Deepcover vs Halloway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deepcover
Engage in stimulating puzzles to thwart criminals and prevent online scams. As an undercover agent, earn intel to protect potential victims, customize your character, and unlock new challenges. Discover real-world scam information and their consequences.
- Solve puzzles to outsmart evildoers
- Prevent scams and protect victims
- Earn intel at each level
- Customize your character
- Unlock new levels
- Play special training games
- Learn about real-life online scams
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In DeepCover, players solve a variety of fun and stimulating puzzles to outsmart evildoers, prevent scams, and save the day. Playing as an undercover agent, players are awarded more intel at every level they complete, used to outsmart scammers and help protect potential victims. Players are also able to customize their character, unlock new levels, play special training games, and learn additional info about real-life online scams and their impacts.
Halloway
Explore a house of riddles played in the dark, focusing on solving clues to unlock doors. Progress is saved on your device, with optional cross-device sync. No account is needed to begin your mysterious journey.
- Three hand-built cipher wings
- Played phone-first in the dark
- No maps or busywork
- Solve rooms to turn keys
- Progress saved on device
- Optional cross-device sync
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Halloway is a house of riddles - three hand-built cipher wings (The Veil, The Athanor, and The Threshold) played phone-first in the dark. No maps, no busywork: just you, a clue, and the next door. Solve a room to turn its key; the house remembers them all. No account is required. Progress stays on your device unless you sign in for cross-device sync; anonymous aggregate usage counts can be turned off in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Halloway at 100% against Deepcover's 0%. Halloway also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). Deepcover's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Halloway sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Deepcover asks for nothing beyond the download.
Halloway holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Deepcover's written reviews are positive against 100% of Halloway's.
Deepcover ships an update every 3 weeks, Halloway fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deepcover | Halloway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.4 GB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | DART Collective, Inc. | No Evil Star LLC |
Customer experience
Deepcover
Halloway
In-app purchases
Deepcover
No in-app purchases
Halloway
- Whole House Upgrade$1.00
- Halloway - The Veil$1.99
- Halloway - The Threshold$1.99
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- Halloway - The Athanor$1.99
- Whole House Upgrade$3.00
- Halloway - All Access$4.99
