Once Upon a Galaxy vs 8Pack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Once Upon a Galaxy
Engage in a fantasy drafting card battler with unique characters and their quests. Build your team and strategize to complete objectives. Enjoy a game free of AI art and ads, with optional in-app purchases.
- Fantasy drafting card battles
- Unique character captains
- Quest completion
- Team strategy
- No AI artwork
- No ads
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Galaxy is FREE to play, has NO ADS, uses NO AI artwork. Will you choose Dorothy as your captain and help her and friends on their journey to complete their quests? Or Dragonmother and discover what will hatch from her dragon egg? Or maybe Indiana Clones, who will "clone" your best three treasures? It's all up to you!
8Pack
Enhance your Magic: The Gathering drafting experience with daily challenges, performance tracking, and community comparisons. Improve your card picks and build drafting streaks with various formats.
- Daily draft challenges
- Card pick rating
- Drafting streaks and badges
- Draft history review
- Community pick comparison
- Multiple draft formats
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8Pack is the ultimate Magic: The Gathering draft companion. Whether you're tackling a Standard set, diving into the Vintage Cube, or exploring Throwback formats, 8Pack helps you draft with purpose and track your progress over time. DRAFT DAILY Each day brings a new draft to tackle. Pick your cards pack by pack, rate your performance when you're done, and share your final thoughts with the community. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Build drafting streaks by completing drafts day after day. Earn badges for milestones and achievements. See your full draft history and review past picks anytime. COMPETE AND COMPARE Follow other drafters, see how your picks stack up against the community, and browse the feed to discover how others approached the same cards. FORMATS • Standard Draft — the latest MTG sets • Vintage Cube — the iconic powered cube experience • Throwback Draft — classic sets from MTG history 8Pack is designed for Magic players who want to get better at drafting and have fun doing it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Once Upon a Galaxy at none against 8Pack's shown. Once Upon a Galaxy also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 1). 8Pack's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Once Upon a Galaxy sells 44 one-off in-app purchases and 8Pack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
8Pack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Once Upon a Galaxy has 1.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Once Upon a Galaxy's written reviews are positive against 100% of 8Pack's.
Once Upon a Galaxy ships an update fortnightly, 8Pack every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Once Upon a Galaxy | 8Pack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Million Dreams Games | Connor Kirkwood |
Customer experience
Once Upon a Galaxy
8Pack
Bugs and requests
Once Upon a Galaxy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Black screen on startup
- Infinite loading issues
- Progression loss after updates
Requested features
5 requests- More hero/card variety
- Improved tutorial and learning tools
- Offline/save progress mode
- Cosmetic/non-gameplay monetization
- Competitive/ranked modes
8Pack
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Once Upon a Galaxy
- 600 Gems (September deal)$4.99
- 600 Gems (July deal)$4.99
- Welcome Bundle3 variants$4.99
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- 500 Gems2 variants$4.99
- October 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- September 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- 1300 Gems (August deal)$9.99
- August 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- July 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- June 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- March 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- May 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- April 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- February 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- December Galaxy Pass$9.99
- January 2026 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- November 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- October 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- September 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- July 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- August 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- June 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- May 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- 1,100 Gems2 variants$9.99
- April 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- March 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- February 2025 Galaxy Pass$9.99
- Galaxy Pass$9.99
- Swishbuckler Chromaria Bundle$14.99
- Chromarian Chromaria Bundle$14.99
- Remi Chromaria Bundle$14.99
- Galaxy Reroll$14.99
- Candylar Reroll$14.99
- Mythbound Reroll$14.99
- Thanatos Mythbound Bundle$14.99
- Baldr Mythbound Bundle$14.99
- Hecate Mythbound Bundle$14.99
- Candylar Goat T Preorder$14.99
- Candylar Beanstalk Preorder$14.99
- Candylar Candy Pandy Preorder$14.99
- 2,300 Gems2 variants$19.99
- Winter Bundle$29.99
- 6,000 Gems$49.99
- 14,000 Gems2 variants$99.99
8Pack
- All Access Pass – Monthly$4.991 Month
- All Access Pass - Yearly$49.991 Year
Questions
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