Advent vs Malic's Legacy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Advent
Experience the original text adventure game on your iPhone. Explore a vast cave system, solve puzzles, and collect treasures in this classic interactive fiction experience. Features Game Center integration for leaderboards and social play.
- Original text adventure gameplay
- Explore a vast cave system
- Solve puzzles and collect treasures
- Game Center leaderboards
- Invite friends and virtual tours
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Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) (Crowther, 1976; Crowther & Woods, 1977), an iPhone version of the first text adventure computer game. Rewrote game to implement 1000-point version by David Malmberg. Also, added Game Center support! In addition to leader boards, you can now invite other players and give them a virtual tour to help them should they get stuck.
Malic's Legacy
Embark on a classic text-based RPG adventure with multiple character classes. Level up, battle monsters, and upgrade gear in an immersive world with incremental progression. Enjoy a seamless, ad-free experience with intuitive gameplay.
- Choose from Knight, Mage, or Archer classes
- Battle over 45 classic RPG monsters
- Complete tasks for gold and experience
- Buy, upgrade, and evolve items
- Track progress with detailed statistics
- Ad-free gameplay
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A no-ads text RPG: pick Knight, Mage, or Archer, fight 80 monsters across eight regions, and evolve legendary gear. Malic’s Legacy is a classic incremental RPG you can play in short sessions. Fight, finish tasks, spend gold on better equipment, and watch your character grow. When you want the grind to run itself, turn on auto-fight and auto-heal. FEATURES • No ads in combat, tasks, or the Endless Tower • Three classes — Knight, Mage, and Archer • 80 monsters, eight regions, and rare shiny encounters • Repeatable tasks for gold and experience • Weapons, armor, and gems you buy, upgrade, and evolve • Bestiary completion, runes, and category masteries • Endless Tower climbs with shop buffs • Late-game artifacts you attach to your gear • Achievements, stats, and online leaderboards WHO IT IS FOR Players who want a simple fantasy RPG loop: fight, loot, upgrade, repeat. Readable on one hand, light on the battery, and built for both quick sessions and long-term progression. Start as a guest, then create an account when you want skins, leaderboards, and cloud-backed progress. Download Malic’s Legacy and begin your legacy. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Advent at none against Malic's Legacy's 7. Advent also leads on review sentiment (47% vs 33%) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.1). Malic's Legacy's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Malic's Legacy sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Advent asks for nothing beyond the download.
Malic's Legacy holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Advent's written reviews are positive against 33% of Malic's Legacy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Advent ships an update every 3 months, Malic's Legacy weekly. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.
| Parameter | Advent | Malic's Legacy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (14 ratings) | 4.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pi-Soft Consulting, LLC | Malic Labs LTDA |
Customer experience
Advent
Malic's Legacy
Bugs and requests
Advent
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to water the plant
- Combination for safe doesn't work as expected
- Candles in the crypt cause the game to crash
Requested features
3 requests- Add scrollback feature to view previous commands and responses
- Implement directional buttons or compass for navigation
- Integrate auto-correct and predictive text for easier typing
Malic's Legacy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Advent
No in-app purchases
Malic's Legacy
- Promotion access - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Starter Pack$0.99
- Value Pack$3.99
- Definitive Promotion$5.99
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- Mega Pack$9.99
- Supreme Pack$19.99
- Legendary Pack$34.99
