The Race vs Serania
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Race
Embark on a choice-driven text adventure through Peru. Select your partner, compete against others, and uncover secrets. Your decisions shape your journey and lead to multiple endings.
- Choice-driven gameplay
- Multiple endings
- Race through Peru
- Uncover corruption
- Discover secrets
- Select race partner
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Choose your destiny in a race through Peru! -Select your race partner -Compete against other teams -Uncover corruption -Discover hidden secrets A choice-driven text adventure with multiple endings. Can you find them all? You are about to go on the journey of a lifetime as you take part in the event known the world over as ‘The Race’. With a huge cash prize, being a participant on The Race is a great opportunity for success. You have been chosen to take part and race through Peru to an unknown, final destination. Every step of the way, the choices you make will affect your performance, as well as the other teams around you! Can you make it to the end? Bonus: It’s not all about winning. Sometimes other choices are more important. Can you uncover a hidden conspiracy? Can you solve the mysteries in your dreams? Can you even go through cities not even on the race list?! There are three alternative endings to the race. Challenge your friends to find them all!
Serania
Embark on a text-based role-playing adventure to uncover your past and escape pursuers. Make choices, explore a fantasy world, and engage in combat and skill development. The first part of the story is free to play.
- Engaging fantasy story with choices
- Explore a detailed story world
- Interact with characters
- Complete missions and improve skills
- Manage inventory and combat
- Uncover ancestral truth
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Escape the Blackblades and search for answers about your mysterious past in this new, fresh take on the text-based role playing genre. You can play the first 1/4 of the game for free. If the game is for you, you can buy access to the full story. FEATURES: * An engaging fantasy story, where you choose what to do * Freely explore the world of the story * Meet and interact with other characters * Go on missions, improve your skills, and fight deadly battles * Manage your inventory, use items, buy, sell or use in combat * Follow the clues and find out the truth about your ancestry! AWARDS: Best Narrative - Silver Winner NYX Game Awards 2021 Best Storytelling - Silver Winner NYX Game Awards 2021 PRESS: “... a stunningly well-written and enthralling text adventure.” - GameBookNews "Serania: Path of the Scion is a Must Play if You Like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books" - GameSpew "Serania – Path of the Scion excels as an engaging narrative experience that you can enjoy anytime, anywhere, with a streamlined interface that seamlessly integrates all aspects of the game naturally." - IndieHive
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Serania at 4.6 against The Race's 3.0. Serania also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 12 months). On price, review sentiment, 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. The Race sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Serania sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Serania holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Serania has 162 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of The Race's written reviews are positive against 83% of Serania's.
The Race ships an update every 12 months, Serania every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Race | Serania |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 4.6 (162 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 162 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Peter Ravnholt |
Customer experience
The Race
Serania
Bugs and requests
The Race
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Serania
Reported bugs
10 issues- Combat options disappear
- Enemies can dodge while 'paralyzed'
- Life doesn't fully restore upon leveling up
- Stuck in temple ruins without a boat option
- Final boss is impossible to hit/beat
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- Choices are arbitrary, leading to death and reverting to checkpoint
- Constant misses in combat, reliant on RNG
- Difficulty spikes significantly at the end
- Hint doesn't provide enough information for progression
- Continue button sometimes delayed with voiceover
Requested features
19 requests- Add a dodge button
- Add a defense button
- Add more combat options (e.g., quick thrust, sideways cut)
- Fix bug with disappearing combat options
- Make the next game free
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- Add more choices to the story
- Add a boat option for crossing the lake
- Create a Serania part two
- Allow revival in the story
- Add more sound effects for combat
- Expand the story after claiming the throne
- Add a freeplay or challenge mode after main story
- Add hidden areas with new enemies/weapons
- Implement New Game + with increased difficulty
- Add a gender option other than man and woman
- Loop music tracks and add more scene-specific music
- Add a map for better navigation
- Make the full story free
- Allow watching ads to progress instead of paying
In-app purchases
The Race
- Remove Advertising$4.99
Serania
- Access to the full story$3.99
