Oaken vs Foretales
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Oaken
Embark on a turn-based tactical roguelike adventure in a spirit-inhabited world. Explore the Great Oak, recruit allies, collect items, and master strategic positioning to upgrade your cards and awaken spirits to save the Oak.
- Turn-based tactical combat
- Roguelike exploration
- Ally recruitment
- Card upgrading
- Strategic positioning
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Oaken, a turn-based tactical roguelike set in the spirit inhabited world. Explore the Great Oak, gather allies and trinkets, learn to use the positioning for your advantage, choose how to upgrade your cards. Wake the spirits and save the Oak!
Foretales
Embark on a narrative-driven card game adventure where your decisions impact the fate of kingdoms. Explore branching storylines, engage in tactical combat, and manage resources with a unique deck-building system. Experience a premium, offline adventure with stunning visuals and voice acting.
- Story-focused deck gameplay
- Meaningful choices
- Branching paths and multiple endings
- Tactical, turn-based mechanics
- Gorgeous art and cinematic audio
- Offline play
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Step into a beautifully illustrated world where your choices shape the fate of kingdoms. Foretales is a story-driven card game that combines rich narrative exploration with strategic deck-building. You play as Volepain, a thief burdened by a vision of the end of the world. Alongside a colorful cast of animal companions, you must choose your actions wisely—every encounter, every decision, and every card you play may shift the balance between salvation and destruction. Explore multiple storylines, solve conflicts through diplomacy, stealth or direct combat, and manage resources as you forge your own destiny. With fully voiced characters, a stunning hand-painted art style, and a score by Christophe Héral (*Rayman Legends*), Foretales offers an unforgettable mobile adventure. Key features: - Story-focused deck gameplay with meaningful choices - Branching paths, multiple endings, and replayability - Tactical, turn-based mechanics without grind or randomness - Gorgeous art and cinematic audio production - Premium experience: offline, no ads, no IAPs Can you change the future with nothing but a deck of cards?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Foretales at 4.8 against Oaken's 3.6. Foretales also leads on review sentiment (58% vs 29%) and ratings volume (165 vs 7). Oaken's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Oaken costs $5.99 and Foretales $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Foretales holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Foretales has 165 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Oaken's written reviews are positive against 58% of Foretales's.
| Parameter | Oaken | Foretales |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (7 ratings) | 4.8 (165 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 57.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 165 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #47 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 829 MB | 687 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Goblinz Studio SAS | Plug In Digital |
Customer experience
Oaken
Foretales
In-app purchases
Oaken
No in-app purchases
Foretales
No in-app purchases









