Comparison

Devil's Blackjack vs Blackjackal

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

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About

Devil's Blackjack

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Play the first circle of hell for free. Unlock the full game with a one-time purchase to continue cheating the devil. Devil’s Blackjack is a roguelike blackjack deckbuilder where cheating is the only way to escape from hell. Play as Vane Brimstone — gambler, con artist, and professional liar — trapped in hell after finally cheating the wrong people. To escape eternal damnation, Vane challenges the devil himself to a blackjack tournament across the 9 circles of hell. There’s only one problem: the devil makes the rules. Manipulate your deck, forge illegal cards, rig probabilities, collect cursed Jokers, and rewrite the rules of blackjack itself. Every run becomes a dangerous battle of greed, bluffing, and strategic cheating. FEATURES • Roguelike blackjack gameplay. Classic blackjack transformed into a strategic deckbuilding roguelike. • Cheat to survive! Swap cards, manipulate draws, palm hidden cards, swipe bad hands, and pressure the devil into mistakes. • Build devastating decks! Buy new cards, forge illegal modifiers, burn weak cards, and create broken synergies. • Unique Joker cards! Collect powerful Jokers with special abilities, personalities, and game-changing effects. • Infernal rule system. Every stage introduces new devil rules that twist blackjack into dangerous new forms. • Multiple devils and playstyles. Battle through the 9 circles of hell against opponents with unique decks, personalities, and cheating styles. Good gamblers play cards. Great gamblers cheat.

About

Blackjackal

This card game reimagines blackjack as a roguelike deckbuilder. Build powerful scoring engines, edit your deck, and specialize in hand types to break the table. Enjoy a full run in about forty minutes with progress saving after every hand.

Highlights
  • Roguelike deckbuilding mechanics
  • Strategic card editing and enhancement
  • Build exponential scoring engines
  • Permanent hand type specialization
  • Escalating ante and boss challenges
  • Offline single-player gameplay
  • Progress saving after every hand
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This is not the blackjack you know. You are not trying to beat a dealer — you are trying to break the table, one chips × mult hand at a time. Blackjack, rebuilt as a roguelike deckbuilder: escalating blinds, a shop full of charms, builds that go exponential. No ads, no timers, no currency to buy — one payment unlocks everything, forever. Every hand you hold six cards and choose which to play. Twenty-one is not a stopping rule in this card game — it is a constraint. The same 21 is worth wildly different amounts depending on how you make it: three cards is decent, two is better, and five cards landing on exactly 21 is worth seven times the first. That choice is the whole game. BUILD A SCORING ENGINE Between blinds you shop. 73 charms, three slots, and every pick is a read on how you actually play. Multiplicative charms only beat flat bonuses once your hands are good enough — so buying one is a judgement call about your own skill, not a strictly better upgrade. This is deck building where the strategy is yours to find, not a tree to unlock in order. EDIT THE DECK ITSELF Remove the cards that clog your hands. Duplicate the ones that finish them. Enhance a card so it counts as any suit and turns a conditional charm into a build. Decisions you make now pay off twenty hands later. Few blackjack games — or card games of any kind — let you rewrite the deck you are drawing from mid-run. LEVEL WHAT YOU ARE GOOD AT Study a hand type and its base improves permanently for that run. Specialise hard enough and charms that were useless become the best in the shop. Two runs with the same seed can end up completely different builds. EIGHT ANTES, ONE BUDGET Three blinds each, escalating targets, and a boss that changes the rules at the end of every ante. Four hands a blind and three discards for the whole ante — the deck you draw from is deliberately small, so a long hand costs you the ones that follow, and spending a discard early means not having it for the boss. TEN ROOMS, ONE BUILDING Win a run and the casino lets you deeper: the kitchen table, the smoky back room, the velvet room, the shark pool, the counting room — ten rooms down to the Vault, and every room adds a house rule the ones above it don't have. Carried study fades the deeper you go; the Vault takes none at all. Progress is real without making the next run a formality. THE DAILY TABLE One free seeded run a day — the same deck for everyone, one attempt. And any run's seed can be copied and shared, so a friend can race you on the exact same deal. A ROGUELIKE THAT RESPECTS YOUR TIME A full run is about forty minutes and it saves after every hand, so it survives being closed mid-blind. No energy, no timers, no daily login you have to honour. ONE PAYMENT Play the first three antes free. Unlock the whole game once, and that is the last time the game asks you for anything. No advertising in play. No currency to buy. Card backs are earned by playing, never sold. Blackjackal is a single player blackjack card game and roguelike deckbuilder that works completely offline — no wifi, no account, no sign-in — and collects no data at all. A four-colour deck option keeps every suit readable, whatever your eyes make of red and green.

Screenshots

Devil's Blackjack4 screens
Blackjackal4 screens

Verdict

The call

Devil's Blackjack and Blackjackal 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Devil's Blackjack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Blackjackal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Devil's Blackjack ships an update every 3 days, Blackjackal every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Devil's Blackjack versus Blackjackal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDevil's BlackjackBlackjackal
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB79 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMatthias IsenmannPrakash Mishra

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Devil's Blackjack

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Game$2.99
1 purchases

Blackjackal

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99

Questions

Is Devil's Blackjack free?
Devil's Blackjack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blackjackal free?
Blackjackal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Devil's Blackjack or Blackjackal have ads?
Neither Devil's Blackjack nor Blackjackal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Devil's Blackjack or Blackjackal?
Devil's Blackjack ships an update every 3 days, and Blackjackal every 5 days. Most recently, Devil's Blackjack was updated on October 31, 2026 and Blackjackal on October 31, 2026.

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