Shakedown vs Dandy Ace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shakedown
Embark on a 16-bit open-world adventure where you build a business empire. Complete missions, acquire properties, and sabotage rivals to dominate the island. Explore by land, sea, or air, uncovering secrets and engaging in arcade challenges.
- 16-bit open world exploration
- Business acquisition and management
- Mission-based gameplay
- Sabotage competitors
- Vehicle and boat traversal
- Arcade challenges and side quests
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A brand new open world adventure from the creator of Retro City Rampage DX! The entire island is up for grabs. Build your own "legitimate" corporation by completing missions, acquiring businesses, sabotaging competitors, "re-zoning" land, and shaking down shops for protection money. Explore the 16-bit open world by foot, by car, or by boat. It's filled with arcade challenges, side quests, stores to shop at, houses to burgle, civilians to interact with, and secrets to discover. Build your empire and destroy the competition... in Shakedown: Hawaii.
Dandy Ace
Embark on an over-the-top action adventure as a fabulous magician. Combine magical cards, battle enemies, and loot your way through challenges to defeat a wicked illusionist and escape a cursed mirror.
- Over-the-top action gameplay
- Magical card combination system
- Looting and combat mechanics
- Defeat the Green-Eyed Illusionist
- Escape a cursed mirror
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Dandy Ace is an over the top action game that follows this fabulous magician seeking to combine and use his magical cards, fighting and looting his way to defeat the Green-Eyed Illusionist and free himself from a cursed mirror.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shakedown at $4.99 against Dandy Ace's $9.99. Shakedown also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 1). Dandy Ace's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 92%). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Shakedown costs $4.99 and Dandy Ace $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Shakedown against 5.0 for Dandy Ace. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shakedown has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Shakedown's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dandy Ace's.
| Parameter | Shakedown | Dandy Ace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 1.6 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vblank Entertainment Inc. | Mad Mimic |
Customer experience
Shakedown
Dandy Ace
In-app purchases
Shakedown
No in-app purchases
Dandy Ace
No in-app purchases
Questions
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