Comparison

DnDMe vs Dark Blades

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

Head to head
About

DnDMe

Quickly access game rules and spell information without needing to search through physical books or external websites. This resource is designed for tabletop role-playing game enthusiasts to find answers efficiently during gameplay.

Highlights
  • Quick spell lookup
  • Rule reference
  • In-game resource
  • Offline access (implied)
  • User-friendly interface
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DnDMe is a simple resource for quickly looking up what you need before during or after a nice time around the tavern. Need to know what a spell does and don't have time to flip through the book? Don't want to rely on google? Launch up DnDMe and you'll have your answer in no time!

About

Dark Blades

This tool helps you create and manage characters for the tabletop role-playing game Blades in the Dark. It provides access to all seven character types within the game's industrial fantasy setting.

Highlights
  • Character creation
  • Character management
  • All seven character types
  • Tabletop RPG tool
  • Blades in the Dark companion
Features
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Character Manager for Blades in the Dark. Blades in the Dark is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game by John Harper, set in a fictional city of Doskvol, inspired by Victorian London and Gothic fiction. The default setting of Blades in the Dark, Doskvol, is a roughly 19th century level of technology combined with urban fantasy. An industrial world under perpetual night, long after some great catastrophe has relegated the sun to storybooks, and resulted in the ghosts of the dead lingering in the world. Players take the role of members of a criminal organization such as thieves, smugglers, or merchants of some illicit goods, and grind their way up the criminal underworld by seizing money, territory and infamy. Tool to create and manage your Blades in the Dark characters. All seven character types are available to you. The use of the original book is necessary.

Screenshots

DnDMe3 screens
Dark Blades4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: DnDMe at 5.0 against Dark Blades's 4.0. DnDMe also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Dark Blades's advantage is device support. On price, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Dark Blades sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DnDMe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DnDMe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
DnDMe versus Dark Blades: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDnDMeDark Blades
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 10 months
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKirk KosterCarlos Vlchez Domnguez

Customer experience

DnDMe

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dark Blades

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DnDMe

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Dark Blades

One-time1
  • Dark Blade Premium$4.99

Questions

Is DnDMe free?
DnDMe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dark Blades free?
Dark Blades is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DnDMe or Dark Blades?
DnDMe is rated higher. DnDMe averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Dark Blades averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.

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