Zebulon vs Hosted Games
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zebulon
Embark on a space adventure to uncover the mysteries of the asteroid Zebulon. Pilot a spacecraft with companions and a pet goldfish, traveling to the Moon and the Asteroid Belt. Make choices to reveal secrets about Zebulon and your past.
- Space exploration
- Interactive story choices
- Character interaction
- Uncover secrets
- Multiple destinations
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Journey through Space and uncover the secrets of the asteroid Zebulon! Pilot a spacecraft with two loyal sidekicks and your pet goldfish Henry. Travel to the Moon, meet some interesting characters, and then blast off to the Asteroid Belt. Along the way make the right choices to discover the secrets of Zebulon and your own past. If Douglas Adams had written a multiple-choice gamebook, it might not be entirely unlike this!
Hosted Games
Explore a vast library of text-based interactive novels where your choices shape the narrative. Engage in diverse genres from horror and fantasy to romance and sci-fi, all powered by your imagination. Create your own stories using a simple scripting language.
- Vast library of interactive novels
- Text-based storytelling
- Choice-driven narratives
- Multiple genres available
- Create your own games
- ChoiceScript programming language
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The choice is yours! Joust for love and glory, solve an eldritch murder, find romance, or battle aliens with Magitek? "Hosted Games" is a magnificent library of interactive novels, written by authors like you. Hosted Games are entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Try a few of these fan favorites: • Zombie Exodus — Fight your way out of a zombie-filled city in this interactive horror story! • Fallen Hero — Step into the shoes of a telepath turned villain and explore the dark side. • Wayhaven Chronicles — Something stalks the shadows, and it's up to you to find out what! • Sabres of Infinity — Step into the boots of a Royal Dragoon in this tale of war in a fantasy world. • Golden Rose — Explore a medieval Europe where history took a different turn! • Soul Stone War — Fight for the future—your own, and the world's! Your fate is yours. • I, the Forgotten One — Can you defeat the rebellion in your kingdom before your past consumes you? • An Unexpectedly Green Journey — From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Are you destined for glory? • Fields of Asphodel — Join the ranks of the Underworld's misfit gods and make it your home! • Tin Star — Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal and craft a legend. Authors just like you have developed these games using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Learn more at https://hostedgames.org
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hosted Games at 4.7 against Zebulon's 3.0. Hosted Games also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (956 vs 2). Zebulon's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Zebulon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Hosted Games sells 33 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hosted Games holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hosted Games has 956 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Zebulon's written reviews are positive against 77% of Hosted Games's.
Zebulon ships an update every 22 months, Hosted Games every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zebulon | Hosted Games |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (956 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 77.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 956 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Hosted Games LLC |
Customer experience
Zebulon
Hosted Games
In-app purchases
Zebulon
- Remove Advertising$4.99
Hosted Games
- Dragon of Steelthorne$2.99
- Side Stories 21-30$2.99
- First Bull Run$2.99
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- Tokyo Wizard$2.99
- It Takes Three to Tango$3.99
- Divine Ascension$4.99
- Samurai of Hyuga$4.99
- Keeper's Vigil$5.99
- World War II Armored Recon$5.99
- Life as a Lich$5.99
- Velocity: The Race Begins$6.99
- Keeper of the Sun and Moon$6.99
- Samurai of Hyuga Book 6$6.99
- Fallen Hero: Rebirth$6.99
- Hero or Villain: Genesis$6.99
- A Kiss from Death$6.99
- Kitsune$6.99
- Whiskey-Four$6.99
- Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One$7.99
- The Soul Stone War$7.99
- Leas: City of the Sun$7.99
- The People's House$7.99
- Scales of Justice$7.99
- Tale of Two Cranes$8.99
- Breach: The Archangel Job$8.99
- Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two$8.99
- Saturnine$8.99
- The Golden Rose: Book One$11.99
- Diaspora$11.99
- Wayhaven Chronicles Three$11.99
- Fallen Hero: Retribution$11.99
- An Unexpectedly Green Journey$11.99
- Fields of Asphodel$11.99
