iBrogueCE vs Instructions Not Included
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iBrogueCE
Experience a classic roguelike adventure on your iPad. This community-enhanced port offers deep tactical gameplay and challenging dungeons.
- Classic roguelike gameplay
- Community Edition enhancements
- Tactical dungeon crawling
- Challenging gameplay
- iPad optimized
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iBrogueCE is an iPad OS port of Brian Walker's rogue-like game Brogue. This is the Community Edition version, based on tmewett's development work, and Seth Howard's Objective C port to iPad OS, recently enhanced with Bryan Turner's integration work into the Community Edition repository.
Instructions Not Included
A unique counter app that synchronizes across all your devices. It's presented as a social experiment, inviting users to set personal goals or explore its functionalities.
- Cross-device synchronization
- Social experiment concept
- Global counter
- API exploration
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This is a counter that syncs between all devices, it’s a social experiment, and quite possibly a bad idea. So, whatever will you do? Attempt to reach one million? Attempt to keep the counter perpetually at 42? Attempt to find and exploit the unsecured API?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: iBrogueCE at 28 against Instructions Not Included's 4. iBrogueCE also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.5). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for iBrogueCE against 5.0 for Instructions Not Included. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iBrogueCE has 28 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
iBrogueCE ships an update every 2 weeks, Instructions Not Included fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iBrogueCE | Instructions Not Included |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Taylor | Kenna Blackburn |
Customer experience
iBrogueCE
Instructions Not Included
In-app purchases
iBrogueCE
No in-app purchases
Instructions Not Included
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is iBrogueCE free?
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Which has better reviews, iBrogueCE or Instructions Not Included?
Do iBrogueCE or Instructions Not Included have ads?
Which is updated more often, iBrogueCE or Instructions Not Included?
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