Hoop Quest vs Nerkco
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hoop Quest
Embark on a retro basketball journey, crafting a player from a backyard prospect to a legendary status. Make crucial decisions that shape your career, from choosing a school to navigating the professional draft and building a lasting legacy. Experience season progression, live games, and a dynamic league world.
- Create custom player
- Age-by-age decision making
- Fictional team selection
- Possession-by-possession live games
- Fast week simulation
- Player rating training
- Legacy score building
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Build a fictional basketball career from backyard prospect to all-time legend. Hoop Quest: Basketball Sim is a retro player-career RPG for fans who want season progress, ratings, live games, roster context, and long-term legacy without managing a real-world roster. Create your player, choose a position, and shape their future through early career decisions. Pick a school program, grow through campus seasons, chase the draft board, and keep pushing as the generated league world moves around your career. Every save gives you a full basketball path: - Create a custom player with position, jersey number, and portrait style - Make age-by-age choices that affect ratings, money, popularity, and trust - Choose fictional teams with different tempo, defense, prestige, and play styles - Play possession-by-possession live games with box scores and play-by-play - Sim full weeks to move through long seasons quickly - Train ratings, manage stamina, and buy career upgrades - Follow news stories, draft prospects, standings, awards, and career moments - Build local legacy scores across school, campus, and top-tier career stages The style is compact, colorful, and old-school: chunky panels, arcade sports colors, stat rows, scoreboards, and a fast sim loop made for iPhone. All teams, players, and leagues are fictional. No real-world sports league, team, or player license is used or implied. No account is required for core play. Career data is stored on device. Terms of Use: https://www.cong-le.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.cong-le.com/privacy.html
Nerkco
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Play. Win. Get Paid. Nerkco is the competitive gaming platform for players who want organized play—not random matchmaking. Find tournaments, join ladders, build your clan, follow your favorite communities, and track your competitive journey in one place. WHAT ARE NIBS? Nibs are Nerkco’s in-app balance used for skill-based competitive play. You can earn nibs through gameplay, promotions, and platform rewards, and use them for tournament entry fees, paid skill matches, and select marketplace items. Nibs are not a casino or sportsbook product—outcomes depend on player skill in supported games. Cash withdrawal and paid play are subject to eligibility, verification, and regional rules shown in the app. FEATURES • Tournaments & ladders across supported games • Clans, communities, and competitive profiles • Match history, stats, and leaderboards • News, events, and arena updates ACCOUNT & SAFETY Creating an account requires a date of birth. Social features are not available to users under 13. Paid play and prize withdrawal require age and identity verification where applicable. Terms, privacy, and regional restrictions: nerkco.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nerkco at none against Hoop Quest's 7. Nerkco also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Hoop Quest sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Nerkco asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hoop Quest ships an update every 5 days, Nerkco every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hoop Quest | Nerkco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (32 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pocket Grove Ltd | Nerkco LLC |
In-app purchases
Hoop Quest
- Signature Sneakers$4.99
- Shooting Sleeve$4.99
- Income Booster$4.99
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- Court Vision Headband$4.99
- Road to Legacy$12.99
- Hoop Quest Pro$14.99
- Hoop Quest Full Game$29.99
Nerkco
No in-app purchases









