Comparison

Foretales vs TR

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

TR

Uncover a WWII-era mystery by navigating a vast archive of obscure texts. Communicate with a handler through an interactive audio drama to find a stolen book and unravel the secrets of the machine's creators before it's too late.

Highlights
  • Narrative deduction gameplay
  • Interactive audio drama
  • Archive exploration
  • Link obscure texts
  • Uncover creator secrets
  • Dynamic dialogue system
Features
Currently charting
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A voice is saying your name. A WWII-era machine, long hidden in a church basement, whirs to life. Through a crackling speaker a man asks you to find a stolen book. He only knows the title. Time is running out. The machine, created by Bletchley Park engineers Cecil Caulderly and Beatrice Dooler, contains a vast archive of obscure books, letters, and journals fed in over the span of fifty years in an attempt to crack the code of reality. As their lives fell apart, the machine kept working. Navigate the computer’s archive. Link its obscure texts and uncover its creators’ secrets. Communicate with the man behind the speaker to figure out your role in this mystery. Destroy the book at the core of the machine — before it’s too late. NARRATIVE DEDUCTION - Deduce links through the archive to locate hidden sources. - Unravel the stories and unearth the secrets of the books’ authors and the machine's creators. - Map the archive and find the book that will rewrite the world. INTERACTIVE AUDIO DRAMA - Talk with your handler at any time, creating a dynamic audio drama that responds as you explore. - Featuring the voices of Rebekah McLoughlin (The SCP Archives, Eternal Threads), Paul Warren (A Highland Song, Viewfinder, The Séance of Blake Manor) and Phillipe Bosher (Baldur's Gate 3, Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). - Original soundtrack by Laurence Chapman (A Highland Song, Heaven's Vault, The Mask of the Rose). INSPIRATIONS TR-49 takes inspiration from narrative deduction games like The Roottrees are Dead and The Return of the Obra Dinn, and from audio dramas like The Magnus Archives and ars PARADOXICA. Written and created by the award-winning team behind 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, Overboard!, and A Highland Song.

Screenshots

Foretales4 screens
TR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Foretales at daily against TR's every 6 days. Foretales also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and price ($4.99 vs $6.99). TR's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 58%) and iOS requirement (14.0 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 TR $6.99 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 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 164 and 37 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of Foretales's written reviews are positive against 67% of TR'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, TR every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Foretales versus TR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForetalesTR
Price$4.99 — better$6.99
Rating4.8 (164 ratings) — better4.5 (37 ratings)
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings164 — better37
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#95 — better#124
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size687 MB527 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperPlug In Digitalinkle

Customer experience

Foretales

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

TR

All ratings37 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Foretales

No in-app purchases

None

TR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Foretales free?
Foretales costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TR free?
TR costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Foretales or TR?
Foretales is rated higher. Foretales averages 4.8 out of 5 from 164 ratings, while TR averages 4.5 from 37 ratings.
Do Foretales or TR have ads?
Neither Foretales nor TR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Foretales or TR?
Foretales ships an update daily, and TR every 6 days. Most recently, Foretales was updated on October 25, 2026 and TR on October 25, 2026.
Which is more popular, Foretales or TR?
Foretales currently peaks at #95 in the App Store charts, and TR at #124. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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