Comparison

Foretales vs Astrea

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

Head to head
About

Foretales

Embark on a narrative-driven card game adventure where your decisions impact the fate of kingdoms. Explore branching storylines, engage in tactical combat, and manage resources with a unique deck-building system. Experience a premium, offline adventure with stunning visuals and voice acting.

Highlights
  • Story-focused deck gameplay
  • Meaningful choices
  • Branching paths and multiple endings
  • Tactical, turn-based mechanics
  • Gorgeous art and cinematic audio
  • Offline play
Features
Currently charting
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Step into a beautifully illustrated world where your choices shape the fate of kingdoms. Foretales is a story-driven card game that combines rich narrative exploration with strategic deck-building. You play as Volepain, a thief burdened by a vision of the end of the world. Alongside a colorful cast of animal companions, you must choose your actions wisely—every encounter, every decision, and every card you play may shift the balance between salvation and destruction. Explore multiple storylines, solve conflicts through diplomacy, stealth or direct combat, and manage resources as you forge your own destiny. With fully voiced characters, a stunning hand-painted art style, and a score by Christophe Héral (*Rayman Legends*), Foretales offers an unforgettable mobile adventure. Key features: - Story-focused deck gameplay with meaningful choices - Branching paths, multiple endings, and replayability - Tactical, turn-based mechanics without grind or randomness - Gorgeous art and cinematic audio production - Premium experience: offline, no ads, no IAPs Can you change the future with nothing but a deck of cards?

About

Astrea

This roguelike deckbuilder replaces cards with dice, featuring a unique dual damage system of Purification and Corruption. Customize your dice, choose from six distinct Oracles, and discover over 170 Blessings to alter your tactics.

Highlights
  • Unique dual damage system (Purification vs. Corruption)
  • Dynamic health bar with attached skills
  • Dice pool building with over 350 dice
  • Dice customization with new actions
  • Six unique Oracles with distinct playstyles
  • Over 170 modifying Blessings (Star and Black Hole)
Features
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Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and an unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Features • Unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption - In Astrea there is a new type of “damage” system. Purification can be used to damage enemies or heal yourself. On the other hand, corruption can be used to damage yourself or heal the enemies. Pacify enemies through Purification, or Corrupt yourself to unleash abilities that help tip the scales. • Dynamic Health Bar system - With skills attached to your health bar, you can take Corruption to enable these skills and unleash powerful abilities. But be careful, if you take too much Corruption you will be consumed by it. • Not cards, but dice! - Build a dice pool that fits your playstyle. Choose from over 350 dice and three dice types; reliably safe, perfectly balanced, or powerfully risky. A dice type system designed with high-risk, high-reward in its core. • Customize your dice - Forge your fate by editing die faces with new actions, tipping the odds of powerful results into your favor. • Choose from Six Brave Oracles - Each possessing their own unique dice sets, abilities, and playstyles. From ingenious spellcasters to brutish berserkers, whether you like beating the opponent into submission or outsmarting them with clever plays, there’s an oracle for you. • Uncover over 170 modifying Blessings - Imbue your Oracle with unique passives yielding potent effects that changes up your fundamental tactics. Choose between Star Blessings, passive effects with lower power, or Black Hole Blessings, powerful passive effects with a drawback.

Screenshots

Foretales4 screens
Astrea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Foretales at 4.8 against Astrea's 4.3. Foretales also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (164 vs 20). Astrea's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 58%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On ads, in-app purchases, chart position 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Foretales costs $4.99 and Astrea $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Foretales holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Foretales has 164 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of Foretales's written reviews are positive against 74% of Astrea's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Foretales ships an update daily, Astrea every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Foretales versus Astrea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForetalesAstrea
Price$4.99 — better$5.99
Rating4.8 (164 ratings) — better4.3 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews73.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings164 — better20
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#100#35 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size687 MB711 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperPlug In DigitalAkupara Games

Customer experience

Foretales

All ratings152 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral0.7%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral15.8%
Negative26.3%

Astrea

All ratings20 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral11.8%
Negative14.7%

In-app purchases

None

Foretales

No in-app purchases

None

Astrea

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Foretales free?
Foretales costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Astrea free?
Astrea costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Foretales or Astrea?
Foretales is rated higher. Foretales averages 4.8 out of 5 from 164 ratings, while Astrea averages 4.3 from 20 ratings.
Do Foretales or Astrea have ads?
Neither Foretales nor Astrea shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Foretales or Astrea?
Foretales ships an update daily, and Astrea every 6 weeks. Most recently, Foretales was updated on September 23, 2026 and Astrea on September 22, 2026.
Which is more popular, Foretales or Astrea?
Foretales currently peaks at #100 in the App Store charts, and Astrea at #35. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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