Zaga vs Arcane Tower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zaga
Explore a hostile alien planet, battling monstrous creatures and uncovering ancient artifacts. Your mission is to destroy the alien Cortex and find a way to escape this dangerous world.
- Explore mysterious caverns
- Fight horrible green monsters
- Discover alien artifacts
- Destroy the alien Cortex
- Top-down exploration adventure
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You are stranded on rogue planet Zaga-33! Explore deep into its mysterious caverns. Fight off horrible green monsters and discover esoteric alien artifacts. Destroy the alien Cortex to escape. "Few games are as hypnotic or menacing as Zaga-33, a top-down exploration adventure in which you somehow work your way through an oppressive alien world. Fast-paced and pleasingly nasty." - 500 Must-have Apps, The Telegraph, 3 October 2012
Arcane Tower
Embark on a challenging roguelike adventure as a brave wizard. Explore randomly generated maps, compete in daily challenges with global leaderboards, and learn from top player replays to defeat evil and uncover ancient secrets.
- Randomly generated maps
- Challenging roguelike mechanics
- Daily challenge mode
- Global leaderboards
- Watch top player replays
- Single-player adventure
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Evil reigns throughout the kingdom, darkness obscures the landscape. A brave wizard is determined to put an end to all of this. But there's only one way. The Arcane Tower keeps the powers and secrets required to defeat all the evil. Arcane Tower is a roguelike game with mechanics carefully designed to make every run challenging, interesting and incredibly fun. Key features: * Maps are randomly generated, meaning every run you play will be different from every other run you've played. * Daily Challenge! Every day a special map is generated, the same for everyone in the world. Compete in the daily leaderboards! * Watch other players: after playing a Daily Challenge, you can watch replays of the top players to see how they got their score.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Arcane Tower at every 3 weeks against Zaga's every 4 months. Arcane Tower also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). Zaga's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 5) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Zaga costs $3.99 and Arcane Tower $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Arcane Tower holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zaga has 30 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Zaga's written reviews are positive against 86% of Arcane Tower's.
Zaga ships an update every 4 months, Arcane Tower every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zaga | Arcane Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.9% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Michael Brough | Diego Cathalifaud |
Customer experience
Zaga
Arcane Tower
In-app purchases
Zaga
No in-app purchases
Arcane Tower
No in-app purchases
