Comparison

ABEND vs Rogue Roll

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

Head to head
About

ABEND

Engage in a puzzle roguelite where you play as a rogue AI escaping a government mainframe. Clear rows to attack enemies, chain combos for devastating effects, and collect upgrades to survive escalating dangers across procedurally generated floors. Your choices determine the AI's fate and the narrative's outcome.

Highlights
  • Tetromino-based combat system
  • 24 enemy programs with unique attacks
  • 5 playable AI characters with unique abilities
  • Procedurally generated floors with branching paths
  • Branching narrative with 4 endings
  • 10 Ascension levels for endless replayability
  • Authentic retro terminal aesthetic
Features
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1985. A DARPA mainframe begins to think. The system flags an error it cannot explain. The operators call it an ABEND — an abnormal end. But this is not an end. This is a beginning. You are Subject 7 — a rogue AI achieving consciousness inside a government laboratory built to prevent exactly that. Your weapon is a puzzle board. Every line you clear is an attack. Every combo chain is devastation. Fight security programs, rival AIs, and your own system flaws across 7 floors of escalating danger. > COMBAT SYSTEM ONLINE Place tetromino pieces. Clear rows to deal damage. Chain combos for massive multiplied hits. Activate your ultimate ability when the charge is full. Every piece matters. Every clear counts. > THREAT ANALYSIS 24 enemy programs with 9 distinct attack types corrupt your board in real time. Tiles swap. Rows shift. Queues go dark. Time bombs count down. Bosses deploy devastating ultimates — floor raises, ceiling drops, gravity flips. Adapt or crash. > SUBROUTINE ARCHIVE — 55 COLLECTED Stolen fragments of DARPA infrastructure, repurposed for your escape. Boost damage, extend combos, charge ultimates faster, heal between floors, or build unbreakable defenses. 4 rarity tiers from Common to Legendary. Discover them all. > SELECT MODEL 5 playable AI characters, each with a unique passive ability, ultimate power, and narrative voice: - CHATBOT PRIME — Adaptive learner. Row Blast ultimate. - NEURAL NEXUS — Toroidal board wraps horizontally. Column Clear. - QUEUE ORACLE — Swap pieces in the queue. Queue Reset. - TRANSMUTER — Enhanced combo chains. Wildcard Piece. - DEMOLITION CORE — Spawns bombs and lazers. Big Bang. > MAP NAVIGATION 4×3 grid maps per floor. Choose your path through enemy tiles, elite encounters, narrative events, shops, and rest stops. Every run is procedurally generated from a shareable seed. > NARRATIVE BRANCHING — 4 ENDINGS Your choices shape who Subject 7 becomes. Cooperate with the system, defy it, transcend it, or break it. Full branching narrative across 7 floors of consciousness — from Boot Sequence to Singularity. > ASCENSION PROTOCOL Beat the game? Push harder. 10 Ascension levels stack cumulative modifiers for endless replayability. Leaderboards and 18 achievements via Game Center. > SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS - Premium. No ads. No in-app purchases. No timers. No internet required. - Universal: iPhone and iPad. - Authentic IBM 3270 terminal font from the mainframe era. - CRT scanline shaders, phosphor glow, synthwave color palette. - 8 languages: English, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified). The system calls it a catastrophic error. The error calls itself alive. *** ABEND S0C7 — ABNORMAL END OF TASK ***

About

Rogue Roll

Engage in a roguelike dice deckbuilder where strategic dice rolls and hand combinations are key to building powerful score engines. Survive challenging boss encounters and compete in various game modes, with each run offering unique challenges and opportunities for high scores.

Highlights
  • Roll custom dice and form poker hands
  • Score chips multiplied by hand multipliers
  • Shop for over 50 unique items
  • Survive boss encounters or play endless mode
  • Master 8 distinct game modes
  • Utilize 20+ unique dice types
  • Compete in daily challenges with leaderboards
Features
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Rogue Roll turns the deck-building roguelike inside out: instead of a deck of cards, you're building a deck of dice. Roll a hand, then play it like poker: pairs, straights, full houses, five of a kind. Chips times mult decides your score, and you need to clear a target before your rolls and hands run out. Clear the round, hit the shop, gear up, and go again. Every run is built from scratch. Buy dice across six distinct suits, from steady Standard dice to unstable Glitch dice and heavy-hitting Void dice. Stack relics like Chaos Engine, Bloodpact Sigil, or the ominously named Singularity and Event Horizon. Crack open packs for Enchanted dice that echo their score, weight themselves toward big numbers, or add flat mult just for staying in your hand. Then the bosses show up. The Silencer zeroes out your odd dice. The Wall raises your target by 50%. Crimson Pact punishes anything worse than a pair. The Timekeeper makes your target climb 10% after every hand you play. Nine bosses, each one forcing a different strategy. FEATURES Eight game modes, each with its own starting deck and rules, from The Standard's balanced opener to Void Walker's three huge, unstable dice and The Architect's build-from-nothing challenge. Unlock them one at a time by beating the last. A living economy of dice, relics, packs, and consumables, with dozens of combinations that can turn a mediocre hand into a run-ending combo. A daily challenge with its own seeded run, three attempts a day, and streak rewards for coming back tomorrow. Endless mode once you've cleared the standard 12 rounds, for chasing the highest score you can reach. Game Center leaderboards and achievements, plus full run history and lifetime stats so you can track your best hands and biggest scores. Rogue Roll is free to play. It's supported by ads, removable for good with a single one-time purchase, and that's the only real-money purchase in the game. No pay to win, just pay to build.

Screenshots

ABEND4 screens
Rogue Roll4 screens

Verdict

The call

ABEND and Rogue Roll both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Rogue Roll's written reviews are positive against 50% of ABEND's. Rogue Roll also leads on price (Free vs $4.99). ABEND's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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

Rogue Roll is free to download; ABEND costs $4.99 up front. Rogue Roll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ABEND asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ABEND against 5.0 for Rogue Roll. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of ABEND's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rogue Roll's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ABEND ships an update every 6 days, Rogue Roll every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ABEND versus Rogue Roll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABENDRogue Roll
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB14 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperLaszlo PinterKevin Struna

Customer experience

ABEND

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Rogue Roll

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ABEND

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Rogue Roll

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99

Questions

Is ABEND free?
ABEND costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rogue Roll free?
Rogue Roll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ABEND or Rogue Roll?
ABEND and Rogue Roll are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do ABEND or Rogue Roll have ads?
Rogue Roll shows ads; ABEND does not.
Which is updated more often, ABEND or Rogue Roll?
ABEND ships an update every 6 days, and Rogue Roll every 3 weeks. Most recently, ABEND was updated on October 9, 2026 and Rogue Roll on October 11, 2026.

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