Comparison

M.A.D. Cows vs Salt Pilgrim

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

Head to head
About

M.A.D. Cows

Engage in a retro action platformer as militant cows seeking revenge on aliens. Mow down extraterrestrial foes, acquire powerful weaponry, and rescue various animal companions. The game offers controller support for an enhanced gameplay experience.

Highlights
  • Retro action platformer gameplay
  • Militant cow protagonists
  • Alien combat
  • Weapon upgrades
  • Companion rescue missions
  • Controller support
Features
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Militant. Armed. Domestic. Cows! For centuries, the aliens mutilated cattle with little to no consequence. Finally, the cows had enough. They organized. They trained. Now they are ready... for their revenge! MAD Cows is an exciting, retro, action platform game. Mow down aliens. Buy better guns. Rescue cows, dogs, raccoons, and more. Plays great with MFi, Xbox, and Playstation controllers.

About

Salt Pilgrim

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Salt Pilgrim: The Water Returned is a 1-bit text RPG where the whole world is one folder tree. On a screen modeled on an old DOS file manager, you enter folders to travel, delete files to fight, and talk to the people who live in them. In Tuzkum, where the water came back after a thousand years, caravans, prices, factions and wars run on their own, with or without you. TUZKUM, THE LAND WHERE THE WATER CAME BACK A generation ago, water returned to a sea that had lain dry for a thousand years. The water runs clear, but the world is still unsettled. Tribes quarrel over new pastures and waterways, robbers haunt the roads, and monsters live in the old ruins and tunnels. You are a pilgrim who has just woken up in a yurt. PLACES ARE FOLDERS, PEOPLE AND THINGS ARE FILES • Enter a folder to go there. Delete a monster's file to fight it. • Permissions (rwx) are the rules. Files with an x attack first, and a boss without w is sealed. • Cast rm -f to shred and fsck to repair. Spells like chmod and grep reveal hidden folders and strip bosses of their permissions. • Talk, trade, steal. People remember what you did. A WORLD THAT KEEPS BUSY WITHOUT YOU • Caravans come and go and prices rise and fall. More raids mean shortages, and shortages mean unrest. • Factions feud, go to war and make truces, and every morning the newspaper reports it. • Settlements are founded, grow and fall into ruin, and you can raise the ruins again. • Buy a raft, a rowboat or a sailboat and follow the river to the islands and the Bitter Sea. No boat that sailed past the horizon has ever come back. CRAFTING, FORGING AND DEATH • Gather materials, process them at workshops, then craft and forge your gear. • When you die, the screen collapses into a core dump and rewinds you back to your feet. Your bag and half your kese stay behind in a Remains folder. MADE FOR TOUCH • Swipe or drag up and down to move the cursor. Swipe right to enter, left to go back. • Double-tap any empty spot to run the highlighted file. • Plays in portrait or landscape, with adjustable text size. • Fully playable in English and Korean. One purchase. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account, no tracking. Plays offline. Latin font: PxPlus IBM VGA 8x16 by VileR (int10h.org), CC BY-SA 4.0 Korean font: NeoDunggeunmo by Eunbin Jeong, SIL Open Font License 1.1 Tiles: Urizen OneBit by vurmux, CC0

Screenshots

M.A.D. Cows4 screens
Salt Pilgrim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: M.A.D. Cows at 4 against Salt Pilgrim's 2. M.A.D. Cows also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

M.A.D. Cows costs $1.99 and Salt Pilgrim $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
M.A.D. Cows versus Salt Pilgrim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterM.A.D. CowsSalt Pilgrim
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size192 MB5 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperCascadia Games LLCYUNWOO NAM

In-app purchases

None

M.A.D. Cows

No in-app purchases

None

Salt Pilgrim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is M.A.D. Cows free?
M.A.D. Cows costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Salt Pilgrim free?
Salt Pilgrim costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do M.A.D. Cows or Salt Pilgrim have ads?
Neither M.A.D. Cows nor Salt Pilgrim shows ads.

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