Comparison

Kaamos vs Deck Gauntlet

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

Head to head
About

Kaamos

Engage in turn-based tactical combat by matching tiles on a grid. Explore a dark medieval world, collect equipment, and build your character and deck to overcome foes in this unique roguelike experience.

Highlights
  • Turn-based tile matching combat
  • Character and deck building
  • Looting equipment from foes
  • Dark medieval world exploration
  • Roguelike progression
Features
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Kaamos is a bite-sized turn-based puzzle roguelike where battles are fought by matching tiles on a grid with looping rows and columns. Build your character and deck of tiles by looting equipment from your foes. Traverse a dark medieval world where the Sun went down and never rose again.

About

Deck Gauntlet

Features
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A whole roguelike deckbuilder. On your wrist. No phone needed. Deck Gauntlet is a pixel-art roguelike card game built from the ground up for Apple Watch. Draft a deck, drag cards onto monsters with your finger, spin the Digital Crown to read your hand, and claw through three acts of a branching dungeon, all on the screen strapped to your wrist. Every run is different. Every death teaches you something. Then you climb back in. FIVE HEROES, FIVE PLAYSTYLES • Knight: stack armor and Might, and out-muscle anything in your way. • Rogue: fast, fragile, lethal: chain combos and pile on Bleed. • Mage: bank Mana across turns, then unleash devastating spells. • Archer: nock arrows into your quiver and loose them for huge hits. • Druid: raise a companion that evolves from Cub to Wolf to Dire Beast. A DECK THAT'S YOURS • 260+ cards and 112 relics to discover and combine. • Dozens of enemies, deadly elites, and act-ending bosses. • Potions, events, shops, and a full run economy to master. • Procedurally generated maps: plan your path every run. HARDER WHEN YOU'RE READY • A 15-level Ascension ladder that adds a fresh twist each rung. • Shareable run seeds: hand a friend the exact same run and see who survives. BUILT FOR THE WATCH • Play one-handed, offline, anywhere: no iPhone required. • Save and resume any run instantly. • A collection log that fills in as you discover cards, relics, and foes. Pay once. No ads. No in-app purchases. Ever. From Stone Golem Studios.

Screenshots

Kaamos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Deck Gauntlet at $1.99 against Kaamos's $3.99. Kaamos's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Kaamos costs $3.99 and Deck Gauntlet $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

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Kaamos versus Deck Gauntlet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKaamosDeck Gauntlet
Price$3.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.1 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB15 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperFreedom Games, LLCNicholas Gorman

In-app purchases

None

Kaamos

No in-app purchases

None

Deck Gauntlet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kaamos free?
Kaamos costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deck Gauntlet free?
Deck Gauntlet costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kaamos or Deck Gauntlet have ads?
Neither Kaamos nor Deck Gauntlet shows ads.

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