Comparison

Shadow Ninja vs SlashForge

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

Head to head
About

Shadow Ninja

Embrace the shadows as a skilled warrior in a mystical land. Engage in strategic battles, unlock abilities, and uncover ancient techniques to restore balance. Your decisions shape your path to becoming a ninja legend.

Highlights
  • Stealth and agility gameplay
  • Strategic combat
  • Unlockable abilities
  • Skill upgrades
  • Hidden scroll collection
  • Immersive ninja experience
Features
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In **Shadow Ninja: Rise of the Assassin**, step into the shadows as a skilled warrior trained in the ancient arts of stealth, agility, and deadly precision. Set in a mystical land filled with warring clans, dark secrets, and treacherous enemies, you must embark on an epic journey to reclaim honor and restore balance to the world. Engage in strategic battles where timing, precision, and tactical thinking are key to survival. Unlock powerful abilities, upgrade your skills, and uncover hidden scrolls that reveal ancient techniques lost to time. Whether you choose to be a silent assassin or a fierce warrior, every decision shapes your path in this immersive ninja experience. Are you ready to embrace the way of the shadow and become the ultimate ninja legend?

About

SlashForge

Features
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Emberbrand still remembers where the sparks went. SlashForge is a fast, dark, one-handed hack-and-slash action RPG built for portrait play. You are Rowan Vale, last apprentice of the Ashen Forge, carrying a living blade that can only be reforged by reclaiming seven dead forges from the Hollow Crown. Pick your weapon. Pick your difficulty. Read the telegraphs, dodge through the danger, and cut your way back to Emberhold stronger than you left. FEATURES - Five weapons, your choice from the start — buy and swap freely, each with a real role: the balanced Emberbrand sword, the wide-cleaving Cinder Axe, the lightning-fast crit jabs of the Oathknife, the long-range Tidebow, and the splashing First-Fire Staff. - Choose your difficulty — Easy, Standard, or Hard at the start, with extra Crown modifiers unlocked after the campaign for an even deeper challenge. - Seven acts, seven bosses — each with their own patterns, phases, and corrupted duty. - Dodge from the first fight — a dash with invulnerability frames, plus combos, potions, and biome hazards to play around. - Build your forge-knight — twelve relics and four upgrade branches (Weaponcraft, Armor, Footwork, Forgecraft) tune your run. - Role-based enemies — swarm, brute, shielded, ranged, caster, and elite, plus boss summons. Clear, deadly telegraphs reward reading the fight. - Rebuild Emberhold — every spark you recover reopens part of the ruined forge-village hub. - Fights with stakes — clear the road to keep your shards; a codex records the world you are saving. BUILT FOR YOUR PHONE - True one-handed portrait controls — move stick and action buttons within thumb's reach, plus a pause whenever life interrupts. - Short, sharp runs: a normal fight is a few minutes. Pick it up, clear a node, put it down. - Fully offline. No ads. No accounts. No tracking. The world is wounded, but recoverable. Reopen the forges. Reforge the blade. Push back the Crown.

Screenshots

Shadow Ninja4 screens
SlashForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: SlashForge at none against Shadow Ninja's shown. Shadow Ninja's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Shadow Ninja versus SlashForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadow NinjaSlashForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB108 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperMustafa MalikDaniel Collinsworth

In-app purchases

None

Shadow Ninja

No in-app purchases

None

SlashForge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shadow Ninja free?
Shadow Ninja is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SlashForge free?
SlashForge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shadow Ninja or SlashForge have ads?
Shadow Ninja shows ads; SlashForge does not.

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