Elevated Arcana vs Astonischika
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elevated Arcana
Combine elemental magic to cast powerful spells and defeat waves of enemies. Enhance your defenses by upgrading your tower to unleash even greater destruction. Engage in strategic combat to overcome challenging hordes.
- Combine four elements for spellcasting
- Defeat hordes of enemies
- Upgrade your tower
- Strategic combat
- Elemental magic system
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Combine the four elements to cast spells, and defeat hordes of enemies! Upgrade your tower for more mayhem!
Astonischika
Embark on a pixelated roguelite adventure where you build a party of heroes to battle monsters and bosses in turn-based combat. Each playthrough offers a unique path with strategic choices, and your progress in the city hub persists across runs.
- Turn-based pixel RPG gameplay
- Roguelite loop with persistent progression
- Branching map with diverse encounters
- Party building with multiple classes
- Minigames and city hub upgrades
- Endless scaling for long-term play
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Astonischika is a turn-based pixel role-playing game. Build your party from eight classes, climb a branching map row by row and defeat the boss at the top – turn by turn, left against right. • Eight hero classes Warrior, Mage, Cleric, Rogue, Vampire, Thief, Druid and Archer – each with its own skills and signature weapons. Build your party freely, even with several heroes of the same class. • More than 100 foes Undead, beasts, elementals and demons with poison, burns, stuns, healers and area attacks – and mighty bosses at the end of every world. • Loot and gear Weapons, shields, helmets, armor, belts, boots, rings and amulets with random stats. Plus class sets, runestones, ancient rune collections and an enchanter who re-rolls stats. • A city to call home Your heroes stay with you between adventures. Recruit new heroes at the tavern, manage them in the barracks, learn spells at the mages' guild, make offerings to the gods at the temple and take on a new challenge every day. • Minigames on the map Dice, shell game, memory, whack-a-mole, coin toss, fishing and archery – with chests full of loot as the prize. • Five difficulty levels From Easy to Insane. Every world you conquer makes the next one harder, and your heroes level up to 9999. • Playable for everyone Fully playable with VoiceOver, in 44 languages. Assemble your party, gather loot and rise!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Elevated Arcana at 100% against Astonischika's 50%. Elevated Arcana also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Elevated Arcana holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Elevated Arcana's written reviews are positive against 50% of Astonischika's.
Elevated Arcana ships an update daily, Astonischika every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Elevated Arcana | Astonischika |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 356 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Braymatter Games LLC | Josef Sejrek |
Customer experience
Elevated Arcana
Astonischika
In-app purchases
Elevated Arcana
No in-app purchases
Astonischika
No in-app purchases
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