Cyber Dark Hunter vs Grindcrawl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cyber Dark Hunter
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Fight. Choose. Grow stronger. In about 5 minutes. Cyber Dark Hunter is a pixel-art action looter roguelite where you read bullet hell patterns, cut through enemy hordes, and build your playstyle with Wave upgrades and gear you bring home. Short portals take about 3 minutes, and a full stage takes about 5. Enjoy a dense run of combat, upgrades, and loot whenever you have a spare moment. [READ THE BULLET HELL. STRIKE BACK.] Dodge swarms of enemies and projectiles, then counterattack with form-specific attacks and wide-area suppression skills. Feel the rush of clearing a crowd and the tension of breaking through a powerful enemy's bullet pattern in one compact run. [CHOOSE A BUILD EVERY WAVE] After each cleared Wave, choose 1 of 3 upgrade cards. Stack effects such as attack power, critical chance, defense, recovery, drops, and risk effects to change your attacks and visual effects. Wave upgrades reset when a stage ends, so every run asks you to create a new build. [CHOOSE LOOT. GROW STRONGER.] Defeat bosses to choose rewards from weapons, armor, and chips. Gear rolls random stats and abilities, letting you build for damage, durability, boss fights, or bullet-hell survival. Refine the gear you bring home and make your next run even stronger. [BUILD RESONANCE CHANGES YOUR ATTACKS] Combine forms, weapons, armor, chips, and Pods to trigger Build Resonance. Your chosen setup changes how you attack, control the field, and defend. Pods act independently to support you with shots, homing attacks, spread fire, reflection, EMP, and more. [DIFFERENT FORMS. VARIED BATTLEFIELDS.] Choose from forms with distinct combat styles and find the way you want to fight. Take on standard portals, CROWD battles against enemy swarms, and high-difficulty Abyss encounters with different rules and enemy formations. Play in short bursts, then keep experimenting as gear and builds open new ways to fight.
Grindcrawl
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Your hero fights, levels up, and collects gear on their own. You just check in. Grindcrawl is a retro pixel-art idle hack-and-slash RPG. Dive floor by floor, chase Rare and Epic gear, and reincarnate to go even deeper. HANDS-OFF BATTLES • Your hero fights monsters automatically and earns EXP and gear. No tapping needed. • Your adventure keeps going while the app is closed. Collect your rewards the next time you open it (up to a time limit, which you can extend). • Assign level-up points by hand, or let them be assigned automatically at a ratio you choose. DIVE DEEPER • Defeat five monsters to reach the next floor. Each new floor band brings tougher monsters and stronger gear. • Rare and Epic monsters are tough. With too little Defense, they may get away. • Past floor 300, a second area opens up with new monsters and new gear. GEAR THAT ROLLS ITS OWN STATS • Weapons, armor, and accessories come in three rarities: Normal, Rare, and Epic. • Every drop rolls its own stats, and higher rarities get more bonus slots. • Switch to Auto equip mode, and Rare and Epic gear stronger than what you have is equipped as soon as it drops. Or stay in Manual mode and choose for yourself. • Polish Epic gear with Shards of Brilliance to reroll its slots. Lock the slots you want to keep. • Equip two or more pieces of the same rarity (Rare or Epic) from the same floor band for an all-stat set bonus. COLLECT IT ALL • Defeat the same monster again and again to earn its Monster Medals, from Bronze to Platinum. Medals raise the chance of a gear drop when that monster appears as a Rare or Epic. • Donate gear to the Equipment Museum to fill its displays. Complete a Species Set for a big all-stat bonus. REINCARNATE AND GO FURTHER • The deeper you reach, the more Reincarnation Points you earn. • Spend them on permanent Attack, Defense, and Luck, more inventory slots, and a longer offline reward limit. Your gear, medals, and museum stay with you. MORE • Available in English and Japanese. • Get a notification when your offline rewards reach their limit. A few minutes here and there is all it takes. Check in, see how far your hero got, and close the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cyber Dark Hunter at none against Grindcrawl's shown. Grindcrawl's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cyber Dark Hunter ships an update every 4 days, Grindcrawl every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cyber Dark Hunter | Grindcrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 430 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kiyohito Yamamoto | Arbor Lab. App |
In-app purchases
Cyber Dark Hunter
No in-app purchases
Grindcrawl
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Which is updated more often, Cyber Dark Hunter or Grindcrawl?
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