Comparison

Yomi vs Hero Realms

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

Head to head
About

Yomi

This digital card game simulates the mind games and strategy of fighting video games. Learn character combos, practice against AI or other players, and climb the leaderboards. It features a variety of characters and game modes.

Highlights
  • 10 unique character decks
  • AI opponents with varying difficulty
  • Survival Mode
  • Online multiplayer
  • Cross-platform play
  • Replay saving and viewing
  • Online leaderboards
Features
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Dice Tower's Game of the Year, Tom Vasel, 2010 Yomi is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. 10 characters to choose from, plus 10 more expansion characters available inside the app. Yomi captures the mindgames from fighting games such as Street Fighter, and was created by the lead designer of Street Fighter HD Remix, who was also a long-time fighting game tournament player. Yomi itself is a strategy card game that has held up to many years of tournaments. Start practicing now! • 10 character decks (10 more expansion also available) • AI opponents, including a pretty difficult AI • Survival Mode to play many AI opponents in a row • Tutorial to get you started • Online play, cross-platform with the web version at www.fantasystrike.com • Online leaderboards: start in the Student ranks and work up to Master ranks • Save replays of your games and watch replays from any other player, including top leaderboard players From the makers of Puzzle Strike, Flash Duel, and Pandante. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter: www.facebook.com/SirlinGames @SirlinGames Visit the tabletop store: www.sirlingames.com

About

Hero Realms

Engage in strategic deckbuilding combat, recruit powerful champions, and level up your heroes. Enjoy PvP, co-op against AI bosses, or a single-player campaign. The free version offers core gameplay with optional expansions.

Highlights
  • Deckbuilding combat
  • Recruit champions
  • Hero leveling system
  • Online PvP
  • Cooperative play vs AI
  • Single-player campaign
  • Multiple character classes
Features
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Become a hero! Choose your class, perform mighty actions, and recruit powerful champions to your cause as you grow in power. Awarded Origins Fan Favorite Best Card Game. From the makers of the award-winning Star Realms® Deckbuilding Game, Hero Realms® combines the fun of deckbuilding games with the interactivity of trading card game-style combat. As you play, use Gold to add new actions and champions to your deck. When played, those actions and champions generate powerful effects, give you additional gold, and attack your opponent and their champions. If you reduce your opponent's health to zero, you win! [Non-Collectible Deck Building Game] Hero Realms does not require you to collect new cards. You start every game with a basic deck, and will acquire cards from the shared center row to build up your deck and defeat your opponent. Victory rewards skill, and not your collection of rare cards! [Level Up Your Heroes] Create a hero from one of several classes (free players start with the Fighter and Wizard available). Level them up with new skills, abilities and equipment, and take them to battle in thrilling Online PVP. Hero Realms uses fair match making, only allowing matches between equal levelled heroes. However, if you feel daring, you can choose to engage in combat against higher levelled opponents for additional XP and bragging rights. [Cooperative Online Play] Hero Realms also features online co-operative play. Battle against challenging AI bosses with another human player as a partner. Free players have access to the Pirate Lord mission, with other co-op missions available with the Base Set purchase. [Single Player Campaign] For offline play, take on the Welcome to Thandar campaign. Fight your way through scripted, story-based chapters against varied AI opponents. [Free Version] Free players will get to experience: - Addictive Deckbuilding Game with Player VS Player Combat. - Play VS the AI - Play with the Fighter and Wizard character classes - Level-up your characters up to Level 3 - Play the first 3 missions in the Welcome to Thandar campaign - Play the Pirate Lord co-op mission Purchasing the Base Set will unlock the full Hero Realms experience: - Unlocks hard AI difficulty level - Unlocks the Cleric, Ranger, and Thief character classes - Level-up your characters to Level 12 - Unlocks the entire Welcome to Thandar campaign. - Unlocks the Necromancers, Inquisition, and Orc Riot co-op missions. Please note that Hero Realms purchases are not compatible with Family Sharing.

Screenshots

Yomi4 screens
Hero Realms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hero Realms at Free against Yomi's $9.99. Hero Realms also leads on ratings volume (219 vs 19). Yomi's advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 60%) and iOS requirement (13.0.0 vs 15.0). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Hero Realms is free to download; Yomi costs $9.99 up front. Yomi sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hero Realms sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. 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 — 4.3 for Yomi against 4.3 for Hero Realms. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hero Realms has 219 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Yomi's written reviews are positive against 60% of Hero Realms's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yomi ships an update every 3 weeks, Hero Realms every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Yomi versus Hero Realms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYomiHero Realms
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (19 ratings)4.3 (219 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.1% of reviews — better60.2% of reviews
Number of ratings19219 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size573 MB435 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperSirlin GamesWhite Wizard Games

Customer experience

Yomi

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive84.1%
Neutral1.6%
Negative14.3%

Hero Realms

All ratings219 ratings
Positive80.8%
Neutral5.0%
Negative14.2%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive60.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative29.3%

User reviews

Yomi

From 19 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Deep and strategic gameplay
  • 👍 Excellent implementation of card game
  • 👍 Great tutorials
  • 👍 Well-balanced characters
  • 👍 Cross-platform online play

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and slow
  • 🐛 Online lobby is a ghost town
  • 🐛 Cards displayed wrong
  • 🐛 Card art broken/wrong artwork
  • 🐛 Controls are terrible on iPad

Hero Realms

From 219 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great game mechanics
  • 🚀 Smooth and polished app
  • 💡 Diverse game modes (PvP, co-op, campaign)
  • 👍 Faithful adaptation of the physical card game
  • 💡 Character progression and leveling system

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and crashes
  • 🔒 Lack of local multiplayer (pass-and-play)
  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases for additional content
  • 🌐 Lack of language support (e.g., no French, Spanish)
  • 🔍 Unclear tutorial and explanations of game mechanics

Bugs and requests

Yomi

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Character 'Ram' cannot use 'Poker Flourish'
  • Card images show up wrong on iPhone 6+
  • Card art appears randomly applied
  • Latest patch causing wrong artwork on cards
  • iPad controls are terrible (flipping, skipping, selecting)
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  • Login screen loses user info
  • Cannot continue match because cannot tap pass
  • Versus option not working
  • Glitchy controls
  • Took several attempts to create an account
  • Email address not accepted for new account creation

Requested features

8 requests
  • Keep updating the app
  • Remove weird scan lines in tutorial
  • Single player campaign with goals
  • Korean language support
  • High score list and statistics
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  • Campaign against AI for learning
  • Another music track or dynamic music
  • Ability to view decks and character offerings

Hero Realms

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when trying to play online
  • Inability to access purchased content
  • Freezing and black screen issues
  • Incorrect character level progression
  • Matchmaking problems and long wait times

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more expansions and additional content
  • Implement a friends list and social features
  • Improve the campaign mode with more levels and challenges
  • Add an option to check the contents of your deck before playing
  • Implement a turn timer to prevent players from stalling

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Yomi

One-time10
  • Yomi: EX Grave$0.99
  • Yomi: EX Setsuki$0.99
  • Yomi: EX Valerie$0.99
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  • Yomi: EX Onimaru$0.99
  • Yomi: EX Gwen$0.99
  • Yomi: EX Vendetta$0.99
  • 2 Yomi inscribed card packs$2.99
  • Expansion Characters 10 Pack$9.99
  • 8 Yomi inscribed card packs$9.99
  • 18 Yomi inscribed card packs$19.99
13 purchases

Hero Realms

One-time13
  • 80 Gems$0.99
  • 200 gems$2.29
  • Four Journeys Campaign$3.99
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  • 500 Gems$4.99
  • Hero Realms: Call to Arms$4.99
  • Journeys Expansions$4.99
  • Journeys Promo Expansion$4.99
  • Dungeons Expansion$7.99
  • 1200 Gems$9.99
  • Hero Realms Base Set$9.99
  • 2500 Gems$19.99
  • 6500 Gems$49.99
  • 14000 Gems$99.99

Questions

Is Yomi free?
Yomi costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Hero Realms free?
Hero Realms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Yomi or Hero Realms?
Hero Realms is rated higher. Yomi averages 4.3 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Hero Realms averages 4.3 from 219 ratings.
Do Yomi or Hero Realms have ads?
Neither Yomi nor Hero Realms shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yomi or Hero Realms?
Yomi ships an update every 3 weeks, and Hero Realms every 2 weeks. Most recently, Yomi was updated on November 1, 2026 and Hero Realms on October 30, 2026.

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