Swordigo vs Rogue Sword
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swordigo
Embark on an epic adventure in a magical realm filled with challenges. Explore dungeons, battle monsters, and gain experience to level up your character. Discover powerful weapons, items, and spells to aid you in your quest.
- Explore a magical realm
- Gain experience and level up
- Find powerful weapons and spells
- Dynamic lighting system
- Optimized touch controls
- Game Center achievements
- iCloud save syncing
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Run, jump and slash your way through a vast world of challenges and embark on an epic adventure! “Swordigo is a love letter to the platforming and adventure games of the past.” — SlideToPlay, 4/4 “There’s never a dull movement as you hop between platforms and slash your sword against a plethora of enemies.” — Apple’n’Apps, 4.5/5 “Honestly, if you only buy one game this week, you should choose Swordigo.” — AppAdvice A GREAT ADVENTURE • Explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures and devious monsters. • Gain experience and level up your character. MAGIC AND SWORDS • Find powerful weapons, items and spells to defeat your enemies. DYNAMIC LIGHTING • Venture into gloomy caves and dungeons illuminated by the atmospheric dynamic lighting system. OPTIMIZED GAMEPLAY • Precise touch controls designed specifically for iOS. • Customize the controls to your preference. LATEST iOS FEATURES • Game Center achievements. • Use iCloud to sync saves between the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. • Retina display support for both the iPhone and the iPad.
Rogue Sword
Embark on a challenging retro adventure, battling monsters and collecting treasures across diverse locations. Master strategic combat, build unique characters with rich upgrades, and face epic bosses in this fast-paced roguelite.
- High-difficulty fast-paced action
- Intense and strategic battle
- Random character generation
- Rich weapons and spells
- Character upgrades
- Epic boss battles
- Retro CRT filters
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Pick up your weapon, travel through various locations, defeat the monsters blocking the way, and find ancient treasures. High-difficulty fast-paced action game. Intense and strategic battle. Control your own rhythm, hit a higher number of combos, get a lot of gold coins to buy weapons and magic to arm yourself. Challenge 7 epic bosses! **Pixel Perfect graphics **Beautiful pixel light and shadow **RogeLite **A completely random character every time (Tall? Short? As sensitive as a ninja? Even crazy...) **Different character skills **Rich weapons and spells **A large number of upgrades to create your unique character ** Lots of different enemies **Boss battle full of variables **Retro mode brings beautiful CRT filters and more difficult challenges! One More Game, Never ending.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rogue Sword at none against Swordigo's 3. Rogue Sword also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Swordigo's advantage is ratings volume (7.9K vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. Swordigo sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Rogue Sword asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rogue Sword holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swordigo has 7.9K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Swordigo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rogue Sword's.
Swordigo ships an update every 5 months, Rogue Sword every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swordigo | Rogue Sword |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (7.9K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.9K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Touch Foo | 天旻 王 |
Customer experience
Swordigo
Rogue Sword
Bugs and requests
Swordigo
Reported bugs
2 issues- Glitches with key items
- Crashes on certain devices
Requested features
4 requests- Swordigo 2 or sequel
- More levels and content
- Difficulty settings
- Expanded story and lore
Rogue Sword
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Swordigo
- Remove Advertisement$1.99
- Guiding Compass$2.99
- Coin Doubler$2.99
Rogue Sword
No in-app purchases









