Comparison

Bitmap Bay vs Long Live

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

Head to head
About

Bitmap Bay

Embark on a retro pirate adventure with a handcrafted pixel art world. Engage in skillful cannon battles, face legendary captains, and recruit your crew in this roguelite experience. Enjoy endless replayability with a full save system, playable completely offline.

Highlights
  • Handmade pixel art
  • Challenge legendary pirates
  • Endlessly replayable voyages
  • Skillful cannon battles
  • Recruit your crew
  • Full save and load system
Features
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"A bold new retro take... quite the intriguing one" – Pocket Gamer. Welcome to Bitmap Bay - a pixel-art pirate adventure. Explore the low-res high seas, build your legacy, and test your cannon-firing reflexes against legendary historical captains. • Authentic Pixel Art: A charming, low-res retro world created by an artist. • Legendary Pirates: Challenge over 40 real historical captains, each with unique, hand-drawn portraits. • Tactical Cannon Battles: Combat is simple to learn but hard to master. Time your shots perfectly to claim victory. • Recruit Your Crew: Hire a loyal crew of sailors, specialists, and scoundrels. • Endlessly Replayable: Encounter a wide range of random events – duels, storms, thieves, and mysteries. • Premium Experience: Playable completely offline with zero ads and zero in-app purchases. About the Developer: Bitmap Bay is the creation of Grandom Games, the solo dev studio of a visual artist and designer. It is built with a passion for classic retro gaming and offered as a true premium mobile experience.

About

Long Live

Lead a kingdom through strategic decisions and diplomacy across various historical eras. Manage six factions, engage in diplomacy or warfare with rival dynasties, and choose your heir to shape your reign. The ultimate goal is to conquer the world and then the stars.

Highlights
  • Over 600 hand-written decisions with consequences
  • Living world map for diplomacy and conquest
  • Named rival dynasties with long memories
  • Six historical eras
  • Choose your heir with unique strengths and weaknesses
  • Multiple difficulty levels
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You are the crown. From Roman Britain to the red dust of Mars, every decision that reaches your throne is yours alone — and none of them are simple. Six factions surround you: the Council, the Nobles, the Commons, the People, the Press and the powers abroad. Each wants something different. Let any one of them fall to nothing and they will remove you, permanently. Keep them all content and you may last a decade longer than the last ruler did. Between the decisions lies a living world map. Every rival nation is a named house with its own ruler, its own grudges and a long memory. Send them gifts. Plant a spy in their court. Fund unrest in their provinces until the ground is soft enough to march on. Marry into them, absorb them by treaty, or take them by force — and discover that a province taken at swordpoint stays disloyal for a generation, while one won by marriage settles in a season. Rule with an iron hand and your revolts are easily crushed — but keep your army strong, or the generals will come for you. Rule with an open hand and your provinces grow loyal and forgiving — but the world will read it as weakness, and act on it. When your ruler dies, you choose between heirs: the darling of the army, the people's own, the brilliant but frail, the child betrothed to a foreign house. Their gifts and flaws shape the entire reign that follows. FEATURES • Over 600 hand-written decisions, each with real consequences • A living world map with real geography — court, spy on, undermine or conquer any nation at any time • Named rival dynasties that remember what you did to them, across generations • Six eras of history, from Roman Britain to interplanetary rule, each with its own crises • Two victories to aim for: win the whole world, then rule on and conquer the stars • Choose your heir, and inherit their strengths and weaknesses • Events summoned by the state of your realm: starve the people and riots come; grow rich and foreign kings develop an interest in your ports • Three difficulties, from a forgiving first dynasty to a crown everyone wants • No adverts. No in-app purchases. No internet required. One price, the whole game. How long can your house last?

Screenshots

Bitmap Bay4 screens
Long Live4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bitmap Bay at every 4 days against Long Live's fortnightly. On price, review sentiment, 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

Bitmap Bay costs $0.99 and Long Live $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bitmap Bay ships an update every 4 days, Long Live fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bitmap Bay versus Long Live: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBitmap BayLong Live
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating4.3 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.9% of reviews85.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB6 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperNICHOLAS GENTRYNICHOLAS EVAN FORD

Customer experience

Bitmap Bay

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive82.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative11.4%

Long Live

Written reviews20 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bitmap Bay

No in-app purchases

None

Long Live

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bitmap Bay free?
Bitmap Bay costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Long Live free?
Long Live costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bitmap Bay or Long Live have ads?
Neither Bitmap Bay nor Long Live shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bitmap Bay or Long Live?
Bitmap Bay ships an update every 4 days, and Long Live fortnightly. Most recently, Bitmap Bay was updated on November 8, 2026 and Long Live on November 10, 2026.

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