PVKingdoms vs Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic
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
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.
- 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
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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!
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | PVKingdoms | Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (29 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 341 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jianfeng Wu | CrossCut Games, Inc. |
Customer experience
PVKingdoms
Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic
In-app purchases
PVKingdoms
No in-app purchases
Moldvay's Labyrinth Basic
No in-app purchases
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