Imprisoned vs Showdown at Willow Creek
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!
Showdown at Willow Creek
Embark on an interactive Western mystery where your decisions shape the narrative. Explore a town filled with secrets, romance, and conflict as you unravel a conspiracy. Your choices determine the fate of Willow Creek and its inhabitants.
- Interactive text-based story
- Branching narrative choices
- Western mystery genre
- Multiple romance options
- Moral and ethical dilemmas
- Unravel town conspiracies
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Saddle up and defend the town of Willow Creek from nefarious outlaws and city slickers! It all starts when a rancher's daughter goes missing, and it ends at the showdown at Willow Creek, where greed, lust, science, and Mother Nature will face off at high noon. Showdown at Willow Creek is an interactive western mystery novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--but powered by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Gamble, seduce, brawl, or shoot your way through Willow Creek, where gunslingers make the laws and everybody has secrets. Will you romance the gambler or the soiled dove (or both)? Will you side with the scientists bringing electricity to the Old West, or with a tribe of Native American Utes? Will you unravel the conspiracy that threatens to tear the town apart, or will you light the fuse to blow it all sky high?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Showdown at Willow Creek at 4.4 against Imprisoned's 4.1. On price, review sentiment, 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 Showdown at Willow Creek sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Showdown at Willow Creek holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Imprisoned's written reviews are positive against 70% of Showdown at Willow Creek's.
Imprisoned ships an update every 17 months, Showdown at Willow Creek every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Imprisoned | Showdown at Willow Creek |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (29 ratings) | 4.4 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 70.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 11 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 | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Choice of Games LLC |
Customer experience
Imprisoned
Showdown at Willow Creek
Bugs and requests
Imprisoned
Reported bugs
6 issues- Grammar and spelling errors
- Game ends with a week left
- Impossible to open portal in time
- Count-down timer does not work properly
- Progress discrepancies
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- Crashes when going from stats page back to story
Requested features
6 requests- Add more genres to scene settings
- Make the game longer
- Add romance options
- Create a sequel
- Improve editing and polish
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- Fix crashes when navigating stats page
Showdown at Willow Creek
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Imprisoned
- Remove Advertising$4.99
Showdown at Willow Creek
- Chapters 4 through 8$4.99
Questions
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