Comparison

Wytchwood vs Doomscroll

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

Head to head
About

Wytchwood

Embark on a crafting adventure in a gothic fairytale land. Explore, gather magical ingredients, brew enchantments, and deliver judgments to a cast of characters and creatures. Teach them the moral of their stories.

Highlights
  • Crafting adventure gameplay
  • Gothic fairytale setting
  • Explore a strange countryside
  • Collect magical ingredients
  • Brew sorcerous enchantments
  • Pass twisted judgments
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Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in an expressive land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the mysterious old witch of the woods, you will explore a strange countryside, collect magical ingredients, brew sorcerous enchantments, and pass your twisted judgement upon a capricious cast of characters and creatures. After all, how will they ever learn if you don’t teach them the moral of the story?

About

Doomscroll

An arcade shooter designed for your wrist, where you control your descent into a cavern by turning the Digital Crown. Your character automatically fires, but stopping too long means game over. Unlock new monsters and weapon upgrades as you go deeper.

Highlights
  • Digital Crown control for Apple Watch
  • Swipe controls for iPhone
  • Retro arcade shooter gameplay
  • Unlockable monsters and weapon upgrades
  • Endless descent challenge
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
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Your phone has a thousand games. Your watch has almost none. But this is about to become your favorite watch game. Doomscroll is an arcade shooter built for your wrist where the only thing you need to do is turn the Digital Crown to scroll deeper into the cavern. Your character fires as you go. Stop scrolling too long and the flames will get you. It starts out easy. But the deeper you get, the worse it gets. New monsters unlock, but for every 100 that you kill, you can pick a weapon upgrade. You’ll encounter barricades, spider webs, and get the occasional health potion. Your challenge is to see how far you get, and whether you can get further next time. Faithfully ported from the original browser game, with all five cavern floors, every monster, the same endless descent. Also plays on iPhone with swipe controls. • Built for Apple Watch, controlled with the Digital Crown • Play for two minutes or twenty • No ads. No in-app purchases. • No sound! Because who wants game noises coming out of their watch? • (And because you want to listen to a podcast while you play anyway) • Collects no data. • One purchase gets you both the Watch and iPhone apps

Screenshots

Wytchwood4 screens
Doomscroll3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Doomscroll at 5.0 against Wytchwood's 4.0. Doomscroll also leads on price ($1.99 vs $4.99). Wytchwood's advantage is ratings volume (42 vs 1) and chart position (#66 vs unranked). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Wytchwood costs $4.99 and Doomscroll $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Doomscroll holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wytchwood has 42 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Wytchwood versus Doomscroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWytchwoodDoomscroll
Price$4.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.0 (42 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings42 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#66 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.2 GB3 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperWhitethorn Digital LLCDavid Friedman

Customer experience

Wytchwood

All ratings39 ratings
Positive74.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive57.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative31.1%

Doomscroll

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Wytchwood

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Cannot click on braziers
  • Cannot give fireflies to Ragamuffin
  • Leech questions are incorrect
  • Sea Serpent riddle answers are wrong
  • Ram quest wool not registering
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  • Game freezes after collecting wool
  • Cursor won't move to correct answer for serpent
  • Game exits when going through portal
  • Game crashes after 5 minutes
  • Soul for stag not appearing
  • Cannot move, task displayed wrong, cannot use items
  • Cannot pick up items after extended gameplay
  • Main character gets stuck in place
  • Stone pillar missing in front of shrine door
  • Game doesn't run on iPad Pro 4th gen
  • Game never loads on iPad Pro and iPhone 14
  • Game icon has a white border on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Requested features

5 requests
  • Controller support
  • Cloud saves
  • French translation
  • Companion game
  • Option to purchase inventory bundles

Doomscroll

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Wytchwood

No in-app purchases

None

Doomscroll

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wytchwood free?
Wytchwood costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Doomscroll free?
Doomscroll costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wytchwood or Doomscroll?
Doomscroll is rated higher. Wytchwood averages 4.0 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while Doomscroll averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wytchwood or Doomscroll have ads?
Neither Wytchwood nor Doomscroll shows ads.

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