Janken Samurai vs Severance Pain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Janken Samurai
Engage in strategic combat across various ranks and a challenging Lethal mode. Explore an endless roguelike adventure with unique maps and a leveling system. Compete globally on leaderboards.
- Ranked arena progression
- Lethal combat mode
- Online leaderboard competition
- Endless roguelike quest mode
- Unique maps and leveling system
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Work your way through the ranks (1st Dan, 5th Dan, and 10th Dan) in the arena. Bring those skills to the life and death Lethal mode and compete on the online leaderboard against players from around the world. Take on Quest Mode! An endless roguelike mode with 6 unique maps and an all new leveling system. How many will fall to your blade?
Severance Pain
A brutal and bloody roguelike top-down slasher where players whirl around to defeat enemies. Expect frequent deaths as you delve into dangerous dungeons to retrieve valuable artifacts.
- Roguelike top-down slasher gameplay
- Fast-paced, high-difficulty combat
- Dungeon exploration
- Artifact collection
- Unique movement mechanic
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Brutal and bloody roguelike topdown slasher. Expect to die a lot, and quickly. You have only one move - whirl around like a maniac and woe betide any fool that gets in your way. Delve into dungeons like the Cursed Crypt of Neverending Tragedies and retrieve valuable artifacts like the Forbidden Grimoire of Inscrutable Vampire Mating Rituals. For example.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Janken Samurai at none against Severance Pain's shown. Janken Samurai also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 15 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Severance Pain's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 57%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Janken Samurai against 4.6 for Severance Pain. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 23 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Janken Samurai's written reviews are positive against 91% of Severance Pain's.
Janken Samurai ships an update monthly, Severance Pain every 15 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Janken Samurai | Severance Pain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (15 ratings) | 4.6 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 172 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Good Good Games LLC | Vladimir Jovanovic |
Customer experience
Janken Samurai
Severance Pain
In-app purchases
Janken Samurai
No in-app purchases
Severance Pain
No in-app purchases
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