SOULVARS vs Thistle's Path
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SOULVARS
Embark on a deck-building JRPG adventure where souls are converted into data to combat deformities. Master strategic card-based combat with dynamic pixel animations and deep customization. Explore dungeons, collect enchanted items, and uncover a rich story.
- Deck-building combat system
- Dynamic pixel animations
- Rich customization
- Dungeon exploration
- Random enchanted item collection
- Strategic soul bit combinations
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Deck-Building JRPG "SOULVARS" is now available! 15-20 hours of playtime (+50h to go deeper) Dynamic pixel animation and battles and a rich customization system No In-App Purchases. While having a deep strategic sense, the vertically held smartphone controls allow for simple and exhilarating battles, training, dungeon exploration, and collection of random enchanted items. ▼ Story A world line in which even the fictitious concept of the soul can be converted into data. In return, people's lives are threatened by the sudden appearance of deformities. The protagonists use the Soul Driver, a device that converts souls into data. They are responsible for the elimination of the deformities that threaten people, and work in a certain town... ▼System Overview Number of save slots: 3 (Saved in device and manual save) Estimated scenario completion time: 14 to 20 hours 50 to 100+ hours of post-clearance challenge Features Soul bits (handbills), which are the data of the soul power that resides in gear (equipment), Players can combine them in battle to make special attacks and combos in a successive manner. The characters are characterized by their action with dots that move around. ▼Gear and Soul Bits Soul bits (hand cards) can be drawn from gear (equipment) and used as actions during battle. The combination of main weapon, subweapon, armor, and accessories Strategy (deck) is determined. ▼Arts During a battle, only one soul bit can be selected on the first turn, but The number of soul bits that can be selected at one time increases depending on the opponent's weaknesses, guarding, evading, buffing, debuffing, and various other conditions. The combination of soul bits (cards in hand) selected at the same time activates a skill called Arts.
Thistle's Path
Engage in strategic battles by catching, trading, and fighting Nyxians. Utilize a unique pool-inspired combat system to outmaneuver opponents.
- Catch Nyxians
- Battle Nyxians
- Trade Nyxians
- Pool-inspired battle system
- Strategic combat
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Catch, battle, and trade the resonance of Nyxians to fight them against one another in a pool-inspired battle system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Thistle's Path at Free against SOULVARS's $4.99. Thistle's Path also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). SOULVARS's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 1) and chart position (#153 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Thistle's Path is free to download; SOULVARS costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thistle's Path holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SOULVARS has 46 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SOULVARS ships an update every 4 weeks, Thistle's Path every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SOULVARS | Thistle's Path |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (46 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #153 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 377 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | ginolabo Inc. | Lance Davis |
Customer experience
SOULVARS
Thistle's Path
In-app purchases
SOULVARS
No in-app purchases
Thistle's Path
No in-app purchases
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