Deep Rock Galactic vs Dandy Ace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deep Rock Galactic
Engage in a single-player survivor-like auto-shooter, battling alien hordes and mining for riches. Upgrade your gear and arsenal to survive the procedurally generated caves of Planet Hoxxes. Experience the Deep Rock Galactic universe from a new top-down perspective.
- Survivor-like auto-shooter gameplay
- Procedurally generated caves
- Mining for riches
- Unlockable upgrades and weapons
- Top-down perspective
- Single-player experience
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Welcome, Survivor! DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes! REVERSE BULLET HELL, WITH MINING Kill bugs, upgrade your gear, and delve ever deeper into the lethal caves of Hoxxes. Collect and assemble a devastating array of guns, unleash hell upon wave after wave of alien monsters in fast and frenetic combat, and tunnel your way to collect precious riches from deep within the cave walls. With the auto-shooter gameplay, you don’t worry about aiming and firing – just run and mine for your life, as you automatically blast away. Each mission is entirely unique with its own procedural cave generation and enemy waves, just as you've come to know from Deep Rock Galactic. COMPLETE MISSION OBJECTIVES TO BECOME STRONGER Dig deep, Miner! Once the Drop Pod releases you into the oppressive darkness, you’re on your own. Complete the mission objectives set forth by the Company, and make it back to the Drop Pod in time to try your luck at even more deadly and lucrative encounters. Progress deeper and deeper into the planet while you grow ever stronger, survive all the way to the very end of your assignment, and finally get extracted alongside your hefty sack of loot. DEEP ROCK, FROM A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE Now you can explore the Deep Rock Galactic universe in a whole new single-player-focused experience! Play each mission from a top-down perspective, navigating the caves of Hoxxes as you've never seen them before, soaking it up through nonstop auto-shooter action. Greybeard Deep Rock veterans will recognize much from Deep Rock Galactic, and if you are a recently joined Greenbeard: Welcome all the same! We are thrilled to have you on board. You will like it here. Management requires it. ROCK AND STONE! Discord: https://discord.gg/drgs Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@fundaygames X: https://x.com/FundayGamesdk
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: Deep Rock Galactic at Free against Dandy Ace's $9.99. Deep Rock Galactic also leads on ratings volume (5.6K vs 1). Dandy Ace's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On ads 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
Deep Rock Galactic is free to download; Dandy Ace costs $9.99 up front. Deep Rock Galactic sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Dandy Ace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dandy Ace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deep Rock Galactic has 5.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Deep Rock Galactic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dandy Ace's.
| Parameter | Deep Rock Galactic | Dandy Ace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.6K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.6K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 922 MB | 1.6 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ghost Ship Publishing | Mad Mimic |
Customer experience
Deep Rock Galactic
Dandy Ace
Bugs and requests
Deep Rock Galactic
Reported bugs
2 issues- Pause screen not working properly
- Targeting issues with enemies
Requested features
3 requests- Horizontal orientation option
- Cross-progression from other platforms
- More weapon/content variety
Dandy Ace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Deep Rock Galactic
- Supporter Pack$4.99
- After Hours Pack$4.99
- Heavy Duty Expansion - Sale$9.99
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- Heavy Duty Expansion$9.99
- Unlock Full Game - Sale$12.99
- Full Game$12.99
- Deluxe Edition$14.99
- Deluxe Edition - Sale$14.99
- Complete Edition - Sale$22.99
- Complete Edition$22.99
Dandy Ace
No in-app purchases
Questions
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