Comparison

Extinction Eclipse Mobile vs Caves of Lore

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

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About

Extinction Eclipse Mobile

Command human forces in a desperate space battle against an alien invasion. Mine resources, build a powerful fleet, and defend your bases to save Earth from a mysterious grid.

Highlights
  • Resource mining and management
  • Base building and defense
  • Fleet customization and upgrades
  • Story-driven campaigns
  • Procedurally generated skirmish mode
  • Strategic real-time combat
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Extinction Eclipse is an action real time strategy game set in space. You are the commander of the human forces in their effort to find the necessary resources to build a fleet of spaceships to defeat an alien invader. You start with only a couple of miner ships and a probe, and your mission is to find and conquer asteroid fields that can be mined, in order to extract their precious metals and water. You will build your fleet gradually, and before each mission, you can choose which ships to use. After you build your ships, any of them that manage to survive during the mission will become part of the available fleet. You will also accumulate unused metal and water to trade for upgrades and power ups in the shipyard. These upgrades will make you faster and stronger, increasing your chances of succeeding. But be careful, the aliens will not sit back and relax while you expand. They will attack your bases by surprise, so be prepared to defend them constantly! -Story- There is a point in space between the Sun and Earth, known as the Lagrange L1, that is gravitationally stable. Anything you place in there, will stay there. This is the spot our scientists observed when temperatures on Earth started to drop inexplicably after a reduced input of sunlight. What they found was disturbing. A grid of gigantic hexagon-shaped objects was being build on Lagrange L1 by an unknown alien intelligence. They were hostile to the space probes we sent to explore. Humanity has only one path: build a fleet of combat spaceships, destroy the grid, and the aliens building it! The game offers two game modes: The Story Mode is divided into campaigns with several missions each. Completing a campaign will unlock others so you can play in a non-linear way. You decide the path to victory. The Skirmish Mode allows you to configure the match: mission type, goal, initial fleet and upgrades, etc. The world will then be procedurally generated, offering a unique experience everytime! -Key Features- - Resource mining and management: Use miner ships to mine water and metal from asteroids. Miners will bring the resources to the closest Space Station or resource deposits. Use them to build your ships, bases and for upgrades. - Base Building: Expand your territory by building space stations, communication satellites, research centers and resource deposits. - Defend your base: strategically place defense towers around your bases and precious resources. They will activate automatically and attack enemies that get too close. - Resupply mission: if you are running low on ships and resources, you will have access to a procedurally generated mission with asteroids and just a few enemies. - Upgrades store: trade accumulated metals and water for upgrades for your fleet. Your ships can be faster, stronger and sturdier!

About

Caves of Lore

Embark on a turn-based, pixel-art fantasy adventure with tactical grid-based combat. Explore a world filled with monsters, humor, and hidden secrets. Build a customizable party and uncover a story filled with dark themes and ancient horrors.

Highlights
  • Turn-based tactical combat
  • Pixel-art fantasy world
  • Environmental exploration
  • Character interaction
  • Highly customizable party
  • Vast amounts of loot and treasure
  • Deep lore and dialogue
Features
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I'm a self-taught solo-dev who built this passion project over 6 years while holding down a full time job and raising a family. I dedicated myself to work 5 minutes a day no matter what, and built the game piece by piece, not really knowing where I was going or how it would all end. • Caves of Lore is a turn-based, pixel-art, fantasy CRPG that combines elements of environmental exploration and character interaction with tactical, grid-based combat. Fun and weird adventures await as you progress through a world full of monsters and humor. Hidden secrets and strange powers abound, allowing for a highly customizable party. • Vast amounts of loot and treasure constantly increase your power, while dialogue, books and lore are waiting for those who want to be drawn into the world further. • Dark themes and ancient horrors don’t keep this game from remaining upbeat and funny, with a story that unfolds in unexpected ways. Tactical combat, endless magical item combos, and a vast array of spells, abilities and traits make for great replay value. • 6 character capacity party, 65+ spells, 65+ abilities, 65+ traits, 50+ monsters, 40+ NPCs , 30+ quests, and 20+ areas to explore. Hundreds of items and tens of thousands of enchantment combinations make for all manner of powerful items.

Screenshots

Extinction Eclipse Mobile4 screens
Caves of Lore4 screens

Verdict

The call

Extinction Eclipse Mobile and Caves of Lore both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 92% of Caves of Lore's written reviews are positive against 0% of Extinction Eclipse Mobile's. Caves of Lore also leads on ratings volume (189 vs 1) and chart position (#94 vs unranked). Extinction Eclipse Mobile's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $7.99) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On rating, 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

Extinction Eclipse Mobile costs $2.99 and Caves of Lore $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Extinction Eclipse Mobile against 4.9 for Caves of Lore. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Caves of Lore has 189 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Extinction Eclipse Mobile's written reviews are positive against 92% of Caves of Lore's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Extinction Eclipse Mobile versus Caves of Lore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExtinction Eclipse MobileCaves of Lore
Price$2.99 — better$7.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (189 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews92.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1189 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#94 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size227 MB701 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperTuanisApps SRLTILTGames

Customer experience

Extinction Eclipse Mobile

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Caves of Lore

All ratings189 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative3.4%

Bugs and requests

Extinction Eclipse Mobile

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Caves of Lore

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes after a few fights
  • Traits menu not showing properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add Russian language support
  • Add German language support
  • Implement cloud save feature
  • Improve UI/UX for better accessibility

In-app purchases

None

Extinction Eclipse Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

Caves of Lore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Extinction Eclipse Mobile free?
Extinction Eclipse Mobile costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Caves of Lore free?
Caves of Lore costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Extinction Eclipse Mobile or Caves of Lore?
Extinction Eclipse Mobile is rated higher. Extinction Eclipse Mobile averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Caves of Lore averages 4.9 from 189 ratings.
Do Extinction Eclipse Mobile or Caves of Lore have ads?
Neither Extinction Eclipse Mobile nor Caves of Lore shows ads.

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