Comparison

Delve vs Iron Descent

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Delve

A fast-paced dungeon crawler where every decision impacts your journey and the dungeon remembers your choices. Explore unpredictable rooms, face challenging encounters, and grow stronger with each descent. Can you survive the depths and uncover what lies within?

Highlights
  • Decision-driven gameplay
  • Reactive dungeon mechanics
  • Endless, unpredictable runs
  • Character progression
  • Challenging encounters
  • Quick to pick up
Features
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Enter the Dungeon. Or Don’t. Delve is a fast, decision-driven dungeon crawler where every room asks a question, every answer has consequences, and the dungeon remembers more than it should. Open the door. Take the stairs. See what’s waiting. EVERY CHOICE HAS TEETH Force open a locked gate. Bargain with something that should not be speaking. Press the suspicious button. (You will.) Across more than 600 handcrafted events, you will: • Risk health for treasure • Spend gold for power • Trust strangers, or leave them behind • Carry promises deeper than you intended • Discover that earlier decisions have not stayed in the past Sometimes you win. Sometimes the dungeon does. Sometimes it waits. THE DUNGEON KEEPS RECORDS Delve notices patterns. Characters remember how you treated them. Bosses recognize what you carried into their halls, and how you defeated them before. Your choices can return as warnings, opportunities, accusations, or entirely new paths. The same door may not speak to you the same way twice. You might not like what it remembers. DESCEND TO FLOOR 1400 The deeper you go, the stranger the dungeon becomes. Face nine formidable bosses. Major encounters unfold across multiple phases, signature attacks, equipment-driven choices, and distinct resolutions. No answer is marked as the right one, but the dungeon remembers every verdict. Meet recurring characters whose stories unfold across the descent. Find travelers who have not arrived yet. Walk roads that should lead somewhere else. Decide what you owe the people, creatures, and kingdoms buried below. BUILD A SURVIVOR Grow stronger with every run: • Health • Attack • Defense • Luck Discover 96 weapons, armor pieces, accessories, and relics, each with real stats and effects tied to its story. Build around raw power, improbable luck, hard-earned protection, or strange tools that alter the choices in front of you. Strength helps. It is not always enough. DESCEND WITH COMPANY Bring a companion into the dark and deepen your bond across runs, from Known to Familiar to Trusted. Unlock new biographies, quotes, and painterly character illustrations as they learn who you are. Listen carefully. Sometimes they notice what you missed. AN ENDLESS, UNPREDICTABLE DUNGEON No two descents are the same. Encounter: • Treasure vaults • Trapped spirits • Goblin gamblers • Cursed relics • Impossible expeditions • Creatures with histories • Things that do not belong anywhere Fill a Bestiary with 68 strange identities and unlock painterly illustrations of the dungeon’s greatest threats. Push your chaos affinity far enough, and even the records may begin telling a different story. A SOUNDSCAPE THAT SINKS WITH YOU Delve’s 14-track score changes with the depth of your descent. Melody gives way to texture, boss themes cut through the dark, and something stranger waits beneath it all. The deeper you go, the more the dungeon finds its voice. BUILT FOR ONE MORE FLOOR Quick to pick up. Hard to put down. Play for a minute, or tell yourself “just one more floor” until it is much too late. So... How far will you go? What will the dungeon remember about you? What will you become? Delve.

About

Iron Descent

Embark on a roguelike dungeon crawl where each playthrough offers a unique, procedurally generated labyrinth. Choose from distinct hero classes, battle diverse enemies, and gather loot to survive increasingly dangerous depths. Return to town between runs to upgrade and prepare for the ultimate challenge.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated dungeons
  • Three distinct hero classes
  • Loot and gear system
  • Hub town with shops and quests
  • Offline play
  • Retro visuals and soundtrack
Features
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Iron Descent is a classic roguelike dungeon crawler for your pocket. Every run drops you into a freshly generated labyrinth where one wrong step can end everything. Choose your hero. Descend into the dark. See how deep you can go. **CHOOSE YOUR CLASS** Three heroes, three ways to play: • Warrior - heavy armor, heavy hits. Wade into the fray and outlast anything. • Rogue - fast, deadly, and dripping with poison. Dual-wield your way through the horde. • Mage - bend the dungeon to your will with a spell book of destruction, restoring mana with every kill. **DESCEND 10 DEADLY FLOORS** The dungeon is never the same twice. Rooms, corridors, traps, and treasure are procedurally generated every run, so no two descents play alike. Explore by torchlight, reveal the map one tile at a time, and never trust an empty room. **FIGHT - OR DIE** Orcs, trolls, goblins, rats, and worse prowl the depths, each with its own behavior. Some hunt you the moment they catch your scent; others lie in wait. That chest in the corner? It might have teeth. Face down the Orc Warlord at the dungeon's midpoint and the Demon Lord waiting at the very bottom. **LOOT, GEAR, AND GLORY** Crack open chests, gather gold, and equip weapons, armor, and rings suited to your class. Sip potions, read scrolls, and pray at shrines for a blessing - or a curse. Every upgrade is another step toward surviving the descent. **RETURN TO TOWN** Between runs, regroup in town. Shop for fresh gear, pay the healer to patch your wounds, and take on quests from the board for extra gold and glory. Then it's back down into the dark. **CLAIM THE DARK CRYSTAL** Deep beneath the earth lies the Dark Crystal. Reach it, seize it, and carry it back to town alive to claim victory. Few will make it. Will you? **FEATURES** • Three distinct classes with unique playstyles • 10 procedurally generated floors - endless replayability • Two epic boss battles • Traps, mimics, shrines, and hidden loot • A hub town with a shop, healer, and quest board • Striking retro dungeon visuals and an atmospheric original soundtrack • Save and continue your run anytime • Fully playable offline Grab a torch. Draw your blade. The descent begins.

Screenshots

Delve4 screens
Iron Descent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Iron Descent at none against Delve's 1. Iron Descent also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.2). Delve's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Delve sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Iron Descent asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Delve against 5.0 for Iron Descent. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Delve ships an update daily, Iron Descent every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Delve versus Iron Descent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDelveIron Descent
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings55
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.216.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB53 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperBrandon BlaisdellPastime Foundry, LLC

Customer experience

Delve

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Iron Descent

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Delve

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
None

Iron Descent

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Delve free?
Delve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Iron Descent free?
Iron Descent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Delve or Iron Descent?
Delve and Iron Descent are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Delve or Iron Descent have ads?
Both Delve and Iron Descent show ads.
Which is updated more often, Delve or Iron Descent?
Delve ships an update daily, and Iron Descent every 3 weeks. Most recently, Delve was updated on November 5, 2026 and Iron Descent on October 31, 2026.

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