Comparison

Dark Blades vs Sunderfolk Controller

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Character creation
  • Character management
  • All seven character types
  • Tabletop RPG tool
  • Blades in the Dark companion
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Dark Blades4 screens
Sunderfolk Controller4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dark Blades sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sunderfolk Controller asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Dark Blades versus Sunderfolk Controller: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDark BladesSunderfolk Controller
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.5 (93 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better65.7% of reviews
Number of ratings193 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB429 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCarlos Vlchez DomnguezDreamhaven, Inc.

Customer experience

Dark Blades

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sunderfolk Controller

All ratings93 ratings
Positive86.0%
Neutral6.5%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive65.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative20.0%

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

1 purchases

Dark Blades

One-time1
  • Dark Blade Premium$4.99
None

Sunderfolk Controller

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dark Blades free?
Dark Blades is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sunderfolk Controller free?
Sunderfolk Controller is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dark Blades or Sunderfolk Controller?
Sunderfolk Controller is rated higher. Dark Blades averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Sunderfolk Controller averages 4.5 from 93 ratings.
Do Dark Blades or Sunderfolk Controller have ads?
Dark Blades shows ads; Sunderfolk Controller does not.
Which is updated more often, Dark Blades or Sunderfolk Controller?
Dark Blades ships an update every 10 months, and Sunderfolk Controller monthly. Most recently, Dark Blades was updated on October 14, 2026 and Sunderfolk Controller on October 16, 2026.

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