Pixel Odyssey vs Gurka
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Odyssey
This portrait-mode MMORPG offers a fair play experience with no ads or pay-to-win mechanics. Engage in turn-based combat, explore a pixel-art world, trade with players, and compete in PvP arenas. Customize your character and play at your own pace, anytime, anywhere.
- Portrait mode, one-handed play
- Turn-based combat
- Real player economy
- PvP Coliseum
- Endless Tower challenges
- Customizable character skins
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There's no button to buy power. There never will be. Everything you're carrying, you earned — and everyone can tell. A real MMORPG you can play while the show is on: combat resolves on its own, nothing is timed, and it waits for you when you put it down. You start with a stick. Months later you're selling rare gear on a player-driven market where every price was set by a person, not a shop — and caring far more than you expected to. No ads. No pay-to-win. An optional subscription adds convenience, never power. Built and updated by one developer, with a small community that's kind to new players. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Gurka
Experience the Swedish card game Gurka with friends in online lobbies. Enjoy a fun and engaging card game experience designed for multiplayer fun.
- Play Gurka card game
- Online lobbies
- Multiplayer with friends
- Swedish card game
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Play the Swedish card game Gurka in a lobby with friends!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gurka at 5.0 against Pixel Odyssey's 4.4. Gurka also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and review sentiment (100% vs 69%). Pixel Odyssey's advantage is ratings volume (167 vs 6). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Pixel Odyssey sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Gurka asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gurka holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Odyssey has 167 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Pixel Odyssey's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gurka's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixel Odyssey | Gurka |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (167 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lino Iten | Lars Barkman |
Customer experience
Pixel Odyssey
Gurka
Bugs and requests
Pixel Odyssey
Reported bugs
79 issues- Items and steps disappear
- Crafting not working
- Tower/PVP infinite enemy health
- Spells become closed
- Crafting bugs out
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- Notification something wrong with crafting
- Enemies health bars disappear
- Spells delete themselves
- Player market bugs out
- User interface menus are wonky
- Critical features not functioning consistently
- Daily reward glitchy
- Daily mine task gives error
- Player market unresponsive
- Cheaters and hackers
- Food consumed but steps didn't register
- Market list button covered by keyboard on iOS
- Game crashing on startup
- Item names don't fit on top of the screen
- Mass crafting not working
- Materials gone after mass crafting attempt
- Cannot touch inventory after selling item
- Skills perk points reset
- UI bugs where cannot click things or numbers don't match up
- Items collected not going to inventory
- Losing steps when items not going to inventory
- Error window appears when updating inventory or re-entering game
- Cannot gain or use anything from inventory
- Lost steps and items due to inventory bug
- Progress halted due to inventory bug
- Items picked up not registering
- Frequent infinite loading spinners
- Cannot open chests or buy from merchants due to connection issues
- Unlocking purchased skin didn't work and it's gone
- Nerfed tower XP
- Confusing obol window shapes
- Daily reward not received
- Cannot click or close daily reward easily
- When trying to buy something on player market nothing happens
- Market page becomes unresponsive
- Steps didn’t register after consuming food
- Cheaters and hackers are everywhere
- Keyboard covers list button on iOS market
- Game keeps crashing on start up
- Item names don't fit on top of the screen on iPhone SE
- Mass crafting 30 iron ingots resulted in nothing
- Materials gone and none made after mass crafting attempt
- Cannot touch inventory after selling item
- Perk points reset for skills
- UI bugs where cannot click things or numbers don't match up
- All collected items disappeared
- Bags become empty after each game restart
- Crafting button greyed out
- Steps not registering after consuming food
- Steps lost when items not going to inventory
- Error window appears when updating inventory or re-entering game
- Cannot gain or use anything from inventory
- Lost steps and items due to inventory bug
- Progress halted due to inventory bug
- Items picked up not registering
- Frequent infinite loading spinners
- Cannot open chests or buy from merchants due to connection issues
- Unlocking purchased skin didn't work and it's gone
- Nerfed tower XP
- Confusing obol window shapes
- Daily reward not received
- Cannot click or close daily reward easily
- When trying to buy something on player market nothing happens
- Market page becomes unresponsive
- Steps didn’t register after consuming food
- Cheaters and hackers are everywhere
- Keyboard covers list button on iOS market
- Game keeps crashing on start up
- Item names don't fit on top of the screen on iPhone SE
- Mass crafting 30 iron ingots resulted in nothing
- Materials gone and none made after mass crafting attempt
- Cannot touch inventory after selling item
- Perk points reset for skills
- UI bugs where cannot click things or numbers don't match up
Requested features
16 requests- Russian language support
- More things to do
- More challenges
- Smithing addition
- More content in the future
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- Dark mode option
- Chat as a main button
- Show item source on click
- Show zone drops on click
- Add Chinese language support
- Make the game more idle
- Fix keyboard covering market list button on iOS
- Add ability to remove or replace obols without replacing them with others
- More guides on where things are and how they work
- Make step regeneration faster
- Make it known that you can craft more than one item at a time
Gurka
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pixel Odyssey
- Noble Knight$4.991 Month
- Handful of Diamonds$0.99
- Pouch of Diamonds$2.99
- Pouches of Diamonds$9.99
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- Chest of Diamonds$24.99
- Overloaded Chest of Diamonds$49.99
- Barrel of Diamonds$99.99
Gurka
No in-app purchases
