Gleam vs Dead Reset
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gleam
Engage in interactive chat stories where your choices shape thrilling narratives. Explore mysteries and uncover secrets in unique adventures that keep you captivated. Are you ready to become a character and influence the outcome?
- Interactive chat narratives
- Player choice-driven stories
- Mystery and horror themes
- Character immersion
- Engaging gameplay
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Step into Gleam, where interactive chats guide you through thrilling stories... Become a character in a horror tale, making choices that shape your journey. Are you ready to uncover mysteries and explore the unknown? Experience a unique adventure that keeps you engaged and intrigued. Let the journey begin!
Dead Reset
Experience a blood-soaked interactive horror where you are trapped in a terrifying death loop. Make high-stakes choices to uncover the truth and escape a parasitic horror, with your decisions leading to multiple endings.
- Interactive FMV horror
- Death-loop mechanic
- Choice-driven gameplay
- Multiple endings
- Streamer Mode
- Relationship tracker
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Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth. Death is Inevitable Master the death-loop to uncover the path to escape. Death is not the end but offers a terrifying new perspective. Embrace the Horror Immerse yourself in a blood-soaked, interactive narrative with cinematic scares, bloody practical effects and high-stakes choice-driven gameplay that put you at the heart of a relentless sci-fi horror movie. Choices Matter Steer Cole on a path of Redemption or Damnation in your fight to survive. There are no easy choices as your morality is tested at every turn and your decisions will result in four wildly different endings. Pause the Terror Playing to an audience? Enable Streamer Mode, which removes time constraints on choices, letting your viewers guide Cole’s fate and delight in his gruesome deaths. Who Do You Trust? Build trust or fracture alliances; each bond forged or broken influences your road to survival. View the in-game tracker to check your relationship with other characters, if they are still alive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dead Reset at none against Gleam's shown. Dead Reset also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (26 vs 5). Gleam's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (80% vs 67%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Gleam sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Dead Reset sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dead Reset holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dead Reset has 26 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Gleam's written reviews are positive against 67% of Dead Reset's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Gleam ships an update every 3 weeks, Dead Reset every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gleam | Dead Reset |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.5 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 2.4 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +17 |
| Developer | Alireza Ghiastabari | Wales Interactive Ltd. |
Customer experience
Gleam
Dead Reset
In-app purchases
Gleam
- Beginner's Pack$1.99
- Mega Saver: 75% Off Now$1.99
- Super Reader's Pack$3.99
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- Time Traveller's Pack$3.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Thrifty Thirty: Grab 35% Off$3.99
- Half-Price Hero: 50% Off Deal$3.99
- First Step Savings - 15% Off$3.99
- Pro Player's Package$6.99
- True Reader's Dream Package$8.99
Dead Reset
- Unlock Full Game$4.99







