Ruin Apocalypse vs Level Crawl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ruin Apocalypse
Engage in strategic combat and resource management in a post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge for items, build your arsenal, and compete with other survivors for dominance. Regular updates and events keep the gameplay fresh.
- Scavenge for random items
- Equip up to 6 items
- Strategic combat system
- Item research and quality system
- Craft assembled gear
- Global leaderboards and competitions
- Player trading and messaging
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SCAVENGE. BATTLE. DOMINATE. Welcome to Ruin Apocalypse, where civilization has fallen and only the strongest survive. Explore a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with rare relics, dangerous rivals, and endless strategic possibilities. BUILD YOUR Hand • Scavenge for 6 random items • Equip up to 6 powerful items that define your combat strength • Discover items ranging from Common to Godly rarity • Quality ratings (1-10) dramatically boost item effectiveness STRATEGIC COMBAT SYSTEM • Attack other survivors to steal their equipped items • Trash enemy items or steal them for yourself • Every battle costs energy-use your energy wisely DEEP PROGRESSION MECHANICS • Trophy Case: Preserve your favorite items permanently and earn gold rewards • Duffle Bag: Store up to 10+ items safely away from thieves • Research System: Wait 1000 for items to reach 100% research • Quality Degradation: Researched items lose quality after battles—maintain your gear • Craft Sets: Combine fully researched items into powerful assembled sets COLLECT & UPGRADE • Hunt for legendary items across multiple locations • Use Upgrade Certificates to improve item quality up to q5 • Special Scavenge items increase your chances of epic loot • Research Potions and Accelerators speed up research progression COMPETE & COOPERATE • Real-time global leaderboards track top survivors • Weekly and monthly competitions with exclusive rewards • Trade system: Negotiate deals with other players • Player messaging for alliances or trash talk • Marketplace: Buy and sell items with fellow survivors • Guild Wars: Compete with other guilds to leave your legacy in the wasteland through daily war objectives RESOURCE MANAGEMENT • Energy regenerates over time (5 minutes per point) • Gold earned through scavenging and trophying items • Daily free gold and quests keep you in the game • Strategic shop purchases optimize your progression FEATURES THAT SET US APART • Unique research mechanic adds time-based strategy • Quality system creates meaningful item variation • Duffle bag protects your hard-earned loot • Trophy case provides permanent collection goals • Assembled items unlock advanced crafting • Emblem system rewards milestone achievements • Real-time battle notifications keep you alert REGULAR CONTENT & EVENTS • Weekly and Monthly quests challenge your skills • Monthly trophy competitions • Guild War competitions • Limited-time events and rewards Whether you're a casual survivor or a hardcore competitor, Ruin Apocalypse offers depth that rewards both patience and strategy. The wasteland is brutal, but the spoils belong to those brave enough to fight for them. Download now and begin your journey to wasteland domination! --- Connect with us: • Report bugs and request features in-game • Join our community of survivors • Regular updates and improvements Note: Ruin: Apocalypse features optional in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Level Crawl
Embark on a challenging roguelike game show where you navigate 18 floors of traps and monsters. Utilize turn-based combat, discover over 200 unique monsters, and master 23 different combos. Each floor offers a unique episode with changing rules and a boss battle.
- 16-bit pixel art graphics
- Turn-based grid combat
- Boss battles on every floor
- 23 unique combos
- 26 playable species
- Over 200 monsters
- Daily Dungeon and Endless Abyss modes
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Good evening, contestants. Welcome to LEVEL CRAWL, the only show where the contestants are the content and the content dies a lot. Nobody's sure how you got here, and the producers aren't taking questions. But here you are, at the top of 18 floors of traps, monsters and sponsor-approved violence, with a very large audience watching. Please smile. Ratings are everything. WHAT YOU GET • Hand-crafted 16-bit pixel art: every monster, Delver, item and wall, with its own tileset for every zone, from the Sewers to the Studio itself. • Turn-based grid combat. You move, they move. Nobody's rushing you except the floor clock and the audience. • Headliners: a boss at the bottom of every floor. Get close and the show cuts to a turn-based battle screen. Running is not an option. • COMBO! Set fire to an oiled monster, zap a wet one, shatter a frozen one, splat one into a wall. 23 combos to find, and the crowd loses it every time. • 26 species, from Human to Gnoll, Treant, Robot and a root vegetable with a dream. Pick a class on floor 3 and specialize on floor 9. • 200+ monsters that don't play fair: thieves, exploding beetles, gelatinous cubes that eat your loot, ghosts of Delvers who didn't make it. • 30 spells, 35+ talents and 250+ items: rare and epic gear, enchantments, cursed items, gear sets and things that fell in from other worlds. • Odd floors that change the rules: conveyor belts and crushers, a frozen lake, a flooding sewer main, a haunted manor that moves its doors, a space station with cheap airlocks. • Every floor is a different episode: Blackout, Speed Round, the Arena, the Heist, the Game Show and more. • The host is your tutorial. He explains each thing once, when it matters, then replays your death on air with a tip for next time. • Easy mode from your first run. Win once and unlock 10 Ratings, each one stacking a new twist, all the way to Prime Time. • Earn outfits, name titles, entrances and starting pets by dying in style. • Whatever killed your last Delver comes back as your Nemesis. • 300+ achievements, many of them rude. 100 of them on Game Center. • A Daily Dungeon (the same run for everyone, once a day) and the Endless Abyss, a dungeon with no bottom and a world leaderboard. • Play with friends: up to 8 Delvers, one floor clock. • Colour-blind and high-contrast modes. • One life. Death restarts the whole run. The audience considers this a feature. Free. No ads. No purchases. Your run saves on your device. Contains swearing, crude humor and cartoon violence. Art: 16-Bit Fantasy and 16-Bit Sci-Fi by Oryx Design Lab (www.oryxdesignlab.com). The original 1-bit look, from the 1-Bit Pack by Kenney (CC0), returns as an unlockable mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Level Crawl at none against Ruin Apocalypse's 10. Level Crawl also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Ruin Apocalypse sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Level Crawl asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Ruin Apocalypse against 4.7 for Level Crawl. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 54 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Ruin Apocalypse's written reviews are positive against 82% of Level Crawl's.
Ruin Apocalypse ships an update every 3 months, Level Crawl every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ruin Apocalypse | Level Crawl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (16 ratings) | 4.7 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 82.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 54 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jerry Nutter | JAMES PETER SCHAY |
Customer experience
Ruin Apocalypse
Level Crawl
In-app purchases
Ruin Apocalypse
- Weekly Quest$0.99
- Monthly Quest$0.99
- 300 Gold$1.99
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- Midas Rag$2.99
- 1500 Gold$8.99
- Hostile Hunter Kit$8.99
- Midas Pack$9.99
- Scavenge Pack$9.99
- Starter Pack$12.99
- Founder's Pack$99.99
Level Crawl
No in-app purchases









