Afterplace vs Thistle's Path
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Open world exploration
- Hidden secrets and treasures
- Combat with monsters
- Interactive characters
- No virtual buttons
- Dynamic control adaptation
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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!
Thistle's Path
Engage in strategic battles by catching, trading, and fighting Nyxians. Utilize a unique pool-inspired combat system to outmaneuver opponents.
- Catch Nyxians
- Battle Nyxians
- Trade Nyxians
- Pool-inspired battle system
- Strategic combat
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Catch, battle, and trade the resonance of Nyxians to fight them against one another in a pool-inspired battle system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Thistle's Path at Free against Afterplace's $6.99. Thistle's Path also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Afterplace's advantage is ratings volume (630 vs 1) and chart position (#68 vs unranked). On rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Thistle's Path is free to download; Afterplace costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Afterplace against 5.0 for Thistle's Path. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Afterplace has 630 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Afterplace ships an update monthly, Thistle's Path every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Afterplace | Thistle's Path |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (630 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 630 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #68 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 249 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Evan Kice | Lance Davis |
Customer experience
Afterplace
Thistle's Path
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
Thistle's Path
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Afterplace
No in-app purchases
Thistle's Path
No in-app purchases
