Counter Knights vs HACK & SLASH Kingdom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Counter Knights
Engage in thrilling real-time counterattack battles in this action RPG. Master enemy patterns to unleash powerful counterattacks, customize your knight's growth, and equip unique weapons to suit your playstyle. Explore a rich universe with an engaging story and collect artifacts for permanent buffs.
- Real-time counterattack system
- Strategic boss fights
- Knight growth and customization
- Weapon enhancement and skills
- Artifact collection for buffs
- Extensive universe and story
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◈◈ Well-made Realtime counterattack action RPG!! ◈◈ ▶ Simple yet in-depth thrilling counterattack! ▶ Counterattack? Guard Break?, Life-stealing? Equip weapons tailored for your play style! ▶ Enriched environments with growth factors and collectibles! ▶ Elaborative storytelling and relics/weapons for its extensive universe! ◈◈ Game Mechanics ◈◈ ▶ Counterattack system - Breath-taking counterattack mechanics! - Analyze an enemy’s pattern to counterattack at its precise moment! - You will be invincible when you counterattack. ▶ Sensational Boss Fight - Unique attack patterns styled for each of the bosses - Analyze their attack patterns with strategies! ▶ Rich environment for growth and collectibles - Knight Growth: Growth system allows Knight to develop to match the player’s style. - Artifacts Storage: You can obtain relics upon clearing stage with 3 stars. Collect them to gain permanent buffs and reveal the world’s secrets. - Weapon Management: There are weapons inside ancient relic boxes! Customize via weapon enhancements and passive skills for your play style! ▶ Fight in your style! : Growth and weapon changes - Players can develop their character with enhancements that strengthens their play style. - Knight will learn passive skills upon certain level-ups after an attribution enhancement. - Each weapon comes with a different enhancement bonus and skills. You can equip desired weapons. Ex) For stable hunting: : Prioritize stamina level up + life-steal weapons Ex) A rampage style : Utilize weapons that converts basic attack and skills into area attacks Ex) To disarm enemies : Equip Empire weapons to fill up the enemy’s knock-down gage twice faster. ▶ Extravagant universe and breath-taking stories! - Explore deep into the story as you defeat enemies! - A story of the Knight fighting to find out the secret of the universe.
HACK & SLASH Kingdom
Embark on an adventure in a world filled with wacky battles and treasure. Collect powerful, randomly generated equipment and enjoy simple, engaging combat. Play manually or automatically with one-hand operation.
- Wacky battles
- Random equipment generation
- Explore the world
- Collect powerful equipment
- One-handed operation
- Manual and automatic play
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HACK & SLASH Kingdom is a fun action RPG where you can enjoy the fun of wacky battles and careful selection of equipment with your friends in tow. Become an adventurer, explore the world, and collect powerful equipment! The battle with many dots characters moving around is fun just to watch! The performance of equipment is randomly generated, so selecting items carefully is fun! There are no complicated growth elements, daily missions, or other tedious functions! No complicated growth elements, no daily missions, and no tedious features! You can comfortably play manually or automatically with one-handed operation!
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Verdict
Counter Knights and HACK & SLASH Kingdom both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Counter Knights's written reviews are positive against 71% of HACK & SLASH Kingdom's. HACK & SLASH Kingdom's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (244 vs 67). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Counter Knights sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and HACK & SLASH Kingdom sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Counter Knights holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 67 and 244 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Counter Knights's written reviews are positive against 71% of HACK & SLASH Kingdom's.
Counter Knights ships an update every 2 weeks, HACK & SLASH Kingdom every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Counter Knights | HACK & SLASH Kingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (67 ratings) — better | 4.7 (244 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better | 71.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 67 | 244 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 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 | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 302 MB | 391 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Youna Kho | Ryogo Oka |
Customer experience
Counter Knights
HACK & SLASH Kingdom
User reviews
Counter Knights
From 67 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and satisfying gameplay
- 🚀 Simple and fast-paced
- 💎 Generous with premium currency
- 🎮 Enjoyable combat mechanics
- ✨ Good balance of grinding and progression
Room to improve
- 🐛 Companion damage is low
- 🐛 Unused materials after upgrades
- 🐛 Difficulty spikes in later stages
- 🐛 Translation issues in English
- 🐛 Some in-app purchase issues
HACK & SLASH Kingdom
From 244 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Unique gameplay
- 👍 Polished and well-designed
- 🕹️ Satisfying progression
- 💰 Free-to-play friendly
- 🤖 Smooth auto-play feature
Room to improve
- 🔍 Limited resources early on
- 🤯 Grindy late-game progression
- 🛑 Excessive ads
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🤖 Unreliable auto-play
Bugs and requests
Counter Knights
Reported bugs
10 issues- Cannot purchase in-app items
- In-app purchases not working
- Cannot open instance 3 on iPhone
- iOS players not getting updates like Android
- Countering boss patterns is inconsistent
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- Game crashes or cannot play
- Grammar and spelling errors
- Translation is not perfect
- Game screen not fitting iPhone notch
- Need to restart app after watching ads
Requested features
15 requests- Update the game regularly
- Add more content
- Improve companion stats and damage
- Add more stars or uses for extra companion materials
- Fix in-app purchase issues
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- Add more stages or levels
- Improve English translations
- Add an online system
- Add more avatar skins
- Add more items with new options
- Add more things to buy with gems
- Allow saving progress with Facebook
- Add a feature to skip boss intro screens
- Add more universe expansion concepts
- Make AFK rewards unlimited
HACK & SLASH Kingdom
Reported bugs
3 issues- Disappearing loot drops
- Stuck party movement
- Passive skills not working as described
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to skip ads
- Auto-repeat stage option
- Cross-device account sync
- Discord community
- More content updates
In-app purchases
Counter Knights
- Informal Resource Requrest$0.99
- Advertisement Removal Set$4.99
- Resource Set - Rich merchant$9.99
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- Large Scale Resource Request$9.99
- Dovotion of Friar Knight$9.99
- Golden Pickaxe Set$9.99
- Double Resource Set$19.99
- Resource Set - Nabob$19.99
- The Agent of Church Set$19.99
- The Chosen One Set$29.99
HACK & SLASH Kingdom
- Ads removed$1.99
- Unlimited double speed$1.99
- Double experience$1.99
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- Gems x300$1.99
- 12 EXP Tickets$1.99
- Arena Ticket x700$2.99
- Gems x700$2.99
- 26 EXP Tickets$2.99
- 60 EXP Tickets$6.99
- Gems x1500$7.99
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