Comparison

Necro vs Crystal

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

Head to head
About

Necro

Assemble and upgrade undead creatures from various body parts to defend your tower and fight off hordes of enemies. Explore, gather resources, and discover secret recipes for powerful hybrid units in this strategy auto-battler.

Highlights
  • Create undead units from collected body parts
  • Upgrade your tower with collected resources
  • Hybrid unit creation with secret recipes
  • Take direct control of one unit at a time
  • Strategy and auto-battle gameplay mix
  • Explore and gather resources
Features
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Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb. About the Game: The necromancer, along with his faithful companion, the Cat, finds himself in an unknown world, and tries to find a way to return home. Fortunately, along with the main character, there were also magical tools in this world. Using his knowledge and skills, the Necromancer decided to use the remains scattered around to protect himself from aggressive local creatures and find the blueprints of the ship to escape. Gameplay: A mix of strategy and auto battle. The player collects and revives the undead from a variety of remains. The raised undead fight numerous enemies on their own, explores the map, extracts resources and unique body parts. If necessary, the player can take control of any unit. Also, the resources found allows you to upgrade the tower both inside the session and between sessions in the hub. The undead are not under the direct control of the player, and the behavior of the created units is regulated by in-game AI. If necessary, the player can take control of the unit, but at the same time it can be done with only one at a time. Mechanics List: • Creation of undead – Using the remains collected or obtained at the beginning of the game, the player creates new units with the help of a ritual pentagram, which fall under his control. The player can assemble both a specific unit, for example, an Orc, using only orc body parts, and assemble a hybrid using body parts from different creatures.; • Tower Upgrades – During the game, the undead pick up resources and blueprints for castle upgrades. Each improvement brings bonuses, for example: increases units features, increases the amount new remains or repairs the castle itself; • Inhabiting creatures – the player can take direct control of previously created undead by controlling with touching screen. Only one at a time. • Secret recipes – with a certain combination of body parts of creatures, the player opens a secret recipe. A unit created according to a secret drawing, in addition to basic characteristics, also receives a bonus like increased attack, speed, etc. Follow us on Discord: https://discord.gg/HPVkgZP92D Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095216372315

About

Crystal

Experience a math-focused runner game inspired by popular social media ads. Navigate a path, make quick numerical choices, and test your skills against challenges. Discover if the fun advertised matches the actual gameplay.

Highlights
  • Math-based runner gameplay
  • Numerical choice mechanics
  • Inspired by social media ads
  • Challenging gameplay
  • Single-player experience
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Have you ever seen those annoying Facebook ads where a player is running along a path and has a choice between +1000 and -4 million and they stutter step into the -4 million with grace and dignity then fail at the final boss, and you think to yourself, "This game looks kind of fun and I could do better than that"? Then you download the game and it's completely different and the game you want is some minigame 150 levels in. I decided to make the mini game for fun so people can try it. I see many comments on those Facebook ads about how they would play the game if it was like the ad so now here's your chance. Spoiler alert, it gets really boring after about 20 minutes, but at least now you know. Best of luck adventurers!

Screenshots

Necro4 screens
Crystal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Necro at 72% against Crystal's 0%. Necro also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). Crystal's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99). 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

Necro costs $2.99 and Crystal $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Necro holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Necro has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Necro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Crystal's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Necro versus Crystal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNecroCrystal
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.4 (13 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size783 MB475 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMiYi GameDeckTronic, LLC

Customer experience

Necro

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative22.2%

Crystal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Necro

No in-app purchases

None

Crystal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Necro free?
Necro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crystal free?
Crystal costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Necro or Crystal?
Necro is rated higher. Necro averages 4.4 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Crystal averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Necro or Crystal have ads?
Neither Necro nor Crystal shows ads.

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