PVKingdoms vs Heroes Tale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PVKingdoms
Lead commanders and armies across a hex-grid world to capture towns, collect relics, and win tactical battles. Build your realm, recruit diverse units, and manage heroes with unique skills and artifacts. Enjoy fast-paced, offline play with a battery-friendly strategy pacing.
- Explore hex-grid world
- Build and upgrade towns
- Recruit diverse armies
- Engage in tactical battles
- Manage heroes and commanders
- Offline play
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Build your realm, recruit armies, and lead commanders across the frontier—capturing towns, collecting relics, and winning tactical battles. - What you’ll do * Explore a hand-crafted, hex-grid world with treasures, ruins, and neutral guardians * Build towns to unlock upgrades, economy, and stronger units * Recruit armies across multiple creature tiers and roles * Fight tactical battles with terrain, positioning, and abilities * Manage heroes/commanders with skills, artifacts, and army composition - Made for iOS * Fast turns with quick actions and clear UI * Offline play (great on flights) * Battery-friendly strategy pacing
Heroes Tale
Embark on an open-world adventure filled with mysteries and puzzles. Collect resources, recruit heroes with unique abilities, and craft legendary gear. Battle over 100 monster types and raid dungeons for valuable loot and new opportunities.
- Open-world exploration
- Resource collection and settlement improvement
- Hero recruitment and training
- Loot and craft legendary gear
- Battle over 100 monster types
- Dungeon raids for resources
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An exciting adventure in an open world full of mysteries and puzzles! -Collect different resources to improve your settlement -Recruit and train heroes with unique abilities -Loot and craft legendary armor and weapons -Win battles with more than 100 kinds of monsters -Make raids and go into deep dungeons to get more resources and unlock more opportunities Focus on the process, simple and intuitive one-hand control awaits you!
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Verdict
PVKingdoms and Heroes Tale both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 79% of PVKingdoms's written reviews are positive against 53% of Heroes Tale's. PVKingdoms also leads on monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Heroes Tale's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for PVKingdoms against 4.3 for Heroes Tale. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of PVKingdoms's written reviews are positive against 53% of Heroes Tale's.
PVKingdoms ships an update every 10 days, Heroes Tale weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PVKingdoms | Heroes Tale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (29 ratings) | 4.3 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews — better | 53.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 269 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jianfeng Wu | BRISHORE LIMITED |
Customer experience
PVKingdoms
Heroes Tale
In-app purchases
PVKingdoms
No in-app purchases
Heroes Tale
No in-app purchases
