Comparison

GWENT vs Sylva's Blessing

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

Head to head
About

GWENT

Embark on a perilous quest as a young mage to craft a living weapon capable of defeating the monster threat. This single-player expansion blends roguelike, deckbuilding, and strategy with unique card battle mechanics.

Highlights
  • Roguelike gameplay
  • Deckbuilding mechanics
  • Strategy card battles
  • Single-player expansion
  • Monster eradication quest
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Hundreds of years before Geralt and the other witchers roamed the Continent, the Conjunction of Spheres brought endless ranks of monsters into the world. Humanity desperately needed a way to fight back the onslaught to survive. Follow the journey of a young and ambitious mage, Alzur, and his companion Lily, who embark on a dangerous quest to create a living weapon that will eradicate the monster threat once and for all. GWENT: Rogue Mage is a first single-player expansion to GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. It combines the best elements of roguelike, deckbuilding, and strategy games with the unique mechanics of GWENT card battles.

About

Sylva's Blessing

Embark on a quest to save the World-Root by choosing a hero and descending through four distinct dungeons. Engage in deep card combat, build your deck with unique rewards, and uncover a dark secret in a family-friendly fantasy world. Play the first act for free.

Highlights
  • Card combat with mana, creatures, and keywords
  • Branching paths and random events
  • Deck building with rewards and relics
  • Four unique heroes and dungeons
  • Family-friendly fantasy setting
  • Unlockable town and lore
Features
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The World-Root is dying, and Maelora the Greenmother has called you across death to save it. Choose your vessel — Warrior, Mage, Druid, or Rogue — and descend through four escalating acts, each a distinct dungeon with its own threats and its own lord to break. CARD COMBAT WITH REAL DEPTH Mana, creatures, keywords like Flying, Reach, Trample and Haste, instants, traps, and hero powers. Easy to pick up beside a campfire; hard to put down. EVERY RUN IS YOURS Chart a branching path through combats, elites, strange events, shops, campfires, and treasure on the way to each act's boss. Grow your deck with rewards, relics, a card-forge, and Sylva's between-act blessings. FOUR HEROES, FOUR DUNGEONS The Goblin Warrens. The Drowned Catacombs. The Feral Thornwood. And beneath them all, the Obsidian Spire, where the demon lord Vholgrath festers at the root of the world. A COZY WORLD WITH A DARK SECRET Return to Roothollow between battles, meet its keepers, and learn the truth about a friendly face named Alric. FAMILY-FRIENDLY BY DESIGN Mild fantasy combat, no gore — made by a dad, first playtested by his kids. PLAY THE FIRST ACT FREE The complete Act I — the Goblin Warrens, through the warlord Goresnout — is free. One $4.99 purchase unlocks the full game forever: all four acts, every hero, the forge, the town, and the truth about the blight. No subscriptions. No ads. Your progress saves on your device.

Screenshots

GWENT4 screens
Sylva's Blessing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sylva's Blessing at Free against GWENT's $9.99. Sylva's Blessing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6). GWENT's advantage is ratings volume (91 vs 3) and chart position (#95 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

Sylva's Blessing is free to download; GWENT costs $9.99 up front. GWENT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sylva's Blessing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sylva's Blessing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GWENT has 91 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

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GWENT versus Sylva's Blessing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGWENTSylva's Blessing
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating3.6 (91 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings91 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#95 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.9 GB371 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperCD PROJEKT RED S.A.Timothy Lovely

Bugs and requests

GWENT

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Game crashes frequently
  • Game crashes during boss fights
  • Game crashes on iOS devices
  • Game crashes on iPhone 8p
  • Game crashes on iPad
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  • Scrolling issues on menus and text
  • Text appears outside the screen
  • Numbers not updating between turns
  • Card numbers not updating when upgrading
  • Server errors causing losses
  • Game freezes during tutorial
  • Unable to sync progress on iOS
  • Highland Warrior NPC bug
  • Arachnid bugs
  • Ice dragon bug causing crashes
  • Game not available in certain regions
  • Game gets very hot on iPhone X
  • UI issues on iPhone
  • Lost progress due to crashes
  • Elite enemies too powerful

Requested features

12 requests
  • More bosses and cards
  • 1:1 multiplayer option
  • Content updates/expansions
  • More deck building options
  • Sync progress between devices
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  • Improve performance on older devices
  • Add Traditional Chinese language support
  • Option to remove animations
  • Backtracking on map
  • More enemy variety
  • Add trophies from this game to Gwent multiplayer
  • More single player Gwent games

Sylva's Blessing

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

GWENT

One-time1
  • Deluxe Edition Upgrade$9.99
1 purchases

Sylva's Blessing

One-time1
  • Full Game Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is GWENT free?
GWENT costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Sylva's Blessing free?
Sylva's Blessing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, GWENT or Sylva's Blessing?
Sylva's Blessing is rated higher. GWENT averages 3.6 out of 5 from 91 ratings, while Sylva's Blessing averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do GWENT or Sylva's Blessing have ads?
Neither GWENT nor Sylva's Blessing shows ads.

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