Wizard's Choice vs Diabolical
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wizard's Choice
Embark on an interactive fantasy adventure as a wizard. Make choices that shape your destiny, manage resources like spell power and gold, and battle evil in this text-based RPG. Your decisions determine survival and success.
- Interactive novel gameplay
- Resource management (health, mana, gold, morale)
- Decision-driven outcomes
- End-game scoring and ranking
- Accessible for blind users
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You play a wizard in this interactive novel set in a medieval fantasy world. Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. Wizard's Choice is a series of RPG interactive novels that will engross you in a story while allowing you to make the decisions that will determine your fate. From Delight Games, the publisher of Zombie High and Detective's Choice. Written by Sam Landstrom. *** Features *** - Zero learning curve. Read the story and make decisions. - Health, mana, gold, and morale are tracked. - Outcomes are determined by decisions you make. - Score and rank at the end. - Accessible to blind users.
Diabolical
Become the ultimate criminal mastermind in this text-based interactive novel. Make choices to build an evil empire, hire minions, and achieve world domination, or destruction. Explore different villain archetypes and romance options.
- Choose your villainous path
- Hire and manage minions
- Make impactful story choices
- Develop your evil empire
- Explore romance options
- Achieve world domination or destruction
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Start practicing your evil laugh! As the world's greatest criminal mastermind, choose a lair, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.) "Diabolical" is a 130,000-word interactive novel by Nick Aires, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Famous, feared, or filthy rich—why not all three? You've got the money and the motives to build an evil empire worthy of the most ruthless villain the world has ever seen. Crush the good guys and terrorize the populace! Stamp a big red "FAIL" on your enemies' foreheads! Plunder your way to world domination – or sit back and pet your kitty while your henchmen do it for you. Will you be a high-tech daredevil, a ruthless military soldier, or an apparition terrifying to behold? What calling card will you leave at the scene of your crimes? Whatever your choices, the results will be diabolical. • Play a villainous story of scheming, grandstanding, and laughing evilly. • Interview and hire the best possible (or best available) minion. • Decide when to use trickery, when to use force, and when to hide behind henchmen. • Choose the ultimate, guaranteed-to-be-infamous nickname. • Play as male or female, with straight, gay, and bisexual romance options. • Destroy the world!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wizard's Choice at 4.6 against Diabolical's 4.1. Wizard's Choice also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (922 vs 45). 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. Wizard's Choice sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Diabolical sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wizard's Choice holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wizard's Choice has 922 ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Wizard's Choice's written reviews are positive against 77% of Diabolical's.
Wizard's Choice ships an update every 4 weeks, Diabolical every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wizard's Choice | Diabolical |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (922 ratings) — better | 4.1 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 77.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 922 — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Delight Games LLC | Choice of Games LLC |
Customer experience
Wizard's Choice
Diabolical
Bugs and requests
Wizard's Choice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Diabolical
Reported bugs
1 issue- Bug fix???
Requested features
14 requests- Sequel needed
- More like this game
- Werewolf story
- More choices that affect story
- Choice of alien game
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- More vs hero interaction
- Longer battles
- More villain POV things
- Improved sequel
- More customization (lairs, sidekicks, stats)
- More interactive than other gamebooks
- More improvements to character development
- More content like this
- More interactive releases
In-app purchases
Wizard's Choice
- 3 coins$0.99
- 5 luck$0.99
- 12 coins$2.99
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- 18 coins$2.99
- 18 luck$2.99
- Remove Advertising$4.99
- Premium 50% Off$4.99
- Premium 30% Off$6.99
- Premium Access$9.99
- 75 luck$9.99
Diabolical
- Chapters 3 through 12$4.99
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