Ancient rune magic in practice vs Ancient Games
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ancient rune magic in practice
Explore the world of runes with this comprehensive guide. Learn meanings, cast spells for advice or future insights, and save your results. Offers exclusive interpretations and unique features like reversed rune positions.
- Rune studying
- Four casting methods
- Save cast results
- Reversed rune positions
- Exclusive interpretations
- Configurable rune usage
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Ultimate guide into the runes world: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV apps in one bundle! The application provides four types of runic divination with the detailed descriptions of rune meanings. The runes will tell you about the past, the present and the future, and also will give an advice about your problems. The application is also perfect for studying runes. A strict compliance with all magical rules makes application predictions highly accurate. Try it, you would be impressed! THE KEY FEATURES: – Runes studying – Casting runes in four different ways: you can ask the runes for an advise, you can foresee your future and find the solutions for your problems. – Save results of your rune casts. – Reversed rune positions; this feature is absent in the most of other applications. – Exclusive rune interpretations and descriptions. – Ability to configure the usage of inverted and repeated runes in casts.
Ancient Games
Explore and play a collection of ancient board games brought back to life with modern app design. Enjoy offline and online play, collect customizable game pieces, and tackle fun challenges. Save progress across all games with cloud saves.
- Play multiple ancient games in one app
- Offline and online multiplayer
- AI, friend, and random player matches
- Collectible game pieces and boards
- Challenges with rule variants
- Free cloud saves across games
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/!\ If you play more than one of my Ancient Games, I suggest you delete the individual apps and install this one. It will allow you to play them all and save disk storage. /!\ -Languages : English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Turkish. The past is full of fascinating games that haves been mostly forgotten. The Ancient Games collection aims to resurrect them as a meticulously crafted mix between what a player wants from an historical game and what he/she expects of a modern application. Features : -Play against the IA, friends and random players from around the world (Coming back soon) -Play Online & Offline. -Multiple collectibles : boards, game pieces, dice, nameplates, etc. -Challenges (Fun rule variants) -Free cloudsave across the collection : your progress in one game is available in all the others. -Much more features to come! Currently, the collection is comprised of four games : the Royal Game of Ur, Senet, XII Scripta and Puluc, but 40 games are in the works! You can see the roadmap here : https://trello.com/b/QYtOXwJi/ancient-games-roadmap Each game will be added to the Ancient Games app and will have its own individual app as well. The privacy policy has been updated in accordance to the latest data protection laws.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ancient Games at Free against Ancient rune magic in practice's $5.99. Ancient Games also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 36%) and ratings volume (287 vs 61). Ancient rune magic in practice's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and ads (none vs shown). On rating and update cadence 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
Ancient Games is free to download; Ancient rune magic in practice costs $5.99 up front. Ancient Games sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Ancient rune magic in practice asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ancient Games holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 287 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Ancient rune magic in practice's written reviews are positive against 78% of Ancient Games's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ancient rune magic in practice | Ancient Games |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (61 ratings) | 4.6 (287 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.7% of reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 287 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxim Orlovsky | Sullivan Bousiniere |
Customer experience
Ancient rune magic in practice
Ancient Games
Bugs and requests
Ancient rune magic in practice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ancient Games
Reported bugs
11 issues- Game freezes after match completion
- Screen goes dark and becomes unresponsive post-game
- Ad removal purchase only lasts one game
- Paid ad removal still shows advertisements
- Game continues playing after player wins
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- Cannot make legal moves despite availability
- XII Scripta piece stacking rules not enforced correctly
- Purchased board content inaccessible due to subscription requirement
- Report button links to Mail app instead of App Store
- Text rendering issues making content hard to read
- Online play frequently unavailable or non-functional
Requested features
10 requests- Two-player local multiplayer mode
- Friends list and challenge system
- Leaderboards and ranking system
- Win/loss statistics and game history tracking
- Ability to play offline while waiting for online opponents
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- Permanent one-time purchase option instead of subscription
- More ancient games added to collection
- Harder difficulty levels beyond current maximum
- Better XP progression for unlocking boards
- Improved customer support contact options
In-app purchases
Ancient rune magic in practice
No in-app purchases
Ancient Games
- AG+$3.991 Month
- Ancient Artifact$0.99
- Purchase Game Edition2 variants$1.99
- Dawn of Civilization DLC$2.99
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- Purchase Game Edition$2.99
- Skeleton Key$2.99
- Ur Divine Edition$3.99
- Purchase Game Edition$3.99
- Purchase Game Edition$10.99
- Royal Pass$12.99
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