Comparison

SRPG Eldgear vs Drill Down

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

Head to head
About

SRPG Eldgear

Embark on a tactical strategy RPG adventure in a fantasy world on the brink of magical civilization. Engage in turn-based battles with diverse strategies, utilizing pixel animations and unique abilities to overcome enemies. Master area attacks and combined strikes for powerful combat.

Highlights
  • Turn-based tactical battles
  • Fantasy world setting
  • Pixel art animations
  • Area attack mechanics
  • Combined attack strategies
  • Unique EMA and EXA abilities
Features
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Eldgear is a tactical strategy RPG set in a fantasy world. In the vast unexplored land of Argenia where hundreds of nations are crowded together, a new era is about to begin, leaving behind the medieval era and entering the era of magical civilization. In turn-based battles, you can choose your own strategy, whether you dash alone like lightning, advance steadily like the earth. Immersive and enjoyable pixel animations take place to enhance the battle experience. Master area attacks that blow away enemies in a group, combined attacks unleashed by well-coordinated tags, and use EMA (Embedding Abilities) and EXA (Expanding Abilities)! Powerful strikes will power up into super special moves. * This app supports devices newer than iPhone 7 and iPad 6th with iOS 13 and up. User support on non-supported devices is not guaranteed.

About

Drill Down

Explore a procedurally generated mine by drilling downwards, collecting minerals, and upgrading your equipment. The mine evolves with your choices, creating a unique map each time. Uncover a story as you delve deeper into the earth.

Highlights
  • One-thumb portrait controls
  • Persistent, non-regenerating mine
  • Dynamic environmental hazards (water, gas, lava)
  • Visible rig upgrades
  • Surface camp progression
  • Offline play
Features
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Drill Down is a beautiful portrait mining game where every run takes you a little deeper, until one of them reaches the centre of the earth. You drive one machine into one mountain. Put a finger anywhere on the glass and the rig turns toward it and eats its way there. No buttons, no menus while you are down, just a heading and a tank of fuel. When the tank runs low the hoist pulls you home with whatever you were carrying. Nothing you cut is ever undone. The bore you opened yesterday is the road you ride down today, so the mine slowly becomes a map of your own decisions: the shortcut you drilled, the flooded gallery you gave up on, the seam you followed sideways for two hundred metres. Between runs, the surface is where you spend it: • a machine rebuilt part by part, every upgrade bolted on where you can see it • a museum that fills up with the minerals you carried out • a camp that quietly changes as the shaft gets deeper Hard ground refuses a weak cutter outright. Water finds your tunnels and sits in them. Gas collects along the roof and waits for a spark off the wrong rock. Deeper still, the ground is hot enough to cost you fuel just for being in it. There is no losing here. There is only the gap between where you stopped and where you were trying to get to, and the mountain will be exactly as you left it when you come back. Underneath all of it, a professor pays you by the load and does not say why. Others came this way before you. Their rooms are still down there, and what they left behind is the reason none of them made it home. Features: • one thumb, portrait, no second control anywhere • runs of a few minutes that fit into a gap in the day • a mine that is never regenerated and never reset • layers of ground that each look, sound and cut differently • flooding, gas and lava that behave like themselves rather than like traps • minerals to find, haul out and put on a shelf • upgrades visible on the rig from the moment you buy them • a surface camp that grows out of what you bring back • a neighbour with a boat, a borrowed digger and work of his own • expeditions to places that are not your mountain • a story on the radio, and an older one written into the rock • an ending, and a way to reach it • no ads, no in-app purchases, no timers, fully offline Keep going down. It stops sounding like rock long before you arrive.

Screenshots

SRPG Eldgear4 screens
Drill Down4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drill Down at 100% against SRPG Eldgear's 38%. Drill Down also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and price ($3.99 vs $7.99). SRPG Eldgear's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SRPG Eldgear costs $7.99 and Drill Down $3.99 up front. SRPG Eldgear sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Drill Down asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SRPG Eldgear versus Drill Down: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSRPG EldgearDrill Down
Price$7.99$3.99 — better
Rating2.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size338 MB155 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKotobuki Solution Co., Ltd.Luis Herskovic

Customer experience

SRPG Eldgear

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative62.5%

Drill Down

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

SRPG Eldgear

One-time4
  • Evasion Rate x2 - Eldgear$2.99
  • Tension Max - Eldgear$3.99
  • Damage x2 - Eldgear$4.99
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  • Mobility x2 - Eldgear$4.99
None

Drill Down

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SRPG Eldgear free?
SRPG Eldgear costs $7.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Drill Down free?
Drill Down costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SRPG Eldgear or Drill Down have ads?
Neither SRPG Eldgear nor Drill Down shows ads.

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