Dark Blades vs Sunderfolk Controller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Character creation
- Character management
- All seven character types
- Tabletop RPG tool
- Blades in the Dark companion
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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.
Sunderfolk Controller
Enhance your turn-based tactical RPG experience with this companion app. It transforms your mobile device into a controller, rule book, and inventory manager for up to four players. Requires the full game to be purchased separately.
- Mobile controller functionality
- Digital rule book
- Inventory management
- Card hand display
- Couch co-op enhancement
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This is the Sunderfolk™ Controller companion app. It requires the full Sunderfolk game, now available on your favorite console or PC! This app will not provide the game experience on its own! Sunderfolk is a new turn-based tactical RPG adventure built with a couch co-op experience in mind. Inspired by gathering around a table and role-playing with friends, up to four players can adventure through the magical and dangerous Sunderlands together in the same room or virtually. This app transforms your phone or tablet into your Sunderfolk controller, hand of cards, rule book, inventory, and more. With the free Sunderfolk controller app, all you and your friends need is in-hand.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sunderfolk Controller at 4.5 against Dark Blades's 4.0. Sunderfolk Controller also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Dark Blades's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 66%). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Dark Blades sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sunderfolk Controller asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sunderfolk Controller holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sunderfolk Controller has 93 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Dark Blades's written reviews are positive against 66% of Sunderfolk Controller's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dark Blades ships an update every 10 months, Sunderfolk Controller monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dark Blades | Sunderfolk Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (93 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 65.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 93 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 429 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Carlos Vlchez Domnguez | Dreamhaven, Inc. |
Customer experience
Dark Blades
Sunderfolk Controller
Bugs and requests
Dark Blades
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Sunderfolk Controller
Reported bugs
2 issues- Keeps disconnecting during first encounter
- Incompatible with older Xbox hardware
Requested features
4 requests- More characters
- Landscape mode support
- Dedicated iPad app
- 5-6 player game mode
In-app purchases
Dark Blades
- Dark Blade Premium$4.99
Sunderfolk Controller
No in-app purchases
Questions
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