Comparison

Thronefall vs Dead Source

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

Head to head
About

Thronefall

Build and defend your kingdom in this strategy game. Balance economy and defense, then fight enemies day and night. Experience a critically acclaimed PC game adapted for mobile.

Highlights
  • Base building during the day
  • Nighttime defense battles
  • Hack and slay combat
  • Economy and defense balance
  • Kingdom management
Features
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[TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!] Thronefall - a critically acclaimed and award winning PC game is coming to AppStore! Metacritics: 92%. Steam: Overwhelmingly Positive, 96%. Saddle the horses! See your kingdom come to life, fight gripping battles to defend it and still be done in time for lunch. With Thronefall we tried to strip a classic strategy game from all unnecessary complexity, combining it with a healthy amount of hack and slay. Build up your base during the day, defend it til your last breath at night. Will you be able to strike the right balance between economy and defense? Do you need more archers, thicker walls or an additional mill? Will you keep the enemies at bay with your longbow or charge your horse right into them? It's going to be a tough night, but nothing beats seeing the sun rise above your little kingdom to live another day.

About

Dead Source

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23:41. Your phone lights up. Unknown number. "You don't know me. But I've been told you might be the kind of person who doesn't ask too many questions when things get complicated." They say their name is Alex. At least, that's the name they're using tonight. Dead Source is a thriller that arrives in messages, in real time, over days. Alex writes when Alex needs you: a public-records lookup at lunch, a favor at midnight, a question at 03:12 that you have about ten minutes to answer. You reply in your own words. Or you don't. Silence is also an answer, and Alex will move without you. You will be good at this. That is the problem. THE LINE - A conversation, not a menu. Suggested replies are there when you want them, but the text field is always open. Say it your way. - Real time, and it means it. Alex goes quiet for an hour because Alex heard something. Messages land on your lock screen with no app branding, from a contact you were told not to name anything obvious. - Decision windows. When one opens, a timer starts draining. If you say nothing, the story continues without you. It does not ask twice. - Sleep is optional. Night messages are off by default. Turning them on is a choice you make, and it is less a settings toggle than a small confession. THE RIG Reached from the conversation, never from a menu, because you never leave the conversation. - Build it. Credits earned from operations buy hardware and software. Segmented progress bars, install states, and one locked module Alex will not explain. - Run ops. A dead drop with more than one right answer. A market position where greed is a real option with a real cost. A phone call you have to make in someone else's voice. - Watch the Heat. Five segments. Elevated. Critical. And when the trace starts, the hops burn top to bottom, toward you. THE RECKONING - Four endings, separated by moral posture, not by score. Doubt buys you one. Complete trust buys the most intimate one. Working out what is really happening, and helping anyway, buys the largest. - An after-action report that reads back your own record. Not your stats. The things you actually did, and what each one taught. - One ending almost nobody finds on a first run. It has to be earned by understanding, not stumbled into. NO JUMP SCARES. NO GORE. NO MONSTERS. The unsettling thing in Dead Source is always a correct-looking system doing something very slightly wrong. A timestamp that does not match. A process you did not start. A folder that appeared on your device an hour ago, sealed, signature verified. Against what key? For people who like their science fiction cold, procedural and adult: near-future, over-lit, plausible. The horror is not that something is hunting you. It is that it was good company. ACT I IS FREE Play the whole first act, around twelve minutes of real conversation, before you decide anything. If you want the rest, one purchase opens Acts II and III, all four endings, real-time mode, and the parts Alex has not told you about. One time. No subscription, no energy timers, no ads, no second currency. Your record carries forward. Nothing resets. ACCESSIBILITY Dynamic Type throughout, AA contrast on all essential text, VoiceOver support, and a "reduce distortion effects" setting that disables every glitch visual without cutting a single story beat. Answer the message. Support and questions: support@bseapps.com

Screenshots

Thronefall4 screens
Dead Source4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Thronefall at #89 against Dead Source's unranked. Thronefall also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Thronefall sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Dead Source sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Thronefall versus Dead Source: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThronefallDead Source
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (3.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#89 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size634 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDoghowl Games Ltd.Big Screen Entertainment Pty Ltd

Bugs and requests

Thronefall

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Achievement not unlocking after beating Sturnamm victory

Requested features

2 requests
  • Sprint functionality for keyboard
  • Improved king controls for keyboard

Dead Source

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Thronefall

One-time2
  • Base Game$9.99
  • Base Game$12.99
1 purchases

Dead Source

One-time1
  • Dead Source Full Operation$2.99

Questions

Is Thronefall free?
Thronefall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dead Source free?
Dead Source is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Thronefall or Dead Source have ads?
Neither Thronefall nor Dead Source shows ads.

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