Comparison

Lost Mastery vs Threadbreaker

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

Head to head
About

Lost Mastery

A roguelike deckbuilder where your memory is key to winning strategic battles. Explore diverse landscapes, collect powerful cards, and uncover secrets. This game offers innovative recall-based gameplay with multiple modes and a vibrant pixel art style.

Highlights
  • Recall-based gameplay
  • Roguelike deckbuilding
  • Strategic card battles
  • Multiple game modes
  • Colorful pixel art
Features
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Lost Mastery: A Roguelike Deckbuilder that tests your ability to remember your lost fighting skills! Dive into Lost Mastery, the unique card battler where your recall is your greatest weapon. Navigate through diverse landscapes, engage in strategic battles, and collect powerful cards and items to enhance your journey. Test your skills and uncover the secrets of your Lost Mastery. Are you ready to rise to the challenge? Features - Innovative gameplay where your battle success depends on your recall - 3 different game modes to challenge your skill - Colourful pixel art style No ads, no in-app purchases, and no internet connection required.

About

Threadbreaker

Features
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The Loom writes impossible patterns. You break them. Threadbreaker is a precision bullet-hell action roguelite built around a promise procedural games usually break: fresh challenges that stay readable, fair, and worth mastering. Every 42-room Revision chooses three shifting sectors from five before entering the Prime Line, drawing eight arena looks from a world of twelve. A deterministic Choreography Engine recombines curated attack phrases, enemy roles, arena shells, and guardian phases while preserving gold telegraphs, recovery beats, and real escape lanes. Every run changes. The rules do not. Read the warning. Find the opening. Step through danger. Graze enemy fire to charge Thread. Then Sever stitched bullets and cut your own path through the pattern. Choose one of twelve cosmic Breakers, each built around the same honest collision core. Combine four Frames and six Weapon Cores with thirty upgrade Knots. Discover named synergies. Push a build far enough to transform its Core into a run-defining capstone. Eight enemy archetypes move and attack differently. Six guardians change body, movement, and pattern language across three readable phases. An original reactive score rises with telegraphs, low Integrity, Sever readiness, and guardian transformations. And when the run ends, it becomes something you can study. Run History preserves the build, room scores, damage sources, grazes, biggest Sever, and cause of defeat. Loom Theater recreates the performance in Cinema mode or overlays honest, moment-by-moment Coaching—without changing the recorded result. ALSO INCLUDED • Daily Score with a shared deterministic seed • Guardian Archive rehearsals and Endless Margin • Earn-only Remnants for permanent gameplay breadth, cosmetics, and prestige • Optional one-time Ad-Free and Full Loom purchases; no subscription • Touch and extended-controller support • Story, Standard, Sharp, and Impossible difficulty • Wider lanes, extra Integrity, automatic Sever, reduced effects, high contrast, left-handed controls, and more • Offline-capable core play with graceful network-service fallbacks • A voiced live How to Play demonstration that teaches by showing Fresh should not mean arbitrary. Hard should not mean cheap. Learn the pattern. Find the thread. Break it.

Screenshots

Lost Mastery4 screens
Threadbreaker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Threadbreaker at Free against Lost Mastery's $2.99. Lost Mastery's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Threadbreaker is free to download; Lost Mastery costs $2.99 up front. Threadbreaker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Lost Mastery asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lost Mastery versus Threadbreaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLost MasteryThreadbreaker
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size756 MB105 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperRIINA PAULIINA KUJALARob Rightmyer

In-app purchases

None

Lost Mastery

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Threadbreaker

One-time3
  • Upgrade to Full Loom$2.99
  • Ad-Free Threadbreaker$3.99
  • Full Loom Unlock$6.99

Questions

Is Lost Mastery free?
Lost Mastery costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Threadbreaker free?
Threadbreaker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lost Mastery or Threadbreaker have ads?
Threadbreaker shows ads; Lost Mastery does not.

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