Comparison

Imprisoned vs Diabolical

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Choose your escape method
  • Explore prison secrets
  • Interact with a co-prisoner
  • Fantasy quest
  • Determine responsibility for arrest
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Choose your villainous path
  • Hire and manage minions
  • Make impactful story choices
  • Develop your evil empire
  • Explore romance options
  • Achieve world domination or destruction
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Imprisoned4 screens
Diabolical4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Imprisoned versus Diabolical: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImprisonedDiabolical
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (29 ratings)4.1 (45 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews77.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2945 — better
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 13 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB30 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCChoice of Games LLC

Customer experience

Imprisoned

All ratings29 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral13.8%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral7.0%
Negative26.3%

Diabolical

All ratings45 ratings
Positive75.6%
Neutral6.7%
Negative17.8%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive77.0%
Neutral6.6%
Negative16.4%

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

1 purchases

Imprisoned

One-time1
  • Remove Advertising$4.99
1 purchases

Diabolical

One-time1
  • Chapters 3 through 12$4.99

Questions

Is Imprisoned free?
Imprisoned is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Diabolical free?
Diabolical is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Imprisoned or Diabolical?
Imprisoned and Diabolical are both rated 4.1 out of 5 on the App Store, from 29 and 45 ratings respectively.
Do Imprisoned or Diabolical have ads?
Both Imprisoned and Diabolical show ads.
Which is updated more often, Imprisoned or Diabolical?
Imprisoned ships an update every 17 months, and Diabolical every 13 months. Most recently, Imprisoned was updated on August 23, 2026 and Diabolical on September 7, 2026.

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