Dungeons & Such vs The Fool's Steps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dungeons & Such
Embark on a nostalgic dungeon-crawling adventure, leveling up, collecting monsters, and forging equipment. Engage in faction wars and player-versus-player combat, or build and customize your own house. This indie RPG offers deep gameplay with asynchronous multiplayer options.
- Character leveling and evolution
- Monster collection and minion system
- Equipment forging and house building
- Asynchronous multiplayer party system
- Seasonal faction wars and PvP
- VoiceOver and text-to-speech support
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Lurk through the dungeon, raise your level, find treasures, recruit monsters, forge your equipment, build your house, hire other players at guild, engage in faction war, player vs player in an alley, and defeat the boss... Simple yet deep and nostalgic dungeon RPG for iOS. - Features - - Supports VoiceOver and text to speech - Super indie, 99.9% made by one guy since the first iPhone was launched in 2010, and community supported ;) - Player-supported, I update the game as I receive feedback - Good old simple choose-your-adventure style dungeon RPG - Multiplayer feature: Hire other players asynchronously to form a party to enter the dungeon - Seasonal faction war you can participate with or without guild - Evolve your character to learn new classes - Collect monsters to fight with you as your minions - Build your own house and level them up - Forge your weapons and armors to make it stronger - Optimized user experience for one-handed use touch interface - Awesome reviews on replay-value - 100% support from the actual creator, I don't have any other people updating my app, except I now have Discord server - Story - Small island called Eunaba locates in south of the Hornmare continent. On that island, a princess was kidnapped by an unknown evil. You as a player must become a mercenary and head to the dungeon to save the princess... - Gameplay & Opening Movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5HKjT_rafI
The Fool's Steps
Embark on a text-based RPG adventure in a dark fantasy world inspired by tarot. Explore realms, battle enemies, collect loot, and craft equipment. Connect with other players through chat, clans, and parties, or face challenging community events.
- Text-based RPG gameplay
- Dark fantasy tarot world
- Explore 10 realms
- Craft and collect equipment
- Multiplayer chat and parties
- Community events
- Avatar customization
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The Fool's Steps is a text-based online RPG set in a dark fantasy world inspired by tarot. Take a step, discover a story, battle an enemy or find your next piece of equipment. Build your character and share the journey with other players. EXPLORE AND COLLECT Travel through ten realms, read 1,000 journey stories and hunt for rare loot. Gather resources with axes, pickaxes and shovels, craft equipment at the Workbench and combine item stats with set bonuses to shape your build. FIND YOUR PEOPLE Chat with other travelers, join a clan and form parties of up to four players. Trade equipment in player markets, challenge other players in PvP and choose your protection settings with Safe Mode. FACE THE ABYSSAL GATE When this rare community event appears, work together to seal the gate. Most other activities pause during the event. Success brings rewards; failure destroys half of every account's carried gold, including offline accounts. Bank gold and Nova are protected. Full rules are explained in the game. MAKE THE JOURNEY YOURS Customize your avatar, complete quests, fish and visit the Wishing Well. Marry another traveler and care for a shared animated pixel Home Spirit: feed it, wash it, sing to it and play together. Play in 13 languages, including English. An internet connection and an Apple or Google account are required. Optional in-app purchases are available.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: The Fool's Steps at none against Dungeons & Such's shown. The Fool's Steps also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Dungeons & Such's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Dungeons & Such sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and The Fool's Steps sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
The Fool's Steps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dungeons & Such has 1.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Dungeons & Such's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Fool's Steps's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dungeons & Such | The Fool's Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 277 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Genki Mine | Yunus Karen ALVER |
Customer experience
Dungeons & Such
The Fool's Steps
Bugs and requests
Dungeons & Such
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inventory and equipment reset issues
- Unresponsive UI elements in certain areas
- Inconsistent enemy difficulty scaling
- Mercenary hiring not functioning properly
Requested features
5 requests- More enemy and dungeon variety
- Expanded end-game content and progression
- Ability to save progress within the dungeon
- Option to disable Facebook integration
- In-game wiki or guide for mechanics
The Fool's Steps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dungeons & Such
- Thanks!$0.99
- Remove ads$0.99
- Thank you!$4.99
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- Thank you so much!$9.99
- A new hope$19.99
The Fool's Steps
- Coffee$1.49
- Fool's First Step — 30 Days$6.99
- 50 Nova — Personal Use$7.49
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- 50 Nova — Gold Market$7.49
- 100 Nova — Personal Use$14.49
- Another one!$14.90
- 250 Nova — Gold Market$35.00
- 1000 Nova — Personal Use$129.99
- 1000 Nova — Gold Market$129.99
- Coffee Addict$149.00
Questions
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