Comparison

Tavern Rumble vs Rogue Blade

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

Head to head
About

Tavern Rumble

Embark on a roguelike deckbuilding adventure where you craft unique card synergies to battle monsters and bosses. Each run offers a fresh experience with random dungeons, loot, and permanent death. Become a legendary hero and conquer the spire loop.

Highlights
  • Roguelike deckbuilding gameplay
  • Discover card synergies
  • Random dungeons and loot
  • Permanent death for replayability
  • Multiple playable classes
  • Offline play
  • Pixel art graphics
Features
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Tavern Rumble is a Free Strategy Roguelike Deckbuilding Card Games Start your adventure with basic mercenary cards, fight your way up, get loot and strengthen your deck to fight strong Bosses along the way. Discover synergies between each cards. A card might be useless on their own, but use it along with others and it can be your most powerful arsenal. Roguelike element: For those who are not familiar with is a game with random dungeon, loot, mercenary, monsters and most importantly permanent death. So each run will be somewhat new experiences and not tied-up with your previous runs. Do you have what it takes to reach the Endgame? Craft a unique deck never encountered in other card games, encounter bizarre creatures, take blessings of unimaginable power, Slay monsters, escape the spire loop! March forward into a deep quest and stop wandering alone in the darkest night. It is like having a dream to become the legendary monster slayer Hero that embark on a journey in the middle of nowhere to fulfill a hollow prophecy from a prophet. Don't let your power starve consume you! Features: - Perfect card games to play on your 30 minutes coffee break - Each playable Classes provides 100+ cards that you can choose through your gameplay - Cute simple pixelart sprites - Easy to learn, Hard to master - Recruit legendary Heroes cards and fight alongside them. To arms!! - Play offline without internet connection - Absolutely Free to Play Available Classes: + Knights of Pentagon: Strong Knights with balance offense and defense + Hunter Guild: Master of poison, card draw and discard effects. Rise and use Shadows to fight your enemies! + Roughrock Clan: Self damaging units, Team Buffs and strong independent Units. + Land of the Dead: Army of Undeads. With help of Hades and friends, fight against the darkness within your shell. + Transylvania Family: Bloodsucker Dracula and Vampire alike + Magick Academy : Using magic to summon powerful being or destroy monsters directly + Void Community : Hire mercenary that consists of Ninja and Thief. Watch your back! + Steampunk City : Block incoming damage and use powerful Robot to attack The game is still on development and we are still actively working on new contents. What are you waiting for, it's Free Download and Play now ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits Music by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org

About

Rogue Blade

Embark on a challenging adventure in this strategy card game. Build your deck, choose from unique classes, and battle through levels. Every choice matters as you balance offense and defense against various enemies and bosses.

Highlights
  • Deck-building strategy
  • Rogue-like dungeon crawling
  • Multiple character classes
  • Over 100 unique cards
  • Variety of enemies and bosses
Features
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This is a strategy action game with rogue-like and deck-building. In this game, you'll play as a character embarking on an adventure through level after level, using your constructed deck to battle enemies. There's a variety of different classes to choose from, each with a ton of cards to help you plan out your strategy. Sounds simple, right? But every decision you make in battle leads to different outcomes. You gotta balance dodging or blocking enemy attacks while seizing opportunities to take them down. Features: * 5 character classes. * More than 100 cards. * Rogue-like dungeon crawling. * A variety of enemies and bosses. I gotta say, this game is TOUGH!

Screenshots

Tavern Rumble4 screens
Rogue Blade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tavern Rumble at 61% against Rogue Blade's 13%. Tavern Rumble also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.1 vs 2.1). Rogue Blade's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 19) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On ads and device support 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

Tavern Rumble is free to download; Rogue Blade costs $0.99 up front. Tavern Rumble sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. Rogue Blade asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tavern Rumble holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tavern Rumble has 102 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Tavern Rumble's written reviews are positive against 13% of Rogue Blade's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tavern Rumble ships an update every 6 weeks, Rogue Blade weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Tavern Rumble versus Rogue Blade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTavern RumbleRogue Blade
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.1 (102 ratings) — better2.1 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews60.7% of reviews — better13.3% of reviews
Number of ratings102 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB58 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperEvan CassidyJampot Software co., ltd

Customer experience

Tavern Rumble

All ratings97 ratings
Positive77.3%
Neutral6.2%
Negative16.5%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive60.7%
Neutral10.1%
Negative29.2%

Rogue Blade

All ratings7 ratings
Positive14.3%
Neutral28.6%
Negative57.1%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive13.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative80.0%

Bugs and requests

Tavern Rumble

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Ad removal purchase not applied
  • Purchases not received
  • Restore purchase button needed
  • Home bar not in 'game mode'
  • Accidentally swiping into app switcher
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  • Pauses music playback
  • Christmas promo banner unplayable
  • Remove ad bundle doesn't remove ads
  • Game won't start
  • Game crashes on boot up
  • Game force closes after update
  • Instantly crashes
  • Data wiped after crash

Requested features

7 requests
  • Restore purchase button
  • Allow music/podcast playback
  • Paid version to remove ads
  • More expansion decks
  • Save data feature
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  • More interesting monsters
  • New game modes

Rogue Blade

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

19 purchases

Tavern Rumble

One-time19
  • 1500 Gems$0.99
  • Hunter Guild Unlock$1.99
  • Roughrock Clan Unlock$1.99
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  • Unlock Land of the Dead$1.99
  • Unlock Transylvania Family$1.99
  • 3500 Gems$1.99
  • Unlock Magick Academy$2.99
  • Unlock Void Community$2.99
  • Unlock Steampunk City$4.99
  • 10,000 Gems$4.99
  • 22,000 Gems$9.99
  • Unlock Shaper Laboratory$9.99
  • Unlock Underground Network$9.99
  • Unlock Amazon Tribe$9.99
  • Christmas Promo$9.99
  • Unlock Tidecaller$9.99
  • Unlock Commoners Land$9.99
  • 65,000 Gems$24.99
  • 150,000 Gems$49.99
None

Rogue Blade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tavern Rumble free?
Tavern Rumble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rogue Blade free?
Rogue Blade costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tavern Rumble or Rogue Blade?
Tavern Rumble is rated higher. Tavern Rumble averages 4.1 out of 5 from 102 ratings, while Rogue Blade averages 2.1 from 7 ratings.
Do Tavern Rumble or Rogue Blade have ads?
Both Tavern Rumble and Rogue Blade show ads.
Which is updated more often, Tavern Rumble or Rogue Blade?
Tavern Rumble ships an update every 6 weeks, and Rogue Blade weekly. Most recently, Tavern Rumble was updated on October 24, 2026 and Rogue Blade on October 22, 2026.

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