Dark Ascension vs Voidle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dark Ascension
An idle RPG where you ascend through stages of power, unlocking upgrades, spells, and minions. Automate your progress and collect artifacts in a dark fantasy world. Enjoy offline progress and seasonal events.
- 12 Stages of Ascension
- Deep Upgrade System
- 7 Active Spells
- 6 Minion Companions
- Offline Progress
- Seasonal Events
- Dual Prestige System
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Embrace the darkness and ascend to ultimate power in Dark Ascension, an idle/incremental RPG set in a world of shadow and sorcery. Begin as a fledgling dark mage and harness the flow of mana to fuel your rise through 12 stages of power — from The Awakening to Primordial Darkness. Unlock powerful upgrades, cast devastating spells, command loyal minions, and collect rare artifacts as you build an unstoppable engine of dark energy. FEATURES: - 12 Stages of Ascension — Progress through increasingly powerful tiers of darkness, each with unique pixel art backgrounds and cinematic stage transitions. - Deep Upgrade System — 9 core upgrades with auto-buyer automation, 6 prestige upgrades, 5 challenge upgrades, and 6 transcendence upgrades offer meaningful choices at every stage. - 7 Active Spells — Cast Mana Surge, Dark Harvest, Void Pulse, and more. Set up the auto-caster to manage spells for you, or take direct control for maximum impact. - 6 Minion Companions — Recruit and level minions from the Shadow Imp to the Abyssal Herald, each providing unique passive bonuses to production, clicks, costs, and prestige rewards. - 5 Boss Encounters — Challenge powerful bosses from the Shadow Warden to the Primordial Darkness in real-time DPS battles. Earn exclusive boss artifacts and retry tokens. - Synergy System — Discover 6 upgrade synergy combos that reward smart upgrade pairing with powerful bonus multipliers. - Artifact Collection — Discover 8 artifacts across 4 rarity tiers. Complete 3 artifact sets for massive set bonuses. Enhance artifacts for greater power, or reroll their rarity for a guaranteed upgrade. - Challenge Dungeons — Test your skill in 5 restricted challenge runs that strip away your power and reward you with permanent upgrades. - Dual Prestige System — Rebirth to earn Shadow Shards for permanent bonuses, then transcend to earn Void Crystals for an even deeper layer of power. - Full Automation — Unlock the Shadow Automaton to enable auto-buyers, auto-caster, and auto-prestige with a configurable shard threshold. Let your dark empire run itself. - Seasonal Events — Rotating seasonal events with tiered rewards. Earn bonus resources during Shadow Tide, Ember Harvest, Frost Convergence, and Bloom of Decay. - 5 Premium Themes — Customize your experience with Dark Abyss, Crimson Abyss, Astral, Emerald Depths, and Golden Ascension visual themes. - 25 Achievements — Track your accomplishments and earn permanent bonuses for reaching milestones. - Offline Progress — Your dark empire continues to grow even when you're away, with up to 8 hours of offline progress (extendable through upgrades and the shop). - No Ads — Enjoy a clean, ad-free experience. Optional in-app purchases provide boosts and cosmetics, but everything is earnable through gameplay. No exclusive content locked behind purchases. How far will you ascend?
Voidle
An idle RPG focused on deep character customization through a vast skill tree and gear corruption. Engage in automated combat, reset progress for permanent bonuses, and craft powerful potions. Offers a single optional purchase to remove a rewarded-ad gate.
- 1090-node skill tree
- Prestige loop for permanent bonuses
- Gear corruption for trade-offs
- Automated combat system
- Multiple character classes
- Potion crafting and enchanting
- Offline progression
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Descend into the void. Gather strange equipment, shape your build, and see how far it can carry you. Voidle is a dark idle RPG built around automatic combat and the decisions you make between battles. Choose a Warden, Stalker, Occultist or Revenant, then follow your own path through the Skill Graph. Combine skills, passive bonuses and Mutations as you push toward the next Milestone Boss. Fill the Bestiary. Every creature in the depths is hand-inked and animated, from the smallest blob to the ten Milestone Bosses. Meet a creature to add its plate to your Bestiary, and defeat enough of them to fill in its page. Make your equipment part of the strategy. Enchant useful finds, salvage the rest, experiment with corruption, and brew potions for your descent. Artifacts and Ascension Relics open more ways to build. Prestige to earn Skill Points from new depths, then pursue Ascension for another layer of progression. Explore the Compendium whenever a rule needs explaining. Press and hold any dotted term for a quick explanation, then follow it to the full entry. For a different challenge, start a Weekly League save. Each week brings shared generated classes, skills and a Skill Graph, with its own depth leaderboard. Return after time away to claim Away Rewards based on your build. Adjust your equipment, try another route, and descend again.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dark Ascension at 5.0 against Voidle's 4.3. Voidle's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Dark Ascension sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Voidle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dark Ascension holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voidle has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Dark Ascension ships an update weekly, Voidle every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dark Ascension | Voidle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.3 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 171 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Michael Calvert | Cyan Penguin Studio Ltd. |
Customer experience
Dark Ascension
Voidle
In-app purchases
Dark Ascension
- Boss Retry Token$0.99
- Mana Surge (Small)$0.99
- Dark Essence Pack$1.99
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- Golden Ascension Theme$1.99
- Void Crystal Pack$2.99
- Starter Bundle$2.99
- Permanent 2x Mana$3.99
- Prestige Pack$3.99
- Legendary Crate$4.99
- VIP Pass$9.99
Voidle
- Remove Ads$1.99








