Hero's Quest vs Levelup RPG
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hero's Quest
Embark on an epic adventure as a hero, exploring a world filled with monsters and powerful bosses. Strategize your battles, level up your character, and collect gold, weapons, and equipment to enhance your stats and abilities. Discover new fighting styles and combinations in this roguelite RPG.
- Automatic battles
- Hero and skin customization
- Skill tree progression
- Unlockable areas and bosses
- Roguelite permanent upgrades
- Portrait orientation gameplay
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Hero's Quest is a game where you play the role of a lovely hero, go around exploring the world, and challenge your fighting ability to reach the highest level in the limited energy range. Your mission is to reach the highest level as you can to get a lot of gold coins, new weapons and equipment to improve your stats. Initially, you will have 20 energy points (EP). Trying to maintain or improve this stat so you can get high levels in the game. Every time you beat monsters and Bosses, you will get gold coins. The more monsters you beat, the more money you have and the faster you go on the adventure. The more you win, the faster you level up. The higher the level, the higher your ability to defeat the aggressive monsters encountered along the jorney. During the game, you will gradually discover your abilities and find the most effective fighting style for yourself. That's the magic, it can be very rewarding to play and discover new strategies or relics combinations. Explore the world and challenge yourself to reach the highest levels within limited energy! • Heroes and Skins • Hero’s Quest allows you to choose different characters to participate in thrilling battles, each hero have different bonus stats and wonderful pixel art skins. Heores can also be situational you'll have to chose the most suitable Hero for each scenario. • Skill Tree • Players can chose between multiple passive Skills to shape the gameplay the way they like. Skills are separated into different types ranging ranging from ofensive, defensive or utility skills. • Immersive world • Unlock multiple areas, where with powerful monsters enemies are waiting for you. Battle can be very intense the further you get. Players also need to defeat Bosses with outstanding power to unlock new Maps, Relics and Equipment. • Roguelite action • Roguelite is an evolution of the Roguelike genre, this means you still have to start the game from the beginning when the game is over, but you also have permanent upgrades to make each run easier and esiear while also making you progress further and further. The more you play, the more you progress! • Automatic battle • You'll find monsters along the map and your job is to choose the fights. Your focus should be on strategy, Hero and Relics combinations. Let the game do the rest. • Portrait orientation • Play the game anywhere with only one hand. Music by Aaron Krogh: https://soundcloud.com/aaron-anderson-11 Character Art by Ækashics: http://www.akashics.moe/
Levelup RPG
Embark on an adventure to hunt endlessly spawning monsters on an island. Level up infinitely, gather crystals to acquire powerful swords, and upgrade your equipment. Progress through the game by meeting specific conditions to unlock new areas and ultimately confront the Demon King.
- Infinite monster hunting
- Infinite leveling system
- Crystal collection for swords
- Sword leveling and synthesis
- Skill panel for stat upgrades
- Area unlocking through conditions
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========================== Game introduction ========================== Hunt the monsters that overflow all over the island Since monsters spring up infinitely, you can raise the level infinitely! !! Get crystals when you raise the level! Get a powerful sword with crystals! !! ========================== how to play ========================== Let's defeat the monsters! By satisfying the conditions, the area that can be moved will increase! What are the conditions ... ・ Raise to a certain level. -Defeat a specific monster. Such... ========================== End content ========================== Subjugation of the Demon King sleeping on the island ========================== Method of operation ========================== Move ... Scroll the bottom half of the screen Camera move ... Scroll the top half of the screen left and right battle... Press the [Strike] button to approach the enemy escape... Press the [Nigeru] button. (Even if you approach the enemy, it will not be a battle) recovery... Press the [Kaifuku] button. Recovers 20% of HP ========================== Additional content ========================== Raise the level of the sword ... Using materials that monsters drop, You can raise the level of your sword! !! Sword synthesis ... If you have duplicate swords, combine the swords and Power up. (Separate from level up) Skill panel ... Skill points will be allocated as you level up. By using skill points, the hero's stats will increase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hero's Quest at 1.3K against Levelup RPG's 376. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Hero's Quest sells 22 one-off in-app purchases and Levelup RPG sells 14 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 Hero's Quest against 4.7 for Levelup RPG. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 376 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 66% and 65% positive.
Hero's Quest ships an update fortnightly, Levelup RPG weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hero's Quest | Levelup RPG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better | 4.7 (376 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews — better | 65.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 376 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| 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 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 210 MB | 558 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Murilo Bastos | YOSHIYUKI NAKASHIMA |
Customer experience
Hero's Quest
Levelup RPG
User reviews
Hero's Quest
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 🚀 Frequent updates and developer engagement
- 🔒 No exploitative monetization
- 💡 Innovative progression system
Room to improve
- 🔁 Repetitive gameplay loop
- 🔍 Lack of content variety
- ⏱️ Slow progression at higher levels
- 🔋 Battery drain issues
Levelup RPG
From 376 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great concept
- 👍 Fun gameplay
- 🕰 Addictive level grinding
- 🎮 Simple and relaxing
- 🔋 Minimal battery drain
Room to improve
- 💰 Excessive ads
- 💰 Overpriced ad removal
- 🐛 Ads freezing/stopping
- 🤔 Unclear skill/stat progression
- 🤔 Imbalanced difficulty scaling
Bugs and requests
Hero's Quest
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes on startup
- Infinite loading screen
- Crit rate bug causing inconsistent damage
Requested features
4 requests- Add teleport/skip functionality
- Implement a reset progress option
- Improve the equipment progression curve
- Introduce more enemy/boss variety
Levelup RPG
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to log in after major updates
- Purchased items not properly reflected
- Inconsistent drop rates for rare materials
- Crashes and performance issues on some devices
Requested features
7 requests- Add character customization
- Improve translation quality
- Increase level/stat cap
- Implement auto-farm/auto-battle
- Add more diverse equipment/accessories
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- Improve UI/UX for smoother experience
- Introduce multiplayer and social features
In-app purchases
Hero's Quest
- Tickets - Tiny$0.99
- Ad Skip - Tiny$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
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- Tickets Small$1.99
- Skin: Void Bender$1.99
- Skin: Shadowbringer$1.99
- Ad Skip - Small$1.99
- Skin: Warlock Warrior$1.99
- Skin: High Summoner$2.99
- Skin: Elaine$2.99
- Skin: Blight Lord$2.99
- Skin: Goddess Yoko$2.99
- Skin: Asema$2.99
- Skin: Shadow Piercer$2.99
- Tickets - Medium$3.99
- Ad Skip - Medium$3.99
- Tickets - Large$6.99
- Ad Skip - Large$6.99
- Tickets - Super$12.99
- Ad Skip - Super$13.99
- Tickets - Extra Large$27.99
- Tickets - Ultra$54.99
Levelup RPG
- magic stone x5$1.99
- Banner Ad Removed$2.99
- Interstitial Ad Removed$2.99
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- revised edit Banner Ad Removed$2.99
- New Interstitial Ad Removed$2.99
- Boost ad removal (1 week)$2.99
- magic stone x20$3.99
- Video Ad Removed$3.99
- New Video Ad Removed$3.99
- Limited time pack$5.99
- magic stone x50$6.99
- Boost ad removal (1 month)$9.99
- magic stone x100$11.99
- All ads removal pack$29.99








