Spin Hero vs Bitmap Bay
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.
Bitmap Bay
Embark on a retro pirate adventure with a handcrafted pixel art world. Engage in skillful cannon battles, face legendary captains, and recruit your crew in this roguelite experience. Enjoy endless replayability with a full save system, playable completely offline.
- Handmade pixel art
- Challenge legendary pirates
- Endlessly replayable voyages
- Skillful cannon battles
- Recruit your crew
- Full save and load system
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"A bold new retro take... quite the intriguing one" – Pocket Gamer. Welcome to Bitmap Bay - a pixel-art pirate adventure. Explore the low-res high seas, build your legacy, and test your cannon-firing reflexes against legendary historical captains. • Authentic Pixel Art: A charming, low-res retro world created by an artist. • Legendary Pirates: Challenge over 40 real historical captains, each with unique, hand-drawn portraits. • Tactical Cannon Battles: Combat is simple to learn but hard to master. Time your shots perfectly to claim victory. • Recruit Your Crew: Hire a loyal crew of sailors, specialists, and scoundrels. • Endlessly Replayable: Encounter a wide range of random events – duels, storms, thieves, and mysteries. • Premium Experience: Playable completely offline with zero ads and zero in-app purchases. About the Developer: Bitmap Bay is the creation of Grandom Games, the solo dev studio of a visual artist and designer. It is built with a passion for classic retro gaming and offered as a true premium mobile experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bitmap Bay at 4.3 against Spin Hero's 3.8. Bitmap Bay also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 51%) and price ($0.99 vs $4.99). Spin Hero's advantage is chart position (#66 vs unranked) and ratings volume (29 vs 8). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Spin Hero costs $4.99 and Bitmap Bay $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bitmap Bay holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Spin Hero's written reviews are positive against 83% of Bitmap Bay's.
Spin Hero ships an update weekly, Bitmap Bay every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spin Hero | Bitmap Bay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (29 ratings) | 4.3 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.7% of reviews | 82.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #66 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 338 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Goblinz Studio SAS | NICHOLAS GENTRY |
Customer experience
Spin Hero
Bitmap Bay
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
Bitmap Bay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spin Hero
No in-app purchases
Bitmap Bay
No in-app purchases
