Comparison

Spin Hero vs Dawnmaker

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Spin reels to decide fate
  • Collect powerful symbols
  • Adapt and evolve strategy
  • Learn from defeats
  • Unlock new possibilities
  • Discover synergies
Features
Currently charting
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Spin Hero4 screens
Dawnmaker4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Spin Hero costs $4.99 and Dawnmaker $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spin Hero ships an update weekly, Dawnmaker daily. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Spin Hero versus Dawnmaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpin HeroDawnmaker
Price$4.99 — better$8.99
Rating3.8 (29 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings29 — better2
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#91 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size338 MB144 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperGoblinz Studio SASAcram Digital

Customer experience

Spin Hero

All ratings29 ratings
Positive69.0%
Neutral17.2%
Negative13.8%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive50.7%
Neutral17.3%
Negative32.0%

Dawnmaker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

None

Spin Hero

No in-app purchases

None

Dawnmaker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spin Hero free?
Spin Hero costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dawnmaker free?
Dawnmaker costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spin Hero or Dawnmaker?
Dawnmaker is rated higher. Spin Hero averages 3.8 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Dawnmaker averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Spin Hero or Dawnmaker have ads?
Neither Spin Hero nor Dawnmaker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spin Hero or Dawnmaker?
Spin Hero ships an update weekly, and Dawnmaker daily. Most recently, Spin Hero was updated on September 23, 2026 and Dawnmaker on September 19, 2026.

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