DepthDrift vs Apple Knight 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DepthDrift
Explore mysterious caves and build a team of unique characters in this idle RPG. Your team battles and collects treasure even while you're offline. Craft gear, research technology, and upgrade your base for permanent progression.
- Idle exploration and combat
- Six unique character classes
- Base building and facility upgrades
- Equipment crafting and enhancement
- Research for permanent bonuses
- No ads or pay-to-win mechanics
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Dive deep into mysterious underground caves in DepthDrift — the idle RPG where your team explores, battles, and collects treasure even while you sleep. Recruit 6 unique character classes. Craft powerful gear. Research ancient technology. How deep can you go? EXPLORE THE DEPTHS Send your team of explorers on expeditions into forgotten caverns. They'll fight monsters, find rare loot, and push deeper — all on their own. Come back to discover what they've uncovered. 6 CHARACTER CLASSES Build the perfect team from six distinct classes: - Warrior: Tanky front-line defender - Mage: Elemental magic damage dealer - Scout: Fast explorer with treasure-finding bonuses - Healer: Keep your team alive in the deep - Engineer: Crafting specialist with equipment bonuses - Summoner: Command mystical creatures IDLE PROGRESSION THAT NEVER STOPS Your expedition continues while you're away. Close the app, go to sleep, live your life — and return to find treasure, experience, and surprises waiting for you. Real progress with zero pressure. BUILD & UPGRADE YOUR BASE Invest resources into 6 upgradeable facilities: - Laboratory for permanent research bonuses - Forge for crafting and enhancing equipment - Warehouse for expanded storage - Trading Post to buy, sell, and exchange - And more to discover as you go deeper CRAFT POWERFUL EQUIPMENT Gather rare ores and materials from cave expeditions. Forge weapons, armor, and accessories. Enhance your gear to push past previously impossible depths. RESEARCH & PERMANENT UPGRADES Unlock permanent bonuses through the research system. Every discovery makes your team stronger — not just for one run, but forever. NO ADS. NO PRESSURE. DepthDrift is designed to respect your time. No forced ads, no energy timers, no pay-to-win walls. Just a calm, rewarding idle RPG that fits into your life. Start your expedition today. The caves are waiting.
Apple Knight 3
Embark on an action-packed platforming adventure in a vast, interconnected world. Battle enemies, master abilities, and explore dangerous dungeons with smooth controls and fast-paced combat. Customize your hero with unique skins, pets, and mounts.
- Interconnected world exploration
- Fast action-platforming
- Hack-and-slash combat
- Dungeons and secrets
- Special abilities and weapons
- Character customization
- Pets and mounts
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Apple Knight is back with interconnected worlds and tons of new features! No ads or in-app purchases. Run, jump, and slash your way through a fast-paced action platformer full of secrets, mounts, and farm life. Some of the things to do in Apple Knight 3: • Explore 2 worlds (with more to come) and discover new mounts and dungeons • Track your journey on the world map • Run and jump through fast, fluid action-platforming • Switch between side-scrolling adventure and a top-down farm • Battle hordes of enemies with hack-and-slash combat and powerful special abilities • Find secret areas, hidden treasures, and hidden mounts • Collect 10 mounts, each with its own stats. At least 8 more are coming in future updates! • Grow crops on your farm and feed them to your mounts to level them up, or sell them for coins • Collect items and manage your inventory • Adopt a pet dog that gives you +1 heart • Sleep in your own house • Visit your friendly neighbor, Tobin, and his animals to buy or sell seeds and wheat, or just to chat • Feed the chickens on your farm or Tobin's to get a special bonus for 3 days • Experience a day/night cycle. Even the chickens go to bed at night! • Learn new moves in the training cave • Buy weapons at Torren's weapon shop. More branches with more weapons are opening soon! • Clear weeds from your farm • Choose your jump style: classic Apple Knight or the new variable jump height • Play with a game controller And much more to come!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Apple Knight 3 at 44% against DepthDrift's 0%. Apple Knight 3 also leads on rating (4.1 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
DepthDrift costs $3.99 and Apple Knight 3 $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Apple Knight 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Apple Knight 3 has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of DepthDrift's written reviews are positive against 44% of Apple Knight 3's.
DepthDrift ships an update every 5 days, Apple Knight 3 every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DepthDrift | Apple Knight 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.1 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #40 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 229 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Takumi Kanzaki | Limitless LLC |
Customer experience
DepthDrift
Apple Knight 3
In-app purchases
DepthDrift
No in-app purchases
Apple Knight 3
No in-app purchases
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