Comparison

Astrea vs Emborio

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

Head to head
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.

About

Emborio

Features
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Start with a campfire. End with a colony ship. Emborio is a calm factory-building game about humankind's long climb, from the first stone tools to the stars. Place extractors on raw materials, draw conveyor belts with your finger, and turn wood and stone into tools, bronze, steel, chips and rockets. SEVEN AGES Stone, Bronze, Iron, Industrial, Electric, Information and Space. Every age brings new raw materials, recipes and buildings, and a new look for your whole factory: your hearth grows into a village square, a town, a city and finally a spaceport. DRAW, CONNECT, WATCH IT FLOW • Draw a belt in one stroke; corners turn by themselves • Split, store, merge and tunnel under whatever is in the way • Every building shows how it's doing: running, hungry or overflowing • Changed your mind? Undo while you build RESEARCH AND GOALS Bring goods home to unlock research, reach each age's goal and upgrade your buildings with the materials of the new age. Steam plants, power plants and a fusion reactor speed up everything around them. A NEW WORLD EVERY GAME Every map grows from a seed: meadows, forests, hills, mountains, lakes and rivers. You choose where your first hub stands; each raw material waits in its own region. RELAXING BY DESIGN No enemies, no ads, no rush. Every age has its own soft music, with gentle sounds and haptics. Play for five minutes or lose an evening. ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE Buy once and play on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Keyboard shortcuts and trackpad on Mac. Your progress stays on your device. No account, no tracking.

Screenshots

Astrea4 screens
Emborio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Emborio at $0.99 against Astrea's $9.99. Astrea'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

Astrea costs $9.99 and Emborio $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Astrea versus Emborio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstreaEmborio
Price$9.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.3 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size712 MB188 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAkupara Games, LLCMucahit KOKDEMIR

In-app purchases

None

Astrea

No in-app purchases

None

Emborio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astrea free?
Astrea costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Emborio free?
Emborio costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Astrea or Emborio have ads?
Neither Astrea nor Emborio shows ads.

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