VAR Challenge vs Draft Circles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VAR Challenge
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Can you spot the offside? VAR Challenge puts you in the role of the video assistant referee. Review attacking plays, find the exact moment of the pass, draw the offside line and make the final decision. FEATURES • Spot tight offside decisions • Scrub the timeline to find the pass • Draw the offside line like VAR • Unlimited training drills • Daily Matchday challenges • Global leaderboards Improve your football knowledge and test your referee instincts. Some decisions are clear. Others are just centimeters. Can you make the right call?
Draft Circles
Turn any subject into a competitive game with live auctions and custom rules. Players bid on items from a shared budget, aiming to build the best roster. Play locally on one device or with friends remotely.
- 1,000+ built-in topics
- Live auction-style bidding
- One device or multiplayer
- Custom topic creation
- Player trading
- Draft history
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Draft Circles turns any topic into a game. Pick a theme from over 1,000 built-in topics, everyone gets the same starting budget, and you take turns bidding on your favorite picks in a live auction. Highest bid wins the item. Best roster at the end wins the room. Play with everyone huddled around one phone, or start a room and have friends join live from their own. Set your own rules: budget size, number of rounds, turn timers, blind bidding, and trading after the draft. - 1,000+ ready-to-play topics: Movies & TV, Music, Sports Legends, Travel, Gaming, and more - Live auction-style bidding against a shared budget - One Device or Multiplayer (2+ phones) - Build your own custom topics from scratch - Trade picks with other players after the draft - Share results as a link or an image - Local draft history, so you never lose track of past games No account required. No ads. Open it and start drafting.
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Verdict
VAR Challenge and Draft Circles are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VAR Challenge | Draft Circles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Denys Denysov | Benjamin Carteau |
In-app purchases
VAR Challenge
No in-app purchases
Draft Circles
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is VAR Challenge free?
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Do VAR Challenge or Draft Circles have ads?
Which is updated more often, VAR Challenge or Draft Circles?
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