Simple NPC vs Sub Rosa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple NPC
Instantly create detailed fantasy characters with unique names, appearances, motivations, and secrets. Offers millions of name combinations and billions of appearance possibilities for game masters and storytellers.
- Millions of name combinations
- Billions of unique appearances
- Complete NPC generation in one tap
- Lock fields and randomize others
- Save and return to NPCs
- Exclude unwanted races/professions
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Simple NPC generates fully realized fantasy characters in a single tap. With over 1 million possible names drawn from 7,000+ handcrafted entries across 17 races, and billions of unique appearance combinations across professions, ages, and social classes — no two sessions at the table need the same face twice. Built for game masters, worldbuilders, novelists, and anyone who needs a believable person to appear at the inn, guard the gate, or sell something suspicious at the market. Every NPC comes with a complete physical description — height, build, skin, eyes, hair, clothing, and a telling detail that makes them feel like someone who existed before you walked in. Add a profession, social class, age, and race, and the generator produces a character grounded in those specifics. A destitute elder orc scribe reads differently than a wealthy young halfling merchant. The details reflect who they actually are. What Simple NPC generates: — Physical appearance: build, face, skin, eyes, hair, and clothing — A notable detail: a scar, tattoo, piece of jewelry, profession item, or behavioral tell — A motivation: what they want right now, in this moment — An rare secret: a reveal that changes everything Races included free: Human, Elf, Half-Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Halfling, Half-Orc, Tiefling, Dragonborn Pack 1 — Expanded Races & Professions ($1.99): Orc, Goblin, Kobold, Lizardfolk, Cinderborn, Stoneborn, Tideborn, Galeborn — plus 10 additional professions, including Noble, Spy, Bard, Hedge Witch, and Cartographer Full Access ($4.99): Every current pack plus every future pack released — one price, forever Features: — Over 1 million possible name combinations — 7,000+ handcrafted name entries across 17 races — Billions of unique NPC appearances — Generate a complete NPC in one tap — Lock any field and randomize the rest — Exclude races or professions you don't use — Save NPCs and return to them later — Quick archetypes for common NPC types — Designed for dark and light mode — No ads. No subscriptions. No account required. Built by Two One Nine, LLC · crookedtavern.com
Sub Rosa
Embark on unique text-based RPG adventures with procedurally generated dungeons. Engage in strategic combat, make narrative choices that shape your journey, and collect relics for meta-progression. Compete weekly in ranked descents for rewards.
- AI-generated dungeons
- Multiple settings and sizes
- Light, four-stat combat
- Relic meta-progression
- Weekly ranked descent
- Trials and ironman modes
- Manuscript aesthetic
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A text-based LitRPG, descended from classic MUDs and rewritten for the phone in your pocket. You do not play a run. You read a book. Each book is five chapters, each chapter a place descended at four depths, and one protagonist walks all twenty of them: your level, your virtues, your health, your gear, your relics and your purse come with you from one descent to the next. There are ten books, in fantasy, pirates, sci-fi, horror and western. Every dungeon is written whole before you arrive, every room in view of the others, so what one room plants a later one pays off, and the road out of one chapter is the road into the next. The walls describe themselves. Enemies have reasons to be there. Choices in narrative rooms are not dice rolls dressed up: they shape what the dungeon becomes. Experience is earned where you earn it. Kill something or read a room truly and the numbers appear beneath the prose, in their own hand: the roll, the damage, the gold, the experience. Cross a level in a corridor and you place the point there, in the room that gave it to you. At the third level, the fifth and the seventh, the dungeon offers you a trait to keep. Chapters open in order. Clear a place at all four depths and the next one opens; lose a descent and the chapter in progress is taken back, though nothing you carried home is. What you take home from a victory is a relic or more, halved in strength but kept in memory, and every descent you finish is written into your chronicle, re-readable as prose long after the dungeon is closed. Combat is four virtues and a single die. Strike, brace, speak, study, each resolved in candlelight. Once a week, a single dungeon is drawn for everyone who dares it. Same rooms, same seed. Descend it and see where you stand: survivor, contender, ascendant, or paragon. Place well and the week pays you in coin and a trophy for your study. Earlier weeks stay on the shelf as unranked practice. (A subscriber feature.) Features - A protagonist per book who levels, learns and lasts all twenty descents - Ten books across five settings, five chapters each, four depths a chapter - Dungeons written whole, each chapter leading into the next - Callings, virtues and passive traits: a build that grows over a whole book - The chronicle: every descent you finish, kept and re-readable - Relics, gear and a purse that survive the door - The weekly ranked descent: one shared dungeon, standings, and prizes - Trials and ironman: harder descents for richer rewards - Manuscript aesthetic: dark parchment, single-candle light Subscription Sub Rosa is free to begin. Free readers open one fantasy or pirates book and walk its first chapter at three depths. A subscription, monthly or a one-time lifetime purchase through your App Store account, opens every book at every depth, a protagonist in each, ironman, the weekly ranked descent, and a new book each month. Sub rosa: under the rose. What is said under the rose stays there. Terms of Use (EULA): https://playsubrosa.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://playsubrosa.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Simple NPC at free with in-app purchases against Sub Rosa's subscription. Sub Rosa's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Simple NPC sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Sub Rosa sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple NPC against 5.0 for Sub Rosa. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple NPC | Sub Rosa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | +9 |
| Developer | Benjamin Van Allen | Releasy CORP |
Customer experience
Simple NPC
Sub Rosa
In-app purchases
Simple NPC
- Pack 1$1.99
- Full Access$4.99
Sub Rosa
- Sub Rosa Premium - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Sub Rosa Premium - Lifetime$49.99









