Make a game or website on your phone in minutes • Add photos, drawings and text to create your own unique pages — then link them together • Style and decorate pages to make them your own • Easy and accessible — no coding involved • Games can be played in any web browser — just share the link • Follow your friends and get notified when they've made something new • Export games to host elsewhere • Make games without needing an account • Works offline — make games anywhere • Optional subscription allows outbound links & more uploads --- Downpour is developed by me, V Buckenham. Please do reach out if you have any problems or suggestions - I can be reached at v@downpour.games. Terms of Use: https://downpour.games/termsofservice Privacy Policy: https://downpour.games/privacypolicy Support: https://downpour.games/support Subscriptions will be charged to your App Store account after your confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew monthly or annually unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can go to your App Store Account Settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Hope you enjoy making games with Downpour!

Screenshots

Afterplace4 screens
Downpour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Downpour at Free against Afterplace's $6.99. Afterplace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (613 vs 21). On rating, update cadence, ads 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

Downpour is free to download; Afterplace costs $6.99 up front. Downpour sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Afterplace asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Afterplace against 4.8 for Downpour. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Afterplace has 613 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Afterplace's written reviews are positive against 85% of Downpour's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Afterplace versus Downpour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAfterplaceDownpour
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (613 ratings) — better4.8 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews94.0% of reviews — better85.0% of reviews
Number of ratings613 — better21
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#45 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size249 MB66 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperEvan KiceDownpour Limited

Customer experience

Afterplace

All ratings613 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews250 reviews
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.4%
Negative3.6%

Downpour

All ratings21 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative10.0%

Bugs and requests

Afterplace

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on certain devices
  • Saves not loading properly

Requested features

3 requests
  • Landscape mode support
  • Ability to restart or replay the game
  • More in-depth combat and progression systems

Downpour

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Afterplace

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Downpour

Subscriptions1
  • Downpour Plus$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Afterplace free?
Afterplace costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Downpour free?
Downpour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Afterplace or Downpour?
Afterplace is rated higher. Afterplace averages 4.9 out of 5 from 613 ratings, while Downpour averages 4.8 from 21 ratings.
Do Afterplace or Downpour have ads?
Neither Afterplace nor Downpour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Afterplace or Downpour?
Afterplace ships an update monthly, and Downpour monthly. Most recently, Afterplace was updated on September 23, 2026 and Downpour on September 5, 2026.

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