Exploding 7's vs Draconis 8
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Exploding 7's
A straightforward card game designed for quick and enjoyable play. Test your luck and strategy in this simple yet engaging digital card experience.
- Simple card gameplay
- Quick play sessions
- Engaging card experience
- Digital card game
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A fun and simple card game app.
Draconis 8
Engage in tactical duels combining trading card game strategy with tile-layout board game mechanics. Build your collection with unique, individually created cards featuring dragons and champions. Experience fair, balanced gameplay where every card is playable.
- Unique decks with dragons and champions
- Tactical tile-layout gameplay
- Collectible digital card packs
- Individually created cards with varied stats
- Balanced and playable cards for all styles
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Unique Decks • Tactical Duels • Compact Strategy Experience Draconis 8, where the dynamic world of trading card games meets the tactics and strategy of tile-layout board games. * Each pack contains a terrain card and a complete eight-card deck for one player, with one mighty dragon and seven champions. * Play with Ethereal packs that only exist for one game, or build your own collection of digital packs. * Every card is indviduall created with millions of possible stat combinations. * Cards are fair. Some may be better for your play style, but all cards are balanced and playable in any deck.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Exploding 7's at every 4 days against Draconis 8's every 5 weeks. Exploding 7's also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Exploding 7's sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Draconis 8 sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Exploding 7's holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 50% positive.
Exploding 7's ships an update every 4 days, Draconis 8 every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 6, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Exploding 7's | Draconis 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 409 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Gerber | White Wizard Games |
Customer experience
Exploding 7's
Draconis 8
In-app purchases
Exploding 7's
- Remove ads$1.99
Draconis 8
- Draconis 8 Single Pack$2.99
- Draconis 8 Starter Set (Four packs)$4.99
- Draconis 8 Magic Month$9.99
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- Draconis 8 Display Box (24 packs)$47.99
- Draconis 8 Magic Year$99.99
