Comparison

Rollplay vs Eldrum

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

Head to head
About

Rollplay

This app provides a flexible digital character sheet for tabletop RPGs, allowing for extensive homebrewing and automated effects. Build custom game systems, design character sheet layouts, and share them with friends. It adapts to your rules for D&D, Pathfinder, or your own creations.

Highlights
  • Automated character attributes
  • Custom races, classes, feats, and items
  • 3D dice roller
  • Build custom game systems
  • Drag-and-drop sheet layout design
  • Icon editor
Features
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Character Sheet is a tabletop RPG app built around homebrew — your own classes, your own rules, your own game, with the same automation you'd expect from official content. Whether you're playing D&D, Nimble, or a system you built yourself, Character Sheet keeps up. Equip a homebrewed item, and your bonuses apply automatically; remove it and they revert just as cleanly. Tweak how it works later, and every class or feat that grants it updates right along with it, no hunting down old references. Share it, and your players get the same update automatically, nothing broken and nothing to rebuild. Everything at the table: • Automated character attributes • Races, Classes, Feats, and Items with custom automated Effects • 3D Dice Roller for skill checks, weapons, and spells • Your full library in one place • Pretty icons with built-in icon editor • Homebrew all the things! Build your own game system - no coding required • Design a custom system with our web Creator Tools, from attributes to full character sheet layouts • Share it with your players, and updates reach them automatically, no reinstalling or lost content We're a small indie team and we genuinely want to hear from you. If you have feedback, ideas, or need help setting up your game, please reach out - we want to help! We read all user feedback, and a lot of what's in the app came from player suggestions. Creator tools: https://www.daydreamteam.com/ We don't want to sell you our app - we want to build yours.

About

Eldrum

Embark on a dark fantasy text-based RPG where your decisions forge your path. Explore a war-torn world, uncover secrets, and shape your character's destiny through branching narratives and multiple endings. This immersive experience offers deep gameplay reminiscent of tabletop RPGs.

Highlights
  • Text-based choices adventure RPG
  • Nostalgic table-top RPG style
  • Character building and equipment
  • Multiple endings based on choices
  • Secrets to discover
  • High replayability
Features
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Dive into a dark, immersive world where your choices shape your destiny. Eldrum: Red Tide is a gripping text-based RPG that combines the depth of D&D, the strategic gameplay of CRPGs, and the narrative freedom of CYOA gamebooks. Eldrum: Red Tide is a dark fantasy story about a former soldier who is searching for his family in a world ravaged by war. Your brother is gone without a trace. What happened to him? The answer to this question lies at the end of a long and dangerous journey. The world has changed. The place where you were born was burned to ash. People out there are struggling to survive. You are a shadow of your former self, having suffered grave injuries during the war. But the past is the past. What matters is the here and now. You have the freedom to shape your own destiny. There is always a choice. FEATURES - Nostalgic table-top RPG style - Many secrets to discover - Equip and build your character - Multiple endings that vary depending on your choices throughout the story - Replayability with different play styles opening up different locations, NPCs and gear - Text based choices adventure RPG - Supports both phones and tablets - Accessible to blind and low-vision players Eldrum: Red Tide is the second game in the Eldrum series. The games' stories are linked and there are references between the games, but they can be played in any order.

Screenshots

Rollplay4 screens
Eldrum4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Eldrum at 95% against Rollplay's 50%. Eldrum also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (431 vs 19). Rollplay's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Rollplay sells 20 one-off in-app purchases and Eldrum sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eldrum holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eldrum has 431 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Rollplay's written reviews are positive against 95% of Eldrum's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rollplay ships an update every 4 days, Eldrum every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Rollplay versus Eldrum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRollplayEldrum
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (19 ratings)4.9 (431 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews94.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19431 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.5.0
Further details — not scored
Size212 MB177 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperDaydream SoftwareAct None

Customer experience

Rollplay

All ratings19 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.8%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Eldrum

All ratings431 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews94 reviews
Positive94.7%
Neutral1.1%
Negative4.3%

Bugs and requests

Rollplay

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Eldrum

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent enemy shield/evasion chances
  • Difficulty spikes in certain encounters

Requested features

2 requests
  • Sound effects for combat
  • More content and story expansions

In-app purchases

20 purchases

Rollplay

One-time20
  • Donation$0.99
  • Chroma Classic Dice Skin$0.99
  • Explorer Dice Skin$0.99
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  • Legacy Fantasy Badges$1.99
  • Claim a free item$2.99
  • Fantasy Paladin Icons$2.99
  • Fantasy Priest Icons$2.99
  • Fantasy Monk Icons$2.99
  • Fantasy Necromancer Icons$2.99
  • Fantasy Ranger Icons$2.99
  • Fantasy Warrior Icons$2.99
  • Fantasy Wizard Icons$2.99
  • Fantasy Abilities Icons Pack$2.99
  • Legacy Armor Icons$3.99
  • Legacy Fantasy Loot$5.99
  • Legacy Fantasy Alchemy icons$5.99
  • Player Tier$6.99
  • Legacy Armor Icons$6.99
  • Legacy Fantasy Weapons$7.99
  • Legacy Fantasy Icons Bundle$22.99
3 purchases

Eldrum

One-time3
  • Upgrade from Basic to Premium$2.49
  • Basic$6.99
  • Premium$7.99

Questions

Is Rollplay free?
Rollplay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eldrum free?
Eldrum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rollplay or Eldrum?
Eldrum is rated higher. Rollplay averages 4.3 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Eldrum averages 4.9 from 431 ratings.
Do Rollplay or Eldrum have ads?
Neither Rollplay nor Eldrum shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rollplay or Eldrum?
Rollplay ships an update every 4 days, and Eldrum every 2 weeks. Most recently, Rollplay was updated on September 12, 2026 and Eldrum on September 10, 2026.

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