Comparison

Dash Heroes vs NEONFERNO

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

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About

Dash Heroes

Embark on an epic quest through a vertical labyrinth, gaining the ability to scale walls. Navigate treacherous traps and enemies across 1000 levels, choosing from diverse heroes with unique skills. Compete in races, collect coins, and enjoy multiple game modes, including a level editor.

Highlights
  • Vertical labyrinth exploration
  • Wall-scaling abilities
  • 1000 challenging levels
  • Diverse roster of heroes
  • Level editor mode
  • Competitive racing
Features
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Swipe once and your hero dashes until it hits a wall. That single move is all it takes to play Dash Heroes, a pixel maze escape built for one thumb. Grab the key, reach the portal and get past every skull, spike and trap in the tower. The catch is that your hero does not stop halfway. Every swipe is a commitment: the dash keeps going until something gets in the way, so you read the maze before you move, not after. Speed along the arrows and time your run past turrets, flames, spears and patrolling skulls. In some stages you guide two heroes at once and swap between them to reach the exit. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY • Classic: hand-built stages across three towers of brick, ice and stone. Grab the key, open the portal and collect the gold to earn up to three stars on every stage. • Arcade: an endless climb through a maze that never runs out, with the water rising behind you. Your five best runs are saved, with the hero who set them and the day you did it. • Blitz: generated stages, one after another, with the water on your heels. • Race: 32 heroes race up the same tower. Get through two qualifying rounds and win the final. A MAZE ESCAPE THAT FIGHTS BACK • A key, a portal and gold in every stage, and traps that shoot, burn and patrol in between. • In Arcade the maze gets tighter the higher you climb, and the water does not wait for you to think. • Fast to read, easy to misjudge. It is a reflex game as much as a labyrinth. 60 HEROES, 10 POWERS • Collect 60 heroes, from common to mythic, and unlock them in the Hero Machine with the gold you pick up in the towers. • Every hero brings a power: more gold from every coin, a magnet that pulls coins in, a chance to start with a shield, slower rising water, a higher Arcade score and more. • Level your heroes up to make their powers stronger. • Take a team of two on every run. Both powers count, so the pair you choose changes the way you play. SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY • Nine daily missions, plus a bonus for finishing them all. • A daily reward that keeps growing as long as your streak lasts. • Arcade boosts to pick before a run: shield, slow water, magnet or double score. • 50 achievements, from your first stage to the very long haul, and a sheet with all your stats. ONE THUMB, NO INTERNET • Swipe controls made for one hand, in portrait. • No internet connection needed, so the maze comes with you anywhere. • Keyboard and gamepad work too. • Separate music and sound volume, and screen shake you can switch off. If you like a pixel maze game where one wrong swipe sends you straight into a spike, this is your kind of maze escape. Pick two heroes, swipe and see how high the water lets you get.

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NEONFERNO

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A gothic cathedral in ruins, lit by neon. You have twelve minutes. NEONFERNO is a survivor-style action roguelike built for one thumb. Your guns fire themselves — every decision you make is a movement decision. ■ THREE BOSS CHECKS, ONE RUN At 4:00 the Ribs come down. At 8:00 the Knell splits. At 12:00 the Mother arrives, and the run ends with her. No endless grind, no filler — every run is a twelve-minute arc with three walls to break through. ■ MOVEMENT IS THE WHOLE GAME Attacks are automatic, so the tension lives in where you stand. Run from the horde, or push into it — elites drop the affixes you need, and the altars that upgrade you sit in the worst place on the field. Fleeing is never the best move. ■ THREE HUNTERS, THREE DRONES EMBER burns. WARDEN holds. KNELL tolls. Each brings a signature drone and a private pool of skills that no other hunter can draw. ■ BUILD IT YOUR WAY Four main guns, eleven upgrade axes, four elemental states — frost, flame, blight, burst. Not every upgrade fits every gun, so each run forces a real choice instead of the same optimal path. ■ NEON GLASS, NOT PIXELS Every entity is a glowing glass polygon. No sprite sheets, no muddy filters — just hard light on black. Play offline. No account, no login, no ads, no purchases. Online leaderboards are anonymous and entirely optional.

Screenshots

Dash Heroes4 screens
NEONFERNO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: NEONFERNO at none against Dash Heroes's shown. Dash Heroes's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dash Heroes versus NEONFERNO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDash HeroesNEONFERNO
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 39 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB93 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCHORRUS GAMES S.L.MSP AI, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Dash Heroes

No in-app purchases

None

NEONFERNO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dash Heroes free?
Dash Heroes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NEONFERNO free?
NEONFERNO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dash Heroes or NEONFERNO have ads?
Dash Heroes shows ads; NEONFERNO does not.

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