Spin Hero vs Dawnmaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spin Hero
Engage in a unique roguelike deckbuilder where spinning reels determines your fate. Collect powerful symbols, adapt your strategy, and learn from defeats to unlock new synergies and possibilities.
- Spin reels to decide fate
- Collect powerful symbols
- Adapt and evolve strategy
- Learn from defeats
- Unlock new possibilities
- Discover synergies
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Spin Hero is a roguelike deckbuilder, where you spin the reels to decide your fate. Collect powerful symbols for your inventory, adapt and evolve your strategy, learning from defeats to unlock new possibilities and synergies.
Dawnmaker
A solo strategy game blending city building and deck building mechanics. Rebuild a world shrouded in toxic smog by constructing buildings, acquiring powerful cards, and upgrading your lighthouse to reclaim lost lands and technologies.
- City building mechanics
- Deck building gameplay
- Resource management
- Lighthouse upgrades
- Smog reclamation
- Technology recovery
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Dawnmaker is a solo strategy game combining elements of city building and deck building to create a board game-like experience. In a world covered by a toxic Smog, only you can rekindle the ancient lighthouses and bring light and life back. Construct buildings, gain new cards, generate resources and improve your central lighthouse to unlock new building space. Optimize your deck - gain increasingly powerful cards as you improve your city. Your cards and buildings interact in various ways: choose them wisely to create the most powerful combinations! Build efficient cities - make the best of your limited space by optimally positioning your buildings. Improve your lighthouse to repel the Smog and expand your city. Manage your resources - grow farms, build industries, develop science and inspire your people to create the rarest of resources: Eclairium! Reclaim the lost continent - the continent of Heksiga has been covered by a toxic Smog. Repair and improve magical lighthouses to repel that Smog and reclaim the land, region by region. Recover lost technologies - explore vestiges of the old Empire and rediscover technologies that were lost to the Smog.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dawnmaker at 100% against Spin Hero's 51%. Dawnmaker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). Spin Hero's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $8.99) and ratings volume (29 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Spin Hero costs $4.99 and Dawnmaker $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dawnmaker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spin Hero has 29 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Spin Hero's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dawnmaker's.
Spin Hero ships an update weekly, Dawnmaker daily. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spin Hero | Dawnmaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $8.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #91 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 338 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Goblinz Studio SAS | Acram Digital |
Customer experience
Spin Hero
Dawnmaker
Bugs and requests
Spin Hero
Reported bugs
2 issues- Screen sensor issue
- Audio settings revert on reopen
Requested features
3 requests- Add save feature
- More characters and items
- Portrait mode support
Dawnmaker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spin Hero
No in-app purchases
Dawnmaker
No in-app purchases









