Abalone® vs Astrea
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Abalone®
Experience a classic two-player board game on a hexagonal board. Push your opponent's marbles off while protecting your own. Offers strategic depth, online play, and over 200 puzzles.
- Classic hexagonal board gameplay
- Push opponent's marbles off
- Play against computer or online
- Casual and ranked matches
- Over 200 puzzles and brain-teasers
- Customizable game settings
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Enter the world of Abalone, the classic board game that's been enjoyed by millions of players worldwide.With intuitive gameplay, and endless strategic possibilities, Abalone offers an immersive and challenging gaming experience that will keep you coming back for more. Abalone is a two-player game that takes place on a hexagonal board, with each player controlling 14 marbles of their chosen color. The goal of the game is to push your opponent's marbles off the board while protecting your own. Players take turns making moves, which consist of either moving a single marble one space in any direction, or pushing a line of marbles in a straight line, as long as they have the numerical advantage. The first player to push six marbles off the board wins the game. While the rules of the game are simple and easy to learn, the strategic possibilities are endless. Players must use their analytical skills and strategic thinking to outmaneuver their opponents, create defensive lines, use angles to their advantage, harness momentum, and even sacrifice a marble when necessary. The game is accessible to players of all skill levels, yet offers endless depth and complexity for those who crave a true challenge. You have the option to play against the computer, online with friends or , or against other players from around the world. The game includes both casual and ranked matches, so players can choose the level of competition they want to face. With a simple and intuitive interface, players can easily customize their settings, select their preferred marbles, board, frame, and sumito to fit their style, and get into the game with ease. But that's not all! Abalone also includes over 200 puzzles and brain-teasers that will challenge you to think outside the box and improve your skills. These puzzles range from simple and straightforward to complex and challenging, and are sure to keep players engaged and entertained for hours on end. With easy-to-learn mechanics, challenging gameplay, and endless strategic possibilities, Abalone is a game that you won't want to put down. Download now and start your Abalone adventure!
Astrea
This roguelike deckbuilder replaces cards with dice, featuring a unique dual damage system of Purification and Corruption. Customize your dice, choose from six distinct Oracles, and discover over 170 Blessings to alter your tactics.
- Unique dual damage system (Purification vs. Corruption)
- Dynamic health bar with attached skills
- Dice pool building with over 350 dice
- Dice customization with new actions
- Six unique Oracles with distinct playstyles
- Over 170 modifying Blessings (Star and Black Hole)
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Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and an unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Features • Unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption - In Astrea there is a new type of “damage” system. Purification can be used to damage enemies or heal yourself. On the other hand, corruption can be used to damage yourself or heal the enemies. Pacify enemies through Purification, or Corrupt yourself to unleash abilities that help tip the scales. • Dynamic Health Bar system - With skills attached to your health bar, you can take Corruption to enable these skills and unleash powerful abilities. But be careful, if you take too much Corruption you will be consumed by it. • Not cards, but dice! - Build a dice pool that fits your playstyle. Choose from over 350 dice and three dice types; reliably safe, perfectly balanced, or powerfully risky. A dice type system designed with high-risk, high-reward in its core. • Customize your dice - Forge your fate by editing die faces with new actions, tipping the odds of powerful results into your favor. • Choose from Six Brave Oracles - Each possessing their own unique dice sets, abilities, and playstyles. From ingenious spellcasters to brutish berserkers, whether you like beating the opponent into submission or outsmarting them with clever plays, there’s an oracle for you. • Uncover over 170 modifying Blessings - Imbue your Oracle with unique passives yielding potent effects that changes up your fundamental tactics. Choose between Star Blessings, passive effects with lower power, or Black Hole Blessings, powerful passive effects with a drawback.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Astrea at 74% against Abalone®'s 17%. Astrea also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (20 vs 2). Abalone®'s advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks). On 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
Abalone® costs $3.99 and Astrea $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Abalone® holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Astrea has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Abalone®'s written reviews are positive against 74% of Astrea's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Abalone® ships an update daily, Astrea every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Abalone® | Astrea |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.3 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 73.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #79 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 711 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Plug In Digital | Akupara Games, LLC |
Customer experience
Abalone®
Astrea
In-app purchases
Abalone®
No in-app purchases
Astrea
No in-app purchases









