Comparison

Lucky Mayor vs Sword Sonata

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

Head to head
About

Lucky Mayor

Lead a city as its mayor in this roguelike simulation. Recruit citizens, foster business growth, and build an industrial chain to satisfy population needs. Strategically develop your city into a prosperous metropolis and earn the admiration of its people.

Highlights
  • Roguelike mayor simulation
  • Citizen recruitment
  • Business prosperity promotion
  • Industrial chain development
  • City transformation
  • Strategic decision-making
Features
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In this roguelike mayor simulation game, you will become the leader of a city, taking on the role of mayor. Your task is to recruit citizens, promote business prosperity, and build a comprehensive industrial chain to meet the diverse needs of the population. Through wise planning and decision-making, transform your city into a thriving supercity that citizens take pride in, and become their admired leader!

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

Lucky Mayor4 screens
Sword Sonata4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lucky Mayor at weekly against Sword Sonata's every 3 months. Sword Sonata's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 60%) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On rating, ratings volume, 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

Lucky Mayor costs $3.99 and Sword Sonata $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Lucky Mayor against 4.3 for Sword Sonata. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 15 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Lucky Mayor's written reviews are positive against 75% of Sword Sonata's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lucky Mayor ships an update weekly, Sword Sonata every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lucky Mayor versus Sword Sonata: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLucky MayorSword Sonata
Price$3.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.3 (9 ratings)4.3 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings915 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB35 MB
Age rating12+9+
Developerfeng huJampot Software co., ltd

Customer experience

Lucky Mayor

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Sword Sonata

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

In-app purchases

None

Lucky Mayor

No in-app purchases

None

Sword Sonata

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lucky Mayor free?
Lucky Mayor costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sword Sonata free?
Sword Sonata costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lucky Mayor or Sword Sonata?
Lucky Mayor and Sword Sonata are both rated 4.3 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 15 ratings respectively.
Do Lucky Mayor or Sword Sonata have ads?
Neither Lucky Mayor nor Sword Sonata shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lucky Mayor or Sword Sonata?
Lucky Mayor ships an update weekly, and Sword Sonata every 3 months. Most recently, Lucky Mayor was updated on October 12, 2026 and Sword Sonata on October 8, 2026.

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