Wumpus Cave vs Nethack Helper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wumpus Cave
Navigate a dark maze filled with treasures, keys, and lurking dangers. This game offers a modern take on a classic text-based adventure, featuring updated controls, graphics, and sound effects.
- Modernized controls
- Graphics and sound effects
- Varied cave layouts
- Treasure and key collection
- Avoid bottomless pits
- Encounter multiple wumpus
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Inspired by a 1970's text-based creation, Wumpus Cave adds iPhone controls, graphics, sound effects, treasures, and varies the cave from game to game. Find your way through the pitch-dark maze of twisty passages to the treasure, the key, and back out again, while avoiding bottomless pits and letting your grimble deal with the multiple wumpus lurking in the cave. English only. Free. No ads. No wifi required. No tracking.
Nethack Helper
This app serves as a comprehensive toolkit for NetHack players, offering tools to master shops, spells, and character progression. It provides detailed information on items, spells, intrinsics, and includes animated solutions for puzzles. The app also features score logging and progress tracking.
- Item identification by price
- Spell success percentages
- Intrinsic monitoring
- Animated Sokoban puzzle solutions
- Score logging and ascension tracking
- Progress timeline chart
- Offline functionality
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NetHack Helper - Everything you need to remember in one tiny app The ultimate toolkit for NetHack adventurers. Master shops, spells, and character progression with precision tools designed by players, for players. • Identify items by price with charisma-based calculations • Covers potions, scrolls, rings, wands, armor & more • All 43 spell books with success-to-learn percentages • Factors Intelligence, XP level, and skill enhancements • Monitor 18 intrinsics, protection, and prayer status • Step-by-step animated solutions for all 8 Sokoban puzzles • Toggle between DawnHack tiles and classic ASCII views • Comprehensive score logging with ascension tracking • Hidden timeline chart reveals your progress over time • Uses DawnHack Tileset • Works offline with persistent data • Auto-resets between characters for streamlined gameplay Unofficial companion app - not affiliated with NetHack DevTeam - We use it with iNetHack2 on iPhones
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Nethack Helper at every 9 days against Wumpus Cave's every 5 months. Wumpus Cave's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nethack Helper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wumpus Cave has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Wumpus Cave ships an update every 5 months, Nethack Helper every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wumpus Cave | Nethack Helper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Scott Watters | David Konshuh |
Customer experience
Wumpus Cave
Nethack Helper
In-app purchases
Wumpus Cave
No in-app purchases
Nethack Helper
No in-app purchases
