Imprisoned vs NOLA Is Burning
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!
NOLA Is Burning
Embark on a text-based noir thriller set in New Orleans. Rescue your kidnapped lover from a dangerous gangster before dawn, making critical choices that shape your survival. Engage in combat, forge alliances, and navigate the city's underbelly in this interactive story.
- Interactive text-based story
- Branching narrative choices
- Noir thriller setting
- Gangster and crime themes
- Multiple endings
- Vast word count for replayability
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Your boss, The Bull, the most dangerous gangster in New Orleans, has a job for you. Rescue your kidnapped lover--officially The Bull’s lover, but unofficially yours--before dawn. Slaughter everyone who stands in your way, including other gangsters, cops, and the Triad, as you slink across the underbelly of New Orleans. "NOLA Is Burning" is a blood-soaked interactive noir thriller where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and powered by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Will you outwit your enemies or take it to the mattresses with your trusty sawtooth? Will you earn respect as NOLA’s most infamous headcrusher, or will you retire to Mexico on a huge pile of cash? To be honest, you'll probably die. But in NOLA, death is just the beginning. • Make deals with the cops, a Voodoo priestess, the leader of the local Triad, or a fallen priest. • Mix old world magic and advanced technology in a fight to the death, and beyond. • More than 70,000 words of interactive fiction, 15,000 words on every run through the game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Imprisoned at 67% against NOLA Is Burning's 39%. Imprisoned also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 NOLA Is Burning sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Imprisoned holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Imprisoned's written reviews are positive against 39% of NOLA Is Burning's.
Imprisoned ships an update every 17 months, NOLA Is Burning every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Imprisoned | NOLA Is Burning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (29 ratings) — better | 3.7 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 39.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 10 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+ | +17 |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Choice of Games LLC |
Customer experience
Imprisoned
NOLA Is Burning
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
NOLA Is Burning
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Imprisoned
- Remove Advertising$4.99
NOLA Is Burning
- Chapters 4 through 12$4.99
Questions
Is Imprisoned free?
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