Imprisoned vs Diabolical
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Imprisoned
Escape a high-security prison using your intellect, skills, or strength. Uncover dungeon secrets, interact with a fellow inmate, and discover who framed you. Embark on a challenging fantasy adventure.
- Choose your escape method
- Explore prison secrets
- Interact with a co-prisoner
- Fantasy quest
- Determine responsibility for arrest
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Use your incredible wits, fantastic skills and/or magnificent strength to choose your way out of a heavily guarded prison! Reveal the secrets of the dungeon, meet the mysterious co-prisoner and determine who's responsible for your arrest. Grab your gear and prepare yourself for a hard fantasy quest. Remember, escaping from a prison is not a task for kids or grannies!
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
Imprisoned and Diabolical both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 77% of Diabolical's written reviews are positive against 67% of Imprisoned's. On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Imprisoned sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Diabolical sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Imprisoned against 4.1 for Diabolical. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 45 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Imprisoned's written reviews are positive against 77% of Diabolical's.
Imprisoned ships an update every 17 months, Diabolical every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Imprisoned | Diabolical |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (29 ratings) | 4.1 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 77.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 13 months — better |
| 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 | 28 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Choice of Games LLC |
Customer experience
Imprisoned
Diabolical
Bugs and requests
Imprisoned
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
Imprisoned
- Remove Advertising$4.99
Diabolical
- Chapters 3 through 12$4.99
Questions
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