Comparison

Master's Hammer vs ArcFlush

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

Head to head
About

Master's Hammer

Features
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Descend into the dungeon and face your fate, one card at a time. Master's Hammer is a moody, atmospheric card crawler where your deck of cards transforms into a dungeon filled with monsters, powerful weapons, and life-saving potions. Every room presents you with four cards—you must use three to advance. Will you equip a weapon to slay the beast? Drink the potion to heal? or face the undead bare-handed to save your weapon's strength for a stronger enemy? A DIGITAL TRIBUTE TO "SCOUNDREL" This game is a faithful digital adaptation of the brilliant physical card game system Scoundrel, created by Zach Gage and Kurt Bieg. If you love the original paper prototype, Master's Hammer offers the perfect pocket-sized alternative with enhanced visuals and automated rules. GAME FEATURES: Strategic Depth: Manage your health and your weapon’s durability. Weapons follow a strict chain rule—you can only slay weaker monsters than the last one you killed. Atmospheric Visuals: Immerse yourself in a dark, gothic dungeon environment inspired by dark fantasy classics. Quick Sessions: Perfect for short breaks. One run takes minutes, but mastering the dungeon takes hours. High Scores: Track your deepest runs. Can you clear the entire deck? Offline Play: No internet connection required. Descend into the darkness anywhere. Haptic Feedback: Feel every strike, heal, and victory. Use your logic, manage your resources, and try to survive until the last card is drawn.

About

ArcFlush

This game combines solitaire-style card removal with poker hand building. Strategically clear layered card formations to unlock new cards and build winning poker hands to achieve target scores and progress through unique stages.

Highlights
  • Layered card formations
  • Solitaire card removal
  • Poker hand building
  • Unique stage themes
  • Unlockable twists
  • Collectible trinkets
  • In-game shop
Features
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Cards don't line up politely here. They're stacked in layers — the way mahjong tiles are stacked, except these are playing cards, and one of the maps is on fire. Which means there are two games sitting on top of each other: getting a card out of the pile, and knowing what to do with it once you have it. HOW IT WORKS · The map is a layered formation. Anything underneath is locked until you clear what's covering it, so every card you take decides what you're allowed to take next. That half is solitaire. · Play up to five of the cards you've taken as a poker hand. A pair is fine. A Flush is better. A Straight Flush means you planned ahead — or got lucky and will claim you planned ahead. That half is poker. · Beat the stage's target score, spend what you earned in the Shop, and do it again. And again. Until the target has grown a couple of digits and you're no longer certain which of your trinkets is doing the heavy lifting. WHAT'S IN IT · Every map is built around exactly one idea. Ice Lake freezes cards. Furnace sets them alight. Dark Pool turns the lights off and invites you to feel your way out. · Clear a map and its Twist unlocks: the same map, in a considerably worse mood. · Trinkets. Some add points. Some quietly rewrite a rule you'd assumed was permanent. The legendary ones turn up rarely enough that finding the right one feels like the run has decided to help you, just this once. · A Shop between stages, because a roguelite without a shop is just a difficult puzzle. · A tutorial that leaves quickly and waits in Settings in case you ever want it back. WHAT'S NOT IN IT · Ads. · In-app purchases. · A season pass, a battle pass, or a little bar that refills while you sleep. · An internet connection. This app has never phoned home and wouldn't know who to call. Buy it once and own all of it — every map, every trinket, every Twist. There is nothing else to sell you, and we are not going to think of anything. One deck, thirteen languages. Good luck.

Screenshots

Master's Hammer3 screens
ArcFlush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Master's Hammer at Free against ArcFlush's $2.99. Master's Hammer also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). ArcFlush's advantage is chart position (#6 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (17 vs 26.1). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Master's Hammer is free to download; ArcFlush costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Master's Hammer ships an update every 2 days, ArcFlush weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Master's Hammer versus ArcFlush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaster's HammerArcFlush
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating—4.7 (26 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings—26 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank—#6 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.117 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB42 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMartin Kopal欣宇 王

In-app purchases

None

Master's Hammer

No in-app purchases

None

ArcFlush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Master's Hammer free?
Master's Hammer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ArcFlush free?
ArcFlush costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Master's Hammer or ArcFlush have ads?
Neither Master's Hammer nor ArcFlush shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Master's Hammer or ArcFlush?
Master's Hammer ships an update every 2 days, and ArcFlush weekly. Most recently, Master's Hammer was updated on October 6, 2026 and ArcFlush on October 25, 2026.

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