Comparison

PVKingdoms vs Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Explore hex-grid world
  • Build and upgrade towns
  • Recruit diverse armies
  • Engage in tactical battles
  • Manage heroes and commanders
  • Offline play
Features
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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

About

Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic

Embark on a retro dungeon crawl inspired by classic RPGs. Explore early levels, choose from classic classes, and level up your characters. This free edition offers a focused, old-school experience with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Classic dungeon crawling gameplay
  • 5 classic character classes
  • Level up characters to level 3
  • Explore first 6 dungeon levels
  • Automatic saving
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
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Step into a world of classic dungeon crawling—deadly traps, hidden doors, unholy relics, and riches beyond imagination await! This Basic Edition is your FREE entry point into Moldvay’s Labyrinth, a retro CRPG inspired by 1980s Dungeons & Dragons and legendary games like Wizardry and Bronze Dragon. • Explore the first 6 levels of the massive dungeon • Choose from 5 classic classes: Fighter, Magic-User, Cleric, Monk, or Thief • Level up your characters to level 3 • Save automatically, play for minutes or hours There are no ads and no in-app purchases—just a clean, focused, old-school experience. Want the full adventure? The paid version unlocks: • 42 handcrafted dungeon levels • 15 unique classes • 100 spells, 300+ monsters, and hundreds of magic items • Deadly traps, brain-teasing puzzles, and cursed treasure Your characters in the Basic Edition cannot level past 3 or descend beyond dungeon level 6. When you’re ready for more, you can upgrade to the full game and begin your true descent!

Screenshots

PVKingdoms3 screens
Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PVKingdoms at 80% against Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic's 0%. PVKingdoms also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (29 vs 2). Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 days). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PVKingdoms holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PVKingdoms has 29 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of PVKingdoms's written reviews are positive against 0% of Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PVKingdoms ships an update every 11 days, Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
PVKingdoms versus Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPVKingdomsMoldvay's Labyrinth Basic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (29 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews79.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size341 MB42 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJianfeng WuCrossCut Games, Inc.

Customer experience

PVKingdoms

All ratings29 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral4.1%
Negative16.3%

Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

PVKingdoms

No in-app purchases

None

Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PVKingdoms free?
PVKingdoms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic free?
Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PVKingdoms or Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic?
PVKingdoms is rated higher. PVKingdoms averages 4.3 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PVKingdoms or Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic have ads?
PVKingdoms shows ads; Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic does not.
Which is updated more often, PVKingdoms or Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic?
PVKingdoms ships an update every 11 days, and Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic every 4 days. Most recently, PVKingdoms was updated on October 18, 2026 and Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic on October 7, 2026.

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