Lost For Swords vs Gurka
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lost For Swords
Explore rooms shaped by your deck in this roguelike deckbuilder. Equip gear, cast spells, and engage in tactical turn-based combat. Plan your resource management carefully as equipment can only be used once, and adapt your strategy with shuffled dungeon and equipment cards for a unique challenge each run.
- Deck-shaped room exploration
- Tactical turn-based combat
- Single-use equipment system
- Card synergy building
- Dungeon floor upgrades
- Procedurally generated challenges
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Lost For Swords is a Roguelike Deckbuilder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring. Make your way up the tower, equip weapons and armor, cast spells and scrolls, activate auras, collect loot and defeat monsters in tactical turn-based combat. The clue: the equipment you pick up can only be used once! Plan ahead how you spend your resources. Are your cards strong enough? Can you make it to the next floor? Your equipment cards and the cards of the dungeon are shuffled together and placed on the board, creating a unique challenge every time! Between dungeon floors, you can upgrade your equipment to build the strongest deck possible. Can you find synergies between the cards? Lost For Swords is a... * Card Game * Roguelike Dungeon Crawler * Turn Based Strategy Game ...all in one!
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 in-app purchases: Gurka at none against Lost For Swords's 1. Gurka also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). Lost For Swords's advantage is ratings volume (324 vs 6) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Lost For Swords sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gurka asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gurka holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lost For Swords has 324 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Lost For Swords'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 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lost For Swords | Gurka |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (324 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 324 — 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, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 214 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maximilian Csuk | Lars Barkman |
Customer experience
Lost For Swords
Gurka
Bugs and requests
Lost For Swords
Reported bugs
2 issues- Backtracking bug in rooms
- Purchasing issues on some devices
Requested features
3 requests- More unlockable classes and cards
- Improved in-game explanations
- Ability to reset progress
Gurka
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lost For Swords
- Full Game$4.99
Gurka
No in-app purchases
