Comparison

Lost Vault vs Storyfall

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

Head to head
About

Lost Vault

Experience the original post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG with a pure survival challenge. Explore iconic locations, battle unforgiving enemies, and build your hero through classic progression and gear hunts. Team up in clans and compete on leaderboards without modern shortcuts.

Highlights
  • Classic wasteland exploration
  • Old-school hero progression
  • Classic gear hunting
  • Original leaderboards
  • Clans for cooperative play
  • Unforgiving enemies and bosses
  • Base building and defense
Features
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Return to where it all began. Lost Vault: Classic is the original wasteland adventure, restored for those who crave the pure survival challenge of the early days. No shortcuts. No modern extras. Just the raw, unforgiving post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG that defined a generation of survivors. Relive the Original Features: - The First Wasteland Explore the same iconic locations that started it all - dangerous zones, strange creatures, and hidden treasures waiting to be rediscovered. - Hero Progression, Old-School Style Fight, grind, and grow your hero through battles and quests. Power is earned, not handed out. - Classic Gear Hunts Scour the wasteland for rare and powerful equipment. Experiment with legendary item combinations exactly as players did back in the beginning. - The Original Rankings Compete on the classic leaderboards. Every victory counts, every loss stings - become a legend the old way. - Clans, Reborn Team up in clans just as the pioneers did. Share, fight, and survive together - without modern shortcuts. - Unforgiving Enemies Face the same brutal monsters and rival survivors that shaped the earliest battles of Lost Vault. - Shelter, Your Lifeline Build, defend, and protect your base exactly as it was in the beginning. No safety nets. No second chances. - The First Bosses Return Challenge the legendary dungeon bosses that forged the earliest heroes of Lost Vault. Their wrath hasn’t dulled with time. Why Play Lost Vault: Classic? Experience the original, unaltered gameplay - just as it was. A true test of patience, grit, and survival. Perfect for veterans longing for nostalgia or newcomers curious about the roots. Because sometimes, the old ways really are the best. The wasteland hasn’t changed. But have you? Step into Lost Vault: Classic and prove you can survive - again.

About

Storyfall

Features
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Storyfall is an interactive fiction platform. Readers can play text adventures on Storyfall in singleplayer or with friends, on mobile or desktop. Progress is saved and synced to all your devices. We have stories across every genre, from science fiction and mystery to zombies and everything in between. Most stories are free, some are paid or have paid chapters - it's up to the writers. Storyfall is a marketplace. And we'll never have ads, so you can focus on your story. Download stories for free so you can play them offline. Want to create your own story? Storyfall comes with its own story editor. It's easy to jump into, but supports advanced gameplay mechanics so you can build complex RPGs with dice rolls, randomized chances, and complex branching narratives. Your story can be as simple or complex as you'd like. Storyfall's editor is completely free to use, and you own all the rights to your story. Export it any time, both as JSON and playable HTML and host it on your own website. Publishing on Storyfall takes less than a minute and is completely free. Have a story on Twine or Ink? Import it into Storyfall and publish it for free. Storyfall supports multiplayer (vote-based and coop) games, advanced accessibility and immersion features like narration and using your voice to make choices, translations into over a hundred languages, both a code-free visual editor, and a code editor for writers who like writing code. The story tree lets you quickly jump between scenes, and advanced debug tools let you adjust variables on the fly and run scripts while debugging your game. Want to collaborate with other writers? Storyfall supports real-time collaborative editing and comment threads and discussions. Stories can have background music, sound effects, images, narration, and custom themes. Ready to make money from your stories? Connect your Stripe account and set a price - on your story, individual chapters, or characters in your story. Readers can subscribe to you for free, or you can set paid subscription tiers so they can support your work. Want to email your readers? Storyfall has a fully-fledged newsletter & blog publishing feature so you can keep in touch with your fans. We also have platform-wide forums, and you can even create your own! For instance - if you want to get feedback from your fans on an early access story, create a forum for your game but only allow subscribers to access it.

Screenshots

Lost Vault4 screens
Storyfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Storyfall at none against Lost Vault's shown. Storyfall also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Lost Vault sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Storyfall sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lost Vault ships an update weekly, Storyfall every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lost Vault versus Storyfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLost VaultStoryfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB4 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperKamil RykowskiStoryfall LLC

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Lost Vault

One-time7
  • Coins$1.99
  • Pile of Coins$3.99
  • Pouch of Coins$9.99
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  • Starter Pack$22.99
  • Plenty of Coins$22.99
  • Chest of Coins$44.99
  • Piggy Bank$79.99
10 purchases

Storyfall

One-time10
  • Content Unlock $74.99$74.99
  • Content Unlock $79.99$79.99
  • Content Unlock $84.99$84.99
Show 7 more
  • Content Unlock $89.99$89.99
  • Content Unlock $94.99$94.99
  • Content Unlock $99.99$99.99
  • Content Unlock $109.99$109.99
  • Content Unlock $119.99$119.99
  • Content Unlock $129.99$129.99
  • Content Unlock $149.99$149.99

Questions

Is Lost Vault free?
Lost Vault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Storyfall free?
Storyfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lost Vault or Storyfall have ads?
Lost Vault shows ads; Storyfall does not.
Which is updated more often, Lost Vault or Storyfall?
Lost Vault ships an update weekly, and Storyfall every 2 days. Most recently, Lost Vault was updated on October 30, 2026 and Storyfall on October 31, 2026.

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