Comparison

Ruin Apocalypse vs Level Crawl

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Ruin Apocalypse4 screens
Level Crawl4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ruin Apocalypse sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Level Crawl asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ruin Apocalypse versus Level Crawl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRuin ApocalypseLevel Crawl
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (16 ratings)4.7 (54 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews82.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1654 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB42 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJerry NutterJAMES PETER SCHAY

Customer experience

Ruin Apocalypse

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Level Crawl

All ratings54 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive82.1%
Neutral3.6%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Ruin Apocalypse

One-time10
  • 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
None

Level Crawl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ruin Apocalypse free?
Ruin Apocalypse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Level Crawl free?
Level Crawl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ruin Apocalypse or Level Crawl?
Level Crawl is rated higher. Ruin Apocalypse averages 4.6 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Level Crawl averages 4.7 from 54 ratings.
Do Ruin Apocalypse or Level Crawl have ads?
Neither Ruin Apocalypse nor Level Crawl shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ruin Apocalypse or Level Crawl?
Ruin Apocalypse ships an update every 3 months, and Level Crawl every 2 days. Most recently, Ruin Apocalypse was updated on November 5, 2026 and Level Crawl on November 6, 2026.

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