Slay vs kdice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slay
Engage in a turn-based strategy game set in medieval times. Conquer enemy territories, expand your own, and strategically upgrade your units from peasants to powerful barons. Balance resource management to avoid bankruptcy and achieve victory.
- Territory capture and expansion
- Unit upgrades (Peasants to Barons)
- Strategic combat and castle sieges
- Resource management and bankruptcy risk
- Turn-based multiplayer
- AI opponents
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Slay is a simple to learn game of strategy and cunning set in medieval times. The island is divided up between the six players, and you must try to capture your enemies' land and link up your own territories to create larger and stronger ones. You begin capturing land by attacking with your peasants. Once your territories become richer you can combine peasants to make stronger and stronger people (Spearmen, Knights and then Barons) who can kill weaker enemy troops, or knock down their castles. Just be careful that you don't create too many expensive men or the territory will go bankrupt! "This game is pure strategy! It's a work of genius. Brilliant AI. Engaging turn-based multiplayer strategy. Sid Meier, eat your heart out!" - GameSpy.com "I love this game! I play it all the time, and when I'm not, I think about wanting to play it." - PocketNow.com "At first glance, Slay looks elementary, but hidden beneath are cunning strategy elements that must be finely balanced for success" - PC Magazine "Deceptively delightful. The graphics are simple, but the strategy is complex." - Download.com For the latest news on all my games follow @SeansGames on Twitter!
kdice
Engage in a Risk-like multiplayer strategy game with quick 5-10 minute matches or multi-game tournaments. Compete monthly for the highest score in this dice-based strategy challenge.
- Risk-like strategy gameplay
- Monthly high score competition
- Quick 5-10 minute matches
- Hourly multi-game tournaments
- Multiplayer strategy
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Join kdice, a monthly competition where you play a Risk like strategy game (based on Dicewars). Players compete for the highest score before the month ends. Play the simple 5-10 minute multiplayer games or one of the hourly multi-game tournaments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: kdice at Free against Slay's $4.99. Slay's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 69 months). On review sentiment, 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
kdice is free to download; Slay costs $4.99 up front. Slay sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and kdice sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Slay holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slay has 266 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 74% and 75% positive.
Slay ships an update every 3 months, kdice every 69 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slay | kdice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (266 ratings) — better | 4.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.4% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 266 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 69 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #101 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sean O'Connor | Ryan Dewsbury |
Customer experience
Slay
kdice
Bugs and requests
Slay
Reported bugs
3 issues- Multiplayer not working
- Progress not saving in custom levels
- Graphical issues on newer devices
Requested features
6 requests- Option to revert to classic graphics
- Ability to choose starting color
- Larger/randomized map sizes
- Online/multiplayer mode
- Level editor or custom map creation
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- Stats tracking and achievements
kdice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Slay
- Snowflakes$0.99
- Countries 1$0.99
- Countries 2$0.99
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- Patterns 1$0.99
- Patterns 2$0.99
- Patterns 3$0.99
- Patterns 4$0.99
- US States$0.99
- Mythical Creatures$0.99
- Whole row of 18 pages$9.99
- Whole 3rd row$9.99
- Whole 4th row$9.99
kdice
- 2,500$4.99









