Paths & Danger vs Elder Heroes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paths & Danger
Lead a team of unique heroes through a dark fantasy world, engaging in tactical turn-based combat and facing treacherous challenges. Manage your characters' stats and explore procedurally generated maps with roguelike elements, including permadeath, to uncover a mysterious demonic threat.
- Unique characters with special abilities
- Hero stat management
- Strategic turn-based combat on hex grid
- Procedural map generation
- Roguelike elements with permadeath
- Dark fantasy world exploration
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Assemble a group of characters with unique abilities called by the town of Westwall. Travel different terrains, fight with treacherous opponents, and embark on a series of grilling events. Hope is in your hands to find salvation from a mysterious demonic force spreading throughout the land. Main Features - Lead groups of different characters, each one with unique abilities and weapons - Manage your heroes' stats to get them stronger - Deal with dangerous circumstances and quests - Solve the story of the mystery surrounding the town of Westwall - Fight in a strategic turn-based combat system on a hex grid - A deep atmospheric environment that suits different world places - Emerge in a diverse stunning dark fantasy world - Roguelike features, including permadeath - Procedural map generation giving endless replay Are you worthy of facing an uncertain fate?
Elder Heroes
Embark on an adventure in a magical world filled with secrets and treasures. Assemble a team of unique heroes, strategize battles, and explore dungeons for rewards. Compete with friends and climb the leaderboards in this classic RPG experience.
- Unique heroes with distinct strengths
- Strategic team building and development
- Dungeon exploration for rewards
- Vast world map for adventure
- Competitive arena rankings
- Equipment and gem collection
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【The unique IDLE HERO RPG on App Store. Gift codes: NEW2026】 Greetings, hero! Start your adventure here, in a magical world full of secrets, dangers and treasures. Enjoy with your friends an immersion in a classic RPG and explore forgotten lands where evil reigns and chaos flourishes. Features of the game: - A large number of different characters, each is unique in its own way and has its own strength points. Choose the development path of your heroes. Assemble a team, strengthen them with powerful equipment and deal a crushing blow to your enemies. -An incalculable number of combinations and types of strategies that will help you outwit the enemy on the battlefield and come out of the fight victorious. - Explore the dungeon, which holds a lot of generous rewards and the deeper you go down, the more of them! But do not forget about the dangers that await you at every corner. - Immerse yourself in a fantastic world of adventures on a huge world map, together with your friends and comrades in arms. Plunge into history and unravel all the secrets of this world. - Take a leading position in the ratings in a variety of areas. Fight in the arena, get the highest rank, and leave your competitors behind. - Collect a set of equipment, heroes and gems acquired from the dungeon. Your collection is the key to strength, power and recognition..
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Elder Heroes at 80% against Paths & Danger's 20%. Elder Heroes also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). Paths & Danger's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Paths & Danger sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Elder Heroes sells 23 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Elder Heroes holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Paths & Danger's written reviews are positive against 80% of Elder Heroes's.
Paths & Danger ships an update every 5 months, Elder Heroes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paths & Danger | Elder Heroes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (12 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 398 MB | 231 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | GoldenGod Games, Lda | Vitaliy Mayorov |
Customer experience
Paths & Danger
Elder Heroes
In-app purchases
Paths & Danger
- Unlocks Ice Wizard$1.99
- Unlocks War Engineer$1.99
- Unlocks Rogue$1.99
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- Unlocks Half-Vampire$1.99
- Unlocks Paladin$1.99
- Unlocks Healer$1.99
- Unlocks Conjurer$1.99
- Unlocks Druid$1.99
- Unlocks All Characters$9.99
Elder Heroes
- Newbie pack 1.$0.99
- VIP summon pack 1.$0.99
- Common equipment. Set 1.$0.99
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- Common equipment. Set 2.$2.99
- Privilege card.$4.99
- VIP summon pack 2.$4.99
- Newbie pack 2.$4.99
- VIP summon pack 4.$9.99
- Character skin.$9.99
- Rare equipment. Set 1.$9.99
- Privilege card Premium.$14.99
- Skip Ads.$14.99
- Rare equipment. Set 2.$14.99
- Rare equipment. Set 3.$19.99
- Essence pack 2.$19.99
- Elite equipment. Set 3.$34.99
- Special Equip Pack 5.$34.99
- Epic equipment. Set 3.$49.99
- Legendary equipment. Set 1.$54.99
- Guild pack 6.$69.99
- Solar shard pack 3.$69.99
- Essence pack 3.$69.99
- Legendary equipment. Set 3.$69.99
Questions
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