Advent vs Wizard's Choice
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.
Wizard's Choice
Embark on an interactive fantasy adventure as a wizard. Make choices that shape your destiny, manage resources like spell power and gold, and battle evil in this text-based RPG. Your decisions determine survival and success.
- Interactive novel gameplay
- Resource management (health, mana, gold, morale)
- Decision-driven outcomes
- End-game scoring and ranking
- Accessible for blind users
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You play a wizard in this interactive novel set in a medieval fantasy world. Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. Wizard's Choice is a series of RPG interactive novels that will engross you in a story while allowing you to make the decisions that will determine your fate. From Delight Games, the publisher of Zombie High and Detective's Choice. Written by Sam Landstrom. *** Features *** - Zero learning curve. Read the story and make decisions. - Health, mana, gold, and morale are tracked. - Outcomes are determined by decisions you make. - Score and rank at the end. - Accessible to blind users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wizard's Choice at 4.6 against Advent's 3.6. Wizard's Choice also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 47%) and ratings volume (919 vs 14). Advent's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Wizard's Choice sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Advent asks for nothing beyond the download.
Wizard's Choice holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wizard's Choice has 919 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Advent's written reviews are positive against 87% of Wizard's Choice's.
Advent ships an update every 3 months, Wizard's Choice every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.
| Parameter | Advent | Wizard's Choice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (14 ratings) | 4.6 (919 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 919 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pi-Soft Consulting, LLC | Delight Games LLC |
Customer experience
Advent
Wizard's Choice
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
Wizard's Choice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Advent
No in-app purchases
Wizard's Choice
- 3 coins$0.99
- 5 luck$0.99
- 12 coins$2.99
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- 18 coins$2.99
- 18 luck$2.99
- Remove Advertising$4.99
- Premium 50% Off$4.99
- Premium 30% Off$6.99
- Premium Access$9.99
- 75 luck$9.99
Questions
Is Advent free?
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Which has better reviews, Advent or Wizard's Choice?
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