Comparison

Exploding 7's vs Aleator

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Simple card gameplay
  • Quick play sessions
  • Engaging card experience
  • Digital card game
Features
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A fun and simple card game app.

About

Aleator

A single-player roguelite game that simulates the math of a craps table. Players progress through seven tables by hitting chip targets, making strategic decisions to upgrade numbers and activate circuit breakers for enhanced payouts. The game features dice manipulation tools and a deck of cards to alter gameplay.

Highlights
  • Craps table math simulation
  • Seven tables with increasing difficulty
  • Permanent number upgrades
  • Circuit breakers for critical hits
  • Dice manipulation tools
  • Aleator card system
  • Fire and cold meters
Features
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ALEATOR is a single-player roguelite built on the math of a craps table. No real money. No opponents. No timers. Two dice, a bankroll, and a run that can end on any roll. Every run starts small at Table 1. Hit the table's chip target to move up. Survive all seven tables — including the ones where the House starts playing back — and you've won. Fall below the minimum bet with nothing on the felt, and the run is over. EVERY NUMBER IS AN UPGRADE PATH Win a place bet and you choose: take the money, or press it back down. Press it, win again, and you can forfeit the entire payout to permanently level that number — Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond. A Diamond number pays far past true odds, and it holds that level for the rest of the run, across every table. That's the whole tension of the game. Every win is a decision card, and the greedy answer and the correct answer are almost never the same. CIRCUIT BREAKERS Hardways pay 7:1 and 9:1, but the payout isn't the point. When one hits, you can sacrifice the win to energize that number's breaker — or build the charge with the right cards. Each live breaker adds crit chance and crit multiplier to every payout you collect after it. Light all four and you're at FULL CIRCUIT: everything can crit. CHAIN YOUR HARDWAYS Back-to-back hardway hits climb the crit chain — ZAP, SURGE, STORM, OVERLOAD — multiplying each hardway payout as it builds. The seven resets it. Of course it does. THE FIRE METER Make points and the meter climbs. It stretches your free-odds ceiling and multiplies your point-hit payouts as it rises — the fastest money in the game, and the first thing the seven takes. FOURTEEN TOOLS Field wins and hop bets drop dice-manipulation tools across four rarities. Flip a die. Freeze one in place for the next roll. Reroll one and force it odd. Peek at the next three outcomes. Set both dice to any face you want. You carry three at a time and each one is single use. The question is never whether a tool is good — it's whether this roll is the one worth spending it on. THE SEVEN TAKES EVERYTHING Pass line and odds. Every place bet. Every hardway. The fire meter. Your levels survive. Almost nothing else does. REAL CRAPS MATH, HONESTLY IMPLEMENTED Pass line with true-odds free odds, place bets at correct base payouts, come bets that travel, hardways, the field with 2 and 12 bonuses, hop bets, and a full dark side — don't pass, don't come, and lay bets with their own cold meter. If you already play craps, none of it will surprise you. If you don't, the game teaches you one bet at a time. WHAT YOU GET - Seven tables per run, from the casino floor to places the casino doesn't admit exist - Permanent five-tier place leveling that carries across tables - Four circuit breakers, a crit chain, and fire and cold meters - Fourteen tools across common, uncommon, rare, and epic - A deck of 65 Aleator cards that bend the table's rules — drafted between tables - Decision cards on every win: collect, press, level, or energize - Full run statistics and a bust screen that tells you exactly where it went wrong ALEATOR IS FREE TO PLAY Vanilla craps is free forever with no limits. The roguelite mode is free through Table 2 for three runs. An optional one-time purchase unlocks Tables 3 through 7 and unlimited runs. There are no consumable purchases, no chip packs, and no ads. No accounts. No ads. No data collected. No internet required to play. NO REAL MONEY Aleator is a strategy game. There is no real-money wagering, no chips to purchase, no cash-out, and no way to convert anything inside the game to anything outside it. Chips are a score. Practice here does not translate to winning money anywhere else — the house edge is still real out there, and this game is honest about the fact that variance is what kills you.

Screenshots

Exploding 7's4 screens
Aleator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Aleator at 100% against Exploding 7's's 50%. Aleator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Exploding 7's sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Aleator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Aleator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Exploding 7's's written reviews are positive against 100% of Aleator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exploding 7's ships an update every 4 days, Aleator every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Exploding 7's versus Aleator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExploding 7'sAleator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (6 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings69 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB37 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJonathan GerberReal Player Games

Customer experience

Exploding 7's

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Aleator

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Exploding 7's

One-time1
  • Remove ads$1.99
None

Aleator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Exploding 7's free?
Exploding 7's is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aleator free?
Aleator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Exploding 7's or Aleator?
Aleator is rated higher. Exploding 7's averages 4.2 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Aleator averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Exploding 7's or Aleator have ads?
Neither Exploding 7's nor Aleator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exploding 7's or Aleator?
Exploding 7's ships an update every 4 days, and Aleator every 3 days. Most recently, Exploding 7's was updated on October 30, 2026 and Aleator on October 24, 2026.

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