NPC vs Barcode Beasts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NPC
Engage in daily AI-powered games that test your strategic and social skills. Interact with dynamic NPCs and challenge friends in unique negotiation and persuasion scenarios. Experience a fresh, exciting game every day with AI-generated challenges.
- Daily AI-powered games
- Interactive NPC challenges
- Negotiation and persuasion gameplay
- Social skill testing
- Dynamic scenario generation
- Friend challenges
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NPC is an app that brings you exciting AI-powered games every day, designed to challenge your strategic thinking and social skills. With this app, you and your friends can play different games every day, where you get to interact with NPCs (Non-Player Characters) and challenge each other. Each day, you'll be presented with a new game, which could range from negotiating with a Turkish salesman to convincing a billionaire to fund your dream project. The games are designed to test your negotiation, persuasion, and decision-making skills, making for a fun and engaging experience. The app uses AI to generate dynamic scenarios and NPCs, making each game unique and challenging. You'll never play the same game twice, keeping the experience fresh and exciting.
Barcode Beasts
Transform your surroundings into a monster hunting ground by scanning product barcodes. Engage in turn-based battles, collect unique creatures, and level up your character to become the ultimate scanner.
- Scan any product barcode to summon creatures
- Turn-based monster battles
- Collect 84+ unique beasts
- Level up and customize character stats
- Unlockable attacks and combat loadouts
- Build and track your Bestiary
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WELCOME TO BARCODE BEASTS The world is surrounded by barcodes and beasts lie within. Transform your world into a monster hunting ground! Barcode Beasts turns every product barcode into a gateway to encounter wild creatures waiting to be challenged. SCAN ANYTHING Use your camera to scan barcodes on groceries, books, packages - anything! Each barcode summons a unique beast ready for battle. BATTLE AS A SCANNER Fight beasts you discover directly in turn based battles with your own skills. Master 18 unlockable attacks, manage your Battle Stamina wisely, and exploit enemy weaknesses to claim victory. DISCOVER 100 UNIQUE BEASTS AND RISING From the eerie Gravemite to the electrifying Voltgrub, discover and defeat a roster of mysterious creatures with distinct abilities and personalities. Build your Bestiary and track your stats against every beast you encounter! LEVEL UP & GET STRONGER Earn XP from every battle. Increase your stats, unlock powerful new attacks, customize your combat loadout and items to give you the upper hand. Become the best and most powerful scanner. TEST YOUR SKILLS Take on challenging dungeons and defeat 5 rooms of increasingly tougher beasts. ARE YOU READY? BECOME A SCANNNER TODAY! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Barcode Beasts at 4.8 against NPC's 2.0. Barcode Beasts also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 1). NPC's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads 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. Barcode Beasts sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. NPC asks for nothing beyond the download.
Barcode Beasts holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Barcode Beasts has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | NPC | Barcode Beasts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 98.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | What If Projects, Inc. | MATTHEW LAWRIE LAFFERTY |
Customer experience
NPC
Barcode Beasts
In-app purchases
NPC
No in-app purchases
Barcode Beasts
- 100 coins$0.99
- 500 coins$3.99
- 1500 coins$9.99
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- Booster pack$19.99
