Comparison

Decide Around Racing vs Sword Sonata

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

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About

Decide Around Racing

Experience retro circuit racing inspired by 80s LCD games. Overtake rivals while managing fuel consumption and refueling at stations. Adjust lap count for custom challenges.

Highlights
  • 80s LCD game tribute
  • Circuit racing gameplay
  • Fuel consumption management
  • Overtake rivals
  • Refuel at gas stations
  • Adjustable lap count
Features
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This game is a tribute to the cool LCD games of the 80s. You are a participant in circuit racing (the number of laps can be set before the start of the race).  Your task is to overtake all rivals and reach the finish line. Your main rival is fuel consumption.  The more often you maneuver, the less efficiently fuel is used.  Watch your gauges and don't miss a gas station.  Good luck! You can test a gameplay here: https://play.unity.com/mg/other/decide-around-racing

About

Sword Sonata

Engage in fast-paced, turn-based roguelike combat by strategically planning skill actions. Collect new abilities, upgrade existing ones, and gather items to overcome dungeon challenges and defeat bosses. Experience high replayability with diverse actions, characters, and randomized rewards.

Highlights
  • Turn-based combat
  • Action planning and arrangement
  • Roguelike dungeon crawling
  • Skill acquisition and upgrades
  • Item collection
  • Multiple characters and actions
Features
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This is a fast-paced roguelike dungeon-crawling turn-based game where you plan your battles by arranging skill actions and defeating enemies. Throughout your adventure, you'll acquire new actions, upgrade skills, and collect items. The gameplay is simple and easy to understand. It involves controlling a character on a horizontally scrolling one-dimensional axis, maneuvering to defeat enemies. Actions include movement, turning, and arranging actions such as sword attacks, which deal damage to enemies within one square ahead, or dashes that allow you to dash towards enemies. By arranging actions in this rhythmic order, for example, scheduling a dash followed by a sword attack when your character is at a distance from the enemy, executing this sequence will make your character dash to the enemy and then use a sword attack to defeat it. I genuinely hope you'll try out this game and experience what I've described. Currently, I've designed a total of 37 different types of actions with unique characteristics, as well as 4 different characters, each with their own unique skills and equipped with 2 specific actions. In the process of roguelike dungeon-crawling, you'll also acquire more actions and upgrades for these actions. Now, let's talk about the roguelike gameplay. The game features over 50 levels, and the goal is to clear through to the final boss and defeat them. Each time you complete a level, you'll randomly receive a reward, which could be an action or an upgrade to an action. As you continuously challenge yourself, you'll discover actions that better suit you or the character you're using, as well as upgrade options that are more suitable for each action, until your experience is enough to help you clear the game. This is what makes the game so replayable. In terms of content richness, the game also includes 10 types of items that can be used in combat, including health potions, and a "Frostbolt" that freezes all enemies. These items provide additional assistance in completing the game challenges. Additionally, the game features 27 passive skills, which will have an impact on you during each challenge. Well, that's a brief introduction to my game. I hope you'll give it a try and enjoy playing it.

Screenshots

Decide Around Racing3 screens
Sword Sonata4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Decide Around Racing at Free against Sword Sonata's $1.99. Decide Around Racing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Sword Sonata's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Decide Around Racing is free to download; Sword Sonata costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Decide Around Racing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sword Sonata has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Decide Around Racing's written reviews are positive against 75% of Sword Sonata's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Decide Around Racing versus Sword Sonata: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDecide Around RacingSword Sonata
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.3 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings115 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB35 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperIvan UspenskiyJampot Software co., ltd

Customer experience

Decide Around Racing

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sword Sonata

All ratings15 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Decide Around Racing

No in-app purchases

None

Sword Sonata

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Decide Around Racing free?
Decide Around Racing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sword Sonata free?
Sword Sonata costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Decide Around Racing or Sword Sonata?
Decide Around Racing is rated higher. Decide Around Racing averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Sword Sonata averages 4.3 from 15 ratings.
Do Decide Around Racing or Sword Sonata have ads?
Neither Decide Around Racing nor Sword Sonata shows ads.

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