4 Seats vs Inkborn Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
4 Seats
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4 Seats: The Last Engine Fade The world has collapsed. Your only hope is a rusty car with four seats, a dwindling fuel tank, and the absolute will to survive. In ""4 Seats: The Last Engine Fade"", you lead a group of survivors through a desolate pixel-art wasteland where every mile costs resources, and every encounter could be your last. How far can you go before the engine finally fades? Key Features: The Road is Unforgiving Navigate a grid-based map filled with ruins, abandoned diners, and deadly hazards. Plan your route carefully. You must weigh the risks of exploring unknown tiles against the constant drain on your fuel, vehicle durability, and party's condition. Crucial Resource Management Survival is a game of numbers. Scavenge for food, clean water, fuel, and medical supplies. But beware: your vehicle has a strict weight limit. Overload your inventory, and your car will break down, leaving you defenseless. You must constantly decide what to keep and what to leave behind. Who Gets the 4 Seats? Throughout your journey, you will encounter various survivors—soldiers, programmers, pharmacists, mechanics, and ordinary citizens. Each profession brings unique survival skills and stat bonuses to your party. But your car only holds four people. You must make agonizing decisions about who joins your crew and who is left to the wasteland. Narrative-Driven Encounters Face brutal moral dilemmas through rich, text-based events. Will you risk a trap to save a crying child? Will you share your precious water with a dying stranger? Every choice has immediate and lasting consequences that shape your journey. High-Stakes Crises When cornered by infected hordes or hostile scavengers, you must calculate the odds. Use your party's combined combat power to fight, or choose to sprint away—risking the loss of your hard-earned loot. The engine is sputtering. The infected are closing in. Can you keep the car moving, or will you succumb to the wasteland? Start your engine and face the end of the world.
Inkborn Mobile
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You wake inside an unfinished comic, with paper underfoot and ink lines all around. Trace outlines by hand in your sketchbook to create tools and weapons. Every stroke costs ink, and your accuracy matters. YOU DRAW WHAT YOU NEED There is no crafting menu. You open your sketchbook, and on the page are grey guide lines in the shape of an axe. You trace them by hand. And then you are holding an axe. Nothing snaps your line onto the guide. That part is you, and the page can tell how well you did. INK IS EVERYTHING One resource, and it is inside all of it. Every stroke drinks it. Every glyph. Every obelisk costs a lot. Enemies splash ink when you land a hit. At night it rains ink, which tops you up and chills you at the same time. Explore a fixed-size world, gather materials and build shelter while managing hunger, thirst and warmth. A giant eraser occasionally sweeps across the page, temporarily erasing natural features that later regrow. The world does not permanently shrink. Obelisks create safe zones. SURVIVE THE NIGHTS Hunger, thirst and warmth drain the whole time. Your tools crack, then break. The Unfinished come out after dark, and nobody coloured them in. Build a shelter that holds, or draw yourself a bed and sleep through it. Choose your weapon tier before tracing. Rare weapons require 10 times the materials and deal 1.5 times the damage; Legendary weapons require 50 times the materials and deal twice the damage. Both use the normal drawing ink cost and demand greater precision. Choose from six paper-and-ink player characters, three women and three men, and meet the merchant on the page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 4 Seats at none against Inkborn Mobile's 7. Inkborn Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Inkborn Mobile sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. 4 Seats asks for nothing beyond the download.
4 Seats ships an update every 2 weeks, Inkborn Mobile every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 4 Seats | Inkborn Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 125 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | woongkyum kim | Ronny Fischer |
In-app purchases
4 Seats
No in-app purchases
Inkborn Mobile
- 100 INK SEALS$0.99
- INKBORN STARTER SATCHEL$1.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
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- 550 INK SEALS$3.99
- 1200 INK SEALS$8.99
- 3250 INK SEALS$22.99
- 10000 INK SEALS$59.99









