PVKingdoms vs Tiny Crawler
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
Tiny Crawler
Explore a grim, procedurally generated underworld in this pixel-art roguelite. Battle unique enemies, disarm traps, and make meaningful choices in tactical turn-based combat. Discover hidden treasures and powerful artifacts in a dark fantasy urban decay setting.
- Procedurally generated levels
- Tactical turn-based combat
- Unique enemies and traps
- Mysterious events and hidden treasures
- Character progression (DnD rules)
- Permadeath
- Crafting system
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Descend into a surreal, gritty underworld in Tiny Crawler, a pixel-art roguelite where every choice matters and danger lurks in every shadow. Battle bizarre enemies, disarm strange traps, and explore a city of secrets, blending dark fantasy with urban decay. Discover mysterious traders, uncover powerful artefacts, and test your luck at ancient altars. With procedurally generated encounters, moody pixel visuals, and an atmospheric soundtrack, Tiny Crawler offers a fresh challenge every time you play. Features: - Procedurally generated levels and encounters - Unique enemies and traps inspired by cult classic manga - Mysterious events and hidden treasures - Tactical turn-based combat and meaningful choices - Chunky pixel art and a dark, immersive atmosphere - Designed to be played in short stints in mobile (iOS only at the moment) - Character progression based on DnD rules - Permadeath - Procedurally generated encounters - Turn-based combat - 200 items - 32 enemies - 10 bosses - 10 events - 3 Biomes - Identifiable items - Crafting - Achievements - Spell casting Do you have what it takes to survive the crawl?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PVKingdoms at none against Tiny Crawler's 1. PVKingdoms also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (29 vs 4). Tiny Crawler's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On price and rating 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. Tiny Crawler sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PVKingdoms asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for PVKingdoms against 4.3 for Tiny Crawler. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PVKingdoms has 29 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of PVKingdoms's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tiny Crawler's.
PVKingdoms ships an update every 11 days, Tiny Crawler every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PVKingdoms | Tiny Crawler |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (29 ratings) — better | 4.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 289 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jianfeng Wu | gabriel maldonado |
Customer experience
PVKingdoms
Tiny Crawler
In-app purchases
PVKingdoms
No in-app purchases
Tiny Crawler
- Tiny Crawler - Full Version$5.99
Questions
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