Scriver vs Payroll Dice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scriver
Engage in a unique word-crafting roguelike deckbuilder. Strategically arrange art in your gallery to create powerful synergies, impress characters, and score big. Navigate through runs with unique art abilities, items, and critics that alter gameplay.
- Word-crafting roguelike deckbuilder
- Art gallery management for synergies
- Offline gameplay
- 120+ unique art abilities
- Multiple challenge modes
- Collectible items and awards
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Power-charge your letters, make the biggest scoring words, and beat the critics on your path to become the ultimate curator. In this word-crafting roguelike deckbuilder, you buy, sell, and arrange art in your gallery strategically to build synergies and impress the colorful cast of characters. Every piece of art, gift shop item, and critic can drastically change the course of each run. Features: Fully offline 120+ works of art with unique abilities 6 starting decks 6 challenge modes 25+ colorful characters 20 books that enhance your letters 15 albums that drastically modify your deck 10 drinks that level up word traits 25 exhibit awards with powerful bonuses 25 achievements
Payroll Dice
Strategically manipulate dice rolls to score points and pay off debts. Build unique dice combinations with new faces and synergies to overcome challenges. Face a loan shark in boss rounds with random modifiers and test your skills in an endless mode.
- Strategic dice manipulation
- Dice face customization
- Synergy crafting
- Boss rounds with modifiers
- Unlockable dice sets
- Endless mode
- Bite-sized runs
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CONTROL THE CHAOS This isn't a luck simulator. This is strategic dice manipulation. Throw your dice. Rotate each die to any visible face. Score to pay your debts. BUILD YOUR PERFECT DICE Spend pips in the shop after each roll. Add new faces, craft synergies, and build something that probably shouldn't work — until it does. Every decision compounds. Every run feels different. Grow to 6 dice and upgrade them into d12s. FACE THE LOAN SHARK Clear your debts and the shark himself shows up. He doesn't play fair. Boss rounds twist the rules with random modifiers. 8 DICE SETS TO UNLOCK Different starting faces, unique passive abilities, and entirely new combo potential — every unlocked die opens a fresh tactical rabbit hole. Over 100 Unique Dice Faces Rotate Dice to Control Your Luck 7 Unlockable Dice — each transforms how you play Boss Rounds with Random Modifiers Endless Mode — difficulty scales infinitely 15–30 Minute Runs — perfect bite-sized sessions True Roguelike — no permanent upgrades, pure skill Strategic Combo Crafting High Replayability NO SAFETY NETS. NO EXCUSES. No meta-progression. No permanent upgrades. Every run starts from zero. Build from blank dice to devastating combos in 10 rounds. Think you've figured it out? Endless Mode is waiting. Simple to learn. Impossible to master. Throw. Rotate. Score. Shop. Survive. Can you pay off the loan shark before he cashes in?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Payroll Dice at 5.0 against Scriver's 4.7. Scriver's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $4.99) and chart position (#20 vs unranked). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Scriver costs $1.99 and Payroll Dice $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Payroll Dice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Scriver's written reviews are positive against 80% of Payroll Dice's.
Scriver ships an update every 8 days, Payroll Dice every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scriver | Payroll Dice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (49 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #20 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 261 MB | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Justin Nguyen | George Timms |
Customer experience
Scriver
Payroll Dice
In-app purchases
Scriver
No in-app purchases
Payroll Dice
No in-app purchases
